Review of Dororo

It does not have spoilers so it wont be long: Its a good reboot of and 60/70s manga, and its the gory, dark and seinen-type adaptation of it. A dark story of Hyakkymaru, a kid born with the curse of devils, in a contract that his father made to have a prosperous land. And then the story flows with this lambless and sense-less main character and his friend Dororo, who would guide Hyakkymaru to not lost his humanity and convert into only a blood-thirsty demon. It setted in an samurai japan, but with demons and prosthetics, making it very interesting in the very beggining. The storydevelops very good yet the pace varies sometimes, getting faster -first episodes- or slower -in the mid-, but with a very
good-paced and hyping final episodes.

The characters are just fine, Hyakkymaru evolves from a 'semi-human' to a lovely person and Dororo will always a nice character -who carry some secrets almost all the serie. The family of Hyakkymaru, including his ''father'' are very simple but works very good. His 'step-father' had a lot of potential and didn't fail at it, with one of the best scenes of all the show.
In the other hand, that old man who is a luck of Plot device. It lows the final rank, simplifying some scenes that could have ended with a lot of emotional charge, but that just wastes the opportunity. And a detail that i couldn't just avoid, was the speed that hyakkymaru learns japanese. Well, this could've been in the travels that we dont see, but still, learns to talk and the meanings of the words, very fast. And God bless the Rapidash -no-

The art has it flaws, but it's not due to 'bad animation', it's an style. People saying its bad animated but then loving devilman crybaby? It is not but animated -except one episode, 17 or something, that is truly a downgrade but just in that episode- and sound it's magnific, probably, because of using of that old-japan thematic in the music. I didn't like that much the first opening and the second one neither at first -after you hear it more times it gets better-. The endings were great.
Some chapters had very good fights and others had a very 'one-punch' win -that obviously I didn't like-.

Very enjoyable and very recommended. It isn't a must, but it's one of the 'big 5' 2019 animes
gracias.