Jing: King Of Bandits
Ou Dorobou Jing
ANIMATION EXPLORER
GLOBAL RATING
6.30 / 10
7.21 / 10
PLOT
Prince of Thieves Jing is a collection of brief, frequently unconnected tales depicting a young child who goes by the name Jing, the Bandit King. Even though Jing appears to be well-known throughout the series' universe, many of his adversaries underestimate him because they don't anticipate the "great" King of Bandits to be a "small boy." Particularly between the first manga series and the follow-up series, Jing: King of Bandits: Twilight Tales, the stories diverge greatly. Stories in the first series frequently veer toward the absurd and ludicrous. Each story arc features a different treasure or object that Jing is looking for, a woman or girl who travels with him as he pursues this object, and an adversary who either seeks to safeguard the object he intends to take or seize it first. The locations change as well; among other exotic places, Jing visits a clockwork city, a desert with live lava, and even purposefully gets himself imprisoned to steal something from within a maximum security prison. Even if it's not always how the characters or the reader anticipate, he always manages to escape at the conclusion of each story arc and steal his intended victim. Through Jing's influence, various societal norms are also overturned in each storyline; for example, rulers are deposed, jail riots are started, and an entire corrupt religion is dismantled.
