Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo

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Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo
System(s): PlayStation 2
Publisher: Sega Corporation (JP), Sega of America (US), Sega Europe (EU)
Developer: Sega Corporation, Red Entertainment
Supporting companies: T's Music (audio)
Licensor: Tezuka Productions
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 2004-09-09 ¥6,800 (7,140)6,800 (7,140) SLPM-65526 JP (Sega the Best) 2005-11-23 ¥2,800 (2,940)2,800 (2,940) SLPM-66207 US 2004-09-21 $39.9939.99 SLUS-20782 EU (Promo) 2005 SLES-52755 EU (ES/IT) 2005-06-05 SLES-52755 INL-P52755-SI DE 2005-06-05 SLES-52755 INL-P52755-GR FR 2005-06-05 SLES-52755 INL-P52755-FR UK 2005-06-05 SLES-52755 INL-P52755-UK AU 200x SLES-52755 INL-P52755-UK KR 2004-11-11 SLKA-25225 AS 200x SLAJ-25047

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Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo, known simply as Dororo (どろろ) in Japan, is an action game based on the Dororo anime. It was released exclusively for the PlayStation 2 in 2004.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo	Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo
English (US)	Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo	Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo
Japanese	どろろ	Dororo
Korean	도로로
Chinese (Traditional; Taiwan)	多羅羅

Production credits

Cast

• Hyakkimaru: Chris Murphy
• Dororo: Bret Walker
• Kagemitsu Daigo: Kevin Blackton
• Tahoumaru: Kevin Miller
• Saburota: Bob Brindley
• Mio: Evelyn Huynh
• Tanosuke: Andrew Chaikin
• Misaki: Erin M. Cahill
• Troll: Timothy Enos
• Yudai: Christiane Crawford
• Dragon Brood/Nine-Tailed Fox: Andrew Chaikin
• Redcap: Roger Jackson
• Legion: Timothy Enos
• Maimai'Onba: Monica Murray
• Narrator/Jyukai: Adam Harrington

• Original Story: Tezuka Osamu
• Character Design: Samura Hiroaki
• Creature Design, Opening Movie Storyboards: Maeda Mahiro
• Production Design: Amemiya Keita
• Supervised By: Tezuka Productions
• Original Story: ©Tezuka Productions
• © SEGA,2004
• Character Design: © RED
• Presented by: SEGA®

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In-game credits

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Cast

• Hyakkimaru: Chris Murphy
• Dororo: Bret Walter
• Kagemitsu Daigo: Kevin Blackton
• Tahoumaru: Kevin Miller
• Saburota: Bob Brindley
• Mio: Evelyn Huynh
• Tanosuke/Dragon Brood/Nine-Tailed Fox: Andrew Chaikin
• Misaki: Erin M. Cahill
• Troll/Legion: Timothy Enos
• Yudai: Christiane Crawford
• Redcap: Roger Jackson
• Legion: Timothy Enos
• Maimai'Onba: Monica Murray
• Narrator/Jyukai: Adam Harrington

Concept

• Original Story: Tezuka Osamu
• Character Design: Samura Hiroaki
• Creature Design/Storyboards (Opening Movie): Maeda Mahiro
• Production Design: Amemiya Keita
• Supervision: TEZUKA PRODUCTIONS

Design/Character/Supervision

• Producer: RED ENTERTAINMENT, Toru Kubo
• Story and Design: RED ENTERTAINMENT, Haruo Chatani
• Support: RED ENTERTAINMENT, Tomomi Moriyama, Atsuhiro Sato

Movie/Motion Capture

• Executive Producer: GRIOT INC., Masashi Sakamoto
• Motion Capture: STUDIO IBUKI INC.

CG Movies

• LINDA INC., ANIMAINC.

Story Sequence Motion Capture

• Director: Rei Abiko
• Performers: Ryota Kashima, Hitomi Yokokawa, Hirofumi Yoshimura, Ryo Nishimaru, Yoshitsugu Satake, Mami Misaki, Kenji Inubushi, Ryoichi Suzuki

Background Art

• PAON CORPORATION

Character Design

• DIGITAL ZERO

Motion Programming

• SILICON STUDIO CORPORATION

Sound/Music

• Sound Director: T's MUSIC LIMITED COMPANY, Takeshi Sato
• Music Composers: T's MUSIC LIMITED COMPANY, Yasutake Hatade, Shinichiro Sato, Chamy Ishi
• Sound Effect: T's MUSIC LIMITED COMPANY, Tomomitsu Matsushita
• Monster Voice: BLOCKBUSTER
• Voice Director: T's MUSIC LIMITED COMPANY, Tomoyuki Hamada
• Recording Studio: AMG STUDIO
• Voice Recording: WEBTONE PRODUCTIONS, Greg Weber, Kim Weber, Steve Duell, Chritiane Pizzirani, Kevin Miller

