History Manga / GetBackers

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The manga-to-anime transition shows this to some extent -- in the anime most of the ecchi scenes were completely removed, there's barely any bloodshed even during the most heated of battles, and Ban is definitely not a pervert. The artworks however, amped up the HoYay UpToEleven.

* PantyShot: As often as possible, especially for poor Himiko.

* RapunzelHair: Kazuki's floor-length hair. Also, Sakura and Emishi. In the manga, Himiko after [[spoiler: fusing with mirror!Himiko]].

* ShesAManInJapan: Kazuki in the Tokyopop translation, corrected later.

* HairColors: Ginji (blonde, but [[JustifiedTrope justified]]), Makubex (grey), Himiko (dark green), Kagami...

* CreepyCoolCrosses: [[spoiler:The Stigma is a creepy cool cross engraved on the eyeballs of certain characters.]]

A 1999 manga by Rando Ayamine (original concept by Yuya Aoki[[note]]One of the [[IHaveManyNames many pennames]] of Shin Kobayashi, the same one who brought you ''Manga/TheDropsOfGod'' and ''Manga/PsychoBusters''[[/note]]), published in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'', ''Get Backers'' focuses on Ban Mido and Ginji Amano, two superpowered pals who run a repossession service to help people get their lost stuff back. Ginji's body can generate a [[ShockAndAwe powerful electrical current]], and Ban has both [[SuperStrength a two kilo-newton grip]] (look it up) and the "[[MagicalEye Evil Eye]]", which can induce powerful hallucinations through eye contact.

* AnotherDimension: [[spoiler:Pretty much the entire world]], but this was only in the manga.

** In fact, if there is any contrived reason to introduce a nude woman, it will be done. The manga also never shies from depicting them in what could only be said as in the middle of an orgasm. Needless to say, this did not make it into the anime.

* OneHundredAndEight: Akabane. His scalpels number that many, to be accurate.

-->''We get back what shouldn't be gone! The recovery service with an (almost) 100% success rate!''

A 1999 manga by Rando Ayamine (original concept by Yuya Aoki[[note]]One of the [[IHaveManyNames many pennames]] of Shin Kobayashi, the same one who brought you Manga/KamiNoShizuku and Manga/PsychoBusters[[/note]]), published in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'', ''Get Backers'' focuses on Ban Mido and Ginji Amano, two superpowered pals who run a repossession service to help people get their lost stuff back. Ginji's body can generate a [[ShockAndAwe powerful electrical current]], and Ban has both [[SuperStrength a two kilo-newton grip]] (look it up) and the "[[MagicalEye Evil Eye]]", which can induce powerful hallucinations through eye contact.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ginji is totally this.
* CursedWithAwesome: Ban and Ginji. Also Shido.

* ModestyTowel: The HotSpringEpisode shows Hevn, Natsumi and Kakuzi bathing in towels, with the [[DudeLooksLikeALady effeminate Kakuzi]] wearing it around him like he's a girl with something to hide.

* OvertookTheManga: The anime diverges from the manga right before the "Divine Design" arc begins. The last part of the anime to come directly from the source was "Lost Arms of the Goddess". [[note]]Technically, Interlude 3 from Volume 14—the HotSpringsEpisode—was the latest chronological chapters to be animated, occurring immediately prior to "Divine Design", but the anime moved it up to episode 26, before "Lost Arms of the Goddess"[[/note]]. The majority of Season 2 is either {{filler}} or the anime staff making a good-faith attempt to end the show in a way that makes at least some sense without direction from the still-in-progress manga.

* OutdoorBathPeeping: In one occasion, the guys try to do peek on the girls bathing, but end up seeing [[FanDisservicesome old ladies]] instead. When they try again, they get a view of a woman's [[ToplessnessFromTheBack bare back]] but then it turns out to be the {{Bishonen}} Kakuzi.

