

Only those who have won the Ogre Battle may enter Babylon City and when that happens, they can change the world as they see fit. In actuality, Babylon City is what one might consider the real world, with everything else being a virtual reality creation. Babylon City, the upper most level of the Limitless Fortress, is said to be where the Brain Trust resides and is the home of Ginji's mother. The Beltline, the most dangerous area of The Limitless Fortress, is ruled by Der Kaiser, Ban's father. Lower Town is the lowest in altitude, with several layers extending below ground level. The plot mostly revolves around their adventures, often complicated by the pair's convoluted, individual pasts and a mysterious place known as the Infinity Fortress (Limitless Fortress in the anime dub).Ī conglomeration of disused, condemned buildings clustered together to form a self-contained habitat, Limitless Fortress is subdivided into three specific tiers – Lower Town, the Beltline and Babylon City. Their targets range from lost video games to misplaced components of an atomic bomb. The GetBackers' job often leads them into bizarre and dangerous situations in order to "get back what shouldn't be gone". For a fee, they will recover any lost or stolen item for a client with "an almost 100% success rate". The duo operates a freelance repossession service out of one of the seedier areas of Shinjuku, Tokyo. The series tells the story of Ginji Amano and Ban Mido, a pair of super-powered individuals known as the "GetBackers". It has since lost the license to the property, and all existing releases are now out-of-print. The series was licensed for English release in North America by Tokyopop, which released 27 volumes between February 2004 and December 2008. It was also dubbed in English and broadcast by the anime television network Animax across its respective networks worldwide. The Studio Deen production aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 2002 to September 2003, for a complete run of 49 episodes. The manga was adapted into an anime television series in 2002.

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. The plot follows the "GetBackers", a group that retrieves anything that was lost. The series was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 until 2007, totaling 39 volumes. "GetBackers: Recovery Service") is a Japanese manga series written by Yuya Aoki and illustrated by Rando Ayamine. GetBackers ( Japanese: ゲットバッカーズ -奪還屋-, Hepburn: Gettobakkāzu Dakkan'ya, lit.
