Plunderer

I'm not really sure what to say about Plunderer. While it's premise surely is very different, and the ecchi themes aren't over the top that make you turn away, and the art style is well detailed and colourful. But it's slow pacing at the start can really be a bit of a turn off early doors, but I will say the latest episodes have been smash hits.

We're introduced into a collect bunch of characters over time. From a traveling sweet girl who wants to fulfill her mother's dying wishes. To a confident bar owner, to the wacky and weird legendary ace himself. Fair to say ... they have a great mesh of entertaining characters for sure.

Like I stated earlier, the art style for this show really is colourful. Where it be the characters outfits themselves. Or certain parts of the show, like backgrounds, powers, and all sorts. Really nicely done. While the sound fits the scenes as per normal.

The story is what really made me want to watch this show. As the idea of numbers that determine your fate is a really interesting concept. Proven more so within the show. With how sometimes these numbers can increase. Makes you wonder how other counts go up.

All in all, Plunderer has a bit of a slow start, but it gets better as it goes along. A neat anime that I'm gonna continue watching, and you should give it a go too!

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 being ... idiotic, 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.”

To be honest with you, I thought that Plunderer was really bad. That was mainly because of the super generic characters and the very basic looking world design.

Story 5/10:
To be fair, Plunderer has quite a unique premise, which is btw. the only reason why I kept watching it at the time. To put it shortly, everything is ruled by numbers, the higher your count is the stronger you are. A little bit later into the series, there is quite an interesting plot twist which made the show much more enjoyable in my opinion. For spoiler reasons I won't say what happened.

Art 7/10:
Plunderer's art style is ... pretty standart, but not bad in any way. The animations are smooth and the linework is pretty good aswell. The only minor issue i had was the bad CGI, but it only is a minor issue because it only appears very shortly in only a handfull of episodes.

Sound 7/10:
Just as the Art, the soundeffects in this show are decent but far from great. The background music also isn't very noticable but still not bad, it just isn't any banger that you would listen too in your freetime.

Characters 4/10:
Honestly the biggest issue that I have with plunderer is that it's characters do have some character traits, but these just get really annoying after a short period of time. For example the protagonist Licht or often refered to as "Pudding" is a big pervert that likes himself some booty, but the show is just overdoing this and almost every other trait shown throughout the series, which makes most of the characters really annoying.

Enjoyment 6/10:
I really had to force myself to continue watching this, but the main plot twist really got me interested in terms of how the story would play out or how certain characters would develop after the twist. This show really needs like 10 episodes to get going, but it really hooked me afterwards.

Overall 6/10:
If you don't have a high minimum estimated quality bar, you surely will find some sort of enjoyment in Plunderer. It certainly is not a good show but still worth watching, especially after said plot twist kicks in and flips everything upside down. Plunderer just really is a total mess at the beginning but slowly unfolds into a more complex story while the characters turn from annoying twat's into quite loveable people.

Honestly, I thought about giving up on this series but now i am glad i did not. The start is your typical ecchi anime, with pervert MC and a lot of cliche moments like beating the MC for doing perverted things. Though in the first 8 eps it had a few moments that were good but that was shadowed by the awful pacing and overall "cutesy" feel of the story. But as soon as ep 9 came around the story went from 3/10 to 8/10 in terms of what the actual f**k was going on. SO if you are considering starting or dropping this series, ... watch till ep 9/10. Then decide what to do next.

Edit: So it goes downhill in the latter episodes. So much so that the last episodes are a joke to watch. The series went from 5/10 to 8/10 to again in the end 5/10. And I am going easy on it

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 the ... feeling 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.

(short review) many were hyped about this anime and honestly it couldve been so much more in the hands of a good studio.... basically one must read the manga to enjoy plunderer

STORY:- [7/10] i am all for slice of life ecchi stories but you cant just switch from SOL to full fledged action without setting a premise but i will admit that the story is pretty good when i reaches its peak (especially the manga).
SOUND;-[1/10] for god s sake GEEK TOYS why would you use hollywood style orchestra (that is anyway too bizzare and out of place when present)in a japanese anime? the sound ... is bad like real bad i almost dropped it for this very reason the voice acting is probably average at best you cant tell the difference MC rage mode and MC slice of life mode.
CHARACTERS:-[6/10] the chars are boring and uninteresting the only reason i give it a 6/10 is because they atleast got the ecchi parts spot on and i still believe this may be a good show if only you consider the ecchi elements but that again is niche preference of genre and many are actually put off by it.
ART and ANIMATION:-[8/10] plunderer did rather well considering it was a anime with non existent budget and unknown studio the animation was satisfactory and the fights were mildly amusing if you can ignore the few nitbits like the fights itself being not very original and using the basic hack and slash and shoot and a couple of martial arts thrown around, the environment destruction seems a bit over the top too. the characters had a design that looked very similar to fairy tail for some reason and no complaints there
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honestly its not a bad anime its watchable if you can ignore the horrible ost and can appreciate its unique plot twists (although not well explained).

