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English: Getbackers

Synonyms: GetBackers: Dakkan'ya

Japanese: ゲットバッカーズ　奪還屋

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Type: TV

Episodes: 49

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2002 to Sep 20, 2003

Premiered: Fall 2002

Broadcast: Saturdays at 17:30 (JST)

Producers: TBS, Kodansha, Rondo Robe, Rakuonsha

Licensors: ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Studio Deen

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Super Power, Supernatural

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.69¹ (scored by 37,465 users)

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Ranked: #1121²

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Popularity: #989

Members: 86,668

Favorites: 823

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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.

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Midou, Ban

Main

Canna, Nobutoshi
Japanese

Amano, Ginji

Main

Morikubo, Shoutarou
Japanese

Fuuchouin, Kazuki

Main

Hoshi, Soichiro
Japanese

Fuyuki, Shido

Main

Hoshino, Takanori
Japanese

Kudou, Himiko

Main

Kuwatani, Natsuko
Japanese

Akabane, Kuroudo

Supporting

Tobita, Nobuo
Japanese

MakubeX

Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki
Japanese

Kagami, Kyouji

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Mizuki, Natsumi

Supporting

Otoha
Japanese

Kakei, Juubei

Supporting

Park, Romi
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Furuhashi, Kazuhiro

Director, Storyboard, Animation Director

Motonaga, Keitarou

Director, Episode Director

Tsuruoka, Youta

Sound Director

Yoshida, Shunji

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#1: "Yuragu Koto Nai Ai" by Naomi Tamura (eps 1-25)
#2: "Barairo no Sekai" by PIERROT (eps 26-49)

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#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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Jun 30, 2007

49 of 49 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Lance20000 (All reviews)

92 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!\" That is why I gave it a 8. I would have given read more

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Nov 28, 2007

49 of 49 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Master10K (All reviews)

68 people found this review helpful

If you've seen a couple different Shounen, Action, Anime then this one does very little to offer anything exciting and original, except some really lame fighting methods (Lady Poison).

Getbackers is a typical shounen anime about two guys who are said to be able to get anything back, which has been taken. What helps them are their interesting special abilities Amano Ginji with the power to generate electricity and Midou Ban with a 200Kg hand grip and also possessing the evil eye.

The show pretty much starts of like a typical anime, by introducing the main characters and giving them an opportunity to wow the viewers with read more

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Jun 28, 2007

49 of 49 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

jet2r0cks (All reviews)

68 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 the 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.

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May 4, 2016

49 of 49 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

ndsempai (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

This is not an anime which has aged well. Back in the day when I first watched it sometime around early 2007, I would have ranked this close to a 9.

When I first watched it, the characters had some really mysterious powers and I loved the fight scenes. The music was awesome and fit the mood really well. I saw the Animax dub version and the voices were really well done.

The problem is, if you watch the series now, the animation is spotty. The fight scenes mostly consist of static scenes with little in terms of animation. The characters go into chibi form read more

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