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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Dokuro
| japanese-name = ドクロ (Dokuro)
| english-name =
| image = Dokuro.jpg
| age = Unknown
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Pet (previously and currently) Stray cat (inbetween)
| nicknames = Strong Cat Dokuro Master Dokuro
| aliases = Kuro
| first-appearance = [[Yaiba]] Chapter 164 [[Zero's Tea Time]] Chapter 9
| appearances = Yaiba Manga: 4 Zero's Tea Time Manga: 1
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice =
| footnotes =
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{{nihongo|'''Dokuro'''|ドクロ|Dokuro}}, also respectfully known by his underlings as {{nihongo|'''Strong Cat Dokuro'''|強ネコ・ドクロ|Tsuyoneko・Dokuro}} or {{nihongo|'''Master Dokuro'''|ドクロ様|Dokuro-sama}} and originally known as {{nihongo|'''Kuro'''|クロ|Kuro}} is a street cat roaming around [[Tokyo]], first appearing as a one-off antagonist in ''[[Yaiba]]'', terrorizing a bunch of rats living in the [[Mine residence]]. He also briefly appeared in ''[[Zero's Tea Time]]'', attacking [[Haro]].

== Appearance ==
Dokuro is a cat with black fur who has a cross-shaped scar on his forehead and is missing is left ear. His eyes are completely white most of the time. He's also wearing a dented bell around his neck he once got from [[Dokuro's mistress|his owner]], which fittingly resembles a skull.

== Plot overview ==
[[File:Dokuro Young.jpg|thumb|200px|left|A young Kuro left behind by his owners.]]

=== Past ===
Dokuro originally was a normal cat called Kuro (literally "Black") with a pretty regular life as a pet in [[Yaoya]], until the family of his mistress, a young girl, moved away, leaving him behind. He had to survive on the streets of [[Tokyo]] all by himself, getting chased by grocery owners when stealing food and by furious dogs, one of whom cut off his left ear. He started to let others pay for what happened to him, building an awe-inspiring reputation and forming his own group of stray cats.<ref>''[[Yaiba]]'', chapter 167 ([[Yaiba Volume 17]], chapter 2), page 4</ref>

=== ''Yaiba'' plot overview ===
[[File:Yaiba vs Dokuro.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Yaiba Kurogane vs. Dokuro.]]

==== Strong Cat Dokuro VS. Yaiba (Yaiba Manga: [[Yaiba Volume 16#Strong Cat Dokuro VS. Yaiba (Part 1)|164]]-[[Yaiba Volume 17#Strong Cat Dokuro VS. Yaiba (Part 4)|167]]) ====
Sometime during winter, [[Yaiba Kurogane]] and [[Sayaka Mine]] get shrunken and find themselves in the attic of the [[Mine residence]], where a tribe of rats lives, explaining to them the situation about Dokuro and his underlings attacking them regularly. Just after saying this, a henchman of Dokuro barges into the room<ref>''[[Yaiba]]'', chapter 164 ([[Yaiba Volume 16]], chapter 10)</ref>, with Yaiba battling him until he cuts his tail off. He flees back to Dokuro, but gets punished for his failure. Dokuro and the other cats watch this, with the former ordering them to also attack the attic. Yaiba fends off those cats too and proves to the rats that they can defend themselves<ref>''[[Yaiba]]'', chapter 165 ([[Yaiba Volume 16]], chapter 11)</ref>, but during these fights, one of the lit candles in the attic falls to the side and burns the roof, with Dokuro appearing on it between the flames to challenge Yaiba, threatening Sayaka and the other rats.<ref>''[[Yaiba]]'', chapter 166 ([[Yaiba Volume 17]], chapter 1)</ref>

Another battle ensues, this time between Yaiba and Dokuro, where the latter is hit by a firework rocket which causes Yaiba to win by hitting the suprisesdDokuro with his [[Raijin-ken]] in the scar on his forehead and both getting thrown off the roof, into the well inside the backyard of the Mine residence. Yaiba comes up victorious with Dokuro's corpse, it seems, but the cat is still alive. Briefly before trying to enact revenge, his mistress appears, calling him by his real name Kuro, now being an older student taking him with her, with (Do)Kuro crying that he finally found her again. His underlings escape for good - but now the Mine residence got a rat infestation.<ref>''[[Yaiba]]'', chapter 167 ([[Yaiba Volume 17]], chapter 2)</ref>
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=== ''Zero's Tea Time'' plot overview ===
[[File:Zeros Tea Time 9 Haro meets Dokuro.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Dokuro hisses at Haro shortly before scratching him.]]

==== You Shouldn't Do That (ZTT Manga: [[Zero's Tea Time Volume 1#File 009: You Shouldn't Do That|9]]) ====
After [[Rei Furuya]] tries to drive [[Haro]] away, trying to tell him that he can't keep him, he follows him, running against a pillar in the process and falling down a flight of stairs leading to an alley, where Dokuro - still a stray cat - is standing between the trash, hissing at the young dog and scratching his face open, getting comforted by Rei afterwards.<ref>''[[Zero's Tea Time]]'', TIME.9 ([[Zero's Tea Time Volume 1]], Time 9), page 6-7</ref>

== Trivia ==
* His name literally translates to "skull".<ref>[https://jisho.org/word/%E9%AB%91%E9%AB%8F Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary] (Last retrieved 2020-08-29) ドクロ (…) skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium Usually written using kana alone</ref>
* The fact that he's a stray cat in ''[[Zero's Tea Time]]'' could either imply that it's set before his mistress getting him back in ''[[Yaiba]]'', that it's just rendering the events from there as non-[[canon]] or that she lost him ''again''.

== References ==
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{{Zero's Tea Time}}
{{Yaiba}}

[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Yaiba characters]]
[[Category:Zero's Tea Time characters]]
[[Category:Crossover characters]]

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 | aliases             = Kuro
 | first-appearance    = [[Yaiba]] Chapter 164 <br> [[Zero's Tea Time]] Chapter 9
-| appearances         = Yaiba Manga: [[Dokuro Appearances#Yaiba Manga|4]] <br> Zero's Tea Time Manga: [[Dokuro Appearances#Zero's Tea Time Manga|2]]
+| appearances         = Yaiba Manga: [[Dokuro Appearances#Yaiba Manga|4]] <br> Zero's Tea Time Manga: [[Dokuro Appearances#Zero's Tea Time Manga|2]] <br> Zero's Tea Time Anime: [[Dokuro Appearances#Zero's Tea Time Anime|1]]
 | cases-solved        =
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