Gintama 495

Welp, just when I thought that this arc was a rare Sorachi miss, he hits with pages 11-17, and I have to just shake my head and acknowledge that the Gorilla still has it even in his tenth year.



(Side text- In the midst of the Aizen incense pandemic!!)
GINTAMA
{I noticed him…}
{I’d see that person obstinately following me, and each time I’d see his face…}
{He’d look aroused to the point of doing horrible things…}
{I also noticed when the person behind me…}
{Disappeared.}
{Those feelings….}
{Weren’t arousal.}
{The one he was pursuing…}
{Wasn’t me…}

002
{Because I…}
{Became the stalker.}
Tae: Kondo-saaaaaaaan!!
(Sfx- Sharrnn *clatter*)
Tae: What’s this about you being sweet on other women!?
Did you forget that you’re a Gorilla? One who’s supposed to be in a cage I can watch you from 24 hours a day?!
(Sfx- Gyaaaaaaaaaaah!!)
(Sfx- Buuun buuun *fwooop fwooop*)
Shinpachi: Sisteeeeeeeeeer!!!
How could this have happened?! Thanks to the love drug she’s become the most brutal stalker ever!!
Kondo: Help meeeeee!!
Save me Aizen miyou-samaaaa!!!
Dudes: What’s with that woman?!
This place is dangerous Aizen miyou-sama!! You must flee quickly…
(Sfx- Dododoooh *Thoooom*)

003
(Sfx- Gyaaahhhh!!)
???: Wha---
What was that?!
{I noticed…}
{The calm and dignified Otae-chan I had known up until now…}
{Has completely embraced an emotion similar to falling in love, but…}
{I noticed…}
{However, what I’m looking at isn’t her, but her dignified…}
{Thing…}
{That had grown in her crotch area.}
Shinpachi: THAT SORTA THING ISN’T GOING TO GROW ON HEEEEEEER!!!
{As long as it’s that thing that grows in the crotch area, anyone’s will do…}
Shinpachi: ANYONE’S WILL DOOOO?! YOU’VE FALLEN MADLY IN LOVE WITH THE THING KNOWN AS A P*NIS HAVEN’T YOU?!
Kyuubee: I’ll hunt and hunt until not a single one is left.
ITS B*LL HUNTING TIIIIIMEEE!!
(Sfx- Zuooooooh *fwhooooom*)

004
Dudes: Forget the palanquin!!
Become a wall!!
Don’t allow them even a step past this place!!
(Sfx- Dogooohh *Thooom*)
(Sfx- Gyaaaah!!!)
Dude: Wh—what the hell?!
Y—you’re….?!
{I noticed…}
(Sfx- Gogogogo *rmmmmble*)
{Aizen miyou-ou? She’s just some random chick right? How could she take my heart? What have I been doing up until now?}
{I remember everything now….what’s in my heart…and the one I love…..}
Kondo: Oh myyy~ I’m sorry boys, it’s just there’s so much delicious boy bottoms for me to peek at~
Shinpachi: HE GOT MEEE!! HERE I WAS THINKING HE MIGHT HAVE WOKEN UP FROM THIS DELUSION, BUT HE’S AWAKENED TO A DIFFERENT PATH COMPLETELY!!
Kondo: Rather than hanging out with Aizen miyou-ou, how about having more fun with us~
(Sfx- Ufuuuun *Teeeheee*)
Shinpachi: There’s an army of theem!! The Ball-less corps has been created from the guy’s who had their te**cles taken!!
Dudes: Wh—what the hell are those guys?!
(Sfx- Gyaaaaaah!!)

005
Kagura: A path has opened, yes?!
Shinpachi: Thanks to everyone’s cooperation a path has opened..!!
Well wait, no. Everyone’s just using their strengths to do whatever the hell they want!!
Tsukuyo: I thank you guys, Otae, Kyuubee, Gorilla.
(Sfx- Gyah gyah)
Tsukuyo: We’ll pay ya’ll back for sure!!
We’ll get back your genuine love for sure!!
Don’t let Hotaru escape!!
(Sfx- Dodoohhh *Thoooom*)
Kagura: We will hold them back here, uh-huh!!
Gintoki: Let’s do this honey!!
(Sfx- Gooohhh *thooom*)
(Sfx- Doooon *doom*)
Gintoki: Pop those sleepy looking eyes a good one so they’ll wake up, honey!!
I believe in you, hun…
You can do it.

