#gintama is coming back!!

[silversoulsociety]

Gintama: Class 3-Z ✰ Ginpachi Sensei

Bonus:

[kitamars]

a mimir

[joelletwo]

reading thru the The Final utsuro fight visuals with the vocabulary i gained while liveblogging gintama

[VD: the section of the fight that has gintoki and utsuro-in-takasugi's-body slide through reanimated flashbacks to past scenes of the series that cast them as past versions of themselves, shouyou, and takasugi]

bc the maths is insanes

the initial flashback is to their immediately previous silver soul fight - the casting of the conflict as unending, progressless, in utsuro's favor. have either of them appreciably changed since then? is anything different? what is initially an incomplete brief flash - with utsuro still inhabiting takasugi - solidifies when he regresses to his original body and begins to more effectively counter gintoki. utsuro remains on the right throughout.

direct cut from there pulled further back in time to gintoki's immediately previous fight with takasugi's body in shogun assassination - takasugi on the right, giving utsuro in his body the power of Unconscionable Violence (senseless, gleeful, and knowing you well enough to perpetrate it) (joelletwo tags on squeaky toy video, 2023, repeated endlessly every day since)

but it's mutual - gintoki also knows you well enough to turn the tables and get the upper hand back

(not that this meaningfully stops you for long).

direct cut from there slightly forward in time to gintoki's first fight with utsuro in the immediately following farewell shinsengumi, where the revelations overwhelm him and reduce him to being fueled by the pure instinctual anger of The Demonic, a state of losing yourself and your ability to fight effectively (reductionisms, 2023),

conditions where it's all you can do to hold out against an enemy that represents something so big in your psyche,

which he knows about, since he's been that for you before. back in time again to the first (onscreen) takasugi confrontation, right before taking advantage of your precarious mental state to punch you out of the plotline (kraniumet tags on yamameta post addition, 2022)

but utsuro keeps a vice grip on control of the story, surfacing back into the present to stop and reverse his fall mid-air so he can stay anchored in the battle with gintoki,

meaning he remains vulnerable to the weaknesses of the body he's in, which only ever exists anymore in one memory - you're unable to move, only to witness. a third figure is introduced, who is more you than you here, while gintoki remains himself.

the you more you than you accepts death while you watch it approach with helpless despair and terror.

the collapse of utsuro back into the body he inhabits in present invites a re-examining of the series of flashbacks thus far - where the perspective of who controls the focal memory seems to flip from utsuro to gintoki back to utsuro here, does it? the farewell shins->festival transition is 1:1 substitutional, working out so that utsuro-as-takasugi winds back up on the right.

but it isn't utsuro borrowing a strength of his like Violence here - it's, just like in the execution, succumbing to one of his weaknesses. flipping between the two scenes, takasugi's derailing fear of gintoki as a figure becomes gintoki's of utsuro. there's a double elision of takasugi (missing from farewell shins due to his fight with gintoki) so that utsuro becomes both gintokis - making him both the one who looms large, and the one who is destabilized by.

gintoki signifies something huge to utsuro, after all.

he takes up the role he had back then, the one you assigned him from the start, because half of his time always exists in that one moment now as well.

being the one who acts on the story and moves it forward, brings it to an end.

the regression through history continues to child against unbeatable teacher, again the question of if either of you has grown since you met. gintoki becomes the underdog challenger on the right.

the refusal to give up an unwinnable fight, no matter how many times it's tried, the even-back-then way that gintoki becomes a shouyou figure for others, fluidly shifts you forward in time.

the reverse shot, the perspective flip - the identity lines cross.

he drags you through time with him, until you're someone he knows how to beat.

(because, again, you know each other so well as to be losslessly interchangeable, for two opposing souls in the process of finding themselves - conquering themselves - to become indivisible.) (reductionisms translation, 2024) (yamameta ouroboros poem, 2023)

and even when you win - earn by ceaseless trial and effort the right to play his trick back on him and dethrone/defang him by pushing him literally out of frame - ...

he learns from you as well and pulls himself back in by your anchor.

[babygray]

There are at least three different Gintama collabs happening next month. Blessings for me, curses for my wallet.

Children’s Day-themed menu and goods at Animate Cafe Stand Hareza

Gintama Matsuri Returns at Hanayashiki Amusement Park

Gintama in Namjatown ~All Sorts of Things Happened~ … in Namjatown.

[yarrayora]

rip to the gintama fansubs who gave us detailed context of each jokes being killed off by crunchyroll

[gothmoneyswag]

favorite genre of gintama villain is the short arc one off villain that time and time again somehow ends up being yet another skeleton in gintoki’s unconditionally large trauma closet

[whosname]

Soroche (altitude sickness) is real

[akirencore]

GINTAMA IS BACK!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!

[courtesanofdeath]

you guys are not gonna believe who i saw today

[chocosugi]

Gintoki kitsune 🦊🩵

[epicdogymoment]

finally finished ep 1+2. hmm

[sayaberry]

feeling completely normal after finding out they're making a new gintama anime

[gojuo]

I WILL BE THERE NO MATTER WHAT

[babygray]

I went out to try one of the collab crepes. The Katsura one is only available in selected shops. I’m very lucky that one of those selected shops is not that far from my house.

Sadly, the first thing I ate was the Elizabeth marshmallow.

[nicomrade]

>be me

>go to the library to borrow 3 (three) comics (BDs)

>walk out with 2 (but only 1 that was part of the original plan) + 1 more in my to read queue + 6 volumes of gintama

>this cant keep happening.

[averagelonelypotato]

he just wanted Nobume to come home :/