History Characters / Dororo2019

* HateSink: The story more or less does a good job at showing what an irredeemable scumbag Daigo is. He is responsible for his son Hyakkimaru's predicament, still treats him with contempt and has no doubts or regrets about the deal, in contrast to [[TheAtoner Nui]] and [[NotSoDifferent Tahomaru]].

!!! '''Voiced by''': Mariko Munakata (Mutsu), Kenichirou Matsuda (Hyogo)

!!!'''Voiced by''': Ayano Hamaguchi

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaoyaUchida

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTakahashi

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Setsuji Satoh

!!! '''Voiced by''': Hiroki Suzuki (JPN), Adam Gibbs (ENG)

!!! '''Voiced by''': Rio Suzuki

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Mutsumi Sasaki

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChieNakamura

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:In the 2019 anime,she decides to die with her son, Tahomaru in the burning castle falls around them.]]

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Shoya Chiba

* TheSpeechless: Even after regaining his voice at the end of "The Story of the Moriko Song, Part 1", he's reluctant to use it, as he finds the sound of his own voice unpleasant--[[RealityEnsues and only knows about four words]]. He starts to speak more by "The Story of the Blank-faced Buddha".

!!! '''Voiced by''': Hiroki Suzuki

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: She is far kinder and more worldly than in the manga, most of his reckless and HotBlooded tendencies removed. She not only stays with Hyakkimaru out of curiosity rather than trying to take his sword but also he often acts as a genuine caretaker for hwr companion, who struggles with anything other than demon-slaying.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is far kinder and more worldly than in the manga, most of his reckless and HotBlooded tendencies removed. He not only stays with Hyakkimaru out of curiosity rather than trying to take his sword but also he often acts as a genuine caretaker for his companion, who struggles with anything other than demon-slaying.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the original manga, Dororo wants a sword for survival and HatesBaths. In the 2019 anime, he hates swords and willingly bathes. [[spoiler:Rather than insisting on being a boy when told otherwise, she blushes and asks Hyakkimaru if he understands what the nun has told him about her true sex.]]
* AmbiguousGender: Since they're still a child, Dororo appears to others as a young boy, [[spoiler: but later on it's revealed they're actually a girl, biologically at least.]]

** In #19 he has an argument with Hyakkimaru over why he shouldn't be randomly grabbing people's faces to greet them and it sounds exactly like a parent scolding their child. It even ends with ''[[BecauseISaidSo Because I say so.]]''

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dororo's first scene has him trying to sell goods from a group of bandits that he stole from, before easily outmaneuvering them and running away. Later, he comes across a hungry dog, and while Dororo does warm up to the creature, he tells them that he can't give it food or how else will it learn how to survive? This highlights Dororo's thievery skills, love for money, but also that he does have a warm heart deep down and only wants to survive in this hard world.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: As Hyakkimaru is emotionally stunted and on the borderline between human and demon in this version, Dororo represents his humanity and connection to the outside world.

* MommasBoy: Like most children her age, Dororo deeply loves his mother. [[spoiler:It helps that she died early keeping her alive]]. Generally Dororo lowers her guard if he meets people that resemble his mother.
* MoralityChain: He is there to make sure Hyakkimaru doesn't become the same as the demons he fights. Hyakkimaru even acknowledges Dororo as his tie to being human.
* NeverLearnedToRead: He's rather impoverished and never had the oppportunity to learn. We regularly see him asking other people what certain plaques say throughout the story.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In "The Story of the Mercilessness" Dororo catches an illness, a kind nun lets Dororo sleep in her monastery. He wakes up as Hyakkimaru is out getting water and freaks out that Hyakkimaru left while Dororo was sleeping.

* StreetUrchin: Their EstablishingCharacterMoment shows them living on the streets and trying to swindle people to buy their goods.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: To his mother, especially noticable when [[spoiler:she is a teenager in the epilogue, sporting her hair in the same way and wearing a similar outfit.]]

* DefiledForever: Mio reveals that she feels dirty for selling her body every night, even thinking her soul is dirty. Shortly after Mio voices her concerns, however, the scene cuts to [[POVCam Biwamaru's perspective]] showing her soul to be spotless. Later, Dororo reacts very poorly when Mio calls his mother "admirable" for never taking up sex work -- a decision which led to her starving to death -- and counters that Mio is just as (if not more) admirable for doing what most wouldn't to survive.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her decision to sell her services to both sides of the war leads to them thinking she is a spy and slaughtering her and the orphans she look after.

