Dororon Enma-kun

, also known as ''Satanikus!'', is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It is one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world. In 2006, it would get a sequel/remake in '' Demon Prince Enma'', which drops the comedy and becomes a full-fledged suspense-horror series. After the OVA was released, another manga version was released called '' Satanikus Enma Kerberos'' by Eiji Toriyama. A remake entitled ''Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up'' aired in Japan in 2011.

Plot

Enma, Yukiko-Hime and Kapaeru are part of the Yokai-Patrol. They go after yokai that have escaped from Hell into the human world.

Characters

Main Characters

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: The hot-headed, perverted protagonist, sent by his uncle, King Enma, to arrest yokai that have infiltrated the human world, though most often then not he ends up going overboard and killing them instead. He had long eyebrows that can detect a yokai's presence called the Yokai Antenna, wields a magic cape called the Yokai Cloak (also translated as Night Cape), and a magic staff which can transform into a variety of weapons called the Burning Akuma Power Pole. His other powers include teleportation, flight, x-ray vision, reviving himself at the cost of mana, yelling hard enough to produce hurricane force winds, turning into fox fire, lava resistance, can carry a harpoon separate from his regular gear, and enough strength to stop a rhinoceros. Among the Yokai Cloak's powers include turning into a kunai, grapple hook, or mace attached to a chain strong enough to lift cars, wrapping himself in it to form a tornado, turning it into scissors, turning it into a net, forming a bag with it that emits suction, turning it into a whip, forming a Cape Barrier around himself and others by drawing an Enma Circle on the ground, turning into a chain, forming disguises, turning into a circular saw, turning into a spear, and turning into a key. Among the Burning Akuma Power Pole's powers include emitting fire called the Flame Hose, telekinesis including returning to his hands if separated, extending short distances, spinning the cane into a wheel while enflamed in a technique called the Burning Akuma Fire Wheel, turning into a gladius, turning into a trident, being malleable enough to bend if needed, turning into a baseball bat, turning into a giant shovel, and turning into Mazinger Z's Rocket Punch.
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: A young Yuki-onna princess who is in love with Enma, but often has to put up with his pervertedness. She has powerful ice powers, though more often than not gets captured in a fanserviceable manner. Her powers include teleportation, wall walking, freezing lasers from the left index finger, freezing breath, transmogrifying objects by blowing on them, forming ice skates around her feet, and a flute that nullifies hypnosis.
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: Half kappa, half water sprite. He is the third member of the Yokai Patrol. He doesn't have a lot of attacks, but still provides some help in battle. He's often confused for a frog, which makes him very angry. His name is a portmanteau of 'kappa' and 'kaeru' ("frog" in Japanese). His powers include teleportation, wall walking, body stretching, swimming, frog hopping, toxin resistance, and spraying water from the scalp.
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: An "old man" yokai who looks like a hat and guides Enma-kun. His name is a portmanteau of ' chapeau' and 'ouji' ("old man" in Japanese). His only power is levitation.
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: A human boy that befriends the Yokai Patrol. He attends the local elementary school, and always gets attacked by demons. He is a side character in the 2011 anime.
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: Tsutomu's teacher. He's merely a comic relief, and always yelling at Tsutomu-kun.
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: A homeless deadbeat, Daracura was originally an officer for Great King Enma. After losing his position of officer, Daracura tried throughout the series to kill Enma-kun. However, as the series progressed Daracura became less important.
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: Tsutomu's girlfriend. Her mother has passed on, and lives with her father in an apartment complex. She replaces Tsutomu as one of the main protagonists in the 2011 anime.
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: The Judge of Hell and Enma's uncle who only appears in episodes 8, 12, 15, 21, and 25. He sends Enma-kun and his friends to arrest demons on Earth. In the last five episodes of the original series he grants the Yokai Patrol his boat called the Dororon (Ghastly) Boat which was capable of super sonic flight and had a bow horn capable of piercing diamond. His powers include dual lightning staffs, energy bolts from the fingers, capture bubbles from the right palm, hurricane force winds from the mouth, and red energy rays from the right index fingers that can revive dead yokai.
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: Enma's sister; the protagonist of the spin-off manga, ''Dororon Enbi-chan'', and an antagonist in the 2011 anime. She has her own versions of Yukiko-Hime and Kapaeru named Yukiko-Hige and Kapaku.

