Gintama 208

Flame of Recca manga+The Rodeo Carburattor+ One manga+ Free time in class computer lab= Fun fun times.

GINTAMA

(TN- That’s right, no advertisements here for once.)

???: ….yeah….so Kintarou too..

He’s been supporting my old man in sickness and in health, and now he’s gone too…this is really awful..

Pops, this time there’s nothing really that can be done.

You should been looking out for yourself better rather than worrying about that dog, ‘cause now you’re in the doghouse yourself.

Don’t worry about it though, I’m sure you and Kintarou will be happy in the other life.

That’s rude.

(Side text- The dog owner’s fate is….)

Man: Brother, I know you’ve been looking after dad for a while now, why not go take a breather?

I’m sure he’ll be fine for a moment.

Brother: Will he really be just fine?

Man: I’m telling you it’ll be fine. I’ve got this ok?

Brother: Ok, I’ll leave it to you.

Brother: Gotcha.

Man: Geez! Why can’t this old man just make up his mind?

If you’re gonna live, go on and live! If you’re gonna die just drop dead!

(Handwritten- Seriously!)

(SFX-*pikutsu* flip.)

(On cover- Shounen Jump.)

002

(SFX- *Gattsu!* Grab.)
Man: Gaah!!

Nggh

Cough!

(Sfx- *Goki* flutter.)

(Sfx- *Basatsu* Tunk)

(Sfx- *dosa* thud.)

(Sfx-*muku* stir.)

(Sfx-*kaba* pluck.)

Old man: Oh my…

It’s about time for a walk.

003

GINTAMA

Lesson 208
Cat owners and dog owners never see eye to eye.

SORACHI HIDEAKI.

(Side text- Which would you choose?!)

004

(Sfx-*Unyaaaaah!*)

(Sfx- *Zubaratatatata* Rattatatatataa!)

Cat: Ukyah!!

Woman: Kyah!! What is this?

Cat: Unyahhh!

(Sfx-*dodododododo* tmp tmp tmp tmp.)

???: Uwaaaaah!!
Kyahhhh!!

Kagura: They’re endless….

Katsura: Why is it that they wish to pursue us so badly?

Old dog: The ‘Star barfers’ are the natural enemes of the ‘Star Eaters’ so that they can protect their own parasitic comet!

You’d better step on it or else we’re all finished!

005

Katsura: I had no idea that the honed rivary between cats and dogs had such a long and noble tradition. To think that it would even go to this level is unbelievable.

Old dog: No…you’ve got it wrong there kiddo, we’re from opposing planets far away in space. Its coincidence that we look like cats and dogs who are natural enemies.

Katsura: I—I can’t even begin to fathom how I could possibly fit in to this long and true tradition. However I can’t help but feel an air of excitement when I think of how I will be included in your inerasable history.

Old dog: Um hey…are you listening?

Katsura: I’ve decided! I will do what I can to create peace!

Now that we’re on the same planet, peace talks can commence!

Old dog: What the hell is going on in that head of yours? Just quickly run away!

Katsura: Heed me my little space invaders! We will not allow for this to continue on our peaceful Earth! We will not be subjugated!

You may bear ill will towards this dog here, which is why you’ve come to cause trouble!

However it is wrong for you to come here to continue your life and death struggle! You can begin anew here! Don’t you understand?!

Kittens: We want our fields back!!

How could a stupid earthling understand what’s going on here?!

(Sfx- *gari gari* Slash slash)

Old dog: You’ve just made them angrier haven’t you!?!
Katsura: Che, I failed. Well it’s fine. I expected as much from them…I should have offered food.

Old dog: Why the hell would you say that?! Are you hungry or something?!

006

Katsura: It cannot be helped. I’ll have to stall them so that you can make it to the old man’s place leader.

Kagura: Zura!! You’d go that far?!

Katsura: Hmph…I wonder how they’d fare if I had brought some fish? I guess there’s only one way to find out…

I’m leaving it to you leader!

My Bushido won’t allow me to die over a simple matter of spilled fish!

{Now come you fish lovers!}

{Take this fish…this fish from me….}

(Sfx-*Zugashaaaaaaa* shkiiiiiiiid!)

Old dog?: THEY DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE!!

IN THE END YOU DIDN’T MANAGE TO STOP ANYTHING!!

007

Kagura: There’s no other way I guess, you hang on to this here.

I’ll catch up to you and the old man in a moment.

Old dog: NONE OF YOU LISTEN!! I don’t WANT to meet that old man! I’m done with him! When someone’s speaking open your ears!

(Sfx-*gatsu* Grab.)

Old dog: Guwah!

