Gintama 552


Whew... We got some jokes and down time in there. Now it's off to... Kiheitai land.

[Gintama 552 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Insert: Reflecting on that day at that school-----
Sign: Shouka Sonjuku
Title: 'Gintama'
Gin: GOEH!!
SFX: DO DO
Gin: Oww...
Dammit...
It's not over.
My sword's not broken yet!

Page 2:
Gin: One more round!!
Shouyooooooou!!

Page 3:
Title: Lesson 552
The Monster and the Monster's Child
Insert: With you, I'll get stronger. Stronger than you are----.
Insert: ☆The anime is airing every Wednesday at 6PM on TV Tokyo and affiliates!!
☆Jump Comics Volume 60 goes on sale 8/4 (Tues.)!!
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Shou: You were close that time,
Gintoki.
Gin: Sensei, when was I close?
Shou: At that part.
Gin: Could you be any more specific?
Shou: You know, that part.
Gin: Shouyou,
how do I get strong like you?
I never lost to anyone, even adults, until I met you.
You're not some simple creature like an adult... you're a giant.
SHou: You're wrong there, Gintoki. I...
actually prefer Hanshin.
T/N: The Giants are Tokyo's baseball team. Their rivals are the Hanshin Tigers.
Gin: Sensei, are you even listening? I'm saying I've never seen a monster like you anywhere.

Page 4:
Gin: Shouyou, before you met me,
what were you ding?
Just who are you?
Shou: ................
As someone who was called an oni that devours corpses, I think you know.
Monsters and the children of monsters are the same.
A monster is someone that could not be a person.
Something not born from a human,
something only born among bloodstained karma.
And a monster (me)
cannot cut with a monster's sword.

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Shou: So, Gintoki,
please stop trying to become stronger by imitating me.
I have no intention of teaching you my sword, either.
You've got to use your sword,
a human's sword,
to become stronger than me.
Gintoki,
I'm looking forward to it.
Someday, you

Page 6:
SFX: DOH
Utsuro: will come to rid the world
of the monster that is me.

Page 7:
Utsuro: How unfortunate.
SFX: ZUH
Utsuro: I told you, didn't I?
Your sword of a monster,
cannot reach the monster that is me.

Page 8:
SFX: DOH
Gin: ........
A dream...?
...........
..........

Page 9:
SFX: DOGOO
SFX: DOSHAAA
Zura: Elizabeth!! An enemy attack?!!
Gin: Yeah, it's an enemy attack.
The top of my head was almost pierced with a really messed up deadly weapon.
Zura: What?! Then the Bakufu's wicked influence has even reached the underground city of Akiba......?!!
T/N: Akiba is short for Akihabara. A section of Tokyo known for its otaku stuff.
Zura: Rest easy, Gintoki. We will stand guard over your life in hiding!!
Tighten security in all directions! Do not let a single mouse into this hiding place!!
Got that?!! No one can be told that Gintoki is here!!
SFX: ZAZAZA

Page 10:
Gin: They could tell this is a hiding place even if they looked from a freaking' satellite!!
SFX: DODOGOO
Gin: Go look up the word 'hiding' in the dictionary, would ya?!!
Geez, lining cramped rooms with your dirty test*cles... I don't remember asking any 'a you to guard me!!
Zura: Even if you did not ask, we cannot just let our organization's ace be killed, can we?
Gin: Who is whose ace now?!
Zura: After all that has happened, I don't see how you could say that, Gintoki.
Invading Edo castle, driving Sadasada to lose his standing after causing a huge uproar,
committing such acts of rudeness and harassment to former Shogun Shigeshige,
and then hitting and wounding the new Shogun Nobunobu of all people,
then assisting in the Shinsengumi's rebellion and recovering Chief Kondou Isao from the Bakufu...