Rogue Yokai

*Shibire Yanagi: Appears in episode 1. Powers include intangibility and constricting vines.
*Hebi Tsubo: Appears in episode 1. Powers include intangibility and eight gray snakes in his head.
*Denki Anma: Appears in episode 1. Powers include intangibility, four arms, emitting electric shocks, and summoning a cyclone.
*Burariji: Appears in episode 2. Powers include intangibility, a constricting tongue that ages organisms, ceiling hanging
*Mukade Garami: Appears in episode 2. Powers include venomous fans from the mouths in both centipede heads, turning into a shadow, intangibility, and a pincer on the centipede tail.
*Magonote: Appears in episode 3. Powers include shadow manipulation, a human disguise, sharp nails with venom that causes animals to jump constantly, flight, a second pair of arms capable of extending and with a red eye in the palms, regeneration, and controlling severed body parts.
*Kusari Gama: Appears in episode 3. Powers include swimming, green toxic gas from the mouth, a kama for the left arm, a chained wrecking ball, a long tongue, and water spouts in the back.
*Tatami Gaeshi: Appears in episode 4. Powers include teleportation, controlling flat objects and floors, spawning illusions of himself, turning humans into vampires just by being near him long enough, and water manipulation.
*Barbara: Appears in episode 5. Powers include thorny vines from the head, burrowing, red thorns for the fingers, gray thorns on the arms, telekinesis, spawning killer nurses, and storing body parts into a subspace.
**Killer Nurses: Appear in episode 5. Powers include scalpels, syringes, whips, and thorns on the head.
*Jigoku Okuri: Appears in episode 6. Powers include a human disguise and immunity to yokai senses
*Yao Mari: Appears in episode 6. Powers include a taxi cab disguise induces sleep, turns the chairs into clay, and emit intense heat, teleportation, levitation, emitting fire from the body, and possessing discarded cars and motorcycles upon death until they are hit with sunlight.
*Asunaro Kozo: Appears in episode 7. Powers include a human disguise, a low body temperature, hypnosis, and turning into smoke if frozen and emitting smoke from the mouth.
*Mimizuki: Appears in episode 8. Powers include flight, a staff that emits hypnotic waves to induce fear and can become intangible, teleportation, hurricane force winds from the wings, talons for the fingers and toes, and spawning an ear-like subspace in the sky.
*Koban Shojo: Appears in episode 9. Powers include high jumping, blood draining fangs that can turn animals violent and rapidly decay upon death, teleportation, disaster prediction, and intangibility.
*Ika Kuro: Appears in episode 9. Powers include a long tongue, a pendulum bladed staff, eating souls, invisibility, turning into smoke, flight, and emitting a barrier of smoke from the mouth.
*Kyusui Cho: Appear in episode 10.
**Mother: Powers include flight, turning organisms to stone via draining their moisture through her tongue, growth, spawning clones of herself, and exploding into water upon death.
**Child: Powers include high jumping, saliva that reduces organic matter to sand, turning sand into glass shards, and forming a sand cocoon around the body that can execute spin attacks.
*Ame Joro: Appears in episode 11. Powers include a human disguise, spewing brown toxic sludge from the mouth that causes lethal fevers, and flight.
*Raijishi: Appears in episode 11. Powers include flight and emitting lightning from the mane.
*Hi Jijiji: Appears in episode 12. Powers include a human disguise, a fire based body capable of dividing into pieces and stretching, swimming, and flight.
*Kamaitachi: Appear in episode 13.
**Sankyodai: Powers include a scythe blade for each arm, flight, and dividing into three bodies.
**Ichizoku: Her only known power is a staff that emits lightning and ropes.
*Nenrikibo: Appears in episode 14. Powers include telekinesis, summoning cyclones and thunder storms, communicating with birds, chest hairs that can wrap around smaller enemies, and causing volcanoes to erupt upon command.
*Tsuchigumo: Appears in episode 14. Powers include venomous mandibles and leg claws, a thick exoskeleton, and mouth web nets.
*Chinbotsu Namazu: Appears in episode 15. Powers include swimming, a pair of constricting whiskers that can spawn extra eyes, burrowing
*Kamenbo: Appears in episode 15. Powers include swimming and face alteration.
*Zouwashi: Appears in episode 16. Powers include a constricting trunk that can release lava and fire, flight, talons, twin tusks, hurricane winds from the wings, camouflage, lava immunity, and regeneration.
*Yukinyudo: Appears in episode 17. Powers include summoning blizzards, freezing mist from the fingers on the right hand, and icy winds from the mouth.
*Yamamori: Appears in episode 17. Powers include manipulating the earth around him to cause fissures and rock slides, summoning crows, a rocky body with rotating limb sockets, lava immunity, levitation, and rotating fast enough to form a tornado.
*Iyomanto: Appears in episode 18. Powers include a shapeshifting bear cloak capable of flight, fire resistance, teleportation, and emitting lightning from the body.
*Madoro Nemu: Appears in episode 19. Powers include a flying boat that emits pink sleeping gas, summoning a large purple snake, and summoning Omezame.
**Omezame: Appears in episode 19. His only known power is flight.
*Momote: Appears in episode 19. His only known power is twelve extendable hands from the neck.
**Hiko Yokai Shudan: Appears in episode 19. They were various minor yokai that followed Momote with no known powers.
*Kogarashi Kozo: Appears in episode 20. Powers include turning into a whirlwind, hypnotic whistling that controls animals, wind manipulation, spewing needles from the mouth, dividing his body into four pieces, telekinesis, and turning wind into spears.
**Hypnotized Giant Gorilla: Appears in episode 20. Its only known power was strength.
*Ghoship: Appears in episode 21. Powers include flight, spewing demonic bats and spiders from the mouth, mouth fog that nullifies bat goo and dowse fire, a bow horn in the forehead that fires demonic spiders and can extend short distances, and turning his hull into diamond.
**Demonic Bats: Appear in episode 21. Powers include flight and turning into sticky goo upon physical contact.
**Demonic Spiders: Appear in episode 21. Powers include flight and mouth webs.
*Sunekozo: Appears in episode 22. Powers include turning into clay and possessing organisms.
*Amanojaku: Appears in episode 22. Powers include flight, wind gusts from the hands and mouth, and emitting lightning from his black cloud.
*Ororon: Appears in episode 23. Powers include a human disguise, strength that can flip a bulldozer, a pair of dynamite sticks, levitation, size changing, and fire resistance.
*Ryugyo: Appears in episode 24.Power include swimming, sharp teeth, an extendable tail with a fan-like fin at the end that can summon heavy rain just by spinning capable of flooding places the size of Tokyo, regenerative scales, and high jumping.
*Tako Tsunami: Appears in episode 24. Powers include Powers include swimming, water manipulation to create giant waves, a giant left hand for the upper half of his body, and eight stubby tentacles that allow for high jumping.
*Okinkai: Appears in episode 25. Powers include granting midas curses to animals that transmute matter into gold upon physical contact, emitting a light that turns organisms into gold, breaking his body down to form different shapes, flight, three stalagmites on the head that can detach to be used as daggers, and body energy beams.
*Tora Gozen: Appears in episode 25. Powers include hypnotic eyes, agility, and high jumping.
*Shutsu Tayao: Appears in episode 25. His only power is a third hand on the scalp.
*Oni Island Exiles: Appear in episode 25.
**Harinezumi Kozo: His only known power is a constricting tail.
**Hachi no Su Nyudo: She has no known powers.
**Shishi Shimai: She has no known powers.
**Sai Onna: She has no known powers.
**Oni Oshidashi: He has no known powers.

