History Characters / DororoMainCharacters

* MouthyKid: He avoids becoming a complete BrattyHalfPint by A) actually being as good a thief as he thinks he is, and B) being lively and energetic in a setting where that's in genuine danger of dying out. [[invoked]]

* HatesBaths: He hates bathing for good reason; his deceased parents told him that the TreasureMap on his back is meant to be for someone he can trust.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: We only see Dororo's parents in flashbacks. His father was a bandit that was dedicated to attacking Samurai that took advantage of farmers like he used to be; while his mother did everything in her power to keep Dororo alive, eventually dying from exhaustion and malnourishment.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Depends on the work, but either he gets more muscle nnd looks more traditionally handsome, or gets a bit slimmer and tends towards the {{Bishounen}} line. The "Hyakki Maruo" version is more of an ''ikemen'', who is still rather muscular and fit despite being quadriplegic.

* BadassNormal: It's hard to believe he's a regular human when he slays the biggest and baddest demons that no normal man could ever dream of fighting.

* OnlyFriend: Dororo is the first and only friend Hyakkimaru’s ever made since he doesn’t have many friends close to his age and he lacks social skills.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Dororo is a girl.]]

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: While Hyakkimaru and Dororo are taking a bath, the former tries to get the latter to bathe with him, and in the process discovers Dororo is a girl]].

[[center: [- [[Characters/{{Dororo}} Index]] | '''Main Characters''' | [[Characters/DororoDaigoFamily Daigō Family]] | [[Characters/DororoDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DororoSpirits Spirits]] | [[Characters/DororoHumanAntagonists Human Antagonists]] | [[Characters/DororoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] -] ]]

Son of Daigō Kagemitsu, young Hyakkimaru had his body parts stolen by the demons that his father made a pact with. As a result, the vast majority of his body is prosthetic, and he can't see, hear, smell, or even talk. He goes on a journey to kill the demons and take back his body bit by bit.

* {{Adorkable}}: The more gentle moments when he doesn't know how to deal with things people take for granted. In episode 2, 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.

* 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 episode 2.]] 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.

* BadassAndChildDuo: The Child to Hyakkimaru's Badass, at least in the tellings that keep Dororo a child. The kid is not without spunk, however.

* OnlyFriend: Dororo is Hyakkimaru’s first and only friend he ever made since he doesn’t have many friends close to his age and he lacks social skills.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: While Hyakkimaru and Dororo are taking a bath, the former tries to get the latter to bathe with him, and in the process discovers Dororo is girl]].

!!!'''Voiced by''': Minori Matsushima (1969 anime), Creator/IkueOtani (''Blood Will Tell''), You Taichi (''Young Black Jack'')

!!!'''Voiced by''': Nachi Nozawa (1969 anime), Creator/TomokazuSugita (''Blood Will Tell''), Creator/MamoruMiyano (''Young Black Jack'')

* HesAllGrownUp: Blood Will Tell and the 2019 anime have Dororo age up [[spoiler: which also makes it impossible to hide that she's a girl.]]

!!!'''Voiced by''': Nachi Nozawa (1969 anime), Creator/TomokazuSugita (''Blood Will Tell''), Creator/MamoruMiyano (''Young Black Jack''), Hiroki Suzuki (2019 anime)

[[caption-width-right:250:Hyakkimaru as seen in the 1969 manga]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In the 2019 anime Hyakkimaru [[spoiler:suffered through an entire childhood without his body and went through all manner of hardship to earn it back. He lost his first love, his brother, his mother, and his adoptive father. However, he did not succumb to hatred and wrath, got his body back, and while he and Dororo have gone on different paths for it's clear they'll meet again in the future.]]

!!!'''Voiced by''': Minori Matsushima (1969 anime), Creator/IkueOtani (''Blood Will Tell''), You Taichi (''Young Black Jack''), Rio Suzuki (2019 anime)

Self proclaimed "World's Greatest Thief," Dororo first follows Hyakkimaru in order to eventually steal Hyakkimaru's sword in the original manga. In the 2019 anime, Dororo follows Hyakkimaru out of curiosity.

