#I MEAN despite the shounen jump what is it. friendship. victory. whatever whatever whatever principles. textbook idealism. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

joelletwo · 9 months ago

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ignoring the baby. this is sakamoto narrating that he doesnt think miracles exist [to contrast chars saying altana baby 1 was a miracle that cant happen again], that things happen for logical reasons, including gintoki surviving the terminal explosion of shouyou altana suiciding. this is. the sympathetic materialism char backing up the. the. hand waving reductionisms writing on the unidirectionality of the master-disciple relationship (disciples shouldnt sacrifice themselves for their master). logs this

#sopping wet gintoki posting #I MEAN despite the shounen jump what is it. friendship. victory. whatever whatever whatever principles. textbook idealism.#amplified by all the comical nonliterality thruout the series and grave nonliterality of The Final #i think u can still make a decent argument for gintama as a materialistly framed series. due to its staunch commitment to radical acceptanc #of the unhaltability of time->death->ends #using idealism to make a materialist argument. while here using materialism to back up ur idealist finale #<- as always this is for fun

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