Welcome to my 3rd wiki of Historical Catalog Event and as always, I really enjoy making catalog related wikis, on my previous blog I wrote about this 2D boy named Tanjiro Kamado from Demon Slayer, but this time I decided to write about someone who is not from the same anime. In this wiki I will be writing about Hyakkimatu from the anime Dororo! Hope you enjoy

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" Backstory "

When Hyakkimaru was born into the world that was not blessed by green land and peace, his father who was also the lord of a particular place made a pact with the demons, the pact was that the demons should bless the country with prosperity in exchange of his child's body parts. Most of the demons got what they wanted, except for one, that one demon who was supposed to have Hyakkimaru's head failed to get it, but the pact was still active so the demons gave what the lord of that land wanted. Knowing that Hyakkimaru lost his arms, legs, sense of sight, speaking, hearing, feeling, smelling and taste. The lord decided to cast him away from his land. However, even after losing so many things, Hyakkimaru was blessed by knowing the true color of anyone he sees. He can't really see the people he meet, but instead the color of their soul. He can tell if that specific person is evil or innocent. Being blessed by something like that, he has known many different people's true colors and he only hunt the evil ones, and the demons who once took his body parts away from him. Which was his main motive to start all this killing and fighting.

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In my opinion, I wouldn't care less about the land's prosperity if I had my limbs taken away from me. I would do everything to get my body parts back even if it means to destroy the land the lord tried to protect. I feel really sorry for Hyakkimaru to live 16 years of his life without his body parts, and I truly understand him, and his drive to get what really belonged to him at first. Hyakkimaru's father called him a demon, but in my point of view, he is the one who is a demon impostor because he is the one who offered Hyakkimaru's body parts to the real demons, which means he started this fight against his own son to begin with. If he wants to offer something knowing that it might be bad then he has to be ready for the consequences as well.

To conclude this section, I think that his backstory is quite sad seeing that he had to go through something like that. The era he was in was going through so much chaos and was in constant wars. He was alone from the very beginning until he met this old man who took Hyakkimaru in and treated him like his own son and Dororo who accompanied him on his journey. The old man was also the one who gave Hyakkimaru his name.

*upvoted Dororo and old man* & *downvoted Hyakkimaru's biological parents*

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" Personality "

Throughout the anime Hyakkimaru showed nothing interesting in particular, but he was very quiet and did not talk that much, which is to be expected because he couldn't speak. The only thing he was exceptionally good at was fighting and killing demons. But even without his five senses I could tell that he was very eager and determined to get back whatever was taken away from him, that much I knew. He is ready to protect the things he hold dear and would not hesitate to kill to get back what he wants. But as the story continues he starts to regain some of his senses back by taking down demons one by one. We get to see his true personality starting to bloom along the way on his journey and according to an old priest he was worried that the one who came out of the cave was a monster and not really a human, as he was referring to Hyakkimaru. However, the one who kept Hyakkimaru in check was a young child named Dororo. Dororo was one of the very few people who was dear to Hyakkimaru since Dororo accepted him as the way he was and stayed with him since the bridge incident (the very first time they met)

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In my opinion it was really intriguing to witness how Hyakkimaru grew as a person, it was not disappointing at all, as he was more like a unique protagonist who got to draw, color his own path and color himself exactly like he wanted it to be. Another thing I liked about this character is how he was very determined to get back what originally belonged to him and would take no easy way outs to fulfill his desires and reaching his final destination. But, he is willing to go extra thousand steps to save his own friend from danger even if it means he loses a body part. That is exactly what I like about him, he values his friends more than anything, and I think he realized how precious life can be when his pre-lover Mio lost her life because of some Samurais that attacked her and the children she took care of, so he wanted to make sure that Dororo gets a life full of happiness. This is basically how I see Hyakkimaru.

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" Appearance "

At the beginning of the anime, Hyakkimaru is seen as an emotionless person, even when he got his face back, he did not smile nor make any expressions at all. He had a constant pale expression until he got some of his senses back. However, when he still had not regained some of his body parts, he used to have prosthetic arms, legs, eyes and face, which he got from his foster father, to fight and hide his face so that strangers don't get scared of him immediately. After the fight against the demons we get to see Hyakkimaru finally showing more expressions and talks more than he did before, after he got his sense of speaking back by defeating of one the demons. Furthermore, we get to see his real appearance in the last episode of Dororo. He had brown eyes, but still seen as a thin person with a long black hair, he had also began smiling from that point on.

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I am glad that he got his body parts back, the body he was longing for, for so many years. Without it, he would still be suffering of his inability to socialize with people as he was at the same time seen as a living doll walking around the nation and fighting. But anyways, I am glad that he got his body back, now he can enjoy his life to the fullest extent. What I really liked about Dororo's prosthetic body was that no matter hoe much you damaged it, you could still fix it back, he could for example sacrifice a prosthetic leg in exchange for a monster's life, which I would do as well if I gain a benefit from it. However, at the same time there are some cons of having prosthetic arms and legs such as it might get damaged and a bit unusable, plus it does take a bit time to repair it. Another con is that you won't be able to feel anything.

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" Overall Thoughts "

As a character I really like Hyakkimaru because as the story continues you get to see his character development from the time he had nothing 'till he got his body parts back. Moreover, the way he cherished his friends until the end of his journey and would do anything to protect them even if he had to turn into a monster, the devotion he put to make sure that they felt safe until the end was something else to witness. I really liked how the author decided to make Hyakkimaru choose his own future and path, either he wanted to become a peaceful person or come out as an evil being no one has seen before.

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" Outro "

This is the end of my Hyakkimaru wiki, hope you enjoyed until the end even though I kind of was slacking. But as always, I did enjoy making this wiki, see you next time on my 4th wiki of this catalog event!