Plunderer

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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Bach, Licht Main

Nakajima, Yoshiki Japanese

Murdoch, Jail Main

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Hina Main

Honizumi, Rina Japanese

Poporo, Pele Main

Ichikawa, Aoi Japanese

Mei, Lyne Main

Ozawa, Ari Japanese

Nana Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Bach, Shumerman Supporting

Seki, Toshihiko Japanese

Sakai, Tokikaze Supporting

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Sonohara, Mizuka Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Grigorovich, Alexandrov Supporting

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Ogura, Rie Producer

Arimizu, Soujirou Producer

Matsumoto, Hideaki Producer

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Dec 8, 2024

Radracer1976

Recommended

Like so many of the majority of Anime series that get overlooked and finally lost to obscurity, this series albeit sizeable for 1 season, should have definitely lasted AT LEAST 1 to 2 more seasons!

Plenty of source material, an AWESOME storyline arc, and a great cast lineup of memorable, loveable, and unlikeable characters. I love how each episode had me glued to the remote, ready at any second to hit next or enter when asked if I wanted to bypass the credits and move on to the next episode or skip the intro music. I love to keep the party going nonstop with ... no breaks. Many a bladder pains can attest to my refusal to pry my eyes away from the screen lol.

Anyway, even though it's been an extremely long time since the series aired season finale, many other pandemic time framed series have been making a comeback and all of us loyal watchers/readers are still around and ready to get back in the saddle for season 2.

So let'er rip!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 5, 2024

Ulldra

Mixed Feelings

Plunderer is a show that is held back by tremendous amounts of what people could call "fanservice", especially in the first half of the show. It's that, but it's also just full of straight up sexual harassment as a "joke" or fanservice - our male MC is straight up harassing and touching women against their will. To me, the way this show portraits that as a running gag is honestly really embarassing. I know that for some reason this is a common trope in some shows, but it is so much worse here because at its core Plunderer has a really imaginative story to follow.

... If Plunderer got rid of a select few deus ex machina moments during its run and would have scrapped about 90% of this "fanservice" stuff and instead focused on exploring its themes more, it would have been a lot better to me and could well have been one of the best shows of the last 10 years. It would be a very different show for that matter, so I can only say that better or best is obviously subjective here.

Regarding the story itself, I really enjoyed some of the ideas it was trying to explore. The world is interesting, there are multiple plot points that are really worth exploring and honestly it's feeling like a fresh concept while exploring a lot of genre tropes at the same time. Some characters feel not quite fleshed out, same goes for some story points - if the time spent on random sexual harassment could have been used for this purpose I think it would remedy a lot of the flaws this show has.

Usually, a show like this would rank at about 5 for me. I would not give it too much thought and just move on. But Plunderers world IS compelling to me. The story intrigues me, no matter how flawed its execution is. It makes me look past all of the botched fanservice and this potential is what elevates the show to a 7 to me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 6, 2023

MikaelX

Not Recommended

Funny

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!

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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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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