07x26 - Always Leave Enough Room for Pebbles in Your Bag

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07x26 - Always Leave Enough Room for Pebbles in Your Bag

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M: Vice Commander of the Chidori Space Pirates' Second Division,

M: Diamond Princess Mutsu.

Gin: You were a space pirate?!

C: Long time no see, Con—

Sak: I've made up my mind.

Sak: This ship now belongs to Sakamoto Tatsuma!

Sak: I'll buy this ship, slaves and all.

W: Thank you so very much, Captain.

W: You're truly kind.

Sak: Give and take.

Sak: That's what business is all about.

C: Tomorrow, at Planet Ken'o, we shall execute all the slaves,

C: along with that girl.

M: Tell her it was delicious.

Warning ,Sign: Sakamoto Tatsuma's request: Watch this program in a nice 'n' bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!

M: Even I couldn't say why I did what I did back then.

M: Perhaps I didn't want to get others caught up in my own battles,

M: or perhaps I wanted to atone for all the slaves I'd sold up until then.

M: No, most likely...

M: the daughter of a pirate just wanted to take part in a real trade at the very end.

Ep Title,Title: Always Leave Enough Room for Pebbles in Your Bag

G: Put out the fire!

Gin: And? This is what your "real trade" resulted in?

Gin: Looks like you got some pretty hefty change back.

M: Yeah, droppin' all these coins is most unbecomin' of a trader.

G: Y-You bastards!

M: I'd better collect 'em all this time.

M: Right down to the very last yen.

Gin: Where's that moron?

M: They might've realized their bluff didn't work

M: and decided to try to take him and escape.

M: You search the deck.

Gin: Got it.

Gin: Wait, Muts—

Gin: Why, you little...

G: Welcome home, Vice Commander.

G: How nice of you to finally come back to us.

G: Let's pick up...

G: where we left off that time.

C: That's a pirate's daughter for you.

C: You're putting on a brave face right to the very end.

C: Or so I'd like to say,

C: but it seems you saw this coming.

M: Everybody knows pirates don't get to die painless deaths.

M: And I can see the very next cut,

M: where your face will be hit by bird poop, coming from a mile away.

C: Not again!

C: And the seagulls on this planet drop huge turds!

C: You're saying you were prepared to die at any time?

C: It won't come off...

C: Then why did you stay on this ship?

C: Was it for him, perhaps?

M: Why didn't you run?

Sak: The same reason you didn't.

Sak: You alone weren't enough bait

Sak: to ensure everyone could get away.

M: You...

C: By playing the decoy yourselves, you tried to distract us

C: and buy enough time for the slaves to get away.

C: Mutsu-sama, this is undeniably a rebellion.

C: Now I can freely order your execution.

Sign: .

C: And theirs, as well.

C: How's it look?

G: Targets sighted km south of this ship.

G: We just sh*t them down.

G: The slaves are now sleeping with the fishes.

C: Yes, it was just the same back then.

C: You tried to protect your friends,

C: but were unable to do anything

C: and simply fell to the ground.

C: And here you both are again,

C: fallen on the ground.

C: People never change, eh?

Sak: Yeah, they don't.

Sak: Just like your stupid face.

Sak: Oh, sorry.

Sak: I forgot I've never seen your face.

C: Let me tell you this, Con Man!

C: The one thing we wanted to take back from you most

C: was that girl's life!

C: If she hadn't escaped back then,

C: if I'd been the one at the helm,

C: I could've gotten the crumbling Chidori back on its feet!

C: But this traitor ruined everything!

G: Commander!

Sak: You were the ones who tossed her away, twice, like a pebble.

Sak: I'm a trader.

Sak: So long as I get paid, I'll gladly sell you anythin', be it ships or bags.

Sak: But no matter how large your offer,

Sak: I have nothin' to sell to scum

Sak: who don't understand the value of those pebbles we call comrades.

Sak: Could you please leave, good sir?

G: Y-You bastard!

Sak: People don't change, huh? Well said.

Sak: You haven't changed a bit since then, either.

C: Too bad.

C: None of what you did affected my plans in any way whatsoever.

C: Now, if you'll sink to the depths of the ocean, all will be as I planned.

