Dororo
Manga
どろろ
1967/08/27
Character count72,857
Word count30,785
Unique words4,763
Words (1-occurrence)2,547
Unique kanji847
Kanji (1-occurrence)238
Difficulty Expert
Volumes4
External Rating
70 %

A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics - lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan. Like an unforgettable road movie, Dororo reaches deeper than its swashbuckling surface and offers a thoughtful allegory of becoming what one is, for nobody is born whole (Source: Kodansha USA)

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Genres
Action
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Tags
Demon
Youkai
Swords
Samurai
Coming of Age
War
Anti-Hero
Male Protagonist
Countryside
Historical
Ghost
Shounen
Metafiction
Disability
Subdecks
Volume 1
Character count15,796
Word count6,657
Unique words1,769
Words (1-occurrence)1,093
Unique kanji457
Kanji (1-occurrence)176
Difficulty Expert
Volume 2
Character count15,294
Word count6,443
Unique words1,691
Words (1-occurrence)1,014
Unique kanji399
Kanji (1-occurrence)153
Difficulty Expert
Volume 3
Character count21,056
Word count8,995
Unique words2,077
Words (1-occurrence)1,255
Unique kanji446
Kanji (1-occurrence)151
Difficulty Expert
Volume 4
Character count20,711
Word count8,690
Unique words2,144
Words (1-occurrence)1,286
Unique kanji507
Kanji (1-occurrence)196
Difficulty Expert