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Year: 2020
Genre: Action, Ecchi, Fantasy, Shounen
Episodes: 24
Rating: 2 out of 5
What if you lived in a world dominated by numbers? I am not talking about the money in your bank account, the stock market, or even the mileage on your car. What if your life was dominated by a specific task you had to do to survive? The number you had was a special count related to an important aspect of your life. The only problem is that if the number hits zero, then you would be dragged into the abyss and be dead for all eternity. That is a pretty crazy way to live in the world. I wonder what my count would be. Maybe how many miles I run or something crazy.
Plunderer is an anime where a human existent is set by a count that shows an important aspect of their lives. It starts off with a young woman looking for a legendary warrior who is over 300 years old, which is impossible in the world. As the young lady looks for the legendary warrior, she soon realizes that the people she meets are not who they seem.
Overview:
In a post-apocalyptic world, numbers dominate the very existence of a person’s life. Every person in the world is measured by a special “Count” imprinted somewhere on their body. The number is related to an important aspect of their lives. If this “Count” hits zero, the person will be dragged into the abyss and declared dead for all eternity.
The story starts off with a young girl named Hina, whose count corresponds to how many hundreds of kilometers she has walked. Hina’s journey begins when she watched her mother being dragged into the abyss. Her mother gave her a distinct, black ball and told her to find the Legendary Ace. After five long years of walking and searching, Hina’s journey takes an unexpected turn when she runs into a strange, masked knight known as Licht Bach with a negative-numbered Count. Soon Hina learns that Licht is the person she is looking for.
Review:
Plunderer has a very interesting concept with numbers ruling a person’s life along with showing how much worth they have in the world. Apparently, the higher the number, the stronger the person is. The one downside is that if your number hits zero, then they will die in the abyss. The premise was good. Even getting the anime started was a little meh with a young girl looking for a legendary person because her mom died in the abyss. She even finds the person she was looking for even though he ran off and didn’t return for a few episodes with the girl again.
The biggest problem with this anime is that you don’t know what is going on after like ten episodes. One minute you think it is in medieval times because people ride around in carts or on horses. Then the next minute, you see a freakin helicopter shows up out of nowhere, but only two characters have a remote idea of what is going on. As we watch, we learn that several of the characters like Licht Bach are over 300-years-old and that they were part of some experiment that gave them powers.
Now the anime to me actually got really good when the characters went back in the past to “save” or change the history of Licht Bach before he became this killing machine. We see that his mentor was some Nazi-like uniform man named Schmerman Bach, who is apparently so strong that his killing intent alone makes people stand down. That Licht started off as a kind nature person who didn’t want to kill anyone until he was tricked into doing it. Also, a person can have two numbers as Licht does, and the number on his sword is the number of people he killed.
This anime could’ve been twenty times better if it didn’t spend so much time trying to figure out what direction it wanted to go. I wish it started off with the mentor and Licht’s younger years before anything else. The only time we really get to know the evil dude is when he is giving some crazy version of the tortoise and the hare. I would like to see a season 2 to see if they can make this anime decent.
In terms of character development and the characters, it does a pretty good job. Some characters you really don’t know much about until halfway through the anime. For example, with Licht Bach, he comes off as a pervert because of his count, but in reality, he is the second strongest, but this character’s background is depressing. How his dream was to have a war that no one died. When the time came, he had to kill someone that sent him into a 300-year depression. Then with the girl named Hina, who was looking for Licht, is actually Licht’s adoptive niece and falls in love with him, which is a tad bit strange. It was all over the place with people, and many of them are dead from war or killed by Licht.
The animation of this anime is almost not even worth talking about. It is the traditional animation you see without any substance or wow factor. Even when people power-up, it’s like a rip-off version of a Dragon Ball Z character. Once again, it could have been a lot better.
Overall, this anime has the potential to be decent. It is one of those anime that messed up its whole story with awful direction and character development. You can watch this anime just because it has some decent thrills and excitement. Hopefully, if there is a season 2, then it can improve drastically.
