So does anyone else besides me no longer feel sorry for what happened to Mio?

scrg said:
How can you not feel bad? It's not like she willingly led the soldiers to kill the children. It's more like she was willing to take on more risk involving her work and put herself in more danger for the sake of the kids

Loathsome said:
she reap what she sow rip
edit; and seriously she wasnt an important character so we obviously forget it fast, since she had screentime for like 10minutes in 2 episodes

Supersky said:


Honestly, you're right there. She had a great design and I was about to love her until they pulled that prostitute and then death shit on her. And just like that, her character felt flat to me.
If they removed all that and had her travel with them and Hyakkimaru, I feel that would've been a much more enjoyable story to see than just doing what they did with her

Supersky said:


Honestly, you're right there. She had a great design and I was about to love her until they pulled that prostitute and then death shit on her. And just like that, her character felt flat to me.
If they removed all that and had her travel with them and Hyakkimaru, I feel that would've been a much more enjoyable story to see than just doing what they did with her

Epicgamerxd said:

The night job element rly added to her character imo, sure it might be a grab for pity but it shows how much shes willing to put herself through for the sake of the orphans. Im not sure how such blatant characterization can make a character feel more flat but okie
Sure you could say she inadvertently killed the orphans but thats not through her own intent, its just a tragic circumstance. Tbh im glad they didnt go the route of making her a love interest, she serves hyakkimaru better as somewhat of a martyr and in reality all she would do is slow hyakki and dororo down - she cant fight and would never abandon the orphans, who would all be liabilities as well. Her fate was very intentional from the start and i appreciate how it was used to develop hyakki , i have a feeling she will continue to motivate him more later on, esp with the rice seeds.

And lmao some of yall are heartless she literally died and witnessed everything she sacrificed her body for be destroyed and youre saying she asked for it oml

Supersky said:


I didn't say she asked for it, but her choices trying to care for the kids is what I feel led to me not liking her much in the end. Her willingness to do that work ended up putting the rest of those kids in harms way, so I don't see how that's a positive for her if that does the opposite of what she wanted

And no the night job element didn't add any character to her, it made her only noticeable trait of her being a prostitute. To me that's pity points of a character and it doesn't do much to make me care for her either. If she died later on if she went to travel with them and didn't go through any of this (prostitution and all), then that'd be fine cuz we'd have seen her develop and grow closer to Hyakkimaru. But instead they kill her off the next episode and all that pity/sadness I had for her was gone.

And so what if she sacrificed her body for the kids? They also died because of her due to the troops's suspicions with her going back and forth between them each night. She should've left the village with them to go to a better place instead of staying there and dying because of her work. In all honesty I'd say she deserved it for taking a stupid job in the first place

Epicgamerxd said:

When i said some ppl think she was asking for it i wasnt talking abt you sorry fammm
Still idkk ig it boils down to the moral dilemma of whether or not someone desperate should sell their body. Imo mio and the orphans relocating was not exactly feasible bc the samurai that dismembered the kids would prob pick them off even easier now and also ofc being amputees most of them are even less mobile and needier than normal kids. The show addressed the prostitution dilemma when dororo mentioned how his mom would never sell her body no matter how dire the consequences, alluding to the conflict, and mio herself felt as if her soul was tainted because of her job when hyakki looked at her. This disparity being acknowledged in-show gives your opinion as well as mine credence tbhh. She wasnt doing it because she wanted to, it was either that or let the orphans go hungry, they were kinda trapped and she was the only able bodied person that could help them out so she had to do less than ideal work that could pay well (rich samurai - ×2 when she took jobs from two clans)
I felt as if the prostitute element, altho it did lend pity towards mios character, also characterized her as self sacrificing and resilient, if not the most farsighted. Perhaps she thought the samurai would only kill her and not the innocent orphans? Or perhaps the only reason she started working for two different clans in the first place was to support the added burden of hyakki and dororo arriving (as we can assume she had never been accused of being a spy before or else she would be dead). At her core she was/is a plot device to motivate hyakki and not some unnecessary side character that we are to forget about forever, and the seeds suggest hyakki will think about her a lot more moving forward. Personally i think the show set mio into such a tragic situation in a way that avoids being just suffer-porn, altho thats not to say theres no suffering...
Idk im prob pretty biased anyway this is probably the most pleased ive been with a seasonal show since made in abyss at least, i get ppl disagree with me but idk i think the mio episodes were masterfully done especially compared to the manga

Supersky said:


I didn't say she asked for it, but her choices trying to care for the kids is what I feel led to me not liking her much in the end. Her willingness to do that work ended up putting the rest of those kids in harms way, so I don't see how that's a positive for her if that does the opposite of what she wanted

And no the night job element didn't add any character to her, it made her only noticeable trait of her being a prostitute. To me that's pity points of a character and it doesn't do much to make me care for her either. If she died later on if she went to travel with them and didn't go through any of this (prostitution and all), then that'd be fine cuz we'd have seen her develop and grow closer to Hyakkimaru. But instead they kill her off the next episode and all that pity/sadness I had for her was gone.

And so what if she sacrificed her body for the kids? They also died because of her due to the troops's suspicions with her going back and forth between them each night. She should've left the village with them to go to a better place instead of staying there and dying because of her work. In all honesty I'd say she deserved it for taking a stupid job in the first place

Supersky said:


Yes, but her going to both sides at the same time but different nights cause one of them to act and kill her based on their suspicions of her. So un-ironically, the risks she took did lead them to their deaths. And in the end, her risks mean nothing if she's gonna die in the end if she took a safer job that wouldn't have resulted in their deaths. That's why I no longer feel bad for her

Loathsome said:
she reap what she sow rip
edit; and seriously she wasnt an important character so we obviously forget it fast, since she had screentime for like 10minutes in 2 episodes

Maneki-Mew said:

This.
People often do everything to survive or for a little bit better living. I think in general it's better to distance myself from judging things I know nothing about / how the situation feels like.

