#NobuNobu

[daeva-agas]

I'm annoyed that I can't read curly wurly text properly dkhkgjhkd Hideyoshi's "fake Edo era name" here does not seem to be the usual "Hisayoshi", but I can't tell what it says.

Nobu's one here is "Ota Harunaga" 小田春長 as usual, and Toshiie is "Saeda Inukiyo" 左枝犬清 (THEY USED HIS "INUCHIYO" NAME TO MAKE THE FAKE NAME, NOT TOSHIIE AHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA). Can't read Hideyoshi's. I think it looks like "Matsushita"-something.

And the funniest part of it is "Saeda" is written as "Sa-Eda", just to obfuscate his name even further LOL. It's clever, but also very funny. The kanji for "Maeda" is spelled as "Mae-Da".

Also, while trying to find if there's a website that gives the kanji for the names, I saw that the Museum of Boston website labels 左枝犬清 as being read "Sae Kensei". I don't see furigana on the prints, but unless there is furigana in the catalogue or something, then I wonder if someone at the museum screwed up because they failed to recognise the parody.

This is from another print, this one involving a fake Yoshimoto, but it's part of the same "series".

I'm not sure "Miyako Shinsuke" is right either. Again, unless the ukiyoe printers are the ones who provided funny readings on purpose so that it can pass the censors, 郡新助 is probably supposed to be read as "Koori Shinsuke", a parody of Mouri Shinsuke (long "o" sounds can be written as either "oo" or "ou").

[joelletwo]

[VD: takasugi messy journey of vengeance gintama amv set to hayloft ii, with gintama-typical flashing, violence, and eye trauma]

yes the gun is (every char around him and also) gintoki. yes i painstakingly made that utsuro lipsync on purpose

[edit: OKAY YAY! on youtube with lyrics in CC]

[daeva-agas]

I like Gackt’s Nobu makeup better than Kimura Takuya’s in L&B.

Gackt in the role of Nobunaga in this teaser for an upcoming video to promote Zen 大学 (Zen University).

Zen University is being advertised as a fully-online university in Japan. I don't know how this Nobunaga is supposed to tie into the university, but we'll see when the full video drops.

Official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/nhigh_info

[hows-itgoagain]

gintama making me violently sob over and over again i hate this fucking show (it’s genuinely a masterpiece and everyone should watch it)

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

its such an odd little fanon thing to make characters like… gay horny and semi flirtatious all the time but the great thing about sakamoto from gintama is that he actually is

[wordswhisperinthedark]

I forgot that these two were such menaces at the start of this arc🤣

[regnigt]

Gintama Inktober

Day 6: Shogun

[averagelonelypotato]

Oboro and Takasugi similarities……insane

[windupaidoneus]

truly have so many thoughts im gonna have to start putting gintama on as bg noise againActually do i post my tierlist. do i post my tierlist

[forgloryforhonor]

bro

what if i ship otae x nobunobu

broooo

[lotus-tower]

the joui 4 are so funny because they’re all guys with S class charisma stats that they only use to 1) be obnoxious 2) commit terrorism

and gintoki specifically is like yeah I can fake a charming personality with scary competency and get people to fall in love with me easily I just don’t feel like it unless you pay me <— guy whose oldest friends are in love with him and it’s fucking annoying and exhausting

sakamoto can’t turn his off though. goodbye nobunobu no one will miss you

[daeva-agas]

SEPARATING THIS SO THAT MY THIRST COMMENTS DON’T SHOW IN THE NOTES BUT SIETGSIKBEUYMNIETUYNMDIYMNKFIUJMNIRJU

I’M LOSING MY SANITY ALL OVER AGAIN

MAKE IT STOP 

*uncontrollable sobbing*

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I’m calm

I’m calm

Anyway. How old is Nobu supposed to be again, in here? He dresses like the teenage “Fool of Owari” style, but he’s clearly old-looking here. 

FFFFFFFFFFFFFF YES I’ MDEF LECTING SO I DON’T IMPLODE OVER THIS SSTUPID DRAWING 

[joelletwo]

taking a lunch break from being autistic to be autistic and make a searchable memory cheat sheet. AGAIN (already did this for the manga). god shoass is so singularly incomparable

[versegm]

Archer Guda variation idea: Archer Guda that comes equipped with one of those circus canons. Once loaded with the needed ammo (Archer Guda themself) simply fire the canon and no matter where you aim it they will land in a Situation. There's no telling what Situation they will land in but thier NP " Don't Worry Guys I Got This (Probably)" will ensure Guda will be able to resolve it.

Guda does a B+down kirby-style and the second they hit the ground five nobunobus randomly spawn around them

[zurajanaizurakoda]

Which EP that make your into ginzura ?!

I know who you are, and you know you don't want to hear this. There wasn't any episode, I first watched the series almost ten years ago and distanced myself from it because it was making me physically sick worrying about characters. I remember looking for Ginzura and not finding anything but not being particularly attached to it. Like I didn't really see g*nhiji so I figured Ginzura had at least as much reason?

I thought the most interesting relationship was between Gin and Kagura (NOT sexually or romantically, I was just fascinated by them.

