Dororo (1969)

Original title

どろろと百鬼丸

Directed by

Gisaburō Sugii

Genre

dark fantasy, supernatural anime and manga, historical anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rated

D

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young samurai named Hyakkimaru, born without many body parts due to a demon pact, hunts down demons to reclaim them. He travels with a young thief named Dororo through a war-torn feudal Japan, fighting monsters to restore himself.

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What happens

Dororo (どろろ) is a 1969 anime television series based on the manga of the same name by Osamu Tezuka, planned by Zuiyo Enterprise and produced by Mushi Production. In 1968, in order to pitch the series, Tezuka created a 13-minute full-color pilot which summarized the story of Hyakkimaru's birth, his upbringing and first meeting with Dororo, and an abbreviated version of "The Tale of the Monster Bandai". The series was produced in black and white coloring due to budget cuts, but made the demons look more weird and menacing. Because the original manga series was cancelled before Tezuka had a chance to shift the focus towards Dororo's "coming-of-age" story as he had originally planned, most of the plots revolved around Hyakkimaru's battles with supernatural monsters. This caused viewers to consider Hyakkimaru as the main character and from episode 14 onward, the series was re-titled Dororo and Hyakkimaru (どろろと百鬼丸). The early cancellation of the manga series also meant there were not enough stories for the required number of episodes, so episodes 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, and 25 were original stories developed specifically for the television series. The series is first installment of World Masterpiece Theater, then known as Calpis Comic Theater, and the only one in black and white. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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