List of GetBackers chapters

Cover of the first GetBackers manga volume showing that the manga release from Tokyopop (right) uses a completely different cover image versus the original release (left).

The Japanese manga series GetBackers was written by Yuya Aoki and illustrated by Rando Ayamine. The series was published by Kodansha in the Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2007.[1] The plot of the manga follows the "GetBackers", a group that retrieves anything that was lost. The team is primary composed by Ban Mido, a man with the ability of 200 kilograms-force in his right hand and an illusionary technique called the "Evil Eye". The other member, Ginji Amano is the former leader of a gang called "The VOLTS", a powerful group in the dangerous territory called the Infinity Fortress, and has the ability to control electricity.

The manga consists of 39 tankōbon containing twelve story arcs with the name of "Act" and a short number of side stories named "Interlude". The first tankōbon was released on August 17, 1999,[2] and the last one was released on April 17, 2007.[3] On February from 2009, Kodansha published a one-shot chapter from the series in their Magazine Special journal.[1] The manga series was also adapted into a forty-nine episode anime series by Studio Deen. The anime series, which premiered on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) on October 5, 2002 and ended on September 20, 2003.[4]

GetBackers is licensed for an English language release in North America by Tokyo Pop, who first announced it in the Anime Expo 2004 in July 2003.[5] Tokyo Pop divided it into two series: GetBackers featuring the first twenty-five and GetBackers: Infinity Fortress the following ones. GetBackers was published from February 10, 2004,[6] to July 7, 2008.[7] However, only the first three volumes of Infinity Fortress were released. On August 31, 2009, Tokyopop announced that they would not be completing the series as their licenses with Kodansha expired and Kodansha required that they immediately stop publication of all previously licensed series, including GetBackers. Because of this, the series is now considered to be out-of-print.[8]

Volumes

GetBackers

No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 August 17, 1999[2]ISBN 4-06-312731-1February 10, 2004[6]ISBN 978-1591826330
  • "Act I: Here Come the GetBackers! - Part 1: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch Date" (ACT. 1: 奪還屋登場! (1)) [Chapter 1]
  • "Act I: Here Come the GetBackers! - Part 2: His Daughter's Keepers" (ACT. 1: 奪還屋登場! (2)) [Chapter 2]
  • "Act I: Here Come the GetBackers! - Part 3: Undead Men Tell No Tales" (ACT. 1: 奪還屋登場! (3)) [Chapter 3]
  • "Act II: Get Back the Moment! - Part 1: Like a Bat Outta Heaven" (ACT. 2: 誓いの瞬間を奪り還せ! (1)) [Chapter 4]
  • "Act II: Get Back the Moment! - Part 2: A Cat Always Lands on its Face" (ACT. 2: 誓いの瞬間を奪り還せ! (2)) [Chapter 5]
After failing to obtain any job, the GetBackers, a retrieval team composed of young adults Ban Mido and Ginji Amano, are picked by a homeless who requests them to find their daughter Rika Yamamura who was taken by the yakuza when his company fell to bankruptcy. The GetBackers decide to find her in exchange for the food they were given by the homeless, and break into the yakuza mansion. When finding Rika, they are tricked by her into being attacked by the bodyguards as she despises her father. Before being killed by the yakuza, Ban uses his Evil Eye to give a one-minute nightmare to all of them causing a selfslaughter. The GetBackers then learn that Rika's father was attacked by a group of homeless, and before he is taken by the ambulance, Ban uses the Evil Eye to show him a dream in which he reunites with his daughter. With the negotiator Hevn, the GetBackers later obtain a job from a woman named Kinue Akagawa to retrieve her heirloom which was taken as a debt. Succeeding in retrieving it in a poor condition, they unknowingly carry a disk from the heirloom, which cause them to be attacked by Akagawa's boss, Professor Kabutogawa.
2 September 17, 1999[9]ISBN 978-4-06-312741-6April 13, 2004[10]ISBN 978-1591826347
  • "Act II: Get Back the Moment! (3)" (ACT. 2: 誓いの瞬間を奪り還せ! (3)) [Chapter 6]
  • "Act II: Get Back the Moment! (4)" (ACT. 2: 誓いの瞬間を奪り還せ! (4)) [Chapter 7]
  • "Act II: Get Back the Moment! (5)" (ACT. 2: 誓いの瞬間を奪り還せ! (5)) [Chapter 8]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers (1)" [Chapter 9]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers (2)" [Chapter 10]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers (3)" [Chapter 11]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers (4)" [Chapter 12]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers (5)" [Chapter 13]
Kabutogawa's bodyguard, Ryudo Hisshiki, knocks out Ban and Ginji and kidnaps Hevn after taking the disc from the fake heirloom. Ban and Ginji are saved by Akagawa who reveals that Kabutogawa illegally traffics patients' organs and that her fiancé was taken by him after suffering an accident. Wanting to take revenge, Akagawa made a disc containing information about his actions, but it was researched by Kabutogawa. Ban and Ginji agree to stop Kabutogawa, and knock out him alongside his guards. Akagawa takes Kabutogawa to the police and manages to find her fiancé's catatonic body, but still hopes he will wake up. After rescuing Hevn, Ban and Ginji get a job from a politician named Akito who wants find a stolen box taken by transporters hired by a rival of him. Knowing the high value of what may be inside the job, Ban accepts in exchange of 10% of its contents. After a persecution with the transporter Gozo Magaruma, Himiko Kudo and Kurodo Akabane, the GetBackers end up confronting the last two in battle. In the outcome, Ginji is kidnapped by Akabane. After being told by Himiko about how Ban killed her older brother, Yamato Kudo, Ginji is rescued by Ban after taking the transporters' box.
3 November 17, 1999[11]ISBN 978-4-06-312777-5June 8, 2004[12]ISBN 978-1591826354
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers - Part 6: Rematch" [Chapter 14]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers - Part 7: Magnetic Attraction" [Chapter 15]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers - Part 8: Life's Simple Pleasures" [Chapter 16]
  • "Act III: Givers and Takers - Part 9: Like a Millon Bucks" [Chapter 17]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 1: Music to my Ears" [Chapter 18]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 2: Play it Again, Gang" [Chapter 19]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 3: Music Shootes and the Savage Beast" [Chapter 20]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 4: A Better Mousetrap" [Chapter 21]
Ban and Ginji are followed by the transporters ending in another fight between Ban and Ginji against Himiko and Akabane, respectively. Ban easily knocks out Himiko after almost revealing the truth behind Yamato's death, while Ginji does it by making all of Akabane's knives pierce him with his ability to generate magnetic electricity. While Akabane gives up, Himiko and Magaruma follow the GetBackers, until they are attacked by crows inflicted with the Evil Eye. Ban and Ginji succeed in their job, but learn that their client's box only contained a platina melon. The GetBackers then get another job from the talented violinist Madoka Otowa who wants recover her Stradivarius violin stolen by the yakuza Akutsu Shunsuke. Acting as a musical quintent hired by Akutsu for a party held tonight, the GetBackers, Hevn, Madoka and their friends Paul Wan and Natsumi Mitzuki infiltrate into Akutsu's mansion. However, they are caught when Shido Fuyuki, an old friend from Ginji now working for Akutsu, learns about their actions from another old friend of Ginji, Kazuki Fuuchouin. The GetBackers split to find the Stradivarius, and Ban is confronted by Shido who wants to kill him, thinking he made Ginji leave the Infinite Fortress, a group of buildings from Shinjuku where Ginji was Shido's and Kazuki's leader and had the title of "Lightning Lord".