M: Business is no walk in the park, huh?

M: In the end, all I did was take.

M: I couldn't give them anything in return.

Sak: Nah. Your pebble was a wonderful product.

Sak: That was good business.

M: That was nothing but a pebble.

Sak: All goods are worth nothin' 'til they're on a store shelf.

Sak: Traders are alchemists who derive value from nothin' to turn a profit.

Sak: That you discovered that value makes you a proper trader.

Sak: And now, it's my turn.

Sak: Didn't I tell you that I'd buy this ship, slaves and all?

Sak: I never planned on leaving anyone locked inside a cage.

Sak: Including you, Mutsu.

Sak: You're no longer a pirate,

Sak: nor a mere pebble.

Sak: You're a diamond I found in the rough,

Sak: a gem known as a comrade!

C: Y-You fiends!

M: We played dead and disguised ourselves among your men.

M: I can't believe you fell for it twice.

M: You really aren't cut out to be a captain.

M: One moronic captain is more than enough.

G: Fire!

G: Attention all pirates!

G: C-Commander! The sl*ve ships!

G: We have taken over your fleet!

G: Hand over the mother ship, too,

G: How did they...

G: and free all the slaves!

G: You have five minutes.

G: One...

G: Two...

G: Three...

C: Y-You bastards!

G: Four...

G: Five...

G: Gran?!

G: That was too quick! Didn't you hear me say "five minutes"?!

G: When you get old, time seems to fly by so much faster.

G: No, it really has only been five seconds!

G: They fired at us!

C: Curses! Ignore the f*ring and turn the tables on the slaves!

G: C-Commander! They've vanished!

C: What?

Sak: Hup.

Gin: W-Wait.

Gin: That fighting style,

Gin: pale skin,

Gin: and braided hat to ward off the sun...

Gin: Don't tell me...

Gin: You're a Yato?!

Gin: So the heiress of a space pirate fleet

Gin: is also a member of the universe's mightiest warrior race?!

Gin: Where does that leave our heroine?!

Gin: Damn it, Tatsuma!

Gin: You couldn't have picked a more dangerous XO if you'd tried!

Sak: Yato? What's that all about?

Gin: You didn't know?!

C: Fire!

C: Hold them off!

Sak: Are they trying to escape?

M: Not on my watch.

M: You're not the only ones who can use projectiles!

G: Commander! All the g*ns have been destroyed!

C: I don't care! Get going!

M: Don't you understand that I'm tellin' you to wait?

M: You forgot your change, sir.

C: M-Mutsu...

C: With that much power and talent,

C: you could've become a notorious pirate.

C: Why are you still serving that man?

C: Why do you remain a mere trader?

C: To repay your debt to him?

C: To atone for the slaves?

M: Nonsense.

M: Even if I wanted to repay my debts,

M: or atone for my sins,

M: they're all gone.

M: That insane trader took all my debts and sins from me.

M: I stand before you as someone who lost everything she had.

M: As plain old Mutsu.

M: As Vice Captain of the Kaientai, Mutsu.

C: Those are the slaves from back then!

C: Don't tell me your Kaientai is...

M: Remember this.

M: I'm not a pebble that moron picked up.

M: The one who found a pile of gems back then

M: was me.

M: What's this?

M: Here I thought I'd finally get to see your face,

M: but it's as filthy as ever.

M: It ain't gonna sell.

G: Mutsu-sama! I'm so glad you're safe!

G: I knew you'd be able to pull it off.

G: You even managed to buy a ship with those unprofitable bags.

G: Give it back! Give our ship back!

G: Your business acumen is truly beyond measure, Mutsu-sama.

G: Let's celebrate Mutsu-sama's safe return with a party!

Sak: Hey! Doesn't anybody want to celebrate the captain's safe return?!

Gin: Well, you didn't return safe and sound.

Gin: Your mug's gone bon voyage.

Gin: Still, I'm amazed your Kaientai fleet

Gin: is made up of the slaves you freed.

Sak: This is a trade, too.

Sak: The slaves have nowhere to go, so I give them a home as members of my crew.

Sak: In return, it saves me labor costs.

Sak: It's a win-win.

