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Fronzel
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Really enjoyed the first half of Dororo that was streamed on ill-fated Anime Sols and eagerly pre-ordered the DIscotek release.
To be clear; a ronin is a masterless samurai. Gonna nitpick and point out that Hyakkimaru isn't a samurai at all. This show hates samurai, itself a remarkable rarity.
Have to disagree. Just about the whole first half of the series is packed with pathos (Dororo's backstory, the ingratitude of villagers saved from a monster, Hyakkimaru's accidental encounter with his real family) and the second half is almost all monster-of-the-week stuff. None of them are awful but I got a strong impression of imbalance. |
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MarshalBanana
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The only thing I know about Dororo, is that Dororon Enma-Kun is a parody of it.
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Lord Geo
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Funnily enough, I was just about to start watching Dororo for review on my own blog, so I'll be inadvertently following Gabriella's recommendation here. Really, there is just so much historical importance to the Dororo anime that Gabriella didn't get to in her quick review, like how it's technically the first entry in the venerated World Masterpiece Theater franchise (back when it called Calpis Comic Theater), making it the sole entry to be based on a manga rather than a piece of classic literature. I saw the first four episodes back when Anime Sols was doing its drive, & I helped fund the streaming the first half of the show, & I absolutely loved every second of it. Dororo is honestly one of my all-time favorite Tezuka works, & I've always wanted to see the anime, so I obviously got a hold of Discotek's boxset as soon as it came out. I am really looking forward to finally watching all of it. Interestingly enough, Dororo is a rare instance in that pretty much every notable adaptation of the original manga has been released in North America. Vertical released said manga, Sega released the PS2 game adaptation (Blood Will Tell, which is an outstanding hack & slash game), Discotek released the anime, & Universal even put out of the live-action movie from 2007 on DVD a little less than a decade ago. |
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Themaster20000
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Really interested in Dororo. The bits of it I saw were great stuff. The fight scene in the first episode reminded me of something outta of a Kurosawa film with the shot composition,m music,and sound design.
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Mewzard
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I never saw the anime, but I read the manga, and found it enjoyable (though it was certainly abrupt in its ending).
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Gina Szanboti
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That sounds like a good guy to me. oO |
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belvadeer
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Dororo also had a PS2 game from early 2000: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bloodwilltell/bloodwilltell.htm
Argh, Gundam ZZ too! Onward to the RightStuf website! |
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BigOnAnime
Encyclopedia Editor
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I just added the two releases for Psycho-Pass: The Movie (DVD | Combo (labeled as DVD-only in error, I did just request (bottom of the post) for that to get fixed), so you may want to add these links into the article now instead of just linking to the encyclopedia entry. Rather surprised these weren't added ages ago.
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Desa
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Wow NONE of those other titles are even considered rent-worthy? Such high standards! That's borderline asian-parent levels of "not good enough".
Nah I'm kidding. I'd totally rent Gonna be the twintails though. Maybe Boy and the beast too. Psycho-Pass is perishable. |
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Shadowrun20XX
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Blood will Tell and the Dororo movie were really good. I kind of fell into the series and finished the game before going backward to the movie and then the manga. The anime wasn't available when I was into this.
Its a shame its unfinished, that's what makes the other two so interesting. They made Dororo female in the other series. |
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zawa113
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I've enjoyed what I've seen of Dororo quite a bit. Of course, I am also a huge Tezuka fan, so me buying this is hardly a surprise. I've read the manga, played the Blood Will Tell game (which I enjoy, despite some gameplay issues, the bosses were all quite good though, all 48 of them), so I'm enjoying the anime too. I sort of like watching on short arc at a time or 2-3 eps, because the pacing of it can be kind of odd by today's standards. Animation was clearly more expensive and difficult back then, so the series is happy to spend a lot of time on one scene with minimal character movement, so it makes it feel like the show is going slower than it actually is. When the animation wants to be good though, it is. And I actually think the black and white really adds to the atmosphere on this series, even if it was initially done for budget reasons. But I do enjoy doing this series in bite sized chunks of one arc, it doesn't really lend too well to marathoning, but that's ok too. I do think this is one of Tezuka's better anime series, I'm really glad that I pledged on AnimeSols for it now because at least it led to Discotek going "there's interest here, let's put it on DVD" (hopefully, they'll hav einterest in Black Jack too and continue on where Sols left off)
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trunkschan90
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One old anime I would also like to see licensed today is Sabu and Ichi.
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thekingsdinner
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Man would I love to get my hands on Dororo. I just need to find a way to import it (not having a credit card can be a real pain).
There's a lot of awesome releases this time. Unfortunately I can't afford any of them atm. Gundam X, Gundam ZZ, Twintails and... Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection! That came out sooner than I anticipated. |
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tsukumo.yuma.98
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Dororon-Enma kun isn't even a parody of it, it's an completely different series. Anyways, I'm going to get the dvd, I watched the first half that anime sol subbed a while ago. The anime and manga both are pretty awesome. Now for a Tezuka series I would like them to pick up next, maybe Marvelous Melmo and The 3 eyed one. Last edited by tsukumo.yuma.98 on Wed Jun 08, 2016 10:35 am; edited 1 time in total |
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