Gintama 630

Less text, but more sentences that made me want to bang my head against something. So another week of Gintama translation. Nothing to see here.



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GINTAMA
(Side text- Communication with space has recovered…)
Soyo: Hello?
I am the younger sister of Tokugawa Shigeshige…
Soyo.
This is…
Nobunobu-sama..
Isn’t it?

002
Sakamoto: What’s the matter Shogun? Didn’t you manage to contact the vessel’s group on Earth?
(Sfx- Zuhhh *Sfft*)
Sakamoto: Hello? I’m takin’ over for the Shogun now.
I’m Sakamoto Tatsuma of the kaientai.
For reasons, I’m currently takin’ action with the Shogun.
No need to worry ‘bout nothin’ the Shogun’s doin’ fine.
(Sfx- gararaaaa *clatter*)
Sakamoto: Though the negotiations with the Liberation Front have been ceased for now..
The leader of the liberation front Commodore Shijaku’s group is on our side.
Someone: Commodore!
(Sfx- Gashiii *dsshhhh*)
Sakamoto: And we’re escapin’ from the clink.

003
Shijaku: My apologies….
For making you lot participate in that betrayal…
Soldier: No, we only came to join the liberation front with you, commodore…
But now the liberation front is.
Shijaku: Did something happen while I was imprisoned?
Soldier: Commodore, Prince Enshou is now…
Sakamoto: So thanks to Commodore Shijaku’s help
And…
The commodore’s home country…
The midland star Prince Dragonia…
And Prince stupi—er, Hata.
We’ve seized control of…
The Liberation Front’s mother ship the Ameno Torifune.

004
Even with as much help as we’ve got, topplin’ that military force is a hard job…
But if we use the mothership, we might just be able to do somethin’ about this situation.
If anythin’ it’s already too late to try to stop this war using any strong arm tactics.
So tell the guys already fightin’ on earth this…
You only gotta hang in there a little longer…
And we’ll definitely survive and hook up on earth.
Sakamoto: Is this okay wit’ you, Shogun?
Shijaku: What did you say?!
I—is that the truth?!
Sakamoto: What’s up, Commodore?

005
Shijaku: My deepest apologies..
Friends of Earth…
We are too late…
To do anything.
Enshou: At last the rudder has been turned toward your annihilation.
And the ones who turned it this way…was you Earthlings.
(Sfx- Gogogogo *rmmmble*)

006
(Side text- Lead toward the end.)
(Side text- Volume 68 of the manga is now in stores everywhere!!)
(Sfx- Gooounnn *Veoooom*)
Enshou: The weapon of mass destruction, Hinokagutsuchi.
(TN- Hinokagutsuchi is a god of fire in Japanese mythology. )
GINTAMA
SORACHI HIDEAKI
Lesson 630: The thing known as Bushido is found one second before death.
(TN- This is a phrase from the novel “Hagakure” by Tsunetomo Yamamoto. Sorachi kind of modified it from its original coinage, “Bushido is found in death.”)
Enshou: The Amano torifune is not merely the mothership of the liberation front…
Engineers from around the universe gathered to make this –a pedestal for this massive weapon.
It has the power to erase an entire planet in one blast…
It is a weapon of which that was feared and sealed away, however…
We who wish for a reform via a holy war have once again revived it.
To use it would require a large amount of time and energy, but that too is a story of long past.
The Hinokagutsuchi has entered preparations for discharge.

007
Enshou: To put it succinctly in six hours…
Your blue planet will be erased from the cosmos.
Before dawn your country…
Will disappear into the endless night that is the universe forever.
Gengai: So basically if you don’t get near earth then…
You’ll end this whole thing with a single blast from space?

008
Gengai: You don’t got much persuasive power there, sonny.
You’d really return empty handed…
After so many sacrificed themselves in this fight?
You still have comrades on this planet..
Who gathered together for your great cause.
Enshou: But of course.
In order for the thoughts of those who fought under this great cause along side us not to be in vain something must be sacrificed.
We cannot be defeated in this holy war.
To that end our comrades on earth would rejoice to be part of the cornerstone that lead us to victory.
(Sfx- Gachaaa *clack*)

009
Soldier: Prince…
Just what are we fighting for?
We were freeing people from the clutches of the Tendoushuu…
But the fight we’re engaged in is against these people right?
Moreover, to erase a planet and our comrades for something like that…
Aren’t we then…
No different than the Tendoushuu?
Prince, please stop this…
This war isn’t holy by any means.
Enshou: That’s right…
This war isn’t just at all, no…
If there weren’t a just pretense, then we wouldn’t be able to fight. We’ve just been overusing sophistry to prepare weaklings.
I’ve known this from the very beginning.
(Sfx- Sharri *jingle*)
Enshou: Even if we defeat the Tendoushuu what we lost will not return.
Even if we free planets and their people, what we lost will not return.
Then why are we fighting?

