GetBackers

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 story for the known characters, epic fights, and a great ending explaining the world they live in and what the characters seek and enjoy. Overall a enjoyable manga, that shows the bonds of friendship and thrusting one another, give it a shot!

I remember they used to sell like a thousand volumes of this in Borders. If I wanted a reference point to finding new things, the safest way I could put it is "find me the OPPOSITE of Getbackers." It's pretty much as much of a mindlessly pumped out cynical product as a series can get; very slick, professional art, but mostly used to emphasize full page "fanservice" (that's what kids today call tits and lady underwear, right?). Plot's neither here nor there for the most part, things are obviously made up as the story goes along, but without the grace of even the most generic100+ volume action titles. Characters couldn't get much more stock, like, there's this "dark and mysterious" guy with a fedora and a black coat who uses little surgical knives. His name is... Raven or something? Raven McCrow? Am I describing a real character, or your roleplaying forum character you made when you were 11? FUCK GETBACKERS.

so this manga at first was like blaa with the weird looking ginji during the first few chapters but the story gets better and better as it goes on that I believe it's better than the anime (but then again, most mangas are better than the animes). anyways, the Eternal Bond arc wasn't so interesting to me at first cause I really wasn't interested in Shido's story and I thought it wasn't so important so why that big arc just for Shido's story but later I was proven wrong because of the details and the new characters that turned out to be important to thestory. it really is one of the greatest manga I read so far and at first you think it's a fictional world like a lot of other mangas and animes but just like the original full metal alchemist anime, at the end they end up showing you exactly how that world links to our usual everyday world. ((spoilers alert!)) this manga didn't just show the importance of friendship (even though it did focus on that a lot) but I felt like the mangaka wanted to show his point of view on the "developed nations" and the "third world nations" as he compared the two worlds at the end. the world that created Get Backers' world represented developed nations and the Get Backers' world represented third world nations (or so I felt) when Akabane from the real world told Ginji that everyone lives with no problems or poverty while Ginji's world lives in great poverty and hardships everyday but the weird fact is that the real world has a lot of suicide cases meanwhile Ginji's world has barely any suicides and that's when Ginji thought "even though we live struggling everyday but we never thought of ourselves as being unhappy". idk but it did remind me of the differences I saw when I moved from a third world country to the US. like where I lived everyone struggles to live everyday but the suicide rates are not that high at all but in America people are living comfortably but they still commit a lot of suicide.(end spoiler) anyways that manga is awesome and the mangaka seemed to have a mature plot line to it and not just battles all throughout it and a whole lot of different kinds of information, myths, theories, and other general knowledge throughout the arcs and you can tell the mangaka is very knowledgeable and made a lot of research for every single arc. if you're don't have a strong heart for a lot of important facts pouring in on you at once (like I did cause it was too much feelings for me I was like akjsgdhsjkdf when all the sad stories and facts came up so close together), look up some background histories of the characters before you get to the last few volumes. I felt like the mangaka is a procrastinator since he gave us some history about the characters gradually but during the last few volumes he was like "oh shit not enough time to give the full sad stories for everyone so I'll just put them all together and make fangirls' hearts die all at once" and it was very overwhelming to me to know all the sad stories at once. the art of the manga wasn't so good to me at first but it gets better and better and it is very extremely detailed that when I read shaman king right afterwards I was like DA FUQ IS DIS SHIT Y NO DETAILS. so I really applaud the mangaka for the great art work. and for perverted guys: this manga is the one for you since the mangaka is a pervert and likes to draw girls naked the whole time (it was weird to me that the guys will fight with all their might but only their sleeves and occasional places on the shirts would rip while the girls miraculously rip everything while they're fighting leaving no clothes on themselves at all lol you'll like it if youre a pervert) overall: it's one of my most favorite mangas of all time :D