Gin: I'll leave it at that,

Gin: because I'm sure you'd rather drop dead than say you did it for a girl.

Gin: You'll have to compensate me for my services.

Gin: I'm running a business, too.

Sak: I'll leave it at that,

Sak: because I'm sure you'd rather drop dead than say you did it for a girl, too.

M: You said I was no longer a pirate, didn't you?

M: How so?

M: This is clearly worse than piracy.

Sak: Don't sweat the small stuff.

Sak: Pirates and traders do more or less the same things.

Sak: We eat, poop, sleep, and puke.

M: You're the only one who pukes anywhere and everywhere.

Sak: Besides, you already know the difference between pirates and traders.

Sak: That's right.

Sak: We Kaientai are pirates who live for pleasure.

Pie,Sign: Kai-rates

Sak: We're Kai-rates!

G: We're good to go.

Sak: Kaientai...

M: ...lift off!

Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan

Shin: Gin-san, Gin-san, we've received a package from Mutsu-san.

Gin: What? Is it my reward?

Gin: The Razor XO really knows where it's at!

Kag: Look, Gin-chan!

Kag: It's million yen!

Gin: For real?!

Kag: Or, well, a bag with room for million,

Kag: filled with pickled radishes!

M: That was good business.

Internal,M: With those words, the woman filled her pockets with pebbles

Internal,M: and set sail across the sea of stars.

Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan

Shin: Wait, what?

Gin: We ended up with some time left over.

Shin: Don't say it like that!

Kag: I was irritated that characters who usually only show up in the OP and ED

Kag: got a two-episode arc that ended on a nice note, so I'm glad this happened.

Kag: What do you mean, she's actually a Yato? That's news to me.

Shin: Well, there have been ups and downs,

Shin: but Gintama Season Three, which began with an apology press conference,

Shin: has now managed to stay on air for a whole two cours.

Gin: Seriously, so much has happened.

Gin: We played basketball and wore the Cloths.

Kag: We really did our best to ride on others' coattails.

Shin: Uh, well...

Shin: And now,

Shin: thanks to all of you, it's been decided that we'll be airing a third cours, too!

Gin: Oh...

Kag: 'Kay.

Shin: Hey, what's with the lame reactions?

Gin: Everyone probably already found out we're continuing from anime magazines

Gin: or TV Tokyo's official site.

Kag: And considering we'll have to make do with a shoestring budget,

Kag: it's a double-edged sword.

Shin: Hey! What's with this mood?!

Shin: Act more excited, even if you have to force yourselves!

Gin: But well,

Gin: it was really difficult to make a return this time.

Gin: I mean, the manga staff used Jump's cover to tell us, "Don't do it!"

Gin: And the filthy grown-ups went all,

Gin: "This will set a bad example, so you represent all the anime staff and apologize."

Gin: To top it all off, they said,

Gin: "Your hair's all crooked. Show some sincerity,"

Gin: and nearly made me shave my head there.

I somehow convinced them to let me off with a : part!

Any adult who'd associate with this anime can't be a decent person.

Yeah, we did suddenly go from a Sunrise production

to being produced by Bandai Namco *ictures.

Shin: Uh, was that really the company's name?

Kag: Bandai Namco *ictures is just Bandai Namco *ictures.

Kag: Oh, would abbreviating it to BN* be easier to say?

Shin: I'm saying there's no beep there!

Shin: I mean, it's just a P!

Gin: When you're running a company,

Gin: there are some things you just gotta hide from the public.

Shin: What's the point of hiding the company's name?!

Kag: That aside, what do we do about the remaining airtime?

Gin: Oh, maybe run a recap or something?

Kag: The higher-ups said to make it seem a little special,

Kag: because if we did a normal recap,

Kag: we'd look like all those other shows delayed by production issues.

Gin: Man, that's such a pain in the ass.

Shin: Uh, in that case,

Shin: how about the three of us describe all that's happened so far as we reflect on it?

Gin: But if it's just the three of us, won't it all be the same stuff?

Kag: We could make it seem special by having three special guests.

Kag: How about something like this?

Red,Sign: Third Cours Confirmed Celebration Project

Blue,Sign: Our Recap

Shin: Our Recap.