Kitten: I’ve got you now Star eater!

Old dog: You’re…General Barfer!!

General: I’ve been waiting to stuff that worthless body of yours into one of the wastelans on our planet!

I’ll make sure that you end up in a place that you can never be freed from!

(Sfx-*dododdodododo* tmptmptmptmp.)

Old dog: Guahh!! Let me go!

General: Now Your karma is coming right back to bite you in the ass!

General: Take this! Star Eater!

(Sfx-*gatsutsu* graaab.)

Old dog: Guaaaah!!

{I can’t…}

{In a place like this..}

{I can’t die in a place like this!}

General: Now you dirty mongrel, I’ll destroy you and then that trashy planet of yours!

Just go on and give in already! There’s nothing you can do while hanging on to dear life there except die!!

008

Old dog: Don’t you look down on me General!

I’ll show you just what I’ve gained these long 18 years I’ve been stationed here!

CANDLELIGHT LAST SPARKLING!!

(Sfx- *gooooooo* draaaaaaaaaag)

(Sfx- *nyaaaaah*)

(Sfx-*dozazaza* thud.)

Kagura: All you did was flip upside down.

(Sfx- *ze…haah ze..ha*)

Old dog: It’s the Candlelight Last Sparkling!

(Handwritten.- How could she know of its secrets?)

009

(Sign- Ooedo hospital.)

Katsura: I beg your pardon…

Have you seen a little dog on top of a big dog, accompanied by my small leader?

Or you may have seen it as a big dog with a little dog and my small leader on top of it.

Or…well I’m not sure.

This is strange…I don’t see leader here anywhere.

I thought for sure that she’d come right to this place.

Nurse: You’re a little creepy.

Katsura: Could it be that those fish eaters got the best of…

???: Hey! Did you find Jirou?!

???: He’s no where to be found in the hospital!!

???: Haven’t you found him yet Saburou?

Do you think that something may have happened to him somewhere in this hospital?! We’ve got to split up and search!

???: Dammit! Where the hell did that old man get off too? and with his banged up body?!

???: Maybe he went to Kintarou’s place?

???: Don’t be stupid! He couldn’t get there with his body!!

???: Um excuse me, we were called to come in?

010

???: Oh he’s here…the Freelancer.

Excuse me, something’s just occurred…
(Sfx- *douru* vrrrmmmm.)

Gintoki: What? An alien planet and a dog’s owner?

Katsura: Yes! Leader is trying to take the dog back to its rightful owner as we speak! Moreover…why can’t I ride too?!

(Sfx- *Buroooooo* Vrooooom.)

(Sfx- *Dodododo* tmptmptmp.)

Gintoki: This sounds like nothing but trouble.

Katsura: Its turning into a big emergency I’m telling you! If he’s not at the hospital where could he be?! Moreover…let me get on please!!!

You’d have room if you put aside that doll!

Gintoki: Sorry I can’t do that. This is the replacement for Kagura…Suzane.

Katsura: Oh, well um nice to meet you…I’m Katsura.

Shinpachi: And…what about Kagura-chan?

Katsura: That’s right! Leader is being pursued by the aliens from the universal parasite, and is having a hard time with them!

Gintoki: What?! Really?

Well I guess we could use an extra hand or two…

???: Well we leave our new member to you.

011

(Sfx- *Dourururu* Vrrmmmm.)

Gintoki: We’ll be back for her later, so take care of her!

(Sfx- *Buroooooo.* Vroooom.)

Katsura: Nice to meet you Suzane…

I guess I’ll be leading here. (Katsura’s phony voice.)

012
Old dog: We used up a lot of energy before, so according to this gage we’ve only got about 5 points left.

(Sfx- *Ha ha*)

Kagura: What is that? And, when did you make it?

Old dog: We have to watch what we’re doing. Once these five have been used up, there won’t be a single person that can stop their conquest of earth.

(Bottom- Energy Gage, Each cigar represents on bit of energy left.)

Kagura: We should be on our way back to meet the old man. Lets take one of the five to him.

Old dog: Are you stupid?! I said I don’t want to go there!!

Kagura: Fine then.

At least for now I should take one of these just in case we need the light.

(Sfx- *Zupo* Pluck.)

Old dog: What are you doing?!!

Don’t you realize that those candles are our only source of energy? Yet you can so haphazardly pull one out like that?

Kagura: Quit your whining. If it’s a big problem I’ll put it back.

Old dog : HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT?!

Kagura: See, there. That wasn’t hard.

(Sfx- *Shuaaaaa* Hissssss!)

Old dog: What the hell?! Why is it burning so intensely?! Its more like a fire work isn’t it?

