#Yorozuya Shinsengumi Shimura Yagyuu

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Laughed so hard on this episode!

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Scandal Arc Or Host Club Arc

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A Gintama episode a day keeps the ending away...Episode 77

Episode Title: Yesterday's Enemy, After All Is Said And Done, Is Still The Enemy

MY 20 FAVORITE MOMENTS IN EPISODE 77 (manga chaps 112, 113 and 114):

So much OkiKagu goodness...I swoon from the abundance of cuteness....

1) The little kitty was just such a perfect touch.

2) How adorable was Okita, imitating Hijikata??  

3) Sweet Shinpachi sloppy crying as he talked about how much he loved Tae-chan.

4) My eyes well up with tears EVERY SINGLE TIME I get to this scene! Love this family so much...the whole extended bunch of them.

5) Loved how Kondou was trying to slip in a bro-in-law honorific...even though Shinpachi was having none of it.

6) These goofballs reminded me of our Joui goofballs...except our Joui boys are much better looking.

7) Best horrible joke ever...

8) ...which naturally deserved the best and most reasonable response ever.

9) Hijikata and Kagura’s one-two punch at Sougo. I especially loved Kagura’s gleeful expression while she chanted his murder. 

10) Bless the anime team for adding in this precious reaction shot (and having my two OTPs stand next to each other...technically all three of my main OTPs are represented since Kondou and Pachi-kun are future bro-in-laws).

11) I love Kondou but he can be such a big idiot sometimes. No one with two brain cells to rub together would put that plate on their team leader in such an obvious and vulnerable spot.

12) I love Kagura but she can be such a big CUTIE ALL THE DAMN TIME.

13) I debated for a few minutes even including this, since it is most definitely NOT a favorite moment, but it was so memorably disgusting, I had to honor it somehow. Vomit.

14) Sougo straight up laying claim to Kagura. 

15) THE PRINCE.

16) I love this scene so much, I think I devoted my life to OkiKagu because of it.

17) !!!!!!!!!!

18) First time I saw this, I am positive I screamed “NOOOO HIS FACE!!!!”.

19) Again, more screaming about Sougo’s beautiful face being ruined. Kagura’s brutal. But that’s why she’s THE QUEEN.

20) I didn’t properly pay tribute to the BEAUTIFUL new ending credits for this arc last night because I’m obviously brain damaged so I thought I’d make up for it tonight. Lots of nekkidness but these were of course my favorite.

SHIPS TALLY:

Okita x Kagura: might as well title this episode OkiKagu Maximum.

Gintoki x Hijikata: Gin-chan entrusted Toshi with his precious plate! How freaking sweet was that????

Kondou x Otae: naturally since Kondou was totally there to get back his gal (who doesn’t want him...yet).

Shinpachi x Otae: even he acknowledges his own siscon-ness so who am I to ignore it?

Gintoki x Okita: wonder what they did when they went off together.

Gintoki x Kagura: she was very concerned about Gin-chan.

Hijikata x Okita: Sougo’s faith in Hijikata’s victory was touching.

Kyuubei x Otae: they didn’t have any scenes together but since Tae-chan was basically learning to be a proper Yagyuu clan wife, they were technically one step away from being canon.

Disclaimer: Gintama is not only about shipping. Gintama is hilarious, clever, exciting, poignant, heart-breaking, loving, brilliant, and just completely unbelievably amazing.  It is only due to Sorachi-sama’s immense generosity that I am able enjoy Gintama on an extra another level, the shippy level, and I am forever grateful for that. GINTAMA IS LIFE AND LOVE.

3/18/2019

[the-anime-haven]

Gintama Stills for Every (Canon) Episode → [366/316] “Dun Dun”

↳ “I will not let you have Sakata Gintoki. This is his home. If he won't return, I'll bring him back by force. Because he never even told me to wait for him, after all.”

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The best cast.

Original Artist: @hengyo on twitter

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Gintama

Ep. 347- "Machines That Pick Up Useless Habits Are Called People" (pt. 2)

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go to the beeeaaaachhh

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My list of Gintama strongest characters

Any debate is welcome!

