List of GetBackers characters

Ban is a brother-like figure to Himiko Kudou after she came to terms with her brother's death, and, later revealed in volume 38 of the manga, is actually related to her by blood through the Witch Queen.

Ban is very intelligent, having studied fighting techniques, science, history, music, art and magic from a very young age as a result of being hunted in Europe by shamans during his childhood.

Because he is a direct descendant of the Witch clan, and was born under the star of Asclepius, he possesses incredible superhuman strength, which gives him a gripping force of 200 kilograms in each hand.

Ban can augment the strength of his Snakebite by reciting a certain chant in order to draw power from Asclepius, with the resulting force being sufficient to devastate even the most formidable of opponents with just a single blow.

Little is known of his past until the last volume of the manga where it is revealed that his mother, who Teshimine told Ginji was waiting for him in Babylon City, had created the world in which the GetBackers live.

The Lightning Emperor, who was born from the synchronization of Ginji's rage and Infinity Fortress' power, existed to defeat the person whose purpose was disrupting the plans of the "Archive" (the Voodoo King).

Voiced by: Rio Natsuki (Japanese); Ellie McBride (English) Hevn is a Negotiator in the ADV dub, Coordinator in the TokyoPop translation (仲介屋, chūkaiya), a person who mediates extremely dangerous jobs between high-paying clients and retrievers such as the GetBackers or Shido Fuyuki.

She displays some knowledge of martial arts in the Sound of Life arc and has an incredibly strong punch, directed solely at Ban when he gropes her, but otherwise is a non-combatant and often ends up kidnapped or otherwise in distress and must be saved by other characters.

She's also fond of Shido and Kazuki and often threatens to give jobs the GetBackers won't take to the former, causing Ban to accuse them of having a sex-for-jobs type of relationship though both deny this.

He is usually seen reading a newspaper with dark sunglasses on, later revealed to be completely opaque, blinding him and forcing him to rely on his sixth sense to do anything; this compensates for his increased age and decreased speed and strength.

In the final arc, he also directly acts as a mentor to the current generation of GetBackers; after Natsumi and Rena convince him they can take care of the shop, he follows Ban and Ginji into Infinity Fortress, saves them from Yuuri and Maiya, and begins training them while also continuing to dispense them his wisdom and coffee.

However, he quickly encounters Akabane and Hevn and continues on with them, eventually reuniting with the GetBackers and their allies and making it all the way to the top of the mid section, the Beltline, to act as a witness to the Ogre Battle, confirming the winner who controls the future.

Despite his wisdom concerning fighting and everyday matters, Paul is not tech savvy in the manga, which blatantly contrasts with the anime where he was the information-and-computer guy among his thieving friends and still retains these skills in the present though he does not showcase them often.

In the manga, he is something of a dirty old man, admitting he wishes he could squeeze Hevn's boobs and generally do the perverted stuff Ban pulls on women, to Natsumi's confusion, among other statements.

As the GetBackers' closest friend, Natsumi is very devoted to Ban and Ginji, often worrying about their welfare and staying up late at the Honky Tonk to welcome them back from a mission (this is also seen in the MV of the first ending theme in the anime, although the duo were just away to get groceries on a rainy day.

But Lucky, has more sinister powers and mysteries under his fur and it's up to the GetBackers to get to the bottom of what turns out to be a conspiracy involving superhuman mutants, mad scientists, and Hevn - who also makes her first appearance in the series in this arc (chronologically speaking).

A filler episode in the anime focusing on Himiko portrays a teenaged Yamato saving her as a baby from nameless and featureless men who were planning on sacrificing her, afterwards taking her in and raising her as his younger sister.

Later, he, together with his sister, Sakura Kakei, and his rival-turned-comrade, Toshiki Uryuu (all remnants of Fuuga), present a last stand at the gate to the Beltline, to protect the GetBackers, MakubeX, and Kazuki as they enter the threshold of horrors.

He is also an admirer and good friend of Shido after the Beastmaster made his way to his village in the Infinity Fortress, delivering food to the starving children, an image radically different from the wandering rumors.

Ren does legwork and odd jobs for her grandfather, such as gathering all the pharmaceutical ingredients Gen needs for his medicines and mapping the sections of Infinity Fortress' Lower Town.

In the manga, various characters were revealed to be members of the Brain Trust, including Ban's grandmother, who was the head of the department which oversaw matters of the occult.

It is revealed that his real name is Kakeru Mikimoto and that his mother committed suicide by hanging herself in their apartment, and he is constantly haunted by the memory of the way her eyes looked at him when she died.

When he fails to eliminate Himiko during Maria Noches' attempt to train the GetBackers and their allies to master Divine Design, Gabriel is assigned to hinder Ginji, but was also defeated by him.

After the GB duo and Himiko raised an uproar in "China Street" (the base of the Spider clan's operations), Jorougumo and her minions retreated to Hell's Valley.

(呪術王 / ブードゥーキング)- A mysterious, shrouded figure to whom Yohan, Masaki, Kagami, and the Cursed Knights have been reporting and taking orders from, the Voodoo King is the head of the Voodooists and, presumably, the cast-out former ruler of Babylon City.

He just as effortlessly defeats Emishi, Sakura, Uryuu, Teshimine, Amon, and Ryuuhou Agi all at once in a single move when the group attempts to gang up on him, also killing bystanders Ren and Kaoru Haruki.

His favorite choice of weapons are his mirror fragments, which are ground so finely that they resemble Diamond Dust[citation needed] which Kagami claims are made of demonic shards.

Over time, Kagami becomes enamored by Himiko and how well she did when she fought him during the IL recovery arc and eventually comes into possession of her and awaits her seventeenth birthday when she will become a key he can use to re-enter Babylon City.

In the anime, he is introduced in the anime-only final arc, returning to kidnap MakubeX on the Brain Trust's orders and revealing that not only is he also a member, but that he had been spying on the VOLTS for them while he was one of the Four Kings; in fact it was his entire reason for joining.

Near the end of the 2nd Infinity Fortress Arc, she wanted to be killed by the Thunder Emperor in their fight but Ginji convinces her to forget her obsession and remove the fire curse from Sakura's body.