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X-parrot ([personal profile] xparrot) wrote2007-02-22 04:43 pm
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GB: end of an era

For those of us who still attend the First Church of BanGin - all good things must come to an end...and the GetBackers manga just did yesterday.

And I am thrilled to report that despite my fears about A&A-sensei, they came through. Super-super-happy ending, for the WIN.

I've only been haphazardly following the series, flipping through the weekly Shounen Mag chapters without trying to read them (trying to translate GB hurts my brain, yo. And my eyes, all those little kanji...) and sporadically checking the translations folks have been posting on [livejournal.com profile] getbackers. So I don't actually know what's going on - Ginji became 'god', went to an alternate (the real) universe and met his mom and discovered he'd died a long time before, Ban was going to vanish from existence from having used the Jagan more than thrice a day...yeah. Hurts my brain. So I don't know exactly how they got to this ending.

But sometimes pictures speak louder than words. So, yes. Happi endo!!



Kazuki's threesome:



My only regret is that Shido & Madoka didn't actually tie the knot. But hey! MakubeX is out and about! And has become a GitS fanboy!



Hevn is going to spend her ever after with Masaki (much to Ban's immense dismay.)


Masaki is saying "Mine!" in response to Ban's attempt to glom onto his sweetie's bosum last panel.

Team Transporter go!



And because I know you all are dying to know, does The Superhappy Ending mean that Emishi & Amon open a maid cafe together?
The answer is Yes. Yes, it does.




But the last pages really say it all:






"Let's go, Ginji!"
"Yeah, Ban-chan!!"

(the overlay text reads: "A shop of friends -- a tumult of ways -- the two sprinting...this town will never change!!")

^______^
sholio: sun on winter trees (Jounouchi sexy)

[personal profile] sholio 2007-02-22 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Hee!

I admit that I kinda had a falling-out with Getbackers ... there are some things that I'll stop being fannish about, yet retain that soft spot for and occasionally fall for again, but GB seems not to be one of those. I was buying the English-language manga for awhile, but at some point it just ended up being too frenetic, too disjointed, too OMG THIS ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE for me. Sounds like I missed some stuff, though! Yikes! But it looks like everybody I care about survived, and this is one series where I have a bit of a canon OTP (Shido and Madoka), so it's nice to see them apparently grocery shopping together in that one panel there.

Okay, so maybe I do still have the odd warm-fuzzy left over for that series after all.
nekokoban: (dorklove OTP!)

[personal profile] nekokoban 2007-02-22 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

I, I'm kind of sad -- I won't see this till the volume itself comes out, but it's OVER now. My number-one reliable source of dorklove has ended.

... on the other hand, AMON, EMISHI, WHAT THE HELL MAID CAFE. XD

I can't wait to get to read the whole thing myself. :3

[identity profile] innueneko.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
This is a much better ending to what you wrote. THAT FIC STILL MAKES ME CRY. XD XD

[identity profile] kanoe81.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, gonna cry.

Thanks so much for posting this! As you can see on the GB LJ, I'm *trying* to post translations but I'm now 2 chapters behind. Can't believe it's over... but glad it's a happi endo, as you say.

[identity profile] halcyonjazz.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
AAAAAH MY HEART

IT'S LIKE I CAN BELIEVE IN LOVE AGAIN

[identity profile] immicolia.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
D'awwwwww! It is all so cute! Now I just have to wait out TokyoPop's glacial (and sometimes hillariously terrible) translation because: only at volume 16! The fuck!? why do I get the feeling I'm going to be dead before they finish this... I'm already going to be pushing 30 by the time Viz manages to finish off YGO *flails around in rage*

[identity profile] woodburner.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

;lakdjf;laksdjf;laskdjf;laskjdf

MAID CAFE.


and Masaki and Hevn?!



...OH MY GOD.


(lost all other vocabulary sry)
pantswarrior: Edward, from FFIV, hiding. (;_;)

[personal profile] pantswarrior 2007-02-22 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
...I was all "aw, so cute but ENDING, so sad, I love all these crazy characters so much, and ohhhhh MakubeX..."

