ED Card: Gintama
Silver Soul,ED Card: Silver Soul
TextR: The first half of the Silver Soul Arc
TextL: reaches its climax!
TextR: That man
TextL: joins the fray, too.
Warning: Watch the Silver Soul arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!
Soy: I'm Tokugawa Shigeshige's little sister,
Soy: Soyo.
Soy: Nobunobu-sama...
Soy: It's you, isn't it?
Sak: What's wrong, Shogun-sama?
Sak: Weren't you tryin' ta get in touch with your retainers on Earth?
Sak: Hello. I'm Sakamoto Tatsuma, of the Kaientai.
Sak: For reasons, I'm workin' with the shogun right now.
Sak: Don't worry. He's perfectly fine.
Sak: And...
G: Admiral!
Sak: With the support of Liberation Army Admiral Shijaku and his faction,
Sak: we've just broken out of jail!
Title: Silver Soul Arc
Title: Bushido Is Found One Second Before Death
G: The comms have been restored.
G: What's going on?
G: Don't tell me, old man Gengai...
G: If the enemy's weapons start working again, we're done for!
Hij: Hurry!
Hij: No matter what, we must find Gengai and free him from the enemy!
Gin: Calm down, you guys.
Gin: That geezer ain't the type to become the enemy's puppet.
Gin: He'll die quietly for us.
Shin: Don't k*ll him off!
Gin: Don't worry.
Gin: He's a surprisingly good communicator,
Gin: so he'll do fine in space or in hell.
Shin: Stop k*lling him off already!
Gin: In more pressing matters,
Gin: I need to take some Hepa, and I need you to get me a sick bag.
Gin: Wait a second. Don't shake me so much.
Gin: I feel sick...
Hij: Hey! Why would you drink until you puke during a w*r?!
Gin: I figured this was the save point before the last boss, too.
Gin: I was planning on recovering all my HP.
Gin: But when I woke up, I found myself rolling in a pit of poison.
Gin: My status screen had turned green.
Gin: Real life doesn't have save points.
Gin: Life is all about how your hitbox grows larger with each step you take.
Gin: In the first place, do you have proof the geezer was abducted?
Oki: He was caught when he took an outdoor dump and was immobile due to no TP.
Oki: There was an unfinished sh*t left on the scene.
Oki: And yet there was no sign he wiped.
Gin: So that means he was taken somewhere with sh*t still stuck to his ass.
Gia: What the hell? That's the most useless deduction ever.
Gia: Can you stake your gramps's name on it? Wouldn't you be ashamed to face him?
Shin: Even if so, maybe Gengai-san left us a clue.
Oki: A clue, huh?
Shin: I see.
Shin: Looks like we've hit the jackpot.
Shin: Okita-san, that's just sh*t. We've sh*t the jackpot.
Oki: Take a closer look.
Shin: The sh*ts are in regular intervals?
Oki: He must've left these markers for us so we could find him.
Shin: What kind of Hansel and Gretel is that?
Oki: If we follow these, we should find Gengai.
Hij: Hey, Sogo, can you stake your gramps's name on it? You can, right?
Gin: It's probably some stray dog's poop.
Shin: Isn't this a bit too orderly for that?
Hij: And can one person really poop this much?
Oki: He might be in danger.
Oki: Let's hurry.
Kon: I guess I drank too much since I saw her after so long.
Kon: I was going to pretend it never happened,
Kon: but I believed that you guys would notice.
Kon: Did you buy spare underwear for me?
Kon: Toshi!
Oki: Oops. It was just a stray gorilla.
Hij: Yeah, that was a stray gorilla. There was no human there.
Hij: Got that, you guys?
Shin: I mean, sure, but are you okay with your leader being a stray gorilla?
Shin: But what now? We're out of leads again.
Hij: Hey, look at that.
Shin: Blood stains? Don't tell me...
Hij: This might be the clue Gengai left us.
