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Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo

System(s): PlayStation 2

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega, 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^[2]	¥6,800 (7,140)6,800 (7,140)^[3]	SLPM-65526
JP (Sega the Best)	2005-11-23^[4]	¥2,800 (2,940)2,800 (2,940)^[5]	SLPM-66207
US	2004-09-21^[1]	$39.9939.99^[1]	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^[6]		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®

Source:

In-game credits

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^[7]

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

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CRC32	ddb47e24
MD5	3838ae57c87515d703444e04f739f996
SHA-1	971d2ea8d26a7ba17323e10832771b5cee6591c4

4,320,428,032

DVD-ROM (EU)

SLES-52755 (V1.00)

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CRC32	afdf7629
MD5	002a9945bfa98f2e5d0865e6ff6bb57c
SHA-1	0b6449758fe735716a52fb0e350fb8c40e0d24be

3,374,022,656

DVD-ROM (JP)

SLPM-65526 / SLPM-66207 (V1.00)

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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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Press release: 2004-09-21: SEGA RELEASES BLOOD WILL TELL ON PLAYSTATION 2
↑ http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm65526.html (Wayback Machine: 2007-05-06 16:18)
↑ http://sega.jp/ps2/dororo/ (Wayback Machine: 2004-10-09 19:49)
↑ http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm66207.html (Wayback Machine: 2017-04-05 18:13)
↑ File:BWTTOD PS2 JP Box Best.jpg
↑ http://www.playstation.co.kr/search/blood%20will%20tell (archive.today)
↑ File:BloodWillTell PS2 US Manual.pdf, page 28

Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo
	Main page Demos: Dororo Taikenban (2004) No results

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)

[Press_release:_2004-09-21:_SEGA_RELEASES_BLOOD_WILL_TELL_ON_PLAYSTATION_2-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Press release: 2004-09-21: SEGA RELEASES BLOOD WILL TELL ON PLAYSTATION 2

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20070506161800.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.jp.playstation.com.2Fsoftware.2Ftitle.2Fslpm65526.html-2] ttp://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm65526.html (Wayback Machine: 2007-05-06 16:18)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20041009194944.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fps2.2Fdororo.2F-3] ttp://sega.jp/ps2/dororo/ (Wayback Machine: 2004-10-09 19:49)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20170405181351.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.jp.playstation.com.2Fsoftware.2Ftitle.2Fslpm66207.html-4] ttp://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm66207.html (Wayback Machine: 2017-04-05 18:13)

[:File:BWTTOD_PS2_JP_Box_Best.jpg_p-5] File:BWTTOD PS2 JP Box Best.jpg

[http:.2F.2Farchive.is.2Fz1qGa-6] ttp://www.playstation.co.kr/search/blood%20will%20tell (archive.today)

[:File:BloodWillTell_PS2_US_Manual.pdf_p28-7] File:BloodWillTell PS2 US Manual.pdf, page 28

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