| GetBackers | |
 First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ginji Amano (left) and Ban Mido (right) | |
| ゲットバッカーズ -奪還屋 (Gettobakkāzu Dakkan'ya) | |
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| Genre | Action, comedy,[1] supernatural[2] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yuya Aoki |
| Illustrated by | Rando Ayamine |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Shōnen Magazine Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | March 23, 1999 – February 21, 2007 |
| Volumes | 39 |
| Anime television series | |
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| Produced by |
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| Written by | Akemi Omode |
| Music by | Taku Iwasaki |
| Studio | Studio Deen |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | JNN (TBS) |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 5, 2002 – September 20, 2003 |
| Episodes | 49 |
GetBackers (Japanese: ゲットバッカーズ -奪還屋-, Hepburn: Gettobakkāzu Dakkan'ya, lit. "GetBackers: Recovery Service") is a Japanese manga series written by Yuya Aoki and illustrated by Rando Ayamine. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 1999 to February 2007, with its chapters collected in 39 tankōbon 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.
A 49-episode anime television series adaptation animated by Studio Deen was broadcast on TBS from October 2002 to September 2003. The manga series was licensed for English release in North America by Tokyopop, which released 27 volumes between February 2004 and December 2008; their license expired in 2009.
- ^ "GetBackers Volume 1". Tokyopop. Archived from the original on June 6, 2004. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
- ^ "Get Backers". Sentai Filmworks. Archived from the original on August 8, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2018.