When I saw that the series was all on Crunchyroll (as far as I knew except the love potion arc which I wasn't a fan of in the manga so I decided to watch the series and see how it ended. Got obsessed again. It seems like I latched on to Katsura more that time, although I remember liking him the first time through. Finally I decided to find the second movie, which I remembered liking. I was enjoying it, and then it got to the scene on the balcony where Katsura talks about the last time he saw Gin, and I was fucking run over by a 50-ton freight train of feelings. I've never had a ship hit that fast. When he started choking up it was suddenly clear that the outfit wasn't a popularity joke, Katsura was literally shattered by losing Gin. He'd lost his entire family and his Sensei and his cause and everything he'd ever cared about and he'd persisted, but losing Gin broke him. And it struck me just how miserable he was in the movie, and how no one seemed to care. Kagura flatly states that he went insane because Gin disappeared, and they go back to talking about everything else like that wasn't important. Gin makes a half joke about murdering him and goes back to worrying about Gengai. This is runaway Kotarou, his literal claim to fame is running away. He escapes all the time, even from the inescapable prison, even when he was a screwdriver. And he just sat there and let the execution happen because he was so broken down. And of course, Kagura says he talked about destroying the world, but all he talks about, both with Kondo and Gin, is how much he wants to help the world. He hates the world but he just wants to help, so badly. And he was breaking down and Gin saw the Blight guy and left Katsura and probably forgot him as soon as he was out of sight. Then during the final battle, Katsura makes the long, impassioned speech about how every single one of them is there to support Gin. If Gin hears the speech, he literally does not react at all. I wondered if this was the Katsura who had mourned Gin for ten years. Everyone else forgot Gin, but for Katsura he lost his best friend and suffered for it for a decade. Here he is finally able to do something for the person he cares about more than everything. And again, how happy would he be if Gin just took a second to acknowledge him?

And it's been the same ever since. His introduction is based on how much he values Gin, how he was willing to dirty his hands to get him back. But he accepts Gin's decision, even if he doesn't like it, and he tries to influence Gin but he never endangers him again. His next major appearance, he says the Harusame is too big for his entire organization, but when Gin says he's going, Katsura goes with him without hesitation "I'm your left hand" isn't just an idle term, he makes an enemy he's already stated he doesn't think he can defeat if it will help Gin. In Benizakura he tells Takasugi he rearranged his core beliefs based on how strong he sees Gin as. I could keep going. The constant standbys. Wanting to be in the Cartesian Arc., In the soul-switch arc he literally is willing to fight for Hijikata because Hijikata in Gin's body took him seriously and offered him a job. When he saved Gin from Nobunobu (Which again, Gin literally never acknowledges, Katsura spends most of his time talking about Gin and Gin spends the whole time playing support for Hijikata. Katsura gets his rawest line in the series, about how when you're near death you just want to be with people you care about. This reframes his asking Gin to commit seppuku with him. When he lost all hope, his one wish was to be near Gintoki when he died. Meanwhile, in the Farewell Shinsengumi arc, he doesn't get to see Gin. It doesn't even appear that Gin bothered to talk to him about Utsuro until Matako and Nobume bring it up. Gin literally fucking renamed him and it changed how his friends treated him for the rest of his life. When he stayed in the ship in The Very Final. I don't see much Ginzura in the series, but if Katsura isn't in love with Gintoki it's still obvious that a good chunk of his sanity revolves around his relationship with Gin. I truly believe there's more support for his romantic feelings for Gin than his romantic feelings for Ikumatsu, and I truly believe he cares about her and I can even see them ending up together but you cannot possibly convince me that their main bond is based around his understanding how hard it is to lose the one you love to the cause. And every time I see Katsura I want to throw a supportive Gin at him, even for a minute, even for a single panel, and it never happens. So I write.

Obviously this is all my opinion. If you really want to discuss it that's fine, but if you just want to tell me how wrong I am I'm aware my opinions are very different from most of the fandom. When I say you can't convince me it's because I'm stubborn as fuck and I suffer from cognitive rigidity, not because I think I'm the smartest person on the internet. Just assume you're right

[banapricot]

Once again thinking about how Takasugi and Katsura do down a very similarly destructive path because they idolized a man that they loved until he might as well have been a deity, making him so fundamental to the way they perceived the world that once he was gone they simply couldn't keep track of a reality that didn't include him. And the reason Zura changed tracks at the start of the show is because he never worshipped Shouyo to the extent Takasugi did - he split his reverence between his Sensei, who made him a Samurai, and Gintoki, who let him be Zura. But in BFY Gintoki went and died, too, sending Katsura tumbling back down the same path as Takasugi.

Gintoki never puts anyone on that sort of pedestal, never places that sort of responsibility on them, not even the man that gave him a sword and a life and a future, which is why he could cope with the loss better than the other two.

He's so human, so undeniably flawed, and after the war and the Shiroyasha he makes sure everyone sees him as such. He messes with Shigeshige and punches Nobunobu and pisses off Yato and mocks everyone he respects because they're all people, none of them are infallible, and he knows that worship can be as dangerous as faith is important.