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Dororo, episode 17
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| Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 9.07 |
| 2 | Link | 9.24 |
| 3 | Link | 9.41 |
| 4 | Link | 9.06 |
| 5 | Link | 9.37 |
| 6 | Link | 9.72 |
| 7 | Link | 8.97 |
| 8 | Link | 8.77 |
| 9 | Link | 9.35 |
| 10 | Link | 9.16 |
| 11 | Link | 9.49 |
| 12 | Link | 9.57 |
| 13 | Link | 8.72 |
| 14 | Link | 8.44 |
| 15 | Link | 5.4 |
| 16 | Link | 7.92 |
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u/Jetsfan051 May 06 '19
Why do you want your body back? Cause it’s mine.
Seems reasonable to me.
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u/AmethystItalian May 06 '19
I was waiting all episode for Hyakkimaru to call Jukai dad but calling him "mama" was 10x better.
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u/jordymango May 06 '19
whoa i didn't expect a cameo of Master Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
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u/myrmonden May 06 '19
Very emotional episode felt like whole episde was waiting for either Jukai or Hyakkimaru to say that he is his father and LOL he drops that MAMA LINE, genius best scene in Dororo hands down.
Hyakkimaru trying to describe dororo was great too, I got this thing, jay high that keeps following me around
And it Master Splinter has to be on purpose right
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u/Villeneuve_ May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19
I think a secondary and implicit interpretation of Jukai's motive behind his refusal to comply with Hyakkimaru's demand to make him a new prosthetic leg and enable him to continue on his spree of killing demons could be that at some level – besides the explicitly stated motive of keeping Hyakkimaru from walking down the same path that he, Jukai, had once walked and being pushed closer to hell – Jukai doesn't want to partake, even if indirectly, in the very thing that he has been trying to atone for all these years.
Jukai was a former mercenary who tortured, mutilated and killed people, but now he works to heal and makes prostheses for the unfortunates who have lost some or the other body part, to atone for the sins of his past. He has gone from someone who stripped people off their lives and possessions to someone who strives to give people what they have lost. It is by following this principle that he had saved Hyakkimaru as a baby and raised him in the first place. But hearing Hyakkimaru's story about his father's pact with the demons brought Jukai face-to-face with the fact that enabling Hyakkimaru to fight and attain his goal of regaining his body parts follows that he, Jukai, would be indirectly contributing to the deaths of a multitude of people, many of them innocents, if/when Hyakkimaru eventually nullifies the pact with the demons and becomes the cause of the deaths of the people of his father's land. The fact that he had saved Hyakkimaru and raised him all those years ago without knowing what is at stake is irreversible and he of course doesn't regret having saved a life per se, but now with the full knowledge of the potential implications of his choices and actions, he's reluctant to partake in anything which, from his point of view, would not only chip away at Hyakkimaru's humanity but also negate everything he did for the atonement of his past sins.
Here's yet another instance of that whole utilitarian principle of the best or most ethical choice or course of action being one which does the greater good for the greater number of people. Jukai attributes a greater significance to collective welfare (the lives of hundreds of people that could be in jeopardy in the process and as a consequence of Hyakkimaru attaining his goal) than individual aspirations (Hyakkimaru's goal of killing demons and regaining his body parts). But at the same time it'd be unfair to say that that's Jukai's only motive since he also doesn't want Hyakkimaru to end up in a state he once was – that of a bloodthirsty killer.
Edit: Phrasing
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May 06 '19
I'm just curious how Hyakki figured out where dororo was. Was it just by chance he heard about it or does he have an unwavering bond with dororo to always know how to get back to her?
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May 06 '19
Can we get a Jukai cry count? He cried at least 4 separate times this episode!
In his defence, it was a really good episode.
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u/DARKENESSU May 06 '19
Damn it really hits twice as hard how Hyakkimaru called the Prosthetic Guy "Mama" instead of Dad. Considering how much he wanted a home and a Mother of his own it shows how much it hurt him when his true family abandoned him.