Alternative Titles
ゲットバッカーズ 奪還屋; Get Backers; GetBackers: Dakkan`ya
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Type: TV
Episodes: 49
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 5, 2002 to Sep 20, 2003
Duration:
25 min. per episode Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company
StatisticsScore: 7.861 (scored by 4507 users)
Ranked: #3352
Popularity: #161
Members: 8,413
Favorites: 180 1 indicates a weighted score
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action adventure comedy shounen |
SynopsisMido 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 little 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. Based on the manga by Yuya Aoki and Rando Ayamine. |
Related AnimeAdaptation: GetBackers
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It's quite similar considering that Both Black Cat and GetBackers share a main English Voice Actor (Jason Liebrecht plays both Train and Ban in both series respectively), As well the music is done by Taku Iwasaki in both series. The fact that both series have goofy characters like Sven and Ginji and the more serious character like Train and Ban. Means this is almost a clone of it.
Both series have similar characters.
In both animes the characters are followed by their past, and have to fight it. Also they have a great sense of protecting each other.
Both have nice action, it's really funny and in both animes the music is made by Taku Iwasaki !!
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They had the same director and they both provide good action and mix of shounen comedy.
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Reviews
| Overall |
9 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
10 |
| Enjoyment |
10 |
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Mar 30, 200849 of 49 episodes seen 14 of 19 people found this review helpful Story (8.3) - The story is about a team of 2 elements called "Get backers". Amano Ginji and Midou Ban are the members..and their job is to recover things that were lost, stolen, etc.. Amano Ginji is also know as thunder emperor, and has the abillity of generating electricity; Midou Ban has the power of the devil eye, wich can make people see dreams .
As the story goes, they meet new people with powers, some friends, others enemies..is in fact very interesting, and i liked it.... />
Ok, its not the most amazing story i´ve saw, but i really liked it...it has lot of action, a lot of funny moments, and thats fine to spend some time.
Art (8.0) - Art, for an anime with some years already, i think its pretty good. Much better than some ive seen that are more recent..I liked the character design, the graphics are ok, the effects i think are also good. So 8 in this aspect sound nice.
Sound (8.1) - lol, another 8..yep, in my opinion all aspects in this anime are great. Although i didnt like 1 of the op and 1 of the ed, the rest is acceptable and it gives some ambience to the action, really nice.
Character (9.7) - What can i say...i´m a suspect in here..i really liked a lot of characters from this one..Ban, ginji, akabane (my favourite), Shido, kurusu, the protectors, kakei jubei, and some more...but in my opinion i know some things of each character, and they look good..i liked it ..perfect.
Enjoyment (9.8) - Other than a 10 i would be lying...well, at start it didnt catch a lot of my attention, but as i start to proceed i got interested..it reached a point were i was counting the minutes to the time to watch the next episode, and that means in my opinion that it got my full interest, and i really enjoyed the time i spent watching it.
Overall - (9.0) i think ive said everything..for me its a good one to see, you may have a different opinion but i´m happy for the time i spent watching all the 49 episodes. read more
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
10 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
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Jun 30, 200749 of 49 episodes seen 16 of 25 people found this review helpful Story: Very good backstory for the starting and it expands even more as you watch. There is a fair amount of filler in the anime but all enjoyable. However the main story is one of the best I have ever seen. The only thing is it stops halfway through the story. The anime ends while the manga which it is baised off goes on further. At the end you are thinking "Well I will just whatch the next episode" then you realise "WHAT I WATCHED IT ALL@!?!?! BUT IT WAS JUST GETTING GOOD!&q...uot; That is why I gave it a 8. I would have given it a 10 if it didnt end like that.
Animation: Pretty good, it is getting to be a older animation so you will see its age but that shouldn't matter.
Sound: pretty good nothing special.
Character: Great characters they have great story's to them and they follow there personality's to. Very funny to at times.
Enjoyment: I loved this series but it ended so quickly :(
Overall: Very good series, if you like action and humor and a good story check it out. read more
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
6 |
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Jun 28, 200749 of 49 episodes seen 28 of 49 people found this review helpful 49 episodes are already too much for me. When I watch an anime that long, chances are I’ll get bored while watching it. This was the case for GetBackers.