4 January 17, 2000[13]ISBN 978-4-06-312792-8August 10, 2004[14]ISBN 978-1591826361
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 5: When Animals Attack" [Chapter 22]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 6: Fast Getaway" [Chapter 23]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 7: Gone in 60 Seconds" [Chapter 24]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 8: My Brother's Reaper" [Chapter 25]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 9: The Ties that Bind" [Chapter 26]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 10: Best of Show" [Chapter 27]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 11: For the People" [Chapter 28]
  • "Act IV: Get Back The Sound of Life - Part 12: Behind the Music" [Chapter 29]
Ban easily overwhelms Shido, but escapes when faced by Kazuki. Madoka, Ginji and Hevn find Akutsu who gives him the Stradivarius, but later sends his strongest guards, his two waiters, to kill them. Unwilling to let them kill Madoka, Shido goes to stop them and faces one of them. Ban defeats the other guard who was Madoka's assistant, while Ginji is attacked by Hisshiki, also hired by Akutsu. Summoning a lightning, Ginji defeats Hisshiki and goes to support Shido, feeling guilty for his actions. However, Shido defeats Akutsu's guard alone and uses his ability to communicate with animals to make Madoka's dog bring him the Stradivarius. Shido later returns the violin to Madoka, who allows him to live in her house after both fall in love.
5 April 14, 2000[15]ISBN 4-06-312829-6October 12, 2004[16]ISBN 978-1591826378
  • "Act V: Phanthom Sunflower - Part 1: Art Van Gone" [Chapter 30]
  • "Act V: Phanthom Sunflower - Part 2: Clayman Cometh" [Chapter 31]
  • "Act V: Phanthom Sunflower - Part 3: Art Appreciation 101" [Chapter 32]
  • "Act V: Phanthom Sunflower - Part 4: Burn, Baby, Burn" [Chapter 33]
  • "Act V: Phanthom Sunflower - Part 5: The Art of Aty Fraud" [Chapter 34]
  • "Act V: Phanthom Sunflower - Part 6: The Curse of the Starving Class" [Chapter 35]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 1: Enter Akabane!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (1)) [Chapter 36]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 2: Volts Reunited" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (2)) [Chapter 37]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 3: Kill and be Killed" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (3)) [Chapter 38]
Ban and Ginji are hired by Hashisu and Abukawa from the Takaokaya Department Store to find a Sunflower painting highly similar to the ones made by Vincent van Gogh although he only made twelve before his death. The painting's thief is Clayman who hired Himiko to transport the painting. Finding Himiko and Clayman in a hideout, Ban and Ginji sees the Sunflower painting which Clayman reveals it was actually made by Vincent van Gogh, and that Hachisu has sent his soldiers to destroy it in order to obtain its insurance money. Clayman hires the GetBackers to protect the painting which they do by making Hachisu made he destroyed it with the Evil Eye. The GetBackers take another supposed fake painting as a payment before learning from Kazuki that Clayman's mother was a spiritual medium who contacted with the spirits of the dead artists. Hevn then gets a job that requires the GetBackers, Kazuki, Shido, Himiko and Akabane work together which they accept. Their client, who keeps his identity hidden, hires them to obtain a target known as "I.L." from the Infinite Fortress. As the recovery team enter the Fortress, they are attacked by men, and during the fight a poisonous gas is spread, causing the team to split.
6 June 16, 2000[17]ISBN 978-4-06-312849-9December 14, 2004[18]ISBN 978-1591826385
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 4: Strange Bedfellows" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (4)) [Chapter 39]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 5: The Body Shop" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (5)) [Chapter 40]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 6: For the Birds" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (6)) [Chapter 41]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 7: Face Off" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (7)) [Chapter 42]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 8: Strings Attached" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (8)) [Chapter 43]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 9: Pins and Needles" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (9)) [Chapter 44]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 10: Multiplicity" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (10)) [Chapter 45]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 11: One Good Turn" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (11)) [Chapter 46]
Ginji finds himself in company of Akabane and despite being scared of him, agrees to work together. Ban and Shido are attacked by two physically enhanced soldiers working for Makubex, the youngest of the Four Emperors alongside Shido and Kazuki who worked for Ginji. Upon their defeat, Ban learns that ever since Ginji left the Fortress, its situation has been getting worse. As Makubex views all the members from the recovery team, Himiko is attacked by a man posing as Kazuki, but he is defeated by the real one in a battle the latter's ability to control strings grants him victory. However, Kazuki is then stabbed by Juubei Kakei, an old friend from him working for Makubex, and is forced to escape by faking a suicide. As Makubex keeps testing the Ginji's and Akabane's with more soldiers, Kazuki is treated by a doctor named Gen and his granddaughter Ren.
7 August 10, 2000[19]ISBN 978-4-06-312874-1February 8, 2005[20]ISBN 978-1591829690
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 12: All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (12)) [Chapter 47]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 13: The Fortress of Dolls!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (13)) [Chapter 48]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 14: When Bad Friends Attack!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (14)) [Chapter 49]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 15: Fight for your Right to Party!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (15)) [Chapter 50]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 16: Good Times gone Bad!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (16)) [Chapter 51]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 17: Catching Up with Ginji!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (17)) [Chapter 52]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 18: May we come in?" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (18)) [Chapter 53]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 19: Ginji vs. Juubei!" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (19)) [Chapter 54]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 20: Akabane vs. Kagami! (Work's Never Done)" (ACT.6 : 無限城"IL"奪還作戦! (20)) [Chapter 55]
Himiko finds herself in a jail with a kidnapped Hevn, but manages to escape. Ban smells Himiko's scent and discovers that Makubex is in Fortress' Underground Garbage Facility, but he and Shido are attacked by people manipulated by Makubex's strings as well as Takuma Fudou, a warrior from Makubex who wishes to kill Ban both having been former comrades. As Fudou gets the upper hand fighting Ban, Haruki Emishi, a member from Ginji's former team, the VOLTS, and a friend of Shido, interrupts them and Fudou escapes. Emishi tries to kill them both of them, but he realizes Ban used the Evil Eye against him, having realized from Fudou's actions that Emishi is working for Makubex. Emishi escapes as he was told by Makubex to wait until Ban used the Evil Eye as he can only use three times in a day. Later, both Ban and Kazuki discover that I.L. is in fact implosion lens that will help Makubex create an atomic bomb and that a member from the recovery may be bringing it to him. Meanwhile, Ginji and Akabane are confronted by Juubei and Kyouji Kagami, respectively. Forcing their opponents to escape, Ginji and Akabane continue their job.
8 November 16, 2000[21]ISBN 978-4-06-312902-1April 12, 2005[22]ISBN 978-1591829706
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 21: Notes from the Underground!" [Chapter 56]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 22: One Step Closer!" [Chapter 57]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 23: The Final Countdown!" [Chapter 58]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 24: Reunited and It Feels so Good!" [Chapter 59]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 25: Behind Closed Doors!" [Chapter 60]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 26: Where Are We?" [Chapter 61]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 27: Meet the Beastmaster!" [Chapter 62]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 28: Room of Illusion!" [Chapter 63]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 29: Juubei's Secret Move!" [Chapter 64]
The members from the Recovery Team go throughout the depths of the Fortress as they start reuniting. As all gather, they appear in an area containing six door, and decide to split again following Makubex's plans. While Akabane's door leads him to Makubex, Shido's and Kazuki's are connected and they meet Emishi and Juubei. Trapped in a virtual reality developed by Makubex, Shido battles Emishi, soon getting the upper hand. Unable to defeat Shido, Emishi tries incinerating himself alongside Shido, who instead saves him and takes him to Gen's place to treat him. Kazuki and Juubei start fighting as the former question Juubei's reason to follow Makubex.