006
(Sfx- Kuuaaaah *roaaaaaaaar*)
(Sfx- Butsuhhh *shffft*)
Tsukuyo: Hun…
No helpin’ it. I guess this is the last time you’ll say that to me, yeah?
Gintoki: Hey.
Tsukuyo: This is goodbye…
Darlin’.
(Side text- Wuh?)
GINTAMA
Lesson 495: Eternal flowers.
SORACHI HIDEAKI

007
Gintoki: I can’t exactly say goodbye like this hun…
(Sfx- Zugobagki *crack*)
Tsukuyo: D—don’t touch me, beast!!
{Dunno.}
{I’ve never loved a man before.}
{I came from my hometown alone.}
{Without even saying farewell or anything else for that matter I just left.}
{If it’s enough for me to fall in love with people I don’t love here…
{Perhaps I could have been able to tell the one I do care about my feelings properly.}
{If something like a love drug really exists…}
{I could have been upfront with him…}
{Is there a point of expressing feelings to him if you’ve got to rely on something like that?}
{I understand what you mean….but matters of love are always so difficult.}
{Someday you’ll understand…when you have a person you like.}

008
{Tsukuyo-chan.}
Hotaru: It’s ironic…
It’s you Tsukuyo-chan, who said back then that you don’t understand the feelings of being in love…
Who now stands between me and my romance.
Gintoki: You seriously need to read the mood! We finally got some time alone to gaze out into the night scenery…
(Sfx- GOhhh *thok*)
Tsukuyo: And why the hell are you over there?!
Hotaru: Tsukuyo-chan…could it be that you’ve found someone to love?
Teehee, could it be this man?
Tsukuyo: That ain’t a man. It’s a beast that learned how to stand on two legs.
Gintoki: At times of great excitement, I grow a third leg.
Tsukuyo: ‘The hell you talkin’ about?!
Hotaru: But it’s already too late. You should hurry and run away from here.
I intend to unload the rest of the Aizen incense here.
The signal is when I jump from here.
(Sfx- Gagooohh *thunk*)
(Sfx- Zuuun *sfhfft*)
Hotaru: This place will become a sea of fire.
Fire can burn here for three days and three nights without being extinguished, right?
However the scent of the Aizen incense and myself burning will never leave anyone’s minds ever again.

009
Gintoki: Hold the phone. The only thing a woman should jump into is a man’s burly chest. If you’re gonna go down, let’s do this together…and go down the road of passion.
(Sfx- Dohhh *Thok*)
Tsukuyo: Why don’t you shut the hell up, yeah?
Hotaru: Tsukuyo-chan, I…
I know that person has already forgotten about me and that I should be a woman who feels nothing about It, but…
I just…want to become someone filled with the love of others so that even if my body is destroyed…
I can live on…an existence eternal.
Don’t you think that’s incredible?
Tsukuyo: No matter how many people love you…
And no matter how many people you love…
Forgettin’ things is somethin’ you can’t make yourself do.
You can’t forget about the person you had feelin’s for…
Or…it’s because you wanna forget him that you turned to the Aizen incense.
Lady: Did you hear?
You know, about Hotaru.
They’re saying that some rich person was so enamored with her that he offered to buy her freedom.
(Handwritten- Eeh?)
Lady: But she’s saving herself for that man she left back in her hometown. Even now she’s still got her chastity under lock and key.
You can sell your body, but not your heart.
That’s just silly. No one’s going to remember some cheap floozy you can buy on the red light district.
Seriously. And now she’s even gotten some of the higher level customers angry. Upper management’s also none too pleased.

010
Lady: Right now she’s in some cheap shop…
I don’t know what kind of place it is, but the customers and even her mates won’t go for that sort of thing.
Hotaru: Um…sir…
Don’t you think you’ve had one too many?
If you want to drink that much then…
Dude: I’m fine.
My folks have come and forced their way into my place.
(Sfx- Hikku *hic*)
Dude: Th—things have gotten really unpleasant to a point that I don’t want to think about them or anything else for that matter, so I’m just gonna drink myself under the table if you don’t mind.
Hotaru: I—I see…
Dude: M..moreover…
I’m fine just coming to a place that’s busy like this and looking just like this.
….did you say your name is Hotaru just now?
W—wait, could it be you…
No way…
Tsukuyo: It was merely a moment, but the apprentice carpenter you met with…
Became someone you could talk to all night long without him layin’ a finger on you.
And you…
Had an expression on your face like ya returned to bein’ a young girl again.
Dude: Hotaru..
Sorry…but this is the last time I can meet you here like this.
I’ve gotta limit how much I do this sorta thing…
I have to put my back into my work if I wanna grow into a competent carpenter.
However once I’ve managed to stand on my own two feet…
I’ll definitely come back for you.

