#gengai

[ilyokkgsmiabf]

Gintama Live-action cast!!! Miss them!!!

[whosname]

How dare you, old man Gengai?

[choosefromtoo]

Harusame Arc Or Gengai Arc

[anannua]

lots of people liked the dip~ @kaoruhana08 your guys

since you gave me the option to draw my op, i included legs in this picture even though i said i wouldn't ☺️ thanks for thinking of me that's so super sweet of you please enjoy

[babygray]

Gintama 3rd Year Z Class Ginpachi Sensei Special: Let's Go to the Big Ball Game Tournament, chapter 3, “‘Time Trip’ is fine, but ‘Time Slip’ feels a bit like a mistake…”

[gintama-polls]

[johnmalevolent]

everytime there's a serious scene in bfy i keep remembering that gntk's face still looks like a penis 😭

[duoduotian]

ch. 482

ch. 485

[mystery-2702]

Sakata Gintoki's nicknames

So I just finished my nth rewatch of the anime and this time I decided to make notes on how each the characters are addressed by others. Mostly for fanfic reasons. So here it is the list of Gintoki's nicknames.

Shinpachi: Gin-san

Kagura: Gin-chan. Earth papi

Otose: Gintoki. Mop head

Otae: Gin-san

Katsura: Gintoki. Gintoki-kun

Hijikata: Yorozuya. Sugar freak. Sadist. Sakata-kun. Wavy-haired punk. Baragaki/Thorny. Shiroyasha-dono. Gintoki. Sakata-shi (as Tosshi)

Sougo: Danna/Yorozuya no Danna

Kondo: Yorozuya. Sakata-san. Gin-san. Sakata-kun. Gintoki

Yamazaki: Danna

Tama: Gintoki-sama

Hasegawa: Gin-san

Sarutobi: Gin-san. Darling

Sakamoto: Kintoki. Gintoki. Kintoki-kun

Saigo: Pakko. Pakko-chan

Umibozu: Gintoki-kun

Gengai: Ginnoji

Takasugi: Gintoki

Bansai: Shiroyasha

Catherine: Sakata-san. Gintoki-san

Kyubei: Gintoki. Gin-san

Tsukuyo: Gintoki. Gintoki-kun

Seita: Aniki. Gin-san

Hinowa: Gin-san

Kamui: Samurai-san. Oni-san

Gedomaru: Gintoki-sama

Pirako: Aniki

Jirocho: Gintoki. Guardian dog. Shiroyasha. Silver kid

Kyoushirou: Yorozuya-san

Tojo: Gintoki-dono

Sachi: Aniki

Tetsunouske: Bro

Sasaki: Gin-tan. Shiroyasha-dono. Sakata-san

Kintoki: Nii-chan. Kyodai (brother). Gintoki. Imperfect protagonist

Soyo: Gin-chan

Oboro: Shiroyasha. Demon

Shouyou: Gintoki

Katsura's Jouis: Gintoki-dono

Asaemon: Sakata Gintoki-san. Shiroyasha

Shigeshige: Gintoki-san

Matako: Shiroyasha

Hedoro: Yorozuya-san. Sakata-san

Extras: Yorozuya. Yorozuya-san. Gin-san. Yorozuya no Danna. Danna

This are just some of the most used nicknames. I didn't add the random puns and insults that depend from the episode theme.

I'll be posting other character's nicknames eventually. Feel free to add or correct anything. Some I had to rely on my hearing and google traductor to get.

[lotus-tower]

somehow when writing all this I forgot about the prosthetic phallus. gintoki the true protagonist whose sword is made all the more sword-like because its non-literality conveys more efficiently that what it embodies is the swordconcept—prosthetic also because it’s being forged before our eyes (though without us noticing at first). gintama says “if you don’t have your own, store-bought is fine” about the great institution of the Cool Signature Shounen Sword, which is funny, but mainly gintama posits that in the end you have to craft your own with everyone’s help anyway.