Kagura: If we put this one along with the ones we already have, and then let them burn together we should be fine right?

Old dog: I don’t understand your baseless reasoning!! Look closely dammit! Isn’t it just burning out faster?! Put it out before we die!!

013

(Sfx- *byshabishashaa* Tinkleeee.)

Old dog: Who said to do it like that?!

Great! Now we’re down to three! Three to live on!

Gah…It hurts…

Kagura: Hold on! I’ll take you to the old man’s place before you die! You have to meet him!

Old dog: I’d rather you kill me then have me go back and see that old loser ever again!!

I’ve said it over and over again now…I don’t want to see him.

I never want to see that old bald head of his ever again!

Kagura: Do you hate your owner that much?

Old dog: Yes I do.

Kagura: You know, you’ve been with that old guy for quite a long time. If your only ambition was to take over this planet, why would you put up with him for that long?

You stayed even until today, although you claim that you don’t like the old guy.

There’s nothing wrong with at least going to see him before he dies.

Maybe you didn’t think too much of him over this long time that the two of you were together, but he at least thinks of you as a friend that’s is more important than life itself. You should be grateful to have met a person like that.

014

Old dog: You brat…

It wasn’t like that between that old guy and me.

Not like that at all…

We’d always go to that park, just the two of us walking the same course each time.

It really wasn’t special, but yet people marvel at seeing an old man and his old dog walking together in the park, as if it’s some amazing spectacle.

I don’t think anyone…
Would think that the two of us were doing the same old pointless ritual together like we always did.

{I remember that old man’s words the first time that we met each other.}

Old man: So pointless.

{That was his favorite phrase.}

{He loved it so much that no one would ever approach him, except for his old lady and of course myself.}

{However it was that phrase that made it so the old man ended up being all alone when…}

{His old lady ended up kicking the bucket. He had driven every single person who would have cared for him away.}

015

Old man: You’re the only one left huh?

Just quit lying there…its pointless.

{Soon I became the victim of that phrase almost exclusively.}

Old man: Kintarou…

Granny’s dead…those fools I call friends are dead…everyone is gone.

So it seems like it’s just me and you now.

You know I knew granny since we were children, and I never thought I’d be the one out living her.

I’ve grown tired of seeing dead faces like hers…

Since I’ve seen so many its saddening.

That’s why I’m going to ask you not to go before me.

It would break me down if I had to see your dying face before I went.

So Kintarou, I’ll be selfish and ask you to go on living after I’m gone.

That way I don’t have be burdened with the look of your face when death has closed your eyes.
016

Old dog: You go and die old fart.

{We had gone on pointlessly living together for so long.{

{I knew that earth was on the verge of being invaded, but I didn’t want to give that old man the satisfaction of running away from our little duel to the death, so I kept living there.}

{However that old guy just kept on getting more and more lively, almost like he was positive that he’d out live me or something! I even think he started laughing more!}

{Days went by and we started to grow weak together.}

{Our stubbornness would not allow our bodies which had become weak to collapse, so we kept on walking our course.}

{Our legs continued to move in tune with the others.}

{We kept moving like nothing was happening.}

{The feeling of perseverance kept us right on going after our prime.}

{Wanting to be in tandem in everything we did we wasted not even one second of one day in our long lives.}

(Handwritten- Wow, look at that old guy go!)

Old dog: That was how we did things.

That old guy and I wouldn’t change a thing for the world.

017

Old dog: But I don’t plan on keeping this up and going to meet him now, as I wouldn’t make me happy or anything.

If I go back to him, and we meet, it’ll start all over again. I can’t afford for that to happen.

So you should just be a good little girl and don’t nose around in affairs that aren’t your own.

I don’t really think badly of the old guy or anything like that, but this is something I have to do.

If I don’t everything up until now will be pointless.

(Sfx-*Za* step.)

Kagura: What’s that?

018

Old dog: Ol…

OLD MAN?!

Kagura: Wh…Why did he come to a place like this?!

It’s dangerous for him to leave the hospital!

What’s that in his hand?

A leash?

Old dog: It can’t be…!!

019

Kagura A walk!

He’s planning on going for a walk!

(Sfx- *Zururu*- draaag.)

Kagura: Even though he’s really sick and all, he still knows instinctively that its time to go out for a walk! He came all the way from the hospital to walk you!

Old dog: A walk….

He wants to walk with me?!

(Sfx- *Datsu!* Dash!)

Kagura: Wait!

Its danger---

(Side Text- What end awaits the fate of the lone dog and his owner?!)

GINTAMA LESSON 208---END.