Shin: No... You mean Gengai-san is...
Hij: Dunno, but we need to hurry. That much is for sure.
Oki: Hijikata-san,
Oki: can you stake gopchang on that?
Sign: Gopchang (Small Intestines)
Hij: Why do I have to stake gopchang? Let me stake my gramps's name, too!
Shin: Look, the blood's gradually increasing!
Hij: This is bad! Hurry!
Zen: I-I drank too much and had a hemorrhoid expl*si*n.
Zen: But I believed that you would definitely notice.
Sign: Poraginol A
Zen: Please apply this to my ass.
Hij: Hey!
Hij: Your drinking party has left everyone in tatters, their lower halves in particular!
Gin: Don't try to worm out of it with a jab.
Gin: Your deduction was off the mark, so hurry up and bring out the gopchang.
Hij: Make him bring out his gramps first!
Oki: Sorry, Hijikata-san,
Oki: my gramps d*ed a long time ago, so you hurry up and die, too.
Hij: What kind of logic is that? You guys have no right to speak of deductions!
Shin: Enough already! This isn't the time!
Hij: We'll have to use the comms and have people check every nook and cranny.
Kag: This way.
Shin: Kagura-chan?
Oki: You have an idea where he might be?
Kag: Trust my instincts.
Kag: It's on nights like these that the rabbits of the night turn into hunters.
En: Oh? He still has his ears and nose, I see.
Y: It's easy to tell if t*rture will work on someone by looking at their face.
Gen: Hey.
Gen: You the leader of the Liberation Army? I finally get to talk to you.
Gen: As you can see, the comms are back up.
Gen: I wanted to get a good look at your face,
Gen: so I set the virus up to go light.
Gen: But the nanomachines won't stop.
Gen: You guys won't get anywhere close to Earth.
Gen: Because I don't know how to stop them, either.
En: I figured.
En: But that goes the same for us.
En: We cannot stop anymore.
En: We, the Altana Liberation Army,
En: gathered and took up arms to free planets from the Tendoshu's clutches.
En: If any planet refuses to accept our crusade,
En: if any planet decides to fight us,
En: we will grant their wish.
En: Earth, and all of the insects living on it,
En: will be reduced to space dust!
Shi: Forgive me.
Shi: I forced you guys to commit treason, too.
G: It's fine, sir.
Shi: Did anything happen while I was in prison?
G: Admiral, Prince Ensho is...
Sak: We will now work with Admiral Shijaku,
Sak: as well as his home planet, Okoku,
Sak: and Okoku's Prince Dragonia.
Sak: and Stup—I mean Prince Hata,
Sak: and take over the Heavenly Bird, mothership of the Liberation Army's fleet.
Sak: There's still a huge numerical disadvantage,
Sak: but we're already on the mothership.
Sak: If we use this situation ta our advantage, things could work out.
So please pass on a message ta the guys fightin' on Earth:
"Hang in there just a bit longer.
And let's stay alive and meet on Earth for sure."
Will that do, Shogun-sama?
Shi: What?!
Shi: I-Is that true?
Sak: Admiral?
Sak: What's wrong?
Shi: I'm sorry,
Shi: my friends from Earth.
Shi: Everything was too late.
En: w*apon of destruction, the Flame of Kagutsuchi.
En: The Heavenly Bird is but a platform for this massive w*apon.
En: Since it has the power to destroy a planet in one sh*t,
En: it was deemed a forbidden w*apon and sealed away for ages...
Shi: But we brought it back when we started our crusade.
Shi: The Flame of Kagutsuchi has already begun preparing to fire.
Shi: In other words,
Shi: six hours from now, that blue planet will be gone from the universe.
Gen: If you can't get close to Earth,
Gen: you'll finish things off with one sh*t from space?
Gen: After making so many sacrifices in this w*r, you want to reduce it to nothing?
Gen: Along with your comrades still on this planet, who joined you in your cause?
