Gintama 688

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(Side text- A commemoration color page for the soon approaching resumption of the TV Anime, and the Live Action Movie that will soon be upon us!!)
GINTAMA
(Middling text- To pursue his back...)
SORACHI HIDEAKI
(Bottom text- The TV anime “Gintama” Silver Soul arc will be back on the air July 8th!!// For more information in regard to the TV Anime and the movie take a look at the next page!!)

002

003
???: Two years ago on that day....
when the people across the country were gathering...
To protect Edo with their heart and souls...
Lesson 688: Be sure to buy lots of mosaic tone too.
(Side text- See Volume 68)
???: We too were....
Running for the sake of our own battles.
Sachi: Number 61....!
I gotta get (the screen tones for drawing) the nipples of Edoooooo!!
Yaemon: I won't allow you.
I, the executioner Ikeda Yaemon...
Will be the protector of all the nipples of Edo!!

004
Yaemon: And even after two years this battle hasn't ended.
Shinpachi: WHAT THE HELL KIND OF BATTLE WERE YOU TWO HAVING!? JUST FRIGGIN' END IT ALREADY!? TO WHAT EXTENT WILL YOU DRAG OUT THIS POINTLESSNESS?!
Yaemon: Sachi the promise
that you and the shinigami exchanged two years ago,
is one I haven't forgotten.
The prisoners I liberated that day....
all did their part in helping this country get back on it's feet, and when that work was done...
They kept their side of the promise and returned to prison.
Only one remains now...you.

005
Yaemon: Why are you still wandering out here?
Why are you continuing to add to your crimes?
Have you not had enough of hunting the nipples of innocents?
Shinpachi: No, there's been a mix up here Yaemon-san! He's not really...
Yaemon: I cannot allow you to continue your deplorable ways.
(Sfx- Doohhh fwhooom)
(Sfx- Hyagaaah sffft)
Yaemon: I will not allow...
For another person's nipple to be harmed.
(Sfx- Jiwaah blurshh)
Shinpachi: Um...
That couldn't be....?
(Sfx- Koroohh rolll)

006
Gintoki: BUT AREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO JUST HUNTED MY NIPPLEEEEEE?!
Yaemon: Ah, sorry, my hand slipped...
Gintoki: TO WHAT EXTENT DID YOU SLIP UP THAT HIS NECK BECAME MY NIPPLE?!
Yaemon: Do you understand Sachi?! This is what your actions have wrought!!
Gintoki: HEY! DON'T YOU DARE TRY TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT! AT THE VERY LEAST YOU COULD DENIPPLE SACHI TOOOO!?
(Sfx- Guwaaah wfft)
Shinpachi: Calm down Yaemon-san!!
Sachi-san hasn't been been gathering nipples, he's been trying to get screen tones for the nipples in the manga he's drawing!!
Yaemon: Don't spout nonsense to protect him!! What is a screen tone?!
Shinpachi: That there.
Gintoki: Uh, no, that's a mosaic tone.
More like why is my nipple being censored as if it's something filthy?
Sachi: That's enoooough!!
(Sfx- Baah fwap)
Sachi: I got it, Shinigami-san.
Hell, Prison, it doesn't matter –I'll go wherever you want me to.
Shinpachi: Sachi-san!
Sachi: It's cool...this is the right time for it.
After all, I'm the one who squandered these two years Shinigami-san gave me.
All I did was run around doing whatever I wanted.

007
Sachi: I wandered around Edo....
Chasing bro and I's dream so that one day I could complete it.
I dug through a pile of debris...
and did my damnest to gather the parts of a dream known as screen tone.
Eventually I finished it...
Both the nipples and my manuscript.
But after a while I understood...
I'd never be able to perfect this dream.
The thing known as manga is only complete when it's read for the first time by an audience.
And the person I wanted most to read this manga...
the person who I wanted to smile at this manga...
Was gone.
I heard that Bro was...
No longer here in Edo.