* HotBlooded: Runs on this in the original and most follow ups, but the 2019 anime plays him up as a cunning {{Determinator}}.

** The "Hyakki Maruo" version is more of an ''ikemen'', who is still rather muscular and fit despite being quadriplegic.

!!!'''Portrayed by''': Ko Shibasaki (movie), Creator/RieKitahara (Stage Play)

!!!'''Portrayed by''': Ko Shibasaki (movie)

[[center: [- [[Characters/{{Dororo}} Index]] | '''Main Characters''' | [[Characters/DororoDaigoFamily Daigō Family]] | [[Characters/DororoDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DororoSpirits Spirits]] | [[Characters/DororoHumanAntagonists Human Antagonists]] | [[Characters/DororoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/DororoAnimeExclusiveCharacters Anime-Exclusive Characters]] -] ]]

* MeaningfulName: "Dororo" (どろろ) is a corruption of "dorobō" (どろぼ&#12358); which means "thief".

* MeaningfulName: "Dororo" (どろろ) is a corruption of "dorobō" どろぼう, which means "thief".

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

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: We see a flashback of Dororo's parents in episode 9 of the 2019 version and a flashback in the manga. His father was a bandit that was dedicated to attacking Samurai that took advantage of farmers like he used to be; while his mother did everything in her power to keep Dororo alive, eventually dying from exhaustion and malnourishment.

* MeaningfulName: "Dororo" どろろ is a corruption of "dorobō" どろぼう, which means "thief".

** Fun fact: According to trivia about his childhood, Tezuka's friends couldn't pronounce 'dorobo' correctly. This mispronunciation gave him the name of the series.

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[[caption-width-right:270:Hyakkimaru as seen in the 2019 anime]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: None of Hyakki's adaptations feature him as ugly by any means, but the 2019 rendition of Hyakkimaru is much younger looking and far less muscular. The intention was to make him look "cuter" for that version.
* AbsoluteCleavage: Hyakkimaru wears a tattered, loose-fitting yukata that leaves the better part of his chest and stomach exposed. 2019 Hyakkimaru starts much more covered up, but loses the BadassCape and scarf after several episodes, rendering him just as exposed as his earlier counterparts.

* {{Adorkable}}: The more gentle moments when he doesn't know how to deal with things people take for granted. In episode 2, 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.
* AgeLift: Inverted. Interestingly enough, despite his younger and less muscular looks, he's ''older'' in the 2019 anime - sixteen years old, while his manga counterpart was fourteen.
* AmbiguousGender: Not him, but everyone to ''him''. Since he only sees soul energy, he can't discern between men and women and only goes by the good or bad colors of the soul. This is only really the case in the 2019 version; in other adaptations and in the manga, he can somehow tell boy from girl even before he gets his sight back.

* AttackAttackAttack: At least in the 2019 adaptation, this seems to be his go-to strategy for dealing with demons. 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.]]

* BerserkerTears: Hyakkimaru does not take the death of Mio well in any of the adaptations. In the 2019 anime he also briefly sheds tears as he delivers the killing blow to the Arijigoku.
* {{Bishounen}}: Hyakkimaru in the 2019 anime is basically a living, life-sized ball-jointed doll, and he has a face to match.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Hyakkimaru's prosthetic arms conceal [[DualWielding a pair of katana]].

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In the original, Hyakkimaru constantly had to be on the lookout for Dororo's reckless behavior, saving the kid wherever he got in trouble and having to physically pull the kid away from a fight if need be. Less so in the 2019 version, where Hyakkimaru can't take care of anybody in his condition.
* TheCorruption: The boy's soul is mostly white, but streaks of red are always present and threaten to get larger if he doesn't get placed in check.