* OutdoorBathPeeking: In one occasion, the guys try to do peek on the girls bathing, but end up seeing [[FanDisservicesome old ladies]] instead. When they try again, they get a view of a woman's [[ToplessnessFromTheBack bare back]] but then it turns out to be the {{Bishonen}} Kakuzi.

* AchillesHeel: Ban's Jagan's limitations

* AffablyEvil: Akabane, and in manga, [[spoiler:Kagami]].

* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Voodoo King]], but only in the manga.

* BloodstainedGlassWindows: Juubei vs. Toshiki & Orpheus.

* CallingYourAttacks

* CastHerd

* TheComicallySerious[=/=]CannotTellAJoke: Juubei, post Makubex arc. Makubex's comment about him having poor sense of humour greatly affected him and he's been trying to improve it ever since. Unfortunately, his source of inspiration is Emishi, king of IncrediblyLamePun. A panel of him throwing a needle to Saizou is treated as significant in this regard, if done humorously.

* DeadlyDoctor: Akabane. That is all.
* DefeatByModesty: Partial example, when Miroku 7 switches to the lone female persona, Kirara, Ginji thought she was just a facet of Natsuhiko's personality and is actually male. When Ginji started to go all-out and nearly rips Kirara's shirt in half, Miroku's body is that of a female and that gave Ginji just enough pause for Miroku to swap to another persona to deal damage.
** Subverted during Himiko's fight against Kagami. Although she's practically naked by the time Kagami puts a blade on her neck, it was more of the checkmate that did Himiko in rather than any sort of modesty issues.
* DiagonalCut
* DistractedByTheSexy: This happens when Himiko and Hevn are imprisoned by Makubex's henchmen during Limitless Fortress arc. At some point, two prison guards enter their cell and start ogling them. All of sudden, Himiko [[SexyCoatFlashing opens her jacket, revealing her nearly naked body]] (justified because her clothes are [[ClothingDamage heavily damaged]] by Akame and her jacket, taken from a random {{mook}}, is [[{{Stripperiffic}} unbuttoned and barely covers her modesty]]), and asks the prison guards to scratch her itchy back. The prison guards gleefully accept her request after seeing her almost naked body. Turns out that Himiko is tricking them to inhale the puppet perfume soaked on her body, in order to force the guards to undo her handcuffs, along with Hevn’s. Seen [[http://www.mangaeden.com/en/en-manga/get-backers/47/18/ here]].

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Kazuki, sort of.
* EvilCostumeSwitch
* {{Expecting Someone Taller}}: Ren's reaction when figuring out who Kazuki is.

* GroinAttack: Madoka vs. Hishiki

* HomoeroticSubtext: Everyone. And I mean '''''everyone'''''. This series is a SlashFic writer's wet dream!
* HotSpringsEpisode: At least once in the manga, twice in the anime.

* ImportantHaircut: Manga only. [[spoiler:Kazuki, to the horror of fangirls everywhere.]])
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Sakura's cloth, Akabane's scalpels, Ban's arm cursed by the Greek god of medicine...

* IntimateHealing: Uryu's resurrection.

* KnightOfCerebus: [=MakubeX=].

* MoreThanMindControl: The Archangels.
* MrFanservice: Ban, who whips his shirt off more often than any other guy in the manga. Kazuki is [[DudeLooksLikeALady another]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser trope]] [[StupidSexyFlanders entirely]].
* MsFanservice: Hevn, but Himiko sometimes has this (albeit unintentionally).

* PerpetualPoverty: Man, they can't ever catch a break!
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Yep, everybody again.
* PoseOfSupplication
* ThePromise: Ban to Yamato; Juubei to Kazuki

* PsychoForHire: Akabane... again. And Fudou.
* RapidFireTyping: [=MakubeX=], mainly.

* RedBaron

* SinisterSilhouettes: The Four Kings.

