Dororo (Remake)

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Osamu Tezuka's "Dororo" is getting a remake anime.

Plot:

A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.

Teaser:

Studio will be MAPPA

Official site
dororo-anime.com

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Key visual is out


Preview

Coming Winter 2019.

[LG-MAX 2.o]

winter season 2019 looks much better than fall season 2018.

staff

Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Rurouni Kenshin, Getbackers) is directing the series, and Yasuko Kobayashi (Attack on Titan, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Garo the Animation) is overseeing the series scripts. MAPPA (Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World) and Tezuka Productions are animating the project from Twin Engine. Satoshi Iwataki (Ghost Hun) is adapting manga creator Hiroyuki Asada's (Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Cheer Boys!!, The Girl in Twilight) original character designs for animation. Yoshihiro Ike (Tiger & Bunny, The Great Passage, The Empire of Corpses) is composing the music.

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New preview

[leongsh]

The first episode lives up to my expectations. It's really good. I am definitely in.

[Nivek von Beldo]

So we've Daigo and Dororo as protagonist? Daigo for his revenge and Dororo as the plucky comic relief....well.

Amazing chapter, specially animation and style

Why all anime studios now use the Motorcycle opening? geno, Vlon and now Mappa

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Originally Posted by Nivek von Beldo

So we've Daigo and Dororo as protagonist? Daigo for his revenge and Dororo as the plucky comic relief....well.

Amazing chapter, specially animation and style

Why all anime studios now use the Motorcycle opening? geno, Vlon and now Mappa

I think it's because you saw the episode that came out of the amazon instead of the Japanese TV.

[Nivek von Beldo]

Originally Posted by LG-MAX 2.o

I think it's because you saw the episode that came out of the amazon instead of the Japanese TV.

And that how influced things? censorship?

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Originally Posted by Nivek von Beldo

And that how influced things? censorship?

Well, there are several cases where Crunchyroll has shown an episode with some censorship or alteration even though in some japanese station the episode was shown intact, two examples would be Junji Ito (WOWOW channel) and more recently SAO (AT-X).

But I've never heard any of this about Amazon, I believe they do not have this problem because it's a service known to be more "adult."

I do not think there's anything to worry about.

[Kanon]

That was a nice first episode.

They've reduced the number of demons to 12 (48 in the original), not sure how it will affect the story. It's amazing Hyakkimaru managed to not only survive but also become a master fighter while being deaf, blind, mute, and limbless. He really owes the man who made his amazing prosthetics a lot. I wonder how he's going to communicate with Dororo until he recovers his voice. Looks like killing each demon will make him recover what they stole from him. His skin was first. He won't look as creepy as he did with that mask.

Interesting that the series is named after Dororo when Hyakkimaru is the one that has all the makings of a main character.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

Excellent! I had high expectations when I learned it was a remake of a very old manga (not a light novel and not recent can make anyone hopeful these days), and this met it just fine. The animation quality was high, and the story is already quite interesting even though it has only been one episode.

So the father sacrificed his son, but the statue protected his son's life. And now the son is getting back what was taken from him by defeating those demon gods his father sacrificed him to.
This garbage-ish monster is apparently one of them, even though it looks even lower-tiered than the monster that killed the old lady though.
And then this Dororo is the more human part of the story?

Anyways, as expected of such an old story. Great start.

The only real problem is that the OP is extremely hideous. I've seen some bad OPs (these days), but this tops them all. I almost feel ashamed that the guy screeching in it got payed just to put the only blemish this anime has on it.
On the other hand, the ED has quite the atmosphere to it.
*sigh* That's why you don't hire people to do OPs while you are drunk.

PS: I feel sorry for those rather kind guys trying to kick Dororo out of the village.

PPS: For clarification, the OP's animation is excellent.

[Guardian Enzo]

Fantastic premiere. Great atmosphere, beautiful backgrounds and fluid animation, Furuhashi obviously totally in his element. I agree the OP song is subpar, but the animation sequence itself (by Koike Takeshi no less) is fantastic.

