Dororo (Manga)

Dororo
Original title	ど ろ ろ
transcription	Dororo
genre	Action, adventure, shons
Manga
country	Japan
author	Osamu Tezuka
publishing company	Shogakukan → Akita Shoten
magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday → Bōken'ō
First publication	August 27, 1967 - October 1969
expenditure	4th
Anime television series
title	Dororo to Hyakkimaru
Original title	ど ろ ろ と 百 鬼 丸
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1969
Studio	Mushi Production
length	25 minutes
Episodes	26th
Director	Gisaburō Sugii
production	Tatsuo Shibayama
music	Isao Tomita
First broadcast	April 6 - September 28, 1969 on Fuji TV
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2019
Studio	MAPPA , Tezuka Productions
length	25 minutes
Episodes	24
Director	Kazuhiro Furuhashi
music	Yoshihiro Ike
First broadcast	January 7th - June 24th 2019 on Tokyo MX
First publication in German	January 8 - June 25, 2019 on Prime Video
synchronization
Actual filming
► Dororo (2007)

Dororo ( Japanese ど ろ ろ ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Osamu Tezuka from 1967 to 1968 and the name of the main character. Dororo is a childish mispronunciation of the Japanese word Dorobō ( 泥 棒 , dt. "Thief"). The series was adapted as an anime for television in 1969, with another in 2019. The film adaptation Dororo was released in 2007 and won the Orient Express Award in the Best Motion Picture category at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya .

content

The Daimyō Daigo Kagemitsu ( 醍醐 景 光 ) of the Sengoku period promised 48 demons the body parts of his unborn son in exchange for power over Japan. So his son was born with no limbs or internal organs, and his mother abandoned him by a river. There he was found by doctor Jukai ( 寿 海 ), who gave him prosthetic arms and legs. After 14 years he got the name Hyakkimaru ( 百 鬼 丸 ). He went on a journey to kill the 48 demons and get his body parts back. On his journey he teamed up with the young thief Dororo. She had lost her parents who once led a rebellion.

publication

The manga was published on August 27, 1967 in the magazine Weekly Shonen Sunday the publisher Shogakukan and was initially set on 22 July 1968th With the broadcast of the anime, the series was then completed by Akita Shoten in its magazine Bōken'ō from issue 4/1969 to 10/1969. The individual chapters were also published by Akita Shoten in four anthologies ( Tankōbon ), which are repeatedly reissued. In Kodansha series 1981 appeared as part of the 400-volume collected works of Tezuka and 2009 as part of the 200-volume collected works.

The series has also been translated into French by Akata , into Italian by RW Edizioni and into Portuguese by NewPOP Editora . An English version was published by Vertical in 2008.

Adaptations

Anime

1969

The manga was implemented as an anime television series by Mushi Production in 1969 . This soon concentrated more on Hyakkimaru and got the title Dororo to Hyakkimaru from the 14th episode . A color production of Tezuka was initially planned, a pilot had already been created, but due to the small budget, the rest of the series was shot in black and white. Directed by Gisaburō Sugii and produced by Tatsuo Shibayama . The artistic direction was with Hachiro Tsukima . The music was composed by Isao Tomita and Dororo no Uta by Toshiko Fujita was used as the opening credits .

It was first broadcast on Fuji TV from April 6th to September 28th, 1969 . Discotek Media published an English version.

2019

In 2019 there was a new adaptation by the studios MAPPA and Tezuka Productions , directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi . The script was written by Yasuko Kobayashi, the character design by Satoshi Iwataki based on drafts by Hiroyuki Asada.

The series will be broadcast on Tokyo MX from January 7, 2019 , the following day on BS11 and on Jidaigeki Senmon Channel from January 12, 2019.