Himawari9 said:
what kind of job you think she could get that make quick and good money?

Himawari9 said:

You are a heartless monster. Sure sure she doesn't have many screentime but she is an example of what women have to do in order to survival in that time period and in modern time too. You are a person lacking empathy.

laviha said:
I didn't feel much sorry for mio, we only got to see her for like 2 episodes, I felt more sorry for hykkimaru for being sad at her death

Maneki-Mew said:

Welp, that happens. I don't think most people would act that logically. These assholes gave her not so much more than a little bit food. I guess they wanted her to come back asap.

Supersky said:
This isn't a clickbait thread fyi. This is a legitimate question I've had on my mind.

So like the majority of others during episode 5 and 6, I would definitely say I saw the red flags surrounding her job that she had at night and how she was "selling her body" to make money in order to buy the rice for her and the children. When she died in episode 6, I'd say I did get sad for her and Hyakkimaru given how he was liking her I believe.

Although looking back on it, I don't know if I should still feel bad for her or not. Here's what I mean. She was "working" at night for the Sakai clan other enemy and then she decides to go "work" for the Daigo Clan the next night as well. She went back and forth between the two for the next few days thinking it would be a good idea, even though that was stupidly risky when one side would start growing suspicious of her actions and whether or not she was a spy for any given side.

And later at the end, we find out that the Daigo army she was already "pleasuring" saw her going over to the Sakai clan the night before, thus leading the Daigo troops to killing her and the children the next day thinking they were spies. Not only that, but when Dororo confronted her about her night job in episode 6, she basically brushed it off and said "it's to survive", even though she indirectly causes her own death and the children's as well because of her stupid actions.

Looking back on that, I honestly just brush her death off now since she basically caused her and the children's deaths by raising the Daigo clan's suspicions about what she was doing. In all honesty, she should've got a different job if it meant keeping her dignity and remaining alive, because in the end it wasn't worth it.

Grandassassin said:
Nope I agree with you a lot, even though I never felt bad for her at all. I expected her to enjoy the pleasure and her saying that made my hunch 100% correct, anyone else that still feels bad for her are naive, just be glad that are you aren't that. Especially when she is trying to take care of children, her "job" being penetrated by dudes is absolutely despicable and deserves no sympathy, there are other jobs out there to make money, not selling yourself.

Yandere_Yuuya said:
There's nothing pleasurable about having sex with multiple men every night in those circumstances. Sex when you aren't aroused is uncomfortable at best and excruciating at worst. We could see by the bruises that they hurt her, she would be in fear of disease and pregnancy, and her belief that her soul was horribly tainted shows how taxing it was on her emotionally as well.

I don't know what job you expected an unskilled, homeless teenage girl in that time and place to get that would pay well enough for her to feed herself and at least 5 dependents.

Grandassassin said:
yeah you are right sex is uncomfortable when you arent aroused but one thing you need to understand, She does have a choice to not have sex with those men, you act like that’s the only way for her to get money, there are certain jobs that require status but there are jobs like a shrine maiden, innkeeper (look up women’s jobs in the edo period) or jobs similar to that so she can make money, making excuses of her being talentless and homeless doesn’t give her the benefit of the doubt or pity. Obviously you weren’t paying attention to the conversation with dororo when she brushed it off acting like there was nothing wrong with what she was doing, she was the cause of her and the children’s death. Another thing to where is the money she’s getting for having sex with those men? There is none, she is just having sex with those men without getting paid, she is just stealing stuff like those rice paddy’s which cause their death, one more thing what about the children? What if one of the children gets curious to see what job she does at night, what would happen if they stumble onto her doing that “job” how would they react? what would they do? What happens if they confront her about it? What kind of trauma would take a toll on the child after witnessing something like that? Those are questions you need to ask yourself instead of feeling bad for her, assuming she had no choice and she can’t find any other job then fucking a bunch of dickbrain degenerates.

Yandere_Yuuya said:
Boy. Best get your facts straight before telling me to Google it.

First of all, Dororo is not set in the Edo period. The Edo period was peacetime; Japan was unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, culture flourished and modernisation began to pick up pace on the back of the introduction of European science. This doesn't concern us. We're talking about the Sengoku period, where hundreds of clans across Japan were too busy killing, raping, pillaging and backstabbing each other to get much else done.

Become a shrine maiden, you say? You think they take any girl off the street? Far from it. In any case, many shrine maidens had turned to prostitution by this age because the shrines couldn't afford to pay them. See here: academic article

Innkeeper? She's supposed to set up an inn with... whose money?

If you paid attention you'd see she was being paid in food, rice, what on earth would be the point of suffering at the hands of those men for nothing? She would take whatever she could get for payment, she had to feed those children every single day. What makes you think she stole the seed rice?

As for "think of the children!!", I think you're trying to apply modern-day morals to ancient Japan. Children grew up fast in these days. People weren't puritanical about sex. Pederasty was common among the samurai and Buddhist monks in particular. I mean, what do you think would happen if they found out about it? It wouldn't be the end of their worlds. Dororo understood.

PastMasters said:
In the manga she wasn’t even that important on top of that they competely changed her character. In the manga the kids & her were killed because they were told to leave & didn’t obey

Supersky said:


Wait are you serious?!? Why didn't they just keep it like that for this adaptation, it still would've made sense.

redaxe13 said:


The manga has almost nothing in common with this adaptation except character names and the premise. lol I think that this adaptation is much better story though.