it’s then really interesting for gintoki’s evil clone to have, quite literally, a prosthetic dick. and kintoki knows that the dick is the key, that the dick is fundamental to gintama’s language of worth and its basic fabric—and he clearly understands that non-literality, that prostheticness is okay. in fact, maybe from his perspective, being designed to be what he is, the cold “facts” of gintoki as a character are quite obvious to him—blueprint data he was given as part of his construction. he at no point seems to have any real investment in the idea of being a human vs being a robot. he’s here to usurp gintoki as an animanga character, as a protagonist, so it really doesn’t matter. whether he’s artificial doesn’t really matter—according to his instructions manual gintoki is also artificial. and so someone as arrogant and self-absorbed yet relationally aware as kintoki feels neither inferior nor superior for being a literal robot.

but he doesn’t understand it, not really. he doesn’t understand the whys of the prosthetic phallus or the gintama swordconcept in general. this is, of course, because he isn’t gintoki but was instead designed to be Golden Boy Alpha Male gintoki, and gintama is fundamentally a story based in loserspace. by which I mean not an “objective” space where all losers go (kintoki is obviously a loser too), but a space focused on, preoccupied with, and making productive, loserhood. every part of kintoki’s body was designed in a way that makes him fundamentally incompatible with this, so of course he doesn’t understand.

tama, like lake toya, is a character whose artificial nature only serves to make her thematic package starker and easier to receive. gintama is generally blunt in its messages. just like lake toya is more sword-like by visibly carrying the naked idea of the sword, tama is made more human by being a robot that gained sentience through the Magic Humanity-Granting Seed. gengai’s introductory episode also very effectively used a hollow robot holding a very tender and sincere message inside it for sentimental effect. this is also a reminder that the first time we meet gengai, he’s constructed artificial facsimiles of his son—not meant to replace him, though, but rather for him to project his emotions on, and to embody a certain kind of will.

so by the time of kintoki’s introduction, we know that robots can be sentient, and this doesn’t really require any real storytelling or justification. and we know that gengai isn’t the type of character to actually think a robot can replace a person, as that person—rather, he built kintoki because he agreed with shinpachi and kagura that gintoki was fucking annoying, and he built kintoki to replace gintoki instrumentally. and, to his credit, kintoki does what he’s designed to do. and he doesn’t want to replace gintoki as a person—he does understand his assignment, he understands the blueprint data, he understands the instructions manual. if he wanted to replace gintoki as gintoki, he would have killed him from the getgo. he wants to replace gintoki as the main character, instrumentally, and for this purpose making gintoki part of his harem serves to convey how effective he’s been at accomplishing his goal.

he reboots the world as a vapid moe harem because that’s the kind of series that is most straightforwardly built around how important, unique, and special the main character is. he has no use for loserspace—he reads the abridged gintama script and sees that the ensemble cast must trust him, rely on him, and have their hearts moved by him—and he’s like, well, okay, but why is he a loser then? it would be more efficient like this.

which is to say, kintoki understands that he must be the recipient of all these relationships and emotions, but he fundamentally does not understand Hole. many, many people project all sorts of things onto gintoki. gengai projected his grief over his son onto his (very much non-sentient, yet all the more endearing as a carrier for it) robot. no one can project onto kintoki. kintoki understands that he’s empty inside—he’s a robot, after all, and he’s like two weeks old, and he sees the script, he sees that gintoki is too, it all checks out—he sees that gintama is lame, that it’s stupid, that it’s gross, that time doesn’t pass meaningfully, that time can keep cycling—so why not turn it into an incel fantasy harem? What is the difference between his dick joke and gintoki’s (gintama’s) dick joke? It’s still a dick?

I think that gintama’s lack of interest in engaging with dichotomies like human and non-human (in the biological or racial sense), organic and inorganic, is a large driving force behind what gives kintoki an interesting, understated texture. again, he is not concerned with being a robot. if anything, he is assured by it, he’s certain in his purpose and his goals and his ability to achieve them. there is no insecurity over being a hunk of metal, there is no insecurity about his humanity or lack thereof (see, he can just take his head off to wash it), there isn’t even loneliness despite him being one android in a huge city of people unlike him, because the protagonist is inherently a lonely role anyway (and gintoki is human and still lonely among humans). he feels no envy or animosity towards flesh.

instead, you could almost argue that he’s secure in artificiality. he thinks that because his dick is prosthetic, he can succeed as the main character. because his dick is prosthetic, it will last when others wither. because his dick is prosthetic, the world will revolve around him. it’s a fascinating concept, to have a main character with a prosthetic phallus for the sake of an embodied spiritsword, and to then create an evil clone of him who fixates on the prosthetic, and literalizes the wrong part of the metaphor. or maybe, literalizes it in the opposite direction? rather than the prosthetic (wooden) sword being a vessel for the thematic spirit of gintama, it’s gintama’s spirit—understood here not incorrectly by kintoki as its places, relationships, and symbols—that are twisted in service of the prosthetic sword, to highlight how shiny and prosthetic it is, how golden and stainless and immortal.

all this because he doesn’t understand hole. classic straight man mistake

[ilyokkgsmiabf]

React to Gintama Arcs!