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )		German speaker
	1969	2019
Dororo	Minori Matsushima	Rio Suzuki	Amira Leisner
Hyakkimaru	Nachi Nozawa	Hiroki Suzuki	Christian Wunderlich
Biwamaru	Jumpei Takiguchi	Mutsumi Sasaki	Ekkehardt Belle
Daigo Kagemitsu	Goro Naya	Naoya Uchida	Wolfgang Condrus
Nui-no-kata	Haruko Kitahama	Chie Nakamura	Dorette Hugo
Village chief	Eken Mine

novel

Based on the anime, Masaki Tsuji wrote an adaptation of the novel with accompanying illustrations by Hideaki Kitano, who was also one of the two animation directors on the series. The novel was published by Asahi Sonoramas in 1969 as part of their recently launched Sun Young series. With its focus on pocket novels aimed at young people that follow a Manga / Anime style, the series is also considered to be the forerunner of the later light novels .

Computer games

On January 10, 1989, a video game was released for the Japanese PC-8801 mkIISR home computer.

In 2004 Sega released a PlayStation-2 video game of the same name, which was named Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo in Europe and the United States .

Stage play

Kensuke Yokouchi and his theater company Tobiraza staged the work as a play under the title Shin Jōruri Hyakkimaru - Tezuka Osamu "Dororo" yori ( 新 浄 瑠 璃 百 鬼 丸 ～ 手塚治虫 「ど ろ ろ」 よ り ~ ) and performed it from June 16 to 23, 2004 from June 16 to 23, 2004 the Kinokuniya Hall in Shinjuku , and from July 8th to 12th, 2009 at the Kinokuniya Southern Theater in Shibuya .

Crossover manga

On November 16, 2012, Nihon Bungeisha published a crossover with Gō Nagai's Dororon Enma-kun under the title Dororo to Enma-kun ( ど ろ ろ と え ん 魔 く ん ) in the manga magazine Weekly Manga Goraku by Nihon Bungeisha . The pilot chapter was then expanded into a series that has been running since February 22, 2013.

reception

The English manga edition won an Eisner Award in 2009 in the “Best US Edition of International Material - Japan” category.

The manga combines influences from Ninja Bugeichō , which has similar Marxist echoes, and Tezuka's Black Jack . According to the Anime Encyclopedia , the anime is committed to a realistic style and makes the most of the black and white look. It is one of the first really disturbing creepy series with " ghosts, nightmares and bloodshed " and a protagonist drawn by the decision of the father. The story was one of the major influences on Blade of the Immortal in the 1990s.

Web links

• Entry at Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley 2006, Stone Bridge Press, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 159, 286.
2. ↑ imdb.com
3. ↑ ど ろ ろ . In: TezukaOsamu.net (JP) 手塚治虫 公式 サ イ ト . Tezuka Productions, accessed July 15, 2015 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ ど ろ ろ . (No longer available online.) In: 電子 か た り べ .COM. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 ; Retrieved July 15, 2015 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ rwedizioni.it
6. ↑ List of speakers Dororo (2019) at anisearch.de. anisearch.de, accessed on April 3, 2020 . 
7. ↑ 小説 ど ろ ろ (朝日 ソ ノ ラ マ): 1969 . National Library of Parliament , accessed July 15, 2015 (Japanese). 
8. ↑ 年表 1945 ~ 1969 年 . In: ラ イ ト ノ ベ ル 作法 研究所 . Retrieved July 15, 2015 (Japanese). 
9. ↑ ど ろ ろ ゲ ー ム プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト . In: PC ゲ ー ム 「ど ろ ろ」 復 元 プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト . Retrieved July 15, 2015 (Japanese). 
10. ↑ mobygames.com
11. ↑ 百 鬼 丸 . In: Tobiraza. 2004, Retrieved July 15, 2015 (Japanese). 
12. ↑ 劇 団 扉 座 第 43 回 公演 『新 浄 瑠 璃 百 鬼 丸 ～ 手塚治虫「 ど ろ ろ 」よ り ～』 . In: Tobiraza. 2009, Retrieved July 15, 2015 (Japanese). 
13. ↑ Osamu Tezuka's Dororo Manga Wins Eisner Award. Anime News Network , July 25, 2009, accessed July 11, 2015 .