Hiroko Sasagawa, better known as Lady Doronjo or more simply Doronjo, is one of two main antagonists (alongside Dokurobei) of the anime series Yatterman and its 2008 remake, as well as a minor character in Yatterman Night. She is the leader of the Doronbo Gang, who work for Dokurobei. She is also the archenemy of the Yatterman Gang.
She was voiced by the late Noriko Ohara in the original and remake, and portrayed by Kyoko Fukada in the live-action film.
Appearance[]
Doronjo is an attactive woman with fair skin, slim body, blonde hair and blue eyes. She occasionally smokes a smoking pipe with a red skull at the end of it.
Doronjo wears a tight and stripperiffic outfit. Her head is covered with black bat-like mask with white and red markings around holes for eyes and a red letter D on her forehead (in original version letter was looking printed, while in the reboot it's looking written). On her torso she wears a tight black corset (which covers her whole body, but in the reboot series has two linear cut-outs on her hips and a diamond-shaped cut-out exposing her belly button) with pointy ends on her chest with a maroon cape of arrow-like shape attached to it. The last things Doronjo wears are long black gloves and heeled boots.
Personality[]
Doronjo is known for her vanity, smugness and cunning. Although she presents herself as a fearsome villain, she is a bit of an clumsy airhead and prone to childish fits of anger when she and her henchmen are defeated by the Yattermen. She enjoys bathing. Although greedy, Doronjo's real wish is to be a regular housewife and in the 2008 series, she even plans to wish for it once the Doronbo Gang obtains the Dokuro Rings. One of her worries is that she is too old to marry someone, and she develops a crush on Gan Takada later in the original series.
Despite often yelling at her two underlings, Doronjo is shown to care for them deep down. She is shown to be clearly distraught when she believes that Boyacky is dead, only to beat him once he reveals himself to be just sleeping. The trio have formed a friendship to each other, which becomes more pronounced as the series progresses. In the 2008 series, after splitting up again, Doronjo cries when thinking that she left Tonzura and Boyacky too soon. The three feel joy again upon reuniting, with Doronjo saying that they are the Doronbo Gang to the end. To add to their joy, Dokurobei also returns, restarting their fun days once again.
Doronjo also has a respect for the Yatterman gang, even though they are her archenemies. Her respect for them become even more obvious in Yatterman Night, where it's revealed that she and her gang passed down their theme song, which contains a phrase about defeating the Doronbo Gang, to the trio's descendants, and this song plays a role in helping the new Doronbo Gang realize that the Yattermen weren't evil after all.
Biography[]
Yatterman[]
Doronjo, Boyacky Butsukusa and Tonzura Sutakora are recruited by Dokurobei, forming the Doronbo gang. The gang is told of the location of a dokuro stone fragment or ring by the mysterious Dukurobei. Typically, Dokurobei delivers his message through an exploding gadget, which tears Doronjo’s clothes, humiliating her.
The gang then sets up a fraudulent enterprise to earn a quick buck in order to build a robot, or mecha, and proceeds to the location indicated by Dokurobei. However, they are stopped in their tracks by Yatterman 1 and 2 and their mechas. Typically, the Doronbo gang robot would get the upper hand in the initial phase of the battle; however Yatterman would feed his mecha an energy pill. This prompts the mecha to produce small robots that dismantle or destroy the Doronbo robot. Doronjo and her accomplices are attacked and humiliated by the robots in various ways, including tearing their outfits apart. They do however escape, but only to be punished and humiliated by Dokurobei for their failure.
In the final episode, the Doronbo Gang successfully obtain all four Skull Stones. However, it's at that point that the complete Skull Stone is revealed to be the true form of Dokurobei, who deceived the Doronbo Gang into collecting all of them so that put himself back together. With his true form was complete, Dokurobei departed from the Earth and left Doronjo and her fellow members with nothing. Afterwards, the Doronbo Gang make peace with the Yatterman Gang and resume their normal lives.
Yatterman (2008)[]
Doronjo and the Doronjo gang serve a similar role in the 2008 remake, where they are recruited by Dokurobei to steal the five Skull Rings and tells them that they will grant them any wish once they're all assembled. At the end of the anime, it's revealed that the Skull Rings were really objects that were planted recently by Dokurobei, and that he had sent the Doronjo Gang on a wild goose chase for his own entertainment to suck out the hopes and dreams (or hearts) of every single being on Earth to become unstoppable.
However, after being fed a Mecha-Moto by Gan-chan and emotionally touched by the memories, along with the scrapbooks causing Dokubon to miss his mother (Dokurobei's daughter), Dokurobei decides to stop his attack and return to XYZ peacefully, only to come back to Earth not long afterwards, claiming that there are actually 50 Dokuro Rings to be found, although it’s implied to be an excuse to hang around and have more fun with the Doronbo gang.
Yatterman Night[]
In this series, it was revealed that both the original Yatterman and the 2008 remake happened as a result of Dokurobei returning from Planet XYZ to Earth to get revenge on the Yatterman gang. After the Doronbo Gang's mutiple failures to do so, he did it himself and succeeded, conquered Earth under the identity of "Lord Yatterman" in order to get revenge on the Yatterman gang for getting in the way of his quest to obtain the Skull Stones by disgracing their name. He established the tyrannical Yatter Kingdom to rule over the planet, but was faced by a resistance formed by the descendants of the Doronbo Gang.
Eventually, with the help of the new Yatterman gang, the new Doronbo Gang manage to defeat Dokurobei and free Earth from his tyrannical grasp. Afterwards, Leopard returns home, and Doronjo wishes her good night from the Heaven, implying that she has been watching her descendant all along.
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Trivia[]
- Doronjo's real name, Hiroko Sasegawa, was derived from the Time Bokan franchise's director, Hiroshi Sasagawa.
- Doronjo served as inspiration for Jessie from the Pokémon series.
External Links[]
- Doronjo on the Time Bokan Wiki
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