Development - Sega

• Executive Producer: Kazunari Tsukamoto, Noriyoshi Ohba
• Producer: Yuji Horikawa, Takayuki Kawano
• Director: Kenichi Imaeda
• Lead Game Designer: Masamoto Morita
• Game Designers: Kazuya Takahashi, Yasuhiro Hayashida, Yusuke Maeyama, Shinji Motoyama, Keisuke Suzuki, Naoya Sakamoto, Motona Yamashita
• Lead Programmer: Tsutomu Akazawa
• Movie Production Systems: Atsushi Ueno
• Character Systems: Takeshi Ando
• Enemy Systems: Hideaki Sekiya
• Player Character Programmer: Shiro Takehara
• Enemy Programmers: Hitoshi Shimokawa, Kenji Osawa, Tatsuhiro Oshii, Kinya Koshiro, Takeshi Yamaya, Kenji Furukawa, Tatsuoki Ogasawara
• 2D Interface: Motoyoshi Sato
• Camera Systems: Katsumi Kohori, Tsutomu Matsuo
• Sound Effects: Yoshinori Uyama
• File System: Yasuo Iwasaki
• Level Designers: Yositaka Katsume, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Takashi Iyama
• Programming Supervisor: Tatsuya Watanabe
• Lead Artist: Norio Ishii
• Chief Background Artist: Hitoshi Furukubo
• Background Artists: Yasuhito Kuroiwa, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Mie Sawakl, Yoshikazu Endo, Homi Hada
• Character Designers: Ryodo Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Tomatsu, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Syuhan Goya
• Additional Character Artists: Hiroshi Kanazawa, Tetsuya Oguri
• Chief Motion Artist: Tadashi Fujita
• Motion Artists: Tadayuki Iwa, Masateru Kawasaki, Kumiko Yamada, Yosuke Harada, Hikaru Murakami
• Additional Motion Artist: Akihiro Suzuki
• Movie Director: Shun Miyanaga
• Movie Production Assistants: Keiko Satose, Dai Nakajima, Kaori Doi, Yuko Kito
• Additional Movie Assistant: Hidehiko Okubo
• Chief Special Effects Artist: Masaharu Ijichi
• Effects Artists: Atsushi Yamamoto, Yuriko Ohata, Miki Nakahara
• Additional Effect Artists: Toshihiro Ito, Yasushi Honma, Arugo Shinohara
• Chief Interface Artist: Yoshihiro Yamakawa
• Interface Artist: Yutaka Shiina
• Additional Interface Artists: Daisuke Tabayashi, Takashi Otsuji
• Special Artist: Taku Makino
• Sound Coordination: Tetsuya Kawauchi, Masanori Takeuchi
• License Coordinator: Takeshi Hiratsuka, Junichiro Takahashi
• Localization Support: Shinobu Shindo, Eiko Akiyama

Localization & Marketing - SOA

• VP of Entertaiment Marketing: Scott Steinberg
• Product Marketing Manager: Yosuke Moriya
• Director of Product Development and Localization: Osamu Shibamiya
• Localization Producer: Klayton Vorlick
• Project Test Lead: Shawn Dobbins
• Senior Media Manager: Teri Higgins
• Build Engineer: Rick Ribble

Quality Assurance & Manual Design

• SEGA LOGISTICS SERVICES CO., LTD. (JAPAN)

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

JP press release

PDF

Press release

Physical scans

PlayStation 2, US
Cover
Disc Manual

PlayStation 2, JP
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, JP (Sega the Best)
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, EU (Promo)
Cover

PlayStation 2, UK
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, FR
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, DE
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, ES/IT
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, AU
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, KR
Cover

PlayStation 2, AS†
Cover

Technical information

Main article: Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 ddb47e24 MD5 3838ae57c87515d703444e04f739f996 SHA-1 971d2ea8d26a7ba17323e10832771b5cee6591c4	4,320,428,032		DVD-ROM (EU)	SLES-52755 (V1.00)
✔	CRC32 afdf7629 MD5 002a9945bfa98f2e5d0865e6ff6bb57c SHA-1 0b6449758fe735716a52fb0e350fb8c40e0d24be	3,374,022,656		DVD-ROM (JP)	SLPM-65526 / SLPM-66207 (V1.00)
?	CRC32 34d7b926 MD5 fb0ab1b51ff7925e0acc37ad39c00e0d SHA-1 d4f047c830d592d789392aecd755e1002e8a5227	3,217,358,848		DVD-ROM (US)	SLUS-20782 (V1.00)

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2
• Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo on PlayStation.com: JP, JP (Sega the Best), UK, US

References

Sega games based on Osamu Tezuka's works
	Columns GB: Tezuka Osamu Characters (1999)
	Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo (2004)
	Black Jack: Hi no Tori Hen (2006)