Get Backers

We meet our heroes, Ginji and Ban, as they take on a new case: rescue a toy kitten from a crooked policeman!

Ban and Ginji are out on the streets trying to raise money to pay off their tab at the Honky Tonk when a sickly old homeless man takes pity on them and shares his food.

Ban and Ginji are on a new case recovering a box for a high-paying client, on the condition that their payment is 1/10th of the contents of the box.

Ginji and Ban are still trying to recover the box. But things go awry when Ginji is kidnapped by the enemy!

With the package in hand the Get Backers are expecting a big payoff, at least until they find themselves cornered by Himiko and Akabane.

Young violinist Madoka Otowa's violin has been stolen, and she asks the Get Backers to help her get it back before her concert the next day.

Ban and Shido fight it out, and we see Shido's animal transformations for the first time as he goes on to battle former co-worker Kurobe.

Finally, all of Akutsu's men are vanquished -- all but Shido, who seems disinclined to return to his old employer. However, the violin is now missing!

The Get Backers are approached by an art appraiser and asked to retrieve a stolen painting - a newly discovered Van Gogh.

Ban and Ginji begin working for Clayman, and return all the stolen paintings to Hachisu in front of his insurance company, destroying his reputation forever.

Hevn calls in Ban, Ginji, Himiko, Kazuki, Shido, and Akabane to do a big job in the Limitless Fortress, recovering something called ÒILÓ for a mysterious group of men.

The group has been split off into pairs after the incident with the poisoned smoke. Ban and Shido are attacked, while Ginji is terrified to find that he's alone with Akabane.

An impostor who studied the same martial art as Kazuki impersonates him and then attacks Himiko. However, an acquaintance of Kazuki’s, Juubei Kakei, uses their distraction!

An old rival of Ban’s named Takuma Fudou attacks Ban and Shido, bent on vengeance. However, Haruki Emishi shows up and Fudou withdraws, telling Ban he’ll be back.

Fudou is extremely angry that Makubex sent Emishi in. However, Makubex has another plan for Ban and Shido. At this point Ban and Kazuki independently come to a realization.

Ginji is beginning to come unglued as Akabane starts to kill more people. Ginji's powers have begun to increase as he gets angrier. When Akabane and Ginji get too close to Makubex too soon, Juubei and Kagami go to fight them.

Fudou is angry at Makubex and says he will only wait 20 minutes for Makubex to get all the recovery team in place before going out to kill Ban without orders.

Emishi fights Shido in a battlefield that looks like the Grand Canyon. The organization behind the construction of the Limitless Fortress is revealed.

Kazuki and Juubei's battler is interspersed with scenes from their childhood friendship.

Akabane meets up with Makubex with the plutonium he has been hired to transport. Makubex convinces him to watch a fight between Himiko and Kagami before completing the job.

A virtual-reality Teshimine appears before Ginji and blames him for the deaths of his friends. Ginji’s anger begins to transform him into the Lightning Emperor.

Ginji is so far gone that Natsumi and Paul can see lightning hitting the Limitless Fortress from their café. He's destroyed the fake Teshimine, and now injures Sakura, whom he suspects of being a fake also. Akabane intervenes; Makubex has "paid" him by allowing him to fight Ginji.

Shido saves Ban from Fudou and tells him to go after Makubex. Meanwhile, Makubex has started up an intruder interception program which makes virtual armies go after Shido and the Akabane-Ginji team. Shido is assisted by the wounded Kazuki and Emishi, but Akabane does fine on his own. Back at the pharmacy, Himiko has brought Sakura in for treatment and she is reunited with the now-blind Juubei.

The recovery team reasons with Makubex in vain, forcing Ginji to fight him in a virtual space of Makubex’s own making.

The atom bomb is ready, but Ban uses his Jagan on Makubex before he can push the switch. The vision Makubex sees makes him realize that he doesn't want to destroy the L.M., nor does he want to turn back time; he'd just gotten hopeless, and wanted to see his friends again. His hopelessness came from the final Babylon City secret.