Natsumi Mizuki
Natsumi Mizuki is a 17-year-old high school student and she works part-time at the Honky Tonk cafe.
Character[]
Natsumi is often seen with a cheerful and youthful personality almost to the point of naivety sometimes; her interaction with the rest of the characters in the series are often comedic. She is a responsible worker at the Honky Tonk cafe, and her relationships with her boss Paul Wan, and the GetBackers are amicable. As she works for Paul Wan at the cafe, she often happily takes part in retrieving the GetBackers' debt owed to Paul Wan. Despite this, she always is welcomed to join the food celebration with the GetBackers when they manage to get some money from their jobs. Because of her youthful personality and age, she is often unfamiliar but very excited with the outside world.
History[]
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Get Back the Moment Arc[]
Natsumi was first introduced in this arc after the GetBackers, Mido Ban and Amano Ginji, returns to the Honky Tonk cafe to discuss business with Hevn. When the GetBackers screwed up and broke the Huge Lucky Cat statue in many parts, Natsumi volunteers to help fix the statue, armed with tools such as a large hammer, huge saw, a crow bar and a drill. While she proudly and cheerfully claims to have taken Art class for 5 years, Natsumi and Ginji fixes the statue, but only to make it far worse. Despite the statue being "fixed" beyond recognition, the client Kinue happily accepted the modified Lucky Cat statue and gave the GetBackers the monetary reward. Natsumi can then be seen happily celebrating with the GetBackers on some high grade sushi and sake. This celebration is however short-lived, as Kinue returns with a group of armed men including the protector Hishiki Ryudo and the true client Dr. Kabutogawa. They held Natsumi hostage, demanding the true contents that were inside the Lucky Cat statue. Dr. Kabutogawa then agrees to release Natsumi on the condition that Hevn follows them to find the missing contents of the statue, leaving Natsumi in fear and tears.
After the GetBackers finished the ordeal with Dr. Kabutogawa, Natsumi is seen again cheerfully working at the cafe. Natsumi remarks that the GetBackers gets along so well as always, and is surprised to learn from Paul Wan that the GetBackers tried to kill each other when they had first met.
Givers and Takers Arc[]
When Paul Wan introduces an apartment deal for the GetBackers, Natsumi is happy for the GetBackers and asks if she can go to their house sometimes to barbecue or bake. At the end of the GetBackers' long ordeal in their retrieval job against the Transporters, the GetBackers is seen again with Natsumi is celebrating their sumptuous sushi and drinks, only to find out that they would not be getting any money later from their retrieval job.
Get Back the Sound of Life Arc[]
Natsumi gets invited by the GetBackers to participate in their retrieval job for Madoka's violin, the Stradivarius. Natsumi has to wear musician's clothes and pretend to be part of a quintet of musicians alongside with Paul Wan, Hevn, Ginji and Ban. Natsumi is excited, thinking that this is like an outfield trip or a picnic. When Shunsuke Akutsu questions their skills and authenticity, Ban plays the violin, and Natsumi is very impressed by Ban's skills as well.
When the quintet is later caged by Shunsuke's mafia men with a lion, Natsumi is seen to be unafraid or shocked at all. She is again excited as she tags along the gang when they manage to escape from the cage and the lion. When Paul Wan reveals a bit more about Ginji's past as the former leader of a gang in Shinjuku, Natsumi expresses her happiness that Ginji is now a much happier man. When the gang is required to jump down from the second floor of the house to escape, Natsumi unhesitatingly jumps off the window to the GetBackers' rescue. Even on the trip back, Natsumi is excited for sitting in a Mercedes car the first time, and suggests that she can prepare bento if Madoka drives her around.
When Ginji comically lies in a pool of blood after getting hit by a large tree from Hishiki Ryudo, Natsumi simply watches Ginji by the side. Natsumi and Madoka then later cheers Ginji against Hishiki Ryudo. When Shido Fuyuki orders Madoka's guide dog, Mozart, to steal the Stradivarius, Natsumi and Paul Wan embarrassingly apologized to the GetBackers duo for being caught off guard and letting the violin get stolen. At the end of the ordeal, Natsumi is seen happily celebrating with the rest of the gang at the backstreets with other city residents and animals, dancing and playing music; much to the huge pleasure of Madoka's teacher, Antonio Visconti, commenting "This is Music".
Return to the Infinity Fortress Arc[]
When the GetBackers return to the Honky Tonk cafe from their "I.L" retrieval job at the Infinity Fortress, Natsumi cheerfully welcomes them back. Although the GetBackers don't get money, the GetBackers and Natsumi celebrate with loads of good sushi and tea again. Natsumi then happily helps the GetBackers to calculate their debt, which comes down to 890, 269 yen. When the GetBackers went to bet on horse-racing as a final resort, Natsumi played "Guess-Who" and put on a cow-looking, poorly done head mask (labelled Natsumi's art project) over Ban Mido's head, preventing Ban Mido's opportunity to cast his Evil Eye on the horse he bet on, causing the GetBackers to lose their gamble.
