“We have to keep the circle ofPage 1:
Title: 'Gintama'
Insert: This place where men assemble is...
Title: The long-awaited new series of the TV Anime 'Gintama' airs every Tuesday at 6PM on TV Tokyo starting on April 8th 2015!!
Somebody: No schooling,
no status,
all they can believe in
is their own sword.
They're raising a flag here with that alone.
Sign: Roushigumi Volunteer Location
T/N: Roushigumi (Ronin Group) was a historical group that proceeded the Shinsengumi where meant to protect the Tokugawa shogun.
Somebody: Everybody that gathered here are country bumpkins like that.
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Kon: Don't get buried
by their dreams.
You'll cut your way
to your own dreams with your own swords.
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Kon: Here,
we're gonna become samurai.
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Guy: Director.
Director!!
A few kilometers from here
is the shadow of a ship.
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Guy: No...
That's...!!
Sasaki: So, they've come, have they?
The Shinsengumi.
So, will this will be
the day that dream ends?
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Sasaki: Or will it be the day
I awaken from the dream I've been having for so long.
SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Guy: Sink them before they reach the island!!
Sasaki: If there's something for you to cut your way to,
then by all means, cut away.
I tend to toss about in my sleep quite a bit.
Insert: They intertwining fates burst open-----!!
Title: Lesson 533
Stray Dogs
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
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SFX: DODON
Guys: Looks like it's gotten started.
SFX: GOGOGOGOGOGO
Kon: H-Hey, you don't think...
that Toshi and the others...
are over there...!!?
Zura: ...No.
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Zura: There are no figures...
of any people on board.
Someone: Could it be...
Could it...?!!
SFX: JIJI...
SFX: DOOOON
Zura: It's a tactic Gintoki often used.
Out boat-loving friend Sakamoto used to shout at him that boats weren't firewood.
In order to create a way to break free from this state of high-alert, they abandoned their ships, using them as decoys.
It is a signal to us, as well.
If the fire is coming from in front of us, then that means
the part of this island they plan to make landfall at is the back.
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Zura: A place where landfall is impossible.
Gin: If this is a castle where invasion is impossible from any direction from straight in front,
then if we do get in in some way besides the front, then we can capture the castle easily.
Gin: ..........
Hiji: So you think we can make it over that sheer cliff?
Gin: If the enemy is as doubtful, then that means it's worth climbing.
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Oki: This isn't the time to be grumbling about that.
There are boats packed with gunpowder in front of us.
Even though we setup derangement corps in all 4 directions,
who knows how well they can draw away the enemy.
From what I can see, there're no footholds to about half way up the cliff.
Still, we've gotta climb it. So the question is how do we get that far?
Kagura: One person can just climb up there carrying a rope and then let it hang down for everyone else to climb, yes?
Please leave that to me.
Okita: China, you....
Handwritten: You sure?
Kagura: Yes! I can clear a cliff like this in one oomph.
Oomph!!
SFX: BUN BUN BUOOO
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SFX: GAGOON
Kagura: Okay! Everyone, grab onto that rope and climb, yes?!
Hiji: You weren't the one climbiiiing?!!
Like hell we can use a rope that's drenched in blood like thaaaat!!
And it ain't nearly long enough, for crying out loud!!
SFX: POTA (DRIP)
Kagura: Oh well. I guess we ill have to add a bit more rope!!
Hiji: You don't need to add any more people to iiiiit!!
SFX: BUOOO
Kagura: Ah, I slipped. There is no point if he lands there, yes?
SOmebody: Vice Captaiiiiin! You did that on purpose, didn't you! I know you did!
SFX: GOOGA
Gin: Now's our chance. We'll just do this and use them like stairs.
SFGX: GAN GAAN
Yama: I'm sorry, but is there any real point in this first stair? Is my life just a stepping stone?
SFX: BOGOO
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Guys: Screw off, you pieces a trash!!
There's not gonna be anybody left by the time we get to the top!!
SFX: GOH
Hiji: Let's break your body into pieces and use that as our footholds!
Gin: Quit messing around! The only one that's allowed to step on my **** is Ketsuno Ana!
SFX: GYAAA GYAAA KUSU KUSU (Teehee)
Tae: Shin-chan.
I... was thinking that I couldn't go back anymore.
SFX: SHURU
Tae: Those days would never come back. That's what I thought.
But it looks like...
I can still smile.
Odd, isn't it?
Even though it's such a dangerous situation,
being together with everyone, I... at some point...
Shin: .........
Please just wait there.
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Shin: That man,
everyone,
I will bring them home, I promise.
So Sister,
please just wait there with that same smile on your face as always.
Whatever happens after this,
no matter what sort of era comes,
as long as your smile is there,
as long as everyone's smiles are there,
we can always
go back to those days.
SFX: GOSHIH (Rub)
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Shin: I'm gonna get going now,
Sister.
Kon: ...How many are there?
Zura: Noticed, have you?
Probably ten-odd of them... Naraku, eh?
From their numbers, it looks like they haven't caught on to Gintoki's group's movements.
So they entrusted the front to the Mimawarigumi and the inner land to a patrol unit?
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Zura: Go on ahead.
SFX: ZAZA
Zura: If we continue as a group, they'll learn of the rendezvous point with Gintoki.
And if you die here, we will lose the Shinsengumi's cooperation.
Kon: .........
Go, Tottsan.
Matsu: !
Kon: Sorry,
but while I did break out of prison,
I don't recall ever promising to cooperate with you Joui Patriots.
So you're gonna have to let me do what I want.
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Zura: You......
Matsu: Kondou...!!
!!
SFX: ZAZA ZAZA
Kon: GOOOOOO!!!
Tottsan!
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Matsu: The Joui War is over and the world has reached a new era.
But the spark of war still hasn't been extinguished from this world.
There's a gang of vagabonds calling them selves Joui Patriots strutting about out in public.
They call themselves the expellers of foreigners, repeat acts of lawlessness, and post a constant threat to the peace in Edo.
And well, if I'm being honest,
they're people that're a lot like you lot.
Not knowing what to do with their strength, they don't know where to throw it.
They say they're expellers of foreigners and patriots,
but essentially, they're just a bunch of people that want an excuse to be violent.
So then we, the Bakufu, ha an idea.
Maybe we could use the strength of guys like you for something else?
Maybe we could find some other reasons to give you guys your fill of violence?
That is why we are recruiting for this special peace-keeping unit, the Roushigumi.
Sign: Roushigumi Volunteer Location
Matsu: So how about it? You guys
are gonna be going on rampages anyhow, so why not use that power...
not to harm something,
but to protect something instead?
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Matsu: I used some pretty extravagant words,
but basically, I was just talking about making stray dogs bite each other.
The plan those guys up in the Baku had was to round up the thugs they think might join the bad guys at any moment,
give them swords, give them missions,
and dress them up as samurai.
Thus getting them and the Joui Patriots to wipe each other out.
It's pretty pretty ironic.
That new era became the old era. And with the samurai dying out.......
so now the last hope left to protect this country
is those stray dogs.
After clashing with one another and and competing against one another
and overcoming numerous battles together, the fangs of those stray dogs
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Matsu: eventually became sharp enough...
to bite the swords of samurai to pieces.
You bastards aren't
just some stray dogs anymore.
You're noble
wolves.
Insert: Cut through...!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 533
/ End people who know about this matter as small as possible.” Shikamaru said.