Ginji and Ban, proprieters of the retrieval agency GetBackers, have special powers enabling them to get back anything taken from their clients, and their cases lead them on many adventures.
亜樹 直 Agi Tadashi is a Japanese manga storywriter, novelist and screenwriter. His original name is Shin Kibayashi (樹林 伸 Kibayashi Shin). He was born in 1962 in Tokyo, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Senior High School and Waseda University School of Economics & Political Science. The penname "Tadashi Agi" is shared with his sister. Under the name Yuma Ando, he received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for writing Kunimitsu no Matsuri.
I don't know if it's because I've seen the anime so many times, and this volume covers so many of those storylines, but I found this volume hard to keep my interest .
The stories are pretty good. The art is adequate to the story. But, I hate the small font that calls for a magnifying glass! There are more volumes, but this is my last.
Great conclusion to Act III and its nice to see Hevn, Pore, and Natsumi come along for a job. Hope they have some fighting ability that I don’t know about yet
The art is a big problem for me. It's very busy and cluttered, where I prefer cleaner, sparer compositions. Ginji looks like a butch girl. Hevn's breasts are even bigger here than they are in the anime and they practically have their own subplots. Which leads to the next problem. Her huge breasts are constantly being heaved into the readers' faces and everybody plays with them. I'm not fond of the gratuitous female near-nudity and panty shots. I know that this is a convention in much manga, but I really don't like it.
Then there's the brief appearance of Kazuki the Seamstress. I've heard that the last bit might be fixed for the next volume, but on top of everything else it really killed me.
More improbable super-powered hitmen. Less fan service, which is either an improvement or not depending on one's point of view. Decent diversion, but probably not anything I'll reread.