#1 Utsuro

#2 Umibozu

#3 Kamui

#4 Hozen

#5 Sakata Gintoki

#6 Katsura Kotaro

#7 Takasugi Shinsuke

#8 Jirocho

#9 Jiraia

#10 Oboro

#11 Kagura

#12 Abuto

#13 Mutsu

#14 Sakamoto Tatsuma

#15 Saito Shimaru

#16 Sougo Okita

#17 Neptune Shokaku

#18 Imai Nobume

#19 Tsukuyo

#20 Grandpa Kyubei

#21 Yagyu Kyubei

#22 Shimura Tae

#23 Kondo Isao

#24 Hijikata Toshiro

#25 Sasaki Isaburo

#26 Tojo Ayumu

#27 Sarutobi Ayame

#28 Hattori Zenzou

#29 Kawakami Bansai

#30 Okida Nizou

#31 Kijima Matako

#32 Saigou Tokumori

#33 Shimura Shinpachi

#34 Matsudaira Katakuriko

#35 Obi-one

#36 Harada Unosuke

#37 Yamazaki Sagaru

#38 Nobu Nobu

#39 Ikeda Yaemon

#40 Ikeda Asaemon

#41 Piko-chan (Jirocho's daughter)

#42 Elizabeth

Honorables mentions: Kintoki, Hedoro, Kouka

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Gintama° - One Gifset per Episode

↳ Episode 12: 10 - 1 =

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Building up on @asideblogofananimelover's GinTae and KatsuMatsu parallels post, I want to add more to their observations. (from beam saber arc and homeless arc)

1. Arc starts by childhood friend visiting and interacting with the pairs in question.

Hajime showing up in Shimura residence while Yorozuya was hanging out and listening to Tae and her plans.

Yorozuya eating at the Ikumatsu's ramen place while Katsura was also there. tbf Ikumatsu's has always been Gin's favorite ramen place lol.

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2. Childhood friend immediately assume they're dating/sleeping together with the new person because they seem to hang out a lot together and are way too comfortable in each other's presence.

Hajime assuming Otae and Gintoki are dating and that Gintoki will be the next master of the Shimura dojo.

Gintoki assuming Katsura has been sleeping with Ikumatsu-dono because he seemed too concerned about her loneliness

3. Person being questioned saying "It's not like that!"

Otae vs Hajime

Katsura vs Gintoki

4. Childhood secrets/crushes of person being questioned were revealed.

Otae vs Shinpachi telling the truth

Katsura vs Gintoki revealing his fetish

5. Person being questioned stabbing childhood friend to shut them up.

Otae vs. Hajime

Katsura threatening Gintoki with a sword and saying that he just loves Ikumatsu's soba,

6. The first bit of the past was revealed because of the meals that were served.

Hajime passed out because of Otae's dark matter, leading Gengai to see the problem

Ikumatsu told a touching story about her and her husband while serving Yorozuya + Katsura some ramen.

7. Katsura and Gintoki both trying their best to bring back the loved ones of Ikumatsu and Otae without their knowledge.

Gintoki making it his mission to bring back the human part of Hajime alive and acting as if he just wants to kill Hajime regardless of Shinpachi's and Otae's feelings. He even sacrificed his pride two times in one day just to get Shinsengumi and Yagyuu clan to back down.

Katsura going undercover with Yorozuya among the homeless people in the city so that they can look for an old man that Ikumatsu had been looking for.

8. Katsura and Gintoki sacrificing their bodies to save the families of the ladies.

Gintoki was beat up badly during his fight with Hajime.

Katsura had to jump in a rapidly flowing river to try to save Ikumatsu and her dad.

9. All these talk about helping love rivals

BEAM SABER ARC

Kondou: We're really got the short end of the stick, lending our hand to our rival in love... even if we win this fight we wont have anything left on our side eh, kyubei-kun?

Kyubei: We're better off than that idiot GIntoki, since he's having to bow his head all over the place even while being driven out his position as big brother and because he knew why through tough times and sad times the reason why Tae-chan smiled.

HOMELESS ARC

Gintoki: How benevolent. You're pitching in to protect the promise made by your love rival?

Katsura: Unfortunately, I'm not his rival in love nor can I become it. Because there is only one man in Ikumatsu's eyes.

