Gintama Gaiden 361

This took about 5 hours, nonstop...
Buuuut I'm done translation-ing Volume 41...
This was printed in the issue that had 348 in it so I'll just put that as the number.

[Gintama - Sket Dance Crossover (Sorachi-Side) Translation by Kewl0210]
Cover:
The main character is
Me!!
Me!!
[The rest of it's stuff about what time the anime's air, so it's not worth typsetting.]

[I'm basing the page numbering off V41 of Gintama.]
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Title: Special Lesson
Remember There are Crossovers like Alien VS Predator

Page 169 Color:
Top Insert Text: Yorozuya X Sket Dan!!
3^2 the idiotic antics!!
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
[I'm not interested in writing the fuckton of text about what time the animes are starting...]

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T/N: This manga chapter ran in issue 48 2011 of Shounen Jump as an extra (As in not numbered. You can clearly see here it's not numbered, it's a "special lesson" but it appeared in the same issue as chapter 348) chapter and a crossover with Sket Dance. The author of Sket Dance, Shinohara Kenta, also drew a chapter that goes with this story (For Sket Dance it is numbered, as chapter 180. It was compilated in volume 20 of Sket Dance). That was scanlated by the group Trinity BAKumA when the chapter came out, so we suggest you get it from their site to read it, because the two intertwine. At the end of that one the characters from both series get warped from the Sket Dance meeting room to the Yorozuya.
Bottom: ●Appeared on the Weekly Jump 2011 Issue 29 Cover

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Gin: Okay, everybody listen up.
This week, to celebrate the return of the Gintama anime, we're doing an extra story.
Also, they said to do a crossover with the Sket Dance anime that's starting at the same time.
Shinpachi: Really, Gin-san?!!
So we finally get one of those...... I thought for sure we were outright hated by Jump at this point.
But I'm actually kind of nervous. ...I'm actually a fairly shy person most of the time.
Kagura: What are you so frightened for? We have thoroughly done crossovers before, yes?
Have you forgotten that we appeared together with the prominent manga Dra*onball and One *iece?
Shinpachi: No. Those were all just us sorta ripping them off.
Gin: Hey, quit gettin' all cheery.
Listen, like I said, it's a crossover, but our goal isn't to make friends with them.
Shinpachi: !
Check out this data I've gathered on them.
(SFX- GARARA)

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Gin: You listenin'? This thing called Sket Dance
is a manga that started serialization in Jump in 2007. It's a comedy manga that takes place at a school.
There's a group called the Sket-Dan that's a group of three people that do odd jobs for people at the school.
The leader, Bossun. The brains, Switch. And the straight man slash fighter, Himeko. When you laugh, you can sometimes cry. And it's an episodic kind of manga.
I think you guys should be starting to catch my drift by this point.
There guys are coming to take us over.
Shinpachi: Why're you starting the crossover off right with vicious distrust?
Gin: They're clearly coming to usurp our position.
Shinpachi: Please stop making false accusations! The premise of groups doing odd jobs is a pretty common setup!!
Kagura: That is right. And the three-person part shows up so often it makes one sick, yes?!
Gin: Yeah, that's right. They're not overlapping with us at all. Anyhow, they've got a guy that talks with a laptop and stuff. They've got way more outstanding characters.
What're you guys compared to that? Shinpachi, why do you speak in the boring normal way? You wanna get killed?!
And Kagura, why don't you know a single hometown Kansai quips? And why don't your breasts get bigger as the chapters go along?

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Shinpachi: WHAT THE HEEEL?!! WHAT ABOUT YOU?! IN CHAPTER ONE YOU HAD GOGGLES BUT YOU GOT RID OF THEM LIKE THEY WERE NOTHING, DAMMIT!!
Can't you increase your power of concentration one bit?! Have you at least got a twin brother?
Gin: SHEDDEEEEP! You're not gonna draw those annoying things in every damn picture!
Think about the ability of the author, moron!!
Listen, compared to the One Piece Toriko crossover, this is clearly pretty weird.
No matter how you try to justify it, a Gintam Sket collab has no charm to it. It's a dull as dirt crossover.
Shinpachi: It is not! Why're you dragging other people into your criticism?
Gin: Why don't you tell me why Jump purposefully setup this dull-ass crossover?
You've got to think about that. It's definitely not so we become friends, I'll tell you that!
Shinpachi: Then what're you saying the crossover is for?
Gin: Ain't it obvious?!
!!
Wh... Who's there?!!
Someone: Jump doesn't need two odd jobbers.
By putting us on the same stage, they can weigh up their options.

