#doronbo

[vtncomics-art]

WA! WA! WA!!

The Waruio Gang is all here! (Colorized)

WaRio! WaLuigi! WaPeach!

Here to laugh at your tiny balls!

Look how small they are!

They're not even regulation standard!

[yamujiburo]

You inspired me to start watching Nadia: Secret of Blue Water. After the first few episodes, getting to know Grandis's personality, I now consider Jessie/Grandis/Ursula to be an archetype.

you should check out time bokan! marjo/doronjo is where all those characters descend from. the trope is called 三悪 (sanaku)! it's not really just about the female leader but the two male goons with her lolol

bimajo is my personal favorite iteration from time bokan~

there's a lost more of this archetype outside of this franchise! petra fina from flint time detective is another!

[strangeshyguy]

With the thieves returning in Spooky Month 6, I figured adding a third member to the group, making up for the "terrible trio" trope with a "baroness-like" female thief based on Time Bokan's Doronbo gang.

[timebokanman]

Is it true that the Dorombo gang shows up,albeit disguised in Kiramekiman? I've seen images of Boyacky being a bar tender and the art style looks in line with it. Maybe I'am mixing it up with the OVA's from that time?

Barista, actually! It's true, they appear in the series as early as the second episode, and their coffee shop they run is a place that makes sporadic appearances where the Flower Detective Trio sometimes discuss their plans to stop the Kiramekiman for that episode.

Try not to think too hard on it-- Time Bokan always pokes fun at itself and this sort of thing is hardly unique to Kiramekiman! Why, they're not the only cameo the show sneaks out...

[steelajeeg]

Pullback Yatter-Wan

- From Yatterman

- by (unknown)

Quick Shot

A very quick shot today.

I picked up this pull-back Yatter-Wan (a pun on "One" and "Wan" - the onomatopoeia for a dog barking in Japanese) at a Book-Off last year.

And I still haven't found any information on the toy.

As a matter of fact, one of the top results when you search is my own post asking for information.

Oh well. It's still a beautiful toy. That's the fun of thrift finds - you can find something you've never even heard of before.

One thing this toy highlights for me is how much I love this color combination.

It's what also attracted me to lines like Momo Planet and Acid Sweeties. Bold, clashing primary colors that somehow still work together.

That combination of red, white, and yellow just says retro toys to me.

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[chernobog13]

I swear this isn't turning into a cheesecake blog, but it's always a good time to post photos of Doronjo!

[felixfathom]

in a world where antagonists are categorized through the time bokan trio archetype, felix fathom is an obvious doronjo

[turuin]

sutta-monda kotta-monda yatta-monda yatta-monda kotta-monda sutta-monda atama wa saeteruyo! hei he hei idea bacchiri yo! hei he hei hoshii yo hoshii yo dokurosuton! zettai morau to kimechatta! doronjo tonzura boyakki yararetemo yararetemo nantomo nai nai! oretacha tensai da! hei he hei dondon doronbo

[bogleech]

I think someone else somewhere pointed this out, but one of the reasons they really might keep rejecting a "princess" for Wario and Waluigi is that they don't want a 1:1 knockoff of the Doronbo Gang. Actually this could even be why they don't put Waluigi in more stuff, because he's so close to Boyakki and it already looks suspect enough when he stands next to Wario

[fiddle-the-new-faun]

Hasumi - Blue Archive By nidaime (doronbo)

[reignsan]

I know the anime trope of "bossy woman who's not as smart as she thinks, two men one tall one short, they fight the heroes with machines" started with the Doronbo Gang from Yetterman, but the most direct inspiration for Team Rocket always felt like Nadia's Grandis Gang.

Jessie and Grandis both have long red hair, Sanson and James are pretty boys (James talking about his looks faded with time but that was a pretty big part of his character originally), and Hanson and Meowth are the ones who manage the robots.

[docgold13]

Profiles in Villainy

Doronjo

Hiroko Sasagawa, the gorgeous, vain and diabolical villainess known as Doronjo, is the leader of the deplorable Doronbo Gang.  Aided by her hapless henchmen, Boyacky and Tonzura, she embarked on missions to locate and obtain the mysterious Skull Stones.  It was later revealed that Doronjo was actually a lieutenant reporting to the criminal mastermind known as Dokurobei and that the Skull Stones were gems that could create a map to a massive cache of gold.  

Despite her intellect and cunning, Doronjo is regularly bested by the young Yatter Riders.  Eventually, Hiroko retired her role as a villainess to live a civilian life where she got married and started a family.  

Actress Noriko Ohara provided the voice for the villainess; she first appeared in the premiere episode of the anime Yatterman airing on January 1st, 1977.

[yamujiburo]

I've seen plenty of ocs you made, but have you ever made a whole trio from no fandom, similar to Time Skeletons, Doronbo Gang, Grandis Gang, Alpha Gang, Team Rocket?