Shido and Madoka Arc[]
Natsumi plays a game of shogi against Amano Ginji, in a bet that if Ginji wins, Natsumi would have to treat the GetBackers dinner. Through some struggles and quarrels, Mido Ban and Ginji lost the game. As a result of losing the bet, the GetBackers have to take over Natsumi in washing the cafe's dishes. Natsumi then happily knocks off from work in a beautiful kimono, to attend Madoka's recital.
Divine Design Arc[]
After Mido Ban got into a violent clash and escaped from Lucifer and fell unconscious, Natsumi and Himiko Kudo took care of him for three nights. When 10-Yen Kid Mamoru was offered by Natsumi to have a cocoa, 10-Yen Kid, Mamoru Saiki, turned down the offer and sarcastically referred to Natsumi as "Ma'am", resulting in Natsumi crying.
Marine Red Arc
At the end of the GetBackers job in retrieving the Marine Red, Natsumi and Rena are seen excited that the GetBackers are finally getting money to clear their accumulated debt again, but to no success again.
Birth Arc[]
In the flashback arc 2 years prior to the current storyline, Natsumi was one of the GetBackers' 2nd client chronologically, having been referred by the 2nd generation of GetBackers to the Honky Tonk cafe to look for the 3rd generation of GetBackers, Amano Ginji and Mido Ban. Natsumi hires them to rescue her "genius" dog, a Miniature Dachshund breed named Lucky, a dog that is allegedly kidnapped to perform tricks at a TV station. However, it is something more than meets the eye, as there was previously a client with group of armed men offering a large sum of money to retrieve the same dog. Unlike turning down this client, the GetBackers accept Natsumi's job without stating the price.
Natsumi then joins the GetBackers at the TV station to retrieve Lucky, because Lucky would probably think that the GetBackers are kidnappers as well. They then succeeds in retrieving Lucky from the hands of the TV station staffs, and made a run for it. When broken glasses from a lamp fall towards Natsumi, Lucky is able to deflect the broken glasses via telekinesis. Ban Mido then questions Natsumi about the dog's secrets and how it was able to solve the Fermat's Last Theorem in just seconds. Natsumi then sadly reveals Lucky's secret, that Lucky isn't a pure breed, much to Ban Mido's annoyance and Natsumi's amusement to flaunt about owning Lucky. As Ban questions further on the day when Lucky went missing, Natsumi reveals that his father works as a research scientist on viruses and he had passed away in an accident recently. On the day when Lucky went missing, Natsumi's father's assistant came to her house to tell her that she needs to run. The assistant suddenly became a monster, and bit Lucky when Lucky tried to protect Natsumi. From this, Ban is able to gather that the dog is a survive of the Missing Link Virus, and was able to evolve and gained immense intelligence and powers.
Just then, a large group of similar monsters surround Natsumi and the GetBackers. Ban then lures the zombies and confidently lures them into attacking each other and dodging their attacks to avoid any possible contact with the virus. Natsumi then happily escapes with Lucky as Ginji leads her outside. However, Takuma Fudou suddenly appears and savagely beat down Ginji. Natsumi is shocked and immediately runs back to get Ban for help. Ginji is able to defeat Fudou, and the GetBackers then settle the threat from the original client and saves Hevn. All of a sudden, Lucky begins to act up and releases great telekinetic, bites Natsumi and is able to levitate high up in the air. Ban suspects that it is the final evolution of the Missing Link Virus that is acting up, and Natsumi begs the GetBackers to save Lucky instead of killing. Ginji then is able to save Lucky by microwaving Lucky at at safe temperature enough to kill the virus, while the vaccine left by Natsumi's father can be used to cure Natsumi. At the end of this flashback arc, Natsumi joins the Honky Tonk cafe to work part time, and also makes terrible coffee experiment products for the GetBackers just like the present day Rena who had just joined Honky Tonk.
Get Back the Lost Time[]
As the Paul Wan went off to aid the GetBackers in retrieving the lost time in Infinity Fortress, Natsumi and Rena are able to hold the fort at the Tonky Honk even with a sudden large surge of customers. Rena were worried about their safety. Natsumi, however, is convinced that Paul would be alright, and told her Rena not to worry. When Natsumi points out that the Infinity Fortress is disappearing, Semimaru Kaede corrected her that it is them who are disappearing.
Power and Abilities[]
Natsumi is a regular girl with no fighting capability. She started off with completely terrible coffee making skills, but has become good at it over time, and reliably reached Paul Wan's standards by the end of the series. In the anime, Natsumi has amazing ping-pong skills.
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