You Need To Watch Dororo!!!

Okay so i don't know why but this anime doesn't get enough credit for what it should be getting to be honest. Yes, I'm going to review this god tier anime dororo. It is a show that I could only describe as priceless. Let's talk about why you need to watch Dororo. There's just something inherently intriguing about well done period pieces with some mystical aspects to them. The first show that always comes to mind, at least for me, is mushishi but dororo is totally worth one of these shows. The anime takes place in feudal Japan where many of the lords are warring and thus most of Japan is covered in battles and blood. The show follows dororo a small child and Hyakkimaru, a boy with many missing body parts. Their goal is to survive as well as hunt down demons who will one by one give the Hyakkimaru back his missing body parts as they are defeated. This show is dark. 

I do want to preface this beforehand. This is feudal Japan after all and that's kind of the interesting thing about this anime. It's asking us some pretty deep questions. The most interesting one is what makes us human? Hyakkimaru is a perfect case study of this at the beginning of the show. He is pretty far off from being a human physically speaking. He's mostly machine to be honest but as he hunts down more and more demons, he continues to get more body parts and thus he is able to understand the world around him much more but this kind of backfires as Hyakkimaru is able to comprehend more of the world around him as he begins to understand the cruelty that occurs in this world. This often results in him killing many humans and in a way making Hyakkimaru less of a human. It's this interesting idea that the more Hyakkimaru becomes physically, the less mentally human he becomes. 

This is most clear in the arc where Hyakkimaru is injured after fighting a demon and is taken in by a lady with a beautiful voice and a few children. We later find out that the woman who's taking care of these children is prostituting herself out to the very same samurai who destroyed their lives in the first place but instead of being perceived as some desperate and sad attempt at survival, it's her own way of taking back what they had stolen. She uses this power to buy something to heal Hyakkimaru so he can fight off the demon in a specific location so they can all live peacefully but his attempt fails and Hyakkimaru loses his leg. So after recovering for a few days Hyakkimaru gets impatient. One thing, his leg back along with some revenge, he sets out early to kill the demon. This time he succeeds but at a heavy cost we find out that while he was gone the samurai came to their hideout and slaughtered everyone. Hyakkimaru rightfully goes berserk and kills all of the Warriors.

It's this dark turn of events where if Hyakkimaru hadn't gotten impatient he would have been able to help but thanks to him wanting revenge and wanting to become more physically human, he in war became less human. It's this very harsh punishment for his greed and impatience of a show about hunting demons. The main antagonists of the show are almost always human. Most of the demons are made from humans or are merely non-threatening. the often most unpredictable and most dangerous characters in the show are humans themselves after all the characters who

most push Hyakkimaru towards being a monster. Of course there are many small rays of hope in the show, in particular the young child who travels with Hyakkimaru and dororo often brings Hyakkimaru back to earth whenever he goes berserk. This character is a strong reminder of the kindness humans are capable of and grows alongside Hyakkimaru. keep in mind I haven't even talked about the incredible fight scenes. The amazing stylized art, some of the major issues the show discusses and even the incredible soundtrack and OP are going to be a timeless classic. I think that much is clear with the show's question of what makes someone human and Hyakkimaru's development as characters. it's just hard to say anything other than you need to watch dororo.