#ginhiji from gintama

[kitamars]

cleaned up a magma doodle

[xomii-ink]

who did u get that cravat from gintoki??

[saotome-michi]

Thinking once again about that ginhiji post on twitter that drew this devastating parallel:

In Bushu, Hijikata met a woman. She loved spicy food. One day, in order to become the Shinsengumi, he had to leave Bushu. When they parted ways for good, he ate her favorite food, complained about the taste, and cried.

In Edo, Hijikata met a man. He loved sweets. One day, in order to keep being the Shinsengumi, he had to leave Edo. When they parted ways, he ate his favorite food, complained about the taste, and laughed.

[commiehilfiger]

happy belated bday toshi, my only delight 🚬

[daddytoki]

Fandom: Gintama Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shimura Tae/Yagyuu Kyuubei

Valentine’s Day came and went with little fanfare, because neither Kyuubei nor Otae knew what to do with it. Who was supposed to be The Man in their relationship, anyway? Well, thought Kyuubei, I am clearly the more masculine of us two. I will wait for White Day to roll by, and then I’ll pull some romantic declaration out of my ass that’s so life-changing we get married on the spot. This plan is flawless.  Well, thought Otae, these gender stereotypes are pretty outdated anyway, I wouldn’t want to stick Kyuubei in The Man box against their wishes. The progressive thing to do would be to wait for them to make the first move for White Day and just follow their lead.  Suffice it to say, Kyuubei received zero chocolates on Valentine’s day. Everything went to shit.

[wordswhisperinthedark]

Was thinking about the devastation I felt that one time in college when I rounded a corner with excitement thinking they were selling candyfloss only to be greeted by a vape and it suddenly came to me: this but GinHiji

[kurokitsunei]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 銀魂 | Gintama (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Hijikata Toshirou/Sakata Gintoki Characters: Hijikata Toshirou, Sakata Gintoki Additional Tags: Handcuff ep coda, awkward meetings in the convenience store, Feat. Pudding; Mayo; and Meltykiss Summary:

After being handcuffed together for a whole day, Gin and Hijikata run into each other in FamilyMart <3

[renamusing]

after the party (oneshot): ao3

my fic for the ghg zine ties that bind is finally up on ao3. it's a little flangst piece that takes place during silver soul arc and includes a little smut as a treat. hope you enjoy <3

[dandelionlemonade]

Loverman... (?)

[babygray-dam]

銀スケ12

It’s mostly rough sketches and panels from the fancomic I was working on, but missed the printing deadline for.

[fortunatelyenchantingtaco]

I usually really prefer ships that are like “we have complicated history, we cant live without the other, we are so different but so similar in all things that matter” that i cant explain to you how surprised i am at just how much i like ginhiji (hijikata x gintoki from gintama)

The show itself and most characters (kondou had a whole ass monologue about it during the thorny arc) go to great lengths to empathise just how similar those two are. Their mannerism, behaviour, stories. Insert they are the same picture meme. And they are, really. Not the “two sides of the same coin” NO they basically share everything, from complicated backstory to a found family, even if Gintoki technically had it harder

So you would think they wouldn’t work as a fun pairing. Gintoki has that whole thing with his three bros going on (dont get me started on the whole Takasugi situation), Hijikata also has complicated relationships with his coworkers, surely there are better options? AND YOU WOULD BE WRONG

Somehow nothing beats the way they are so attuned to each other. The way they fight, and in general the way gintama animates fights? Fucking hell. They value the same things in people, so their found families are also similar. They are both so fucking feral and deep into bad coping mechanisms, with Hijikata being a workaholic and Gintoki drinking and blowing momey in casino. Like you would think they dont work, they are so similar there is nothing interesting happening

But they are a comedic duo and both of them are like “surely i cant like that idiot?” They both think they are the only normal person in the room. While thinking the other is insane. Its so fucking good they are so dumb. But they also get each other on such intimate level. I cant

[rueririn]

The gintama experience is seeing a screencap of gintoki holding up a ginhiji doujinshi, and genuinely not knowing if that's an edit or a legit frame from the anime.

