Hyakkimaru’s journey begins anew in the new year.

Earlier today, the official Dororo anime website updated with a new key visual and trailer, as well as several cast members.

We break the details down below.

Trailer

The minute-long teaser highlights the treacherous journey that awaits Hyakkimaru and Dororo as they seek Hyakkimaru’s body parts. Opening theme song Kaen (Flame) by Ziyoou-vachi kicks in at the 26-second mark.

Key Visual

The image features Dororo and Hyakkimaru standing together in a field of grain. The sky swirls with a mysterious energy behind them.

Cast

The series will add the following:

Nuinokata: Chie Nakamura
Jukai: Akio Ohtsuka
Daigo Kagemitsu: Naoya Uchida
Tahōmaru: Shōya Chiba

Visuals for the characters were also revealed, which you can check out below.

Dororo Character Visual - Daigo Kagemitsu — Daigo Kagemitsu

Dororo Character Visual - Nuinokata — Nuinokata

Dororo Character Visual - Tahomaru — Tahomaru

Dororo will hit Japanese TV on January 7. The full broadcast schedule is as follows:

Tokyo MX: 1/7/2019 at 22:00 (1/7/2019 at 10:00PM)
BS11: 1/7/2019 at 24:30 (1/8/2019 at 12:30AM)
Jidaigeki Senmon Channel: 1/11/2019 at 26:00 (1/12/2019 at 1:00AM)

Amazon will stream the series exclusively in Japan and abroad.

Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 1, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) will direct the project at MAPPA and Tezuka Productions, with Satoshi Iwataki providing character designs. Yasuko Kobayashi (Attack on Titan, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) is in charge of series composition for the title.

Other confirmed crew members include:

Music: Yoshihiro Ike
Original creator: Osamu Tezuka
Original Character Design: Hiroyuki Asada

The series is a co-production between by MAPPA and Tezuka Production, with Twin Engine serving as a general producer.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

Hyakkimaru: Hiroki Suzuki
Dororo: Rio Suzuki
Biwamaru: Mutsumi Sasaki
Narrator: Mugihito

Dororo airs in January 2019. Amazon holds the digital rights to the project, and will stream the show exclusively on their platform in Japan and abroad.

Osamu Tezuka’s Dororo manga began publication in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine in August 1967. The series ran through July 1968, and switched to Akita Shoten’s Bōken’ō magazine before concluding its run. Four compiled volumes were release for the title.

A 26-episode anime based on Dororo aired in the Spring 1969 broadcast season. The title was directed by Gisaburō Sugii (Lupin III: Secret Files, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie) at Mushi Productions. Discotek currently holds the rights to the title, and released it on Blu-Ray in North America. A live-action film by director Akihiko Shiota hit Japanese theaters in 2007.

Discotek describes the anime as:

Hyakkimaru is a tortured young man who lost 48 parts of his body when his own father offered him up to demons in exchange for power. Traveling the war-torn countryside of Sengoku era Japan, he quests to slay the demons and regain his humanity piece by piece.
On his journey he is accompanied by Dororo, an enigmatic young orphan and sneak-thief who has made it a personal goal to swipe Hyakkimaru’s swords.
Together the two will face horrific monsters and the even more horrific ravages of war!

Dororo was also adapted into a PlayStation 2 game by Sega, who released it in North America and Europe under the title Blood Will Tell.

Source: Animate Times

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