History Characters / Dororo2019

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He and his men brutally beat Shiranui, who by all appearances is a psychopath that fed innocent people to sharks.

The spirit of a traveler who became the first victim of Bandai.

* OneWordVocabulary: やろうか？ translated as "You want?"

-->''"Humans are precious prey."''

* ArcherArchetype: Mutsu is a level-headed and proficient archer, staying distant even when offering Tahomaru advice.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: He goes from hell and back since he was born, losing his body parts, attracting demons since childhood, losing his [[spoiler:first love, brother, mother and adoptive father but he is able to fully regain his body, make peace with his brother and mother before they die and successfully resist become a demon himself. He ends the series wandering alone to discover what it means to be human but it's implied that he meets an adult Dororo later on.]]

* FinalBoss: He acts as this in the for the heroes due to being the last demon standing and having [[spoiler:Hyakkimaru's eyes and arms]]. He also shares a more person connection to Hyakkimaru--the only reason the boy is still alive is because Asura failed to take his head.

* MoralityPet: Tahomaru continues to care for them even after he develops an unhealthy obbsession with killing his abandoned brother Hyakkimaru.

* DirtyCoward: Unwilling to admit his cowardice, he led other people to their deaths in order to persuade himself that no man can fight off Nue.
* DiseaseBleach: His hair was originally brown until he feed himself to a Nue and his hair turned white.
* FusionDance: He feeds himself to Nue in a last bid to destroy Hyakkimaru. Doubles as DrivenToSuicide.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: He was once a dutiful son who carried his mother over mountain to see a doctor and hoped to provide better life for her with his sword.
* VillainousBreakdown: As Hyakkimaru gains the upper hand against Nue, he breaks down as his reasoning for abandoning his mother and others to Nue had become invalidated.

* ArtificialLimbs: He had an prosthetic leg given by Jukai until he found out about his past. After that, he discards his prosthetic leg and replaces it with a wooden walking stick.

* LoveAtFirstSight: She fell in love at Hyyakimaru at first sight after [[HeadbuttOfLove Hyyakimaru touched her forehead with his.]] She thought it was a sign of affection even though they just met.

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.]]

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.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: She may be a demonic horse revived by the unresolved grudges of spirits, but she's only attacking the soldiers of Daigo's army. It's also clear she has a heart as [[spoiler:despite being mortally wounded by Hyogo and Mutsu, her last act is to lovingly nuzzle her foal before dying.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:She was killed by Mutsu and Hyogo.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: The one inflicting this as she burns to death the man who blew her up with bombs.

* DueToTheDead: He spends most of his time now wondering battlefields and fitting the corpses with his prostheses so they're presentable.

* {{Bishonen}}: This adaptation makes him basically a living, life-sized ball-jointed doll, and he has the delicate face to match. [[spoiler:Even when he gets his whole body back, he's still rather delicate and pretty.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Never wears sandals, or any kind of footwear for that matter. Not unless ankle wraps count.

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

* TerseTalker: 2019 Hyakkimaru gradually becomes one. Even after he starts getting the hang of speaking, he often drops nouns, only uses simple present tense, and tends to resort to sentence fragments when speaking about direct or indirect objects he can't omit entirely. Eventually he grows out of this as time progresses.

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

* ClingyJealousGirl: Dororo can come off like this when other travelers take a special interest in Hyakkimaru, especially girls. [[spoiler: Made a little funnier when it's revealed Dororo is a girl.]]

* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Or more accurately DamselInDistress though her kidnappers didn't know so. At the end of "The Story of the Scene from Hell", Dororo gets kidnapped by Itachi and his men to search for the treasure that her parents hidden.]]

* NeverLearnedToRead: She's rather impoverished and never had the opportunity to learn. We regularly see him asking other people what certain plaques say throughout the story.

