Dororo

About Dororo

During the Warring States period, the young thief Dororo encounters Hyakkimaru, a strange, sightless boy who wields fearsome prosthetics in place of his missing limbs. Parts of Hyakkimaru’s body were traded to a group of 12 demons by his father in exchange for power, but thanks to a kindly medicine man, Hyakkimaru survived his horrifying ordeal.

Dororo is an action-adventure and animation series made for TV Tokyo. Its one season of 24 episodes aired between January 2019 and June 2019.

Rio Suzuki appears as Dororo (voice), Hiroki Suzuki as Hyakkimaru (voice), Naoya Uchida as Daigo Kagemitsu (voice), and Akio Otsuka as Jukai (voice). It was produced by MAPPA and Twin Engine. It is adapted from a manga.

Shelv files it under gore, mythology, melodramatic, and samurai. American members can watch it on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and HiDive.

InuYasha, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and Ushio and Tora make useful companions to Dororo, all filed under adventure, demon, and based on manga. It scores 8.5 out of 10 from 1,374 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.