GetBackers 15
Posted: May 21, 2007 Filed under: GetBackers Leave a comment »So yes, the Divine Design arc is awesome. Why is it awesome? Because we get to learn about Ban’s past a bit, and it hasn’t yet drawn in about 10 new regular characters. I also like the magic element. While, for whatever reason I was totally put off this series at first by the supernatural powers, I find that I’m okay with the magic explanation for whatever reason. And Divine Design is certainly magical.
The gang this time involves Kazuki, Ban, Ginji, Hevn, and Himiko. A respectably small number, especially since it gets pared down gradually as things go on. In this volume, they take on Divine Design, a group that seems to be using magic cards to control reality like Infinity Fortress, but outside Infinity Fortress, but the group mostly consists of kids. It was the kid’s moms who hired the GetBackers to retrieve the kids, but unfortunately the kids are on power trips and don’t particularly want to leave.
Since they approach Divine Design as something that can be overtaken with physical strength, they get beaten pretty handily the first time through. Ban holds his own, but barely escapes with his life. He refuses to believe the cards are magical, but is saved when he’s about to die, perhaps by his witch blood. See, it is cool.
Anyway, they dig up a witch named Maria Noches (the only new character so far, not counting Lucifer, the villian). Maria has larger breasts than Hevn, but to be fair, she’s also 99 years old and doesn’t actually look like that. The Divine Design training starts next volume.