Media

Anime

The original anime was produced by Toei Animation and was originally broadcast on Fuji TV from , to . The opening theme was and the ending theme was , both performed by Chinatsu Nakayama. An original video animation of the sequel manga, '' Demon Prince Enma'', was produced by Brain's Base and was released in four volumes released between August 25, 2006, and March 23, 2007. The OVA is licensed in North America by Bandai Entertainment. A remake of the original series, titled , was produced by Brain's Base and aired on MBS between April 7, 2011, and June 24, 2011. The opening theme is by Masaaki Endoh and the Moonriders, whilst the ending theme is by The Moonriders feat. Yoko. NIS America licensed the series in North America under the title ''Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up'' and released the series on subtitled DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 11, 2012.

Manga

The main version of the manga was originally serialized in Shogakukan's magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from , to .

Besides ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' version, other serializations were published at the time in various Shogakukan's children magazines and in Tokuma Shoten's '' TV Land'', drawn by Nagai and several of his assistants.

Volumes

The series published in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' has been compiled in volumes several times.

This version is also available in ebook format, published by ebookjapan.

Sequels

Short stories

*, a one-shot story, was published in the issue of Asahi Sonorama' '' Manga Shōnen''. In this story, the characters are older. Since its publication, this manga has been compiled in all tankōbon as the last story with the title .
*, drawn by Koichi Hagane, a short manga published by Shogakukan on in '' Coro Coro Comic'' and on , and , in ''Bessatsu Coro Coro Comic Special''.
*, a seinen manga by Masaki Segawa, is a 38-page one-shot story published on (cover date ) published in Shueisha's '' Business Jump''.

''Dororon Enbi-chan''

, published from to in the magazine '' Monthly YoungMan'' by Sanwa Publishing. This is an adult-restricted erotic comedy.

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''Kikoushi Enma''

is a sequel of the original manga by Go Nagai with a mature tone, where the characters are no longer children, published in Kodansha's '' Magazine Z'' from (cover date ) to (cover date .)

''Satanikus ENMA Kerberos''

is a sequel of ''Kikoushi Enma'' by Eiji Karasuyama, published in Kodansha's ''Magazine Z'' from (cover date ) to (cover date .)

''Shururun Yukiko Hime-chan: feat. Dororon Enma-kun''

is a seinen manga written and drawn by Sae Amatsu and released alongside ''Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera''. It was serialized on Kadokawa Shoten's magazine '' Young Ace'' from (cover date ) to (cover date ).

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References

External links

''Dororon Enma-kun''
at ''The World of Go Nagai'' webpage
''Satanikus!''
at D/visual
''Dororon Enma-kun Toei Animation Website''
Official site (TV)
''Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera'' official website

''Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera'' official website

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