9 January 17, 2001[23]ISBN 978-4-06-312924-3June 7, 2005[24]ISBN 978-1591829713
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 30: Secrets Revealed" [Chapter 65]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 31: Rain of Needles" [Chapter 66]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 32: Faces of Betrayal" [Chapter 67]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 33: A New Reality" [Chapter 68]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 34: My Oh Mayan!" [Chapter 69]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 35: Welcome Back, Ban!" [Chapter 70]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 36: An Arm for an Arm" [Chapter 71]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 37: Lightning Strikes!" [Chapter 72]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 38: Lightning Strikes Twice!" [Chapter 73]
Juubei reveals that Makubex plans to use the atomic bomb to defy the god-like members from Babylon City, a place from the Fortress' top that manipulates the chaos done in the lower town. Kazuki continues fighting Juubei, but when he refuses to finish him, Juubei stabs himself as self-punishment for battling his friend who was meant protect, and Kazuki takes him to Gen's place. Meanwhile, Akabane is revealed as a transporter hired by Makubex, and delivers him the plutonium needed for the bomb. Makubex then shows Akabane that Himiko has encountered Kagami, revealed to be from Babylon City. Kagami defeats Himiko and makes the virtual people execute her, but he is stopped by Ban's second Evil Eye. Ban joins forces with Himiko to fight Kagami, who escapes, having done what Makubex requested him. Ban continues the walk from his door and encounters Fudou once again. Ginji's door leads him to meet virtual demon-like versions of his childhood friends, who he kills in panic and is then blamed by a virtual Takeru Teshimine, the who raised him, for his friends' deaths. In his desesperation, Ginji becomes the Lightning Lord, a stronger and colder alter-ego that destroys Teshimine. Concerned about Ginji's fate, Ban summons the power from Ophiuchus and shortly defeats Fudou in order to get to him.
10 March 16, 2001[25]ISBN 978-4-06-312948-9July 12, 2005[26]ISBN 978-1591829720
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 39: Outta Control!" [Chapter 74]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 40: Ginji Heats Up!" [Chapter 75]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 41: Ginji Cools Down!" [Chapter 76]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 42: A Virtual Showndown!" [Chapter 77]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 43: Now, Go Ahead!" [Chapter 78]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 44: Face to Face!" [Chapter 79]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 45: In the Mind of Madness!" [Chapter 80]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 46: Life's a Dream!" [Chapter 81]
Lost in his anger, Ginji attacks Sakura Kakei, another of Makubex's followers, until he is confronted by Akabane whose payment for bringing the plutonium is fighting the Lightning Lord. Wishing to use his full potential, Akabane battles Ginji until Ban interrupts them, receiving an attack from Akabane's sword. While Ban's wound causes Ginji to return to normal, Ban fakes it as if he made the third Evil Eye to trick Makubex. The Recovery Team, as well as Sakura, Juubei and Emishi, go to find him but are delayed by virtual replicas of them. Having just finished the bomb, Makubex is faced by the Recovery Team, and when attempting to activate it, Ban uses the real third Evil Eye on him. With the detonator stolen, Makubex remembers that his wish to return with the VOLTS, and attempts to committee suicide, thinking he will never be able to accomplish it. Ginji stops Makubex, convincing him that his life is worth and that he still has his old friends around him who greet him.
11 May 17, 2001[27]ISBN 978-4-06-312967-0August 9, 2005[28]ISBN 978-1591829737
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 47: Infinity's a Beginning!" [Chapter 82]
  • "Act VI: Return to Infinity Fortress - Part 48: Easy Come, Easy Go!" [Chapter 83]
  • "Interlude I: Operation: Retrieve the Retrieval Fee!" [Chapter 84]
  • "Interlude II: Shido & Madoka - Part 1: Dress-Up Shido!" [Chapter 85]
  • "Interlude II: Shido & Madoka - Part 2: Bug Off!" [Chapter 86]
  • "Interlude II: Shido & Madoka - Part 3: A Sticky Situation!" [Chapter 87]
  • "Interlude II: Shido & Madoka - Part 4: Save the Last Song" [Chapter 88]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 1: Clayman Returns!" [Chapter 89]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 2: The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking!" [Chapter 90]
Makubex decides to recreate the VOLTS to protect the lower parts from the Fortress with Sakura, Juubei and Emishi, still supporting him. He then gives the data from the I.L. to the Recovery Team, in order to be delivered to the unknown client. The client tries to kill the Recovery Team, but his group is slaughtered by Akabane. Failing to receive payment once again, Ban and Ginji search new jobs, while Shido is attacked by members from the Kiriuudo clan, enemy from Shido's clan, the Mariudo. With Ginji's and Ban's help, Shido defeats his attackers, but remains concerned about Madoka's fate if he stays with her. The GetBackers are then hired by Clayman to find the fake arms from the Venus de Milo that are meant to assemble with a replica of the Venus in order to put it in an auction. Accepting the job, Ban and Ginji learn that they are opposed by Shido and Emishi.
12 August 10, 2001[29]ISBN 978-4-06-313007-2November 8, 2005[30]ISBN 978-1591829744
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 3: All Aboard!" [Chapter 91]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 4: GetBackers Gettin' On!" [Chapter 92]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 5: Eating with the Enemy" [Chapter 93]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 6: The Party Begins!" [Chapter 94]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 7: Enjoy the Show!" [Chapter 95]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 8: Ban's Grand Entrance!" [Chapter 96]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 9: Approaching Shore" [Chapter 97]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 10: Welcome to Battleship Island!" [Chapter 98]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 11: Venus' Identity Exposed!" [Chapter 99]
Akabane attacks the GetBackers, having been hired to transport the Venus' arms to the auction. Managing to escape from Akabane, Ban and Ginji find the ship that will go to an island where the auction is to be held by mafia. While Ginji succeeds in infiltrating, Ban is impaled by Natsuhiko Miroku, a swordsman working for Hela, the woman who discovered the Venus' arms. Believing Ban is alive, Ginji stays in the ship and befriends, Yukihiko Miroku, Natsuhiko's older brother. However, he is then attacked by Yukihiko's siblings, while Shido and Emishi are attacked by Chinese martial artists hired by Liu Mengyan, who is hosting the auction. Ban enters the ship where is faced by Akabane, who decides to spare him after learning that he defeated the Lightning Lord in the past, wanting a future battle. Natsuhiko also spares Ginji, who meets Hela and realizes she was the girlfriend from a painter named Kaito. A weakened Ban is then rescued by Shido, who reveals Hevn got him and Emishi the job of retrieving the fake Venus which is made of the addictive drug Aphrodite as a mean for the mafia to sell the drug in public.
13 October 17, 2001[31]ISBN 978-4-06-313030-0February 7, 2006[32]ISBN 978-1591829751
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 12: The Arms of the Enemy!" [Chapter 100]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 13: All Together, Now!" [Chapter 101]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 14: Killing Time!" [Chapter 102]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 15: Mighty Aphrodite!" [Chapter 103]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 16: The Auction Approaches!" [Chapter 104]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 17: Miroku's Secret!" [Chapter 105]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 18: Seven on One!" [Chapter 106]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 19: Ginji Cuts the Lights!" [Chapter 107]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 20: Ready to Roll!" [Chapter 108]
Once the ship gets to island from the auction, Hela explains to Ginji that she is cooperating with Mengyan as after seeing the original Venus, Kaito became obsessed with it so much he lost interest in Hela. When Ginji tries to explain the reason for Kaito's change, Hela orders Natsuhiko to kill Ginji, but he manages to escape with Ban's help. Ban, Ginji decide to cooperate with Shido and Emishi to accomplish their jobs, and split to infiltrate into the auction. However, Shido and Emishi are atttacked once again by Mengyan's warriors, Ban by Akabane and Ginji by Yukihiko. As Shido and Emishi defeat their opponents, Ginji realizes that the seven Miroku siblings reside within one body, allowing them to easily overcome him when they change their personas. When being repeatedly impaled by the Miroku, Ginji becomes the Lightning Lord despite not having the Fortress' electromagnetic radiation which gives him such power. When defeating six Mirokus, Ginji is faced by Yukihiko. As Yukihiko is weakened while facing Ginji who returns to his normal state, Ginji escapes to continue his job.
