GetBackers

GetBackers
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ginji Amano (left) and Ban Mido (right)
GetBackers -奪還屋-
(Gettobakkāzu Dakkan'ya)
Genre
Manga
Written byYuya Aoki
Illustrated byRando Ayamine
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
Original runMarch 24, 1999February 21, 2007
Volumes39
Anime television series
Directed by
Produced by
  • Kaoru Sakamoto
  • Kazunori Noguchi
  • Satoshi Kohno
Written byAkemi Omode
Music byTaku Iwasaki
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed by
Original networkJNN (TBS)
English network
Original run October 5, 2002 September 20, 2003
Episodes49

GetBackers (Japanese: GetBackers -奪還屋-, Hepburn: Gettobakkāzu Dakkan'ya; '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 series follows the GetBackers, a pair of youths endowed with supernatural abilities who specialize in recovering lost or stolen items.

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; its license expired in 2009.