* DeathByAdaptation: He's alive in the original manga but in thos anime, [[spoiler:he decides to die with Nui and Tahomaru while Daigo Castle burns down around them.]]

* HateSink: Everything about him that Itachi is a horrible person. First, he betrayed his commander in order to be on the winning side instead of by side until the bitter end. After years passed, [[spoiler:he now kidnaps Dororo just to used her to search for her parent's hidden treasure and forcefully strip Dororo naked to find the other half of the map.]]

!!! '''Voiced by''': Ryuichi Kijima

* {{Adorkable}}: The more gentle moments when he doesn't know how to deal with things people take for granted. In "The Story of Bandai", Dororo has to stop him from eating fish raw right off his sword arm. He steps in the fireplace with his own leg, burns it and tries again after wondering how that happened for a moment. Later, Dororo covers his [[spoiler:newly regained]] ears with a piece of cloth and ties it with a bow on the top. When Mio asks him to speak, he closes his mouth and sticks fingers in his ears in refusal.

* NoSocialSkills: Growing up deaf, mute, blind, and largely isolated from people didn't exactly do much for his communication skills, verbal and nonverbal. After regaining most of his senses back and learning the bare-bones of vocabulary he becomes curious of the world and often approaches it with a childlike wonder.

* AdaptationalJobChange: Thos series makes her a prostitute instead of just a beggar, adding a new layer of tragedy to her tale.

* AmbiguousGender: Since they're still a child, Dororo appears to others as a young boy, [[spoiler: but later on it's revealed they're actually a girl.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In "Dororo and Hyakkimaru", after losing to Hyakkimaru but his older brother sparing his life, he relents and gives back Hyakkimaru's eyes. He even calls Hyakkimaru brother in worry for him.]]

* TheUnfavorite: He feels this way for both his parents as he states in "The Story of the Moriko Song, Part 2". He can tell his mother loves someone else more than him, while he can tell his father values his ambition more than he values him as a person. [[spoiler:"Dororo and Hyakkimaru" reveals his current grudge is due to this. Asura calling Hyakkimaru's Daigo heir and the fact Nui didn't pay much attention to Tahomaru growing up, made him feel like second to Hyakkimaru and that his brother was stealing everything from him.]]

* FeelNoPain: As a side effect of having a prosthetic body, Hyakkimaru can survive sword cuts and stabs without so much as flinching. In the remake at least, his sense of pain was one of the things taken from him. [[spoiler:He gets it back after killing Bandai in "The Story of Bandai".]] He at least discusses this trope in the manga, saying that because he has no pain threshold he also has no idea how much his body can take before giving out.
** Jukai notes that since Hyakkimaru doesn't feel pain, he fights without fear and picks fights without any consideration. [[spoiler:He keeps that trait even when regaining his ability to feel pain.]]

* TheCaretaker: Being blind, deaf and lacking in social skills, Hyakkimaru can't fully take care of himself outside of hunting, so when Dororo joins him the kid basically acts as his eyes and ears, often feeding him and keeping him out of danger as well. A far cry from the {{Protectorate}} Dororo was in the original.

[[folder:Nihil]]

Maimai-onba was one of the twelve demons that made a contract with Kagemitsu Daigo. She married Sabame so her offspring can prosper.

Nue is a giant demon towering over any human. Befitting its nature as a chimera-like demon from the Japanese folklore, it has the face of a monkey, the body of a tiger, and the tail with the front half of a snake. It preys on those who pass by the mountain it inhabits in.

Asura is the last of the twelve demons that made a contract with Kagemitsu Daigo.

Kaname is formerly Jukai's disciple. He left his master after knowing that Jukai used to work for Lord Shiba.

* BoyishShortHair: In the 2019 anime, she has short hair.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Too good indeed... She's one of the most kind-hearted and selfless characters in the story. [[spoiler:And her kindness is repaid with her being killed]].

Munetsuna is the father of Okowa and is known as the best swordmaker in the land. He is the one who sharpened and fixed up Hyakkimaru's arm blades. Although he makes a living by making swords, he has expressed discontent with the products he has made and wishes that he would make a sword for peace and not bloodshed.

! Spirits

He was the spirit of a traveler who became the first victim of Bandai.