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Bossun: And see whether it's us, the Sket Dan, or you, the Yorozuya,
that are more suited to be the odd jobbers of Jump!!
(SFX- BAAAN)
Gin: Y...
You bastards!!
Bossun: ...This'll be interesting.
I think I'll go along with their plan. I knew we'd need to settle things with you guys one day.
Himeko: You'd better not say somethin' weird like that, Bossun. They're our senpai in Jump right now.
Sorry, this kid's really not normally so immature. He's a good kid.
Bossun: What're you, my mom?!!
Switch: Bossun, wouldn't it be better to say it as "What're you, my Mommmmm?!!"?
Himeko: I knew we could count on you, Switch. You've already got a grasp of how things work around here. You've got iiiiiiit!!

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Gin: What're you doin', letting yourselves into other people's houses, causing an explosion character idiosyncrasies!! You piss me off!!
You're just bulldozing your characters in! You're totally trying to destroy us, aren't you?!
Bossun: Hey, Himeko, are these guys really our senpai? They haven't go a lick of composure.
Switch: Bossun, that's some of their worldly wisdom. Even with all the years that have passed, by acting weak, they can latch on to anyone without causing anyone to get upset.
Gin: He just exposing some really monumental stuff, didn't he?! Does four-eyes laptop have a thumbtack on his enter key?!!
Fine then. If that's how you're gonna play it, then so will we!!
We'll make it so which one of us is the more Jump-like compelling odd jobbers is totally black and white!!
Shinpachi: Gin-san, please calm down. We've finally got the crossover started. Let's just get along!!
Bossun: I'll show you how flashy battles and special techniques aren't the only compelling things.
Switch: Bossun, I'm not disagreeing, but I don't think something like that will make the readers very happy...
Himeko: Yeah. Can't both of our dull manga just get along?!! If we can all just scrape by, isn't that more important than proving who's better?
Gin: SHEDDEEEEP!! This ain't just some fight over a position, ya know!!
Bossun: Our pride as odd jobbers is on the line... It's a battle for our very existences!!
You mob characters can just shut up and follow the leaders.
Gin: That's right, you idiots. I've got the perfect stage setup, so just come along.

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Kagura: Gin-chan, what is this place?
Himeko: It was a real stretch for us to even get to the Gintama world, and now you got us lost in some other weird world, Bossun?
Bossun: Yes. Now quiet down~~
Gin: You guys ready? We're about to have everyone search for things on this island.
Someone: Why have they started acting like teachers leading a class?
Bossun: This island, Jewel Island, is a mysterious island where everything on it sparkles like flashy jewels,
Himeko: I think... this is a premise I've heard somewhere before.
Gin: And among them, there's said to be an incredible fruit that grows once every hundred years.
Shinpachi: I've got nothing but bad feelings about this.
Someone: Yes, that one in the series of Devil Fruits,
The Hadehade Fruit...
Someone: Okay, hold it right theeeere!!
(T/N: The devil fruits are items in one piece that grant you powers if you eat them. You all know this, yet I am telling you anyhow. "Hade" means "flashy.")

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Himeko: Ain't this a crossover between Sket and Gintama?!! You're obviously trying to force this into the crossover between Toriko and One Piece, aren't you?!!
Shinpachi: C'mon, you're totally ripping them off!! Do you think we're so dull that you had to borrow ideas from flashy manga?!!
(T/N- This is referring to the One Piece Toriko crossover anime episode when the Toriko anime started. Not the manga crossover, which was different. I have had the pleasure of translating every single one... But at least I don't have to do the Sket Dance side of this one.)
Bossun: Toriko and One Piece? What sort of absurd things are these children talking about?
Gin: I think you guys might've eaten the Yumeyume fruit~~ Geez, there really is no help for them.
(T/N- "Yume" means "dream". "Mukatsuku" means "piss off/anger".)
Bossun: They're really kinda pissin' me off. Maybe they ate the Mukamuka fruit.
Bossun: Just as you'd guess, the Hadehade Fruit is a fruit that if one eats, they'll be turned into a flashy compelling character no matter how dull they are.
The first one to get it will prove themselves as the flashier team most worthy of being in Jump.
Shinpachi: So, this isn't a showdown to see which is more compelling? I'm just gonna give up. Let someone else do it.
Switch: I'd like to ask, are there any side effects to eating this Devil Fruit, like becoming a hammer that's unable to swim?
Gin: It's okay. You won't become unable to swim. And only your crotch will become a hammer.
(T/N- A hammer (kanazuchi) is a slang term for someone hopeless at swimming. As in, they sink like a hammer.)
Himeko: Really? Okay, I get it...
Eh? Wait... what'd you say?
Gin: I'm just saying that while a hammer's a hammer, it's just your crotch that's becoming a hammer so you don't need to worry.
Someone: I won't worry!! But the part that's becoming a hammer's really insane!!

