Alcia is a world governed by "Count": numbers engraved on a person's body, representing any number related to their life. These Counts determine a person's social status and power in Alcia. If a Count reaches zero, the person is sent to the Abyss, a place rumored to be worse than death.
Hina, a traveler whose Count is based on the distance she traveled, witnessed her mother get dragged down into the Abyss. Determined to fulfill her mother's last wishes, she sets off on a journey in search of the legendary Aces—heroes of the war that happened three hundred years ago, bearing a white star next to their Count.
While wandering around, Hina encounters Licht Bach, a mysterious masked man with negative Count, and Nana, the owner of a tavern. In the midst of having a good time, Hina is tricked into a battle with a military soldier. However, despite his negative count, Licht rescues Hina and reveals that he has another count, one with a white star, one of a legendary Ace.
Plunderer follows the journey of Hina and other inhabitants of Alcia as they discover the truth about their world, the Abyss, and the legendary Aces.
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810Teams
“You are the ace I chose.” - Hina A world ruled by numbers, you gain and lose points for specific things you do. The concept starts out interesting and promising, but the execution of the idea is badly done. Story - 2/10 When you have a bunch of ideas and want to create something full flavor but what you did is you pour everything in together without proper filtering or organization, Plunderer is a result of that. Compared to food, it looks like a product of someone who doesn’t know how to properly cook. Plunderer is messy and full of mysteries. Mysteries are getting revealed one by one throughoutthe story. While some revelations make sense, but some are way too absurd. They are way too convenient to be a coincidence, making me think the world is too small, probably not a way to connect everything together. In addition, some mysteries are not being explained properly, they are more like a rough explanation in order to be able to say that the show is not totally illogical.
The overall story is a serious theme but containing multiple weird and off-themed moments, such as cooking competition or drinking competition between characters who were just fighting each other to death.
Animation - 5/10
The animation quality is at the standard level but contains obvious flaws, which are stiff action scenes and intentional chibi-style art. In some scenes of Plunderer, the art turned characters into chibi-style, which I find not necessary, they resemble a lazy work.
Sound - 7/10
Standard theme songs and soundtracks. I am not a sound expert, so I would say that I find nothing outstanding and nothing bugged me.
Characters - 3/10
Plunder gave me a bad first impression. Licht Bach, a portrayal of a true pervert, who wanted to see Hina’s underwear at the first met, which she was a total stranger to Licht at that time. Normal ecchi is fine, but sexual harassment is not something to impress audiences with.
As mentioned in the story section, mysteries are getting revealed one by one throughout the story but having too much coincidence. Those mysteries involve characters and their relationships, which are mostly not convincing in a level that reading spoilers from Fandom does not ruin your enjoyment, but instead become more interesting.
After all, the characters of Plunderer are only tools to make the story proceed. The writing does not make characters important at all. Characters may have a background and unique personality, but their personality has no effect or has nothing to do with the story, which makes them easily replaceable.
Enjoyment - 3/10
The only thing that was able to keep me watching this show is the concept, which nevertheless did not get a proper explanation. I only wanted to see which direction would this mess go.
Recommendations
I do not recommend this to any people who are familiar with anime. If you are still new to anime, Plunder is something you may be able to enjoy.
Goober-fish
Writer James Beckett of AnimeNewsNetwork once said, speaking on the anime “Fire Force”, that it felt like it was written by “two middle-schoolers stacked on top of each other wearing a thick trench coat.” Sorry if I didn’t get that exactly right, James. Can I say the same applies to “Plunderer”? Well, as someone who was once a middle schooler thumping my feet to Slipknot and Green Day as I scrawled in the margins of my homework, I’d like to think my capacity to conjure a competent narrative was at least marginally better than whatever...the fuck I just saw. I’m going to keep this reviewof Plunderer as brief as possible because I’d rather it vacate the mental real-estate it has occupied in my head-space now that it has finished airing. You think of anime like “One Punch Man” and “Attack on Titan” where absolutely every aspect of production had to fall perfectly into place in order for the celluloid to properly translate to screen, in other words, lightning in a bottle. Plunderer is like the inverse of that, imagine, if you would, a 2-liter bottle of shit filled to its absolute brim over the course of 24 weeks until...well...you get the idea. Plunderer is the type of legendarily bad anime that you only get once in a decade because anything that can go wrong with an anime during its syndication absolutely did go wrong.
Plunderer is juvenile, it seems to be under the impression that a good story is predicated on otherworldly plot-twists, tragic heroes, and romance, but that’s just not the case. At the core of Plunderer’s story is a horribly unlikeable protagonist, Licht Bach. Licht checks just about every box for how not to write a compelling protagonist. He sexually assaults any woman in sight, has a happy-go-lucky attitude about it, and hides behind a shield of tragedy to force some degree of emotion out of the audience.
