#dororo2019

[pupusukka]

Dororo ink doodle I drew while rewatching the 2019 anime. Love this series to bits❤

[lyferifaes]

I need a second season that starts like this. Period.

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Jukai watches him intently. This boy is deep and sensitive, but there is a thick armor surrounding him like a shell. One has to be very perceptive to decipher what’s in his heart. And there is a deep shadow, no doubt. So, Jukai watches. 

Tahomaru doesn’t smile much, but every time he does, his face turns soft and so very young. Usually, it happens when he watches his mother doing her mundane duties. Most of the times he is there to help her, though.

He takes upon himself taking care of the house, fixing the roof and replacing the old rotten beams, while Jukai is out helping the villagers. Tahomaru is somewhat reluctant to face other people, and for now, Jukai just leaves him be. This boy has defeated the demon within himself, but the wounds it has left will not heal that fast.

When Jukai brings a load of fine wood and begins to carve prosthetics for the villagers who lost their limbs in war, Tahomaru’s eye sparks with interest. He wants to know how. Finally, he begins asking him a million questions. How can it move? How can you control it with a mere stump of a limb? How the wooden legs can be so skillful to not only walk but jump and run and even fight? He doesn’t mention his brother, but Jukai understands what he means.

“Only a part of it was my craft, another part was the power of the demons dwelling in him,” Jukai finds it important to mention.

Still, Tahomaru strives to understand.

They work together on a prosthetic hand for a little girl from the village. Lady Nui has a hard time convincing her son to take a pause or to catch some sleep. It’s not that the boy is exceptionally good with his hands, like Kaname was, but he has a bright mind to grasp the concepts fairly fast. He writes something all the time, shaping the ideas Jukai can only explain with his hands into words and schemes. In no time, he already gives remarks on how to make some detail more efficient and improve the result.

And some of them are really brilliant.

The more time they spend together, the more differences Jukai can see. Hyakkimaru has never been attached to places and surroundings. Not that he had the chance to express it, yet Jukai could see that much. But Tahomaru is a very domestic boy. He has his favorite places to spend the short minutes of rest, he gets attached to the small rough table Jukai has made for him, he loves to take care of the cherry tree they have planted in the backyard. He even grows fond of the particular tea bowl for a reason no one understands. This is all his shell, Jukai realizes. This boy needs his shell, he needs a home, especially now that his old one has turned into ashes along with all his memories.

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from The Story of Flowing Water

Read on AO3 ->

[uminohotaru]

Chapter 8. The story of the unseen bridge. Part 1

From The Story Of Flowing Water (Dororo-2019 continuation story)

Summary: Some bridges shall be built, and some shall burn.

Notes: Continuing with the main plot. The boys are about to fight the demonic army of the still unclear origin; Dororo in the meantime meets Nui and Jukai. I decided to split this chapter in two parts, to keep it a reasonable length. Narratively, it also makes more sense this way. So, the second part is to follow (hopefully, soon).

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Also, here’s the map I’ve made for this fic (click here to enlarge) :

It was a story in itself how I tried to disclose the exact geography of Dororo to come up with the locations for this fic and clarify how much land Daigo actually possessed. The story is said to take place in Ishikawa, but the present Ishikawa Prefecture is actually the former Kaga Province, and Daigo was a vassal to the Governor (Shugo) of Kaga. So, his Ishikawa was only a part of the present days Ishikawa. We also had some more clues: located on the borders of Kaga; neighboring the Asakura and the Sakai clans; hilly area with at least one big river and the sea nearby; (and perhaps the most precise) Tatesuki pass is to the east of the Castle. All these locations proved to be existing in reality. Eventually, I connected the dots and came up with the most suitable location, or so I believe. It mostly overlaps with the former Daishoji domain (historically, quite an unfortunate one, btw; and also starts with Dai-) at the southern border of Kaga. I could write a lot about all this, since it was a fascinating virtual journey, but what is sufficient to know is that the Daigo domain I describe is about 23 km long and 25 km wide, which is a bit farther to the north than the border of the Daishoji domain was, but even that small an area, that you could cross in about a day or two, consisted of ~150 villages at the time (most of them tiny, though) and  amounted to ~100,000 koku (a dry measure; the amount of rice production measured in koku was the metric by which the magnitude of a feudal domain was evaluated.) It should give you the idea. Castles mentioned here also correspond with the ruins of the castles located in this area (most of them were later destroyed by the Tokugawa Shogunate under the policy of “One Domain - One Castle”) - like Daishoji Castle and Ookawa Castle (”Great River” in translation, which is known historically as Komatsu, or ”Little Pine”, Castle).

(enlarge pic)

[yrayra]

Mood rn

[inutodoroki]

Dororo

[bluestarlightsart]

Day 14-Hyakkimaru |Dororo Art by MeDororo by MAPPA

[artoflithium]

Hello, when did I last mention that I work in photography? :D Sometimes, when I don’t have work, I take pictures of my figurines. Today I got this awesome Nendoroid of Hyakkimaru from Dororo and put him in my mothers garden for a little shooting. Love it. =)

[kiss-my-assura]

AAAAH FUCK BOYS ITS BEEN YEARS BUT I COME WITH ~~shitposts~~~

Dororo Au!!!!!