2. Gengai Arc

Like the harusame arc, i was lost in this arc too!! And i was wondering who Shinsuke was back then too. I think this arc is important because it introduced the antagonist, Takasugi Shinsuke! I also liked this because it's the first arc where Kagura and Okita interact! Don't kill me if I really badly shipped those two, please! But aside from that, I get to see Gintoki's kibda serious deamanor. That's all folks!

[whosname]

I was thinking, who in the Gintama gang is really smart, like Dara Ó Briain smart. OMG is for Old Man Gengai.

[ID. Gintama fanart. Gintama x Taskmaster sketches. Three drawings of Gendai (as Dara Ó Briain) dressed in a boilersuit with patches. In the first one his hands are covered with a pair of scuba flippers, in the second one he's wearing a wig and a poncho. In the third one he's waking with some luggage and has his left hand extended. End ID.]

[choosefromtoo]

Kaientai Arc Or Be Forever Yorozuya

[cybers-sillyzone]

The year is 2050, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, now known as WOKEmon LIBERAL COMMUNE is being remade. It has remakes of all four games, Rescue Team is now **Rescue Theys**. Your partner will always be non binary and there are 63 gender options for your hero, though hero and partner are stigmatized terms, so now we have the social activist and the anti-racisim pal. Team Meanies is now Team LGBTQ Rights. Gengar is Gengay, Medicham is now Ru Paul, and Ekans is now Yranibnon. The meteor in the end of the game has been replaced with the capitalist party. **Explorers of Sky** is now Explorers of Activisim. The Guild is now the Liberal Party. Wigglytuff and Chatot are now a proud lesbian couple with Wigglytuff being a trans woman and Chatot being non-binary as it's too misogynistic to have only men in power. Wigglytuff is no longer the guild master but the Prime Minister of the Activists. Team Skull has been rebranded to Team Cis and represent the capitalist party. Skuntank is now Trump, Zubat is now Cishet, and Koffing is now White American. The other major change is to the future trio, Grovyle is now Wokevyle, Dusknoir is now Duskhernoir, and Celebi is now Celebisexual. **Gates to Infinity** also faces lots of changes, Paradise is now Pride 2050. Emolga is now Gayolga, Dunsparce is now Dunsparce, Virizion is Dykeion, Espeon is TWeon and Umbreon is CWeon. The Bittercold has been replaced with the Florida Governor. Dunsparce and Gayolga are a proud gay t4t couple. Dykeion and Keldeo- I mean Kelthey, stopped being friends after Kelthey triggered Dykeion by mentioning Harry Potter. Oh! I forgot to mention, but the fighting mechanics have now been replaced with debating mechanics, in which you debate the other Pokemon on the best way to stop climate change. Anyways, finally we have **Super Mystery Dungeon** called what else, but Super Woke Local Commune. Nuzleaf is now Nuzshe, and gives single mothers representation. The Expedition Society is now the Red Society (communisim) and the scariest part? This game doesn't come out in 2050. It's being written RIGHT NOW.

#TAKEACTION

[ixsanacer]

“Forget about that rotten cat and that rotten gorilla…”

“…and party all night with this demon right here.”

[suchine-toki]

(Now this is the final one) Top 10 Gintaka moments

Arranged chronologically because it was too difficult to choose. Spoilers ahead.

1. Childhood glimpses

Beyond detailed backstories, Sorachi treated us to brief glimpses of the relationships between Gintoki, Takasugi, and Katsura during their time as children in Shouka Sonjuku. These panels showed Takasugi’s frustration at losing to Gintoki and being teased about his height, Katsura occasionally playing the mediator, and Takasugi's attempts to get back at Gintoki by annoying him in return (chs. 523, 519, 676, 591, 703).

