The original Dororo anime I initially picked this up to see how it compared to it's remake, and though it is interesting to see the styles of different times telling one story and how anime has evolved over the years, i can't help but feel a vail of disappointment on the route the original adaptation decided to take with it's storytelling The show went from a very slow start, dragging out each mission into double episodes, then rushed thru one of the most emotional and integral parts of the story, then went back to more side missions, this time changing the formula to slaying demons every episodeinstead of every 2, all culminating in an extreamly rushed ending squished into a single episode

Thing is, the disappointment doesn't come from the story, which has quite a few differences from it's 2019 counterpart, not being good, but rather the opposite, the story is good and has lots of potential, the emotional scenes can make you shed tears, but these moments are rushed by in less than half an episode while exessive screentime is being given to a loop of an axe cutting down a tree