10x26 - There Are Lines Even Villains Can't Cross/Gintama Final Ending Scamming Trial
Posted: 12/05/23 11:35
Warning: Watch the Silver Soul arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from the TV!!!!!
Hij: Damn, I totally lost them.
Hij: Hey, Yamazaki. Get your ass here, now.
Hij: I'll give you the exact location later.
Sei: Looking for something, sir?
Sei: If it's cute girls you want, I know just the place.
Hij: I'm looking for a woman with an eyepatch, one with a facial scar,
Hij: a perverted ninja, and a female gorilla.
Sign: Yoshiwara Guide Service
Sign: Trust and Excellence No. in Customer Satisfaction!!
Sei: Give it up, sir.
Sei: Ain't an ordinary man in this world who can handle those crazies.
Sei: You won't even have butt hair when they're done with you.
Hij: That sounds terrifying.
Hij: And you're working in such a terrifying town.
Hij: How old are you, kid?
Sei: Th-The hell?!
Sign: Yoshiwara Guide Service
Sign: Trust and Excellence No. in Customer Satisfaction!!
Sei: You can't show that off here! Have some common sense!
Sei: I bet you're not popular with the ladies—
Sei: Ow!
Hin: What are you yelping about?
Hin: Good grief.
Hin: You're the one ruining this place's reputation with a lack of common sense, Seita.
Sei: Mom...
Sac: The Shangri-La of Yoshiwara is now a government-recognized tourist spot, huh?
Tsu: Two years ago, this place sheltered civilians from the flames of w*r.
Tsu: I suppose that paid off.
Sac: But even in broad daylight,
Sac: the relationship between men and women ain't all that different.
Sac: Day or night,
Sac: the Hyakka will always be the champions of women.
Hin: There you have it.
Hin: The one running this town now
Hin: is the former Courtesan of Death turned Courtesan of the Sun, Tsukuyo.
Hin: Make sure you never disrespect women where her scar can see it.
Hin: You'll be whisked away to a world with no day or night.
Gintama,Title Card: Gintama
Silver Soul,Title Card: Silver Soul
If you missed the last episode,
this visual probably shocked you, but don't worry.
This guy right here?
That's Gin-san.
Title: Silver Soul Arc
Title: There Are Lines Even Villains Can't Cross
Tsu: An enemy to women is an enemy to Yoshiwara.
Tsu: Let me teach that guy a lesson.
Tae: Aren't you glad, Kyu-chan?
Tae: She says she'll get revenge for your panties.
Sac: What? Those were your panties?
Sac: I thought you'd be wearing a loincloth or something,
Sac: but your underwear is actually normal, huh?
Tae: Anyway, it's good that there are no stains or anything.
Tae: It's truly important to change your underwear every day.
Sac: Huh? Do I see some hair over there?
Tae: Nah, that's the hair on his head sticking out.
Sac: Huh? But I see a red stain there...
Tae: That's from when we beat him up.
Kyu: How long are you gonna keep wearing that, anyway? Give it back!
Kyu: Not the diapers!
Tae: He's grown completely defiant.
Tae: Takasugi, was it?
Tae: I hear he used to have a final-boss aura whenever he appeared.
Sac: A real shocker, right?
Sac: What happened to him?
Sac: Where did he go wrong?
Tae: Must've been when he put those panties on his head.
Tae: There are lines even villains can't cross.
Sac: Of course you'd be demoted from final boss if you wore panties on your head.
Tae: No, maybe he wore them because he was demoted from final boss.
Sac: I just happened to be having a hard time with him, actually.
Sac: I believe he came to Edo with Gin-san.
Sac: But he just wouldn't talk.
Sac: I hope you can get him to spill where Gin-san is while you teach him a lesson.
Kyu: Gintoki's back in Edo?
Tae: Why won't he come see us, then?
Sac: I don't know. Maybe he has his reasons.
Hij: It's because he's over there with panties on his head.
Hij: Shinsfake's got his back to the wall now.
Gin: Stupid broads. It's pointless trying to embarrass me.
Sac: Uh, I'd say you're just embarrassing yourself here.
Gin: Because I'm both Takasugi and not at the same time.
Gin: In other words, no matter how much you humiliate Takasugi Shinsuke,
Gin: it won't hurt me at all...
Gin: Hey, wait! Hear me out!
Gin: C-Come on! That hurts, damn it!
H: So it does hurt you after all?
Gin: That's not it! I meant it wouldn't hurt me mentally!
Tae: Uh, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Sac: You keep spouting delusional lines without backing them up.
Sac: That's why you were demoted from final boss.
Gin: That's going too far! Apologize to Takasugi!
Hij: No, you apologize.
Gin: Fine! Bring on the t*rture or whatever!
Gin: Just know that it'll make you bigger disgraces than me!
Gin: Worse than a t*rror1st in diapers with panties on his head! Serves you right!
Gin: What's wrong?
Gin: Don't tell me you hung me up here without being prepared to follow through.
Tsu: Sorry, but Yoshiwara ain't a place of t*rture.
Tsu: This is a red-light district.
Tsu: We entertain men here, not make them suffer.
Gin: You liar! This is water t*rture!
Tsu: That ain't water.
Gin: L-Lotion?
Gin: Tallgeese!
W: Welcome!
Tsu: Ladies of Yoshiwara, we have a bigshot guest today.
Tsu: Use your skills and experience to give him the warmest welcome.
