Gintama 525

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Gintoki: Huh? Another anime?
Dude, just no.
(Pink text- Now Shuesha will profit, yes?)
(Green text- CAN WE NOT TALK ABOUT THIS ON THE COVERRRRR?!)
(Side rainbow text- Gin-san, the anime is back.)
GINTAMA

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(Top text- They’ve gone on and on over and over again about this “the end shtick” haven’t they?! (Small text- But let’s not talk about that!!} But just as we figured, those guys are back!!)
(Yellow text- Hey staff!!// You are ready to shave your heads bald, yes?!)
GINTAMA
Starting in April the new series will broadcast on TV Tokyo and it’s affiliates!!

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(Top text- A commemoration for the new TV anime and bursting into the 11th year!! Volume 57 is out in stores to wide acclaim!//Middling text- With all their fates intertwining ---they move onward.//Bottom text- A commemoration for entering the 11th year!! A special lottery where 50 lucky people will get a poster of this color page as a present for more information head to page 48! The manga continues on page 31! )
GINTAMA
SORACHI HIDEAKI

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Lesson 525: Three glasses.
(Side text- The skies over Edo are ash grey…)

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(TN- No text. Too sad.)

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Shinpachi: Shogun….
Sama…
(News paper- Previous Shogun// Lord Tokugawa Shigeshige assassinated.)

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Tendoushuu: A single country has no need for two Shogun.
Beyond that…
A Shogunate puppet who rebels against our will has no worth at all.
Tokugawa Shigeshige…a sad, pitiful man.
If he had just remained tamed by us he might not have had to lose his life.

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Tendoushuu: And then his attempt to create a new political party so that he could eradicate the position of Shogun…
Did he honestly believe that if he borrowed the power of the Emperor that we would stay our hand?
He is truly naiieve…
And truly this…
Is a fitting end for that man.
Momochi: It appears that the culprit was once a loyal vassal of the Shogun.
They were friends since childhood is what I’ve heard.
When the Shogun went to meet these people, he steadfastly refused to have an envoy of guards with him.
It is most likely that he wanted to prove that he not only believed in them, but in himself.

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Momochi: And it was there that the Tendoushuu lunged.
They had this friend sneak poison within…
And the Shogun…
Trusted his friend till his very last moments which is what lead to his death.
Hattori: Essentially…
If he hadn’t met us….
He might not have had to die.
Momochi: There’s no way to be sure.
Regardless of the result, the Shogun chose this path for himself.
Once a puppet who had been controlled by the era…
In the end chose exactly where his life would come to an end.
And met you, his friends.
Hattori: Sad to say, I don’t deserve that title.
A guy like me who killed a friend in order to protect another…

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Hattori: There have been many sacrifices, but in the end…
I wasn’t able to protect my friend.
A loser…
Has no right to complain about that.
I didn’t change a damn thing or protect a damn thing.
What’s left now is a criminal…
With blood stained hands.

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(Sign- Special Police station// Shinsengumi Headquarters.)
(Handwritten- Hah!!//Orrahh!!//Yah!)

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Kondo: Eiiii!!
Orraaaah!
Eiiii!!
(Sfx- Bun fwf)
Gintoki: That swordsmanship is lookin’ mighty unsteady.
A police dog who ignores a kitten and then gets lost himself is kinda useless.
If you want you and I could train. Betcha I could win with this.
Kondo: Heh, thanks but I’ll pass.
Even the police can’t tell where a cloud that’s lost year long will end up.
At least don’t loiter around this place if you’re sober.
What the heck are you doing here anyway? Do you need something? …Where are the others?
Gintoki: I guess the funeral or whatever.
Kondo: Yeah…I have no right to show up there.

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Kondo: But this is a good opportunity. No one’s here anyway.
We promised to pay you guys back then didn’t we?
Well y’know…
Only a time like this would…
Allow for the legendary patriot and the Shinsengumi chief…
To sit down and enjoy a drink together.
C’mon Shiroyasha. Lets have a drink.
Correct yourself.

