Post by Uesugi-dono on Jul 4, 2019 8:16:30 GMT
How many of you remember this?
That was my introduction to Osamu Tezuka's Dororo; a PS2 cult hit that I played YEARS too late. (2009 on a 2004 game. Here's my Gamespot Review.) BWT was a very unusual game for me, after all you got weaker the more successful you were! It tells the story of demon-hunter Hyakkimaru who, as a baby, had 48 parts of his body stolen due to a deal his warlord father made with demons. As Hyakki tracks and kills these demons he regains the natural parts of his body, and loses the artificial ones his adoptive father made for him... parts that include things like swords inside his prosthetics and a cannon hidden inside a leg.
After the incredible journey of Blood Will Tell, one of my favorite games of all time, I read Tezuka's manga. I actually read a few of Tezuka's manga. (He also wrote an incredibly entertaining account of the life of Buddha that taught me a ton about the religion.) The manga was old, for sure, but must have been incredibly shocking for its day. Written in 1967 and 1968 it doesn't shy away from the horrors of war in the Sengoku, and that's really the theme here; war is completely awful, a province of demons that corrupts people. It corrupted Hyakki before his birth and now he literally has to reclaim his humanity.
I followed that up with the crappy-but-entertaining live action Dororo released in 2007. It was all right but once this was done I was pretty much done with Dororo. I didn't expect to really experience it again until the PS5 allows me to go back to the PS2 title. (I would support a BWT remake with ALL my heart.) But then I stumbled onto something on Amazon Prime video, quite by accident...
HOLY FUCKING BALLS.
This is not just Dororo... this is Dororo DC Universe edition... if, you know, DC were good. This Dororo is dark, gritty, and much more realistic than any version before it. Gone is Hyakkimaru's lighthearted mangaish personality, Gone is his psychic ability to 'see' the world in black and white from the game, absent is the camp of the live action movie...
This Dororo doesn't shy away.
This Dororo makes you watch.
This Dororo puts you right into the horror of war in Sengoku and illustrates just how ALONE you would feel to be Hyakkimaru; a boy who cannot see, cannot feel, cannot hear, and yet still lives.
This Dororo is perfect.
Dororo is available on Prime Video and Crunchyroll and is, hands down, the best anime since Attack on Titan.
Don't miss it.
That was my introduction to Osamu Tezuka's Dororo; a PS2 cult hit that I played YEARS too late. (2009 on a 2004 game. Here's my Gamespot Review.) BWT was a very unusual game for me, after all you got weaker the more successful you were! It tells the story of demon-hunter Hyakkimaru who, as a baby, had 48 parts of his body stolen due to a deal his warlord father made with demons. As Hyakki tracks and kills these demons he regains the natural parts of his body, and loses the artificial ones his adoptive father made for him... parts that include things like swords inside his prosthetics and a cannon hidden inside a leg.
After the incredible journey of Blood Will Tell, one of my favorite games of all time, I read Tezuka's manga. I actually read a few of Tezuka's manga. (He also wrote an incredibly entertaining account of the life of Buddha that taught me a ton about the religion.) The manga was old, for sure, but must have been incredibly shocking for its day. Written in 1967 and 1968 it doesn't shy away from the horrors of war in the Sengoku, and that's really the theme here; war is completely awful, a province of demons that corrupts people. It corrupted Hyakki before his birth and now he literally has to reclaim his humanity.
I followed that up with the crappy-but-entertaining live action Dororo released in 2007. It was all right but once this was done I was pretty much done with Dororo. I didn't expect to really experience it again until the PS5 allows me to go back to the PS2 title. (I would support a BWT remake with ALL my heart.) But then I stumbled onto something on Amazon Prime video, quite by accident...
HOLY FUCKING BALLS.
This is not just Dororo... this is Dororo DC Universe edition... if, you know, DC were good. This Dororo is dark, gritty, and much more realistic than any version before it. Gone is Hyakkimaru's lighthearted mangaish personality, Gone is his psychic ability to 'see' the world in black and white from the game, absent is the camp of the live action movie...
This Dororo makes you watch.
This Dororo puts you right into the horror of war in Sengoku and illustrates just how ALONE you would feel to be Hyakkimaru; a boy who cannot see, cannot feel, cannot hear, and yet still lives.
This Dororo is perfect.
Dororo is available on Prime Video and Crunchyroll and is, hands down, the best anime since Attack on Titan.
Don't miss it.
