Osamu Tezuka first began serialization of his Dororo manga back in 1967, with a TV anime adaptation to follow in 1969. Now the series is getting a brand new anime by Twin Engine produced at MAPPA and Tezuka Productions, and it's officially set for a January 2019 premiere. The anime's website shared the first promo and visual along with that info, as well as some details on the cast and staff involved in the project.

The series is coming to Amazon in and outside of Japan. Check out the debut trailer and visual below.

Cast members revealed thus far include:

Hyakkimaru - Hiroki Suzuki

Dororo - Rio Suzuki

Biwamaru - Mutsumi Sasaki

Rurouni Kenshin's Kazuhiro Furuhashi is directing, with Yasuko Kobayashi (Attack on Titan) on scripts, Satoshi Iwataki on character designs, and Yoshihiro Ike on music.

Vertical published individual volumes of Tezuka's Dororo manga, followed by an omnibus collection. They described it like so:

Dororo is a thriller manga featuring a boy who has been robbed of 48 body parts by demons. The story depicts his travels to destroy the demons and win back his body parts to become whole.





Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a Samurai general in Japan’s Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 demons in exchange for complete domination of the country. When the baby boy is born, Daigo has him thrown into a river, expecting the boy to die. A kind sage, however, finds him and adopts him. The sage fits out his poor son with prosthetics.





Time goes by and the baby grows into a boy who calls himself Hyakkimaru. Every time Hyakkimaru eliminates a demon, he retrieves one of his body parts. Hyakkimaru rescues a boy thief named Dororo from a band of men whom the young boy tried to rob. Together they travel the countryside in search of the demons who possess Hyakkimaru's parts. Throughout their travels, they face a host of monsters and ghosts.

Via Comic Natalie

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