Original run October 5, 2002 – September 20, 2003 Episodes 49 GetBackers (: ゲットバッカーズ -奪還屋-,: Gettobakkāzu Dakkan'ya, lit. 'GetBackers: Recovery Service') is a Japanese series written by and illustrated. The series was serialized and is published by 's from 1999 until 2007, totaling 39.
The plot follows the 'GetBackers', a group that retrieves anything that was lost. The team is primarily composed of, a man born with the illusionary technique ', and the former leader of a gang called 'The VOLTS', a powerful group in the dangerous territory called the Infinity Fortress in Shinjuku. The manga was adapted into an in 2002.
The production aired on the from October 5, 2002 until September 20, 2003, for a complete run of 49 episodes. It was also dubbed in English and broadcast by the anime television network across its respective networks worldwide. The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by, which released 27 volumes between February 10, 2004 and December 2, 2008.
It has since lost the license to the property, and all existing releases are now out-of-print. See also: The series tells the story of Ginji Amano and Ban Mido, a pair of super powered individuals known as the 'GetBackers'. The duo operates a freelance repossession service out of one of the seedier areas of. For a fee, they will recover any lost or stolen item for a client with 'an almost 100% success rate'. The GetBackers' job often leads them into bizarre and dangerous situations in order to 'get back what shouldn't be gone'.
Their targets range from lost video games to misplaced components of an atomic bomb. The plot mostly revolves around their adventures, often complicated by the pair's convoluted, individual pasts and a mysterious place known as the Infinity Fortress. A conglomeration of disused, condemned buildings clustered together to form a self-contained habitat, Limitless Fortress is subdivided into three specific tiers – Lower Town, the Beltline and Babylon City. Lower Town is the lowest in altitude, with several layers extending below ground level.
The Beltline, the most dangerous area of The Limitless Fortress, is ruled by, Ban's father. Babylon City, the upper most level of the Limitless Fortress, is said to be where the Brain Trust resides, and is the home of Ginji's mother. In actuality, Babylon City is what one might consider the real world, with everything else being a virtual reality creation. Only those who have won the Ogre Battle may enter Babylon City and when that happens, they can change the world as they see fit.
Both Ban and Ginji go to the Fortress with Ban wishing to rescue a kidnapped Himiko from Kagami, and Ginji finding a possibility to meet his mother. Going to the Beltline, the GetBackers encounter various warriors taking orders from a being known as Voodoo King from Babylon City. The Voodoo King seeks to obtain three 'keys' which will help him unlock the gates from Babylon City sealed by Ban's grandmother several years ago. After finding the three keys: Shido's chimera spirit, Himiko's mirror and the GetBackers, the Voodoo King is faced by Ginji, Thunder Emperor alter-ego attacks him in a clash which destroys the Voodoo King and making Raitei disappear forever as he existed to balance the scales. With Voodoo King gone, Raitei's purpose was fulfilled and he disappeared forever. Following this, both Ban and Ginji face each other in Ogre Battle with Ban giving up, impressed with Ginji's will.
Ginji goes to Babylon City where he meets his mother from a parallel universe, who explains how she created the Fortress and its surrounding world. Following a discussion between the two of them, the Fortress' world remains unchanged except that the virtual people living become real beings. Ban and Ginji continue their retrieval job, ending the series when requested to go on a mission that will lead them to meet Ban's mother.
The plot of the anime adaptation of GetBackers follows the manga's closely until the first season's ending. The second season features various stand alone episodes focused in the GetBackers' missions, while also two story arcs, the second ending the anime series with an open ending. Development conceived the idea of GetBackers two years before it started serialization. By that time he had few notes about it. Aoki remembers giving many troubles to his editor when he started writing it, but was glad he could finish it.
The character of Ban Mido was originally meant to appear in another series from Aoki, but his editor liked it and wanted it to be one of the manga's protagonists. Ginji was meant to appear in the series, but his original personality was first meant to belong to Ban. Media Manga. Main article: The GetBackers manga series is written by and illustrated. The series was serialized and published by 's from 1999 in its 17th issue until its 12th issue from 2007, totaling twelve story arcs with the name of 'Act' and a short number of side stories labelled as 'Interlude' and 'Birth'. The manga consists of 39 with the first released on August 17, 1999, and the last one on April 17, 2007, while some of the last were also released in special editions.