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Himeko: Hey, could we just call the whole thing off? Unlike you guys, we've got a pretty pure image to upload. We don't do any dirty jokes like that!
Shinpachi: Himeko, I'm used to making straight man in situations like this, so just leave it to me.
Himeko: If that happens, I'll never be able to get married! How are you going to take responsibility for that?!
Right, Kagura-chan?!
Kagura: Why? It doesn't really matter.
If you can use that hockey stick as a weapon, then I'm sure you could beat someone to death with a hammer, yes?
Himeko: I chose the wrong person to ask!!
No, please, rethink it! Just how covered in dirty jokes do you want this manga to be?!
Kagura: This is no need to worry. I'm sure that even if you become a hammer, Himeko, Bossum will become a Bossun nail.
Bossun: What is that?! That's that supposed to mean?! Why's that sound like a long nail?!
(T/N- The word Kagura uses is "Bossun Kugi" which sounds like the word "Gosun Kugi" meaning a kind of long nail.)
Gin: Hey, enough whining from the bitches already.
Someone: Who're you calling bitch?!
Gin: Don't think after flying into this world, we can just go home whenever we want. This ain't the namby-pamby schoolyard you guys are from.
It's the kind of world where isn't not too strange for you crotch to become a box-head screwdriver or your balls be crushed or something.
Someone: What kind of world is it?!
Gin: A real odd jobber has a strong spirit no matter what's between his legs.
Someone: Is that what an odd jobber is?!
Gin: So what? Did you guys come to take us on when you haven't even got the resolve for that?
Bossun: ..........

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Bossun: You're ooooon!!
Gin: I'm gonna be the one who's crotch turns into a hammeeeer!!
Himeko: Uh, the point of this is changing, Bossuuuuun!!
Oh, no! Bossun's totally lost it!
Shinpachi: Actually, our leader kinda hates to lose, too.
Hiumeko: I dunno anymore. I don't even know if my crotch becomes a hammer whether it'll make all the readers hate me or not.
Switch: All we can do is watch silently. Even before, Bossun has had a complex about being dull, unbefitting of a protagonist.
Shinpachi: Yeah, I understand. If Gin-san has any free time, he'll mumble about hoe he should've come up with his own special moves.
Kagura: I have seen him practices doing the "Kamehameha" two or three times when he thought no one was looking, yes.
Shinpachi: Bossun sorta has a special technique where he puts his goggles on and it increases his power of concentration.
But honestly, from my perspective he's just putting goggles on. I don't think they really do much of anything.

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Shinpachi: Honestly, I don't think it's a question of special moves or that sort of thing.
Having silver hair, or wearing a hat, or something are kind of desperate. But if the person is compelling as a person, that's what makes them compelling.
Himeko: Yeah, it's that sorta thing. When you get abandoned by your friends is when you're no longer a protagonist.
I mean, nobody would say something like that to someone like Luffy. That's why they never get that much popularity.
But if they're going to fight, I'd rather fight for something great.
Honestly, what does one of them winning here mean?
They are birds of a feather, yes?
Switch: Certainly the lowness of one's goals indicates the lowness of one's will.
Shinpachi: They don't have a goal like wanting to be Pirate King or Hokage or anything. And going along with them is more uneasy.
That's why those guys aren't that popular.
Himeko: Yea~~h. I wish I could hang out with someone more reliable like Luffy.
Shinpachi: I'd be fine with Toujou-san.
Switch: I'd go with Nishino.
Kagura: I am a Raou fan.
(T/N: Nishino is a character from Ichigo 100%. Raou is from Hokutou no Ken.)
Himeko: Uh, those aren't protagonists, are they?
Kagura: Huh?
They disappeared, yes?

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Himeko: ...They kinda
collapsed.
Shinpachi: Um, are you okay? Gin-san, Bossan?
Gin: ................
I've kinda......
Bossun: had enough......
Himeko: I can't reall tell what yer sayin'.
Gin: I've kinda...
Bossun: had enough.
Shinpachi: ................
Himeko: They're saying they've had enough.
Shinpachi: They're the ones who decided to start running. What's with them?
What? Quitting your search for the Devil Fruit already?
Gin: ..................
Shinpachi: Then can we go home?
Bossun: ............
Gin: ..................
Himeko: You're giving off a strong "please pay attention to me" aura.
What would some people who were pushing people around so much want?

