Production Year: 2002 - Science Fiction - Director: Keitaro Motonaga, Kazuhiro Furuhashi - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Nobutoshi Canna, Shoutarou Morikubo more
Advantages: Good stories, great comedy, loveable characters Disadvantages: Doesn't do the manga justice.
Get Backers has everything stereotypical of a great anime. Physical comedy, great stories, great character designs, a few episodes at the start nothing to do with the plot, loveable characters, and women with more curves than drunken vision. Unfortunately, it was made during the animation recession in Japan. Result: ouch. There are times in the series where Ginji looks like he's trying his very best to hold in a fart when he's supposed to be grinning. ...
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Get Backers Review ofGet Backers Vol.1 (DVD)by
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Advantages: Great Storyline from the manga Disadvantages: Nothing bad :)
Based on the popular manga, this is the animated version still carrying the legacy of the famed manga.
It's about two men with the simple wish of being rich. Midou Ban can make people hallucinate and has the gripping power of 200kg, while his partner Amano Ginji can generate electricity throughout his body.
The story is all about their escapades while retrieving the objective of their mission. Throughout their mission, they encounter new and ...
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Cowboy Bebop). Everyone knows the feeling of coming home and finding their home broken into. Your possessions thrown around drawers are ransacked and everything ...
Get Backers - Vol. 1
Ban and Ginji... You may not know them, but if you're a victim of theft they're your only ... more
hope!Everyone knows the feeling. Returning to find your home broken into. Your possessions thrown around. Dresser drawers ransacked. Everything you own having the...
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