Dorohedoro is a well-designed, atmospheric manga with a specific style and sense of humour that carries the series through its story. The author Q Hayashida illustrates her personality so well in the pages of the texts by using juxtapositions of grim and depressing settings and subject matters with deadpan deliveries, sarcasm, goofiness, and silliness.

The characters in the manga are mostly powerful magic users who each have what is essentially a personalized super power (sometimes very arbitrary but always unexpected- such as turning people into meat pies) or they are weak and vulnerable victims to the violent world around them (such as all of the inhabitants of hole and magic users who can't produce much magic). All of the characters in the manga have personality and charm. This is the strongest aspect of Dorohedoro, and where Q Hayashida shines through the most. Kaiman, Nikaido, Shin, En, Noi, Ebisu, Fujita, Risu, the staff at the magic victims hospital, everyone is clever and has their own personality.

That is, unless they are needed for explaining what's happening in this crazy world, and this is where the story is lacking. Unfortunately, the logic of Dorohedoro is inconsistent at many times, and the explanations for the effectiveness of the magic being done to drive the plot along can be convoluted and hard to follow. This results in the manga drunkenly stumbling through the plot a bit, resulting in weird or awkward compromises (such as Risu and Aikawa's relationship) or anticlimactic conclusions (such as En's arc). Maybe it was because they were rushing to finish the series, but after about the half way point of the manga there was a shift to begin concluding to the finale and tying all the loose ends, which happens more or less but not in a very satisfying way.

Even so, I enjoyed the world that the author created and enjoyed reading it, I just wished I could have spent more time to explore each character's depth that was clearly visible from the start, something I think that got wasted on the main villain of the story, who had no depth or personality whatsoever.