14 December 17, 2001[33]ISBN 978-4-06-313052-2May 9, 2006[34]ISBN 978-1591829768
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 21: Hiding Trees in a Forest!" [Chapter 109]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 22: A Farewell to Arms" [Chapter 110]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 23: The Goddess Returns" [Chapter 111]
  • "Act VII: The Lost Arms of the Goddess - Part 24: Good Bye to Liu" [Chapter 112]
  • "Interlude III: Let's Go to the Hot Springs! - Part 1: Rock Hunting" [Chapter 113]
  • "Interlude III: Let's Go to the Hot Springs! - Part 2: Overwhelming Attack" [Chapter 114]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 1: The More Things Change" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (1)) [Chapter 115]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 2: What's in the Cards?" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (2)) [Chapter 116]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 3: A New Deal Begins" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (3)) [Chapter 117]
Using dolls identical to him, Ban tricks Akabane into thinking he used the Evil Eye and escape to the auction. Using the Evil Eye with bodyguards from the auction, Ban, Ginji, Shido and Emishi retrieve the Venus' arms and the replica made of Aphrodite, but Ginji accidentally drops them to the bottom of the sea while escaping. Still considering that with arms lost, the Venus will keep its beauty, Clayman gives the GetBackers half of the pay, and the three go to meet Hela. They reveal that Kaito became addicted to Aphrodite to the point of ending in a catatonic state, but used his last forces to make a painting of Hela in Shinjuku. After Hela reunites with, Ban uses the Evil Eye to make Mengyan expose his drugs and make the police arrest him. Ginji is visited by Yukihiko who still wishes to be his friends, but tells him that he will kill Ban for the death of his sister. The GetBackers keep obtaining jobs to earn money, and being hired by parents to rescue three children involved with a supposed cursed card game named Divine Design. They run into Kazuki, Himiko and Hevn who have been hired for a similar job and join forces as they keep learning more about the cards' possible curse.
15 March 15, 2002[35]ISBN 978-4-06-313084-3August 1, 2006[36]ISBN 978-1591829775
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 4: Namaste" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (4)) [Chapter 118]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 5: The Gaze of the Gorgon" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (5)) [Chapter 119]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 6: Akinetopsia" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (6)) [Chapter 120]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 7: Faith and Doubt" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (7)) [Chapter 121]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 8: Light-Bearer/Serpent-Bearer" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (8)) [Chapter 122]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 9: Unhappy Reunion" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (9)) [Chapter 123]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 10: Quiet as the Dew" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (10)) [Chapter 124]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 11: Buenas Noches!" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (11)) [Chapter 125]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 12: You Can't Bake a Cake" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (12)) [Chapter 126]
The team infiltrates into the Divine Design company's headquarters in India after learning that journalists investigating it have gone missing. A member from the company tries to kill them, but when he is about to be interrogated by them, his body is petrified. Ban and Himiko are then confronted by Sariel, a missing child as well his boss Lucifer. Lucifer uses Divine Design cards to summon angelic creatures to attack Ban, who realizes he has the blood of a witch like his grandmother, which allows him to use such cards in the territory. However, Ban is defeated and Himiko escapes with him. Meanwhile, Ginji, Hevn and Kazuki are faced by Toshiki Uryu, a former member from Fuga, a group led by Kazuki before joining the VOLTS. Also working for Lucifer, Toshiki fights Kazuki using cards from Divine Design. Unable to save Kazuki, Ginji escapes with Hevn, and the group returns to Shinjuku where Ban requests help from Maria Noches, a witch trained by his grandmother. Maria reveals that the cards' powers actually come from an uppereality and decides to train them so that they will control them.
16 July 17, 2002[37]ISBN 978-4-06-363124-1November 7, 2006[38]ISBN 978-1591829782
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 13: In the Face of Danger" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (13)) [Chapter 127]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 14: The King's Blood" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (14)) [Chapter 128]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 15: Red String of Fate" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (15)) [Chapter 129]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 16: Puppet on a String" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (16)) [Chapter 130]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 17: Appointment with the Cursed Claw" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (17)) [Chapter 131]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 18: Thanatopsis" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (18)) [Chapter 132]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 19: Field of Lavander" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (19)) [Chapter 133]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 20: Torjan House" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (20)) [Chapter 134]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 21: Guardian of the West Gate" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (21)) [Chapter 135]
Following Maria's training, Ban's group learn how to use the Divine Design to fight at the same level of Lucifer as well as that they have to destroy Lucifer's deck to save the children. As they leave to face Lucifer, Juubei requests Maria training to help him save Kazuki. Hevn is summoned to their territory where she is defeated by Kazuki who has had his soul stolen by Lucifer. Gabriel, another missing kid working for Lucifer, confronts Ginji. Ginji stops Gabriel, who requests him to take his guardian card from Lucifer to stop the curse Lucifer placed him. Ban and Himiko are faced by other two missing kids, Sariel and Remiel, but manage to defeat them as they learn about their curse. While heading towards Lucifer's location, Ban, Ginji and Himiko are sent to different areas to fight Lucifer's strongest guardians, but Ban easily defeats his opponent.
17 September 17, 2002[39]ISBN 978-4-06-363146-3February 6, 2007[40]ISBN 978-1591829799
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 22: A Brother's Memory" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (22)) [Chapter 136]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 23: Twin Dragons" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (23)) [Chapter 137]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 24: The Rules of Reality" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (24)) [Chapter 138]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 25: For Longhua's Sake" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (25)) [Chapter 139]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 26: Devil's Gambit" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (26)) [Chapter 140]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 27: Divide and Conquer" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (27)) [Chapter 141]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 28: Dyed in Blood" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (28)) [Chapter 142]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 29: Illusions and Specters" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (29)) [Chapter 143]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 30: Coup de Gráce" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (30)) [Chapter 144]
Ginji meets his opponent, Quinglong, who is the brother of a girl who died while protecting Ginji in the Fortress and caused his transformation into the Lightning Lord. Meanwhile, Himiko is tricked by the third guardian to believe he is the deceased Yamato, living in Lucifer's territory, in order to ambush her. Himiko is saved by the real Yamato, who defeats the guardian before fading away. As he faces Quinglong who made a deal with Lucifer to revive his sister if he defeated Ginji, Ginji becomes the Lightning Lord, taking energy from the Fortress. However, both withdraw from the fight as Ginji tells Quinglong that is not her sister's wish to sacrifice himself. As Ginji returns to Ban and Himiko, Juubei defeats the last guardian, allowing them to continue their territory. Ginji is faced by Toshiki and Kazuki, the latter possessed by Lucifer's minion, Orpheus. With Ginji unwilling to fight Kazuki, Juubei replaces him and manages to stop Orpheus' possession. Juubei then battles his old comrade Toshiki until they are interrupted by Kazuki who convinces Toshiki to join him. However, Toshiki's heart is ripped off by Lucifer's curse.
18 November 15, 2002[41]ISBN 978-4-06-363167-8May 1, 2007[42]ISBN 978-1591829805
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 31: The Key" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (31)) [Chapter 145]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 32: The Wall" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (32)) [Chapter 146]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 33: Fortune's Hand" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (33)) [Chapter 147]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 34: Witch Blood" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (34)) [Chapter 148]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 35: Where They Belong" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (35)) [Chapter 149]
  • "Act VIII: Divine Design - Part 36: Hole Card" (ACT. 8: 神の記述 (36)) [Chapter 150]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 1: Out of the Depths" [Chapter 151]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 2: On the Road Again" [Chapter 152]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 3: The Sting" [Chapter 153]
Thinking that Lucifer was just using him and the kids as tools, Sariel brings Ban's group to face Lucifer. Using his Evil Eye, Ban learns that Lucifer's wish is to revive his daughter with the power of the cards. Maria then reveals that Lucifer never cursed his guardians, as the cards' powers are illusions able to affect reality, and Lucifer agrees to help Ban and Maria to make a resurrection ceremony to undo the effect from Toshiki's curse. The team then returns the kids to their respective parents, while the orphan Ragyel starts working at Paul's honky-tonk alongside Natsumi. Lucifer goes to the Fortress where is killed by Akabane, who was hired by a member from Brain Trust, the people from Babylon City as a punishment for releasing their cards. The GetBackers are later hired by Juuzou Ishikura, a microbiologist connected with an Anti-U.S. terrorist group who wants them to retrieve Marine Red, fifteen bottles of red wine that was taken by Yakuza following World War II's end. Accepting the job, Ban and Ginji learn that Marine Red is being transported by Maguruma and protected by Hishiki. In a persecution, Maguruma is attacked by various hornets and the GetBackers decide to save him.
