Gintama (銀魂)

Gin Tama

You'd better fight fair, now!

I'd better fight fair?

LAKE TOYA HEH

Come on, gimme a break!

Ah! He's getting away!

This guy's actually running for his life!

After him!

Ever since the Sword Ban,

nobody does this sword fighting stuff anymore!

Gintoki Sakata. Trademark: naturally‐wavy hair.

He has a sweet tooth and high blood‐sugar.

and he's kind of the main character of this show.

‐Hey! Stop! ‐Hey! Stop!

Sorry...

but i have a TV talkshow to watch.

Gin! Aaaah!...

‐Gin! ‐What?

Gin, help me! Help me, please!

Shinpachi Shimura.

Who's too straight to get along with Gintoki.

He hopes of finding the samurai spirit here.

Hey Shinpachi...

the program just started, why are you being chased?

I don't know!

Nobody actually wants to be chased!

Anyway, we should run for it!

Stop right there!

We've got you now, there's...

Gintoki!

Look, now there's no one here!

Kagura.

Member of the "Yato Clan",

the most powerful warrior race in the universe.

She's cute but has a sharp tongue.

Excuse me...

What is this?

Sadaharu Sadaharu, Kagura's pet.

A mysterious, giant space creature.

Geez, would you read the room!

I think these guys are pissed off.

Ka‐Kagura, you'd better get out of here with us!

Hurry up, because I'll have to walk my neighbor's hamster...

which takes one whole day to walk around the house!

Guys, wait! Wait for me!

Wait!

A dead end...

It's the end of the line for you!

What are you talking about?

Truth is we purposely let you catch us.

Yeah, you should be thankful!

What do you mean, you losers?

You should talk, you're the ones running all over town!

Who hired you?

We know that you're the spies who came to steal our secret!

Before we cut you down, I'll ask you again...

Who are you and what do you want?

You ask who we are?

All right then, since you asked us...

We do anything from housework to finding missing persons!

If you're ever in trouble, just come to us!

We'll take any case and any kind of job as long as we get paid!

‐Because we're the ones ‐Because we're the ones

‐known as: Odd Jobs Gin! ‐known as: Odd Jobs Gin!

Odd Jobs Gin!?

You mean to say, you'll do anything for money?

Now I see.

That's why you snuck into our factory facility and...

There it is!

That must be it!

That's the cat we're looking for...

Kuromi of Yamatoya!

Come on now, Kitty.

Have some pickled seaweed...

Nooo!

Hey, you damned cat!

Just Wait!

They were just looking for a cat?

Gin Tama.

THE PLOT THUS FAR

The land of the samurai...

There was a time, a long time ago..

when our country was called by that name...

But with the arrival of the "Amanto"

or sky people from outer space and their rise to power,

they enacted sword ban to samurais twenty years ago...

and the samurai class fell into decline...

In such hard times,

there was one man left with the spirit of the samurai...

His name is Gintoki Sakata.

Long story short, Kagura and I, Shinpachi Shimura,

work at Odd Jobs Gin, which is coincidentally run

by this very same guy.

Which reminds me,

we've been working for him for about a year now,

but I really don't think that he has paid us at all yet.

Guys! Have you got balls?!

Mr. Kariya has just arrived, sirs!

I greet you!

‐I greet you! ‐I greet you!

I can't hear you!

Once again!

‐I greet you! ‐I greet you!

That's still not enough!

Would you care to try it again?

No, sir, there's not really enough time for that.

I see...

KARIYA, SHISHIMURA SHIMOMOTO, PUU

Today's guest characters: Kariya and Shishimura...

Shimomoto and Puu.

Don't try to remember their faces,

they're definitely not regulars.

Oh, hello there, Mr. Kariya.

And thank you for coming all this way to see us.

Dispense with the intros...

So, how are things going with that matter we talked about?

Fine.

Everything is going very well, Mr Kariya.

First, please take a look at this Powerpoint.

The goal of the project.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages,

all these papers aren't telling me a thing!

Is this a presentation for the spring anime season or what?!

Please forgive me, Mr. Kariya.

SHINSENGUMI, TOSHIRO HIJIKATA, SOGO OKITA

The Shinsengumi.

A secret police force working for the samurai government.

Hijikata.

Vice‐chief of Shinsengumi, the brains...

Okita.

One of the Shinsengumi's best swordsmen.

Yamazaki, situation report?

They're in a private meeting in a second floor back room.

There are four of them: one is an amanto alien,

two businessmen,

and then there's one tough‐looking ronin...

That's just perfect...

Let's go!

Speaking of the device we obtained

with Mr. Kariya's support...

We just finished assembling the amanto device

at our secret factory.

All we need to do now is get it into position.

If this project succeeds,

then all of the capital will fall under my control.

Yes, that is exactly right, Mr. Kariya.

This is a police raid!

It's the Shinsengumi!

‐Everyone stay still! ‐Okita! Come on!

Okay!

Freeze, Shinsengumi!

Good‐bye, Vice‐chief.

Hope you enjoy sucking on mayonnaise in the next world.

Hey, Okita, can't you even recognize who your enemies are?

I could kill you at any time before killing our enemies!

No way, it was a joke.

A joke, you know?

Come on, I'm always doing that.

Do you mean to say that you're always trying to kill me?!

Anyway, the thing is, Hijikata.

It seems that all of our efforts end in failure.

Well...

Not really all of our efforts.

Odd Jobs Gin.

You know, I'm really too old to be reading comic books

like this, but oh well.

I just can't quit buying them every week!

That's right, Gintoki.

Reading comics like that won't fill your stomach at all,

and your blood‐sugar level will not get lower.

I know, I know, I know, but I'm seriously addicted to it.

I keep thinking that I won't buy the next one,

‐but then here i am... ‐Gin, we've got a problem here.

I know. It's a problem.

Someone my age shouldn't be reading these.

Yeah, this onigiri's got a problem too, it's rotten!

That's not what I'm talking about!

Look at this! Take a look!

A bank account statement?

You can't fool me.

You know you can't eat a bank account statement.

We'll have nothing to eat,

get anemia and end up turning like those blue folks in avatar

because we have no money left and I'm feeling blue already!

Calm down, Shinpachi.

You're the little punk who didn't get the comics,

aren't you?

The thing is, having no money is just a chronic condition..

like a nasal infection, know what I mean?

So get used to it!

Being poor's nothing new and it's our destiny.

You've given up already?!

Your life is not on comic,

and being poor is not a chronic condition.

Even bread crust would look like a feast tomorrow for us!

What the...

Nasal infection?

It's an earthquake, moron!

The earthquake just stopped.

We're having a lot of earthquakes lately, so it seems.