I’m an unrepentantly perverse and salacious bastard, the furthest thing from a prude, but even I have to draw the line somewhere. For a character like Licht Bach to have as many love interests as your run of the mill harem protagonist is nothing short of insulting. The number of women queued up to swing their legs open for this dude is staggering, it gets to a point where they are actively embracing being sexually assaulted just to have this man’s dick. I don’t normally allow my convictions to bleed into anime, because applying real-world logic to a cartoon can have varying results. But in Plunderer’s case, I just can’t ignore how these female characters are presented, because it’s nothing short of reductive and dangerously exaggerated.
Is the story at least good enough to distract from the chaos of its forced character relations? Well...no, not really. Trying to explain the story of Plunderer would be like asking Charlie Day to expound on the modalities of Pepe Silvia. It’s mired in minutiae and messy plotting, so for the sake of it, I’ll highlight some of the essential bullet-points. Licht Bach is some kind of super-soldier from the past that was forced to kowtow to his superiors to spare his peers, he bastardized his ideals when he was forced to kill others even though he was in a fucking military academy, and now in the present when the world is virtually unrecognizable he’s seen as a pariah known as the “Legendary Ace”, also there are aliens involved?
One of my absolute favorite scenes in Plunderer is when the main cast is forced to visit the past and during the school’s opening ceremony, the Commander straight up pops 3 punks in the crowd. It was jaw-dropping, to say the least, but it’s not until after the back and forth with Licht does he reveal that he actually shot them with a paint gun...even though they acted like they were dead the entire time. Like “Oh yeah, golly, I’m not dead!” Seriously, I checked out from this anime when I saw an attack-helicopter slowly rise from the smoke of the abyss.
The music is terribly anachronistic, mundane, and poorly integrated from scene to scene due to poor directing. The animation doesn’t even have to be spoken for in this case, but for the sake of it, I’ll say that Plunderer is so poorly animated that you can count the number of smear-frames per episode on your fingers. The coloring and linework is incredibly flat to the point where this show looks and feels like it was released over a decade ago.
Plunderer is…awful, irredeemably so. But it was never boring, far from it. With a bit of grandad’s cough medicine coursing through my system, it was actually raucous fun. Can I recommend it? Well honestly, that’s for you to decide whether or not I want the rest of you curious viewers at large to...share in my pain.
slavemaster_1991
I was glad to see that the manga I enjoyed was getting an anime adaptation. I was kinda worried it would be mediocre, or maybe it would be just a small 12 episode "prologue" arc or something, but I didn't expect it to be THAT terrible. It really takes some skill to turn a pretty solid manga into this abomination. So here is the list of problems: 1. Visuals. Here it feels exactly as it did with the latest season of Seven Deadly Sins: face animation and emotions are almost non-existant, all cool fights with great moves are a static image + some blinking "special effects"(and don't forget screaming AAAAAA for the whole fight). I swear, I have seen gifs with better animation, and to add insult to injury - even manga had better drawn static panels and frames for that exact fights. Why didn't you just colorise it if you didn't want to bother with actual animation? I have no idea. And outside of fights all charachers either barely move or it is animated "on budget" by two-three students who just did a part time job to get some food. It is trully terrible.
2. Sound. There are only 2 types of sound here: so dull you forget it at once and so irritating it makes your ears bleed. First category consists of openings and endings, second - of all the bgm. Military theme was so bad that I nearly skipped all the scenes where it was playing. If visuals were drawn by students, the sound was more likely made by a hobo for a bottle of cheap wine. I think even if you took a cat and pulled its tail - it would still be a better "music".
3. Pacing/story. Boy oh boy, THIS is the problem. The real one. While I have some degree of tolerance to bad looks/sounds, pacing just kills the source completely. Imagine a perfectly normal source, with nice fights, good plot turns and some ecchi jokes. Now take all the ecchi jokes, that take a panel or a page at most (with chapter being about 50) and stretch it to be 5 minutes long in a 20-minute episode. And now tell me, how can any joke keep up if you make it from a 2% time gag to a 25%? The answer is: you should not even try to do it, as this joke will become way too annoying and way too pushy and it simply will not be funny. And it is EXACTLY what they have done. All jokes - stretched, like they wanted to make it a full-time hentai but chickend out after prelude, all worldbuilding - infodumped in a few seconds, all battles consist out of 2-3 "moves", as heroes just repeat some 2-frame animation. Also there are a lot of lost moments, that may not feel like anything but a filler, but later it actually adds some lost elements to puzzle, as some characters did stuff that is really hard to justify without those small elements.
I think I didn't mention a number of smaller issues, but to be honest after mentioned 3 big problems I have already critisized 90% of the anime, at this point any more criticism will be just beating a corpse.
