Dororo — Season 1, Episode 3: The Story of Jukai

Episode synopsis

Jukai is a doctor who travels the land fitting prosthetic arms and legs to those who have lost their limbs in war. One day, on the riverbank he finds a baby missing most of its body parts. He decides to raise the child, who he names “Hyakkimaru”. Jukai provides the child with prostheses, but the time comes when Hyakkimaru sets out on a journey to recover his own body parts.

About Dororo

During the Warring States period, the young thief Dororo encounters Hyakkimaru, a strange, sightless boy who wields fearsome prosthetics in place of his missing limbs. Parts of Hyakkimaru’s body were traded to a group of 12 demons by his father in exchange for power, but thanks to a kindly medicine man, Hyakkimaru survived his horrifying ordeal. Now he roams the land in search of his missing body, and together he and Dororo will fight to survive in an unforgiving, demon-plagued world.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Story of Daigo
• E2The Story of Bandai
• E4The Story of the Cursed Sword
• E5The Story of the Moriko Song, Part 1
• E6The Story of the Moriko Song, Part 2
• E7The Story of the Jorogumo Silk Spider
• E8The Story of Saru
• E9The Story of Mercilessness
• E10The Story of Tahomaru
• E11The Story of Banmon, Part 1
• E12The Story of Banmon, Part 2
• E13The Story of the Blank-faced Buddha