19 January 17, 2003[43]ISBN 978-4-06-363191-3July 3, 2007[44]ISBN 978-1591829812
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 4: Insecticide" [Chapter 154]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 5: The Face of the Enemy" [Chapter 155]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 6: The Devil's Virus" [Chapter 156]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 7: Bee-Trayal" [Chapter 157]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 8: Battle for the Bottle" [Chapter 158]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 9: Immortal Bloodsucking Demon" [Chapter 159]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 10: The Brew that is True" [Chapter 160]
  • "Act IX: Marine Red - Part 11: Give to the Poor" [Chapter 161]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 1: On his Knees" [Chapter 162]
After bringing Maguruma to safety, the GetBackers grab the Marine Red. They are then attacked by the person controlling the bees, Dokubachi, who was hired by the former military man Captain Blood to take Marine Red. Although they manage to escape from Dokubachi, Ginji is poisoned by one of Dokubachi's bees and only two bottles remain. Dokubachi agrees to save Ginji if Ban can defeat Blood as he was ordered to obtain the wine for his clan's leader. Confronting Blood Ban learns that Marine Red is a virus able to enhance people's physical state with Blood having been infected with it decades ago. Ban defeats Blood and receives the cure from Dokubachi. The two GetBackers give Ishikura the last two remaining bottles which actually has red wine created by Ishikura's late friend, Dr. Nadia Bartley. Nadia was supposed to give the virus to soldiers in World War II but instead gave her red wine and was executed as a result. The GetBackers are later requested by Shido to protect Madoka from Dokubachi's clan but Ban refuses the offer. Shido then seeks help from Himiko and Akabane.
20 April 17, 2003[45]ISBN 978-4-06-363225-5September 4, 2007ISBN 978-1591829829
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 2: A Light in the Darkness" [Chapter 163]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 3: The Silence of the Butterflies" [Chapter 164]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 4: Kidnapped!" [Chapter 165]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 5: Reinforcements" [Chapter 166]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 6: The Proper Time" [Chapter 167]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 7: China Street" [Chapter 168]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 8: The Fearsome Tarantula Brothers" [Chapter 169]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 9: In the Spider's Nest" [Chapter 170]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 10: Fifty Percent" [Chapter 171]
Despite Shido's actions, Madoka is kidnapped by Saicho Mumyoin, a member from the Kiriudo. Shido is saved from the Kiriudo by Ban and Ginji who accept the job of retrieving Madoka. He then leaves to seek reinforcements from the Mariudo to oppose Kiriudo while Makubex request Kazuki and Emishi's assistance to save Madoka. Ban, Ginji and Himiko investigate a block from the Infinite Fortress that has a club connected with the Kiriudo. There, a they are attacked by four members from the Kiriudo who intend to kill Himiko: Kagegumo, Tobigumo, Onigumo and Kirimito. While Ginji faces Kagegumo and Tobigumo, Ban fights Onigumo.
21 June 17, 2003[46]ISBN 978-4-06-363250-7November 13, 2007[47]ISBN 978-1591829836
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 11 Why Do We Fight?" [Chapter 172]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 12 Karmic Burden" [Chapter 173]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 13 In the Spider's Lair" [Chapter 174]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 14 Say Goodbye to the neiborhood" [Chapter 175]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 15 Out of Juice" [Chapter 176]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 16 Akabane-san Is Smiling" [Chapter 177]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 17 Cicadas!! Cicadaaas!!" [Chapter 178]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 18 Bailing Out" [Chapter 179]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 19 Invasion of the Puns" [Chapter 180]
After stopping Onigumo and Kirimito, Ban and Himiko learn that Madoka is in Web Tower. The Kiriudo's Spider leader Jorogumo attacks them with spiders while she herself ambushes Ginji. After being stabbed by Jorogumo, Ginji briefly transforms into the Lightning Emperor causing her escape with the base's destruction. The transformation drains Ginji's electrical powers leading Ban to exclude him from the mission. However, Akabane requests Ginji's help as an electromagnetic sensor to detect the Kiriudo's butterflies and find their hideout. Ban, Himiko and Kazuki go to Hell's Valley where they are attacked by the Kiriudo Genshu Ayama who wants Himiko dead. Seminaru Kaede attacks the helicopter where Ginji, Hevn and Akabane. While Akabane escapes with Hevn, Ginji is wounded and is saved by one of Shido's comrades from the Mariudo, Kaoru Haruri.
22 August 12, 2003[48]ISBN 978-4-06-363270-5January 8, 2008[49]ISBN 978-1591829843
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 20 Trust All Your Cards" [Chapter 181]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 21 I'd Jump Out" [Chapter 182]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 22 The End of the Evil Eye" [Chapter 183]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 23 What Is Death?" [Chapter 184]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 24 Perfect Harmony" [Chapter 185]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 25 Life is Tenacity" [Chapter 186]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 26 Emishi's Strongest Asset" [Chapter 187]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 27 400 Cow-Sized Spiders" [Chapter 188]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 28 Why We Fight" [Chapter 189]
On his way to Hell's Valley Emishi befriends a member from Mariudo, Amon Natsuki, who also wants to help Shido. In Hell's Valley Ginji is found by Hevn, Akabane and Kazuki and they move towards Madoka's location. On his way to assist Himiko with the Kiriudo, Ban finds Kagami who insists he is in love with Himiko and wishes to save her. However, Himiko is being controlled by the Kiriudo's bugs and she instead takes Ban as a prisoner. Meanwhile, Ginji's group is once again attacked by Kaede who fights Akabane as the rest deals with more insects. Akabane is defeated in combat but he is saved by Juubei and Uryu who join the group. As they keep moving, the Kiriudo's leader, Kabuto takes control of Madoka's body. It is then revealed Himiko and Ban were actually acting to reach their headquarters and they ally with Ayama who wants to stop the upcoming war. Ginji and Akabane leave as the others rest and find Shido's group which is waiting for Amon's arrival.
23 November 17, 2003[50]ISBN 978-4-06-363308-5March 11, 2008[51]ISBN 978-1591829850
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 29 Welcome to Beast Palace" [Chapter 190]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 30 Ghost Ship" [Chapter 191]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 31 Die! Die! Die! Die!" [Chapter 192]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 32 The Well of Sadness" [Chapter 193]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 33 Death Is Somebody Else's Problem" [Chapter 194]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 34 The Babe Unborn vs. the Mud Men" [Chapter 195]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 35 The Future of the Kiriudo" [Chapter 196]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 36 Fighting Lessons" [Chapter 197]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 37 The Power of His Violence" [Chapter 198]
Akabane once again faces Seminaru leaving Ginji to continue alone. Ban's group is opposed by the Kiriudo's Ageha and Murasakimaru and Himiko and Genshu stay to fight. Himiko manages too win the fight but Genshu dies protecting her. Ginji is later attacked by Suiha Koyanagi from Kiriudo's Water Tribe and manages to defeat him after developing new powers to compensate his lack of electricity. Ban also faces Dokubachi who decides to abandon the fight. All these fights are being watched by the last member of the VOLTS, Masaki Kurosu, who predicts that Ginji will die in the upcoming battle. In the meantime, Shido reveals that the Mariudo and Kiriudo used to live together until Kabuto who took leadership and wants the former king's heart that is hidden within Amon. Seeing how most of their comrades are being defeated, Mumyoin takes control of his side.
