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Dororo

★ 8.2 31K votes 2019–2019 1 season · 24 episodes Ended TV Tokyo
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 8/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 7/10Gut punchWilling to devastate you, and remembered for it.This show: 7/10Found familyUnrelated people slowly becoming each other's family.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Jason DouglasRio SuzukiMugihitoChaney MooreAdam GibbsHiroki Suzuki
Written by
Osamu Tezuka
Starring
Jason DouglasRio SuzukiMugihitoChaney MooreAdam GibbsHiroki Suzuki
Written by
Osamu Tezuka
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A body reclaimed one demon at a time"

Set in a war-ravaged feudal Japan, a warlord trades his newborn son's organs and limbs to demons for battlefield power. The boy survives as a faceless, senseless husk, hunting the demons to reclaim each missing piece. He's joined by Dororo, a scrappy orphan thief with secrets of their own. What starts as episodic monster hunts deepens into a bleak meditation on poverty, war, and what makes someone human. The animation is fluid and brutal, the score haunting, and the emotional gut-punches land hard beneath the action.

Watch it for

the way episodic demon hunts build into a devastating meditation on war and humanity.

Maybe skip if

you need lighter tones, since the story stays consistently bleak and tragic.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12019
8.323K249h 17m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1The Story of Daigo8.1
1K23 min
▶2The Story of Bandai8.0
1K24 min
▶3The Story of Jukai8.6
1K24 min
▶4The story of the cursed sword7.8
983—
▶5The Story of the Moriko Song, Part 18.6
1K24 min
▶6The story of the Moriko Song, part 29.4
2K24 min
▶7The Story of Jorogumo silk spider8.0
95324 min
▶8The Story of Saru7.6
88924 min
▶9The Story of the mercilessness8.8
1K24 min
▶10The Story of Tahomaru8.0
85524 min
▶11The story of Banmon, part 18.2
85224 min
▶12The story of Banmon, part 28.8
99024 min
▶13The story of the Blank-faced Buddha7.5
80524 min
▶14The story of Sabame7.3
79724 min
▶15The story of the scene from hell7.2
81324 min
▶16The story of Shiranui7.6
79024 min
▶17The story of questions and answers8.4
85124 min
▶18The story of the cape of no mercy8.6
849—
▶19The story of the Amanojaku7.5
80524 min
▶20The story of the Nue8.4
79524 min
▶21The story of breaking the cycle of suffering8.7
83077 min
▶22The story of Nui8.7
82925 min
▶23The story of the demons9.1
1K—
▶24Dororo and Hyakkimaru8.7
99824 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Jason Douglas Narrator, Munetsuna
Rio Suzuki Dororo
Mugihito Narration
Chaney Moore Dororo
Adam Gibbs Hyakkimaru
Hiroki Suzuki Hyakkimaru
Ty Mahany Jukai, Villager, Aide Red Robe
Mutsumi Sasaki Biwamaru
James Belcher Biwamaru
Kyle Jones Doshu, Villager, Maimaionba Moth

Crew

Osamu Tezuka

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