Comedy
Peacemaker
Peacemaker is to superhero as ringworm is to earthworm. It might seem like these two things are related based on their names, but they aren’t.
All Gear has ever known is life within the City.
You see, there was a time when civilization was on the verge of collapse. The City survived, but war turned the land outside its walls into a wasteland scarce of life. People like Gear, who grew up in an orphanage, are hired to go outside the walls to collect resources the City can use as fuel. It’s a dangerous job: Gear has to wear a special mask to protect him from the toxic atmosphere of the wasteland. But Gear wonders if there might be life outside the City.
When Gear was a child, a news report blared across the orphanage’s TV. A man who went by the racer name “Road” had just completed the biggest heist of the century, stealing one million edo (the City’s currency) before escaping into the wasteland outside the walls. Since that day, Gear has longed to follow in Road’s footsteps.
As a teenager, Gear meets Damper (who prefers to be called Boss), who allows Gear to work at his car shop. Boss becomes a father-figure to Gear, teaching him the proper way to fix broken-down cars. Now living at the shop full-time, Gear hopes to someday take one of those old junk cars beyond the walls and discover what truly lies there.
For now, the only time Gear goes outside the gates is to collect fuel resources.
Stuck inside the City, Gear has started a side business in order to earn some extra dough. He puts that money toward medicine for Boss, because Boss is sick, and this medicine is supposed to slow the disease’s spread.
Gear is joined by White Bear (a talking bear who loves gambling, drinking and breaking the rules) and Qu-0213 (a robot programmed with four distinct personalities, three of which are female and one of which is male). He met them through his underground operations, and together, they run a secret operation recovering items from the government that were wrongfully stolen from City citizens.
Noah is one such citizen. She hires Gear to recover an artifact that was stolen from her father, who recently passed away. It is of great value, she says, and she knows her father would have wanted her to have it.
White Bear is hesitant about the partnership, since Noah has failed to share where she is from, how she heard of their operation or why she can’t do it herself. But Noah is offering 200,000 edo up front. Double that if they finish the job. All they have to do is break into the Tenjin Pole Facility, the most heavily guarded building in the City. No biggie.
So, it’s agreed. Gear will do it. However, this one “simple job” quickly turns into a deadly game of hide-and-seek, with a league of assassins and a discovery that the City’s government is not at all what it seems.
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Qu-0213, as mentioned, is programmed with four different personalities, both male and female. Getting drunk is a frequent occurrence in many characters’ lives. Female characters often wear revealing outfits. And plenty of people utter mildly profane words.
At times, the animation style changes to enhance comedic effect: Red lines will appear above someone’s head to convey anger, or someone’s eyes will seemingly pop out of their sockets when another person smacks them in the back of the head.
The whole show centers around an admittedly illegal heist pulled by Gear and his crew. The main characters display a tight camaraderie, but there is a lot of arguing and fighting within the crew. And there doesn’t seem to be enough cohesion to justify watching this anime series.
(Editor’s Note: Plugged In is rarely able to watch every episode of a given series for review. As such, there’s always a chance that you might see a problem that we didn’t. If you notice content that you feel should be included in our review, send us an email at letters@pluggedin.com, or contact us via Facebook or Instagram, and be sure to let us know the episode number, title and season so that we can check it out.)
Gear, White Bear and Qu-0213 break into the Tenjin Pole Facility to recover Noah’s requested artifact.
People shoot guns and bazookas during an intense car chase. One person gets shot in the head. Another man gets a black eye, and blood drips from his mouth. Gear’s crew, driving a car dubbed Bullet, get hit by a truck.
Drinking and getting drunk is a common pastime for many citizens after work. Gear––who refuses to drink––shouts to some men, “I hope you all drown to death in your booze,” followed by sticking his tongue out. White Bear drinks, smokes cigars and gambles (he has a gambling problem).
Qu-0213 is a robot with four different personalities––three are female and one is male.
Noah says the object she wants retrieved was originally stolen from her father. Gear agrees to her heist after learning the medicine he needs for Boss will cost him half a million edo.
The item Gear is stealing is said to “hold the song of God, destined to bring the gospel to this world.” In the opening credits song, God’s name is misused twice. We hear uses of “d–n,” “h—,” “crap” and “p–ck”.
On the run from police, Gear and his crew are attacked by assassins as they seek safety.
The assassins are hired to find Gear and his crew and bring them in … dead or alive. The killers are brutal and use different weapons to carry out their job. (One woman uses her extremely long nails as a weapon.) A house gets blown up. Someone gets hit by a truck. Gear gets wacked in the head with a mallet. Boss slaps Gear in the back of the head multiple times.
After evading an attack from White Bear, one of the assassins says, “The divine protection of heaven has spared our lives.”
Many of the assassins wear revealing clothes. One has the head of a dog on a human body. We learn of a street racer named Road, who stole 100 million edo and was never seen again, with some believing he is dead. At funerals, people drink a lot.
We hear uses of “h—,” “d–n” and “a–.” Someone uses a term referring to male genitals.
Natalie Dean is Plugged In’s 2025 Summer Intern. A native from South Dakota, she recently graduated from South Dakota State University with a degree in Journalism and in the fall will be pursuing a master’s at Liberty University. Growing up in the Black Hills, Natalie enjoys spending her time outside, whether that be riding bikes or kayaking with her sisters, walking the dogs or going on long hikes. Her love for movie soundtracks stems from her sister asking, “what movie is this from” and “name the movie scene.” She has a passion for writing and hopes to one day be a published author.
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