Gintama 51

Yay! 5th translation and I'm back on the board!! And 2 gintamas in a day isn't too bad for me ♪ -- There'd be less text if only they'd put in more action scenes (e.g. the ones that take up 2 pages). Hehe, well enjoy♡

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Page 01

[1]
Boss:
So Yamazaki...
Hmm? And how do you read this?

[2]
Yamazaki:
Sagaru
It's Yamazaki Sagaru

[3]
Txt:
Yes, I'm Yamazaki Sagaru
And I'm a member (spy) of the all-feared special police force, Shinsengumi

[4]
Txt:
So you're asking why I'm in an interview at this factory?

[5]
Boss:
Ah, so you got the sack too?
Yeah, there's tons of unemployed samurai in this city

Txt:
I certainly wasn't sacked


Page 02

[1]
Txt:
I only make a move
when I sense crime behind the scenes

Boss:
I used to be a samurai myself
But look at me now

[2]
Boss:
Well this place is full of ex-samurai like yourself
You guys should be able to get along
Hey listen up! We've got a new worker

[3]
Gintoki:
Hey there

Lesson 51 -- Life keeps going, like a conveyer belt


Page 03

[1]
Yamazaki:
Whaaaat?!
Mr Sakata?! What're you doing here?!

[2]
Yamazaki:
It's me sir, Yamazaki from the Shinsengumi
You see, I'm here as an undercover agent for reasons I can't share and...

Boss:
Hey, just FYI he's got amnesia so there's no point talking to him about his past

Yamazaki:
Amnesia?!

[3]
Gintoki:
You heard it. I'm sorry, you seem to know me but I can't remember you
So you're Shinsengumi's... what did you say? Can I just call you Shin-chan?

Yamazaki:
Hey!! I just said I'm undercover... Aah!! Shit, I said it myself

[4]
Gintoki:
What's wrong with you? Hitting my head like that; Are you a tambourine-player-wannabe?
Then should I call you Un-chan for undercover?

Yamazaki:
Are you just trying to annoy me? I said it's Yamazaki

Gintoki:
But I don't remember you; How about Tambourer?

Yamazaki:
I know you don't remember but you can try remembering now!

[5]
Yamazaki:
But now that you mention it, you do look different
Like your eyes aren't flat anymore

Huh? But what about your jack-of-all-trades? What happened to the others?

[6]
Gintoki:
The jack-of-all-trades has been...


Page 04

[1]
Sign:
Jack-of-all-trades Gin-chan

[3]
Shinpachi:
Kagura-chan

[4]
Shinpachi:
What're you doing here again?
I'm telling you, it's dangerous up here. You don't know when the house'll give
C'mon, let's go back home. Sis and Sadaharu are waiting

[5] [6]
*munch much*

[7]
Shinpachi:
Knock off the munch munch munching!!
Who do you think you are?! Mr Munch Munch?!

And what're you planning to do with all this sukonbu?!


Page 05

[1]
Shinpachi:
Kagura-chan, don't tell me...

[2]
Shinpachi:
Are you planning to wait here
till Gin-san comes back?

[4]
Shinpachi:
...Remember what the doctor said?
That a person's memory's complex like the branches of a tree?
And that if we could rustle just one branch, the others may sway too?

[5]
Shinpachi:
But what if that tree's dead already?
There... may not be any more branches left on it

[6]
Shinpachi:
Gin-san doesn't remember...
Little twigs like us anymore...

[7]
Kagura:
It's not dead


Page 06

[1]
Kagura:
I won't let it die
We may be just twigs... But without it's branches, a tree would really die

[2]
Kagura:
So I won't give up
Even when winter comes and the leaves fall. Even when the wind blows and branches fall
Even if I'm the last branch, I won't break off

[3]
Kagura:
I'll be with the tree till the end

[6]
*munch munch*

Shinpachi:
... *sigh*


Page 07

[1]
Shinpachi:
You sure that idiot's coming back?

[2]
Shinpachi:
He better hurry before our shit turn green [T/L note: from the sukonbu]

[3]
Kagura:
You ass!! Stay away from my sukonbu!!