[PreSage]

A very interesting first episode. The series definitely has a "good series" vibe.

I'm not familiar with this series (and didn't even realize it is a remake), so I was completely surprised when I checked out the manga...the difference between character design was shocking!

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Originally Posted by Kanon

That was a nice first episode.

They've reduced the number of demons to 12 (48 in the original), not sure how it will affect the story. It's amazing Hyakkimaru managed to not only survive but also become a master fighter while being deaf, blind, mute, and limbless. He really owes the man who made his amazing prosthetics a lot. I wonder how he's going to communicate with Dororo until he recovers his voice. Looks like killing each demon will make him recover what they stole from him. His skin was first. He won't look as creepy as he did with that mask.

Interesting that the series is named after Dororo when Hyakkimaru is the one that has all the makings of a main character.

According to Wikipedia, Tezuka Osamu chose the Dororo title after his childhood memories of his friends mispronouncing dorobo (どろぼう, "thief") as dororo.

I guess he felt Dororo was a fast, catchy name for his work at the time.
(Which beats those long-winded LN/WN titles that cram the entire premise into the title - 'My Dad Sacrificed my Body Parts to Demons for Power so I'm Questing to Recover Them - And There's a Sidekick called Dororo too!)

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

Spoiler for ep1:

Excellent! I had high expectations when I learned it was a remake of a very old manga (not a light novel and not recent can make anyone hopeful these days), and this met it just fine. The animation quality was high, and the story is already quite interesting even though it has only been one episode.

So the father sacrificed his son, but the statue protected his son's life. And now the son is getting back what was taken from him by defeating those demon gods his father sacrificed him to.
This garbage-ish monster is apparently one of them, even though it looks even lower-tiered than the monster that killed the old lady though.
And then this Dororo is the more human part of the story?

Anyways, as expected of such an old story. Great start.

The only real problem is that the OP is extremely hideous. I've seen some bad OPs (these days), but this tops them all. I almost feel ashamed that the guy screeching in it got payed just to put the only blemish this anime has on it.
On the other hand, the ED has quite the atmosphere to it.
*sigh* That's why you don't hire people to do OPs while you are drunk.

PS: I feel sorry for those rather kind guys trying to kick Dororo out of the village.

PPS: For clarification, the OP's animation is excellent.

The statue depicts the Guanyin/Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy.
I wouldn't say the statue saved him, more a divine force saved him via the statue.

The OP singers are a glam rock band from Kobe, Queen Bee/Ziyoou-Vachi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Bee_(band)

Apparently the lead singer Avu-chan, can sing in both high and low pitches, and is of African-American/Japanese descent. Word is Avu-chan is transgender.
http://www.japanfm.fr/article-2355-q...langue=english

They also did the ED for Tokyo Ghoul Re.

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This is a pretty cool OP song

[Anh_Minh]

Anyone else thought the three guys beating up Dororo were pretty forgiving, all things considered?

[Applehell]

Came into the show no expectations and left pleasently surprised. I feel really bad for Hyakkimaru and his mother. To be sacificed like that by his trash heap of a father for his own personal ambition and power.

[iko_uwais]

Cool OP sequence, but the song itself is pretty bland. Pretty awesome ep, I've only watched the live action movies, but always heard good things about the manga. Mappa really knocked out the park with this one, art and animations are top notch, with the fight at the end being the standout. Hyakkimaru's pretty badass, that's for sure. I have a fondness toward Sengoku Jidai setting, so that's another plus for me. The best premiere of this season for me, so far.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

Anyone else thought the three guys beating up Dororo were pretty forgiving, all things considered?

Yes, they were certainly not as cruel as others in their position might have been.

[Uribatake]

Originally Posted by Nivek von Beldo

Why all anime studios now use the Motorcycle opening? geno, Vlon and now Mappa

That CG motorcycle animation is Twin Engine's vignette. They co-produce shows with a bunch of different studios.