010
Enshou: There’s nothing we have left but fighting, right?
(Sfx- Dodododododo *thoooooom*)
Enshou: This hatred…
This sadness…
The only way that we who have lost so much can be healed…
Is to fight and keep piling more on that hellfire.
To burn away that sadness and hatred until it is nothing but ash…
There is nothing else we can do but fight.

011
Enshou: As you can see…
We have the resolve to fight even if it means stepping upon the corpses of our comrades.
At this rate you will be erased with the Earth before dawn.
You have until then to stop the scattered Nanomachines.
And then we will come down there and beat that planet into annihilation.
At any rate, the path of annihilation is the only one you have—
Dude: Prince!
(Sfx- Kuwaaaah *roaaar*)

012
Soyo: Please say something,
Sakamoto-san…
What does it mean that Earth will soon be erased?
What is this weapon of mass destruction, Sakamoto-san?
Sakamoto: Ain’t no need to worry.
This planet that’s gone crazy was gonna be annihilated anyway…
It’s just now we have a pretty clear idea of when.
Soyo: Eeeh?
(Sfx- Viiiiin *veeen*)
Someone: RUUUUUUNN!!
(Sfx- Zugagagagagaaa *dsshhhh*)

013
(Sfx- Kashiin kashhinn *click click*)
(Sfx- Dodododododo *thooooom*)
Shijaku: It would seem that they’ve figured out our movements!!
(Sfx- kuhhhh)
Shijaku: This ship and the liberation army…
Have become that man’s tools.)
We don’t have time or a chance for victory….
Sakamoto: And so what?
Whether we’ve got that stuff or not…
We do what we have to together.
(Sfx- Doooon *thoooom*)

014
(Sfx- Paannn *thooom*)
(Sfx- DOooshhiii *bllorssh*)
(Sfx- Dotsuhh h*thooom*)
(Sfx- DOdoooooo *booooom*)
{That’s right…}
{Nothin’s changed.}
{They say Bushido’s the kinda thing you find in death…}
{And that’s damn straight.}

015
Someone: Reinforcements from the homeland have arrived.
Katsura: Excellent. Have them form a borderline above the Liberation front’s radar.
If you can pull the enemy’s fleet away from the mothership then do just that!
We can attack the mothership when their guard is down using the stealth ships!
Is what Prince Dragonia has said to me!!
{Even if it’s one second after…}
(Handwritten- Why did things turn out like this…)
{The final moment that it comes to us…}
{Living a life without any regret…}
{That is what being a Samurai is to us.}

016
{If we can last even a minute longer until dawn…}
{Would we have anything to complain about?}
{Rejoice Samurai…}
{We can still fight.}
{Because we don’t want to…}
{Have a single thing left we regret…}
{We’re able to slice through battle.}
Gintoki: I’LL NEVER DRINK AGAAAAAAAAIN.
(Sfx- Gohoroooooh *horrrrrrgh*)
(Sfx- Gashaaan *clatter*)

017
(Sfx- Kuwaaaaah *roaaaar*)
Soyo: Moto-san…
Sakamoto-san…!!
???: There is no need to worry.
Edo….and the country…
I will be sure to protect them both.
If it were your elder brother,
I’m sure he’d have said the same thing.

018
???: The real Shogun…
Would have said that.
I know I who you detest have neither the qualification or caliber to say such a thing, however..
I who have trod upon countless lives to get here…
And for the sake of the country stands here now has this qualification.
As one left behind to protect the thing that he wanted to protect but could not in his death…
I have the qualifications to die for that…
I am sorry.
Soyo: I cannot forgive you.

019
Soyo: IF you do not come back alive…
I will not forgive you.
Live and return to this place, to Earth..
So that we can go to my brother’s resting place..
And tell him everything together.
That we were able to protect Edo.
Otherwise…
I will not forgive you.
(Side text- In his heart, determination sprouts forth…)
GINTAMA LESSON 630……………END.