24 February 17, 2004[52]ISBN 978-4-06-363334-4May 13, 2008[6]ISBN 978-1595326416
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 38 Bridge of Fish" [Chapter 199]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 39 Reunions" [Chapter 200]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 40 Entering the Arena" [Chapter 201]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 41 Sacrificial Lambs" [Chapter 202]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 42 Stairway to Hell" [Chapter 203]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 43 I'll Only Need a Minute" [Chapter 204]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 44 The Traitor in Your Midst" [Chapter 205]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 45 My Final Gift" [Chapter 206]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 46 Tyrant of Chaos" [Chapter 207]
Amon and Emishi reunite with Shido's group which later found by Ginji and Akabane. The group starts fighting against the Kiriudo's main forces. Jorogumo surrenders as she realizes she and her people were used to delay the Mariudo as Kabuto needed time to possess Madoka. However, Mumyoin is still allied with Kabuto and Ban comes to fight him. While fighting Mumyoin Ban is told that Shido will betray his comrades. Kabuto then paralyzes all of his enemies besides Shido whom he orders to knock out Ginji in order to possess him. Shido then fights the possessed Ginji and sacrifices his life to restore Ginji's powers. Absorbing energy from the Infinite Fortress, Ginji transforms into the Lightning Lord causing Kabuto to escape to Shido's dead body. However, Ginji fights the possessed by having his attacks connect with Kabuto's soul forcing him to leave Shido's body.
25 May 17, 2004[53]ISBN 978-4-06-363369-6July 7, 2008[7]ISBN 978-1595326423
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 47 I Can't Help Laughing" [Chapter 208]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 48 I'm King Of The World" [Chapter 209]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 49 We Are a Happy Family" [Chapter 210]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 50 The Taste of Home" [Chapter 211]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 51 The Life of the God of Death" [Chapter 212]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 52 MakubeX's Game" [Chapter 213]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 53 Tag! You're It!" [Chapter 214]
  • "Act X: The Eternal Bond - Part 54 A Good Dream" [Chapter 215]
  • "Interlude IV: The Retriever's Second Anniversary" [Chapter 216]
Amon gives Shido the King Chimera's heart he was previously given by him in order to stay alive. While Shido revives, Amon dies shortly afterwards. Ban then uses the Evil Eye on Kabuto to make him release all the Kiriudo's trapped souls and revive the other fallen fighters. With the war between the Mariudo and the Kiriudo reaching its ending, the GetBackers also succeed in reuniting Shido and Madoka. Makubex later reveals how Brain Trust's archive was predicting that Ginji would die fighting the Kiriudo but thanks to everybody's efforts the future was changed. Makubex then invites the GetBackers and all of his acquiantances to tag competition to capture Emishi. The whole event is actually Makubex's attempt to cheer Emishi by having Ban giving him a dream of him reuniting with Amon and at the same time trick the people from Babylon City. In the volume's last chapter, the GetBackers celebrate their second anniversary by helping Rena recover the money she lost in a fraud.

GetBackers: Infinity Fortress

No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
26 July 16, 2004[54]ISBN 978-4-06-363397-9September 9, 2008[55]ISBN 978-1427815088
  • Birth 1: Get Back the Final Piece! (Birth. 1 Bāsu Ichi) Part 1: Training Day (最後のピースを奪り還せ!① Saigo no Pīsu o Torikaese! Ichi) [Chapter 217]
  • Birth 1: Get Back the Final Piece! - Part 2: The Left Hand of Revenge (最後のピースを奪り還せ!② Saigo no Pīsu o Torikaese! Ni) [Chapter 218]
  • Birth 1: Get Back the Final Piece! - Part 3: Rat Blood (最後のピースを奪り還せ!③ Saigo no Pīsu o Torikaese! San) [Chapter 219]
  • Birth 1: Get Back the Final Piece! - Part 4: The Blank Second (最後のピースを奪り還せ!④ Saigo no Pīsu o Torikaese! Shi) [Chapter 220]
  • Birth 1: Get Back the Final Piece! - Part 5: The Locket (最後のピースを奪り還せ!⑤ Saigo no Pīsu o Torikaese! Go) [Chapter 221]
  • Birth 1: Get Back the Final Piece! - Part 6: Friday the 13th (最後のピースを奪り還せ!⑥ Saigo no Pīsu o Torikaese! Roku) [Chapter 222]
  • Birth 2: Operation: Retrieve the Genius Dog (Birth. 2 Bāsu Ni) Part 1: Two Girls, two Clients (天才犬奪還作戦!① Tensai Ken Dakkan Sakusen! Ichi) [Chapter 223]
The story moves to the time Ban and Ginji became the Second Generation's GetBackers and are requested by a drug dealer called Fox to take a man out of the prison. The two infiltrate into the prison thanks to a girl's help but are attacked Takuma Fudou who was hired to stop the GetBackers. As Ginji fights him, Ban manages to use his Evil Eye on Fudou and escapes with Ginji. The two then find the man they are supposed to retrieve but he reveals he has no desire to return. He explains how he was a gangster and lover of Yoko who was nearly killed by the mafia and lost his memory. The man started a family and went to prison when remembering his crimes. The GetBackers tell Fox the man's answer and Ban uses his Evil Eye to show her a meeting with him. The GetBackers later meet Hevn who introduces a client who wants to retrieve a dog. Both refuse the job and accept the same retrieval when asked by the dog's owner, Natsumi Mitsuki.
27 October 15, 2004[56]ISBN 4-06-363358-6December 9, 2008[57]ISBN 978-1427815095
  • Birth 2: Operation: Retrieve the Genius Dog! - Part 2 Lucky Tiger (天才犬奪還作戦! 2 Tensai Ken Dakkan Sakusen! Ni) [Chapter 224]
  • Birth 2: Operation: Retrieve the Genius Dog! - Part 3 Fermat's Last Theorem (天才犬奪還作戦!3 Tensai Ken Dakkan Sakusen! San) [Chapter 225]
  • Birth 2: Operation: Retrieve the Genius Dog! - Part 4 Superior Species (天才犬奪還作戦!4 Tensai Ken Dakkan Sakusen! Shi) [Chapter 226]
  • Birth 2: Operation: Retrieve the Genius Dog! - Part 5 The Final Evolution (天才犬奪還作戦!5 Tensai Ken Dakkan Sakusen! Go) [Chapter 227]
  • Birth 2: Operation: Retrieve the Genius Dog! - Part 6 The Cure (天才犬奪還作戦!6 Tensai Ken Dakkan Sakusen! Roku) [Chapter 228]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 1 My Fair Lady [Chapter 229]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 2 The Himiko Kudo in the Mirror [Chapter 230]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 3 The Cursed Power of the Black Thread [Chapter 231]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 4 Mandrake Voodoo Coffee [Chapter 232]
Ban, Ginji and Natsuki go to a television show's studios where the dog, Lucky, is being used in a TV program to demonstrate its outstanding intelligence. When retrieving Lucky, the GetBackers are attacked by people who mutated after being infected with a virus. Ban deals with them while Ginji once again engages Fudou. After defeating their enemies, Ban and Ginji learn that they were sent by their former client who wants to use Lucky to improve the virus he was researching to find the next step to human evolution. After Ban torments him with his Evil Eye, Lucky starts mutating. Ginji manages to destroy Lucky's virus with his electricity's heat and the GetBackers succeed in their job. The story then moves to two years later when Akabane requests the GetBackers' help to find a woman identical to Himiko. Meanwhile, Kazuki fights a man who uses a black thread to enhance his strength, and obtains a clue about the location of his enemies, the Dark Fuuchouin. Ban and Ginji then seeks help from Maria in order to break the Voodoo Curse that could result in Himiko's death.
