Dororo

The Story of Daigo

As Lord Daigo Kagemitsu waits for his wife to give birth, he recalls the time he made a pact with the 12 demons in the Hall of Hell, prepared to tread the path of evil in exchange for power. When his son is born, the demons extract their payment, the child is born without limbs, facial features or skin. The baby is set adrift in the river and left to its fate. Sixteen years later, he is now a young man, travelling alone wearing prosthesis made by Dr. Jukai. While hunting a sludge-like demon, he encounters Dororo, a young petty-thief being beaten by three men Dororo cheated out of their goods. The demon attacks and devours the men, but the youth destroys it with blades inside his prosthetic arms. Following the death of the demon Deiki, the youth's skin appears, and a demon statue in the Hall of Hell is split by lightning. Meanwhile back in Ishikawa, Daigo's second son Tahoumaru returns home from hunting, although his mother still misses her first son. (Source: Revolvy)

The Story of Bandai

Dororo accompanies the young man who seems unable to see, hear or talk, but has excellent sword skills, super-human strength and can detect friendly or unfriendly beings by the colour of their souls. Dororo takes the young man to a village run by the beautiful woman named Bandai offering to slay a local monster for a reward. While there, they meet the blind monk Biwa-Houshi who can also detect people’s souls. They discover that Bandai is a demon who has been eating travellers, and Young Man slays her. A strange being reveals to them that the Villagers were helping Bandai, while taking the money of the travelers for themselves; It was this being that the villagers wanted slayed as it constantly rang a small bell, that the very first traveler held, and the noise of which is haunting the villagers. Afterwards, Houshi joins Dororo and the young man regains his nervous system from slaying the demon and reveals his name, as Hyakkimaru to Dororo. Meanwhile Daigo Kagemitsu learns that the Sakai Clan appear to be preparing for war. (Source: Revolvy)

The Story of Jukai

The story is told of Jukai-sensei, a doctor who not only healed the sick, but also made prostheses for those who had lost limbs in accidents or war. He once worked for Lord Shiba, crucifying wounded enemies until the day his loved one was killed by Shiba's soldiers and he leapt into the sea. He was rescued by foreigners and learned how to make prosthetics. One day he found Lord Daigo Kagemitsu's abandoned and limbless infant on a riverbank. He took the child home and later made prostheses for him so that he could move about and appear human. Six years later Jukai gave him the name Hyakkimaru. After Hyakkimaru killed the demon Kamaitachi and his right leg was returned to him, Jukai realized that although the boy attracted demons, his body parts were probably stolen by demons. Later, Jukai inserted swords into Hyakkimaru’s prosthetic arms before the young man left Jukai to travel alone. Back in the present, Hyakkimaru returns to Dororo and Houshi after killing a demon, but now appears to have the ability to feel pain. (Source: Revolvy)

The Story of the Cursed Sword

Dororo chats with the girl Osushi while Hyakkimaru stands outside experiencing the rain. Suddenly, Hyakkimaru detects a demon sword and rushes off. He encounters a man wielding the sword, and only manages to defeat him by trapping the sword in his prosthetic leg. Dororo goes to retrieve the leg, but when Dororo touches the sword it pulls Dororo back to its owner, the brother of Osushi. Osushi brings her brother Tanosuke home, but he is only interested in the sword. Tanosuke recalls how he was given the demon sword Nihiru (似蛭), and how it changed his life in its eternal search for blood. Meanwhile, Hyakkimaru disarms Dororo, but Tanosuke seizes the sword again, and attacks Hyakkimaru. This time Hyakkimaru kills Tanosuke and Hyakkimaru's ears are returned to him. (Source: Revolvy)

The Story of the Moriko Song, Part 1

Hyakkimaru is having difficulty adjusting to his new hearing when he is suddenly attacked by a huge bird-like monster and is only saved by the appearance of the Biwa-Hōshi. Meanwhile, it appears that the Sakai Clan betrayed an ally and are preparing for war with them. The next morning Hyakkimaru encounters Mio, a young woman singing a beautiful song, but he collapses from his wounds. The travelers stay with Mio and a group of orphaned children at an abandoned temple, while Mio works at night serving the Sakai troops as a prostitute. Meanwhile, the Biwa-Hōshi finds a better place to camp, but it is inhabited by a demon. Nevertheless, Hyakkimaru goes off to fight it even though he has not yet recovered. They encounter the antlion lavae-like demon Arijigoku (蟻地獄), which bites off the lower half of Hyakkimaru's real leg, leaving him in extreme pain. That night, Dororo follows Mio and discovers the type of work she does. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Story of the Moriko Song, Part 2