2. Partners in crime

When Gintoki, Katsura, and Sakamoto set out to aid Takasugi, Sakamoto reminisced about the experiences they shared during the Joui War. He recognizes how close Gintoki and Takasugi are, being partners in crime but at the same time getting on each other's nerves and fighting all the time. We would later learn that it was something they loved to do, which may be why everyone who saw them is shown smiling (ch. 557).

3. Heaven

While fighting with the Kiheitai, Takasugi has a flashback of being wounded on the battlefield during the Joui War, and when he lost hope and looked to the heavens, he didn’t see a place to rest peacefully but instead saw the backs of his comrades fighting. He thinks of this while remembering Gintoki protecting him, which could be interpreted as Gintoki being like heaven for him in a way (ch. 639).

4. Watching him from afar

Before their famous meeting at the festival, the first time Takasugi sees Gintoki after 10 years is when he apparently went to meet Gengai, who was his ally in the terrorist attack he wanted to perpetrate against the Shogun, only to see the old man with the Yorozuya. This implies that Takasugi purposefully sought out Gintoki to have an exchange with him after such a long time (ch. 30).

5. Alone

When Itou Kamotarou allies with the Kiheitai with the intention of fracturing the Shinsengumi from within, he has an encounter with Takasugi where he reveals that he seeks recognition. However, Takasugi is able to point out that he just feels lonely. Later, when Bansai tells him that Gintoki said what he wants to protect hasn’t changed, Takasugi quickly becomes upset. This ties the two scenes together and shows how Takasugi thinks Gintoki no longer understands him (chs. 165, 168).

6. Unpacking gag panels

There were a couple of interesting occasions when Sorachi decided to use Takasugi for gags before his big fight against Gintoki. One instance involved Takasugi sending Gintoki a New Year’s card, either just breaking the 4th wall or mocking Gintoki after his vow to cut him down (or both). Another gag occurs in Gintoki’s imagination, where he envisions Takasugi avoiding contact in a ridiculous manner, not particularly bothered by the idea of him actually showing up and having to follow through on his earlier vow. Both moments suggest that Gintoki and Takasugi didn’t truly hate each other, despite how it might’ve initially appeared at that point in the manga (chs. 294, 453).

7. The same scent

Takasugi and Kamui meet as part of a Harusame plan where they’ve to kill each other. Before striking, Kamui notes that Takasugi has the same “scent” as someone he knows. Surprisingly, Takasugi immediately realizes that Kamui is referring to Gintoki, acknowledging their lingering similarities. Takasugi also seems aware of Kamui’s intent to kill Gintoki but doesn’t take it seriously, probably because he trusts that he’ll not die (ch. 310).

8. Last glance

After their climactic battle, Gintoki and Takasugi share a moment of mutual understanding. They openly acknowledge their bond as comrades and disciples of Shouyou, choosing to protect each other in a critical moment. While being aided by Kagura and Kamui, the two exchange a final glance before parting ways once again, contrasting their previous encounter, where they passed each other without acknowledgment (ch. 523).

9. Looking for Takasugi

Following their encounter at the ruins of Shouka Sonjuku and running away from Hijikata, Gintoki begins searching for Takasugi using a hilariously terrible drawing he himself made as a reference. He eventually meets Matako and Henpeita, who question him about Takasugi’s fate. Gintoki reassures them that he isn’t dead but reveals little else. At this point, Gintoki sees Takasugi as a friend and a fellow disciple of Shouyou, which motivates his efforts to join him despite Takasugi’s resistance (ch. 675).

10. Reason for world destruction

While escaping, Gintoki teases “Takasugi” about his antics. Feeling ignored after getting no response (and being so accustomed to provoking an immediate reaction) he tugs on his hair like a child seeking attention, suggesting it’s something he’s likely done more than once. Believing Takasugi to be bald, instead of making fun of him like he has done with other characters in the same situation, he tries to pump him up, encouraging him to shout out his catchphrase to boost his confidence, only to discover it was someone else wearing a wig (ch. 685).

Bonus' bonus: Magic trick

I couldn't leave out this silly gag that Sorachi drew on an extra page, where he offers a non-canon comedic moment between Gintoki and Takasugi. It acts as a lighthearted breather after their intense battle, providing a glimpse of the humor they might’ve shared in less serious situations (ch. 521+).

Part (1) (2) (3) (4) (Bonus)