So I decided to spend my time today looking at old animes I've downloaded and I came across this. My initial thought was when did I download this and how could I have forgotten such a show. I checked when it came out and I realized, with it's debut on January 9 2020 and with the more heated anime that came out that year like Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon slayer, a gold in the rough like this was practically overlooked. Plunderer is an anime that shows how a war hero became traumatized and deals with such trauma. Although it sounds sad, the anime doesn't really show it with every episode being comic and action packed one might not even notice the sad parts.

Plot

The story begins with a young Hina receiving a ballot from her mother before she fell to the abyss. Her mother told her to go find the legendary Ace. Hina travelled all round looking for said Ace before she went to a town and met Licht Bach and Nana.

The ballots are 7 mysterious balls that fell down from the sky unto earth. They give their Holders unimaginable power by casting a vote and they're the main items of conflict in the anime. 300 years ago the other countries used the ballots to cast a vote by majority decision to start the waste wars. Japan was not made aware of such decision so they were targeted. Japan was able to defend themselves by making the Aces who became heroes in this war. The instructors of the 13th General Military Forces School instructed the Aces to collect all 7 ballots. With all the ballots they made a continent 3000 feet in the air by unanimous vote and named it Alcia. In this continent they plundered all the resources from the world below, food, water and other mineral resources knowing without fuel their continent would never be threatened by aircraft.

This animes power systems is based on numbers otherwise known as Counts. Count's are things given to you at your birth and it describes the things you'll count until you die. It could be something as grand as how many times you achieved your dream or as menial as how many times someone told you your food was delicious. Determined by the positive or the negative aspect of such declarations your counts increases or decreases. It was shown in Episode 6 that a person is born with a predetermined amount of counts, for Pelmo claimed she was given birth to with 10. Subsequently when your count reaches zero you go to the Abyss.

Characters

Hina Hina is the female protagonist of this series. Her bright blue her and her petite stature makes the show a lot more spicy.

When she first came she didn't know a lot about the world which I found a bit weird. She has walked at least 40,000 kilometers in her search for the Legendary Ace although coincidentally her count is the distance she walks so it goes in her favor.

Licht Bach Licht Bach also known as the Ace of Flashing strikes is the main character of the show. He was a hero in the waste wars, he is also the male protagonist of this anime, bringing the comedic streak with his pervy antics one of such was when he first met Hina lamenting on how he lost money going to an adult store and deviated the conversation incredibly to wanting to look up her panties causing him to get beat up by Nana.

He is known for wearing outrageous masks and it adds more comedy to the film although his face is quite handsome. Although being incredibly pervy and comic he is also serious when the situation calls it. That being shown when Hina was taken by a perverted officer claiming to be an Ace to sleep with misguided girls.

Sadly he left Hina on the pretense of stealing her ballot to keep her safe and went to a village on a cliff called Homhough where he met May Lynn, Jail and Pele. He has 2 counts; one on his hand that counts the amount of girls that have fallen in love with him the current count is at -1002. It's in the negative meaning the amount of girls that had rejected him is in -1002. Then another on his sword which stands for the amount of enemies he has killed for his friends and it is at 5700.

Nana Nana is the Ace of knowledge. She is a busty woman with silver hair and purple eyes. Her count is based on the amount of people that says her cooking is delicious. She is actually the first Ace to be made. She has the ability to travel in time and send people back in time. I don't know what her second count is counting though it seems to be linked directly with her power as it reduces when she sends people into the past. She has been with Licht since he deserted the military.

May Lynn May Lynn is a busty officer that was in charge of Homhough, but with the lack of crime in the village she decided to indulge her time in volunteer work with her count involving the amount of times she helped someone this was a good plan for her to get promoted. She is a bit clumsy and to me is the perfect waifu for Licht. She has a strong hatred for miniskirts as she said usually and she claims her dream is to make it to the rank of First Lieutenant and be able to freely alter her uniform.

Pele Pele is her sergeant but not all is known about him for he acts stupid yet appears to be way more smarter than Lynn. He specializes in Information gathering and medicals as he showed in the time travel arc, also knowing a bit in hand to hand combat not taught in Alcia military school. His count isn't known. One thing is known is that he supports Lynn and stands by her side. Although it's my personal opinion, I think he likes her

Jail Murdoch 5 Jail is an officer of the rank First Lieutenant who was chasing Licht. After questioning Nana and Hina he manages to discern that he went west and he follows until he reached Homhough

Reaching Homhough he and Licht were engaged in a battle, but Licht didn't take him seriously and didn't use his full power which infuriated Jail. When Jail confronted him about this Licht simply answered he didn't use his full power because Lynn said she didn't want to destroy the village. Licht then increased his speed and power to match Jail's own and later beat him, but in the process they took a good chunk out of the hill and Lynn was on that chunk. Falling to her supposed death Jail tried to save her, but Licht moved faster than he could. Licht caught Lynn and threw her to him. Jail was angry that Licht didn't face him seriously again but before he could do anything about it, Licht was already gone.

Jail's count is based on his convictions and being a high ranking official of the military he has a replica ballot which gives him his iron controlling powers. The amount of convictions made true. When he made his anime debut he had a count of 12500, but after being affiliated with Licht it dropped to 12498 then after a star stake with General Alexander Grigovitch for the head of the military he is left with a count of 1.

This is an anime that I find really close to my heart and my mind. The characters are so relatable and their growth throughout the series was well thought out. Even though it is a new generation anime the comedic scenes takes me back to the days of watching Rurouni Kenshin with my sister 🤧. The anime really tried in the blending of the story, the comedy, action and erotic parts really matches each other and nothing was too much if you get what I mean😂. All in all I think it's a pretty good animation project. The only flaw I saw was with their eyes showing through their hair although it was quite distracting other things are alright. I'll give the anime a 8/10 rating The anime has 1 season with a span of 24 episodes and I can assure you that each episode is more interesting and more addictive than the last. If you haven't watched Plunderer i really recommend it. If you've read to the end I just want to say thank you. I really tried to cut things out😂❤️

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All images were screenshots of the main anime