The Biwa-Houshi heads back to Mio's camp with Hyakkimaru. His leg is badly damaged, but his voice has returned. Meanwhile, Dororo questions the other children about the type of work Mio does, but they are unaware. Hyakkimaru slowly adjusts to using his hearing and his voice with the help of Mio, and they become drawn to each other. Although only partially recovered, Hyakkimaru returns to kill the Arijigoku demon, this time with swords the children recovered from the battlefield. He succeeds in killing the demon, and his leg heals. However, when he and Dororo return to the temple, they find Mio mortally wounded and Daigo troops murdering the orphans because they believe Mio is a Sakai spy. Horrified by the attack on Mio, Hyakkimaru goes berserk, slaughtering the Daigo troops until Dororo intervenes believing Hyakkimaru may also turn into a demon himself. Later, Dororo finds some precious seed rice in Mio's hand, taken from the Samurai she despised to start her farm. After burying the dead, Hyakkimaru and Dororo continue their travels. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Story of the Jorogumo Silk Spider

Hyakkimaru and Dororo come across the female spider-like demon Jorogumo which has captured a man. Hyakkimaru attacks the demon and wounds it, but it escapes. The travelers enter a nearby village which has a problem with men disappearing at night. The next day, the kindly Yajiro finds the ailing demon on the trail which appears as a beautiful woman. He takes her home, and after feeding her some ohagi, gives her the name Ohagi and leaves for work at the lord's quarry. Although she is hungry, Ohagi resists eating Yajiro because of his kind nature. Yajiro offers to guide the ailing Ohagi out of the village, and it is revealed that local men have not been captured or killed, but that Yajiro has been helping them flee from the oppressive lord. Yajiro and Ohagi encounter Hyakkimaru who attacks Ohagi, but she escapes with Yajiro. Yajiro takes Ohagi to a secret passage in the mountain, but are attacked by the lord's troops and Yajiro is wounded. Enraged, Ohagi attacks and defeats the troops, but this attracts Hyakkimaru to her. As they prepare to fight to the death, the color of Ohagi's soul changes as she worries about Yajiro, so Hyakkimaru withdraws. The couple leave and Hyakkimaru and Dororo continue on their way. (Source: Revolvy)

The Story of Saru

A dark cloud containing the demon Nokosaregumo appears over a village and the villagers hurriedly prepare woman as a sacrificial bride to appease it. As Hyakkimaru and Dororo see the bridal parade travelling up the mountain, Saru, a wild boy, tries to stop the sacrifice. After Saru tells them the story of Nokosaregumo and the kind woman he considers his sister, Dororo and Hyakkimaru agree to exterminate the demon. A dark cloud envelops them, and Nokosaregumo appears as a large centipede. However, Hyakkimaru is unable to differentiate the demon from the cloud as they both show red to his vision and it swallows the woman. Dororo and Saru devise a plan to create an explosion using the sulphurous gases emitted by the mountain which sets the demon ablaze but has little effect. Dororo then jumps on Nokosaregumo's head and calls to Hyakkimaru, enabling him locate and attack the centipede by sound, destroying it. The dark cloud dissipates and Hyakkimaru, Dororo and the woman (who was swallowed whole and not yet digested) fall into a spring. Saru is relieved to find his sister alive and agrees to move into the village with her. Hyakkimaru regains his sense of smell and addresses Dororo by his name for the first time. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Story of the Mercilessness

Dororo comes down with a high fever. While woozy from its effects, the youngster catches a glimpse of some red spider lilies, which stirs up memories of past days spent with parents Hibukuro and Ojiya. (Source: Amazon)