My first opinion about this anime was that it tends to be an ecchi/comedy anime, but they thought that this anime needs action, what I personally think about that is that it ruined the comedy-athmosphere which I liked at the beginning of this anime. And the characters act clichéd, the most the girls, it is very annoying. Also the way how lynn is calling licht "pudding" is exaggerated.
Also the story construction is poor, for example the system with the counter, it haves so many logic mistakes.
But it could be worse, so look forward and hope for some improvement.

I think that the boob sizes in this ... anime are not equal to each other what found interresting.

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

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, where ... everything 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.

Plunderer for me became a very confusing show at first (well I mean I still at this point find it mostly confusing and bit of a miss and run kind of show).

Honestly I think Plunderer had great potential to become an anime that was in between mainstream and underground, the kind of anime that you would hear people whisper about here and there but also not so much because they wanted to keep this anime underground because it was such a great anime that they didn't want to get ruined by the "mainstream vibe".

It was just such a disappointment to see it not become what ... it could have been.

Let's start with the story line first, which I think was one of the stronger aspect, I mean having numbers to define your life span whether it's walking distance, how many criminals you've arrested, or how many people you've helped is such a unique concept, with the fact that if you reach 0 you'll be sent into the abyss. For me the story was a solid 9/10, but the only thing that bothered me - which will most likely tie in with the characters- was how the story was told.

The creator (author of the manga) rushed way to quickly into the story and even disregarded a few character development, like i said before because the story concept is so great I feel that the creator could have left some blank spaces to create some massive and amazing character arcs.

Yes there are some fast paced anime out there, but for this kind of story I feel that Plunderer needed that type of story telling that needed to be dragged out or prolonged a bit to create meaningful character progress and build close relationships. The characters in this story seem hollow and to easy to understand and some are are just too generic, they needed to be an underline so they had more room for emotion and pain.

The execution in my opinion was done completely wrong. I also did the mistake of reading the manga thinking it was going to be better and i thought maybe it's just the anime that was bad, but it seems the manga is even worse, because I noticed the subtle changes the anime did to the manga, like how the two characters meet or adding in a few scenes to make it last longer, which I can say did a good job on, and maybe that's why I realized after having watching the anime and reading the manga that I though maybe the anime could have made the manga better but no they just cancel each other out.

I can make so many other points on how bad this anime is it's still going to be my "trash" show unfortunately, which is the really sad part because even though it's crap I'm most likely going to finish the anime and come back with even more criticism lol.

Overall score: 4.7/10

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 Plunderer ... is 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.

As I've heard from some people who read the manga , The manga is much more different than the anime in a good way but the anime itself unfortunately wasn't good . It's actually sad that the studio wasted this story's potential , the story is really good and has a lot of potential for improvement it could be a masterpiece if it's written well and with care but sadly enough it wasn't .

The anime didn't really focus on the story and was making characters goof around for maybe more than half of the anime's episodes . There's nothing that makes the characters unique which ... makes them always repeat the same things over and over again . The anime focused on the relationships between the characters in the anime more than it did focus on the story . In addition , the events were also really slow at times because as I said the characters were goofing around too much for no reason , there were a lot of episodes that had no meaning for real which is why the pacing of the anime is slow and it wastes the potential of the story and also for the characters .


The characters background were cliched ( Can't help it sometimes ) but they were understandable and it was good to see improvements in the second half of the anime ( barely tho ) .


The OSTS and the themes were great . The OSTS were used perfectly in some scenes in the anime . Although , The anime did have a decent amount of fights but they were poorly made . The animation sadly was not good and there were not enough movements and moves as it's to be expected . The power system is great but then again as I said before , this also is wasted potential , they could've made the fights much better in many ways but almost all of the fights were not satisfying at all ( except maybe one fight ) .


In conclusion , It's really sad to see such potential wasted like that because of the studio or maybe because of the author himself ( don't know that for sure but it's really sad if that's the case ) . I did enjoy the atmosphere of the anime and some of the fights but the feeling of unsatisfactory was overwhelming and it made the anime sadly boring and not worth the time to watch it . Hope this was helpful in any way .