* DeathSeeker: He became so lost and fatalistic that demons didn't notice him because he lost the will to live. After he reunites with Hyakkimaru, when a dying demon bites his leg after they previously ignored him, he's actually overjoyed that they regard him as human again.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She lived it when her firstborn son was born skinless, eyeless and limbless and told that he doesn't have much time to live. Ultimately subverted when she learns that he survived despite everything.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Since the two met Hyakkimaru has been this to him. In "The Story of Tahomaru" despite spending the episode preparing to kill a giant crab monster with an entire village's help, he fails with Hougo almost dying as a result and then Hyakkimaru arrives and instantly kills the monster with a single strike. Each time they fight one on one, Hyakkimaru has the advantage that slowly starts to grate on Tahomaru.

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

* AllForNothing: By the end of the series [[spoiler:due to Daigo's contract with the demons being nullified, everything he worked for is now gone. His lands are devastated, his people hate him, his army suffered heavy losses, and his wife and heir are dead. Hyakkimaru doesn't even give him the satisfaction of death, instead telling him to live on as a human. To rub it in further, Daigo admits prosperity might have come naturally had he been patient.]]

* DeathSeeker: He wants to be killed by someone stronger than him since the sins he committed five year ago under the influence of Nihil, killing soldiers and innocent lives, can't be forgiven. He gets his wish by dying at Hyakkimaru's hands.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: He is killed by Hyakkimaru instead of killing himself to satisfy Nihiru.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He betrayed Dororo's father, Hibukuro by crippling him and sided with the authorities.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He and his men brutally beat Shiranui, who by all means is a psychopath that fed innocent people to sharks.

* {{Foil}}: Acts as one for Daigo as they both made a DealWithTheDevil to make their land prosper. The only real difference is Sabame is more sincere in his desire to protect his land while everyone can tell that Daigo did so partly out of ambition.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed. He is drawn slightly more attractively than his manga counterpart, but though he's now missing his right arm, some of his teeth, and has scars on most of his body.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:He was killed by Hyakkimaru in the manga, but in the 2019 anime, he commits suicide by setting off the bombs to creating a landslide attempt to kill everyone. Shiranui's lifeless corpse was last seen on shore.]]

* ArtificialLimbs: He had an prosthetic leg given by Jukai until he found out about his past. After that, he discard his prosthetic leg and replace it with a wooden walking stick.

* 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. Dororo also tells Mio that his mother refused to take up sex work even though it led to her starving to death, and that Mio is just as admirable as her.
* LoveAtFirstNote: Her songs are very beautiful and Hyakkimaru first meets her by following the sound of her singing. Mio's songs are the only sounds that can calm Hyakkimaru after getting his ears back.

* LoveAtFirstSight: She fell in love at Hyyakimaru at first sight after [[HeadbuttOfLove Hyyakimaru touch her forehead with his.]] She thought it was a sign of affection even though they just met.
* SecondLove: Okowa is Hyakkimaru's second love interest after Mio's death. However, this ends up as a RomanticFalseLead since it was a misunderstanding caused by an Amanojaku that makes everyone speaking the opposites of what they mean. It also means that Hyakkimaru wasn't into her--or not ''that'' into her. She takes this in stride, however.

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

* OneWordVocabulary: "You want?"

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: They are the personification of all deceased children who were eaten by [[spoiler:Maimai-onba's children.]]

* HellishHorse: An heroic example. She might be a demon horse, but she remains very loyal to Hyakkimaru.

* AttackAttackAttack: He won't stop until his target is killed, disregarding anything that might happen to him or to those around him as long as no one is in immediate danger. Jukai wonders if this isn't because he can't feel pain, and therefore has no normal self-preservation. Eventually, this crosses over into FearlessFool territory as he gets more of his parts back, as his injuries end up becoming more debilitating for him. This comes back to bite him in the butt ''hard'' when he rushes to fight the Arijigoku (antlion demon) while injured [[spoiler:twice. The first time he gets his real foot bitten off. The second time, he ends up leaving Mio and the kids undefended.]]

* BlindSeer: While he has no eyes, he does have the ability to see the souls, which helps him get by despite the absence of every other sense.

* MeaningfulName: Hyakkimaru's name 百鬼丸 contains the kanji for "hundred demons."

* WildChild: 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''.

