GetBackers 16
Posted: May 21, 2007 Filed under: GetBackers Leave a comment »So, to use the Divine Design cards against the kids… to beat them at their own game, they have to learn to use them themselves. Enter the coolest volume of the series ever.
Maria puts Ginji, Ban, Hevn, and Himiko through all sorts of tests to try and get them to unleash the power of Divine Design. They’ve got to stack eggs, walk through glass, over holes, through traffic, and do lots of other cool-looking things. Ginji has a knack for it. Ban, despite his witch’s blood, does not.
Ban’s problem is that he doesn’t want to believe in magic, or maybe dismisses it since his grandma beat him over the head with it constantly when he was younger. At any rate, he doesn’t believe, so he can’t do things like put his fist through glass or anything like that.
Maria and Ban have some brief recollections with one another that are cool, and really they just make me want to hear more about Ban’s backstory. Apparently he’s the only person who carries the blood of a true witch in him, which is awesome. I’m not sure how that works, since Lucifer and Maria Noches are also both witches, but maybe witches by training and not by blood? I don’t know.
At any rate: awesome. We’ll never have it like this again, I think.