* StatusQuoIsGod[=/=]FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Something always fixes it so that Ban and Ginji never make a profit.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Kazuki is this for both Ban and Ginji... as well as for other characters. There was even a part where both Ban and Ginji saw him bathing in the hot springs from the back, and tried to peek because they thought that they ''finally'' found a hot naked girl to spy on. Even Ban comments that, if you blot out Kazuki's male parts, he's practically a woman.

--> '''Akabane''': [to the Get Backers] "We've just got to stop meeting like this."
* WeHelpTheHelpless: The entire premise.

* WellDoneSonGuy: The "friend" variant—Toshiki and Kazuki.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:Kazuki (manga only).]]

* YourMindMakesItReal: Infinity Fortress and Divine Design.

* BoringInvincibleHero: What brings down the series is that both Ban and Ginji always manage to succeed in their objectives with at most minor injuries and almost never lose a fight to anyone, [[spoiler: and the only reason they lose is that they lack something that immediately puts them back as invincible in the final arc]]. Their title is in fact, the "Invincible Get Backers".

* JerkassFacade: Manga only. [[spoiler:Ban's father]]

** Tokyopop's release of the manga had a BlindIdiotTranslation for the first 4 volumes. Probably the most {{egregious}} mistake was transliterating Paul to "Pore". This, like most other issues, was fixed in later volumes.

The manga was licensed in North America by Creator/{{Tokyopop}}, who published the first 25 volumes before pulling a ''[[Manga/{{Dragonball}} Dragonball Z]]'' and opting to release the last third of the series as ''[=GetBackers=]: Infinity Fortress'', starting with volume 26. Unfortunately, Tokyopop [[OrphanedSeries lost the license just a couple months later (vol.27 was their last)]][[note]]For the uninitiated, ''[=GetBackers=]'' was one of the many unfortunate casualties of Kodansha [[ScrewedByTheNewtwork yanking all their Tokyopop licenses at once]]—other manga affected included TP's first mega-hit ''Manga/LoveHina'', which had been finished for years, and ''{{Manga/BECK}}'', which was orphaned like ''GB''. No one is 100% sure why Kodansha did it, but most speculation is that it was because they wanted to consolidate all their licenses in one foreign publisher, in this case Del Rey, to save time and money. Indeed, the fact that Kodansha would later buy out Del Rey's manga division and distribution channels (and take on some of their staff) and turned it into their own North American imprint, lends credence to this theory[[/note]], so the final 12 volumes have not seen a legitimate English-language release, and most likely never will.

The manga was licensed in North America by Creator/{{Tokyopop}}, who published the first 25 volumes before pulling a ''[[Manga/{{Dragonball}} Dragonball Z]]'' and opting to release the last third of the series as ''[=GetBackers=]: Infinity Fortress'', starting with volume 26. Unfortunately, Tokyopop [[OrphanedSeries lost the license just a couple months later (vol.27 was their last)]][[note]]For the uninitiated, ''[=GetBackers=]'' was one of the many unfortunate casualties of Kodansha yanking all their Tokyopop licenses at once—other manga affected included TP's first mega-hit ''Manga/LoveHina'', which had been finished for years, and ''{{Manga/BECK}}'', which was orphaned like ''GB''. No one is 100% sure why Kodansha did it, but most speculation is that it was because they wanted to consolidate all their licenses in one foreign publisher, in this case Del Rey, to save time and money. Indeed, the fact that Kodansha would later buy out Del Rey's manga division and distribution channels (and take on some of their staff) and turned it into their own North American imprint, lends credence to this theory[[/note]], so the final 12 volumes have not seen a legitimate English-language release, and most likely never will.

* FermatsLastTheorem: Lucky the Wonder Dog is given a problem like this to solve. The dog answers that it's unsolvable (x = "nothing"), which is what ''really'' clues Ban into the fact that the whole "genius dog" thing isn't a parlor trick... the dog's actually been [[spoiler:infected with the same virus that caused apes to mutate into humans, the so-called "Missing Link Virus."]] It... doesn't make ''sense'' in context, but there is an explanation.