Hello all and welcome to a week of essentially filler for Dororo! We repeat plot points, Hyakki gets engaged and Dororo gets some funny faces. Let’s dive in!
Starting off, I normally do production here, but with the contents of this episode that seems ridiculous. Instead, I wanna ask why this episode exists, because this week is effectively filler. And not even good filler. Just filler that retreads what was already covered last week. I understand it was all a metaphor, that Hyakki’s reforged swords were all an allegory for Hyakki himself. Him and Dororo were realizing their true feelings, because they can only speak lies. Blah blah, whatever. My question is, did we need any of this? Did Dororo not establish the familial relationship between our two leads last episode? Was that not the whole head-rubbing thing and such? It just all feels pointless to me, like Dororo is treading water, when there is an actual plot sitting right in front of it. It’s disappointing.
We got some nice reaction faces out of it at least, some fun animation. Dororo’s reactions looked better than most of this cour really, which is just sad. But this episode did do comedy much better than previous episodes though. The jokey animation and premise really leant itself to that. With their words not matching their actions and such. My personal favorite of it all was when Okowa was pulling Hyakki away to the wedding. Him repeating that the swords will come to him. I giggled, I had decent fun with the comedy of the episode. It’s just, Dororo isn’t a comedy show, its a character drama that has completely dropped its drama at this point. This isn’t what I wanted, not in the slightest.
What I wanted was more progression with Tahomaru, some fallout from his failure. Perhaps do that side-by-side with Hyakki getting his swords reforged. Let us see Daigo ramping up for war again, or something starting to push our leads in his direction. As is, what reason do Hyakki and Dororo have to run into Tahomaru and co again? They have the gold, and Hyakki/Dororo are apparently getting more mellowed out. Less reason to get involved. Suffice to say, I just don’t understand why, this close to the endgame of the series, we get what is effectively a filler episode. Remove this episode, take a week to polish up next weeks, and I think as a viewer we actually get more from the series.
So all in all, apologies for the short post this week, but Dororo is just letting me down. This week was, for the most part, a waste of my time. Rehashing already covered plot points, and pushing a jokey narrative about saying the opposite of what they mean… And then we got that derpy horse at the beginning of the episode. I just… ugh. Dororo had picked itself up last week. Brought it back to its roots and started up the interesting drama again. I was hoping that we could continue this into the end game and instead we get… derp horse.
I really hope Dororo gets back on track next week, because I don’t know if I can handle OPM 2 and this.