008
Sachi: I thought he'd come back someday...
So I waited around.
And before I realized it two years had just flown on by.
My reaction to you doing the Yorozuya mighta been weird but this was the reason for it.
Sorry man.
It's also why...
Even after you helped us prisoners out, I had to betray you like that.
I know I wasn't able to make this dream of mine come true, but that's exactly what made it worth pursuing.
Honestly speaking, I'm glad a bum like me was able to figure that out.
So I'm ready, you can take me wherever.
Shinpachi: I'm not good enough?
I realize it's a bit insolent of me to say this, but I am the Yorozuya just like your bro was.
So if it's not too forward for me to ask...
May I be the first one to read your manga?
Sachi: ...You...?
Shinpachi: You worked so hard to draw it, so wouldn't it be a shame if no one got to read it?
Moreover....
I'd like to etch it in my heart....
What Gin-san has left behind.
{Shinpachi...}
Sachi: Bro....
Sorry about calling you a fake.
You really are the real deal....the successor to Yorozuya bro.
If...if you don't mind it, would you mind reading this first?

009
Shinpachi: Hmmm...
Well the art is okay, I guess...
But besides that it's kinda below average. I see this a lot –folks think that just cause they can draw a picture that they're suddenly a mangaka.
It's pretty clear to me that there was very little if no thought put into these characters and plot.
{..He's just going to shit on it?}
Shinpachi: How many years have you been drawing manga?
Sachi: A little over three?
Shinpachi: Hm, then in regard to age you've got one foot in the grave. If you sound too antiquated when writing shounen manga then you're done for.
{From the way this scenario was playing out, I was thinking he was just going to give a vague “it's good” response, but Shinpachi-kun is really into this –he's basically a full blown editor, that Shinpachi-kun.
Sachi: Heh...antiquated...
{Whoa is Sachi crying? Damn, he's looking more like a dolphin than a killer whale as the moments go by.}
Ginttoki: C'mon dude, I Thought it was pretty...okay.
He's going for an out-there-gag manga right? So it's supposed to be absurd.
Shinpachi: I'd like it if you didn't say ridiculous things like that Loincloth-mask-san.
You don't actually think a hero who wears underwear on his face will become a hit in this age do you?
Okay I'll grant you that Jump once had the great pervert Hentai Kamen,
But anything after him is just a follow up act. Or do you think that someone wearing a loincloth on their face can actually beat underewar?

010
Gintoki: Well, uh about that loincloth, uh....
{Wait rather than ripping off that other guy...}
{Isn't this basically me?}
{He's basically drawing me...}
Shinpachi(?): Don't you think it's better when the hero doesn't show his true identity?
{Is it that my identity has been discovered already?}
Shinpachi: But why would he hide using a loincloth? Normally anyone'd be able to see through that.
{Wait, is he talking about me? He's totally talking about me.}
Shinpachi: And then there's the topic of this ending....
The protagonist is actually the older brother of the girl he saved, no?
Sachi: Yeah and it ends with his identity remaining secret.
Shinpachi: No, I think in the end he needs to reveal who he is.
I mean it's pretty awful as is...the little sister wanted to see her brother so earnestly...
And despite knowing this he just leaves her without saying a word? Who'd like a protagonist who acts like this?
Gintoki: Wait, see that's not so bad...
I'm sure Loincloth-mask has his own reasons for doing what he did, right? I'm in agreement with how things went!
Shinpachi: Um, it's not Loincloth mask, it's Loincloth-man, Loincloth-mask-san.
Gintoki: Besides that if the little sister found out that he's a pervert running around in undergarments on his face she'd be devistated!
Shinpachi: And you know what we call a guy who prioritizes his needs over his little sister's? An asshole.
If it were me stuck in the role of supporting character to this shmuck I'd rather quit and give up my glasses.
Gintoki: Loincloth-mask probably wants to spill his guts, sure! But he can't so that's why he went to give a hand wearing a loincloth!!
Shinpachi: It's not Loincloth-mask but Loincloth-man, Loincloth-mask-san.
Gintoki: I'll bet you didn't even consider his feelings once! Think about the guy with a friggin' loincloth on his face!!

