#kagura (gintama)

[kitamars]

domesticity or whatever equivalent of it

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[latenight-ramen]

Found family my beloved

[ebiebii]

i would like to expend on the bad-with-technology-dad-gintoki concept

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who did u get that cravat from gintoki??

[nurnimm]

I've been lying sick in my bed for the past week and have been rewatching Gintama again 🥺

[8aylee8]

Gintama x Spy&Family, because I love them :)

And some doodles. ^^

Gintoki and Loid would die for their daughters. :3

[okkos-ferrum]

more redraws I have so many I want to do u don't understand :>

apologies if these seem maybe *too similar*, this also just serves for some practice for me cuz idk what my style is lol

[allenatedarts]

Odd jobs ♡

[harukacafes]

OKITA SOUGO X KAGURA BY 8s8spuco

[courtesanofdeath]

"Even if it's a short life, burn hot and bright and overtake the moment. That's my way of life."

happy birthday kagura ~

[kitamars]

birthdays are just arbitrary days until someone wants chocolate

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[foxstarjelia]

friend requested kagura and I've always wanted to draw her it's a win-win for us

[almosteverythingnerd]

I'm still very early in gintama but I just finished episode 13 and I'm obsessed with how gintoki describes having important people in your life and loss.

It's inverse to the widespread way that it's generally described in both media and life- that being, loss as a heavy feeling that weighs on the soul, negative emotions in general are described as heavy, connoting burden; whilst the opposite of that is a feeling of lightness, usually referring to how significant (in a positive sense) people in our lives can lift us up and help us carry our burden, as well as the fun, genuine joy that can be experienced around the people we love.

This is a very valid and real description of it, in my own experiences I have felt heaviness, so I completely understand where this representation comes from and I recognise and appreciate it. But the difference is why gintamas depiction sticks out to me.

Gintoki describes the deep care he feels for his friends as 'heavy'.

He quotes Tokugawa Ieyasu, saying, "To live a full life means to carry a heavy burden throughout a long journey." Gintoki's words are as follows:

"It's not really a burden...Everyone's got both hands full of something that matters. You just don't realise it when you're carrying it. It's only after you drop it that you realise how heavy it was in the first place."

Later, when he's literally carrying kagura and shinpachi he says, "you guys are heavy, damnit."

And I'm just really in love with this flipping of the negative connotations of 'heaviness'! Because yeah, love and care is weight on the soul, not in a way that drags you down, but in a way that grounds you. Lightness in this context now connotes something like empty space, a feeling of nothingness or numbness. Love and care is weight as opposed to lightness because weight means it impacts you, matters to you. You're carrying around all this love and it's not a burden, it's fulfilment.

[uchihaculture]

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happy birthday to my favorite loser