* DetectEvil: Like with Biwa-Houshi, he can sense the energy of others and can tell what is edible, good/neutral, and evil.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: While manga Hyakkimaru and 2019 anime Hyakkimaru are missing all the same parts, 2019 Hyakkimaru lacks most of the telepathic abilities the former had to bypass his lack of ears and vocal cords. Thus he starts the series off as entirely deaf and mute, whereas his manga counterpart could at least communicate verbally.
** His counterpart in ''Young Black Jack'', Maruo Hyakki, is a quadriplegic and obviously can't gain the limbs back [[spoiler:or regenerate them]]. He makes do with prosthetics for his hands and a wheelchair.
** His counterpart in ''Young Black Jack'', Maruo Hyakki, is a quadriplegic and obviously can't gain the limbs back [[spoiler:or regenerate them]]. He makes do with prosthetics for his hands and a wheelchair.
* DisabilitySuperpower: His lack of a central nervous system while piloting his prosthetic body in the 2019 adaptation 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.

* DualWielding: [[spoiler:In episode 23 of the 2019 anime, Hyakkimaru gains both of his arms back and plays this trope straight by using his wraps to cover his hands to hold onto both of his blades since they don't have handles. And since he has his real arms back, Tahomaru notes that Hyakkimaru's reach is longer as a result.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: In the 2019 adaptation only.

* 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.

** [[spoiler: Dororo actually leaves Hyakkimaru after calling him the same as the demons he fights in #15 of 2019 anime.]]
* HidingTheHandicap: Notable for him hiding some ''massive'' disabilities with masterful use of {{Telepathy}}. His speech, hearing, and sight are masked by mouthing while telepathically communicating, while he hides his amputee status with realistic enough prosthetics. Averted in the 2019 version, where he's so isolated from the rest of the world that he can't even begin to hide it.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Due to the reveal that his own father took away his body parts in a deal with the demons, Hyakkimaru spitefully refuses to think about the consequences about killing demons will have on others. [[spoiler:This attitude actually disgusts Dororo enough in episode 15 that she leaves him.]]
* LightningBruiser: He's very agile and outclasses many demons with his speed. He also packs quite the punch.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: As Hyakkimaru is emotionally stunted and on the borderline between human and demon in the 2019 anime, Dororo reprents his humanity and connection to the outside world.

* MoralityChain: He acknowledges Dororo as his tie to being human in 2019 anime.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Growing up deaf, blind, and mute, 2019 Hyakkimaru doesn't have a lot of options for communication. So when he does reach out to others, it's usually by touch--whether his theoretical conversation partner is comfortable with it or not.
* 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.

* ScreamingWarrior: Downplayed in the 2019 anime but he's gained this status once he got his voice back, [[spoiler:baying with grief during his ExtremeMeleeRevenge against Mio's killers and]] doing so to call for Dororo during the Nokosaregumo fight. It might be in part because he hasn't quite gotten the hang of articulating words yet.
* SleepsWithBothEyesOpen: Having lived most of his life without eyelids, 2019 Hyakkimaru hasn't gotten into the habit of closing them while he sleeps. Luckily, he doesn't have real eyes to bear the damage.
* TheSpeechless: In the 2019 anime. [[spoiler:Even after regaining his voice at the end of episode 5, 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 Episode 13 of the 2019 Anime.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: His first words aren't all that great, considering his was reeling from [[spoiler:his first love's death]]:
--> "''Mi...o...''"

* 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.

* UnstoppableRage: While generally quiet there are two situations that bring him to a blinding rage:
** [[spoiler:In episode 6, after coming back to see Mio and the kids she was taking care of being murdered, he loses it and slaughters the samurai responsible. He nearly loses it when the samurai responsible for her murder appears in front of him in episode 12.]]
** [[spoiler:He explodes in rage when he realizes that Sabame is just like his father and is obsessed with killing all the demons he can find in episode 15.]]
** [[spoiler:He screams in fury when he realizes that his arms and eyes have been transplanted on to his brother and his attendants. To highlight this, his aura is ''blood red'', indicating he is very close to becoming a demon.]]

* 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.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Hyakkimaru's a gentleman despite his lack of complete awareness, so his earlier versions were more reserved about killing women. [[spoiler:He tells Dororo this when the kid asks for Hyakki to kill them, so he can make Dororo aware of themselves]]. In the 2019 version he has [[WouldHitAGirl less reservations]], 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.

