Gintama 195

Ah I know I know I missed a week! But I have a partner now! And because of that I can blame everything on them. :) Nah I'm just kidding. They're all right. This chapter was...weird. I totally didn't get page 13, so if you're using this for scantlation (which you're free to do) I'd have that one looked at. Anyway I'm off to take tome Advil and go to bed. Have fun!


Shinpachi: Huh? ‘Leave it as is’ is the Universe’s biggest thing now?

I wouldn’t have ever figured that!

Kagura: A lot of people in Edo have been putting together their best 50. Though when you put it against the universe’s you realize how wide it is.

Um…I think that number 4 was…ah Prince Chance, No wait that’s number 8.

*Bottom Text: Gintama

Kagura: It defiantly had to be EXILE’s CD Right?

Shinpachi: Are You serious? THAT’S really “In” now?

Kagura: Oh yeah number 3 is mainly the Granchildren’s entertainment coming up.

Shinpachi: Really….It seems number three and four are really connected aren’t they? I’m sure that only old ladies listen to EXLE’s CD’s nowadays.

*Bottom Text: Selling like Hotcakes! The new Gintama DS Game “Gintama Quest” Has now hit stores!!

Shinpachi: You probably got an EXILE CD too didn’t you? Although its not like you’re anyone’s grandchild or anything like that.

Kagura: It’s 13th now.

Shinpachi: What’s with your imaginary Ranking?!?

Kagura: Or maybe it’s 2nd? I really can’t remember.

At any rate I’m sure “B’z Is the best” at 1st.

Shinpachi: GIVE IT UP!! You’re just hoping for your own twisted desires to be the first! Or are you just angry you bought something that’s only 2nd best?

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Kagura: A~ah You made me knock this over with your yelling Shinpachi.

Shinpachi: Hey don’t blame me!

Kagura: Hey what is it? An EXILE CD?

Shinpachi: Seems like there’s a picture under here!

(TN- For some reason Kagura really looks cute here…)

Shinpachi: Wow it looks awfully old…

Who…..

Is this?

*Upper text: And now a hidden HISTORY is brought to light!!

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Lesson 195
Let’s have a chat about the past.

Sorachi Hideaki

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Shinpachi: Whoa…this couldn’t be…

Kagura: An old flame of his?

Shinpachi: Huh? Seriously? Is this seriously serious?

Kagura: Nah it couldn’t be. With looks like this she couldn’t have been his woman.

Most likely she was just his main squeeze for a while or something.

SFX*Sliiiide (Sliding door noises)

Shinpachi: Quick! Put it back! Put it back!!

Gin-san has come back! We have to return it to where we found it before he finds out! Hurry!!

Gintoki: Yo I bought the laundry detergent.

Shinpachi: He’s HEEERE!! Hurry Kagura-chan! Huuuuuuury!!!

SFX* Creak!!

Kagura: Shut your mouth! I just put it back!

SFX: CRAAASH!!

Both: UGAHHHHHH!!!

SFX: flutter flutter

Flutter

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SFX: Grab

Gintoki: Hmn?

Shinpachi: Gin-san!! Um We didn’t see anything! That’s uh, we don’t know anything about it!!

Kagura: Aren’t we the sneaky one? I don’t remember telling saying you could bring strange women in here.

Shinpachi: Kagura-chan!!

SFX: Grab!

Gintoki: Heh, This is a tad bit nostalgic for me. I haven’t seen it for a whiel.

Where’d you find this?

Shinpachi: Uh it just fell out while we were cleaning up..

It was under the headboard.

Gintoki: Ah So it was there…

Shinpachi: Huh? It was there? Moreover, what the heck is that anyway? Who is in that picture?

Gintoki: What you didn’t know?

She’s a Yorozuya.

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Shinpachi: Huh? But…That’s not right, How could she be a Yorozuya if she’s not one of us?

Gintoki: Oh I didn’t tell you guys this, but you’re part of the NEW Yorozuya.

She was a part of the ‘Prototype’ Yorozuya.

Shinpachi: PROTOTYPE?! Wait! I didn’t know about this!! You’re saying this was some type of creation?!

Gintoki: Huh? I never told you?

Sadaharu: Yaawn.

Mnya mnya..

Gintoki: It was a story that began way before you guys happened to show up and stay here.

I was still a Yorozuya at the time but I did things differently.

It wasn’t like you two were the only ones, I had a different set of buddies back during that time.

Shinpachi: Wait a minute! Didn’t you always use to tell us that you were always hanging out on your own?!

Gintoki: I mean sure the basis was me alone at first, but as time went by people jumped at the opportunity to work here.

I’ve seen various people around here.

Shinpachi: Wow I had no idea…so we have seniors ahead of us huh?

Makes me feel kind of fresh out of the box.

Gintoki: I wouldn’t call them ‘seniors’ or anything like that.

They just got here before you is all, and they broke up pretty quickly.

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Shinpachi: Huh…So this sexy lady used to be a Yorozuya member in the past?

Kagura: ‘Sexy lady?” What the hell? You’re creepy Shinpachi.