On February from 2009, Kodansha published a one-shot chapter from the series in their Magazine Special journal. An artbook of the manga titled G/B was released on March 15, 2005. Additionally, a manga guidebook titled GetBackers The Last Piece was released on April 17, 2007 containing information about the series' plot, characters, and popularity polls. GetBackers is licensed for an English language release in North America by, who first announced it in the Anime Expo 2004 in July 2003. Tokyopop divided the manga in two parts: GetBackers featuring the first twenty-five and GetBackers: Infinity Fortress the following ones.
GetBackers was published from February 10, 2004, to July 7, 2008. However, only the first two volumes of Infinity Fortress were released. On August 31, 2009, Tokyopop announced that they would not be completing the series as their licenses with expired and Kodansha required that they immediately stop publication of all previously licensed series, including GetBackers. Because of this, the series is now considered to be out-of-print.
Main article: The adaptation of the GetBackers series was produced by and was directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and Keitaro Motonaga. The series premiered on in Japan on October 5, 2002 and ran for forty-nine episodes until September 20, 2003. The series was released to DVD in Japan by TBS in seventeen individual volumes with three episodes per disc. The anime's music was composed by Taku Iwasaki, and two original soundtracks were released by in Japan on January 24, 2003 and July 25, 2003. The anime was first licensed in English.
ADV released the English dubbed series in a total of ten DVD volumes from August 24, 2004 to November 1, 2005. Compilations volumes from the seasons 1 and 2 were also released on October 10, 2006 and January 2, 2007, while a full compilation of the series was published on January 15, 2008. In April 2009, A.D. Vision started streaming the series online in their The Anime Network website. The series has been re-licensed by, who re-released it on DVD in later 2012. On August 25, 2016 the series began airing on.
The anime was also licensed by Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) which created its own English Dub in collaboration with Red Angel Media. The show broadcast on the Animax Channel in Asia, and / in the Philippines. Drama CDs Two have been released for the story arcs not found in the TV series, namely the news involving the GetBackers searching for disappeared kids involved with a card game named the Divine Design, their search for a red wine named the Marine Red, and the war between Shido Fuyuki's clan, the Maryudo and their rivals, the Kiryudo. The first CD, entitled 'GetBackers 'TARGET G', was released February 21, 2003. The second entitled 'GetBackers 'TARGET B' was released on March 21, 2003. Video games A total of five video games based on GetBackers have been released in Japan, all of them developed and published. The first was a fighting game GetBackers Dakkanoku: Ubawareta Mugenshiro for the and PC on September 26, 2002.
GetBackers Dakkanoku - Jagan Fuuin! Followed it in 2003 for the PC and Game Boy Advance, was well as the PC exclusive RPG GetBackers Dakkanoku: Metropolis Dakkan Sakusen! Two more fighting games, GetBackers Dakkanoku: Dakkandayo! Zenin Shuugou!
And GetBackers Dakkanoku - Urashinshiku Saikyou Battle, were released in 2003 and 2004, respectively. While the former was only for PCs, the latter was also released for the PlayStation 2. Rando Ayamine worked for all these video games, making illustrations for them. Reception As of January 2009, the GetBackers manga sold 18 million copies in Japan.
English volumes from the manga have also been popular, appearing various times in 's rankings of best selling graphic novels. 's Liann Cooper has commented on the manga, praising for using the 'simple concept' in order to create an entertaining plot. The manga has been noted to have a large number of types of, showing several kinds of beautiful women and noted a 'relationship' between the two main characters and giving the series a nice tone.
The art of has been praised for having the dark and gritty mood emphasizes he makes in the series making readers think that the Jagan scene of is a 'horrifying nightmare'. The translation of the manga has been criticized for making the main characters sound like gangsters giving them strange dialogues. Cooper later noted that readers from 's works or would find GetBackers appealing due to the several aspects it has.
He still found issues with Tokyopop's translation, but still found the final product entertaining, also complimenting the series' comedy. The anime adaptation of GetBackers was also well received. In the 26th annual readers' poll, it took various categories: it was third in 'Favorite Anime Series', ninth in 'Favorite Episode' (episode 49) and fifth and eighth in 'Favorite Male Character' (Ginji and Ban, respectively). It also received positive reviews ever since the first episode's premier in Japan. For such episode, Anime News Network liked the animations' quality as well as the main characters Ban and Ginji. The mix between drama and comedy was also well-received, hoping that it will continue like that for the remainder of the series. 's John Sinnott called it a 'solid show', enjoying the characters' growth as the series continued.