011
Shinpachi: Why would I? It's not like I'd wear one on my face.
Gintoki: Then why don't you try wearing it before you start trying to play editor, asswipe?!
Sachi: Hey! Cool it, Loincloth-man-san!!
Shinpachi: That's not Loincloth-man but Loincloth-mask.
Then are you saying everyone should put loincloths on their faces before they read this manga?
That's quite the barrier of entry for this series.
Gintoki: Men live their lives by hiding their hearts behind loincloths!! A diaper wearing tyke like you would never understand!
Sachi: That's enough Loincloth-masater-san!
Shinpachi: That's not Loincloth Master, it's Loincloth-mask.
???: Sachi, that's enough already. Showing it to folks is wasting---
(Sfx- Gaahhh Grabbb)
(Sfx- Mekiihhh griiind)
(Sfx- Dodoouhhh thdhuuud)

012
???: ...Anyway putting nipples in a shounen magazine is no good anyway...
So um, just rub some mosaic screen tone over 'em and try again.
SO IN THE END THERE WAS NO POINT TO THE NIPPLES?!
(Sfx- Zuzuhhh dsshhhh)
Gintoki: Maan, that threw me for a loop.
Sachi's still going after his dream even now huh...
And Asaemon...or well, Yaemon now...
She's doing well in taking down prisoners....so she's done well in becoming an official for the government, huh.

013
Gintoki: And then...there's us.
And we've accomplished...what exactly?
One of us hides behind an unremovable loincloth...
and the other is still in diapers, huh.
Nah...
Maybe it's me who's....
Holding this guy back?
Wow he's....
Really keeping this place running...
The Yorozuya that is.

014
Gintoki: He should be fine if I leave him here.
{Shinpachi....}
{Wasn't there anything else you wanted to do?}
{I want to help out with city restoration...}
{To train myself in the sword, keep Otsuu-chan's Imperial Guard going and rebuild my father's dojo.}
{You've got a lot on your plate, huh.}
{Yeah...}
{So...}
{It'll beokay.}

015
{So please do what you need to...}
{Gin-san.}
Gintoki: Liar.
Not a single damn thing...
Has changed has it?
If back then...
He figured that what I'd be doing is...

016
Gintoki: Running around a place like this...
with a loincloth on my face while trying to save a guy who's trying to wreck the planet....
Would you still have been so supportive of my decision?
And if you had tried to stop me, then what would I have done?
You nailed it Shinpachi....
Loincloth-mask is a loser.
He still won't take off his mask even at a time like this.
And he keeps taking of masks....
all while not being sure which one is him anymore.
But y'know...
there is something I am sure of....

017
(Sfx- Zubaaaaashiiiihh bloooorsh)
Gintoki: I REAALY WANT TO RIP MY FACE OFFFF!!!
{IT FELT LIKE I HAD SOMEONE'S *ICK ON MY FACE THE WHOLE TIME!!
(Sfx- Uoeeeeehhh bloooorghhhh)
{I CAN'T EVEN SWALLOW MY SALIVA ANYMOOORE!!}
{Dammit I can't hang around here anymore –I gotta book it before Shinpachi wakes up.}
{Aw, hell. I forgot to to grab a towel before I washed off.}
{If I remember correctly....}
{We used to put towels by the bath right?}
{Ah here we go.}
{This works.}
(Sfx- Goshi goshi whssft shssft)
(Sfx- puraaan whibble)

018
???: Huh?
Is someone there?
{There's a woman...}
{In the bathroom?! You've gotta be kidding...}
(Sfx- shaaaaahhh)
{Shinpachi..}
{You brought a woman back and you're living here with her?!}
{N—No way, it can't be!!}
{Since when did he start pulling shit that a president of an IT company would do?!}

019
Kagura: Michiyuko-san...
Is the bath still not warmed up?
{Sachiiiiiiii!!!}
{ALL OF THE MOSAICS YOU'VE GOT, STAT.}

020
Katsura: Is that so?
So he came after all.
No it's fine.
Should what you say be true then I needn't do anything...he'll show up on his own.
So that's how it is...
(Sfx- Dodoooon ththoooom)
Dude: Your excellency, there's been an incident...
Katsura: I'm well aware.
The people of this country are making light of the Prime Minister Donald Zurump, huh?
Go and show them your full force, but don't forget they the people as well....do not kill them.
Dude: Yes sir!
Katsura: Make sure every hand available goes to take care of this. No one should be left behind.
Dude: Yes sir!

021
(Sfx- Giiiii grrrrnnnd)
???: My, my aren't we popular.
Though to me it seems you're more disliked now then you were as a patriot.
Katsura: It still pales in comparison to the rapport of evil you have.
Dare I ask what kind of infamy you've got brewing?
(Sfx- Hyaaann wffft)
???: Is it that you intend to destroy this new country....
now that the old one has come and gone?
(Handwritten- His plot moves....!!!)
GINTAMA LESSON 688.............END.