Hyakkimio

"Strange, I don’t loathe these hands."

- Mio to Hyakkimaru

HyakkiMio is the het ship between Hyakkimaru and Mio from the Dororo fandom.

2019 Anime
After defeating Tanosuke, who had been corrupted by the demon Nihil, Hyakkimaru gets his ears back. He has a lot of difficulty in adapting to sound and this also weakens his fighting abilities. Dororo and Biwamaru try to help him but he is only annoyed by his voices. They decide to call it a day and sleep I’m the forest. The next day Hyakkimaru wakes up to a melodious singing voice. He follows the voice and stumbles upon Mio who was singing while washing herself in the river. Hyakkimaru goes close to Mio and then she finds out, he is blind. She sees that Hyakkimaru is injured.

Fanon
Since Dororo has a very small fandom and is not known by many people, is not very popular. However among the Dororo fandom it is very popular. Even though Mio is a side character who appears for only 2 episodes in the 2019 anime and in the 1969 version, is already dead, people love these two characters together because of their interactions together, and how they both care so much for each other. Mio is seen to be the character Hyakkimaru is most attached to even though he had known her for such a short time.

On AO3, is the second most written for Hyakkimaru, and the first most written for Mio. It is also the first most written within the Dororo tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Dororo tag on FanFiction.net
 * Dororo tag on FanFiction.net