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The Doronjo she sees in her head.

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Haven't reblogged fan art in a while

Doronjo from yatterman 1977

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When I initially won this set of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom production art, along with the Ryuusei art I’ve posted previously, I was keeping it under wraps a bit, since I knew I was going to use a few for V-Day contest prizes. But now I realize I never really did make a post to show off the overall set! I only showed off what was given away in the raffle during the V-Day rules post. Guess I might as well rectify that tonight.

So once again, these are from Volnutt’s ending in the Japanese version game, prior to the anime cutscene. Not to be confused with the Western edition that had ending art done by UDON. Here you can see a little bit of the process and development of the three separate scenes, which also include Doronjo and her lackies. They may all have big letter D’s plastered on their masks, but it’s not because they are the best diggers/duggers of treasure…

Scanned from: My Production Art Stash

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Image from a Time Bokan laser disc release, drawn by Takehiko Itō.

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Within the Time Bokan franchise, Noriko Ohara is most well known for her roles playing the various female bosses of the trios through the shows: Marjo (Time Bokan), Doronjo (Yatterman), Muujo (Zenderman), Atasha (Otasukeman), Mirenjo (Yattodetaman), Mun-Mun (Ippatsuman), Yanyan (Itadakiman), and Rouge (Kiramekiman). She would return to voice the character/s in any role after, including the 2008 Yatterman series, and providing the final line in the last episode of Yoru no Yatterman, where her voice as Doronjo can be heard wishing her descendant Leopard, "Good night, sweet dreams".

Her iconic line of "Sukapontan!", used when yelling at her bumbling two lackeys was an ab-lib that combined Sukatan (stupid) and Anpontan (fool) because she felt the original choice of insult in the script was a little too harsh for a kid's show like Time Bokan.

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How Marjo looked in Episode 12.5 of the 2008 Yatterman series, and her later appearance in Episode 26.

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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.