Gintoki: Well she was…how do I put this…Well if she were here now she’d be in Catherine’s position.

Shinpachi: CATHERINE’S?! You mean THAT CATHERINE-SAN?!

Gintoki: Well she used to work in that old hag’s place as a Hostess.

So it just so happened that she’d come up here and clean out the Yorozuya office every once in a while.

She did so much, she’s like a total opposite to Catherine. She was actually a good woman.

Man~ It’s so nostalgic.

Shinpachi: Ahh…I see Compared to now, the Quality is much higher isn’t it? At least for Catherine-san’s position anyway.

Gintoki: Well, things were always a lot better back then. Even the guys who used to be here.

Shinpachi: Hey tell us more about the other Yorozuya! What kinds of positions did the other people have?

Kagura: We want to hear, though we aren’t trying to force you or anything.

Gintoki: Well…It hasn’t changed that the Yorozuya was a trio then and now.

They were actually pretty similar to you guys.

Shinpachi: Ahahah…

Gintoki: Ah, here’s a picture.

This was Shinpachi’s position, the useless glasses comic relief Kanemaru-kun.

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Shinpachi: Kanemaru-kun sure is high quality!!!

What the hell?!? Kanemaru-kun doesn’t look a thing like me!! He’s a black guy!!

Gintoki: Well I mean he does have a cannon on his right arm like you do doesn’t he?

Shinpachi: I DO NOT! Do you really think I could do something like that? Could Kanemaru-kun?!

Gintoki: Okay okay! Sure he had an extremely high battle sense…

And in the city of darkness people feared him and called him “Black Dragon”, but that’s not a big difference right?

Shinpachi: THERE TOTALLY IS!! How is that like me?!

Gintoki: He was the comic relief.

Shinpachi: Ah…I…I see..

Gintoki: Without the comic relief, how could the Yorozuya be perfect?

Shinpachi: Well…I’d think that the language barrier would be a big problem, seeing that he is a foreigner…

Gintoki: We’ll I think you’ll be in for a big shock. Let me tell you about the time Kanemaru-kun and I went to a restaurant to get some lunch.

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Gintoki: We’d like a Lasagna and Ochazuke dish here please.

By the way miss…

The Lasagna is for me…

And the Ochazuke is for him.

(TN- Ochazuke is tea poured over rice.)

Gintoki: Ah! That’s just for comic relief right Kanemaru-kun?

Did you want me to finish off that Ochazuke for you there?

Kagura: That’s no good, It’s no good for a foreigner like him to be able to play Shinpachi’s part.

Handwritten- Oh! Shit! Oh my god!

Kanemaru: ‘Scuse me miss, I’d like some Sakechazuke insteas of the Umechazuke please.

Shinpachi: HE SPEAKS JAPANESE?!?!

MOREOVER HE WANTS TO EAT CHAZUKE!!

YOU REALLY DID EAT THE LASAGNA!!

Kanemaru: Ah---For sure Japanese Chazuke is the best!

But…Who’s Japanese!!

Shinpachi: The quality of that Comic relief is too high!!

Moreover it’s the type of Comic relief that they have in Kansai!!

(TN- Kansai is a region in Japan.)

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Gintoki: Of course, Kanemaru is from Kansai after all.

Shinpachi: THEN TELL US FROM THE BEGINNING HE’S JAPANESE!!

Gintoki: He’d say ‘I’m not just a Japanese person I’m a guy from Kansai!’ Ah good old Kanemaru-kun.

Shinpachi: THERES NO ONE LIKE THAT FROM KANSAI!!

Shinpachi: Damn, I just lost my resolve to want to find out anymore about them. It just sounds annoying now.

Kagura: Well that’s to be expected from someone in Shinpachi’s position after all.

I’m sure that my position was more useful right Gin-chan?

Gintoki: Ah here we are! The one with Kagura’s position.

???: What?!

Gintoki: The lone flower of the group, Ikezawa-san.

Shinpachi: ISN’T HE SAME AS THE FIRST GUY?!?

HOW IS THIS CONSIDERED A ‘LONE FLOWER?’

Kagura: You loser! This is supposed to be my position?! Perm head?!? HEY!

Shinpachi: MOREOVER WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE LAZOR CANNONS?!

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Gintoki: Oh my bad, This guy was really Sadaharu’s postion. Furuhashi-san.

Shinpachi: YOU PLANNED FOR SADAHARU?!

Gintoki: Furuhashi-san was the Yorozuya Mascot, a position he held well.

Shinpachi: WE DON’T NEED THA TYPE OF MASCOT! THERE’S NO CHANGE FROM KANEMARU-KUN!!

Gintoki: My bad my bad…

I messed up. Kagura is…

This is the lone flower Ikezawa-san.

Shinpachi: Ah…She’s a cutie! Isn’t that great Kagura-chan?

Kagura: Not really! She looks like some female piglet.

Gintoki: Uh, no that’s not you.

Kagura: Huh?

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Shinpachi: I’M TELLING YOU THAT’S THE SAME!!!