28 January 17, 2005[58]ISBN 978-4-06-363473-0March 10, 2009[59]ISBN 978-1427815101
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 5 [Chapter 233]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 6 [Chapter 234]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 7 [Chapter 235]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 8 [Chapter 236]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 9 [Chapter 237]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 10 [Chapter 238]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 11 [Chapter 239]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 12 [Chapter 240]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 13 [Chapter 241]
Akabane invites Himiko to an underground arena where the host is identical to Himiko, Queen Himiko. Meanwhile, Ban tells Ginji that the Voodoo Curse was cast by shaman specifically to kill Ban for being the Witch Queen's successor. As a kid Ban was taken care by the Kudos siblings, Yamato and Himiko. However, in Yamato's seventeenth birthday, the Voodoo Curse resulted in the appearance of Yamato's mirrored doppeldanger who wished to kill everything that Yamato loved. Ban killed the mirrored Yamato but this also resulted in the real Yamato's death. As a result, Ban seeks to capture the mirrored Himiko in order to avoid original one having the same fate. Kazuki then reunites with Juubei, Toshiki and Sakura to participate in the underground arena and find the Dark Fuuchuoin. Ban and Ginji reunite with Himiko and Akabane and deal with the underground's fighter who want them death before participating in the arena alongside Maria. Kazuki's five man team, Fuuga, is completed with his old ally, Saizou Tofuin.
29 March 17, 2005[60]ISBN 978-4-06-363498-3——
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 14 [Chapter 242]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 15 [Chapter 243]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 16 [Chapter 244]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 17 [Chapter 245]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 18 [Chapter 246]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 19 [Chapter 247]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 20 [Chapter 248]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 21 [Chapter 249]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 22 [Chapter 250]
The GetBackers Team and Fuuga reach the Inferno's Dome where the tournament to marry Queen Himiko begins. In their first round, the GetBackers face a Der Henker group of the Limitless Fortress' most dangerous area, the Beltline. Maria first faces an anonymous Der Henker member who refers to himself as "Help." When she is almost killed Ban comes to Maria's aid and defeats Help. However, his interference in the fight causes him to be imprisoned. Akabane easily defeats kills his rival while Himiko fights an assassin named Das Nitchs. Ginji intervenes to stop Himiko from killing Das Nitchs who is instead killed by their rival. Ginji is further angered by the revelation that Der Henker killed his childhood friends in Limitless Fortreess and becomes the Lightning Lord. Makubex realizes that Belt Line's leader, Der Kaiser, is trying to absorb Ginji's energy and uses a virus on Limitless Fortress to shut the energy down and stop Ginji's transformation. With Der Henker's leader gone Team GetBackers wins this round and Fuuga prepares to face the Dark Fuuchouin's Team.
30 May 17, 2005[61]ISBN 978-4-06-363524-9——
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 23 [Chapter 251]
  • Act XI: Voodoo Child - Part 24 [Chapter 252]
  • Rest. 5 (Interlude V): Take an Oath 1 [Chapter 253]
  • Rest. 5 (Interlude V): Take an Oath 2 [Chapter 254]
  • Rest. 5 (Interlude V): Take an Oath 3 [Chapter 255]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time - Part 1 [Chapter 256]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time - Part 2 [Chapter 257]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time - Part 3 [Chapter 258]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time - Part 4 [Chapter 259]
Juubei, Sakura and Uryu easily defeat their Dark Fuuchouin rivals but at the same time they become puppets following Saizou's will. It is revealed that Saizou and Kagami are members from the group Brain Trust that controls the events in the Fortress and is an ally of the Dark Fuuchoiun. Kagami kidnaps Himiko, requiring her and the Queen to break a spell from the Witch Queen. Der Kaiser then confronts his son Ban and invites him to the Fortress if he wishes to retrieve Himiko. Ban and Ginji learn that Der Kaiser is also fighting Brain Trust and that he and Paul were the first generation GetBackers until Der Kaiser decided to stay in the Fortress. Ginji's guardian, Teshimine, also reveals that Ginji's mother is in the Fortress' top area, Babylon City. Ban and Ginji go to the Fortress to rescue Himiko and find Ginji's mother while Shido allies with Kazuki to rescue the Fuuga members. Hevn is also taken by Akabane to the Fortress for an unknown objective. Ginji and Ban are guided to Beltline by Makubex who takes a different road with Emishi.
31 July 15, 2005[62]ISBN 978-4-06-363550-8——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (5) [Chapter 260]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (6) [Chapter 261]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (7) [Chapter 262]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (8) [Chapter 263]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (9) [Chapter 264]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (10) [Chapter 265]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (11) [Chapter 266]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (12) [Chapter 267]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (13) [Chapter 268]
Ban and Ginji are attacked by two members from the Dark Fuuchuoin, Maiya and Yuri, and are rescued by Paul. Kazuki and Shido are helped by Ren in their search for Beltline's entrance and Kazuki reveals the power of his eye's stigma while fighting their enemies. Paul and the GetBackers are attack by Der Kaiser's most trusted retainers and Paul uses this chance to teach the GetBackers his skills. When Paul is nearly defeated by Shimon, Ban and Ginji interrupt the fight and Der Kaiser's followers retreat. Meanwhile, Makubex and Emishi meet the Miroku Seven who are also travelling to meet their father. Shido and Kazuki later meet their old teammate, Masaki Kurusu, who is revealed to be a Brain Trust member and a servant of the Voodoo King. Masaki and his henchmen, Kaoru Ujiie and Jouya Kanou, defeat Shido and Kazuki as Masaki realizes that Shido is one of the three "Keys" his group needs.
32 October 17, 2005[63]ISBN 978-4-06-363584-3——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (14) [Chapter 269]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (15) [Chapter 270]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (16) [Chapter 271]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (17) [Chapter 272]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (18) [Chapter 273]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (19) [Chapter 274]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (20) [Chapter 275]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (21) [Chapter 276]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (22) [Chapter 277]
The Dark Fuuchouin's leader, Yohan Kokuchouin, saves Kazuki and Ren as he encourages Kazuki's revenge. Himiko learns from Kagami that the Voodoo Children are late unborn heirs from a witch revived by the Voodooists and that on her seventeenth birthday she will merge with her other half. Shido tries to escape from imprisonment by defeating Kaoru and Jouya but he is stopped by the Voodoo King. In their road to Beltline, Ban and Ginji are attacked by Saizou who is manipulating the Juubei, Uryu and Sakura and Makubex and Emishi come to their aid. While Makubex manages to stop Saizou's control on Sakura, Ginji's anger for having to fight Juubei causes him to transform into the Lightning Lord . Ban then unleashes the full power of Asclepius within his body to defeat Uryu and confront the berserker Ginji. As Ginji's body starts being consumed by the Infinity Fortress Ban takes all of Ginji's attacks until Ginji recovers his mind.
33 December 16, 2005[64]ISBN 978-4-06-363608-6——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (23) [Chapter 278]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (24) [Chapter 279]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (25) [Chapter 280]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (26) [Chapter 281]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (27) [Chapter 282]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (28) [Chapter 283]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (29) [Chapter 284]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (30) [Chapter 285]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (31) [Chapter 286]
As Saizou prepares to kill Emishi, Kazuki confronts him. While Saizou uses the Dark Fuuchouin's Cursed Wave to enhance his power, Kazuki uses the stigma. After Kazuki wins the battle, the souls from Juubei, Uryu and Sakura reveal that Saizou was forced to work for Yohan and he used capture Fuuga so that they would die fighting Yohan. Saizou kills himself in order to free the Fuuga members who join the rest in the road to Beltline. Ban, Ginji, Makubex and Kazuki go to Beltline while the rest faces enemies in the area's entrance. Emishi is rescued by members from the Mariudo alongside Amon who has revived through an unknown method. In Beltine, the group is attacked by Maiya and Yuri again but they are able to win this time. They decide to go to Der Kaiser's fortress where he meets the Miroku Seven who was come to aid his father, Shimon. Maria confronts Der who reveals he intends to reach Babylon City and take the Fortress' power.
