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  Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the manga. For other uses, see  Dororo (disambiguation) . Dororo Cover of  Dororo  volume 4 from the  Osamu Tezuka  Manga Complete Works edition. どろろ ( Dororo ) Genre Dark fantasy [1] [2] Historical [3] Supernatural [3] Manga Written by Osamu Tezuka Published by Shogakukan Akita Shoten English publisher NA Vertical Imprint Akita Sunday Comics Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday (1967–1968) Bōken'ō (1969) Demographic Shōnen Original run August 27, 1967  –  October 1969 Volumes 4 Anime television series Directed by Gisaburō Sugii Produced by Tatsuo Shibayama Written by Yoshitake Suzuki Tōru Sawaki Mushi Pro Literary Section Shuji Hirami Taku Sugiyama Music by Isao Tomita Studio Mushi Productions Licensed by NA Discotek Media Original network Fuji TV Original run April 6, 1969  –  September 28, 1969 Episodes 26  ( List of episodes ) Manga The Legend ...

  Plot [ edit ] See also:  List of Inuyasha characters In modern-day Tokyo,  Kagome Higurashi  lives on the grounds of her family's  Shinto  shrine with her mother, grandfather, and younger brother. On her fifteenth birthday, while searching for her cat, Kagome is dragged into the enshrined Bone Eater's Well ( 骨喰いの井戸 ,  Honekui no Ido ) by a centipede demon that emerges from it. But rather than hit the bottom, Kagome finds herself in another universe which is parallelly the past during Japan's  Sengoku period . The demon was originally defeated fifty years prior by  Kikyo , a warrior  priestess  who was the previous keeper of the Shikon Jewel ( 四魂の玉 ,  Shikon no Tama , lit. "The Jewel of Four Souls"), a powerfully magical artifact created from the sacrifice of the priestess Midoriko, which grants its holder any wish their heart desires. Kagome is revealed to be the reincarnation of the now-dead Kikyo. The Shikon ...