08x01 - The Monster and the Monster's Child

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Gin: Here we are.

Gin: It's the late night slot.

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Kag: This place is kinda dusty.

Gin: Deal with it.

Kag: What's this?

Gin: Probably something the previous occupant left behind.

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Gin: Now, then...

Gin: Shinpachi.

Shin: Yes?

Gin: This is a late night slot.

Gin: We'll need to greet the viewers appropriately.

Shin: Right.

Gin: Hello to all you night owls watching the television.

Gin: The Gintama anime will now resume in its late night incarnation.

Gin: One, two...

Gin: Gilgamesh!

Shin: You just wanted to do that, didn't you?!

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Gin: Ow...

Gin: Damn, not yet.

Gin: My sword ain't broken yet.

Gin: One more time,

Gin: Shoyo!

Sho: You nearly had me there, Gintoki.

Gin: Where, exactly?

Sho: There.

Gin: Could you be more specific?

Sho: Right around there.

Gin: How can I be as strong as you, Shoyo?

Gin: I'd never lost until I met you, not even to grown-ups.

Gin: But you're far less simple than a grown-up.

Gin: You're a giant.

Sho: You're wrong, Gintoki. I am...

Sho: a Hanshin fan.

Gin: Would you listen to me?

Gin: I'm saying I've never seen a monster like you.

Gin: What the hell were you up to before we met?

Gin: Who the hell are you?

Sho: You were called the "Corpse-Eating Devil," so you should understand.

Sho: There's no difference between a monster and the child of a monster.

Sho: They are both inhuman beings that are only born within a bloody pool of sin.

Sho: And a monster's sword cannot cut another monster.

Sho: So, Gintoki,

Sho: stop trying to grow stronger by imitating me.

Sho: I'm not going to teach you how to wield the sword like me, either.

Sho: You have to grow stronger than me using your own sword,

Sho: the sword of a human.

Sho: I expect great things from you.

Sho: Someday, hopefully...

U: You'll come cut down the monster that I am.

U: It's too bad.

U: Like I said, a monster's sword...

U: Your sword can't reach me.

Gin: Just a dream, huh?

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Kat: Elizabeth! An enemy att*ck?

Gin: That's right.

Gin: A seriously lethal w*apon was about to pierce my skull.

Kat: What?

Kat: The evil arm of the bakufu extends all the way to this underground town of Akiba?

Kat: But rest assured, Gintoki.

Kat: We will protect your life in hiding.

Kat: Don't let a single rat get close to the hideout!

Kat: Don't you dare let anyone find out Gintoki is here!

Gin: Even from space, you could tell this is a hideout!

Gin: Go look up the word "hiding" in the dictionary!

Gin: Like I need all your nasty b*lls lined up in that tiny-ass room!

Gin: I never asked you morons to be my bodyguards.

Kat: Even if you didn't, nobody would leave their group's ace to die.

Gin: I don't recall becoming any group's ace.

Kat: It's too late to play that card now, Gintoki.

Kat: You charged into Edo Castle,

Kat: got into a huge fight with the bakufu army, and threw Lord Sadasada out of power.

Kat: You insulted and harassed the former shogun, Shigeshige, many a time,

Kat: and even punched his successor, Nobunobu, injuring him gravely.

Kat: You took part in the Shinsengumi's mutiny

Kat: and helped them rescue their commander, Kondo Isao, from the bakufu.

Kat: Even among the Joi Rebels, nobody else has pulled off so many acts of terror!

Kat: You're a t*rror1st, and a far more radical one than Takasugi and me, at that!

Kat: There's no going back for you at this point.

Kat: You will never have a peaceful life again.

Kat: You won't even be able to hold your loved ones with your bloodstained hands!

Kat: The only thing left in those hands is a bloody, metallic revolution!

Gin: Uh, you practically sound like a bad guy.

Gin: I never committed any acts of terror.

Gin: I punched a guy who pissed me off, and he just happened to represent the country.

Gin: And, since it turned into a big deal,

Gin: I just tried to cut it into pieces and bury it.

Gin: Don't lump me in with you lot.

G: Forget t*rror1st, you're just a homicidal maniac!

Kat: Do you think you can go back to the Kabuki District once things calm down?

Kat: I hate to break it to you, but that's impossible.

Gin: Ack!

Gin: A wanted poster?!

