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[dangermousie]

Mr Mousie and I spent a part of today watching GetBackers. If you click on the 'getbackers' tag, you'll see I was watching the show at a great clip a month or so ago. But then, as I said, I got a bit burned out on anime and it was put aside. Well, I've restarted it now, and we watched four eps and I am in love all over again. For those who are

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[dangermousie]

And I love that even though no one in the GB group likes him or trusts him, he does have a place there and to a weird degree, friends.

I just love the crazy hospital ep where, to top it all off, Akabane shows up with a fruit basket for Ginji. He is, in his psycho way, fond of the boys. He is blithely looking forward to besting them and killing them, but up until that point he genuinely likes them. And of course, he'd take it as a personal affront if anyone else were to off them.

Himiko loves him without any answers. It IS a lot to take on trust, but she does, as I think she always loved him a little, even before he left.

It does seem amazing. Basically, she decides that Ban is a good person after seeing him in action (and seeing him protect her etc etc). But she knows he killed her brother. So she bridges this dichotomy by thinking that whatever his reasons, they weren't evil. And I give TPTB points because you never get a sense that she's decided that because she finds Ban attractive and her hormones overpower her brain. It's character based for her. And her attraction to him is also rooted in her genuine liking for him and their compatibility, not just because he looks good without his shirt.

Part of it also has to do with not letting her know about the curse.

So she doesn't know about the curse. I can see why Ban wouldn't tell her. It would make her freak and her brother kept looking for a cure but never found one, so the chances for one might be slim. I do foresee a lot of angst in her future though, because sooner or later the curse will activate. And if Ban has to go through killing someone he loves twice, he won't deal well with it at all.

Do they ever go into more detail about this curse thing in the manga, do you know?

Also the GBs reaction when they think Shido is cheating on Madoka. It's rather hilarious outrage, especially Ginji.

Ginji cracks me up. It's all about Shido having two girls and himself having none :P

[crumpeteer]

And her attraction to him is also rooted in her genuine liking for him and their compatibility, not just because he looks good without his shirt.

Yeah, interestingly you always get the impression she likes Ban for Ban, and doesn't really consider that he's hot. She loves the decency he tries so hard to hide. In a lot of ways she's like Ginji in that. They both KNOW Ban, not the walls he puts up.

They do go into more detail about the curse in the manga. I honestly don't like the manga's artwork all that much (it's usually the other way around for me), so I can't tell you much more than that I know they talk about it more.

[dangermousie]

She loves the decency he tries so hard to hide.

That's a really great way to put that. I realized his cynicism was just a front really early on, in one of the early eps when he used his jagan to see that old homeless man see his daughter, as if she'd really come. That was the beginning of my Ban love.