En: That's the reason.
En: To ensure that our comrades' sacrifices aren't in vain,
En: our crusade cannot end in a loss.
En: Our comrades on Earth would be glad to become the foundation for our victory.
G: Prince, what exactly are we fighting?
G: Destroy a planet along with our comrades on it?
G: Wouldn't that make us the same as the Tendoshu?
G: Please stop, Prince.
G: This is no crusade!
En: Just cause is but an excuse readied for weaklings who can't fight without a reason.
En: I knew all along
En: that defeating the Tendoshu won't bring back what we've lost.
En: Then why do we fight?
En: Isn't it because that's the only thing we have left?
En: Having lost even our means to soothe our hatred and sorrow,
En: all we can do is keep burning them in the flames of w*r.
En: It is as you see.
En: We're prepared to walk over the corpses of our comrades to fight...
G: Prince!
Sak: Run!
Shi: There's no time!
Shi: Or any sh*t at victory!
Sak: So what?
Sak: Whether we have a sh*t at victory or not, what we must do remains the same!
Sak: Yeah. It changes nothing.
Sak: Whoever said bushido is found in death was right on the money.
G: The reinforcements from Planet Okoku have arrived.
Kat: Good.
Kat: Deploy at the edge of the Liberation Army's radar net at once.
Kat: Lure the enemy fleet as far away from its mothership as possible.
Kat: We'll use that chance to raid the mothership with our stealth ship.
Hata: Why is this happening?
Kat: So says Prince Dragonia.
Sak: Even if the end will arrive in one second,
Sak: live your life so you don't leave any regrets.
Sak: That's the samurai way.
Gin: I will never drink again!
Soy: Sakamoto-san...
Soy: Sakamoto-san!
Soy: Sakamoto-san! Sakamoto-san!
NbNb: Rest assured.
NbNb: I will protect Edo and our country, no matter what.
NbNb: That's what your brother would say, right?
NbNb: That's what a real shogun would say.
NbNb: Unfortunately, I have neither the right nor the capability to do so,
NbNb: but I do have the right to act as the country's stepping stone.
NbNb: So many people d*ed failing to protect what they wished to protect,
NbNb: and I have the right to die for the things they left behind.
NbNb: Forgive me.
Soy: I won't forgive you.
Soy: Unless you come back alive,
Soy: I won't forgive you.
Soy: Come back here, accompany me to Brother's grave,
Soy: and report to him that we protected Edo.
Soy: If you don't...
Soy: I'll never forgive you!
Y: That prince came up with quite the interesting plan.
Y: To think he would thr*aten us, too...
Y: Let the Liberation Army on Earth know.
G: "HQ has abandoned us.
G: If you want to avoid dying with Earth,
G: you only have two options:
G: either do something about the nanomachine virus,
G: or bring down this country by dawn"?
G: Elder Son, what shall we do?
Son: Isn't it obvious?
Son: We'll survive and k*ll that brat.
Son: Gengai, you say you don't have the means to stop the nanomachine virus,
Son: but what if I say it can be the means to k*ll that prince?
En: How pitiful.
En: They are Earth's last hope?
G: I-Is this an error?
En: What's the matter?
G: The radar is detecting several ships behind the Heavenly Bird.
G: But there's no way such a large army could be here...
Hata: It's no error.
Hata: Members of the Liberation Army,
Hata: your actions toward Earth are nothing but an invasion in the name of liberation!
Hata: Even if the universe will stand for this savagery, we will not!
Hata: Planet Okoku's...
Hata: ...Gramps says he won't stand for it.
Jii: Wh-Why, you!
Jii: Why are you trying to blame someone else and save your skin now, Prince Hog?
Hata: But I haven't done anything!
Hata: I was just suddenly carried off and told to read this note out loud!
Jii: Then I've done practically nothing all these years!
Jii: All I did was grow my beard! I was just a walking corpse!
