GetBackers is a Japanese manga series written by Yuya Aoki and illustrated by Rando Ayamine. The series was serialized and is published by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine from 1999 until 2007, totaling 39 volumes. The plot follows the "GetBackers", a group that retrieves anything that was lost. The team is primarily composed of Ban Mido, a man born with the illusionary technique "Evil Eye", and Ginji Amano the former leader of a gang called "The VOLTS", a powerful group in the dangerous territory called the Infinity Fortress in Shinjuku.
PLOT:
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 Shinjuku, Tokyo. 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.
VIDEO GAMES:
A total of five video games based on GetBackers have been released in Japan, all of them developed and published by Konami. The first was a fighting game GetBackers Dakkanoku: Ubawareta Mugenshiro for the PlayStation 2 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.
GETBACKERS DAKKANOKU - DAKKANDAYO! ZENIN SHUUGOU!: The Get Backers team consisting of Midou Ban and Amano Ginji star in a cel-shaded side-scrolling action game where the boys use their fighting skills and special attacks to take on various retrieval missions and the attendant general goon bashing. When backed into a corner, Midou Ban uses his snake bite move to powerful effect while Ginji throws streams of electrical force to beat back the odds.
In addition to the dynamic duo, four other characters from the anime may be chosen as your onscreen protagonist. Similar to old school games where armies of foes run into your punches and kicks, Get Backers takes the heroes through their paces and ends each level with a boss who does special attacks and generally lasts longer than his underlings.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Popular "GetBackers Dakkan-ya" appeared on PS2 in animation and comics. Bi-do?, the familiar members such as Amano Ginji, action game, which aims to success of recapture that received the request within the time limit. Deathblow and fed out in flashy effects, in a certain period of time capability is making full use of "serious mode" that up, and trying to recapture.
FEATURES:
- Third person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Martial Arts, Fantasy, Humour & Anime themes.
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