011
{So will you wait here in Yoshiwara for me…?}
Hotaru: And just like he asked me…
I waited here in Yoshiwara for him. All while watching over a ‘love’ that never awakened…
However, it was then that Housen was defeated and Yoshiwara was freed.
And I had a chance to chase after the dreamlike love I yearned for..
And seize it for myself.
It was the head carpenter’s daughter….
He wanted to ensure his future success in his endeavors…and had succeeded his boss,
Becoming a splendid carpenter in his own right.
There was no way a woman like myself could be close to him…
There was nowhere for me outside of Yoshiwara from the start.
I understood that so well but I could never forget that person, or the customer from before…
It was then that I found the drug in the underground…
And I soon realized that my body just couldn’t do without the drug.
If I had no one around to love, then I’d remember that man…
I cajoled a trader to collect the drug from all around yoshiwara and gather it.
I didn’t care who it was, I just wanted someone to continue to love me…

012
Hotaru: In the end I never used…
The love drug for that person.
{If something like a love drug really exists…I could have been upfront with him…}
Hotaru: Tsukuyo-chan…it’s as I thought…
Loving someone really is complicated..
If that’s the case, then even for a brief second is fine…
I want to sleep in a never ending dream of love within a flower of illusion that never withers…
Tsukuyo: Hota…
Gintoki: Sorry about this…
But if you’re gonna sleep in a place like this, why not come with me and bed down in one of those nifty rotating beds?
(Sfx- Gahhh *graaab*)
(Sfx- Gaaah *graaab*)

013
Tsukuyo: THE HELL YA DOOOIN?!
YOU’RE TRYIN’ TO HIT ON HER IN THIS SITUATION!?
Gintoki: Hmph. I figured why not go for it? If she falls into my hands then it’s my lucky day. Other wise it’s just one of those very unlucky days.
Tsukuyo: Speakin’ of fallin, that’s what YOU’RE about to do!! Every single one of those 365 days with you is unlucky dammit!!
Moreover what kind of pose did the two of you end up in there?!
Gintoki: Hey, it’s just easier for her to catch a protruding object this way right?
Tsukuyo: She’s just latched onto YOU dammit!!
Let her go! Let Hotaru go this instant, ya beast!!
(Sfx- Gang an *thok thok*)
Gintoki: Letting her go means she’s gonna fall! It means she’s gonna die!!
Honey, our lives are in your hands! We’re depending on you!!
Tsukuyo: Hah!?
Let goooo!! I said let go of my hand beaaaaaast!!
(Sfx- Gang an *thok thok*)
Tsukuyo: Wait! I’m the one holdin onto you! Don’t let go! Just stay there!
(Sfx- Puhahh)
Hotaru: T-T—Tsukuyo-chan..
Hurry and run away!!
(Handwritten- The signal!)
Hotaru: At this rate you’re all going to….
It’s okay!
J—just forget about me, I’ll be…
(Sfx- Mishi mishi *Grrind grind*)
Tsukuyo: I ain’t runnin.
Hotaru..
It’s now that…
I understand too…

014
Tsukuyo: Puttin’ the love drug aside…
I get not bein able to do anything…
Not bein’ able to be honest..
Gintoki: What about your work heeeeeeere!?
Tsukuyo: Th—they’ve got more than enough people…
Not bein’ able to find tha words…
Everyone’s the same as you Hotaru…
When before that flower…no matter what wiles or cajolin’ you use, ya forget how to love or be loved..
But…it’s then that the flowers in a woman’s heart live and bloom.
Yeah, maybe it ain’t a flower that’ll last forever…
(Handwritten- FIrrreeeee!!)
Tsukuyo: And it’s a flower that withers away easily…
But Hotaru, as tha seasons change and go by, and it withers and fades…
There are still flowers that will bloom again.
(Sfx- Dooohhh *fwoooom*)
Hotaru: Tsukuyo-chaaaaaaan!!!
Run awaaaaaaaaay!!!
(Sfx- OOoooooh *roaaaaaaaar*)

015
(Sfx- Kaaahh *fwaaaash*)
(Sfx- DOfuuuhh *BOOOM*)
(Sfx-Dooon *thooom*)
(Sfx- DOoon *thooom*)
(Sfx- Doooh *wfooooh*)
(Sfx- Gohhh *booom*)
(Sfx- Kakaaaaah *sheeeeen*)

016
(Sfx- Karaaaan *Clatter*)
Tsukuyo: Hotaru…
I don’t know nothin’ about whether a flower that gets faded ever regains it’s beauty.
But even after bein’ scattered they bloom again.
That’s why somethin’ like love is beautiful.
Hotaru…
You….
Can still bloom countless times.
Guys: FIRRRRRRRRRRRE!!
(Sfx- Uoooooooooooooh!!)
Gintoki: HONNEEEYYYYY!!!
(Sfx- Doooon *fwoooom*)
(Sfx- GUuuoooohhh)
Tsukuyo: Darliiiiiiiiiiin’!!!

017
Gintoki: My honeys….
Are flowers that will never scatteeeeeeer!!!
(Side text- In a flash!!)
GINTAMA LESSON 495……………END.