Dororo (2019)

Original title

どろろ

Directed by

Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Genre

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

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 24 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 1,327 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young ronin named Hyakkimaru travels through war-torn Japan with a child named Dororo. He must fight demons who stole parts of his body so he can reclaim them.

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What happens

Dororo (Japanese: どろろ) is a 2019 anime television series produced by Tezuka Productions and MAPPA based on the manga of the same name by Osamu Tezuka, and is the second anime adaptation after the 1969 series. The adaptation departs from the source material in several ways, but follows the basic premise of the manga: a young ronin, named Hyakkimaru, along with a young child, Dororo, must face multiple demons in Sengoku-era Japan who have stolen his various body parts in order to get them back. The main innovation was the new portrayal of Hyakkimaru, a weaker samurai than the one written by Tezuka with director Kazuhiro Furuhashi among other staff member conceiving the alternate of take of the young swordsman becoming a new person following his journey with Dororo in a similar manner to buddy films. The series is also present in English release through Sentai Filmworks and Amazon Prime. The series was well received by critics from anime who often listed it as one of the best anime from 2019. The characterization of Hyakkimaru and Dororo was often praised as well as how they develop and how the former's family is also explored. However, some writers felt some episodic narratives did not have the same appeal as the earlier ones. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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