Review of Dorohedoro

Dorohedoro's strengths lie between the creation of a vast, unique grotesque and rash world that fills your mind with obscene imagery and merciless depictions of death and pain, all while balancing it with comedy and light-heartedness that makes it not so heavy for the faint of the heart. We see various examples of this throughout the series, when key characters are constantly dying or receiving constant gut-wrenching injuries. Despite these key elements that make the series so fascinating to watch, I'm going out of my way to disagree with the vast majority of reviewers here, the CGI is noticeable and disturbing to the eyes. There area ton of examples when they jump to a close-up of a hand-drawn character only to have him change the scene and move him into a CGI/3D object. This was specially noticeable during fight sequences, where the moves they performed seemed sluggish and robotic.

Another issue I had was the plot-progression was slowed down by the constant introduction of side-characters and bottle episodes. There is one particular bottle episode which I'm not going to mention since it's kind of spoiler-ish that really dragged down my enojoyment of the series. The narrative was also super slow despite having somewhat a direct climax to resolve.

Despite all of this, Dorohedoro is a good series. They did an excelent job depicting what is regarded as one of the most interesting worlds behind a vast and rich lore that can only be rivaled by few anime which have hundreds of episodes. The characters were interesting and culminated into each having some sort of personal vendetta which tied really nicely into each other.

Hoping for a second season and an improvement in the animation department. Everything else was top-notch and worthy of a watch.