34 February 17, 2006[65]ISBN 978-4-06-363628-4——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (32) [Chapter 287]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (33) [Chapter 288]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (34) [Chapter 289]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (35) [Chapter 290]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (36) [Chapter 291]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (37) [Chapter 292]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (38) [Chapter 293]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (39) [Chapter 294]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (40) [Chapter 295]
Teshimine reunites with a man named Kagenuma Sarai who wishes to defeat the Voodoo King. Ban, Ginji, Makubex and Kazuki are joined by Hevn, Paul and Akabane. When they reach Der Kaiser's fortress, Paul once again battles Der Kaiser's followers to teach the GetBackers his way of battling. This time Paul wins the battle and faces his older partner. As the two draw power from the Infinity Fortress to fight, Der Kaiser starts taking the advantage Ban interferes. Now materialized with the Fortress' power, the Miroku Seven stand in Ban's way but most of the siblings are easily defeated as Ban emulates Paul's style. Natsuhiko Miroku fights Ban as he have his revenge for his sister's death at his hands. As the two struggle, it is revealed that Natsuhiko's sister, Eris, was used by the Voodooists to kill Ban. Ban defeats Natsuhiko and the last Miroku, Yukihiko, replaces him.
35 May 17, 2006[66]ISBN 978-4-06-363667-3——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (41) [Chapter 296]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (42) [Chapter 297]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (43) [Chapter 298]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (44) [Chapter 299]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (45) [Chapter 300]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (46) [Chapter 301]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (47) [Chapter 302]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (48) [Chapter 303]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (49) [Chapter 304]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (50) [Chapter 305]
Ginji takes Ban's place in his fight against Yukihiko, allowing him to face his father. Makubex's body disappears as he intends to confront the God of Infinity Fortress, the Archive, while Akabane leaves with Hevn to take her to Masaki. In his one-on-one, Ginji refuses to become the Lightning Lord and use his new found skills to counter Yukihiko's techniques. The battle ends with Yukihiko giving up and Ginji takes him to see Ban's match. Both Ban and Der Kaiser draw power from Asclepius to fight although the former is troubled due to a bloodline curse he suffers. When Ban manages to break his curse, a satisfied Der Kaiser reveals how he died years ago fighting the Voodoo King and stayed in Beltine to with one of the Babylon's Keys until his son reached him. Der Kaiser gives Ban his Key before disappearing alongside his subordinates. The group then separates from the Mirokus and go to find Makubex, Shido and Himiko while Kazuki goes to confront Yohan. As Kazuki is opposed by Maiya and Yuri, Juubei comes to assist him.
36 August 17, 2006[67]ISBN 978-4-06-363706-9——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (51) [Chapter 306]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (52) [Chapter 307]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (53) [Chapter 308]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (54) [Chapter 309]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (55) [Chapter 310]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (56) [Chapter 311]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (57) [Chapter 312]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (58) [Chapter 313]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (59) [Chapter 314]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (60) [Chapter 315]
Kazuki and Juubei stop Maiya and Yuri. The former Fuuchuoin head and Yohan's servant, Shigen Kusanosuke, then attacks them alongside the Fuuchuoin's 13 Strings. Makubex reaches the Mother System and starts interacting with the God of the Infinity Fortress, the artificial intelligence from the computer named the Archiver. Makubex and the Archiver observe Juubei's duel against the Kusanosuke which ends with the former's victory. Kazuki and Juubei then find Yohan who takes down Juubei and confronts Kazuki. As Yohan overwhelms Kazuki he reveals he is actually his younger brother who was left to the Kokuchouin after the Fuuchuioin were afraid of him for being born with the stigma. Kazuki is confused with this reveal but after Juubei helps him in battle, Kazuki decides he will grant Yohan his wish. Yohan wishes for his own death and Kazuki uses his mother's strongest technique to attack him.
37 November 17, 2006[68]ISBN 978-4-06-363743-4——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (61) [Chapter 316]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (62) [Chapter 317]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (63) [Chapter 318]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (64) [Chapter 319]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (65) [Chapter 320]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (66) [Chapter 321]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (67) [Chapter 322]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (68) [Chapter 323]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (69) [Chapter 324]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (70) [Chapter 325]
It is revealed that Yohan did not kill his parents chose death rather than loving him. With his mother's technique, Kazuki reunites Yohan with the clan's souls who forgive Yohan as his stigma disappears. Meanwhile, Masaki goes to fight Akabane who is escorting Hevn. Akabane stops fighting as he leaves for another job as he already succeeded in transporting Hevn to Masaki's side. Worried about Masaki stopping his fight as a result of confronting his former lover, Hevn, Kanou and Kaoru try to kill her. Ban and Ginji protect her as the former fights Masaki's servants while the latter searches for Masaki. Kaoru abandons the fight while Kanou is defeated by Ban. Kanou confesses that Masaki is opposing the Voodoo King and Kagami as the person who goes to Babylon City will change the world's state. Masaki then attempts to kill Ginji to avoid him stop his plans. Although Ginji becomes the Lightning Lord, Kaoru stops Ginji's will to fight by receiving one of his attacks. Makubex manages to stop Kaoru's death while Hevn convinces Masaki to stop fighting and the two reconcile.
38 March 16, 2007[69]ISBN 978-4-06-363787-8——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (71) [Chapter 326]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (72) [Chapter 327]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (73) [Chapter 328]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (74) [Chapter 329]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (75) [Chapter 330]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (76) [Chapter 331]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (77) [Chapter 332]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (78) [Chapter 333]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (79) [Chapter 334]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (80) [Chapter 335]
Masaki reveals that Brain Trust is an organization composed of experts from every knowledge who created the Infinity Fortress in an attempt to change the world. Ban, Ginji, Paul and Maria go to face them after leaving Hevn in Masaki's hands. Kagami forces Himiko to merge with her other half causing her death as he takes another her soul in the form of a key needed to open the door to Babylon City. This causes Kagenuma to be controlled by his other half, the Voodoo King. The Voodoo King defeats Teshimine and takes Shido's key. The GetBackers reach Kagami who Ban fights to avenge Himiko and let Ginji continue his way. Ban defeats Kagami who tries to escape but is killed by Akabane, now hired by Brain Trust's Professor Makube. Der Kaiser's key then replaces Himiko's key causing her revival. Ginji becomes the Lightning Lord to fight the Voodoo King and the one-on-one ends with the disappearance of the two alter-egos. Although the fight against Brain Trust ended, Ginji is forced to fight against Ban to gain the right to enter Babylon City.
39 April 17, 2007[3]ISBN 978-4-06-363814-1——
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (81) [Chapter 336]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (82) [Chapter 337]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (83) [Chapter 338]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (84) [Chapter 339]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (85) [Chapter 340]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (86) [Chapter 341]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (87) [Chapter 342]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (88) [Chapter 343]
  • Act XII: Get Back the Lost Time (89) [Chapter 344]
The fight between Ginji and Ban is actually part of Ban's Evil Eye he used on Ginji. Since Ginji refused to fight in the Evil Eye, Ban admits his defeat to let Ginji go to Babylon City. After Ginji leaves Ban challenges Akabane to a final one-on-one as he wants to end their rivalry before he vanishes as a result of overusing the Evil Eye. During the fight, Ban forces Akabane to show his true powers and the fight ends when both Ban and Akabane reach their limits. Ginji then arrives to Babylon City which is an alternate Shinjuku without the Infinity Fortress. He meets his mother, Dr. Amano, who explains how she worked for Brain Trust to create a parallel world where her late child would be live but renegade members including Kagami tried to take advantage of the world. Having entered Babylon City, Ginji has the right to change his world but he refuses to do it and says farewell to his mother. Ginji then returns to his world he reunites with his friends including Ban who was saved by Akabane. Shortly after returning to Paul's cafe, the GetBackers get a job in which they have to retrieve Ban's mother.

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