Dororo

is a manga series from the well-known Japan mangaka Osamu Tezuka in the late 1960s. The anime television series (1969) based on the manga consists of 26 half-hour episodes. During the late 1960s, manga featuring hobgoblins was popular among kids. Dororo was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday for three years. Tezuka's childhood memory of his friends pronouncing as dororo, inspired the title of this work. The story takes place in Japan during the Sengoku period, or the Warring States period. Forty-eight major demons, known as majins (lit. demon gods), sense the impending birth of a powerful human, who will grow up to be the vanquisher of demonkind. "Dororo" is a thriller Manga featuring a boy who has been robbed of 48 of his body parts by the devil. The story depicts his travels to destroy the thief.Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a Samurai general in Japan's warring-states period, promises to offer 48 body parts of his unborn baby to 48 devils, in exchange for his wish to take... full article at wikipedia