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“Electric-powered Ginji and illusion-casting Ban form the GetBackers, an elite retrieval team desperate for clients.”
GetBackers
GetBackers -奪還屋-
7.78
1,665 rank · 16,706 readers · 432 favorites
Shounen
Action
Comedy
Drama
Mystery
Supernatural
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Electric-powered Ginji and illusion-casting Ban form the GetBackers, an elite retrieval team desperate for clients.
Blonde, hip, pragmatic and cool, Ginji Amano has the power to generate currents with his body like an electric eel. Brunette, equally hip, bespectacled and rambunctious, Ban Mido has the mystically mysterious 'Evil Eye,' the power to create illusions in the minds of his foes. Together, they are the GetBackers, the best retrieval team in the world. They can get back anything taken from clients, and their success rate is (almost) 100%! However, first they have to get some clients—and soon—or this spry detective duo will starve on the streets! (Source: Tokyopop)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 7 sampled reviews
8.4
/10
What 7 readers settled on.
86%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 3.06
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.06 · split reception
The polarity gap
8.7 pts
Recommenders 9.7 · others 1.0
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Score over time
↓ 1.57
Running avg · Jun 2008 → Jan 2016
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Get Backers it's a great manga, the anime adaptation fell short to caught up the spirit of the manga, the final arc is one of the best arcs i've seen, there are wonderfull new characters, back...”
- 10 “I could talk about the story, the characters, even the art, but I guess my colleagues here could sum up pretty well everything I could say. One thing that I'd like to point out - and it is what...”
- 10 “ill skip the summery since we can all read the above. Anyways 10 out of 10 best manga series ive read. The story has many connections to real life it talked about the christian bible and jesus. It...”
Verbosity
Short · 57%
Medium · 14%
Long · 29%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 344 × 39 ch × vol
- Total read 45h 52m approx
- Published Mar 1999 – Feb 2007
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0017 catalog