Get Backers (2002–2003): Season 1, Episode 16 - Explosion! The Lightning Emperor Angry - full transcript

Ginji is beginning to come unglued as Akabane starts to kill more people. Ginji's powers have begun to increase as he gets angrier. When Akabane and Ginji get too close to Makubex too soon, Juubei and Kagami go to fight them.

Namida atsumete yozora e kaesou

Yuragu koto nai ai dake baramake stardust

Ikiteru ka dou ka wakannaku
natchatta yoru wa

Hoshi no mienai yozora ni
nomikomarete shimau

Kienaide hikari, mayoisou
na kokoro ga sakebu

Tada kimi ni aitai

Gensou, mousou, musou no naka
wo honki de shissou

Karadajuu no kiseki ga me wo samasu

Wasurenaide, hitori ja nai yo

Itsu datte, we are just a dreamer

Take love, get all love,
get back love in our hands

Yuragu koto nai ai dake baramake stardust

Donna ashita wo yume mite ikou ka konya

Everything is going well.

I'm getting more and more
of the data lined up.

Ban Midou's Jagan...

It's a very interesting ability
scientifically as well.

Perhaps I should say, that's
what you'd expect

from someone worthy of teaming
up with Mr. Ginji.

It seems that to you former VOLTS members,

the Lightning Emperor is something special.

That's in the past.

That's right. Now he's an enemy
we must defeat.

Of course Mr. Ginji is also...

For you to wander all the way
to a place like this,

you guys sure are stupid.

We can't have you passing through here.

Ginji...

Yes, Sir!

You're a truly interesting person.

Huh?

For guards to be necessary at

an underground garbage disposal
facility like this...

What this amounts to is that it's inside.

This IL we're looking for, that is.

You dare to act like we're
not a threat? Well?!

Let's hurry up and take care of 'em.

Oh, this is good.

This is the way a job should be.

This is bad, this feeling!

Run! Don't come any closer!

What's he talking about?

Yes...

Just like that.

Be just like that,

and give me some fun.

This again?

Your way of doing things is wrong!

He knocked them all unconscious
while blocking my attack?

You're being soft.

If you don't dispose of them here,
what will you do?

If they revive and follow us, things will get
even more troublesome, you know.

But we can pass through here.

I didn't become a recoverer because
I wanted to do things like that.

Things like that...

Even without doing things like that,
there's a way!

The force of his electrical attack

is even greater than when he fought
just a little while ago.

I see, Lightning Emperor means...

That's fine.

I'm not in the habit of attacking people
while they're down either.

Let's continue down the path we can travel.

I've reached my limit.

When I'm with Akabane,
I remember the old me.

When I was the Lightning Emperor, using
power to make everything submit to me.

Ban...

I want to see you, really soon.

Was this a miscalculation, Makubex?

You didn't think they would
come first, did you?

I'm calculating all possibilities.

While I'm gathering data like this,
the calculations are continuing.

But that guy alone I just can't calculate.

His very existence is random.

Ginji Amano is chaos itself.

Dangerous, huh?

What do you mean to do?

I'm going to go observe. I'd like to
see him with my own eyes.

The Lightning Emperor you all
dwell so much on, that is.

I'll go too.

Juubei!

Are you worried about the
Lightning Emperor?

About a guy who left this place
and abandoned us?

Do you know the reason that I made you
defeat Threadmaster Kazuki,

who was your close friend?

I wanted to see your loyalty.

Then I'll show it to you again.

The Lightning Emperor or Akabane...

I'll finish off whoever you wish for you.

Sakura...

Am I cruel?

No.

I see.

More importantly, I can't trust Kagami.

Why not?

I don't understand why that man
would swear loyalty to you.

I mean, he's...

Sakura!

I think he's a man worth fearing too.

He sees through everything,

yet he smiles at me like he
doesn't know anything.

Kyouji Kagami is a man you
can't see the bottom of.

Then having him close to you is...

No, that's exactly why I need him.

Because we aren't VOLTS anymore.

What I'm trying to do is totally different than
what Mr. Ginji was trying to do with VOLTS.

I'm going to gain absolute power
that no one will intrude on!

For that, I'll use anything!

The Lens, Juubei's loyalty,
and Kagami's power...

Sakura, as you know, three different worlds
exist in the Limitless Fortress.

One is the lowest area, Lower Town,
where we're expanding our influence.

Above that is the middle zone that
people call the Beltline.

