A quick review about Dororo. One of the most over-rated anime in recent years.

powerofberzerker

A very bad thing these days that's happening regularly is hype or better said over-hype. Dororo started with around 6 to 8 episodes of pure quality and pretty good story telling. The animation was very good. The characters are interesting and more then they seem like on the first look. The soundtrack is very appropriate and gives atmosphere and historic feel to the whole show. The many moral questions that the show asks and the natural flow of a long, perilous journey undertook by our 2 main characters also made it feel special. Action and art were solid. Pace was ok but a little slow. But as the show progressed, everything stayed the same or became worse. Both art and animation took a huge drop. Stories pace also suffered, moving too slowly and adding a lot of semi-interesting and semi-boring stuff. Characters are just too simple and there is not much to them nor is there much room for them to become better characters because of the pace.
The show is very episodic and often there is a problem in a place nearby or village that seems strange or connected to demons that our 2 friends Hyakimaru and Dororo solve. The world is fantasy and historic looking Japan combined in one. Monsters are more or less Japanese folk creatures. Story and setting are dark and somewhat nihilistic. But as I said, the action and the whole journey and semi-episodic nature all quickly become stale and not impressive because of the production quality decreasing to such a point that some episodes look downright fan-made.
The main problem I wanted to point out is the new nature of seeing 3 episodes of something and giving it a 8-10 rating because your are hooked and surprised by some shows quality. Animes like for example new Baki work much better in the sense where they can have passable to bad art and lackluster animation but its wacky nature and temper caries the show enough that your don't need much for it to be enjoyable while shows like Dororo are completely serious and epic and when they fail in some aspects in hurts the whole thing.

score 5/10

powerofberzerker 5 June 2019

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4914305/