Dororo

What is Dororo about?

Dororo is a TV anime series of 24 episodes animated by MAPPA, adapted from a manga. It aired from January 7, 2019 to June 24, 2019. AniList classifies it as action, adventure, drama and supernatural.

Synopsis from AniList. The summary above it is written by FreeAnime.xyz from AniList's data.

Themes AniList users associate with it: Demons, Revenge, Curses, Disability, Swordplay, Samurai, Estranged Family, Youkai, Orphan, War.

Main characters

Characters AniList lists in a main role, with spoiler-free notes.

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  Hyakkimaru 百鬼丸

  Main character

  Hyakkimaru is the central character of Tezuka's best-known samurai story, Dororo. A powerful warrior, Hyakkimaru is traveling on a long quest to retrieve 48 parts of his body which were sold to demons by his father at his birth.

  Japanese voice: Hiroki Suzuki

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  Dororo どろろ

  Main character

  After seeing his swordsmanship, Dororo decides to follow Hyakkimaru. Dororo was a thief before meeting Hyakkimaru.

  Japanese voice: Rio Suzuki

Supporting characters

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  Biwamaru 琵琶丸

  Supporting character

  Biwamaru (sometimes Biwa Maru) is a blind, itinerant acupuncture doctor, who wanders around Japan curing all sorts of ailments with miraculous speed. He is extremely disheveled in appearance, dressed in rags and walking with a twisted stick as a cane, and a rough bundle on his back.

  Japanese voice: Mutsumi Sasaki

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  Kagemitsu Daigo 醍醐景光

  Supporting character

  Daigo was the lord of Ishikawa domain which was ravaged by floods and starvation due to poor harvest. He made a deal with a group of 48 devils (12 in 2019 version) in order to save his domain and to aggrandise his power.

  Japanese voice: Naoya Uchida

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  Narrator ナレーター

  Supporting character

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  Japanese voice: Mugihito

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  Nuinokata 縫の方

  Supporting character

  Daigo's wife, mother of Hyakkimaru and Tahoumaru.

  Japanese voice: Chie Nakamura

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  Jukai 寿海

  Supporting character

  A skilled doctor and surgeon who used healing magic and alchemical methods to give the child who became Hyakkimaru prostheses crafted from the remains of children who had died in the war.

  Japanese voice: Akio Ootsuka

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  Tahoumaru Daigo 醍醐多宝丸

  Supporting character

  Brother of Hyakkimaru and the second son (successor) of Kagemitsu Daigo. Born after Hyakkimaru was abandoned.

  Japanese voice: Shouya Chiba

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  Mio 未央

  Supporting character

  Mio is a young girl who lived in an abandoned temple with orphans who lost their parents in the war. She is kind and caring as she tends to put others in priority instead of herself.

  Japanese voice: Nana Mizuki

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  Osushi Niki ニキお寿司

  Supporting character

  She is Tanosuke's younger sister and a girl who cares deeply for her brother. She begs Hyakkimaru to spare Tanosuke's life, but after her brother dies, she directs her resentment toward Hyakkimaru and drives him out of the village. In contrast, she bids Dororo a kind farewell, telling him to take care of himself.

  Japanese voice: Marina Inoue

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  Itachi イタチ

  Supporting character

  A bandit who betrayed Dororo's father Hibukuro and sided with the authorities.

  Japanese voice: Setsuji Satou

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  Ojiya お自夜

  Supporting character

  She is a bandit along with her husband, Hibukuro. She is the mother of Dororo.

  Japanese voice: Ayumi Fujimura

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  Hibukuro 火袋

  Supporting character

  He is the leader of a bandit clan that is devoted into raiding samurai forts. He is the father of Dororo

  Japanese voice: Kenta Miyake

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  Saru さる

  Supporting character

  He is a young boy, whose parents died when he was little. He used to live in the mountains all alone​ before he met a kind woman named Oume who took him in.

  Japanese voice: Aki Kanada