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

* NeverLearnedToRead: She's rather impoverished and never had the oppportunity to learn. We regularly see him asking other people what certain plaques say throughout the story.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: To her mother, especially noticable when [[spoiler:she is a teenager in the epilogue, sporting her hair in the same way and wearing a similar outfit.]]

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:He became so lost and fatalistic that demons didn't notice him because he lost the will to live.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing Hyakkimaru has to an actually good father. He found baby Hyakkimaru and raised him. Hyakkimaru even says he's his "mother," which Jukai is both moved and amused by.

* TearsOfJoy: After reuniting with Hyakkimaru, this is his reaction after Hyakkimaru calls him his mother, ItMakesSenseInContext.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She lived it when her firstborn son was born skinless, eyeless and limbless and told that he doesn't have much time to live.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Although Tahomaru is a one-shot character in the original manga, he's shown ordering the execution of civilians and wants to kill Hyakkimaru just for annoying him. In the 2019 anime, he is shown to care deeply for the wellbeing of his people and [[spoiler:only decides to kill Hyakkimaru after his father convinces him that doing so would ensure the continued survival and prosperity of his land.]]

* AxCrazy: He grows to be more ruthless and severly more unhinged when he's on the hunt for his brother Hyakkimaru as he's borderline obsessed with murdering him in cold blood, casting away whatever little morality he has left.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Believes that his father Daigo is a good person and continues to trust and believe his lies that he sacrified Hyakkimaru for the lands well-being, yeah guess again as Daigo just did it for power.
* HotBlooded: Tahomaru was once a very passionate and driven young man who had aspiring hopes inheriting his father's land along with his childlike rambunctious behavior. Though later on as he grows older he retained this until his first battle with Hyakkimaru where he starts to give in to anger and now let's his temper guide him to be an extremely aggressive individual who has a violent streak.

* NeverMyFault: After his two closet friends die and Hyakkimaru contining to lose his sanity due to everyone turning on him, Tahomaru refuses to accept any fault as his pursuit of Hyakkimaru caused Mutsu and Hyogo to die and Hyakkimaru losing it.

* SuperPersistentPredator: When he obsessively tries to kill his brother due to his existence causing ruin in Daigo's land. It becomes so unhealthy that he doesn't even consider his brother even human. [[spoiler:But as of now he accepts his brother as human and helps him kill the final demon.]]

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

* StarterVillain: It is there to highlight Hyakkimaru's skill at demonslaying.

* ClingyMacGuffin: It will not leave its owner until someone knocks it out of owner's hands or destroys it.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Mutsu, a tough LadyOfWar, has the deepest and most mature voice out of the female characters.

[[Characters/DororoMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/DororoDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DororoSpirits Spirits]] | [[Characters/DororoHumanAntagonists Human Antagonists]] | [[Characters/DororoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | '''2019 Anime''']]-]]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He presents himself as a kind and wise lord to his people thus why he has a OneHundredPercentAdorationRating to his land even lying that the current prosperity is because he slayed the demons instead of making a deal with them. But underneath all that is a narcissist that cares more about his ambitions than others.

* BloodKnight: He's a bloodthirsty killer who enjoys killing innocent lives under the influence of the demon sword, Nihil.
* DeathSeeker: He wants to be killed by someone stronger than him since the sins he committed five year ago under the influence of Nihil, killing soldiers and innocent lives, can't be forgiven. He got his wish and he ends up being killed by Hyakkimaru.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: He is killed by Hyakkimaru instead of killing himself to satisfy Nihil.

* SanitySlippage: It is due to wielding the demon sword, Nihil for five years, he becomes crazy addicted to killing innocent people in order to please his weapon's blood-lust. Even after being freed from the demon sword temporarily by Hyakkimaru, he still wants to wield Nihil instead of reconciling his sister and going back home together. Not even his own sister can snap him out of his obsession.

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka (JPN), Creator/TyMahany (ENG)

* MeaningfulName: Its name in Japanese (似蛭) means leech-like. Fitting as it relies on its host to kill.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Ojiya died in a field of spider lilies instead of a snow field.