And even higher is the highest
area, Babylon City.

I'm sick of living in fear of the higher floors.

Those of us who can only live here in
the lowest area, Lower Town,

have no choice but to seize absolute power.

Yes.

Kagami?

Hi there.

Don't overdo it.

This is something that wasn't in
Makubex's calculations.

We can't drain ourselves fighting
pointless fights.

I wonder if that's really true?

Perhaps Makubex was calculating that
we'd walk out like this too.

See, here he is.

The man you and Makubex and
the others admired so much.

Well, Ginji, it looks like another
welcome party is here.

And this time they seem to be
truly strong opponents.

These are flying needles?! It can't be!

J-Juubei!

Juubei! Long time no see!

It's dangerous, it's dangerous,
it's dangerous!

Mr. Akabane, something is weird.

You really aren't very quick
on the uptake, are you?

That man is an assassin sent by Makubex.

No way!

Juubei is Kazu's close friend!

And in VOLTS...

I finished off Threadmaster Kazuki.

Flour

It's a lie...

Do you want to follow in Kazuki's
footsteps as well?

Juubei killed Kazu?

It's a lie...

It's a lie, isn't it Juubei?

Something like that...

I see, so this is the Lightning Emperor.

Come on, it's a lie, isn't it Juubei?

It's a lie...

IT'S A LIE!

Ginji Amano

Kuroudo Akabane

IT'S A LIE!

Well, well...

This is unexpected.

I didn't think I'd meet someone
like you in a place like this.

A resident of the Limitless Fortress'
upper floors, Babylon City, I mean.

Why did they miss?

My flying needles should've
pierced every vital point.

What's happened?

You and Makubex, why are you
doing things like this?

That's my line!

A recovery service, you say?!

You, the person who abandoned us
and left the Limitless Fortress!

Someone loads you up with money
and you get in our way?

In the way of those who were
once your own?!

He caught all of them?

The needles are acting like magnets?

I see, electromagnetic force...

The metal flying needles are
taking on magnetic force

from the electric discharge the
Lightning Emperor gives off.

We only came to get back the thing
that was stolen from our client.

That's not always a respectable job, but...

Even so, Ban and I are doing our
recovery service work with pride.

When I left the Limitless Fortress,

and Ban and I teamed up to be the
Get Backers, someone said this:

"Recovery service jobs are like putting a
scattered jigsaw puzzle back together."

"You start to gradually see what kind
of picture is appearing."

"But you don't know the real picture until
you put the last piece in place."

"So stick to the job you've
taken on until the end."

That's what he said.

"Look at the finished picture, and then
think about what you're going to do."

I'm going to keep going forward.

What this IL is that Makubex
stole from the client,

and what he means to use it for.

Why you and the others are going
this far to protect IL.

I don't know any of those things, but I
have to stick to this job until the end.

So please, Juubei, let me through.

If you want to get through, then
try forcing your way through!

Inside the Limitless Fortress, even
Flying Needles Juubei can't beat me.

Don't think I'm the same as I was before.

Even if you aren't, you can't beat me.

Get out of the way.

GET OUT OF THE WAY!

My blood started to boil...

Is this the Lightning Emperor?

I feel a little queasy...

If I'm in Lightning Emperor mode too long,
I get all freaked out again.

If Ban finds out, he'll get
angry at me again too.

If we don't finish this job and
get out of here fast...

I feel like I'm forgetting something.

Well, whatever. It's probably best forgotten.

Pardon me, but what is your name?

Kyouji Kagami.

Well then, Kagami.

The truth is, if I stay too long, it looks like my
companion Ginji will forget all about me.

Could I ask you to get serious soon?

I'll get serious too.

I wonder if it's all right for
me to get serious?

Please, go ahead.

Without further hesitation, then.

Diamond Dust.

Is that how you are when you're serious?

Trying to trick people with illusions?

If that's the case, this is worthless.

I'll get right to it and...

Diamond Dust is made of demonic shards.

If light hits them, it reflects diffusely and
creates countless virtual images.

If you inhale it, it shreds
you up from the inside.

It's a bit of a shame.

I thought I'd be able to observe what
they say no one has ever seen:

Doctor Jackal when he's serious.

Observe?

I see. You say interesting things.

But you can't defeat me with
a thing like this.

Bloody Cross.

I let him get away, did I?

From the looks of you, he must
have gotten through.

What about you?

I got to make a thorough
observation of him.

