This is where I set my inner fangirl free. If you like Getbackers as much as I do, please join the crowd! :D

For people who like YURI

If you have a LiveJournal account and is interested in yuri, here's a new Get Backers Yuri Community: http://community.livejournal.com/getbackers_yuri/

Join and enjoy!

Teh Invincible Midou Ban

Here's a picture of our dearest Invincible Midou Ban-sama I made some time ago. It's posted in both my DA and LJ accounts so I thought, why not here too?

The rough sketch was made in pencil, all the rest is Photoshop work. It's in my own style (I'm not good at reproducing other artists' style) and Ban is with his hair down and without glasses, so maybe it doesn't look much like him... well, the peeps at DA and LJ recognized him so I think it's not so bad

What's in a name?

Japanese names are usually chosen with great care - the sound, the meaning of the words and the appropriate ideogram should be considered. I got curious about the GB guys names and made a little research. This is what I have found so far:

Ban - as almost everyone knows, it means "demon". Curiously his surname, Midou, means something like "beautiful temple".

Ginji - "gin" means "silver" and "ji" means "the second, the following". "Ama" means "heaven" or "god". "No" means "natural" or "wild".

Akabane - "Kurodo" means "black person". Akabane means "red wing".

Kazuki - "Kazuki" means "moon flower". "Fuu" means "wind"; "cho" means "bird" and "in" means "noble people or the place where they live".

Doujinshi translation

This is probably more interesting to newbies, since the site I found it is pretty old.

It's a lovely Ban x Ginji doujinshi. It's in Japanese though, so I decided to post a rough (very rough, since my knowledge of the language is not that great) translation here.

The link to the doujinshi pages is: http://www.pat.hi-ho.ne.jp/tenn/kobako/gb/gbc/gbc-20030416-1.html

The translation follows bellow:

To be needed by someone who’s very, very important to you... and then, to be not needed anymore… this is a small memory from a far away past.

Ginji wipes the tears with a dirty hand. “I should go back to the Honky Tonk,” he thinks.

On his way back, in the middle of the crowd, he talks to himself, “I wonder where Ban-chan is now… hope Himiko-chan’s not gotten hurt. Ah, but Kazu-chan is with them so it’s alright. They sure don’t need me…”

A small memory starts to stir… and it makes me so upset…

“Ban-chan, don’t leave me… Don’t leave me all by myself…” Ginji cries again.

“Don’t cry, stupid Ginji,” a ghostly hand – Ban’s hand – hovers over Ginji’s head.

“Ban-chan?”

Ginji, trust your own strength… trust yourself… If you have the time to weep, why don’t you come after me?

Ah, I remember now…

“I’m sorry, Ban-chan.”

I remember this was the hand that always pulled me…

“We are the Get Backers, right? I bet Ban-chan is waiting for me. I won’t abandon him.”

We’ll be together, no matter what.

“Welcome back, Gin-chan!” Natsumi greets him as he enters the Honky Tonk. Paul, on his way to serve a customer, does the same.

“Hey Ginji, what happened? Are you alone?”

Right behind Hevn, a ghost image of Ban greets him too.

“You’re late, Ginji!”

I’m sorry… May I cry just a little bit more?

Sniffling, Ginji flings himself to Paul.

“Waaahh, watch out, we’ll fall!”

I understand… but it still hurts…

And only Ban-chan can warm me up.

A smiling, welcoming Ban says:

“Giiiiiiinji!”

Just for fun: a Get Backers questionnaire

This is a questionnaire I found in LJ some time ago. It was really great fun to answer it and then compare with other fellow GB fans!

Teh GB Questionnaire

1.) The first character I first fell in love with:
- Kazuki (at first I thought he was a girl and was like, "yeah, a female kickass character at last!" XD )

2.) The character(s) I never expected to love as much as I do now:
Ban. No, really. The first episodes I didn't like him one bit.

3.) The character(s) everyone else loves that I don't:
Erm... there's none, I think...

4.) The character(s) I love that everyone else hates:
To be honest, I dunno what characters everyone else hates... ^^;

5.) The character(s) I would shag anytime:
Eh? O_o;

6.) The character(s) I'd want to be like:
I'd like to be happy-go-lucky like Ginji, invincible like Ban and classy like Akabane. Yeah, I'm greedy! XD

7.) The character(s) I'd slap:
Um... Ren, maybe. And Riko, that annoying high school brat XD

8.) Pairing(s) that I love:
Ban/Ginji, Kazuki/Juubei.

9.) Pairing(s) that I despise:
Ban/Himiko (feels like incest to me)

10.) Favorite character(s):
Ban, Ginji, Kazuki, Akabane.