Gintama 203

Daaayum. I have to really thank ttxdragon and Sai the shaman for this. If they can get Gintama out on Friday night I should be able to knock it out in one evening. So if you guys are reading this please please please keep up the good work! Its my dream to have Gintama listed as one of the series under Bleach OP Naruto and DGM! And you are helping me get that much closer!! And super quality raws are nice too! :)

(Top- GINTAMA)

SFX (*Sore demo ningen ka?* And you call yourself human!)

SFX (*Omae no Kachan Nani nin da!!* What the hell is yo’ mama?!)

???: Ha!

Guys: Ha!

Ha!

Ha!

Put your backs into it dammit!!

(Side text- Shake it baby!)

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Takachin: Damn it’s not looking good.

I don’t think that we’re gonna make the cut for Otsuu-chan’s concert in April with moves like these.

You guys…be serious here. Aren’t you supposed to be representing Otsuu from all around the country? Do you think she’d like this?

Sure There aren’t a lot of us around that really appreciate Otsuu-chan for what she really is,

But that’s exactly why we’ve got to usher in a new age for her sake. So put some pride into what you’re doing!

Hey Sergeant, you know you could be helping me with the duties around here.

Huh? Sergeant?

Guy: I daresay he’s checking his mail!

It seems like lately he met this girl at Comiket, and they’ve been kind of chatting it up using text mail..

That bastard! What does he think practice---

SFX (*Zumu!* Grab!)
SFX (*Gogogogo* Ruuuuumble)

SFX (*Meki meki* Tha-thump tha-thump)

Sergeant: GYAAAAAHHHHH!!!

Captain!!!

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Shinpachi: SERGEANT, RECITE THE 23rd RULE OF THE TERAKADO TSUU EMPERIAL GUARD’S REGEMENT.

SFX (*Gogogogo* Ruuumble)

Sergeant: Owowowowow!! ‘It is a sin to have any other girl before Otsuu! Girls like this may be spies!’

Shinpachi: Damn straight Sergeant! Follow orders dammit!!

And!

SFX (*Zatsu* Turn!)

Shinpachi: Nose hook Destroyer Final dream decisive blow!!

SFX (*Don* Bam!)

Sergeant: GYAAAAAHHHHHH!

Shinpachi: ….

Hey.

SFX (*Biku!* Snap!)

Shinpachi: Your Cell phones….

Let me see them.

Guy: N---Nothing to see here! We don’t know anything about any Girl’s mail!!

Besides that who needs a Cellphone anyway?!

Guy2: Me…Me too!

I don’t even need one!

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Shinpachi: That’s right! We don’t need anything like mail from women!

All that crap is utter nonsense to us!

(TN- Speak for yourself.)

Men: YEAH!

Shinpachi: Why settle for the normal when we have the divine?! We’re men aren’t we? You are men right?!

Go forth you all! Convey your love with your bodies!!

Guys: YEAH!

SFX (*DONDONDONDONDON* March March March)

Men: We love Otsuu-chan!!

This is true manhood!!

We don’t need letters to show our feelings!!

SFX (*Oooooooh!* Rooooaaar!)

Shinpachi: Texting is bull---

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Shinpachi: What the heck?

The waves washed something up!

Something’s in here…

{Do you believe in fate?}
{I surely do!}
{After all right now..}
{You’re reading my letter aren’t you?}

{Don’t you…}

{Want to exchange letters with me?}

{A….A letter!!}

{An actual factual letter!}

{D—}

{Damn….Thank you very much!!!}

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Top Text to the left- GINTAMA.

Right- Sorachi Sensei has lost his mind!! Both the newest Volume of Gintama (#23) and the official anime guide ‘Gintama Anime Gaya gaya box’ will be available on April 4th! (Friday.)

Side text: Again to you who is unseen…

I allow my feelings to write out what I desire…

Lesson 203- There are some things words cannot express.

SORACHI HIDEAKI.

(TN- A title page on a Gintama chapter? Seriously?)

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Gintoki: Huh?

Shinpachi’s been spazzing out?

Otae: Yes…He’s been coming home lately and running to his room without a word…and he even locks the door.

And then this morning I could swear I heard some very strange noises coming from his room.

Gintoki: Strange noises?

(TN- It actually says Shiko Shiko…I just don’t like how it breaks the flow of conversation, so I translated it as such.)

Otae: And Before I forget, I also see him throwing out strange circular sheets of paper every so often….what on earth is wrong with that boy?

And the strange noises during the night as well, what could he be doing?

Anyway I was thinking since at one time you were at his age Gin-san that you could go hear him out.

You could get to the bottom of his strange behavior right?

Gintoki: Leave well enough alone. It’s when a boy is at his age that he’s at a very sensitive time. If you mess him up here, he’ll never know what its like to be self reliant.

Otae: Well at least tell me what the strange noises are coming from his room.

Or does that have something to do with being self reliant?

Gintoki: That’s right. Well Its one of the things a man must do on his own anyway..

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SFX (*Koron* Thunk)

Shinpahi: Hmm…

What should I write on this?

My family background and stuff about my parents are unknown, So I can’t write about that…

Isn’t there anything I can put instead?