The story is nothing incredible that makes you think "wow how can the guy have this idea?" but it is enough to spend some time. What really bothers me is all the unnecessary fanservice and at times that are supposed to be serious or sad. The whole joke of "she's wearing a short skirt because she wants people to see her panties" and the sexual harassment is just disgusting, and sometimes make it so close of a hentai. And what was that at the end of episode 17 when Hina put Rihito's hand in her breast and gave that serious speech? Should this be ... an heart touching scene?
and then floating and saying goodbye without a shirt. WTF? It was one of the most ridiculous scenes I've seen in all the anime I've watched. LOL

The short end of summarising this show is that Plunderer is an absolute mess of a narrative. A mysterious, magical, alien force called "Allthing" that governs contemporary society, time travel, "Ace" abilities that cover forces like speed, explosions, gravity, pursuit (etc), this show packs in just about every potential concept it can and it's all too much. The show is saturated with events and abilities and antagonists. Even the theme of the show can't decide whether it's really serious (moral dilemma's), shallow (MC with plot armour winning world wars without killing a single person) or a comedy that doesn't take itself seriously (The numerous cases ... of slap stick inserted at seemingly arbitrary points).

I watched until the end, begrudgingly, because one of the shows few redeeming qualities were some of the character designs; and the fact that there were just so many mysteries presented at the beginning i felt like i needed to understand at least part of the show for some sense of closure.

Normally this is where i'd point out the 1 or 2 plot holes and/or where the show could have improved its consistency or whether certain characters were believable or not, but i feel like there'd be no end to it. It's hard to even know whether the show was supposed to be satirical or not because the main character is so outrageously strong and full of cliché's there's almost a sense of meta or self-awareness, but it doesn't ever cash in on that absurdism. Only adding to the overall wishy-washy nature of the show.

The Shounen style fights aren't bad, bar a few examples the character designs aren't terrible either. But the show has terrible pacing, rollercoasters through serious concepts and comedy from moment to moment, tries to incorporate too many "cool" concepts and fails to draw you in through the scattershot application of those ideas and by the end, although 90% of the whacky universe is finally explained why it is the way that it is, there's still no closure on the actual story.

I finished the show out of sheer stubbornness on my part so honestly you're better off just not starting it at all because you'll have too many questions throughout the whole thing and have to sit through such mediocrity to find the answers.

*I will try my best not to include spoilers, if I spil any by mistakes, my apologises*

Okay, so I have only watched 6 episodes of Plunderer so far and I have never read the manga(I actually don't read manga at all).

Story - To me the way the anime had started building up the story it just caught my attention straight away. This whole concept of numbers and ballots is actually new (at least to me, I haven't seen another anime that uses something similar to this) and brings a lot of interesting new ideas, even though it starts strong from what I have watched so ... far the story just goes stray, it doesn't follow a path but rather Licht messing around places and fighting one person now and then showing bits and bits of how strong he actually is.

Art - Really, I mean Art here I think is just the strongest point, it's just really beautiful. Big up the studio!

Sound - Uh, I can't even remember the music from it and last time I watched an episode was a week ago, that's how bad I think it is.

Character - I just think the character development is too slow, it gives only small amounts of information about the background of the characters.

Enjoyment - The only time I enjoy watching an anime is when I go 'Oh I wonder what happens next?', 'Can't wait to see the next episode that's airing' and so on. For this one though, I was hooked on the first episode but was kinda let down later on. Anyway, the anime still has a lot more episodes to go so there is a high chance I might change my view on it.

Overall - 6.. I believe that people should still watch this, even though I've personally given it a low score (It's my own opinion, others might think it deserver worse and others might think it's a masterpiece) but the anime just gives the vibe that it will surprise us in the future and that it's got a hidden potential.

Anyway, good luck bs. !

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 three ... episodes 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.

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 eposides ... and keep it at that.

decent show, if you wanna kill time and switch your brain off give it a watch

tl;dr: An anime that starts off enjoyably light hearted and simple, but becomes a convoluted mess trying too hard to have depth.

Firstly, I’d like to state that I in general do like Minazuki Suu works and downright loved Sora no Otoshimono, so I have no problem with there being a perverted protagonist or random and major shifts from serious to comedic. Now, I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt and just assume that the anime adapted the manga terribly, but to put it simply this anime is nothing like his other works and does a pretty bad job at pretty much everything.

