Earlier, I reviewed the first volume of The GetBackers. I just finished viewing the second disk and I am starting to find the series more intriguing. The five episodes on the disk covered two stories. The first was to get back a Stradivarius, and the second was to get back a Van Gogh. Along the way,a number of back story tid bits are dropped, a love interest is sparked, a rivalry is established, is another love interest sparked? and Himiko doesn’t try to directly kill Ban, like she did when they last met. Ginji and Ban each have pasts and the pasts look like they they will be significant stories in their own right.

So, I’m upgrading GetBackers to 7 out of ten (although I still think that use of juvenile animation to indicate particular moods is stupid).