TL;DR: this anime is a horrible adaptation. The only reason I didn't give it the worst score is as a token of appreciation to the source material, wich is good, but this whoole anime is a waste of time, efford (although not much of it) and potential.
Marinate1016
Plunderer is a show that’s not for everyone. The first half of the show features a tremendous amount of fan service and If you don’t enjoy those types of things, this will be a very hard watch for you. However, if like me, you don’t mind such tropes you will be treated to one of the most under appreciated and interesting stories of the year. Plunderer takes place in a world where everyone has a “count” which can go up or down depending on your actions in life. Once you hit 0, you will be sent to the abyss. A mysterious world from which nothing hasever returned.
The concept of the count was very interesting to me and the dynamic of the world managed to keep me engaged consistently. On a weekly basis, this was always the show I looked forward to the most simply because I found the mysteries of the show and the characters to be great. The story takes a while to get going, so if you’re someone who likes instant return on investment, you won’t find that here. But, I can promise you that if you stick around, the second half of the show has some fantastic storytelling and development.
For many people, having to wait for a show to “get good” would be a reason to rate it lowly or drop it. For me, I think those lighthearted/fluff moments you get at the beginning of a show take on more weight once a twist or major tonal shift occurs. They allow you to form a connection with characters and emphasise with them during emotional sequences. To that end, I believe the fan-service and light hearted moments during the first part of the show were actually very important to the overall story and added to my enjoyment.
The one are where I feel Plunderer was weak, was animation. The art is really bright and character models are solid. But, during fight scenes, I just didn’t ever notice a real “umph” factor and motion felt bland. For a series with a lot of fights, I would have liked to have seen a little more in that department, but it didn’t hamper my enjoyment too much.
In conclusion, Plunderer is a show that will reward you for sticking with it. It features likeable characters and a genuinely interesting story and world. It was a very enjoyable watch for me that got me reading the manga, and remains one of my favourite anime of the year. Plunderer gets 8 counts out of 10 from me.
Skarvalin
This show is about a guy that likes to roam around He's never in one place, he roam from town to town And when he find himself falling for some girl He turns into a massive creep and start molesting her Cause he's a plunderer, yeah a plunderer! This show was a train-wreck from beginning to end. It started of as a typical generic ecchi show but went on to pretentiously try and disguise itself as more than just a self-insert power fantasy. It expects you to feel invested in the dramatic moments but because it's so amateurishly executed it becomes laughable. I think that if anything this is wherethe enjoyment of this show lies. Characters doing bizarre actions or random plot-conveniences are not rare in this show which made for some entertainment gold. But it doesn't do enough to make up for how poor everything else is.
Plot holes are pretty frequent and a lot of things are left unexplained, some of which were in the manga but not here for some in-explainable reason. The world-building especially was very lacking even though it's focused on a lot. For example in the world of Alcia, everything is ruled by a number/count. The count goes up or down depending on if you succeed or fail a certain task, the higher your count the more powerful you are. Can this task be changed? Are there rules of what you can/can't have as a task? Is it balanced or are some tasks just easier than others? It's a very interesting concept that sadly lack depth and only exist to tell how strong a person is. Instead of focusing on interesting things like this they focus everything on the shitstain that is our protagonist Licht.
Pretty much everything centers around him while leaving no room to expand on the rest of the characters. Leading to a boring cast of shallow individuals that's hard to care about. Most women are there to be sexualized and/or fall in love with his "irresistible" personality and looks. Especially Hina and Lyne, two blockheads that have no will of their own besides Licht's safety and having his children. They had some ambitions in life before meeting Licht, but realized that he is much more important than them. Jail was the only decent character since he at least changed into a man that starts to value people over his duty. It wasn't mind blowing development, but it was something.
Licht himself is the least likable out of them all. He pervs on girls in the open who clearly dislikes it and he never suffer any severe consequences for it. He even molest the daughter of his dead childhood friend. It leaves the impression of an egoistic asshole who doesn't give a damn about others. But he is also shown to have a kind side which clashes with his extremely perverted nature. Leading to his morals being very confusing and made me anything but invested in him.
But was there some visual pleasantries at least? No there's no saving grace here either. The artwork is bland with undetailed backgrounds and unimaginative lighting. Character movement is often stiff and disproportioned which leaves a lot to be desired during the lackluster fight scenes. Of higher value than I expected coming from such a new studio but was as a whole below average.
Good soundtrack and voice acting? Not really. The music is forgettable and falls on deaf ears due to how little weight it's contribution have. The voice acting was also far from extraordinary. I can't blame the actors for it because of the awful script they had to work with. It's a shame because there were some talented actors in this, but it at least made for some stupid over the top dialogue.
So would I recommend Plunderer? While it had some entertainingly bad moments and twist that spiced things up, it's not enough to be worth your time in my eyes. But if you've finished it and enjoyed it for the same reason I did then I can recommend Ousama Game for a similar experience.