Sign: If this face triggers your memory, call

Gin: For real? They're circulating these?

Gin: And that photo just screams v*olence.

Gin: Who took this? And when?

Gin: Isn't this just some violent impostor in a wig?

Kat: I'm not an impostor. I'm Katsura.

Gin: It was you?!

Kat: The previous photo made you look way too evil,

Kat: so I took your guise, showed off your sweet tooth, and had a fancier one taken.

Gin: It's supposed to be me eating cake?

Gin: Just having the cake cut off made me look so violent?

Kat: And then I circulated the new one.

Gin: Recall it!

Sign: If this face triggers your memory, call

Kat: Don't worry. I altered it.

Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch

Shin: We're Odd Jobs Gin-chan, and we've expanded into Akiba!

Kag: Need to collect Love Live! bonus items or sell off your Love Live! Sunshine!! goods?

Kag: You name it, we'll do it!

Kag: If this face triggers your memory, come see us!

Gin: Can I do this if I get triggered instead?

Gin: Reusing wanted posters as store flyers? Could you make this any more violent?!

Shin: Now is the time for positive thinking, Gin-san.

Gin: What you're doing is more like primitive thinking!

Kag: Even when we fall, we don't get back up for free. That's the Odd Jobs motto.

Gin: I'll give you money, so stay down! Never get back up again, please!

Kag: Don't worry.

Kag: Akiba folk are just walking corpses who ironically call themselves Love Livers.

Kag: Nobody cares about you.

Gin: You'd better knock it off, or you'll be wanted by Love Livers, too!

Gin: Don't look down on Love Livers!

Gin: Those guys are insane!

Gin: Not even love survivor ninja robots would be a match for them!

G: Oh, hello? Uh...

G: There's a guy here who looks a lot like someone on a wanted poster.

G: Uh, hello?

G: My phone!

Gin: Are you stupid?

Nob: Excuse me. I'm here because I saw the flyer.

Nob: Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch...

Nob: Mind if I make a request?

Nob: Looks like you'll need to relocate again,

Nob: Odd Jobs.

Gin: Right back at you.

Gin: I would've thought you'd left Edo long ago.

Gin: What happened to the Mimawarigumi?

Nob: I don't have the ability or right to lead them anymore.

Nob: A lot of them wanted to repay Kondo Isao for saving them on the b*ttlefield,

Nob: so they went with the Shinsengumi.

Nob: They'll be much better off with a man like him.

Nob: I've got my own job to do...

Nob: As Sasaki Isaburo's comrade,

Nob: and...

Nob: as one of Shoyo's pupils.

Nob: I can't let this country and that man do what they want.

Gin: I didn't know I had a junior here.

Gin: But you know a side of Yoshida Shoyo that we don't know...

Gin: You know Utsuro, don't you?

Gin: Tell us, what did Shoyo—

Gin: My.

Mat: Freeze!

Mat: You betrayed us, Imai Nobume?

Mat: Why is the White Yaksha here?

Mat: Y-You're...

Mat: One of Takasugi's Kiheitai,

Mat: Kijima ****ko!

Mat: Why the hell did you bleep that out?!

Mat: That's misleading! Just say Matako!

Gin: No, we can't talk about that in a late night anime.

Gin: Let's keep the **** under wraps, okay—

Nob: Put your g*n away, D***ko.

Mat: What did you say?!

Mat: Did you just use a totally different four-letter word?!

Mat: You're the one who should put her w*apon away.

Mat: The Mimawarigumi was supposed to be on our side.

Mat: Why are you with the White Yaksha's g*ng?

Kat: Oh, right.

Kat: Before Nobunobu sold you out,

Kat: you were working together as the Hitotsubashi Faction to take over the country.

Nob: It was Sasaki Isaburo, the individual, who formed an alliance with you.

Nob: The Mimawarigumi were only being used.

Nob: And Isaburo and the Mimawarigumi are both gone now.

Hen: So the rumors were true.

Hen: Good grief.

Hen: We came here as a last resort,

Hen: but it seems we don't have any allies anywhere anymore.

Nob: You may not have allies here, but you do have Shoyo's students

Nob: and the Odd Jobs Akiba Branch, which will do anything you want.

Gin: Don't tell me your request is...

Nob: Tell us.

Nob: What happened to...

Nob: the other student of Shoyo's?

