Hyakkimaru is a young man who lacks 48 body parts because they were taken from him by demons before birth, as payment by his father, Kagemitsu Daigo, to obtain his wish to take over the country. When the baby boy was born he was missing 48 parts of his body, and thus was abandoned—thrown into a river. Hyakkimaru has grown up and now has obtained fake body parts so he can eliminate the 48 demons that were made from his body, and to retrieve his missing parts. Along for the adventure is the boy thief, Dororo, with whom he becomes friends.

Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 6, 1969 to Sep 28, 1969
Premiered: Spring 1969
Broadcast: Sundays at 19:30 (JST)
Producers: Fuji TV
Licensors: Discotek Media
Studios: Mushi Production
Source: Manga
Genres: Action, Adventure, Supernatural
Duration: 26 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Series Director: Gisaburō Sugii
Script:
Shuji Hirami (ep 23)
Taku Sugiyama (ep 24)
Tooru Sawaki (eps 16, 18)
Yoshitake Suzuki (14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26)
Storyboard: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Episode Director:
Chikao Katsui (eps 7-8, 15)
Hideaki Kitano (eps 18, 26)
Hideo Nishimaki (ep 9)
Hiroshi Minamikawa (eps 10, 21)
Kunihiko Okazaki (ep 22)
Masaharu Endō (ep 2)
Noboru Ishiguro (ep 19)
Norio Hikone (ep 12)
Osamu Dezaki (eps 1, 6, 11)
Ryousuke Takahashi (5 episodes)
Seiji Okuda (eps 14, 23)
Taku Sugiyama (eps 24-25)
Yoshiyuki Tomino (eps 3-4, 16)
Music: Isao Tomita
Original creator: Osamu Tezuka
Art Director: Hachiro Tsukima
Animation Director:
Hideaki Kitano
Teruhito Ueguchi
Sound Director: Atsumi Tashiro
Director of Photography: Akifumi Kumagai
Producer: Tatsuo Shibayama