Shinpachi:
Gyaaaaa!!

[4]
Otose:
My my
I thought I was finally gonna get some peace but I see you're still here

[5]
Otose:
I can't have it though
With the building like this, I wanna get rid of this floor stat

[6]
Kagura:
Please wait, we'll bring him back for sure

Otose:
Bring him back? Do you even know where he is?


Page 08

[1]
Otose:
There's word of a silver-head's working and lodging at the factory there

Otose:
Bring him back quick

[3]
Otose:
After all, he still owes me all that rent

[5]
Boss:
Hey!! What're you doing?!
In an assembly line like this, when one person makes a mistake, everything has to stop!

[6]
Yamazaki:
I- I'm sorry

Boss:
Sorry my ass! How many times do I have to tell you this?!

[7]
Boss:
It's such an easy job
All you have to do is put this here
and make it stand like this!!


Page 09

[2]
Yamazaki:
...What're is this anyway?
What does this factory produce?

Boss:
What'd you mean? Look, it's a Just-Away. What else?

[3]
Yamazaki:
And I'm asking what a Just-Away is!

Boss:
A Just-Away is just a Just-Away; No less and no more!

Yamazaki:
The hell with Just-Aways! It's just junk!! How am I supposed to work hard making something so ridiculous?!

[4]
Boss:
You've gotta stop thinking and just move your hands
Look at Sakata!!

[5]
Yamazaki:
Wow!!
He's really fast!

[6]
Worker:
Sakata-san's doing it again! Look at all the Just-Aways he's making!

Boss:
Yup, he'll sure be the next to take my position as plant manager. All of you, learn from him!

Yamazaki:
That's how you choose your plant manager?! This place's doomed! Doomed!!


Page 10

[1]
Yamazaki:
Yes... No, I still haven't found anything
Yes... What?! Are you serious?! I understand... I'll head back right now

[2]
Yamazaki:
Sir, I'll be leaving
Our chief seems to have gone missing

Gintoki:
Boar, you shouldn't give up so easily. Everyone has it hard at first till they get used to it

Yamazaki:
Are you calling me Boar? Wait, are you trying to say I'm a bore?! And I told you, I'm only here as a spy!!

[3]
Yamazaki:
Sir, I'm warning you. You should leave soon too
I've heard lots of black rumours about that plant manager

[4]
Yamazaki:
On the surface, he's known as a generous man who employs the many ex-samurai without jobs
But rumours have it that he's actually an extreme terrorist working with the Joui exclusionists to overthrow the government

I've also heard that he's secretly making armaments in this factory for them
and that he's got a mass-destruction weapon nearby for a huge attack he's got planned. The rumours are endless and none are pretty


Page 11

[1]
Yamazaki:
Well not that I could find any more than this
But you know what they say: You don't get smoke without fire...

[2]
Gintoki:
Stop accusing the boss of being an eroticist!

Yamazaki:
It's "terrorist"

Gintoki:
He's a great guy and I owe him big for taking me in!

[3]
Gintoki:
Besides I can't give up this job and laze around again
I swore I won't become the man I used to be

[4]
Yamazaki:
I see. But I must say it's a bit of a pity
It's true, you seemed to be just a slacker
But I could tell our chief and Captain Okita respected you

[5]
Worker:
Sakata-saaan, break's over

Yamazaki:
Well then, it's time for me to...

[7]
Kondou:
Sakata-san, would you take a look at my Just-Away? How is it?

Gintoki:
Hmm yeah, but you could put this a bit higher up Gori-san


Page 12

[1]
Yamazaki:
What the hell are you doing here?!!

[2]
Gintoki:
Gori-san!!

Yamazaki:
Hello... Yes, I've found the idiot... Yes, I'll bring him back right now

[3]
Gintoki:
Gori-san, talk to me!
Boar, how could you do this?!

Gori-san's got amnesia like me; If you hurt his head he can easily lose his memory again, just like the first Famicoms!!

[4]
Yamazaki:
Amnesia?! Are you serious Chief?!
How could you have such a complicated problem when you're so stupid?! And even stupider than the word stupid!