She is the spirit of a deceased nun and a minor character who once ran an orphanage in the mountains. Some time ago, She, along with the orphans and the orphanage, burned down in a fire caused by [[spoiler:Sabame after discovering that the landlord had made a pact with Maimai-onba to keep the land prosperous by sacrificing travelers and animals to feed the demoness and her offspring.]]

They are the benevolent spirit vessel that houses the deceased children who once lived in an orphanage in the mountains. Some time ago, they, along with the nun, and the orphanage itself, burned down in a fire by [[spoiler:Sabame after they discovered the landlord made a pact with Maimai-onba to keep the land prosperous by sacrificing people to feed the demoness and her offspring. Since then, the orphans who were sacrificed came together and created this spiritual form.]]

A Ghoul flaming horse used by Hyakkimaru. She was once a normal horse and had a foal. She was blown up by Daigo's men and was later revived by possessed armors, and become a powerful flaming steed to help Hyakkimaru.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the 1969 manga and anime, she was possessed by one of the forty eight Demons that took Hyakkimaru's body parts, but in the 2019 anime, she is a revived horse that decides to help Hyakkimaru fight against Daigo's men.

* AscendedExtra: He ends up being one of the last people Hyakkimaru fights in the series, but in the original, he's largely a one-off. The 2019 anime pretty much uplifts him to main character status.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Their parents were murdered in front of them by soldiers of the Asakura clan and they were locked up in a cage with other prisoners and left to rot. Everyone else had died by the time Daigo's soldiers got to the prison. When Kagemitsu Daigo himself met them, Hyogo bit on his arm and Mutsu threatened him with a sharpened bone.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:She was fatally wounded and killed by Midoro.]]

* BoyishShortHair: Mutsu is [[{{Bifauxnen}} androgynous]] and a capable archeress. She keeps her hair, including a ponytail, at the base of the neck.

* AmbiguousGender: It's hard to tell whether Mutsu is a feminine-looking and sounding young man or a cross-dressing woman with a deep voice. She's confirmed to be the latter when Hyogo calls her ''aneue'', an archaic word for older sister.

* TomboyishVoice: Mutsu has a voice so deep that it can easily pass as a feminine-sounding young man. She's [[{{Bifauxnen}} androgynous]] and a capable archeress.

* AmbiguousGender: Mutsu's androgyny makes it impossible to tell her gender until "The Story of Breaking the Cycle of Suffering".

* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:Mutsu contracts the plague late in the series.]]

* BigBrotherWorship: After seeing Hyakkimaru in action, Dororo usually serves as his hype-man when they go demon hunting, over time he does genuinely come to see Hyakkimaru becoming a good person.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Dororo can come off like this when other travelers take a special interest in him, especially girls. [[spoiler: Made a little funnier when it's revealed Dororo is a girl.]]
* CombatPragmatist: From living on the streets, Dororo isn't afraid to hit, scratch, bite or throw things at people who threaten them.

* BigBrotherWorshp: After seeing Hyakkimaru in action, Dororo usually serves as his hype-man when they go demon hunting, but does genuinely come to see Hyakkimaru as a good person.

* AmbiguousGender: Mutsu looks like a young man and yet has soft feminine voice. In "The Story of Breaking the Cycle of Suffering", it is confirmed she's a woman dressed in men's clothing.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The 2019 anime makes Hyakkimaru much younger looking and far less muscular. The intention was to make him look "cuter" for that version.

* {{Bishonen}}: The 2019 anime makes him basically a living, life-sized ball-jointed doll, and he has a face to match.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: The 2019 anime removes the telepathic abilities his manga counterpart has to bypass his lack of ears and vocal cords. Thus, he starts the series off as entirely deaf and mute while his manga counterpart can at least communicate verbally.
* DisabilitySuperpower: His lack of a central nervous system while piloting his prosthetic body in the 2019 anime actually gives him an edge in battle, as he [[FeelNoPain feels no pain,]] making him an unhesitating killing machine. It's an interesting take on the anime, since his quest to become more human gives him back these senses, among other problems.

%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: In the 2019 anime.

* HellishPupils: In the 2019 anime, Hyakkimaru and Dororo have the same dark red eyes, but Hyakkimaru's eyes alternate between having slit demonic pupils when he is fighting and round human pupils when calm or emotional.
* HidingTheHandicap: Averted in the 2019 anime, where he's so isolated from the rest of the world that he can't even begin to hide it.