MikaelX
RULE #1 A writer of fantasy fiction only has to follow whatever rules he or she makes up for him- or herself. RULE #2 There are no other rules. RULE #3 But you really really *really* need to follow rule #1! ---The creators of this show chose to ignore these rules completely, and that's the reason the result of their efforts belongs in the giant heap of trash anime that provides too little return on the viewer's time investment to be worth watching. The author's just made up shit as they went, and didn't care about following any kind of plot logic. When there is no logic there is no plot to spoil and no suspense to sabotage, so I won't ruin anything for you by giving a simple example:
Someone gets shot right in the chest and is left for dead lying motionless on the ground in a rapidly expanding pool of blood. But no worries, this character will be back up and fighting in a couple of scenes! No explanation is offered.
Not even "magic".
How lazy must an author be to not even bother to pull the "magic" card to excuse the worst plot holes?
That's just one isolated example, the entire show is like that.
Apart from not making a lick of logical sense, this show also has a bad habit of spending a lot of time in "comical" scenes with an ugly blob art style, to save money I guess. These blob scenes aren't the least funny, they're mostly just pervy nonsense that undermines any respect the viewer might have managed to develop for the characters.
I award five stars because all shows I manage to sit through get at least that. But bear in mind that I might not have pulled through if I didn't also practice my guitar while watching it.
ExemplarCayman
Have you ever heard of the concept of Outsider Art? It’s art created by self-taught or naive art makers who are not familiar with the established art culture, including art by the straight-up mentally ill, which leads to their creations being strange or different in ways you wouldn’t normally see. This is what Plunderer feels like. While technically it’s a battle shounen with some comedy and ecchi elements, its real substance is a rolling snowball of plot twists that happen every five minutes and are about as intelligent as wearing pants on your head. You can’t see those plot twists coming by virtue of them beingidiotic, you can’t predict how the characters will develop because their development is insane and you’re not sure what the story is trying to tell you because it has like three speech impediments at once.
Make no mistake though, that does not mean at all that this show is “lol random” or “so bad, it’s good.” “So bad, it’s good” is a garbage concept in the first place. If something truly fails on artistic or technical level, then, no, you can’t enjoy it “ironically.” “Bad show” and “unenjoyable show” are literally the same exact thing, so either it is good or you are larping being ironic. Anyway, plenty of people will tell you that Plunderer is an objectively bad series. I can guarantee you that those same people would think that their favorite generic entry-level shounen or “mature and deep” drama rated 8.50+ on MAL aren’t unwatchable trash - and they’ll be wrong in both cases. Plunderer isn’t a good show, it’s not a smart show, I’d even call it an impaired show, but it’s not impaired mentally. It’s plot is bullshit, but it IS a plot, it checks all the proper storytelling checkboxes. The storyline is cohesive and was clearly planned ahead, with the writer knowing what he is writing and why. The earlier set pieces properly foreshadow later revelations. The later set pieces build upon the previously established concepts. The characters’ development is a legit development - growth they undergo as the result of experiences they lived through. Even the bizarre fanservice eventually has a narrative purpose (to make you feel bad, Emergence-style). The gun that hangs on the wall in the first act might be purple and shaped like a dildo - but it still fires in the third act like it’s supposed to.
To reiterate, this is a show that rescues itself from mediocrity by being unique (obnoxious) enough to notice it. It’s pros are a solid mystery element, decent character designs, and unique ecchi comedy of varying cringe-worthiness. It’s cons are below-average production values and a slow start with the first ~8 episodes that probably should have been 4 episodes instead.
8/10 for “At least it tries.”
eu_tr
Unpopular opinion but here goes. By the whole idea and concept of the world itself in the anime is pretty good yet a lot of it was taken away by really random horny stuff. If someone would cut up those 24 episodes into your usual 12-14 episode anime, it would be way way better. Premise - 8/10 The whole idea of everyone having a "count" which goes up or down depending on your oath to yourself is pretty good. Considering the idea arose from essentially WW3 (Waste Wars), it's a really nice concept. Only and major flaw is that quarter of the anime in it wasn't worked onanymore and became more of a regular fighting comedy.
Art style - 10/10
Character clothing, design, animation style is top notch yet this is still opinion based. Nothing I can add here. For me it was perfect.
Story - 6/10
While the story itself is quite good looking from an idea stand point, execution wasn't that great. The anime focused on Licht too much through out his journey, leaving other character stories with gaps between their character development. It leaves a lot to be desired as I'd happily learn more about Jail, Hina and Nana as they are one of the main characters yet all focus is on Licht. Having the universe set in a modern time jumping back to medival times is a really nice concept but slightly underworked.