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Zura: Not even the Joui Patriots have accomplished that level of terrorism!!
Gintoki, you are a far more extreme terrorist than people like Takasugi or me!!
There is no turning back at this point!! You can no longer return to your peaceful everyday life!!
Those dirtied hands of yours can no longer even embrace the ones you love!! All that remains in those hands is blood, iron, and revolution!!
Gin: Uh, you're kinda sounding like a villain now.
I don't remember committing any acts of terrorism. I just punched a guy because he pissed me off and he just happened to be an entire country.
And there was a big uproar over it so I just tried to divide into pieces and bury it in the ground. Don't lump me in with criminals like you.
Zura: Wait, are you a terrorist or a homicidal maniac?!
Did you perhaps think that you could return to Kabuki-Chou when the heat died down?
Unfortunately, that will no longer be possible.
Gin: Geh! A wanted poster?!
SFX: BIRAH

Page 12:
SOmebody: For real?! They've already got these going up?
Er, man that'sa violent picture they're using. Who the hell took this and when?
Paper: If you recognize this face,
GIn: It looks like a totally different kinda violence just with a wig (zura) on it!
Zura: It's not Zura, it's Katsura.
Gin: Was this yooooou?!!
T/N: This is a reference to the Go Nagai manga, Violence Jack, who had a similar knife and look on his face.
Zura: The original photo had too much of a criminal look to it, so I dressed up like you and did a fancy re-shoot with some sweet tooth appeal.
Gin: You were eating a cake?! It looked that violent just by cutting the cake out of the frame?!
Zura: And then we redistributed them.
Gin: Get them back!!
Zura: Do not worry. We made sure to alter them first.
Paper: If you see this face
Building 110 [Crossed off]
Yorozuya Gin-chan
Akiba Branch Office
Gin: Let's see... If you recognize this face, go to Yorozuya Gin-chan's Akiba Branch Office. ["Let's see..." small.]
SHin: We've just arrived in Akiba, 'Yorozuya Gin-chan'!!
Kagura: We will do everything from collecting Love Live bonus goods to selling Love Live bonus goods. Be sure to come by if you recognize this face, yes?!!

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Gin: Is it okay if I lose it nooow?!
SFX: DOGO
Gin: You're re-using wanted posters as flyers to advertise our shop? You can only be so violent, guys!!
Shin: Gin-san, you need to think positively at times like this!
Gin: Oh yeah, well I think you're doing is positively idiotic!
Kagura: When you fall, don't get up for free is the Yorozuya's moto, yes?
Gin: I'll pay you, so just fall!! And never get up again!! Please!!
Kagura: You do not need to worry. The only thing people here in Akiba care about is Love Live. "Love Livers" are all just corpses that are alive in name only.
Nobody here cares about you, Gin-chan!
Guys: Hey, if you don't lay off we might end up on the Love Liver's wanted lists, too!!
SFX: GYAA GYAAA
Guy: Uhh, hello?
Sorry, I just saw a guy that looks a whole lot like a guy on a wanted poster......
SFX: FUH

Page 15:
SFX: KARAN
SFX: GARAN GARA GASHA
Guys: NGEEEHH!!
My cell phooone!!
Nobume: Excuse me.
I'm here because I saw your flyers.
Yorozuya Gin-chan Akiba Branch Office,
I'd like to request a job.
SFX: CHIN

Page 16:
Nobume: It would seem you will need to change locations again,
Yorozuya-san.
Gin: You're telling me that?
I thought you would've left Edo a while ago... What's going on with the Mimawarigumi?
Otome: I no longer deserve nor have the right to lead them.
Many of them traveled with the Shinsengumi as thanks to Kondou Isao for saving them on the battlefield.
They'll be happier working under a man like that.

Page 17:
Nobume: And I have things I must do
as a comrade of Sasaki Isaburou
and
as one of Shouyou's disciples.
I cannot abandon this country
nor can I simply turn away from that man of the Tendoushuu.

Page 18:
Gin: I had no idea I had Kouhai at a place like this.
But knowing you,
you know about he Yoshida Shouyou we don't
and about that Utsuro man.
Please, tell us.
Just who is Shouyou...?
SFX: DOON CHUN
Someone: Don't move!!
Handwritten: Oh, what's this?
SFX: PARA PARA

Page 19:
Mata: Imai Nobume,
you
betrayed me, didn't you?
Why is
the Shiroyasha here?
Insert: The "Red Bullet" of the Kiheitai appears----
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 552
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