Get Backers

[goldlilys]

Reviewer: pauline5765
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural
Authored by: Yuya Aoki (Story), Rando Ayamine(Art)
Published by: Kodansha
No. of Volumes (manga): 39
No. of Episodes (anime): 49
Motto: 'We get back what shouldn't be gone'.
Rating: 10/10
Story of the Anime/Manga:

The manga tells the story of a pair known as the GetBackers, consisting of Ban Mido and Ginji Amano. The duo reside in one of the seedier areas of Shinjuku in Tokyo, and are often broke and resort to sleeping in their car. Ban and Ginji operate a freelance repossession service or dakkanya. For a fee, they will recover any lost or stolen item for a client. The two boast an 'almost 100% success rate'.

However, Ban and Ginji are not ordinary human beings. They each possess mysterious abilities which they use to carry out their many recovery missions. Ban's powers include the 'Snakebite', a skill which gives his hands a grip of 200 kilograms-force, and the 'Evil Eye', an ability to induce minute-long hallucinations of Ban's choosing in whomever he makes direct eye contact with. However, this ability cannot be used on the same person twice in a 24-hour period, and he has to rest between uses. The Evil Eye can also only be used three times in one day.

Ginji, on the other hand, can generate enormous amounts of electric energy in his body for tasks such as attacking opponents, or overloading electronic systems. This has earned him the moniker of 'Lightning Lord' ('Raitei', a Japanese term also translated as 'Thunder Emperor', or 'Lightning Emperor').

Despite the simplicity of their job's description, Ban and Ginji's profession often places them into bizarre and dangerous situations in order to obtain the objects they must find. Their targets range from everyday objects such as a video game a school kid has lost to an even much more dangerous object which might just affect the safety of the nation (such as a vital part of an atomic bomb). As such, the plot mostly revolves around the dangerous (yet sometimes silly) adventures they both go through, which is often complicated by connections to the pair's dark and twisted pasts, and a mysterious place called Infinity Fortress.

Comments: The manga was great, well, I assume cause the anime was excellent. I love the comedy and the action of this manga/anime.