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Dude: Did you not hear me say you need to correct yourself?
You’re before the Shogun! And you…
(Sfx- Kaki fwip)
Matsudaira: Shogun?
My bad but I only work for one guy.
See I’m the sorta guy that once I decide my cigarette brand…
And the lord I serve that I don’t go chagin’ them all willy nilly, Lord Nobunobu.
Guy: You fool! Do you know how rude you’re being?!
Nobunobu: You really are quite loyal huh, Matsudaria.
One might even think you weren’t so pathetic that you failed to protect that lord of yours.
Matsudaira: Not quite as pathetic as a Shogun who commits treason by murdering a former master right under the Emperor’s nose and then steals his position.
If the truth were to get out then it would be the biggest scandal in the history of this country.
The murderer committed suicide by poison immediately afterward…
My thought is that a relative of his was taken hostage and he was blackmailed into this plan against his will. If we investigate his history, I’m sure we’ll find the mastermind behind this.

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Nobunobu: …Matsudaira, if I were this so called mastermind…
The proof of such a relative would have long since been erased from this world.
Matsudaira: Hey no need to get fidgety Lord Nobunobu…
No one has made a move yet.
Sasaki: Lord Matsudaira…
I regret to inform you that you no longer have the right to judge anyone.
So be a good boy and throw those away.
Your cigarette,
And that poison dart.
Matsudaira: Sasaki…
This is a surprise. I thought you at least were a man who understands loyalty.
I thought that he’d dump you along with Takasugi and his flunkies,
But here you are, the obedient dog wagging his tail for Lord Nobunobu.
Sasaki: And who might this Takasugi be?
I have served one man and one man only since the start. Lord Nobunobu.
I cannot fathom why you thought I’d be abandoned.

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Nobunobu: It is as he says Matsudaira. You no longer can judge anyone.
Let me introduce you to the man who stands here so you know it well…
The Chief director of police..
Sasaki Isaburo.
Sasaki: Regrettably your era has ended.
Former director.
Gintoki: Do you usually invite injured people over for booze?
Kondo: If you worried about that kinda thing then a guy like you who’s had a head injury since birth would never drink his entire life.
Gintoki: Hey Gorilla, lay off the rotten jungle juice.
Kondo: Moreover…
There are wounds only this stuff can heal.
War really is horrible isn’t it?
Win or lose, you always end up further back and losing a lot more than when you started.

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Kondo: Still the winners can count their blessings on their fingers…
And comfort themselves with the thought that the win was worth the price of entry.
Meanwhile the loser can only wallow in their defeat.
Allies they couldn’t save, enemies they defeated…
The sins born from war…it’s a huge burden on a person.
One begins to wonder what the hell they were even fighting for.
Did the price we paid….bloodying our hands….did it have a meaning at all?
Have you…
Thought about these things when you fought in war?
Gintoki: It doesn’t mean a damn thing.
Win or lose…
It doesn’t matter one damn bit if you protect something or lose something…war is meaningless.
One can try to pretty it up, but ultimately what one ends up with are crimes, sins, and corpses.
Honestly there’s nothing….not a thing worth going that far to protect.
If there is a thing that’s worth it then…
It would be the souls of those who want to erect an era where meaningless wars are gone, or for those who are fighting themselves rather than enemies.

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Gintoki: And that soul…
Hasn’t died.
As long as we carry those feelings –those ideals…
{You are the only ones…}
{I can leave Edo to.}
Kondo: Then we don’t need a funeral ceremony…
Or to say words of parting do we?
Exchanging these glasses of sake is plenty enough.

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Kondo: Yorozuya..
(Sfx- fuhh)
Kondo: It makes me happy to know we share the same sentiment.
There are things we have to protect even if we have to step on corpses to do it.
(Sfx- Zahhh sfft)
Kondo: Tell Toshi this…
Don’t do anything stupid.
Edo still needs him…and all of you to protect it.
It’s been passed on…
And…

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Kondo: It was fun sharing a drink between the three of us.
It’s something we shoulda done sooner honestly.
Nobunobu: Sasaki will take over the investigation into Lord Shigeshige’s assassination.
Matsudaira, your role now is to take responsibility for what happened.
Lord Shigeshige’s assassination only occurred because you failed to prevent his rebellious tendencies.
Not only you, but your subordinates who pursued Lord Shigeshige to the place of his death.
And so I decree…
Matsudaira Katakuriko….and his subordinate Shinsengumi chief Kondo Isao…
Shall be beheaded…
And the Shinsengumi are disbanded as of today.
(Side text- A chain reaction of pain…)
GINTAMA LESSON 525…………..END.