10. Ladies running to the place where the loved ones they lost are

Ikumatsu running and trying to serve ramen to her dad even while thugs pursued her.

Otae and Shinpachi going to the place Hajime and Gintoki were fighting in order to help.

11. The familes of the Otae and Ikumatsu were reunited even if the result was bittersweet.

Hajime sacrifices himself and dies happy knowing that he has been finally reunited with Otae and Shinpachi.

Ikumatsu being reunited with her dad who has gone senile.

Notes:

It's just so sweet how Gintoki and Katsura both found people they care a lot and will do anything for. Katsura is way more honest than Gintoki though because he's pretty straightforward with what he wants. Moreover he was the client in this arc. In Beam Saber, most of Gintoki's intentions (especially regarding Otae) were revealed by others like the Shinsengumi and the Kyuubei. We don't really hear much from his mouth other than saying "I promise to bring him back to you."

Anyhow both arcs are good character developments for them and the lives and bonds they have nurtured in Edo.

Katsura's one sided love for Ikumatsu is basically canon. Ikumatsu trusts and cares for him in her own quiet way too (I mean..they lived together for a while after all). As for Gintoki, we only barely scratched the surface.

I'm sure there are more parallels but these are the ones on top of my head I can remember.

Another thing to note is that Homeless Arc took place 30 chapters after Beam Saber. Gintoki using Hajime's line of questioning on Katsura makes you wonder how much of Katsura's experiences Gintoki empathized with.

GinTae musings:

GinTae shipping really fun because of stuff like this. You can get many aspects from the canon couples in Gintama and see how GinTae moments that are spread throughout the series parallel them. We'll never know what is the real deal with Gintoki and Tae Shimura since they have neither confirmed nor denied anything despite many characters assuming that they are together in some capacity. What we know is that they are hella close, spend lots of offscreen time together and are already a solid family unit together with Shinpachi, Kagura and Sadaharu. Yorozuya + Otae is even rarer in official art even though Otae is clearly an integral part of the team.

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Courtesan of Nation Arc Or Beam Sword Style Arc

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A Gintama episode a day keeps the ending away...Episode 76

Episode Title: In Those Situations, Keep Quiet And Cook Red Rice With Beans, or aka, The Yagyuu Arc Begins!

MY 15 FAVORITE MOMENTS IN EPISODE 76 (manga chaps 110 and 111):

I love the Yagyuu arc, one of my faves in the entire series. I hope the next live action movie covers this arc...and they find a way to incorporate Zura and Elizabeth into it since live action Zura is so perfect.

1) Baby Tae-chan and Baby Kyuu-chan melts me.

2) I just love this so damn much. 

3) There were these random cutaways in the Snack Smile scene which were unique to the anime, and this one was my favorite for obvious reasons. It was a parody of something I don’t know anything about, but LOOK AT YAMAZAKI’S SHORTS!!!!

4) It was a very sweet gesture on the part of the Shinsengumi’s boys...

5) ...too bad Tae-chan is who she is so of course she didn’t react well. I loved Yamazaki’s kimono, which looks even cuter in color.

6) Kyuubei making a really cool entrance.

7) I honestly didn’t like anything about this, but after seeing Princess Bubbles’ size, I was relieved that their genders weren’t switched. Yikes.

8) I love Kondou but I really wish he had better control of his bowels.

9) Whether or not Kyuu-chan had really been a man, I’m sure I still would’ve been shock at this development.

10) I honestly never like seeing Gin-chan hitting animals, even if the animal in question outsized him by ten times. He’s lucky Princess Bubbles didn’t fight back...she couldn’t smashed him into a bloody human pancake with just one finger.

11) Yeah, I was starting to really feel bad for Princess Bubbles. She didn’t deserve any of this abuse. I mean, not bad enough that I wanted her marriage with Kondou to go through, but she was legit royalty after all, she deserved some respect.

12) Gin-chan and Kagura were lying on top of Kondou’s poop stained pants. I was so grossed out. 

13) The face that launched a no-holds barred dojo challenge.

14) I loved that they were talking about Gintoki, and reminding us he was the first to ever beat Hijikata.

15) These future bro-in-laws. So proud of them banding together to fight for Tae-chan’s return.