Episodes - 4/10
As stated above, if we cut out some moments from the episode where it's too much horny stuff, the episode total would drop by almost half and only then the anime itself would actually be better by a huge margin. As stated, if someone would cut out the unneeded bits and bobs, it would easily be an 8.5/10 anime.
All in all, I think it's worth a watch if you don't mind watching through those random moments. Art style and premise wise make it a recommendation for me.
Pedroooooo
Ahh Plunderer. Something that could've been a very intriguing and interesting story. The first few episodes were somewhat promising. It showed potential, besides the obvious generic tropes it had this mysterious feeling. The main problem ill get into first is the story. Story: 3/10 The reason it's a 3 is simply because the show is trying to add too many spices to the pot. it tries to dabble with too many different things at once. It doesn't understand if it wants to be a mysterious Shonen, power fantasy Isekai, etc. This results in the viewer being confused at times. another thing this does is alter thefeeling of the show, it ruins serious moments one episode going from characters trying to kill each other to the next drinking becoming "best buds". How are people supposed to get attached or into the story if it just seems to not take itself seriously at times.
Characters: 5/10 The characters are just mediocre, while there are some favorable characters, the other ones just cancel it out by being bland or flat out one dimensional.
Music: 7/10 I thought the music was above average honestly it was great at times and it adds so much to some of the scenes and makes them so much better, Although there are sometimes where the music could've been chosen better. Overall it was solid.
Animation: The animation overall was solid. It can be at times kind of bland or generic but at no means is it bad I think it was solid. They played it safe when it came to the animation. The only nitpick I have is when characters eyes are drawn over the characters hair and that is seen many times during the show.
Overall, I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend the show. The reason I finished the show because I just wanted to see how it would end. The show to me isn't bad enough to drop as there are some redeeming qualities and good moments sprinkled in here. I you really wanna get into this story I've heard the manga is better.
Shade667
Classic example of dont judge a book by its cover. I learnt after wise mans grandchild not to judge shows on face value and try them before dismissing them, and i feel sorry for those who dropped Plunderer after the first few episodes. At first glance it seems like a standard ecchi fantasy romp, but the way the show evolves had me shocked. I havnt seen a show that blew away my expectations like this in a long time. Although my expectations werent that high to begin, to be fair. Maybe I'm overhyping it, but I didnt expect to binge 20 episodes in one sitting. Its notperfect, and it can get complicated at certain points but it was an enjoyable ride that kept me guessing til the end.
KakoriG
Plunderer, a anime with intriguing ideias, but poor execution. Where do I start? Lets start at the beginning. Right from the get go you notice something, this anime takes perversion in Shonnen to new heights. I already know what you may be thinking, "But Kakori, you're complaining about Ecchi in a Ecchi anime?", but here's the thing: I don't mind Ecchi. When I say I don't mind ecchi, I really mean it, for me it doesn't make a anime any worse or any better, it's just there. I don't really factor ecchi when choosing what anime to watch, instead I watch whatever feels interesting story-wise. But Plundereris a exception. This is one of the very few occasions where the amount of ecchi and, most importantly, sheer perversion actually annoyed me. Sexual harassment turned into comedy and cheesy ecchi scenes mixed with serious plot moments made me roll my eyes not once, not twice, but many times throughout the anime.
Now, maybe you don't mind ecchi, maybe you even like it, I don't have anything against it. So let me go to my next point: pacing. My god, the pacing. I swear that the plot only starts 7 or 8 episodes in. Plunderer, specially in the first half, is littered with "filler", having entire episodes that could easily be cut barely affecting the plot and it really made me want to drop this anime.
Thankfully I didn't drop it, as the story is actually intriguing, but maybe not because of the reasons you imagine. Starting with episode 8, new plot points are introduced and they are very intriguing, but the initial concepts that made you start to watch the anime in the first place are not very well explored. The counter, which are the selling point of the anime, almost become like energy levels in Dragon Ball Z: they represent power, they keep going up with each new villain and really start to lose importance after a while. A real shame for anyone wanting a "In Time" vibe from Plunderer.
But in the end it was all worth it, right? Well, kinda. The story overall is not bad and I'm actually looking forward to a possible second season, but don't expect anything too exceptional. The problems I mentioned persist throughout the anime, even if to lesser degrees, and the story as a whole could be better. The character relationships are somewhat forced, no pun intended, but I don't usually mind it that much, I've come to accept weirder for the sake of entertainment.
Don't get me wrong, Plunderer sure has its qualities. Intriguing concepts, some deep philosophical questions and even some really funny moments, including some ecchi moments that made me laugh my ass off. Overall, it started bad to worse, but ended up pretty decent, so it was a fair anime. If the story was shortened from 24 episodes to 13 or maybe a few more, with much of the filler cut out, it could have been a 7 or even 8. But the way it is, I'll stick with a not-quite-as-good 6.
