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Dokuron (ドクロン Dokuron) is a skeleton yōkai from the Akuma-kun franchise.
Appearance[]
Dokuron is a skeletal humanoid with a skull-like face, with angry eye-holes, thin nasal cavities, and prominent cheek bones. he has long, black hair, and a human-like body with skeletal patterns. He wears a cape.
Production stills reveal that the patterns of Dokuron's body are brown, while his cape is purple on the inside.
Personality[]
Dokuron is very villainous, and believes the only way the dead can seek justice is by the endangerment of children. He often laughs sinisterly when fighting others.
History[]
Akuma-kun (1966)[]
Dokuron appears in episode #9 of the series, Dokuron's Dance. His plan is to kidnap children and take them to Jigoku, so that him and the dead can take over the living world.
He is first seen attacking two workers in an amusement park, freezing them and placing them inside a haunted house. The next day, he disguises himself as a flute-playing clown, and advertises a magic show in the amusement park he visited yesterday. During the show, he used Jōhōya to demonstrate his tricks, and later lures in Shingo Yamada and another one of his friends to a hall of mirrors, revealing his true form and transporting them into Jigoku, where they're chased by Ghosts.
Dokuron eventually leads the other children into Jigoku, this time in the haunted house, and when Mephisto's younger brother arrives, attempts to trap him with some trees. He then goes back to Jigoku to tell the ghosts about his plans, but is then confronted by Mephisto again. Dokuron use his powers to escape the elderly akuma again, and goes back to the stage of his act to throw knives at him. Luckily, Shingo arrives just in time to temporarily incapacitate Dokuron, who attempts to shrink Mephisto, but is deflected and gets shrunk back!
Dokuron is placed inside a jar, which is then tied with balloons, floating up in the sky.
Powers and Abilities[]
Hands: Dokuron has powers in his hands that can knock out or shrink people. He can also make these hands detach from the rest of him, but are still capable of grabbing and choking others. Finally, Dokuron can also cast fire from his hands, capable of even burning Mephisto's younger brother.
Telekenisis: Dokuron can manipulate other objects like trees to fall down.
Illusions: Dokuron can cast illusions of himself and other yōkai out of ordinary objects like rocks.
Shapeshifting: Dokuron has the ability to shapeshift into a human clown.
Teleportation: Dokuron is capable of teleporting in the blink of an eye.
Realm-Casting: Dokuron can seemingly use his powers to make portals that he enters via flying.
Trivia[]
- Dokuron's name comes from the Japanese word for "skull" (髑髏 dokuro).
- Dokuro's mask comes from one of the Ghost Party members in the Moonlight Mask film, Moonlight Mask: Ghost Party's Counterattack.
- One of Dokuron's illusions reuses Kubi-Ningyō's prop.
- A poster of Dokuron, alongside other antagonists from the 1966 Akuma-Kun series, appears in posters from an in-universe film studio in episode #2 of Toei's live-action adaptation of Ninja Hattori Kun.
- Dokuron appears as a mob character in a chapter of Tōkaidō-Yotsuya-Kaidan.