Kagura: ALL THAT CHANGED WAS THE LAZOR TO A BOTTLE OF BOOZE!!

KNOCK IT OFF ALL READY DAMMIT!! HOW IS THIS ME?!

SFX: GRAB!

Gintoki: Hold your horses. Ikezawa-san used to be a housewife.

Her husband had been suspected of cheating and she returned with nothing but a sake bottle.

Since that happened, she started talking like Kagura. Saying ‘Aru aru aru aru’

(TN- Kagura usually ends her sentences with ‘Aru’. It doesn’t come through on most translations including mine because it’s impossible to translate properly. I antagonized over this a while, but decided to leave her talking normally although she isn’t.)

Ikezawa: Aruko-lu~(Alcohol) Aruko-ru (Alcohol) Please!!

Kagura: WHAT KIND OF USE OF ‘ARU’ IS THAT DAMMIT?!

Shinpachi: MOROVER WHAT KIND OF YOROZUYA WAS THIS?

WHEN YOU BREAK IT DOWN AREN’T THEY ALL KANEMARU?!

HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY HAVE MADE AN ANIME OUT OF THIS?!

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Gintoki: Hey don’t say that. They were here before you you know.

We had countless adventures together when we used to hang out. They’re like my important friends.

Look at it.

There was no one in Edo that didn’t know us. Of course that didn’t save us from unding into trouble down the road.

It was like almost the morning after when those guys left me hanging at what seemed to be the most important time.

I thought for sure we’d always be hanging out. In the end, it was a crying shame.

It wasn’t long before I ended up being alone..

And forgotten.

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Shinpachi: DIDN’T THEY JUST ABANDON YOU?!

YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE SOMETHING BROKE YOU UP!!

Gintoki: What the hell are you talking about? Are you brats trying to tell me that you understand just how an adult thinks?

Don’t start speaking nonsense.

Shinpachi: LOOK BEHIND YOU! IT’S OBVIOUS WHAT HAPPENED!!

Kagura: Hey it looks totally like Ikesawa and Kanemaru were going out!

Shinpachi?: The Yorozuya trio was slowly becoming a duo and Gin-san was being left out!

Kagura: It’s like Globe’s Mark bouncer(?) The mark of Japan’s number one send out point! How couldn’t you have noticed?

Gintoki: SHUT UP! It’s not that mark at all! I’d notice something like that happening in the Yorozuya! I just decided to head things off as a Colombo!

Shinpachi: Well…To me it looks like you’re just lonely.

Gintoki: Colombo never gets lonely! I wasn’t lonely at all! I just didn’t want to interrupt the two of them! That’s all it was!

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Gintoki: Of course this was getting in the way of the production of the Yorozuya. Whether I was Colombo or not..

We couldn’t let something like this get in the middle of work could we? So I sent a nice and gentle warning to them.

I know that youngsters in love are a beautiful thing, but they had to break up.

Before things got too serious you know.

Shinpachi: THAT JUST LOOKS LIKE A PICTURE YOU TOOK OUT OF ANGER!!

Gintoki: Well from then on it was just me and the Mascot Furuhashi-san as a two-man team.

Shinpachi: WHAT KIND OF MASCOT?! HE’S GOT THE SAME FACE AT THE OTHERS!!

Gintoki: Sure it sucked that we couldn’t be a trio like we were before, but I decided to think twice before making that mistake again.

Though we made a pretty badass combo. Don’t you two think so?

We had more requests for work than the City hunters. We had requests from all sides.

Whether it was from the east or west, I thought that we’d never get a bit of rest will all the stuff we were doing.

Shinpachi: WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU ACCOMPLISH?!

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Gintoki: We worked our asses off, to make sure that we got our work done.

Shinpachi: IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE YOU WERE MORE LIKE ‘TOTALLY USELESS!”

Gintoki: When we’d get hurt we could always rely on each other to be able to cheer and cure the other one up. We stood up for each other.

Man that guy was my best bud, and I always hung out near him.

Shinpachi: More like what’s with this photo? Who is this?

It looks like it’s totally focused on you pair of useless people.

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Gintoki: That’s right..

That night, the only pretty things in the sky were the night stars.

Shinpachi: WHAT THE HELL!?!

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Shinpachi: The one decent thing you had going for yourself ended up becoming dirty as well didn’t it?!

After hearing that story of long ago its no WONDER you’re all alone now!!

SFX: KICK KICK

Flutter

Shinpachi: The Yorozuya had a history that was similar to a rock band for goodness sake!

Kagura: We’ll just leave him to his own road of descrution!

Shinpachi: For here on in, the Yorozuya isn’t our problem!

Kagura: We’ll make our own history! Lets go!

SFX: Creeaak SLAM!

Gintoki: Owww

What’s with them?! They ask and I tell

Then they just stop me and leave like they know weverything.

Sadaharu: Woof!

Gintoki: What?

SFX: Grab

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SFX: Rattle

Droop

Clap clap

Gintoki: For this upcoming year too

Let’s make it a good year.

Side text: Past and present
Lets’ stay busy together ok?


GINTAMA LESSON 195: END.