But I know one thing….

SFX (*Piraa* Glance..)

{Do you believe in fate?}

Shinpachi: HELL YES!!

With all of my being I believe!

???: Shinpachi?

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SFX (*Biku!* Snap!)

SFX (*gatata* Shuffle shuffle)

Shinpachi: Ye----Yes?!

Wait…G—Gin-san? You came?

Gintoki: You know your big sister is worried about you.

Shinpachi: What? What are you talking about?

Gintoki: If that’s the case..

SFX (*su* Slip)

Gintoki: You should wash your hands with this.

Shinpachi: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT CREEPY THING?! GET RID OF IT!!

Book- Grown up pleasure!

Shinpachi: Could you BE anymore wrong about me?! Why would I want something like that?!

Moreover…Why the hell are you being so nice to me all of a sudden?! Its really creepy you know!!

Gintoki: What? I’m wrong? You don’t like this?

What the hell. I really thought hard about what to bring you too, and I was totally wrong.

Sorry ladies, Looks like you wasted a visit.

Shinpachi: What do you think my room is anyway?! What in the hell did you come here for?!

More like…Who did you bring with you?!

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Gintoki: You got correspondence?

So you’re saying you’ve been writing a letter back day and night?

You’re a total novice you know.

Shinpachi: Please don’t mention this to my sister. Various things happened for me to be able to get my hands on this you know.

Gintoki: So that’s it huh? What are you thinking of doing I wonder…?

Shinpachi: N---NOTHING! I was just thinking of the wind! Nothing perverted at all!!

I just wonder what kind of feelings that she had when she sent this out to sea is all.

I mean it’s a huge ocean out there…anyone could have managed to get this letter, and yet I did.

But I know for a fact that if I go and tell sister about it, she’ll just get mad.

Gintoki: You ain’t kidding. She’s the kind of person to act without any reason that sister of yours.

Shinpachi: I wouldn’t say that…

Otae: Shin-chan!

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Shinpachi: Sister!!

Otae: I brought some tea and crackers for you to eat at your leisure.

Here you go….Kleenex and Lotion.

Shin-chan..

No matter what kind of things you do… You’ll always be my little brother.

SFX (*Patan* Shut!)

Gintoki: Heh…Seems you were right about that much.

Shinpachi: WHAT DOES SHE THINK I’M DOING HERE ?!

YOU!!! There are things that you do and DO NOT discuss with people’s sisters!!

Why did she bring Lotion, Tea and Kleenex here?! Does she think some kind of hole is going to open?!

YOU AND HER ARE FREAKING WRONG!! JUST TAKE A MINUTE AND OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES FOR A MINUTE! I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING OF THAT SORT!!

Gintoki: Hey hey, Calm down a minute ok? There is lotion for THAT…and there’s lotion for writing letters too…convenient right?

SFX (*Mocha Mocha* Chew chew*)

Shinpachi: IT ISN’T!! Who needs Lotion to write a letter dammit?!

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Shinpachi: ANYway I managed to finally get something written down.

Gintoki: Let me take a look.

Shinpachi: No! Its fine! Please don’t do that!

SFX (*Pira* Peek)

Letter- Greetings. I read your letter—

To think that it would reach me on this wide ocean—

I thought that it would be good to respond—

My name is Shimura Shinpachi—

I was born in Edo-

And I live in Kabuki---

Gintoki: Hey hey hey…

This is just long and boring….too normal.

Shinpachi: Its not a big deal….I mean it can’t be helped! I can’t think of anything else to write.

Gintoki: You know, This girl wants to get closer to you…you should try a little harder in your response.

The letter floated from a random place didn’t it? It means that you got this through pure luck; like the letter was looking for you.

So your response should be brief.

Letter- Do you believe-

Well I sure-

After all-

My letter-

You and I-

Gintoki: This means that she isn’t exactly the fickle type to use such a way to meet people since there are many people who could have found this.

For example you might even be the third person in line to get and read this.

Shinpachi: Well that may be true, but I can’t think of a way to get what I want to say across without being a little wordy.

Gintoki: If that’s the case you should put in a little bit of extra information…like being a rock star or something.

That way if it ends up getting to someone else, your self image looks a little better.

And of course send a picture of yourself.

Shinpachi: Oh that sounds good…

However, how do I know that the next guy in line won’t have a better self image?

I don’t really have anything too complex to add to my own image do i?

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Top- Shimura Shimpachi.

Vertical text- I bought some glasses for a change.

Shinpachi: What’s with that Manga approach?!

Gintoki: This is the inside of a manga! The underside to be exact, so take a good look.

Shinpachi: Why the hell is the only thing there my glasses!? Won’t she think that that’s all I am?!

Gintoki: Think about it man. No one really wants to see what the author looks like in real life, and that’s why they do this.

Shinpachi: THAT’S JUST RUDE!!

Moreover what’s with this picture?! Whether I’m the first in line or the third it doesn’t help my image at all to just be a pair of glasses!!

Gintoki: Think of it like this. You could be a really rugged guy in her eyes that happens to wear glasses. There are lots of ways to interpret just glasses you know.