* NoSocialSkills: In the 2019 anime. Growing up deaf, mute, blind, and largely isolated from people didn't exactly do much for his communication skills, verbal and nonverbal. After regaining most of his senses back and learning the bare-bones of vocabulary he becomes curious of the world and often approaches it with a childlike wonder.

* WildChild: In the 2019 anime, as his lack of senses made it difficult to communicate with what little human contact he had growing up. Not only does he have NoSocialSkills, he doesn't even have ''language''.
* WonderChild: Especially in the 2019 anime, where Jukai discovers him while on the verge of a DespairEventHorizon in a manner implying that the Buddha brought them together.
* WouldHitAGirl: In contrast to his manga counterpart, in the 2019 anime Hyakkimaru has less reservations about killing women, given the second monster we saw disguised itself as a woman, but that can be justified as he can't see or distinguish between male and female soul energy.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: As Hyakkimaru is emotionally stunted and on the borderline between human and demon in the 2019 anime, Dororo represents his humanity and connection to the outside world.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Averted in the 2019 anime, as the creators have gone to say they're not trying to hide Dororo's sex and gender this time around, and Hyakkimaru is informed of the truth by a nun taking care of her when she is sick. However, Dororo is worried about this and asks Hyakkimaru if he was told anything, to which he doesn't answer.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the manga, all that is said of Jukai is that he's a doctor. In contrast, the 2019 anime gives Jukai a backstory where he used to work for a brutal warlord and was responsible for the crucifixion of would-be rebels.

* DeathByAdaptation: He's alive in the original manga but in the 2019 anime, [[spoiler:he decides to die with Nui and Tahomaru while Daigo Castle burns down around them.]]

** After seeing a woman get mercilessly cut down by his lord for simply begging to not have her husband crucified, Jukai has this reaction and tries to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] by throwing himself off a cliff in the flashback of "The Story of Jukai" for the 2019 anime.

* UnwantedSpouse: Downplayed. In the 2019 anime, she's aware her husband never love her and he only married her so she can give birth to his heir. Nui's relationship with him seems neutral after he took away her firstborn son away from her.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:In the 2019 anime, he dies with his mother in the burning castle falls around them.]]

* FaceStealer: Particularly grisly version in the 2019 anime as it does so by slicing an unfortunate victim's face off.

* FinalBoss: He acts as this in the 2019 anime due to being the last demon standing and having [[spoiler:Hyakkimaru's eyes and arms]]. Adding to the fact the only reason Hyakkimaru is still alive is because Asura failed to take his head.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being a serial killer, the only people he doesn't kill with or without the influence of Nihil are his family. In the 2019 anime, he decides not to kill his sister since she is the only family he has left and folds one last paper crane for her before setting off to retrieve the demon sword.

* LastRequest: [[spoiler:In the 2019 anime, he asks Dororo to take him to see the treasure before he succumbs to his wounds.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: He's alive in the manga, but in the 2019 anime, [[spoiler:he kills himself after the Maimai-onba's children destroyed the village.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In the 2019 anime, he commits suicide after his village and their rice storage are destroyed.]]

* CoveredWithScars: In the 2019 anime, he has several scars on his chest, arm and legs. He has large flame-like scar on his right side where his right arm used to be.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In the manga, Shiranui mentions his parents died in the war when he was young. But in the 2019 anime, he lived alone on the desert island with his mother until she died of starvation. This is one of the reasons why he resent humanity for being weak and worthless.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: In the original manga, he was able-bodied, while in the 2019 anime he fed his right arm to the starving two shark demons and he doesn't regret it.

* ImAHumanitarian: In the 2019 anime, it's implies he's cannibal because one of the demon sharks gave him a severe arm, but he says he will eat later.
* MisanthropeSupreme: In the 2019 anime, he hates humanity and thinks of humans nothing more than demon food to feed to his two demon sharks, Jiromaru and Saburomaru.

* ParentalAbandonment: In the 2019 anime, his mother died of starvation when he was a child.

* CanonForeigner: He's one of the characters who never appear in the original manga and he only appears in the 2019 anime.

* AdaptationalJobChange: The 2019 anime makes her a prostitute instead of a beggar.

* BladeOnAStick: Hibukuro's personal weapon in the 2019 anime, so much so that a samurai actually recognized him because of the weapon.

* HellishHorse: An heroic example in the 2019 anime.

* DeathByAdaptation: He's alive in the original manga but in the 2019 anime, [[spoiler:he decides to die with Nui and Tahomaru in the burning castle falls around them.]]