That man is strong.

Kagami?

What?

Where is Makubex trying to take us?

Before, when Ginji Amano was
the leader of VOLTS,

we could just follow along behind him.

He might not have been thinking
anything at all,

but even so he never mistook his path.

And that was without any calculations.
It was little by little,

but he was trying to save us from the
darkness of this Limitless Fortress.

And the Lightning Emperor has returned

to stand in the way of Makubex.

He's just like back then,

with those straightforward eyes
that hold no hesitation.

What should I...

You believed in him, didn't you?
In Makubex.

Yes.

My sister and I both believed in him
and placed our bets on him.

For that, even Kazuki I...

Then you have no choice but to keep going.

In order to find out what lies
at the end of that path.

Then you should also know
which one was right.

Are you sure you don't already know?

Who knows?

So, what are you going to do?

Fight!

That's all I have left anymore.

Happiness Happiness

Oh, I AM forgetting something big, I know it.

I wonder what it was?

Although I feel like it might be
better not to remember.

Are you thinking about something?

AH! Kabane!

Do you remember me now?

Yes, of course.

Thanks a lot, Makubex, you bastard.

And the smell of Himiko's tracking perfume
is coming from this way too.

Nothing for it. We'll look for another route.

We don't need to.

Get out of the way. I'll kick a
little thing like this down.

This is?

Don't move, Midou. Stay still.

What is this?!

Don't talk.

If you attract their attention the wrong way
and you get bitten, that's the end.

In five seconds there wouldn't even
be bones left of your body.

So we're finally at Makubex's headquarters?

Hold on a second, are you sure
this is really the right way?

Why are you asking me? You search too.

As a negotiator, my job is over, you see.

You escape that way whenever things
are inconvenient for you, huh?

Fine!

Follow me!

Why aren't you following me?!
Don't leave me alone!

Shh, quiet!

Whoops there, don't move.

Now, you're going to go back
to prison like good girls!

Jeez...

You really are dead weight, aren't you?

Don't underestimate me.

I'm a pro too, you know.

I have no intention of begging for my life.

Give it to them good. I don't mind.

That's brave of you.

Don't underestimate us!

In that case, we'll start with you.

Raising your hand against a woman...

That's something I can't admire.

Kazuki!

You!

Miss Himiko, I'm glad you're all right.

But why is Miss Hevn here too?

Well, a lot of things happened, you see.

Anyway, we're saved!

If Kazuki the guide is with us, we can
meet up with everybody soon.

Actually, it doesn't look like the map
I received will be useful.

IL is underground.

Underground?

Where we are right now also is
an underground passage.

I hope everyone else catches on too, but...

Me too. But you're reliable, Kazuki!

You're definitely a worthy guide.

I bet there isn't a place inside the Limitless
Fortress that you don't know, huh?

No, there's still someplace that I don't know.

A place called Babylon City, the highest
area of the Limitless Fortress.

Babylon City?

I've gone as far as the middle
section, the Beltline,

but with my powers at the time,
that was my limit.

Even you...

Why did you go out of your way to
go to such a terrible place?

To solve the mystery of the
Limitless Fortress.

Let's hurry. IL should be inside here.

It looks like everyone's gathered.

Kazuki, so you are alive.

When we began this Lens Project,
I said to you all,

"Let's build a new era here in
the Limitless Fortress."

I said, "For the sake of a utopia where
there is no fear of the higher floors,

I will become the guide."

And at that call, you all gathered.

Now I want you to display your true
powers to their fullest for me.

Now, Limitless Fortress, look on!

A new era is about to be carved!

Sennen ni ikkai no koi nante mon ja nai

Futari no tame ni sora to daichi ga ugoiteta

Shakariki no hi yo, come back

Mafuyu no umi ni nageta misanga

Oto mo tatezu kiete shimau no ne

Bouhatei makka ni moeru gogo

Nami ga supankooru mitai ni kirei ne

Konna ni, dakara, sou waratte

Furimuicha dame

Saa, iku wa yo

Arashi ni dakarete yume kara, jump!

Eien ga oshiyoseru island

Hate shinaku sunda sora wo motome

Kizu tsuita kamome mo tonde yuku

Namida no harikeen

Ban, Ban, BAN!

Shut up! Don't hang on me!

I got all worried I might not see you again!

You're so melodramatic.

Well, it looks like the touching reunion
won't last too long.

You mean we're gonna be separated again?!

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