The Story of Tahoumaru

Bakemonogani, a crab-like monster devours a man after destroying his boat. Meanwhile the drought in the Daigo worsens, and lord Kagemitsu is advised of the Asakura clan gathering on their border. He visits the temple and finds more demon statues destroyed, and the demons inform him Hyakkimaru is still alive and slowly retrieving his body. His son Tahoumaru also discovers his father is searching for a baby. Later, Tahoumaru and his two bodyguards, Mutsu and Hyogo, encounter a village where they speak of a monster in the lake which eats the fishermen. He leads a group of villagers in their boats onto the lake and attacks and damages the monster, but it is too fierce and they are forced to retreat. Tahoumaru then has the villagers construct a trap, intending to lure the monster into a shallow channel where the water can be drained out. The plan works, and Tahoumaru, Mutsu and Hyogo attack it together. However, the monster fights back and almost devours Hyogo, but at the last minute Hyakkimaru arrives and slays it. Tahoumaru is left wondering who the stranger is. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Story of Banmon, Part 1

Tahoumaru learns Hyakkimaru's name before the two travellers go to Daigo Kagemitsu's capital. There, they see a play depicting Daigo as a great slayer of demons, protected by the Goddess of Mercy. The Biwa-Houshi is also present and decides goes visit the Hall of Hell to seek the truth for himself. Hyakkimaru and Dororo decide to visit the remnants of Fort Banmon built by Daigo on the site of a village he destroyed which is supposedly cursed by a demon. They find a partial timber wall where Asakura pin bodies of their enemies with arrows. They encounter a young boy, Sukeroku, who wishes to cross the boundary to the Asakura side and rejoin his family. Meanwhile, Tahoumaru's bodyguards report the incident with Hyakkimaru to Daigo, who realizes that his son is alive, and determines to kill him and maintain the prosperity of his domain, ignoring his wife's pleas. Tahoumaru overhears their exchange and later comes across a demented woman who was present at Hyakkimaru's birth. She tells him how the demons "ate everything" but left the boy alive. Night falls at Banmon and a kyūbi no kitsune (nine-tailed fox demon) (九尾の狐) appears. While it attacks Hyakkimaru, Sukeroku uses the distraction to pass the wall with Dororo in pursuit, however he is captured by Asakura sentries. The demon is eventually chased away by the arrows of a squadron led by Daigo himself, who then approaches Hyakkimaru. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Story of Banmon, Part 2

The Story of Blank-faced Buddah

Hyakkimaru continues his search for demons while Dororo tries to convince him to visit an onsen. Later, Dororo encounters a woman called Okaka who looks like her mother, near Hakumenfudo (白面不動 Hakumen Fudō), a faceless Buddha statue at a waterfall. He introduces Hyakkimaru and Okaka, who tells the story of a sculptor who carved the Buddha statue but died before completing the face. As Dororo falls into a drugged sleep, Okaka finishes the story of how a demon inhabited the statue, but wanted a face. It revived the sculptor as Okaka, with the ability to change her appearance and voice, to bring human offerings so it could take their faces. Okaka drags Hyakkimaru to the waterfall, but he revives and starts to fight Hakumenfudo. Okaka uses the demon's power to immobilize Hyakkimaru, but Dororo implores her to spare him. Okaka's heart is softened by Dororo's pleas, and she allows herself to be wounded by Hakumenfudo's sword, giving Hyakkimaru the opportunity to attack and destroy the demon statue and Okaka disintegrates. Later, Hyakkimaru and Dororo visit an onsen where they encounter the Biwa-Hōshi and other children who see a map which appears on Dororo's back. Nuinokata is shown to have survived her suicide attempt, but Tahōmaru has been blinded in his right eye. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Story of Sabame

The Story of the Scene from Hell

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The Story of Questions and Answers

The Story of the Cape of No Mercy

The Story of the Amanojaku

In Dororo episode 19, "The Story of the Amanojaku," Hyakkimaru and Dororo seek a master smith to repair his broken blade. They encounter an Amanojaku demon that forces villagers to say the opposite of what they mean, leading to comedic misunderstandings, including a forced marriage proposal to the smith's daughter, Okawa, and tense moments with a controlled Hyakkimaru.

The Story of the Nue

The Story of Breaking the Cycle of Suffering

The Story of Nui

The Story of the Demons

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