Gintama 540

It's funny how manga-like Gintama has become in structure. All those serious arcs that seemed to have no real connection are suddenly very relevant. Kind of like Sorachi is saying "Surprise Motherfuckers; it's pop quiz time".



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GINTAMA
Oboro: Sasaki Isaburou...
(Side text- Speaking of the past...)
(Bottom text- The new Television anime series for “Gintama” airs each and every Wednesday night at 6pm!!// The latest volume of the manga #58 is boldly in stores everywhere!!)
Oboro: At one time...
To save the Shinsengumi...
Or...
Should I say for the sake of his Samurai pride...
Schemed to dupe the Tendoushuu.
However...
The Crows did not overlook his plot.
(Phone- Message undelivered// Message undelivered.)

002
GINTAMA
(Side text- The compensation is too much....)
Lesson 540: Villain.
SORACHI HIDEAKI
Oboro(?): Sasaki should have died...
Along with his wife and child.

003
Oboro(?): However...
The crow...
Did not slice what needed to be cut.

004

005
Oboro: Sasaki too could not cut her down.
Because he had already ascertained the face...
of the enemy he really needed to cut.
After that Sasaki entered the service of Lord Hitotsubashi...
And with his talents he served the Hitotsubashi until the moment where he could oppose Sadasada the most.
Using his own status and his own high standing within the Bakfu...
He was able to stand at the apex of the Mimawarigumi and use his influence to even contact the Patriots.
He conspired with Takasugi,
And inherited that will even after Shigeshige had lost his standing and Sadasada had been assassinated.

006
Oboro(?): And finally the Hitotsubashi had seized hegemony under the heavens.
Which granted him a sizable amount of influence.
However that too...
Was merely a pittance --a rest stop en route to something bigger.
Back then the enemy that Sasaki stared down...
Wasn't the feather of the crow who had killed his wife and child,
and the reason he made a move wasn't because of Sadasada or even the Tendoushuu.
That man's enemy is...

007
Oboro(?): Sasaki Isaburou...
He is his own enemy.
He had gone from place to place with Nobunobu inciting strife and purging those who would rebel...
To bear the symbol of the new regime's wrongdoings upon his back and act as public enemy.
He hoped to incite the potency for a larger scale revolt.
And to remake the era into one where the shogunate would be overthrown.

008
Oboro: Arresting Kondo...
and disbanding the Shinsengumi...
Were all part of his stratagem.
So that you all would rebel.
All for the sake of...
Bringing an end to himself and “the age of the samurai”.
(Sfx- Gogogogo rmmmmble)
Oboro: That's right. That man...
Is the same as all of you.
(Sfx- Gogogogoggogo rmmmmble)

009
Oboro: A traitor.
(Sfx- Kaaah kaaah sheeeeen)
(Sfx-Doooooon boooom)

010
(Sfx- Gopaaaaaah fwooooom)
(Sfx- Dogoooohhh booom)
(Sfx- Karaaan clatter)
(Sfx- Zushaaaaah dsssssh)
Hijikata: Ugh!
(Sfx- Gabaaah gaaasp)
???: They're...

011
(Sfx- Doooon boooom)
(Sfx- Doooon boooom)
(Sfx- Dooooon boooom)
(Sfx- Dogoooon fwoooom)
Sasaki: Well, well...
(Sfx- Zaaahh dsssh)
Sasaki: It seems that being something like a villain means breaking a few bones..
There are enemies all over...
It doesn't appear I'll be making any text buddies in this lot.
It's to be expected..An elite is an elite whether engaged in virtuous conduct or wrongful deeds.
All of you will be the opponents of I –The great demon king Sasaki Isaburou.

012
Sasaki: However you're different Hijikata-san...
A demon's opponent can't waste time on cleanup.
I'll be finished taking out the garbage momentarily, so please just wait patiently.
(Sfx- Gogogoggo rmmmmble.)
Nobume: Isaburo let flaming arrows of rebellion loose on the world...
But the Naraku has already realized what his scheme is.
Before the flames of “rebellion” can spread, and before the power to overthrow the Bakfu can be gathered...
They intend to smother that flame completely.

013
(Sfx- Pipipipi beepebeep)
Nobume: This is why Isaburou...
(Sfx- Doooon dooon booom booom)
Nobume: Chose to use this place to light the flame of battle.
Isaburou's range of movement spans this entire island.
With this, we will crush the Naraku with the might of rebellion...
Smashing everything to pieces.
(Sfx- Dododoooon booooom)
Nobume: Which will chip off the power this country has.

014
(Sfx- Kuwaaaah Roaaar)
Okita: So you plan on having enemies and allies slaughter each other?
He's just trying to incite a nationwide belly slashing.
(Sfx- Gakkiiiiin claaang)
Okita: Is there really a battlefield like that?
(Sfx- Giri giri grrrinnnd)
Okita: Hell, is there a general like that?
Are you just gonna shut up and watch...
As your general and this country die together?
Nobume: That is...
My duty.

015
Sasaki: ...Child.
Why did you not cut me down?
It's as you said, you and I are killers who have no sense of reason.
Even now it makes no sense, you killed my child so why do I hesitate?
Why is it that you do not cut me?
Why...
Are those tears flowing?

016
Mukuro: I don't know...
Why am I crying...
Why can't I cut you down...
Why did I have to slay any one of you?
Some time ago a certain person taught me..
Shouyou: From the moment they are born, people have to embrace their weakness and live.
However life is not simply brandishing your weakness and suffering because of it.
You can rebel against your weakness and suffer yourself to change.
Life grants that kind of freedom after all.
Mukuro: Maybe that's why...
You're...
Resisting desperately...
So I too...
Have to resist the best I can.

017
Mukuro: I have no right to slay you...
I can only be slain.
(Sfx- Zuhhh Sffft)
Sasaki: If being slain is what you want...
Then I will not do it.
What I cannot slay is...
Brutality like this that is carried out in the current era of this country.
Moreover the sense of...
Being unable to protect anything but onself.
So you will brandish that blade for me.
And when the time comes...

018
Sasaki: Use that blade to slay me...
That will be my revenge.
{That's right...}
{This is my duty.}
{I stole everything from Isaburou...}
{So I must be the one to slay him.}
{This is why I must continue to live...}
{So that I can carry out my final duty.}
{This time...}
{I really will slay you.}

019
{I will grant him...}
{An ending.}
(Sfx- Gakiiiiin claaaang)
Kagura: That's enough!!
You have done enough, yes?
(Side text- Fate, severed!!)
GINTAMA LESSON 540.............END.