IDK_No
Cool concept, Poor execution. The characters seem forced and copied from other anime. OP pervert protagonist done bad and bashful love interest done bad. Character designs are lame and forgettable and anime relies too heavily on dot dot dot long pause comedy moments. not worth your time. I kept forcing myself to watch the next episode telling myself, it gets better but it doesnt. the story seems to go nowhere and when i does, it doent feel satisfying. The art feels boring and I felt like I was watching an anime made in 2015 rather than one made in 2020.
robert788
Plunderer (2020) Well, that was a long show of complete averageness. It started off a bit slow, then moved to a good arc with the military school then went back down again. In the end, we get a show that seemed more focused on filling the plot with ecchi scenes than progressing its plot properly. Ecchi works but in this kind of story-driven storyline, it needs to be developed more. Nothing about the show really screams out as inspiring, which is a shame when you think of the complexity of the world they live in. It is one that is full of mystery and has plentyof opportunities to develop into a great story. It, however, decided to not really focus itself as it went through leaving with some pretty lacking scenes. Even the finale has a final fight that was just dull. Especially when you go with a space that light cannot escape that is dark all around but perfectly lit in the middle.
The art is difficult since it is generally a good standard that has some comedic styling that suits. It is however not very full of life in that I mean it doesn't really jump out as to make you want to focus on it. It is not a bad standard just lacklustre.
The sound comes with an OK OP and ED. Sounds generally could have been a bit better but were pretty alright.
Characters do develop a fair amount but how the development is handled is not the best. In the end, it comes down to coupling up style development.
Hina is a great character as a waifu which is very much to the point as seen in the end.
Sonohara is great but she randomly does things to which are not explained at all that blow continuity out of the window.
Lyne is just a girl in love.
Jail is a great one for his conviction to carry on.
Pele could have been developed much more as there was time.
Saki is the best girl of the show since she is perfect waifu material.
Licht the main character that doesn't really excite you to see.
Nana who is a great character and is deep. Her child look is adorable with the side ponytail.
Everyone else sort of exists for a reason but also remain forgettable, to be honest.
I would say overall the show was nothing compared to expectation and lead to a pretty average at best adaptation. I do not think personally it has done any favours in trying to spark interest in reading on. I imagine it could be renewed since anything goes nowadays. Personally, I am happy if it stays here as the end of its anime.
6/10
otaku_J-san
SOME MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD! Plunderer had this potential to be special with it's concept of numbers, and counts, but somehow it failed to do so, and I don't know how they messed it up so bad, it ended up being this crap shounen fantasy that trying to be dark fantasy but ends up with lots of fan service instead (WTF). I'd give it 5/10 really, but because of the potential it had, I give it 6/10 it's still watchable, but it's so over the place and there is clearly more to the story later on but probably we won't see it animated ever. Story: 7 it had a uniqueconcept and world setting had something to it, but it got butchered later on, with a mix between modern and fantasy settings and introducing time travel and 10 episode in the past plus the rushed pace it got all mixed horribly, and we ended up with what we got, maybe the source material does better with the pace and comes out good but that's for another debate.
Art: 5
for Plunderer which has a lot of OP characters and battles you'd think they'd put more effort into the animation but it's average at best, forget background details, even the main characters look bland, but it had some nice battles even if they were averagely animated
Sound: 5
OST was okay I guess nothing memorable, and voice acting...I don't know , they didn't feel like they were into it that much, even the ''emotional'' scenes fell flat, partly fault on writing tho
Characters: 6
characters were okay but lots of unnecessary background and side characters who didn't do much to the story, and the girls are made for fan service purposes most of the time. MC gets character development that it doesn't feel like character development...however I got to give credit for Jail's character, it got the best treatment out of the bunch.
Enjoyment: 6
it was a weird ride, at times I felt excitement and often times felt let down
can't say I didn't enjoyed it tho, just lots of disappointment but there were some good moments here and there!
Overall: 6
if you care too much about writing, and plot holes then I don't recommend this for you, but if you into fan service, op MC and want a quick fix then you can check Plunderer out.
ChuruChuruPaya
This anime has seems to have an identity crisis, it has no idea if it want to be taken seriously or not. Tries to tell an "adult" story, but with children's logic. The whole world it builds is based on silly concepts that does not make sense. It is like somebody read old conspiration theories and based their worldview on them. The whole logic of the "waste war" is flawed, starting a war to gain enemy resources is one thing and it could make sense, but bombing your enemy with nukes while your objective is to obtain more basic resources (like food)from them is retarded. Resourceswill not magically spawn out of nowhere when you destroy your enemy, you need to take them and transport them back to you. Not to mention if the longterm plan is to feed your population, then your objective is to aquire fertile land, so irradiating it is quite the opposite.
Also famines are always temporary, you either gain enough food to feed people or loose the people that you can not feed.
