Review of Dororo

Started off strong, good introduction, we immediately get thrown into the times of samurai, how brutal and unforgiving war is, and also the main goal of the MC (Hyakkimaru), killing demons to regain himself. The first half or so is really good, both MC's travel around the country, witnessing the outcome of war, whilst also on the hunt for demons, we slowly get introduced to a couple of characters that through out the show return once in a while. It was a good balance between reality and fantasy.... for the 1st half at least. Not sure about the exact episodes, but it kinda started goingdown hill, the episodes started to feel more like fillers than story episodes, they just featured some random event, with random villains, who hurt innocent people, and the story somehow tries to make us sympathize with them.
And slowly but surely the line between reality and fantasy started getting thinner, though it was more towards the very end, the good mix of both turned into a mess.
The way the plot was handled was kinda... just bad, again, especially during the 2nd half of the story, you could see a ''plot twist'' coming from a mile a way, although id call it less of a ''plot twist'' and more of just.... plot, characters just kinda spawned in exactly where they needed to be, with all the information they needed, without any explanation as to how they got there, or how they got the information.
But then at the very end, everything snapped back to reality, the line between reality and fantasy reappeared and everything was normal. The ending was meh though, could have been done more tastefully.

Now, in terms of art.... it was pretty solid, demons look sick, design was out of this world... no pun intended, the demons were designed to represent some sort of animal, except the animal had a couple of extra limbs and stuff like that.... pretty gruesome.
And the other part where the art shined, is combat, whether it be limbs getting cut off, ears getting sliced through like paper... you get the point, it was done tastefully, just the right amount of blood and detail, not too much, not too little.

Characters were meh, everyone was just kinda meh, some characters were too annoyingly ignorant, but then in the snap of the fingers became fully understanding, even though a second ago they were trying to kill the opposing side.
Some characters were just purely there for the plot... which was sad, a few of them had potential to pull at the viewers heart strings, but their deaths and actions during the last part of the show were done very poorly... so they just kinda died.... meaninglessly.

Overall, the show had potential, but it just kinda died off, like a drug addict with no drugs, or a gambling addict with no money, or something along those lines.