SHIPS TALLY:

Gintoki x Hijikata & Okita x Kagura: two of my main OTPs in one frame? LOVE. Although admittedly, I probably didn’t devoutly ship OkiKagu until this arc. My love was sparked previously, but it didn’t fully catch fire and erupt into a glorious eternal flame til this arc happened.

Kondou x Otae: pretty much always a given when they’re in any episode together.

Kyuubei x Otae: this ship is what tests my loyalty to KonTae and weakens my resolve a little.

Gintoki x Otae: her tears obviously moved him into action. 

Hijikata x Otae: they would’ve been canon in this alternate series that Tae-chan conjured up, but even within the Ginta-verse, I’m sure a lot of people at the club thought Hijikata was interested since he specifically asked for her services.

Shinpachi x Otae: Pachi-kun’s siscon level was turned up to max.

Kondou x Princess Bubbles: I really can’t. Plus, honestly, Princess Bubbles deserves a man her size who doesn’t shit in his pants all the time. Yeah, that’s the argument I’m gonna stick with. 

Hijikata x Okita: their banter and threats are always cute.

Kondou x Hijikata x Otae: I would never want this myself, but for those who do, this is for you. 

Disclaimer: Gintama is not only about shipping. Gintama is hilarious, clever, exciting, poignant, heart-breaking, loving, brilliant, and just completely unbelievably amazing.  It is only due to Sorachi-sama’s immense generosity that I am able enjoy Gintama on an extra another level, the shippy level, and I am forever grateful for that. GINTAMA IS LIFE AND LOVE.

3/17/2019

[the-anime-haven]

Gintama Stills for Every (Canon) Episode → [277/316] “10-1=”

↳ “No matter what you choose, I'm sure you will continue to waver. But what's wrong with that? Manly? Womanly? Are those random values that others made up really what you were striving toward? If things were so clear cut, then neither men, women, you, or me would be leading such painful lives.”

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Hijikata runs a secret tumblr with nothing but posts about mayonnaise and mayonnaise trivia

Gintama characters on social media

Gintoki: is only on Instagram (because Kagura forced him to join). The only thing he has on his IG feed is a blurry picture of a carton of strawberry milk (he thought it was being posted to his story). Doesn’t really understand what the hype around social media is. Follows Ketsuno Ana, Kagura and Shinpachi. Kagura blocked Zura for him.

Kagura: is on every kind of social media. Loves posting updates about her Yorozuya life, reblogs mainly pictures of food and puppies on her Tumblr. She also runs an account for Sadaharu on Instagram. Constantly messes around with Shinpachi’s Twitter.

Shinpachi: mainly uses Twitter and Instagram. Retweets and likes everything Otsuu posts. Occasionally posts pictures with Tae and the Yorozuya. (Kagura made his IG handle, “glasses_wearing_human” and he can’t figure out how to change it)

Hijikata: uses Twitter. Only made an account to make sure he’s updated with everything happening in the government. Follows all Shinsengumi members and officials of the Bakufu. Sent a follow request to Sougo, who blocked him. Uses Yamazaki’s social media to keep tabs on Katsura

Sougo: meme king supreme. Runs an account on Instagram where all he does is shitpost about the Shinsengumi (mainly Hijikata). Follows Kagura, Gintoki and Kondou.

Kondou: uses Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Follows the Shinsengumi members and the Shogun. Was unable to follow Otae, so he follows the Yorozuya and Kyuubei to get updates about her. Tried convincing Hijikata to follow her, he didn’t agree.

Katsura: uses Facebook and Instagram. Mainly shares pictures of animals. Lots of selfies with Elizabeth. Can’t figure out why he’s unable to follow Gintoki. Blocked Sougo and Kondou. Stays away from Twitter so Hijikata won’t find him.

Otae: uses Twitter and Instagram. Blocked Kondou on both. Follows the Yorozuya, the girls from the cabaret club and Kyuubei. Posts pictures of her cooking and sometimes selfies with Shinpachi/Kyuubei.

Sa-chan: follows Gintoki wherever she can. Posts lots of selfies with her blown up doll of Gintoki. Also shares pictures of nattou. Sometimes her captions are incoherent, cause she can’t find her glasses. Gintoki tried blocking her, but she had a backup account.