...Then I scrolled down to Amon and Emishi. XD All better now!

[identity profile] mistress-string.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad in the end that they are all together. I didn't like the fact that they didn't "know each other". Still it's sad to it end!

[identity profile] skittled.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It's probably explained somewhere in there, but how the HELL did Kazuki get his eye back after ripping it out awhile ago? >>

[identity profile] kalikahuntress.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank you, thank you, and I love A&A sensei so mich right now:)

[identity profile] sariel-chan.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
THANKYOU!!! NOW I CAN REST HAPPILY KNOWING THE GB WORLD IS OKAY!!!!
I am going to be sad with out it to read....*nudges you to write more amazing stories*...

[identity profile] fantasy2004.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks

[identity profile] kaoticwords.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy ending!! OMG! \^o^/
And Masaki with Hevn!! (poor Paul, I thought they made such a nice couple...)

I got lost somewhere among the last chapters but I definitely didn't expect everything would be all right and everybody alive! A manga I love finish well actually! that's so rare T.T

Thank you! :3

[identity profile] ugbun.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Oh, I am so happy and sad at the same time. I don't want it to be over, but I am so glad it ended happy!

[identity profile] ugbun.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, wait... the Kazuki trio all have matching scarves! They match!!! Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!

[identity profile] ranalore.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah. I'm afraid they've only confirmed my decision to stick strictly to the anime here. Teshimine/Masaki, Hevn/Natsumi ftw!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/digitalized_/ 2007-02-22 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
NOW I'M ALL IN LOVE WITH WTF CROSSDRESSING MAIDS XDDDD
And even if there's canon background, Masaki/Hevn is still crackastic.
Apparently transporter!smex wouldn't be dumped off either...
The art of the last few pages I've seen so often I don't really feel for.
BUT THE MAIDS MAKE UP FOR EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING OH DEAR>>>

[identity profile] enishi-sama.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
MAID CAFE? XDDDDDD;;; God, I love GetBackers. I'm sad it's over but... MAID CAFE FTW. XD

[identity profile] chibichibi-k.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never read the GB manga, myself but it is nice to see how the manga ended. The ending they gave te GB anime is quite similar to the manga ending. I note some similarities. I really wish that they would have epanded the anime more so that it fit in the other archs but I'm hoping for a GetBackers movie or ova. ^^ Hopefully there will be one somewhere down the line!!

Thanks for posting!! GO BAN-CHAN AND GINJI!!!

[identity profile] avalon13.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait a minute. Didn't Amon die? I think I can conclude that someone resurrected him or whatever... But how, exactly?

[identity profile] kawaiitinita.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
KYYYYAAAAAAAAAA!!!! *saves all the pics*
I'm so happy it ended with no one dying!! But dammit Ginji couldn't have wished for himiko to still have long hair!!? >___>

Anyway, The G&B are back and still gonna kick ass even after it's ended!
Which means, MORE FANFICS!!! WOOOOO!!!

And for the record, after reading all these replies... I have to say again
GET BACKERS FANS ARE THE GREATEST IN ZE WORLD!!!
XDDDDDDD

[identity profile] jagan-21.livejournal.com 2007-02-22 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG!!!!!!!! They almost make me cry!!!! I can´t love the Get Backers more!!! I´m so sad they ended but it seems like a "To be continued..." (just like the anime end) any way I like to think that they´ll be back in the future =,)

At some point I was hoping that Ban and Hevn end up together but... WTF I´m just SOOOO HAPPY!!!!

Thank you thank you

[identity profile] strokeof-genie.livejournal.com 2007-02-23 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm crying a bit now.

I'm glad it was a good ending, one with resolutions. Or one that didn't raise anymore questions, at least because jeezus FMA whatthehellwasthat.

Thanks for posting! :D

[identity profile] nayami.livejournal.com 2007-02-23 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, this calls for random GB music to fulfill the nostalgia quota. I'm so glad to hear the series didn't end as depressing as I feared it would from Ban's situation.

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