Gintama.: Shirogane no Tamashii hen

Gintama

Silver Soul

Silver Soul Arc

Bragging About Your Own Heroic Deeds Will Make People Hate You, so Make Others Do It For You

Watch the Silver Soul Arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!

What? Done already?

In Yoshiwara, men are disliked if they're either too fast or too slow.

No way. Ougai-sama was taken out by such...

C'mon. Don't tell me you're still calling these guys mere women and children.

Not all of Earth's women are monstrous gorillas like these!

We have plenty of better women—

Wh-Why are you here, anyway?

You were right on the money. We're here to ruin the reputation of Earth's women.

Never thought the likes of Tsukuyo-dono and I would shoulder the honor of women.

Don't worry about it. My loli-cuteness can cover for it all.

You're the one ruining their reputation the most!

The only people who'd gather in a battlefield even men would run from

are women, don't you think?

Looks like it has begun.

You want to go help them,

don't you?

I'm the Courtesan of Death, guardian of Yoshiwara.

Tsukuyo, it's okay for you to give off your own dazzling light now.

Tsukuyo-nee.

Go on.

We'll protect Mom and Yoshiwara, I promise!

This time,

it's the sun's turn to keep watch while the moon is away.

Go illuminate their path with the light they gave us.

She's such a handful.

If we don't give her a million and one reasons,

she won't even go see the man she fell for.

"The world doesn't matter. I just want to die by your side."

Isn't that reason enough?

Scatter! Don't bunch up in the alley!

Running away? Some men you are!

Don't you have it in you to avenge your leader?!

Run from it as we might, we're still women in the end, huh?

Nothing wrong with that.

I now feel,

for the first time,

that being born a girl wasn't so bad.

I see.

Wanna hit up a boutique once this war is over, then?

Nah. I'd rather get pancakes.

K...

Kyubei!

I never thought I'd run into someone who could break my horn again.

No!

But...

You couldn't crack my skull, huh?

You're having an awfully hard time dealing with these apes.

Can't you fight using your head a little?

Sis!

Sotatsu...

You struck while we were engaged with the enemy?

You conniving thief!

Our primary goal

is to restore the comms affected by that virus cannon.

Earthlings, offer up the creator of the virus cannon.

If you don't,

these women are all dead.

D-Don't!

Here.

The mastermind's right here.

Otose-san! Gengai-san!

This geezer here is Edo's finest inventor, the one who sank your ships.

And this gran here is the one who organized the whole thing.

I built that machine to protect the people of Edo.

If people died to keep it safe, we'd be mistaking the means for the end.

There you have it.

Take us to hell or wherever.

You guys did well,

but this is as far as we go.

Hold it!

Why're you tryin' to hog all the glory?

The one who built that virus cannon

was me, Doctor Kurogoma Katsuo!

I went through so much to build that thing! Ain't that right, assistants?

Yes, bos—I mean, Doctor! It must've been hell!

Which parts? Give 'em the details on which parts exactly were hell!

L-Like all the addition and subtraction. That was hell.

Are you stupid? Like you could build somethin' like that with just that!

We also used multiplication!

The sevens table was the hardest!

What's going on here? Didn't the geezer build that—

No matter how many times we did it, seven times eight always came out to sixty-eight!

Machines are just like women.

But it's sixty-four!

Unless they're handled with care, they'll break down immediately.

What? Really?

No chimpanzee or crude geezer could build that thing.

But my, Doctor Kyoshiro's, wiles make both contraptions and women a piece of cake.

Yer face is the only contraption here, you monster of plastic surgery!

If you want to take someone, take me.

But I won't be held accountable should your planet's women become slaves to my virus.

Shut it! I've got a ton of viruses myself!

Yours are just STDs.

Who're you sayin' has crotch rot?!

Bro! Nobody specified crotch rot!

Indeed.

Indeed.

All men

All men

may be doctors with virus cannons in their crotches.

may be doctors with virus cannons in their crotches.

No way that's right! There's a limit to "forced," bro!

If you must take someone, take this Doctor Hardboiled with you.

And let me research crossbreeding on your planet.

You've got yer priorities all mixed up!

No. I shall go and represent Earth in slaying a thousand.

You, too?! Fine, I'll get in on it!

No, I'm more than enough.

Knock it off! Who's the real inventor?

Me!

Me!

You all...

If you want to take anyone, take all of us.

The ones who built that and tried to protect this town...

It was all of us!

So that's your answer?

If anyone's going to die, you're all prepared to die here with them?

But there's no need for that.

The only people who need to die is everyone but the geezer!

Sis!

I never had any intention of cutting a deal with people whose days are numbered.

The only ones we deal with are the Liberation Army.

Agreed.

I don't plan on cutting a deal with people whose days are numbered, either.

The ones we're dealing with

are over here.

Took you long enough.

Buying time isn't easy, you know?

Shin-chan...

What's going on?

Thank goodness.

Looks like we made it in time.

Good work keeping watch while we were away.

You did well to hold out.

But everything will be all right now.

Who goes there?

'Tis an honor.

I was born and raised in the Kabuki District of Edo.

I left on a long journey of atonement,

but unable to forget my hometown or the promise I made with my friend,

I have returned red-faced.

I am...

Terada Tatsugoro's friend and the Kabuki District's guardian.

Doromizu Jirocho's the name.

Residents of the Kabuki District,

the boss of this town has returned.

I'm back, Bro!

Pirako-san!