However, he gave a low score the DVDs' presentation mainly due to the lack of extras. While comparing it with the manga, Chris Beveridge from Mania Entertainment found the anime's introduction more appealing than the manga's, but mentioned various issues already shown in the first episodes of various anime. Bamboo Dong from Anime News Network enjoyed how the story was built during the first season, finding appealing the fact that the characters he found appealing would take part in a larger story arc. Agreeing with Dong, Dani Moure from Mania liked the interaction between the characters, as well as a bigger exploration to some of them. Sinott concluded that the story arc involving the Limitless Fortress was 'a good story' due to the expansion in the backgrounds from various of the main characters, but found it relatively longer than previous story arcs.
Active Anime writer David C. Jones praised the focus on the anime's second season, liking how many secondary characters got their own episodes, as well as how the comedy was delivered across them, citing the episode focused on Ginji in the hospital as the best one from the season.
On the other hand, Beveridge found that in the second season, characters were 'overused', but like Jones, enjoyed the focus on other characters as well as the flashbacks exploring them. The anime's last story arc left mixed thoughts to Beveridge who found some of its events predictable or rushed, but still enjoyed the action sequences shown. References. Retrieved January 20, 2018. ^ Jones, Davey C. (January 25, 2007).
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Watch GetBackers full episodes online English Dub. Synopsis: Mido Ban and Amano Ginji are known as the Get Backers, retrievers with a success rate of 100%. Whatever is lost or stolen, they can definitely get it back. Despite their powerful abilities and enthusiastic behavior, Ban and Ginji are terminally broke no matter what they do simply because few people would actually desire to hire them. As a result, the pair of them tend to do dangerous jobs, often leading to unwanted re-encounters with their old (and dangerous) friends.
Language: English Dub Status: Completed Aired: Oct 5, 2002 to Sep 20, 2003 Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Super Power, Supernatural Sources.
Get Backers English Dub
Ban Midou and Ginji Amano, two juvenile delinquents from the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan, are also known as a pair of retrievers-for-hire called the GetBackers. Both of them possess supernatural powers to aid them in their missions. Ban has the 'Jagan' (Evil Eye), which allows him to fill a target with profound hallucinations, as well as the 'Snake Bite', which gives his hands 200 kilograms of gripping force. Ginji, on the other hand, can generate thousands of volts of electricity within his body at will like a human electric eel.
Together, they boast an (almost) 100% success rate at retrieving objects for their clients. If only they could figure out how to keep from constantly going broke. Like sowbi, I too came across this series completely by accident. I turned on the TV one day and started channel surfing, and suddenly saw a new channel - 'Animax' - with these two guys with cool powers fighting off a few thugs. The voice acting was pretty laughable, but the series captured my imagination. I started watching from the 'Venus di Milo' episodes, missed quite a bit, then watched around 47 of the 49 episodes almost religiously! As I said, the voice acting was pretty laughable.
However, it wasn't because the actors were bad. It was laughable for the simple reason that Animax appears to use the same three or four actors to do the voices for every single character in every single series. The actors themselves are extremely talented - they'd have to be, in this situation! - but it's a little weird to hear one of the villains being voiced by the same guy who gives the voice for one of the heroes (no, they're not supposed to be related or anything like that).
Get Backers is, as mentioned earlier, one of my favourite anime series. The cast of characters is amazing. Every single character encountered is fascinating. The animation isn't all that great; the art is quite inconsistent. However, far from dragging the series down, it actually improves on it by lending it personality. Also, the series ending (which has a fairly long buildup) is probably the most well-executed ending I've ever seen. In closing, let me voice my only complaint: Get Backers only lasted for one season of 49 episodes.
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Get Backers Character List
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Getbackers, Volume 6. 'Infiltration, Infinite Castle. IL Retrieval Mission'. 14 December 2002.
Get Backers Original Title English Title Description The Rose-Colored World 2nd Opening Theme One Second of Refrainment - Nucleus -Core- MAKUBEX image song Flower Bell Fuuchouin Kadzuki Character Song N/A Opening Hurricane of Tears Second Ending Song Unshaken Love 1st Opening Song Legend: - English translation available - Kana/kanji lyrics available - There is a flash video of the song available - MIDI audio file available - You marked this song as a favorite, and it is in your songbox. Animelyrics.com now has an OpenSearch plugin that you can into your browser (FireFox, Chrome and IE/Edge supported). Affiliates: Lyrics copyright to their respective owners or translators. No copyright infringment is intended or implied. Layout and other content copyright Anime Lyrics dot Com / Anime Globe Productions.