Gintoki:
That's too harsh Boar! Stupid people have there own stupid problems to deal with for being stupid!!

Yamazaki:
Shut up! I'm sick of this! You guys are too much to handle!

[5]
Yamazaki:
Anyway, you're coming home with me now Chief!

Kondou:
Let me go!! I promised the boss that I'll become the best Just-Away assembler in Edo no matter what it takes!!

Yamazaki:
Don't worry, it's enough that you're the world's greatest idiot


Page 13

[1]
Yamazaki:
C'mon, we're going

Kondou:
Ah!

[4]
Workers:
Aaah!! Something exploded!!

[5]
Worker 1:
Sir, it must be the Just-Away...

Worker 2:
Shit! All the Just-Aways in the warehouse are exploding!

[6]
Boss:
Who did this?!!


Page 14

[1]
Trio:
Gyaaaaaa!

[2]
Yamazaki:
No way!! The Just-Aways...!!

Kondou:
What?! So we were making bombs?!

[3]
Gintoki:
How can this be? Could it've been the boss?
I mean it's true that he'd complain about how he lost his job because of the government and he did say he wanted to kill them all... But could it really have been the boss?

Yamazaki:
What's there to question?! He's got all the best stuff!! And enough to make a grand feast of them!!

[4]
Kondou:
The Just-Aways are innocent; The boss's responsible for this, not the Just-Aways!

Yamazaki:
Chief! You still have them?! Please, throw them away!!


Page 15

[1]
Boss:
So it's you guys!!
You'll pay for ruining everything!
I'm killing you spies!!

[3]
Yamazaki:
Damn it, they're after us!!

Gintoki:
Boar, this way

[4]
Gintoki:
I can't fight with the boss
Despite everything, I still owe him this

[5]
Boss:
Where do you think you're going?!


Page 16

[2]
Boss:
Gaaah

*toss*

[3]
Yamazaki:
Ahh!

[4]
Yamazaki:
Hey!!
Didn't you say you can't fight him?! You just beat the shit out of him!!

[5]
Gintoki:
Did I say that Gori-san?

Kondou:
I can't remember, what with my amnesia

Yamazaki:
Yeah right, blame it on your amnesia!!


Page 17

[3]
Boss:
Kukuku
Don't move

[4]
Boss:
Sorry fellas
It may not look it but I used to be a police and I'd chase criminals; They'd call me Banzou the Viper
And I was feared for my persistence

[5]
Boss:
I'll take my hat off to you though... I'd never thought you were government spies
Thanks to you, the grand plan I've been working at for years has failed

[6]
Boss:
I was so close to surprising the government with a big show
But now that this this has happened, we're gonna keep going

[7]
Boss:
I can't say we're perfectly prepared but you'll see
I'll change this rotten world


Page 18

[1]
Kyaaaa

[3]
Okita:
Ok, it's dangerous here. Stand back
You don't wanna end up like him
He's masking it with his poker face but it really hurts. And it's embarrassing.

[4]
Hijikata:
What a scene

Okita:
You're quite a scene yourself Hijikata-san

Hijikata:
Looks like Yamazaki might be dead

Okita:
I think you might die too Hijikata-san

[5]
Skinhead:
Vice-chief, I've just received information
that the chief's in there with Yamazaki

Hijikata:
What?


Page 19

[1]
Hijikata:
Hmph, if were just Yamazaki I was gonna leave him behind
but if Kondou-san's in there, I guess we'll have to go in

Okita:
Hijikata-san, I left my flute at home so I'm gonna have to head back

Hijikata:
Ok, and don't ever come back

[2]
Hijikata:
What an embarrassment
Fine, I'll go by myself. You guys wait here

Shinsen:
Hey!! Look over there!!

[3]
Shinsen 1:
Something's coming out

Shinsen 2:
What is it?

[4]
Shinsen:
A canon?!
It's a huge canon!

[5]
Shinsen:
So that's...
the secret weapon they were making...

[6]
Hijikata:
Sougo, I left my protractor at home so I'm gonna have to head back

Okita:
No need Hijikata-san. I've got a protractor here for you