Hen: Nobunobu and the Elders betrayed the Kiheitai and cut us out of the Harusame,

Hen: making us nothing but a tiny, isolated army wandering in space.

Hen: But even in that crisis, Kamui-dono's th Division went on the att*ck

Hen: and successfully captured one of the syndicate's bases, the Southern Paradise.

Hen: However, it turned out to be a trap laid by the Harusame.

Hen: We and Kamui-dono barely managed to escape,

Hen: but half our fleet was reduced to space debris.

Abu: Are they trying to hunt every single rabbit down?

Abu: We're an endangered species, you know.

Abu: They could stand to be a little nicer to us.

Kam: Nah, they know their stuff.

Kam: Abuto, rabbits can die of loneliness.

Kam: But the enemy has prepared a fun playground for us.

Kam: We need to show our gratitude.

G: Wh-What the?

Kam: Charge in!

Hen: Abuto-dono!

Hen: Why would you charge into the flagship by yourselves? Are you out of your minds?!

Abu: You're barking up the wrong tree!

Abu: He said he felt like getting up close and personal with the enemy general.

Abu: Grab Takasugi and scram while we're distracting the enemy.

Abu: If we live to meet again, give this moron a piece of your mind.

Hen: What are you saying, Abuto-dono?

Abu: I've got a bad feeling about this.

Abu: The Harusame never fought like this before.

Abu: Someone who's familiar with the Yato's k*lling style has joined them.

Abu: I knew it.

Abu: Who the hell have they teamed up with?

Kam: Just think about who could pull this crap against Yato.

Kam: Only two people in this entire universe...

Kam: Stupid me, and my stupid father.

Shin: Umibozu-san?

Shin: Wh-Why?

Hen: That's what we'd like to know, but...

Hen: What we do know is that he and the Harusame

Hen: banished the Kiheitai and the th Division into the darkness of space.

Hen: Kamui-dono has gone missing,

Hen: and so has Shinsuke-dono.

Ban: Takechi has readied an escape vessel.

Ban: Run, Matako.

Ban: I promise to bring Shinsuke with me.

Ban: So...

Ban: Live on.

Ban: Don't let the Kiheitai end this way.

Mat: Shinsuke-sama is still alive.

Mat: The Kiheitai aren't finished yet.

Mat: I bet they're waiting for our help right now.

Mat: So... So...

Gin: That so?

Gin: Guess I should go finish him off for good.

Shin: Gin-san!

Gin: Sorry, Nobume-san, but that's the most I can do for them.

Gin: Or do you want me to avenge those morons?

Nob: Unless the Harusame are taken out, this country will never change.

Nob: The Harusame Space Pirates have links to the Tendoshu

Nob: and have amassed great power.

Nob: If Naraku is one of Utsuro's wings,

Nob: then the Harusame is the other.

Nob: Tear it off, and you'll bring the crows that look down on mankind crashing down.

Nob: And only you, Shoyo's pupils, have the power to do that.

E: It has been a while, Utsuro-dono.

E: Thank you for traveling all the way to the end of the universe to see us.

E: Though we didn't exactly invite you.

U: Rest assured.

U: I may be one of the Tendoshu,

U: but unlike those senior citizens, I don't like sitting too long in one place.

E: Ah, you're telling us senile geezers to shut up and sit our butts down?

U: Senile geezers wouldn't be able to sink an entire fleet from their seats.

U: Thanks to your efforts in keeping a part of the rebels occupied in space,

U: we managed to take on the enemies on Earth.

U: We're truly grateful.

E: All we did was deal with our enemies.

E: We don't need your gratitude.

E: Indeed. We should stick to the agreement we've had until now

E: and help each other only when our interests align.

U: "So don't get any closer"?

U: Dear me. Everyone in the universe hates the Tendoshu.

U: Even the Elders of the cosmos' biggest crime syndicate are wary of us?

U: Do you think a youngster like me could be plotting something?

E: I wonder which of us is really the youngster here.

E: In your eyes, even we geezers must look like nothing more than greenhorns,

E: Utsuro-dono.

Nob: You people need to know

Nob: just what the Tendoshu controlling this country are,

Nob: and just who Utsuro is.

Nob: They're all beings born from Altana.

Nob: Altana being the new energy resource the Amanto discovered.

Nob: Some in this country call them ley lines.