Shin: Our guests today:

Sign: Sakata Gintoki

Shin: Sakata Gintoki-san,

Sign: Sakata Gintoki (F)

Shin: Sakata Gintoki-san,

Sign: Sakata Gintoki (Hijikata)

Shin: and Sakata Gintoki-san.

Gin: Hold it right there!

Gin: What the hell is this?

Gin: Guests, my foot!

Gin: They're all me!

Gin: How are we all coexisting at the same time?!

Ginko: Oh, shut it.

Ginko: Because there's demand for us, obviously.

Gin: Screw that! Your demand is my demand!

Ginko: Who are you, Gian?

Ginko: You despicable scum!

Gin: Um, you're me, you know!

Hij: I'm not you on the inside.

Hij: Don't get the wrong idea.

Gin: And you, get out of my body already!

Ginko: Hey, President. Whatcha think of this dude's attitude?

Hij: I don't remember allying with you, either.

Hij: Crazy bitch.

Ginko: Say what?!

Ginko: Don't get all cocky using my body, damn Mayopiggy-X!

Hij: Who are you calling Mayopiggy-X?!

Ginko: Also, what's with that hairdo?

Ginko: Trying to act cool?

Ginko: Even though your real body has V-shaped bangs?

Ginko: Is it because of the V-shaped bangs?

Ginko: Because you want to be freed of the V-shaped curse?

Hij: Like hell, dumbass!

Hij: I can set my hair in my real body if I try, too!

Hij: I can get a makeover at any time!

Gin: Stop it, you two!

Gin: This is making me feel really awkward, so stop!

Gin: I can't do this anymore!

Gin: Cut, cut! Let's start over!

Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan

Kag: What was that for, Gin-chan?

Kag: That seemed really special, you know.

Gin: We don't need special if it's going to be so out of control!

Gin: We're not after something on the level of Christmas

Gin: and New Year's coming at the same time!

Gin: Just a little bit is fine!

Gin: A three-day weekend is fine!

Kag: A three-day weekend, huh?

Red,Sign: Third Cours Confirmed Celebration Project

Blue,Sign: Our Recap

Shin: Our Recap.

Shin: Our guests today:

Sign: Ga*a

Shin: Ga*a-san,

Sign: O*tega

Shin: O*tega-san,

Sign: Ma*h

Shin: and Ma*h-san.

Gin: Hold it!

Gin: Cut, cut!

Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan

Gin: I said three-day, not Tri-Stars!

Gin: Though I should've seen it coming!

Gin: That joke was in SD Gundam already, as the Black Tri-Defeats or something!

Kag: By taking a step back,

Kag: it's actually become easier to mess with this.

Kag: I wanna ask them what the story is behind the move from Sunrise to BN*.

Gin: Those guys know what happened?!

Kag: I guess they wouldn't.

Kag: How about this, then?

Red,Sign: Third Cours Confirmed Celebration Project

Blue,Sign: Our Recap

Shin: Our Recap.

Shin: Our guests today:

Sign: Sadaharu

Shin: Sadaharu-san,

Sign: Dozaemon

Shin: Dozaemon-san,

Sign: Hideyoshi (Gorilla)

Shin: and Hideyoshi-san.

Gin: I have no idea what they're saying!

Gin: And couldn't you talk like a human being before?!

Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan

Kag: I thought a pet special would be soothing.

Gin: It's not! It's nothing but unsettling!

Shin: Uh, I'm sorry,

Shin: but while we were messing around, we ended up with less than seconds remaining!

Gin: Seriously?!

Gin: Forget about the project now. Let's just flash back to everything in one go!

Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan

Gin: On that note...

All: Please look forward to the third cours!

Ep Title,Title: Style Goes Out of Fashion the Moment It's Put Into Words There Are Two Types of People In This World: Those Who Yell Out Their att*ck Names, and Those Who Don't

Shin: Next episode, we have Style and Ultimate att*cks.

Shin: Yeahhhh!

text r: Next episode is a two-parter featuring Shinpachi for some reason,

text l: so we're flashing back to his scenes in one go.

text r: His retorts are so good, we'd like them echoing in the mountains at night.

text l: Oh, and there'll be a new OP and ED! Yeahhhh!
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