Hata: Do some damn work!
Hata: How'd things end up like this, anyway?
Hata: Who was it that said we'd fight? He can read the note!
Jii: Which one of you said we'd fight?
Jii: Raise your hand! I won't yell at you!
Hata: Fine. Everyone close your eyes.
Hata: I'll close mine, too.
Hata: Only the Liberation Army needs to know.
Jii: Don't peek. No cheating, okay?
Jii: Whoever stole the lunch money, fess up!
Hata: Not the lunch money bit!
Mad: No fair! That was a fake-out?
Mad: You all said you'd keep your eyes closed!
Hata: There was a lunch money thief among us!
Mad: Not exactly lunch money.
Mad: You only fed me dog food, so I just stole some of your pudding from the fridge!
Hata: I was wondering why my royal pudding always went missing! It was you?
Mad: Shut it!
Mad: You get to eat amazing food every day, so quit whining over pudding!
Jii: Prince, let me handle this punk.
Jii: How dare you steal my one job?!
Jii: Give back my pudding!
Hata: You ate them, too?!
G: Follow the prince!
G: Open intercepting fire!
Kat: So it begins. I hope they manage to escape later.
Kat: Then shall we go, too?
Kat: I hope you're all ready.
G: Katsura-san, you needn't ask now.
G: We'll expel the aliens threatening our country to protect it.
G: We are...
Kat: I am...
Kat: Joi Rebel Katsura Kotaro!
Kat: I swear on my name that I shall deliver divine judgment upon the Liberation Army!
Kat: Let's go!
En: Beautiful.
En: Such a pure, beautiful light.
En: There's no doubt about it.
En: This is a crusade.
Hij: Earth will blow in six hours?
Hij: Is that why the Liberation Army's on the move again?
Mat: I didn't expect them to give their troops a kick up their backside this way.
Hij: Is there anything we can do, Pops?
Mat: Well, are there any cabaret clubs still open?
Hij: Don't go giving up!
Mat: No! I'm sure there are cabaret girls who will fight until the world ends.
Hij: I wasn't talking about them!
Mat: Toshi, giving up isn't such a bad thing.
Mat: You guys throw Earth aside and go rescue Gengai!
Hij: Earth is the one thing we shouldn't throw aside!
Gin: It's not like you'll throw it at nobody.
Gin: I don't know if they're worthy of being tasked with saving the world,
Gin: but there are some guys who are even more persistent than us...
Gin: There's a guy who won't sit back and watch the world be destroyed.
Gin: That's for sure.
Kat: What's going on?
G: We've been hit!
Kat: No... Does the enemy mothership have
Kat: some scouting function that surpasses our stealth function?!
Kat: Don't falter!
Kat: Charge in!
Shi: Hurry this way!
Shi: Fall back!
Shi: Change direction!
G: The control system broke!
G: We can't steer!
G: At this rate, we won't reach the enemy mothership!
G: Katsura-san!
Sak: One after another...
En: Burn.
En: Turn into ash.
G: We're under att*ck from the right!
G: That's...
G: That fleet is...
Kat: What the—
Tak: What are you wasting time for?
Tak: Keep up or I'll leave you behind,
Tak: Zura.
Tak: This won't do.
Tak: I don't care if you're the Liberation Army or whatever,
Tak: but you can't do whatever you want while I'm gone.
Tak: You're hurting my business.
Sak: Y-You...
Tak: A w*apon of destruction that'll erase Earth?
Tak: Sorry, but it won't get a chance to shine.
Tak: The one to destroy this world
Tak: will be me.
Sign: The Silver Soul Arc
Sign: will be back.
Sign: Look forward to it!!
TextR: You know how plays and old movies
TextL: have breaks in the middle?
TextR: Sorry, but we're doing the same.
TextL: It's now the intermission.
10x12 - Bushido Is Found One Second Before Death
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Japanese manga series where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.
Japanese manga series where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.