Shin: I've heard about that.

Shin: I think Ane and Mone mentioned

Shin: that the terminal the Amanto built is powered by that.

Nob: Right.

Nob: The invention of a method to convert Altana into usable energy

Nob: led to rapid development across the universe.

Nob: Interstellar travel became easy,

Nob: as did the development of weapons capable of destroying planets.

Nob: And those in possession of Altana gained massive influence.

Nob: After many a w*r,

Nob: states signed a non-aggression pact that rendered Altana reserves off-limits

Nob: and formed a centralized organization to monitor Altana gates, or "holes."

Nob: That is the Altana Preservation Agency,

Nob: later known as the Tendoshu.

Gin: So, basically, the people who were meant to monitor the resource

Gin: used its power for their own benefit?

Kat: The holes in each planet were closed off, and only they had access to it.

Kat: That's how they took control of countless planets and consumed them...

Kat: Like parasites.

Nob: Part of the reason they're obsessed with Earth

Nob: is its massive Altana reserves, which were previously untouched.

Nob: But what they're probably most interested in is a certain phenomenon...

Nob: An unexplained effect, which had been documented as a miracle in the past,

Nob: that somehow influences the very principles of life.

Nob: On this planet, it happened to take the form of a man.

Nob: Utsuro,

Nob: the founder's name passed down through generations of Tenshoin Naraku.

Nob: Each head of the Naraku is said to have inherited that name and

Nob: worked behind the scenes for the authority of their time.

Nob: But that wasn't the truth.

Nob: It came to light during the Tokugawa's reign, when Naraku served the Tendoshu.

Nob: The Utsuro at the time mysteriously went missing.

Nob: Since Naraku made traitors pay for their sins with death,

Nob: they looked all over for him.

Nob: Utsuro had changed his name, concealed his background,

Nob: and was teaching kids.

Nob: It's said that the look in his eyes made him seem like a different person.

Nob: Later on, his students caused a major uprising,

Nob: but they were defeated,

Nob: and Utsuro was ex*cuted.

Nob: That's when something unexpected happened.

Nob: That's the truth behind Utsuro.

Nob: Over its -year history, the Tenshoin Naraku had thirteen heads.

Nob: But they were all the same man...

Nob: A man who became incapable of dying due to the power of Altana.

Nob: "Yoshida Shoyo" was but a fleeting smile that Utsuro let slip.

U: Surely you jest.

U: The Tendoshu, a bunch of immortals?

U: Where did you hear a baseless rumor like that?

E: Where, indeed?

E: But I hear you used to be an agency that researched Altana.

E: It would make sense if that research led you

E: to the entire universe's greatest wish, immortality.

E: That's how looking at your unfathomable smile makes us feel.

U: The entire universe's greatest wish? Is it really?

U: Can an endless life really be called "life"?

U: If living can be defined as not being dead,

U: can life really exist in the absence of the very concept of death?

U: I would call that a void.

U: A hollow, "Utsuro," if you will, devoid of life and death.

U: When people suffer for long, they seek an end to it all.

U: But even in times of happiness, when they find out that it's everlasting,

U: they seek an end to it all.

U: And I have met my end and taken birth over and over again.

U: But no matter how many times I started over, I was still "Utsuro," a void.

U: That's why the me of now was born...

U: To k*ll all of myself and put an end to all of Utsuro.

E: The th Division of the Harusame?!

E: I see.

E: You've already...

U: Respected Elders,

U: I'm here today to sign a new agreement with you.

U: Under its terms, you will first transfer all control over the Harusame to me.

U: And second...

U: You snot-nosed brats will shut up and keep your butts seated.

Nob: There's no telling how long Utsuro has been living for,

Nob: or whether Shoyo is still a part of him or not.

Nob: But one thing is for sure:

Nob: he's currently the most dangerous being in the universe.

Ep Title,Title : Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part One

Ep Title,Title : The Monster and the Monster's Child

Ep Title,Next Title : Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part Two

Gin: We're coming back here, no matter what...

Ep Title,Next Title : Next Episode Leave Letter

Gin: The three of us, and one critter.

TextR: A leave letter even though we just started?!

TextL: There's a reason deeper than the universe for this...

TextR: Somehow or the other, the Battle on Rakuyo Arc has begun!

TextL: What's "Rakuyo"?? Find out next time!