[okkos-ferrum]

Okay maybe i don't know cuz i skipped the first few eps of gintama but i just watched the 2005 ova AND WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED HOW MUCH GINHIJI IS IN IT IT CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD

Like them both staring each other down drunk, gintoki protecting hijikata from the mech (so weird seeing katsura being treated like an actual threat lmaoo hes too silly in my eyes now), the two sitting near each other afterwards and smiling AND THEM BOTH PASSED OUT DRUNK TOGETHER LIKE??? OMG WHAT

I need to stop interpurting each time these two butt heads as them abt to kiss

[dongsofsevotion]

flavors of ginhiji

towards the end of last year, kun tweeted this primer to the different ginhiji variants that appear in fanworks. i thought about how i would like to see something similar in english, remembered i can't draw, shelved the idea, and then time passed and here we are again.

so i've tried my best with some shittily creatively cobbled together official images. anyway, i haven't directly translated that tweet but i owe it a debt of gratitude for informing the shape of this post, and filling in my gaps of knowledge around the origins of some of the merch-based ones.

without further ado, here's a rundown of the various shapes of ginhiji you may encounter in the wild, colored heavily by books i like...

原作・original

everyone's favorite garden variety ginhiji! shipped by fans and anime staff the world over.

W副長 ・double vice-commander

vice-commander x vice-commander. this one born of the shinsengumi crisis arc, though various other if-style stories get told about gintoki getting taken in by the shinsengumi earlier in life and holding the post of vice-commander alongside hijikata.

examples: as one of the eternal enduring settings, most creators have probably written a book or drawn art around w fukuchou. consider sawara's excellent inu series, or the 2018 zweikopfig anthology.

ぱっつち・pattsuchi

ginpachi-sensei x student hijikata, from the 3Z light novel setting.

examples: this one is also widely loved by the community and has been extensively depicted in fanbooks. syaku's stromatolite is my beloved, but there are countless others, many fully available online; try 「かいごろし」 by NUIS or ��夏色ビール」 by inuko.

ぜっさん・zessan

student gintoki x teacher hijikata. so named for being reverse 3Z - that is, Z3.

examples: nanakan's 「おねがい先生!!」, kenken's 「雄穴に挿らずんば卒業を得ず!?」. kannagi is also a major proponent of the zessan agenda, regularly posting zessan art to twt.

同級生／DKS・classmates

settings where ginhiji are both students, usually a high school setting but all other variants occur.

examples: harada's college-setting ochiru is a classic. kun recently put out a web reprint of a DKS book from 2021.

副トシ・fukutoshi

vice-commander sakata x yorozuya toshi-chan. reverse setting with their stations switched, readily inferred from the outfit swaps of the cover art of vol.5, chap.33.

examples: there was a celebration month for fukutoshi in 2022; this hashtag still remains a treasure trove. one of the organizers of that month, mio, did some wonderful fukutoshi books like 「さくらのまにまに」.

夜叉ポニ・yashaponi

shiroyasha x ponikata. an if setting where young gintoki in his shiroyasha era meets young hijikata in his baragaki era.

examples: hidaka's 「在りし日のしるべ」 series, syaku's 「火が飛ぶ」 series.

魘デコ・endeko

enmi gintoki x dekokata. this one from the BFY movie; "deko" means "forehead", referencing the hairstyle of five years later hijikata, though you may see dekokata used to refer to other settings (especially Z3 hijikata). hello, angst!

examples: syaku's 「誰そ彼」, niratama's lonesome ghost.

寅丑・toraushi

tiger x cow/ox. this one comes from a chinese zodiac merch line. consider yourself warned that works of this variety can get hella sussy hella fast.

examples (non-sussy): kei's baby i love you and sweet life to you. if you want sussy, go looking for inukkoro.

ふぉっくろ・fokkuro

nine-tailed fox gintoki x crow tengu hijikata. this one is also from a merch line where a bunch of characters are dressed as yokai. it persists in its popularity because it's PERFECT.

examples: fem's 「常世現世エンカウンター」 series, banger anthology 「妖奇談」.

パー土・paahiji

paako x hijikata, from gintoki's stints working at the okama bar in canon gintama. this one is pretty open-ended since it's just gintoki crossdressing as paako in any setting really.

examples: kumichi's 「狂おしいほど愛してる」 , or syaku's 「しゃぶしゃぶしません」 for the double crossdressing special (yes it's always syaku - and for good reason).

きんちん・kinchin

kintoki x chinkasu, from the inimitable owee arc.

examples: futa has a kinchin series 7 (!!) books long which started in 2014. 6 is available online. kei has also written a few; 「オンラインのあなた」 is available here.

金土・kinhiji

kintoki (host) x hijikata. this one is also pretty open-ended; generally just refers to any setting with golden-haired host kintoki. note this is a kintama host parody (think shinpachi buttchin), not to be confused with android substitute kintoki.

examples: nomination of gold anthology (here's sawara's piece), abaraya's 「ファジー・ブルーのむこうがわ」 series, hinano's 3P 「どっちもどっち!」 for the kinhiji + pattsuchi double header.