Also, can you imagine a goverment that would be still capable to wage a war after a year of famine and mass civil unrest? There would be no stable goverments, at all. Bunch of rebellions and civil wars (I know that "warfare is banned", but somehow skirmishes are not (a mob with basic weapons attack a bunch of army cadets is OK)) would be on daily basis. The word coup d'état would define that era.
No-kill army is dumb concept, if guns are involved.
On top of all that, "the numbers that govern the world" are neamingless and serve basically no purpose, not even the purpose of establishing hierarchy like it is explained in first episode and never brought up again. Not even the later explanation for numbers makes sense, at all.
All off this could be ignored, but the anime takes itself too seriosly.
Twists do not make any sense, they are just deus ex machinas, nothing more.
Random tone shifts that make no sense at all.
Characters repeat the same dialogue over and over like they are dumb.
The whole timetravel part is pointless and serverves only as exposition.
There is just too much unfunny random nonsense. This whole anime could be a 2 hour long movie.
The whole world is inconsistent, technologically and logically. Althea is supposedly in mediaval era, yet nobody questions the full color magazines with modern binding. Industrial era town with tall buildings (4-5 floors) with flat roofs and tall chimneys is weirdly out of place, yet nobody bats an eye.
provenom1
its just the most medicore show that couldve been so muh better. numbers decide when u die and you can increase that count by doing something, sounds cool, it also decides your power scaling, is what it tells you throughout the whole thing but then goes and messes it up near to the end. the charcters arnt bad and the concept of this show is amazing, if this was excuted properly it would certainly be higher, the mystry behind the heros was interesting and well done but after that it went downhill. its a kind of fun watch as long as you dont watch the last few eposidesand keep it at that.
decent show, if you wanna kill time and switch your brain off give it a watch
westerny12
When you've seen tons of other anime in the similar genre, Plunderer almost failed entirely to give us something new. This anime was like a mash-up of characters from Seven Deadly Sins and world building from Gate and SukaSuka. Story (6/10): The concept with the living with the rules of numbers and their count reflecting their power capabilities and social standing seemed original and full of potential. If someone came to me and told me that this is what Plunderer was about, then I would be all-in. Sadly, I would be facing disappointment. The anime and how it portrayed its story in the first threeepisodes almost lost me. The plot build-up was so slow and uninteresting at first that if you didn't have the patience or the determination to finish what you started watching then you would drop this anime then and there.
Luckily, despite my disgust with the generic and almost copied character archetypes (I could swear that the main characters in Plunderer have their exact counterparts in Seven Deadly Sins), I decided to sit through it. This anime somehow turned itself around episode 4 and 5 because they dropped a "bomb" to the whole idea of the world building they were doing.
This anime has so many concepts and ideas it's trying to put together. All of which, are remarkably interesting ideas, and if combined right, it would have been so much more than what was presented. The story deepens as you move along but, despite seeing so much of this story, it was more or less predictable.
Art (6/10):
The art was sort of stale. It didn't exactly bring to life the emotions the characters were trying to portray. And in some cases it felt lacking.
Sound (4/10):
The OST was not at all helpful. When I get emotional scenes, I expect music in the background accompanying the scenes to make it more come to life. I got the music but, it just didn't match the scenes they were accompanying.
Character (5/10):
Too generic. I mean I could swear that Licht Bach is Melodias from the first Ep alone with Hina being his Elizabeth. And not to mention the other deadly sins (not all) also have there counterpart in Plunderer. And their motif is also quite similar.
Well the characters in Plunderer are quite developed and I like how it offers room for the viewers to imagine how these characters came to be. But, I think that they could have done that in a much shorter time compared to how much episodes they allocated for it.
You could see that the anime was focusing on character building compared to action sequences. That would have been great if the anime focused on drama and had a good story going for them but, this was not the case.
Enjoyment (6/10):
Overall (5/10):
!!LITTLE SPOILER AND RANT AHEAD!!
This anime would have been good for someone who was just started venturing out into anime. I would probably recommend this for beginners more compared to Sword Art Online (yes, a bit of shade there).
But as someone who has seen so much of these archetypes, I could say that Plunderer's most redeeming factor was its concept with numbers but along the way, these numbers seemed to get irrelevant. Sure in the first few fights, you get the idea that how much his count is, that's how strong he is. Then later on, you get fights wherein someone with close to a zero count beat someone with utter plot convenience and conviction?! It just gave me the idea that the numbers that they worked so hard to introduce to us just became obsolete in the long run.
I rest my case. Watch this if you're new. If you're a veteran weeb, watch this if you have some time to spare.
