Tezuka’s Stars (D)

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Despite being a bit dim-witted, Daisuke made a career out of playing an earnest and well-meaning, but slightly bumbling school boy. Loyal to a fault, he is almost universally cast as a friend to the main protagonist. However, despite his best intentions,...

Brave and strong, Dan is a former circus tiger who is loyal to a fault. After Kyotan saves Dan from a forest fire, the two strike up an uneasy alliance. Although Dan has a healthy distrust of humans after his years in captivity, he is impressed by Kyotan's...

With such a menacing appearance, it might be easy to mistake Danke Stadt for a straight up villain. However his character is a bit more complex than that. In fact, you can practically feel the melancholy wafting off him. So, while he is driven to commit...

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A hard working, "blue collar" family man, Dekobin's kindly grandpa-like appearance belies his hot temper - a holdover from his slightly shady youth and something that still occaisionally gets the best of him. Although he is usually cast as an innkeeper,...

Another of Tezuka's scientists - in many ways similar to Dr. Hanamaru. Dr. Dekon's kindly appearance belies his sharp intellect and iron will. Usually cast as a scientist or doctor, on occaision he has taken on other authority figure roles, such as...

As a samanna (a non-Brahmin monk), Depha subscribes to the philosophy that human beings were meant to suffer - even going so far as to burn out his own eyes to prove the point. Simply put, he has an extremely serious and stoic personality. He is as straight-laced...

As unscrupulous as he is greedy, Deven is a true professional when it comes to played crooked politicians and corrupt captains of industry. As such, he is usually cast as the main villain in a story, often with a gang of henchmen, such as Acetylene Lamp...

Doctor is a man who has really let his career determine his identity. Little is known about this life outside his profession. However, he does seem to have a quite an anxious and frantic and personality - often making a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Usually towering over his companions with his bulky frame, you can usually spot him by his large round nose and even larger round belly.

Don is an Anubis Hound from Egypt - a breed of dog related to the Pharaoh Hound and possibly to the Doberman Pinscher. He's fiercely loyal, strong, and trust-worthy - the perfect brave canine companion for his master, a young boy named Tadasu Nagano....

As Chief Detective Kenichi's loyal myna bird companion, Donguri uses his abilities to perfectly mimic human speech and communicate with other birds to help crack the case.

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The child star of his own samurai-era drama, Dororo is best known for his titular role as Hyakkimaru's side-kick during his long quest to retrieve his 48 missing body parts from the demons which possess them, in Dororo (1967-69).

With his old-school tuxedo, slicked back, high-peaked black hair, thick eye-brows and razor-sharp fangs, Tezuka's Dracula is every inch the legendary vampire.

Despite almost never taking a starring role, Duke Red is, without a doubt, one of Tezuka's major stars. He is well-known mainly for his classy, aristocratic style, and his larger-than-life performances steal any scene he's in.

Despite thinking very highly of himself, Duralumin's blustering exterior hides the heart of a coward. An aristocratic schemer who prefers to let his henchmen, usually Nylon, to do his dirty work, he is often cast as a villain who is primarily concerned...