W鬼・double oni

shuten-douji x ibaraki-douji. another from a merch line. everyone's wild for the fishnets.

examples: uchio's 「童子遊戯」, chun's 「茨の道は薔薇の道」.

W教師・double teacher

teacher x teacher, often a continuation of pattsuchi or zessan.

examples: sakurako has written a number of these, like the freshly released 「リンパは指じゃ届かない」. here's an uchio piece from an anthology.

[kitamars]

do you have fave gintama fics? can you share with us?

oh right now mainly two immediately come to mind that I keep rereading over and over again (obviously they're ginhiji) and I wish I could tell the authors how insane their fics made me........maybe one day I'll draw fanart.....

but anyways they are:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23986714

and

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34155415

case fics are generally super fun, but I really love how it's done here, the characters are all so well written and funny and the plot is incredibly compelling! there's this one line from one of them that always makes me laugh, where kagura says something like "this is why natural selection left you behind shinpachi, because there's no evolutionary advantage to being glasses." it always makes me crack up

notable mentions areeee

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46704613

https://archiveofourown.org/works/6201880

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2116770

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16312823/chapters/38157728

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22228789

and probably more but I'm a bit sick and my brain is puddy. gintama writers are all so much goddamn fun and I love reading any and every take on how to write the cast!!

[thatlittlemouse]

Shipper tag game

tagged by @lunanoc 🫶@tatchling 🫶@tiesanjiaoshenanigans🫶

What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don't care about anymore?

First of all, I got into fandom in my 20s, so anything I was into in my teens was not at obsession level

Which ship would you consider your first one?

???????????????????????????? sudden flash of being really excited about the pink haired girl and that bad guy in tokyo mew mew. deep seated memories of being into takeru/hikari in digimon adventure 2. gambit/rogue from the xmen cartoon oh my god

Your first fanfic was about which couple?

I don't write so read: idk if doujinshi counts here, but the first ship I really started consuming fan content for was ginhiji (gintama)

Do you remember the first couple you saw fanart of?

There's no way I remember that..... scrolling deviantart or whatever, who knows what I saw 😭

Have you ever gotten into ship discourse?

I try to avoid discourse, so no. I get mad at people with bad takes, block, move on

Did you use to have any NOTP or have one currently?

There was this one niche yukio (ao no exorcist) ship that bothered me a lot, but I'm not in that fandom anymore and even if I saw it I wouldn't be as bothered. Otherwise, none currently. I just have meh-TPs

Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read?

heihua ✨✨✨

Currently, do you have any OTPs?

From dmbj I'm actively into heihua, less actively into pingxie, neither of them really at the highest brainrot levels. I think fondly of some of my other ships every once in a while

Is there any couple that, to this day, you are extremely mad about not getting together?

uhhhh nothing comes to mind. No wait, queliot (the magicians) lmao

Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they are kind of interesting?

🤔🤔 I don't think so, I either get the vibe right away or I don't. I can get a better understanding of why people ship them, but that won't make me ship them

Do you have any ship that, in the past, would've been considered normal but now you would be cancelled over?

uuuhhh yukishura maybe? even years back people were pointing out the age difference and I know, I know, but their dynamic is still nice even if I probably don't ship them like that anymore. xuexiao isn't from "the past" and it's been cancel worthy from the start lmao

What is your favorite crack ship?

I don't have crack ships, I'm too canon obsessed

What is the couple you read the most fanfics about?

Might be louis/lestat, I only read the books a few years ago and I had to do so much archeology for them!

What do most of your ships usually have in common?

Time to call myself out 💁‍♀️ I like more than one type of dynamic, but there are some elements that a lot of my ships have in common if I put them side by side: it's the "whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (sometimes derogatory)" type of dynamic. I love characters that are complicated and think they're unlovable until they find someone that's Kind Of Like Them. It's even better when on the surface they seem very different, but they can tell they're the same. And the reaction of the two might be to be wary of each other, to antagonize each other, to clown each other, to take refuge in each other. Could be the premise of good enemies to lovers ships, but I usually like lower stakes. ginhiji (gintaka also), buckynat, wenzhou, heihua etc different flavors but I think they have this common thread

I haven't found something clear in common about ships that don't fit the above

What you absolutely hate in a ship?

There are romance tropes I dislike, fandom tropes I dislike, maybe I'm too tired to think of things that annoy me right now even though there are many

tagging @bahrmp3 @middayfiddler @verycharismaticdragon @adamantineheart if it sounds like something fun to you