[[caption-width-right:250:Dororo as seen in the 1969 manga]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:Dororo as seen in the 2019 anime]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Most adaptations make Dororo much [[AgeLift older]], and in the process much more visibly feminine along the way. When Dororo is kept as a child, the character design often makes the kid look more conventionally cute instead of scrappy.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the 2019 anime adaptation, most of Dororo's reckless and HotBlooded tendencies are removed and he is far kinder and more worldy than the manga version, often acting as a genuine caretaker for Hyakkimaru who struggles with anything other than demon-slaying.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Hyakkimaru's increasingly obsession with killing all demons without regard for the consequences actually disgusts Dororo so much that she leaves him in episode 15.]]
* TheCaretaker: In the 2019 version. 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.
** In #19 he has an arguement 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.]]''

* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Or more accurately DamselInDistress though her kidnappers didn't know so. At the end of episode 15 of the 2019 version, Dororo gets kidnapped by Itachi and his men to search for the hidden treasure that her parent hidden.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dororo's first scene has them trying to sell goods from a group of bandits that they stole from, before easily outmaneuvering them and running away. Later, they come across a hungry dog, and while Dororo does warm up to the creature, they tell them that they can't give them food or how else will they learn how to survive? This highlights Dororo's thievery skills, love for money, but also that they do have a warm heart deep down and only want to survive in this hard world.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In episode 9 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 in his sleep.

* ShamefulStrip: [[spoiler:Itachi and his men forcefully strip down Dororo naked to find the map somewhere on Dororo's body only to discover her true gender and the missing half of the map. This leaves Dororo ashamed and disgusted after Itachi and his men saw her body.]]
* SupportingProtagonist: While Dororo is the originator of the manga's title and the kid is a main character, ultimately the primary mover of the story is Hyakkimaru and his quest to get his body back. In the 2019 adaptation, Dororo at least partially reclaims the number one spot as the heart of the story and primary nurturer of Hyakkimaru's morality.

* TagalongKid: Dororo simply tags along without Hyakkimaru's say-so.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Dororo is a girl.]] However this is not the case in the 2019 adaptation, as the creators have gone to say they're not trying to hide [[spoiler:Dororo's sex and gender]] that go around. [[spoiler: She's even worried about what the nun that took care of her when she was sick and washed her clothes might have said.]]
%%* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler:It implies Dororo a transgender boy in the original manga since Dororo refuses to be call a girl and keep insists he's a boy after he true gender was revealed. However in the 2019 anime, it hasn't confirmed yet whether Dororo was aware of the gender he was born with or in denial.]]

** In the 2019 anime [[spoiler:she's aware of being a girl, but was still raised as a boy and doesn't want anyone to find out the truth.]]

* WouldntHitAGirl: Hyakkimaru's a gentleman despite his lack of complete awareness, so his earlier versions were more reserved about killing women. [[spoiler:He tells Dororo this when the kid asks for Hyakki to kill them, so he can make Dororo aware of themselves]].

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: His counterpart in ''Young Black Jack'', Maruo Hyakki, is a quadriplegic and obviously can't gain the limbs back [[spoiler:or regenerate them]]. He makes do with prosthetics for his hands and a wheelchair.

[[center: [- [[Characters/{{Dororo}} Index]] | '''Main Characters''' | [[Characters/DororoDaigoFamily Daigō Family]] | [[Characters/DororoDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DororoSpirits Spririts]] | [[Characters/DororoHumanAntagonists Human Antagonists]] | [[Characters/DororoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/DororoAnimeExclusiveCharacters Anime-Exclusive Characters]] -] ]]

!!Main Characters

[[center: [- [[Characters/Dororo Index]] | '''Main Characters''' | [[Characters/DororoDaigoFamily Daigō Family]] | [[Characters/DororoDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DororoSpirits Spririts]] | [[Characters/DororoHumanAntagonists Human Antagonists]] | [[Characters/DororoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/DororoAnimeExclusiveCharacters Anime-Exclusive Characters]] -] ]]