The ... anime starts off kind of feeling mostly like his other works. There are definitely some hints about there being some pretty dark things going on and that a serious story is going to pop up eventually, but it’s for the time being it’s just pretty light hearted with a very strong emphasis on comedy above all, with a heavy portion of that being related to the protagonist’s pervy antics. It introduces a lot of the main characters and begins some world building, though with most of the world building leading to more questions than answers. It feels somewhat slow at times, but it’s a pretty fun ride.

This stage lasts for the first third or so of the anime, after which it changes dramatically, and its all downhill from there. It suddenly gets extremely dark in what felt like a major shift. As mentioned, other works by the original author also have major shifts like this, but they’re usually more reversible, having long lasting impacts on character development and such, but otherwise returning to the standard light hearted tone with the overall status quo only improving. This story is completely different. Once it starts going down that path, it changes completely, and though it does try to return to the light hearted tone at times, it just doesn’t work because it’s impossible to just ignore the dark elements of the plot that persist.

Unlike the original author’s other works which seems to focus on characters over plot, this seems to have a much larger emphasis on the plot itself. Unfortunately, the plot just isn’t strong enough to support the anime. There are a lot of long term plot threads, lots of things left mysterious only to be revealed later, and lots of elements that end up seeming unimportant but become much more important later on. However, it feels like all of these are being made up on the spot. The explanation behind most plot elements feel incredibly forced, in that it has to try to write around a bunch of other stuff that contradicts it, and even then it still feels like there’s an abundance of gaping plot holes. Especially when it comes to anything involving the out of nowhere but incredibly important time travel arc which ended up having a large amount of straight up infodumping. It’s a complete and utter mess that feels like it’s changing direction constantly, and thus even if you’re willing to look past the inconsistencies, it’s hard to get into the plot enough to properly get invested in it and really want to know what happens next, which considering this is a plot focused anime is simply a critical flaw. I would also normally talk about the pacing here, but everything just seems so messy that I have no idea how to even begin to judge it. I will say that the pacing on action in the second half became pretty bad with some battles being over instantly, and others like the final battle feel like they were dragging on forever.

The random plot also seems to screw things up with characters. It doesn’t feel like there’s any definitive vision of what the characters are supposed to be. Characters grow and change over stories of course, but here it just feels like the story didn’t really know what it wanted to do with characters and just gave them random roles, but then that didn’t work with where the story eventually needed to go, so the characters were turned into something completely different, but because the plot kept changing a lot the characters in turn end up changing a lot to. There’s no real sense of progression. Just character’s behaving really randomly and often what feels like absurdly. The end result is really inconsistent characterization, which combined with the fact that it feels like the plot itself treats most of the cast like garbage, makes it really difficult to get all that invested in any of the cast. This is especially prominent in the romance. Romance is actually a focus in this anime, and things actually make major progress over the course of the anime. But it isn’t satisfying at all because it doesn’t feel well built up to at all. I feel like this was originally going to be a harem series, but the plot changed halfway through, and instead became a normal romance where relationship drama is actually important and there are a bunch of different intertangled relationships developing which really did not flow well at all, and on top of that the anime is terrible at pretty much all relationship drama with essentially all of it being cringeworthily bad, and that’s coming from someone that has a really low bar when it comes to stuff like that.

The art and animation were disappointing. The character designs and general art style are decent enough, but the art and animation were incredibly subdued and general not very nice to look at, and at times it felt like they were intentionally going out of there way to be so which makes no sense. The action also looked pretty bad at times. The soundtrack wasn’t particularly memorable but I suppose was decent enough. The first OP was somewhat interesting in how it changed in terms of visuals, but otherwise was only decent in terms of song and visuals. The second OP and both EDs were similarly decent in terms of both audio and visuals, but not particularly memorable.

Plunderer

Buena idea, mala ejecución y peores personajes

Buena idea porque uno tarda en entender de qué tipo de mundo es en el que se desarrolla la historia. Al final resulta ser un mundo post apocalíptico. Plunderer tiene una historia que en principio resulta difícil de prever los giros que va a dar la historia. En principio parece una historia del típico protagonista badass que va de pueblo en pueblo enamorando chicas y siendo un maldito pervertido, ahí un punto que ni me agrado del todo, las burdas excusas que da este anime para que cada rato el protagonista ande viéndole la ropa interior a las ... chicas, para colmo conforme avanza la historia pasamos de que el prota sea un acosador a que la main heroine le pida sus favores .....y he ahí lo malo de este anime, sus personajes....si bien la trama y el elemento militar atrae .....el ecchi se manifiesta de una forma muy burda y directa que no causa gran gracia y se siente solamente como un elemento para mantener atraído al espectador y seguir viendo la historia

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 plenty ... of 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