ReddKz
Introduction: WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS SHOW ITS ABSOLUTE S**T. This show is actually bad I don't understand how anyone can actually like this its boring the animation is bad the characters are shit just how the FUCK did this get an anime adaptation. It has NOTHING going for it - maybe that’s why it got a no-name studio with subpar animation. It’s not a surprise that this show has a 5/10 score on Ani List. This is a long intro let's get into the other sections. The Pros: Did you read the intro? THERE IS NONE !! Ok maybe one (NSFW)The Cons:
Animation:
Not much to say here its shit - how the fuck am i going to get this review over the characters count… shit. Well the studio that animated this season is called “Geek Toys” - what type of sex brand is this - and they have animated such INSTANT CLASSICS such as “Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka?” or “Hensuki: Are you willing to fall in love with a pervert, as long as she’s a cutie?”. Do I even need to say anything? Really
However, it does have one good-ish scene
Pacing:
The pacing is ok. Like everything else in this anime, its completely mediocre or worse. Flashback arc was ok on pacing. However, everything past this arc felt very rushed and un satisfying literally nothing to say here it gets a 5/10 on the pacing score. COMPLETELY average
Characters:
Oh, my this is going to be fun because I HATE all of these characters. They are so unlikeable its almost funny - only characters I like is Nana (the dark-skinned girl with the Pseudo Brother Complex.. and a BIG personality)
Licht:
His whole characters is that he was a pervert and had a MASSIVE transformation in to an edgy pervert. This anime tries so hard to make Licht a badass but he’s just a generic edgy character with not much to him. He is unlikable and the flash back arc doesn’t make him any more likeable either. AND ESPECIALLY HIM HAVING A SEXUAL RELTIONSHIP WITH HIS FUCKING NIESE. WHAT THE FUCK JAPAN?!?!?!??!?!?!?
Hina:
She has no likeable straits she’s the MC, she’s a little pretty and she tried to rape Licht. You read that right it happened but we just gone gloss other that I guess .I don’t even want to talk about this bitch no more. Thinking about her is bringing flashbacks of her shouting
“LICHT-SAN” and making me want to commit not alive.
Jail Murdoch:
He’s a sort off edgy virgin whose the silent type and lawful… I think.. He doesn’t really have much of a characters BUT he did have the one funny bath house scene and that’s his whole character. He also has MAD daddy issues.
Lynne:
She is just fanservice , that’s all she always in lewd situations and she can’t fight so you already know she only got one purpose in the story… that’s… P L O T
(NSFW)
Somethings rising and it’s not the shield hero
This is not funny next character
Nana:
She’s dark skin and hot. Done with the characters now the music
Music:
Music is subjective but I think that this soundtrack is average the opening and ending I don't like it VERY mediocre
Conclusion:
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT WATCH THIS IT WILL DRIVE YOU INSANE
Euphemius
The problem with Plunderer is its fanservice. Or better, the way it uses fanservice. I have nothing against it when it's taken lightly, but here it goes way beyond the simple "let's show boobs and asses for our male audience". Here there are scenes of harassment and groping that are treated like it's a normal thing to do. I mean, come on. That's gross. Now that we have taken this out of the way, let's talk about the anime. Which is a pretty average work of fiction, with some interesting ideas and some pretty bad moments. Plunderer is a fantasy anime set in the world of Alcia, whereeverything is decided by a count carved in your skin. The higher it is, the stronger you are, and when it goes down to 0, you fall into the abyss. What is the abyss? No one knows. The counts are different from person to person: some counts the kilometers they walk, some the people they satisfy, and so on.
The protagonist, Hina, is a girl whose mother was taken into the abyss. Before this could happen, she asked her daughter to find "The Ace", who would have somehow helped her.
Plunderer has many ideas (the count, for example, and also the mistery surrounding Alcia and its history) that are pretty good. Many times, along the series, I told myself "wow, I wasn't expecting that". There are a lot of plot twists and arcs that are very well conceived.
However, this is also from where most of the problems of the series come from. To reach the second arc of the series, for example, a certain female character does something that makes you ask "Ok, so why she hasn't done that before? Why hasn't she used that power to save that character, or to beat that enemy?"
Many characters have interesting backstories, but their characterization is very bland and formulaic, with only two characters that I can actually say I liked a lot. And that are also the reason I wait the second season.
Also, it has a bizarre pace.
You need to wait 8 episodes before the series actually starts, and after that, you also get an episode of, well, fanservice.
Yes, fanservice is all over the place, and it even becomes a part of the plot at a certain point. Kill La Kill taught us a lot.
On a technical level, there isn't much to say. Art and animation are pretty average, with the final fight of the series being however well directed, and the soundtrack has some good tunes that I found quite original.
In the end, Plunderer is not that bad as many of the reviews make it look like, but is certainly not that good either. If you need some fantasy anime to watch, between Fairy Tail and Seven Deadly Sins, or maybe something very simple and funny to pass some time, it may be for you.