Like how about you come from an uneven plane from a far and rugged place, and you rode from here from on high? If you wrote that she’d go gaga.

Shinpachi: WHAT PERSON CAN DO THAT?!

Vertical text- I bought glasses for a change.

Gintoki: But you know at this level, it may be too deep for her to comprehend…it does give a kind of mysterious feeling you know.

Shinpachi: From where?! The glasses? Just drop it all ready! All it says on this thing is that I bought glasses!!

Gintoki: Fine fine I get it! Here.

Now it has a deeper meaning because its handwritten. You’re the guy who stands out even if you’re third.

Vertical text- I bought some glasses for a change into Pachi.

Shinpachi: HOW DOES THIS HELP THIRD?!

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Shinpachi: This doesn’t help me become any better than third you know!! Its still the same message about glasses!! Moreover how long do you plan on milking the buying of the glasses thing?!

Gintoki: Its important to start with an important conversation, more or leass.

Shinpachi: Nice! The problem here is THAT THIS ISNT INTERESTING AT ALL!!

I’m third! At this rate I’ll always be third and no one better If I can’t think of something interesting to say!!

Gintoki: Third huh….well, lets try this.

How do you like that?

Horizontal text- Thank you for sending all of the Glasses everyone lets you and I work together.

Shinpachi: Didn’t you just rip this from the Jump TOC?!

What the hell is up with this Valentine’s Day seeming message anyway?! Isn’t it a bit too late for that kind of thing?!

And who the hell is ‘Staff?!’

Gintoki: It isn’t Staff…its Shinpachi.

Shinpachi: SO IN THE END ITS STILL ‘SHINPACHI WENT AND BOUGHT SOME GLASSES’!!! WHY ISN’T THE SITUATION CHANGING?!!

Shinpachi: Moreover if you send a letter like this out to her all she’ll remember is the fact that I wear glasses and nothing else!! What’s the point of that!?!

Gintoki: Fine then your highness! I’ll fix it up for you!

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Gintoki: Yeah!

That’s it! Damn! Shinpachi you were right, I’m stupid for not thinking of this sooner!!

Shinpachi I just remembered,

What it is that your letter needs in order to be successful.

That’s right, It’s the easiest and fastest way to get a message through on a letter like this.

It’ll make correspondence a breeze!

SFX (*Bitsu* Flash!)

Gintoki: It’s a photo!

Shinpachi: Yeah…

Wait…that doesn’t sound right…I mean she’ll make her first impression with just that?

Gintoki: Well…yes…but hear me out.

What if she didn’t send a picture with her letter? You probably would have thought of her as some ugly chick.

So in short, what’s most important is not so much the letter, but the picture that came with it that settled your wandering thoughts!

This here is the ultimate way of settling this!

The appearance!!

SFX (*Don!* Bam!)

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Shinpachi: Uwah..

But…Can someone as pathetic as me actually score with a picture?

Gintoki: Shinpachi…hand me your glasses.

Shinpachi: There’s no way that’ll work Gin-san…If I hand you the glasses then I’ll…

Gintoki: Shinpachi, you have to let your soul show what your surface does not.

Gintoki: Rest easy.

I’ll be sure to get your good side.

Shinpachi: Gin-san.

Shinpachi: Here I go then!

How is this?! Does this capture the right feeling?!

SFX (*Don!* Bam!)

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SFX (*Kasha Kasha* Click Click!)

Gintoki: Now the right side.

Ok…now give me a smile Shinpachi-kun.

SFX (*Kasha Kasha* Click click)

Shinpachi: THAT’S NOT ME!!

SHINPACHI-KUN IS HERE!!

Gintoki: Shinpachi your existence is 95 percent the glases though!

So it’s like if you put them here you’re in both places at once.

Shinpachi: So that left over 5 percent is the me over here?! Don’t joke like that!!

Gintoki: No…the left over 3 percent is your spit…and then 2 percent is garbage.

Shinpachi: Are you saying that I’m full of it?! Where would that 2 percent come from!?

More like, there’s no meaning to this!! Give me those back right now!!

Gintoki: But you know, putting these glasses on that tree really gives a feeling of ‘Summer is coming’…

Shinpachi: Shinpachi doesn’t approve!!

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Gintoki: But it fits so well you know! It doesn’t need approval.

Shinpachi: BUT THAT ISN’T EVEN CLOSE TO HOW I LOOK!!

Gintoki: I’ve got other awesome motifs then.

No this isn’t it…not this either…

SFX (*Kasha!* Click!)

Gintoki: All right…that’s good.

Okita (Handwritten.): Kondo-san isn’t coming is he?

Shinpachi: That’s a different person altogether!!

Gintoki: Nice, now turn to your side Shinpachi…its your best side.

Shinpachi: THAT’S NOT ME!! YOU WANNA DIE?!

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SFX (*Zaa Zaa* Splish splash)

SFX (*ha ha ha*)

Girl: Big sister! There’s been big trouble!!

It really…

It really got delivered!

Your letter really made it!!

Side text: Could it be?! The start of correspondence? And now it’s the girl’s turn?!

GINTAMA LESSON 203….END.