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Kagura: We are just going to leave you and go home.
Bossun: We kindaaa
Shinpachi: !
Bossun: We kinda didn't really...
get our feelings across...
Himeko: Oh, no. Sounds like they're gonna start a pain in the ass rant...
Bossun: We... Didn't really... think we wanted to make ourselves flashier... or anything like that.
We were like, doing this stuff for the team...... But even so, nobody... was really into it.
Someone: .............
Gin: That's enough!! It's fine!! Forget it. Even if you try to explain, those guys won't understand.
Bossun: But, I'm so frustrated... You are, too, aren't you, Sakata-san?
Himeko: He called him Sakata-san.
Gin: It's fine!! That's enough!! No need to say any more.
I understand what you're saying. Being a leader...... is tough.
Himeko: They're kinda really getting along.
Gin: Um, sorry, but do you guys think you could go?
Um... Really, just go to Luffy or Raou or whoever you want. It's fine, we'll be leaders by ourselves.
Shinpachi: This isn't good. I think they heard what we were saying before.
Gin: Hey, pull yourself together, Bossun. Can you get up?
Shinpachi: Um... Gin-san, I'm sorry.
Himeko: You've got it all wrong, Bossun! I was pretty much just joking that whole time. I just thought you could use a little spanking.
(SFX- GEHO GOHO)

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Gin: You guys... don't really have any need to apologize.
I think the point you made was very honest.
Someone: Even with an apology, Bossun and Gin-san's injured hearts won't go back to normal!!
Himeko: ...What's going on here? Do you want us to apologize or not? This is so confusing...
Shinpachi: We really did it now. Is it okay to just leave them like this?
Himeko: Well what else can we do? If we apologize, they'll get angry. These guys are way too hard to please. How naive are those leaders?
Kagura: They have not moved forward for a while now, yes?
Switch: They have been walking in place at one spot.
Shinpachi: Um... They're definitely waiting.
Himeko: This is such a pain!! Whadda those two want?!
Shinpachi: They're putting on a play.
Himeko: So like, what kinda injury does Bossun have here? One on his head?
Gin: Hey, this ain't lookin' good.
Those guys aren't following us at all. They're totally in shock.
Bossun: Why?! Aren't they worried about us? Don't they care about their leaders?!
Gin: At this rate, we're sure to lose our seat as leaders.
In order to regain their confidence, we're going to need to find that Hadehade Fruit.
Bossun: Hm?
Hey... That
AaaAAAAAAAA There it iiis!!

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Himeko: They kinda
got moving really fast.
Shinpachi: It looks like they found the Devil Fruit.
Himeko: They really suck. Now they've shown their true selves and are fightin'.
Bossun: Let it goooo! I'm definitely... Definitely gonna be flashyyyy!!
When I awaken, my hair will be gold, I'll have an IQ of over 300, and be a coldhearted genius!!
Gin: I ain't gonna let you! I'm the one who's gonna be flashy!! I'm actually a space pirate whom all records of were erased. And when my right arm gets awakened as a psycho gun, the voluptuous girls are gonna go with me to travel into space!!
HNGHOWOWOWO! Just a little! just a little more and I can become flashy!
Bossun: I... I can't reaaach!!
What's with that old man?
What's he doing in such a perilous place?
Guy: Mother, please forgive me for going first.
I can no longer be a carpenter with these hands.
These hands can't grip a single hammer.
Dammit... And I was still so lively down there....
If only my crotch were a hammer, I could pound in nails with my proud hip-work...
(SFX- PURU PURU)

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Guys: H-Hey, hey, hey!
Hold ooooon old maannn!!
(SFX- UOOOOOOOOOO GAH)
Bossun: Waaaaaaait!
(SFX- GA GA GA)
Bossun: Old maaaan!!
Some odd jobbers...
have taken on that requeeeest!!
(SFX- DODO DODODO)

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Bossun: UORYAAAAAAAAAAAA
(SFX- DOPAAN)
(SFX- DOSHAAAAA)
(SFX- PARA PARA)

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Himeko: In the end...
It looks like those two couldn' become flashy.
Shinpachi: But... It's okay to be dull, isn't it?
Switch: Yes, you're right.
Kagura: The both of them are great odd jobbers.
And great leaders, yes?
Himeko: Hey, why so blue? Cheer up, you two!
Kagura: You guys were very cool, yes? We see you in a new light now.
Switch: I suppose we can call this one a tie. But we're not going to lose next time.
Shinpachi: No problem! Next time we'll have a decisive winner!
Himeko: ..........
Um, would you give it a rest already? We're coming to the end now.
Just how bad did you guys wanna be flashy? You're fine already.
Gin: ...No. That's not it.
When the Hadehade fruit... broke apart...... it splashed everywhere.
(SFX- GOTON)
All: ......
(SFX- ZAZZASSA)
Bossun: Everyone, starting now is Carpenter Dance.
Gin: And Kintama. We hope you'll all enjoy.
Bottom: Extra Lesson (End)