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EP. REVIEW: Dororo

Also there were 48 demons in the game, 12 in this show. I understand 48 mighta been too much for a show but it just seems they cut this series way too thin.

why is she making the effort not to kill people?

Expect a lot more anime-original material now that we know Dororo is going to be 24 episodes long.

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Expect a lot more anime-original material now that we know Dororo is going to be 24 episodes long.

I thought it was a widely known fact that this show was going to be 2 cours since it started airing. The pace of the series also suggested that it was not going to conclude in one cour.

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Quote: Expect a lot more anime-original material now that we know Dororo is going to be 24 episodes long. I thought it was a widely known fact that this show was going to be 2 cours since it started airing. The pace of the series also suggested that it was not going to conclude in one cour.

I had no clue, it's original listing made no mentions of two cour either that i could find. Then again it's streaming on Amazon so they're far from being open about their shows.

As an aside, i hope this doesn't mean a change to that Opening theme.

I'm really at a loss as to why this series is getting such meh / low reviews ... I feel like it's one of the objectively strongest series this season. Am I crazy?

The times are changing, and both Dororo's parents and Itachi had to determine what matters more: their principles or their survival.

We've been presented different perspectives on what (surviving all odds) could mean...(from Daigo making a devil's deal to ensure the survival of his lands and ambition, to Hyakkimaru being forced to fight to survive his cursed nature.)

...(Tezuka) was deeply influenced by Buddhism...(which believes)— that to live is to suffer — but at the same time believes in the salvation that enlightenment offers: the surrendering of one's ego, and all its attendant desires.

What would be the actualisation of such salvation, in practical terms?...(It would be) survival for its own sake, while being (mindful of the) price of survival.

I feel it's because Dororo is the least morally conflicted character out of all the people we've seen so far in the series. Everyone else, including poor Mio, was caught in desperate situations not of their choosing, and over which they had very little control.

In a world where everyone is a monster, either literally or figuratively (by compromising their morals in survival's name), Dororo stands out for being the single pure individual who is acting on what he feels to be the right thing to do.

At this point in time, the one piece of his humanity that would be the most difficult for Hyakkimaru to recover is his conscience, his ability to reflect on the price of his actions. And that is why Dororo is key to the equation: the child is the heart and soul of this moral tale, the only one reflecting on this important question as the story unfolds.

spoiler[I read that Dororos mother drew a map on her back showing the location of her fathers treasure, is this revealed later or has this plot point been dropped from this adaptation.]

The bit at the end when Dororo was asking Hyakkimaru about being undressed, must mean that Dororo is deliberately concealing her gender, which sounds different from your description of the Manga where she truly believes she is male. I wonder if in her parents forced this gender on her, maybe to protect her because of all the bandits or that male heir trope. Or maybe with no females, aside her mother, she did not have anyone to emulate.