#is this just the gintoki that lives in takasugi's dying brain and utsuro's dying brain that utsuro got from shouyou's humanity brain fungus
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[The Final sugi dying kitten betrayal -> utsuro-gin fight -> sakura boat imagination -> completely tonally consistent with these ginpachi-sensei closer]
now listen. u know i would rather die than post five nearly-uninterrupted minutes of a fight scene. so take that into consideration.
#slight--#flashing#--in the first scene but i tried to cut the worst of it#sopping wet gintoki posting#videos#my computer is screaming at me. can i recall my thoughts.#i think theyre INSANE for that utsuro falling -> takasugi bound on the ground watching shouyou's execution transition.#rereading the manga fight scene. there IS some. how do i want to phrase this. unreliable perspective fuckery. retconning of memories.#nonliterality Mind Tricks. but like. things still happened. this movie here takes it so far that im like. IS GINTOKI EVEN REAL?#is this just the gintoki that lives in takasugi's dying brain and utsuro's dying brain that utsuro got from shouyou's humanity brain fungus#being his shinigami/psychopomp to walk him thru his first ever death. guhhhhhhh. littlest baby on the planet who is afraid of dying.#<- i love utsuro with all my heart. sorry for being mean to him at first turns out he's the char of all time meant for me.#anyways i think the movie is. SO BALLSY to stretch reality so far for their climax fight. and in such a. way.#taking place in complete silence. almost no actual fighting in the 200 Chapters Of Fighting arc fight scene conclusion.#reanimating so many key moments just to canonize the identity blurring triangle between three dead guys (tho gintoki gets kicked out of#the world of the dead on that sakura boat. sad.)#just a really ambitious thing to put in this aesthetically ugly and boringly standard as hell movie. AND TO SERVE WHAT END.#more standard as hell jump Power Of Friendship in the end. just with some extra weird cannibal ouroboros endless mirrors gay ass flavor.#<- gintama has always been abt making and surviving connections im not mad abt that but u know. got so generic lol.#thoooooo rereading the manga scene and understanding the plot more this time i do like the feeling that utsuro wasnt defeated so much as#just ran out his time. being kept busy from causing more problems in his final hours w a pointless fight hed never be able to turn down.#[about to digress 20 more times] anyways what else. theres an utsuro soft expression when he regrows sugi's arm that i like. interesting--#choice. i also cut it but i love gintoki wandering gaze avoiding sugis eyes dying in his arms. and his fighting back tears so badly.#the way the dynamic and emotionally destroying shot transitions dont stop even while sugi's dying. someone on staff was working their ass#off for him and i appreciate that.
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Hi...hi! I hope i'm not bothering you, but can i ask your opinion about oboro? I love him so much and i don't get it why some of fans doesn't like him. thank you so much ^^
Hi! Donât worry, youâre not bothering me at all. :) Iâm always happy to talk about Gintama in any way. Thatâs why I made this blog.Â
Sometimes people donât like certain characters because they just donât and we donât have to like every single character. To me, though, thatâs different from those who seem to have a personal vendetta against characters and spend their time hating them and talking about how much they hate them, which makes no sense to me. Why waste time on characters you hate when you can invest that time in the characters you love? Thereâs a difference between critiquing a character and outright hating on them just to be petty and cause drama.
Anyway, on to Oboro, who I like and donât hate in the slightest â and this doesnât mean I seek to justify his actions. People get confused on this to the point where they take start judging peopleâs moral character just from the characters they like, especially if they are villains. This kind of logic comes from the desire to put everyone on a pedestal, even fictional characters, without realizing that itâs possible to like a character without needing to somehow justify what theyâve done so that you can appear morally superior to others. There are some anime and book villains I like, but it doesnât mean Iâm a terrible person whoâd do the same bad deeds. It simply means I like the way they were designed and the role they play in the story. Writing a good villain can be as challenging as writing a good hero or character in general.
Okay, now back to Oboro for real:
(Putting the rest of my answer under a cut for spoilers, so heads up, Anon, if you havenât read the Rakuyou arc.
Also, to the other Anon before, I will reply to your second message with additional thoughts of mine in several hoursâ time. My brain needs rest first. Thank you for your patience.)
Some people donât like Oboro because heâs done some less than heroic things. Thereâs no going around this and we donât need to make excuses for what heâs done. Oboro is the leader of the Naraku, who have been in league with the Tendoshuu, who are not exactly nice people. Focusing on Oboro only, heâs fought and injured Gintoki and put the people he cares about in danger. He played a role in Shouyouâs execution, damaged Takasugiâs eye and more, and has just generally shown up to throw a wrench in the plans of the people we usually root for. Plus, being involved with Shouyou in that way caused a lot of physical pain and psychological trauma for Gintoki, Takasugi, and KatsuraâŠthat doesnât exactly make some fans wave their pom-poms for him.
