Since Oda is in a very good form regarding character designs (base Loki, Xebec, Imu, Harald, Shamrock, and the only bad design is Loki's full zoan) I think it can be peak. This makes my shift from my original take, that was Good, to Peak. But we can never trust a human author that much unless he is Araki or Tite Kubo(In designs) (Isayama and Urasawa are gods and not in this list lol, but let's not debate about other authors now), I think I will vote for Good, even though I think it's 49.9% peak, 49.9% good, 0.1% mid and 0.1% bad (0% trash, trust me) in probability.

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So the first thing I have to say about it is:

Dororo = Vinland Saga + Demon Slayer.

It had elements of travelling amd killing monsters, finding an answer to a question related to violence, and... The golden sea.

#Did it surpass my expectations?

No. It didn't. I already knew it was a masterpiece. It was a masterpiece. It has some crazy reviews bruh.

The best thing about it:

The visuals. Everything else is top notch, but I'm the kind of man who puts Shinkai and Evangelion above One Piece and Vinland Saga purely because of visuals. It's visuals were so good, averaging at like 4 wallpapers per episode.

The Story:

The story was very good, certainly unique, bit I won't say it was on a level I hadn't seen before. It was VERY good. The Character development was easily A tier, and the few characters it features are all well written.

Voice Acting:

Cute, I'd say.

#Rating (out of 10):

9 (Great).

Overall feel (and a small complaint):

I had some pacing issues after episode 12. So, I watched it in batches. The stor kept going up, but it stopped hooking me. It was very honest about its setting and world state early-on, but then it became a happy-clappy show until episode 18. Some characters that shouldn't have survived did. The rest was all almost perfect. Music wasn't anything special (I skip OPs and EDs, so I'm not talking about that).

Mio (Spoilers):

Certainly fulfilled my hunger of misery porn (lol). It was a well written one. Her song, when I heard it for the second time, gave me a sinister feel. I knew what was gonna come. It was so bad, whatever happened with her. But it's what it is. That certainly happens to common people during wars. That was the honesty I was talking about. Reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies, I need to rewatch that movie.