While it is an interesting plot, I tend to become distracted when I watch it. Maybe the plot was too shonen for a girl like me who would usually prefer girly anime, but then again the fight scenes were a bit exciting. Truth be told, I enjoyed the fillers more, because they always had me laughing. Other than that, some of th...e arcs were too long, specially the IL arc. 15 episodes are just too much, and at that point watching the anime felt like a chore. I was so happy when I finally finished that arc because the filler episode after the arc was one of the funniest episodes.
It’s another anime with a huge cast of characters, and most of them I like. I think the character I hate the most would be Himiko. She’s a very irritating girl who acts as if she’s good at her job, but she’s not that great. Plus using perfumes as weapons? What a lame power. Kazuki is OK, but he’s a trap. It really surprised me when I found out he was a guy. Maybe he’s gay – 2 guys are fighting over him and I don’t care if boys from their family wear girly kimonos when they haven’t reached their age of maturity yet. It’s just an excuse to justify his cross dressing.
My favorite character is actually Natsumi. I like that filler episode about her when she dressed up as Ban and Ginji. Speaking of Ban and Ginji, I like both of them too. Ginji is just so adorable when he goes into chibi mode, and Ban is one cool guy, even if he’s a bit mean and distant sometimes. Akabane is pretty cool too – even if he is a bit blood thirsty and sick minded.
The animation and art is reminiscent of early 2000s anime. While it is ahead of anime that was from way back then, it still needed work. It tends to be inconsistent sometimes. You could tell if the designs would waver because they were really notable differences – it’s as if the characters have been deformed. Usually, this would occur in filler episodes, and even more so during the second half. I’m a bit disappointed, because if they wanted to make this anime a hit, everything should be almost perfect. The colors tend to clash sometimes too – greens and purples don’t really go well together.
And what about the voice acting? It was actually pretty good. I’m quite surprised that Ginji’s seiyu was actually Shotaro Morikubo, who was also Musica’s (From Rave Master) voice actor. They were two different characters with two different personalities that it’s hard for me to picture one guy who worked with both of them. I guess that’s really impressive. Plus, Ban Midou’s seiyu (Nobutoshi Canna) was also the seiyu for another character I hold dear to my heart, and that is Tasuki from Fushigi Yuugi. Even without that, I still think the dub was quite impressive.
I like the wide variety of music. Every opening and ending theme was different and I liked every single track. It was all contemporary and modern. There was pop, to hip hop, to j-rock. Everything really went well with the series’ feel. I think that’s because the music direction was made by a very capable person. That person would be Taku Iwasaki, whose works are actually quite familiar to me. He also worked on GONZO’s Black Cat, Rumbling Hearts and Yakitate!! Japan, series with equally good music.
Because of boy-boy love premises, I was almost convinced that I was watching shojo. Clearly, Kazuki and Juubei’s relationship are yaoi fan girl bait. Plus the guys are all very good looking, which convinced me even more. I guess that’s one thing I get out of watching the series.
And what’s with the clothes? I noticed a lot of the characters wore clothes that won’t fit them. Hevn would always wear tops that are too small for her, and the guys wore tight pants. Poor Kazuki; His shirts are always so oversized that they would fall to his shoulders.
Even if there was a bevy of good looking guys in this anime, the eye candy wasn’t enough to make me disregard the story. I’m not saying the story was bad, like I said before, the plot was interesting. There were just errors during the execution. It could have been better. read more
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Opening Theme#1: "Yuragu Koto Nai Ai" by Naomi Tamura (eps 1-25)
#2: "Barairo no Sekai" by PIERROT (eps 26-49)
Ending Theme#1: "Ichibyo No Refrain" by Otoha (eps 1-13)
#2: "Namida no Hurricane" by Bon Bon Blanco (eps 14-25)
#3: "Mr. Déjà vu" by naja (eps 26-37)
#4: "Changin'" by Nona Reeves (eps 38-48)
#5: "Yuragu Koto Nai Ai" by Naomi Tamura (ep 49)
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