Oboro seemingly died in the Courtesan of a Nation arc and people thought that was the last weâd see of him. Then, he reappeared in the Shogun Assassination arc, where he also seemingly died and they thought that was it. And then he appeared again in the Farewell Shinsengumi arc and sustained major injuries. And then so on to the Rakuyou arc. This man just wouldnât stay dead or immobilized, and that probably annoyed people, especially when he kept trying to kill Gintoki and others.
As for myself, I liked Oboro before I knew of his back story. I think heâs an interesting antagonist and one of my favourites in the series. One reason is because heâs voiced by Inoue Kazuhiko, who is one of my favourite voice actors. I think Oboro has a cool character design and stellar combat skills. I like that heâs rather stoic and isnât figuratively twirling his moustache with evil glee like others. He stays calm and composed for the most part, except for when he becomes enraged.
(Doesnât he look so cool? I had to include this pic.)
I also like that heâs one of the people who can give Gintoki a hard time in battle. Now, that doesnât mean I like when people harm Gintoki, but if he were all-powerful and constantly defeating people without any challenge at all, it would be boring and predictable. The Gintoki vs. Oboro fight is memorable for the fact that Oboro was a tough opponent who brought back unwanted war memories.
Oboro shares many parallels with Gintoki. Besides physical appearance, they owe their lives to the same man: Yoshida Shouyou. Very much like Gintoki, Oboro tagged along with Shouyou, unwilling to leave him, feeling indebted to him for saving his life. Oboro has a rather low opinion of himself, as shown in the flashbacks of the Rakuyou arc: he didnât believe himself to be anyone special or of importance to others. An orphan bought and sold by bandits, Oboro didnât expect anything more and knew nothing more than pain, fear, and emptiness with no purpose in life except to serve others as an object, not a human being. And that makes my heart ache.
Heâs not on a quest for ultimate power or to destroy the world for the heck of it. All of that is the result of his loyalty to Shouyou/Utsuro; heâll do whatever it takes to âremove obstacles in that manâs way,â and if it means the downfall of a nation or killing Shouyouâs other students, so be it. Even years later, he only sees himself as a vessel to be used, a servant to Utsuro, forevermore.
Oboro was willing to do anything for Shouyou, prepared to become even an assassin. He was ready to become the first disciple of Shouyouâs and start a new life with him. And when the Naraku assassins came looking for them, Oboro sacrificed himself just so that Shouyou could escape and make his dream of opening up Shouka Sonjuku a reality. Oboro knew Shouyou no longer wanted to kill, and wanted his teacher and saviour to achieve all that because Oboro loved Shouyou more than his own life. Shouyou made Oboro feel human.
That kind of dedication speaks volumes of Oboroâs character. But, of course, Oboro survived, the Naraku made him one of their own, and he decided to rise up in the ranks â all to protect Utsuro, even if he could no longer be with him. Everything was and is for Utsuro/Shouyou. Everything.
Then, Oboro saw Shouyou with Gintoki, Katsura, and Takasugi. He mustâve been relieved and glad that Shouyou was able to accomplish his dream and give new life to other childrenâŠbut I can only imagine the deep sorrow Oboro mustâve felt, because he could not be with them, that he was apparently forgotten by the man he was so devoted to. Hearing him express his wish, that he âwould have liked to become one of them,â as his dying wordsâŠit really breaks my heart because I bet he would have been such a good older brother figure to Gintoki, Takasugi, and Katsura in another world and time.
That deep sorrow turned into something else, and Oboro pulled strings to have Utsuro arrested and then executed. âTo get my master, I killed my masterâ â twisted, to say the least, and yet fascinating. Shouyou returned, but not as the man Oboro once knew: Utsuro. But that didnât matter â itâs something Oboro points out to Takasugi, the key difference between them. Shouyou, Utsuro, the name doesnât matter, because he is one and the same to Oboro.
But after his âblood vowâ was fulfilled and he was about to die, Oboro told Takasugi and all of Shouyouâs disciples, consequently, the truth about Shouyou/Utsuro. Even at the end, Oboro wanted Shouyou to be free again, free from his immortality that causes him so much suffering. He knows Shouyouâs other students â most especially Gintoki â will be the ones to bring an end to that. He was probably envious of their closeness with Shouyou, that they got to spend more time with Shouyou than he did, but still, he shared vital information to help them, even after he had tried to kill them. Then, as I stated here, I believe Oboro dying at Takasugiâs hands for good was a fitting end for him.
And thatâs why I love Oboro. Heâs a complicated man and a memorable antagonist. His devotion to Shouyou led him down a twisted and tragic path, but Iâm sure he would have preferred it to a life of nothingness without Shouyou.
I can understand why people might dislike him, but I will always be fond of him.Â
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