Ooh when Netflix reached out to me to pitch like 5 years ago and I was coming up with show ideas, I did make my own lil evil trio. I never pitched the idea but I did draw out the characters once. I have no idea where that original sketch is now tho lol

[strangeshyguy]

I remember seeing the premier trailer for Robotomy and the main characters Thrasher and Blastus stood out to me as two robots that would have been henchbots or minions working under a villain but didn't know who. A few years later, I watched this show Wander over Yonder, and saw the first villain, Lord Hater. At first, I imagined these two pairing with Hater similar to the villains from AOSTH (yes it was an old guilty pleasure), but after watching the second season of WOY and discovering Lord Dominator, I realize instead of Hater, Dominator having these two robots working for her actually makes up the "Terrible Trio" trope (personal favorite trope). The inspiration behind this came from an anime series called Time Bokan's Yatterman with its main villains the Doronbo gang, and a Western animated show "The Venture Bros" with the show's villains the Monarch and Henchman 21 & 24. The terrible trio's goal after Dominator's downfall would be to rebuild her villain reputation, finding and collecting Volcanium X or other powerful artifacts to power her future empire, and whether to conquer the galaxy this time or go back to destroying it (regardless the latter being in vain since the dead planets grew back life), but only to be constantly foiled by Wander and Sylvia, stronger villains, or actual galactic heroes (or a galactic government system if WOY would establish one).

Personally, if it weren't for the fact that both shows were mistreated badly by both their respective networks and cancelled, this trio could work together, why?

Dominator's minions are mostly robots she made. So, after her defeat, I like to imagine she required assistance and buys off parts of Thrasher and Blastus from a sleazy merchant with all the money she had left to build herself personal henchbots, but realized these robots are majorly harmless, and she can't afford any more for better robots, she would have to modify them from the ground up to be bad bots.

Thrasher and Blastus grew up in a planet where robots destroy each other on a daily basis, even having to move from planet to planet 6 times very month because they keep destroying their own planets, so even if Dominator still had her destructive nature, these two would be cool and just roll with her plans since they're used to planetary destruction.

Dominator doesn't have friends, nor does she have any interest in making one. Thrasher and Blastus are robots who have their own thoughts and even feelings, something that makes them stand out from most other robots, so having them work, interact, and get along with her would make some potential character development for Dominator while still being a villain.

Thrasher and Blastus from the original show may not be bad guys, but from what their school taught them is to become destructive and violent robots, something these two tend to struggle with but in some miracles still manage to pass and prevail. I imagine they would barely graduate and get pawned off to be someone's personal henchbots.

Dominator would be the boss of the group and in charge of how to rebuild her empire and ship and in occasions make plans for giant mecha robots (since she made her first ships and robots by herself). Thrasher and Blastus not only would provide their strengths, but Blastus coming up schemes and scams to raise money to build up Dominator's ship and robots, and Thrasher providing logical planning and advice to their boss, being the level-headed of the group.

Thrasher and Blastus had some experience on having feelings of hope, love, and friendship, that it literally almost got them killed, being sent to a giant sun, so they would destroy anyone who holds that ideology, especially Wander. Not to mention Jack McBrayer voice both Wander and Frenemy from Robotomy, who was obsessed with being Thrasher and Blastus’ friend, they went to meet Frenemy in person just to destroy him, so I imagine when Thrasher and Blastus meet and get to know Wander, they would straight up attack him, and anyone associated with him on sight.

(I also did some redesign for Dominator's attire; personally, I didn't like her official design from the show, especially after reading the reason why she dresses similar to Hater, so I gave her outfit some red and black to go with Blastus' blue and Thrasher's yellow, and designed her helmet based on Weenus' head design, since both characters look almost similar.)

[timebokanman]

An important piece of information that a lot of people get wrong: These three characters are not the "Time Skeletons", as many people erroneously think! Officially, the evil trio of Time Bokan is マージョ一味 (Mājo ichimi), which translates out to "Marjo's Gang"/"The Marjo Gang". So where does the wrong name come from?

The mecha that the crew uses each week is the タイム ガイコツ (Taimu Gaikotsu)... and Gaikotsu is Skeleton! As the crew almost always sing their song "Soreyuke Gaikotsu"("Let's Go Gaikotsu") about how evil they are every episode, it's easy for an outside observer to assume the song's name is just another "Tensei Doronbo" situation. But now you know: Marjo's Gang is the original evil trio of anime, and the Time Skeleton is the control unit of the evil trio's mecha of the week.

[nebulacritter]

THE WAPEAAAACH! THE WAPEACH IS REAAAALLL!!!

Yep. This is was the same sketch that was locked away for years. If you don't know who she is, she was a scrapped character who was planned to be put into Mario Tennis, but Miyamoto thought she was "too similiar to Doronjo". I think he chose his decision because he thought it would be plagiarism to copy the whole Doronbo Gang. One thing I don't understand is why she was called "not so cute". She looks like a younger Peach, and she's pretty dang adorable to me! Even though Wapeach is never going to be canon, at least her design rocks.