Gin: H-Hey, wait! What's all this?
W: Hello there, handsome!
Gin: Hey, Gran! Where are you touching?!
Gin: Stop it! Gross!
Gin: Oh... Wait... Not there!
Sac: Huh? What's going on here, Tsukky?
Tsu: This is how Yoshiwara does things now.
Tsu: Demons of lust are made to drown in women.
W: Welcome!
W: Welcome back, Master!
Tsu: And what lies beyond that lust...
Tae: Oh, he's back.
Gin: What's sexy about boobs, anyway?
Gin: Why are there two of them?
Tae: He's a sage now.
Gin: Hmm? What's this cloth doing here?
Gin: Get it off.
Kyu: How could you?!
Tae: Freed from his worldly desires, he's at the gates of enlightenment.
Tsu: Hey, has some of your evil been washed away?
Tsu: Then answer me.
Tsu: Is it true that you were traveling with Gintoki?
Gin: As I am now, both that and boobs come across as pair of trifling matters.
Gin: Speaking of which, why do boobs come in pairs?
Sac: Our sage has lost interest in everything.
Sac: And why does he keep talking about boobs?
Tae: Let's make him take another lap and forget about boobs.
Kyu: Wait. Two laps, one for each boob.
Hij: Uh, the enlightened one is screaming.
Sac: Three laps around hell will surely make him a better man.
Tsu: Don't call it hell, Sarutobi!
Tae: Oh, he's back from his pilgrimage.
Tsu: Don't call it a pilgrimage, Otae!
Tae: God?
Gin: I am naught.
Sign: I am naught.
Gin: I am empty.
Sign: I am empty.
Sac: Uh, I think we went way too far.
Tae: A lap for each boob was too much for him.
Tae: We should've left one boob.
Gin: I hath no interest in boobs.
Sign: I hath no interest in boobs.
Tae: See?
Kyu: You know, he still seems to be hung up on boobs.
Tsu: Hey, is Gintoki...
Gin: All is vanity. All is vanity.
Sign: All is vanity.
Sign: All is vanity.
Tsu: Nope. We're not getting anything out of him.
Gin: I am naught.
Sign: I am naught.
Gin: I am empty.
Sign: I am empty.
Gin: Boobs art two.
Sign: Boobs art two.
Kyu: Look, his head's filled with nothing but boobs!
Sac: Oh, well.
Sac: Let's stimulate his lust and turn him back a little.
Sac: Tsukky, take the grannies' place in there and let him fondle your boobs.
Tsu: Why me?!
Sac: Well, I can't do it. I'm getting married to Gin-san.
Sac: And Kyubei-san can't handle being touched by a man.
Tae: Sarutobi-san, why was I not considered?
Gin: Tae doth be naught.
Sign: Tae doth be naught
Gin: Boobs art zero.
Sign: Boobs art
Sign: zero.
Tae: Hey! What happened to "boobs art two"?
Tae: What do you mean, "zero"?!
Tae: Now I'm mad. I'm gonna go.
Kyu: Wait, Tae-chan!
Tae: Don't stop me. I have my pride as a woman, too.
Kyu: That's not it.
Kyu: Okay, I'm on standby.
Sac: How would you fondling her help?
Sac: Kyubei-san...
Sac: You said you were ready for arranged marriage, but you haven't changed at all.
Kyu: But I can't let that pervert defile Tae-chan!
Tsu: Okay, fine.
Tsu: You're right. This is a job for me.
Tae: Tsukuyo-san?
Gin: Why?
Sign: Why?
Sign: Why go so far...
Gin: Why go so far...
Gin: Courtesan of Boobs?
Sign: Courtesan of Boobs?
Tsu: Who're you calling Courtesan of Boobs?!
Hin: You're such a fool, really.
Hin: You could've gone after him, you know?
Tsu: Hinowa.
Tsu: Once Yoshiwara sees the light of day, it will gradually turn into a normal town.
Tsu: That may be a joyous occasion,
Tsu: but I'd be a little sad...
Tsu: Living life watching the things I know change and go away.
Tsu: Leaving the people I was meant to see the future with and walking on alone.
Tsu: But that's exactly why I have to see it all through.
Tsu: See how those things end, and what they give birth to.
Tsu: And one day, when he does come back to us,
Tsu: I want to tell him all about it.
Tsu: That way, he can walk with us again.
Tsu: So please tell me.
Tsu: Where is he now? What does he have his eyes on?
Tsu: Is it the past, or is it the future?
Tae: He started a lap by himself.
Sac: Did she get through to him?
Sac: Maybe he went to get himself ready for spilling the beans.
Tsu: Oh.
Tsu: He's... back?
Tae: What kind of enlightenment is this?!
Sac: He just passed through the gates of K*ntucky!
Kyu: Do you want to be thrown in a pot and fried?!
Tae: Wait... Where have I seen this C*lonel before?
Hij: You moron!
Hij: I told you to keep watch! Where'd he go?!
Kyu: Huh?
Tae: It's you!
Ymz: I'm sorry, Hijikata-san.
Ymz: I was pretending to be a statue and keeping watch over there,
Ymz: but he ran away.
Gin: That was close!
Gin: I was about to attain enlightenment and tell them everything!
Tae: But I would've wanted him to see it.
Tae: You in a wedding dress...
Sac: I will not let you have Sakata Gintoki.
Sac: This is his home.
Tsu: That way, he can walk with us again.
Gin: Damn it all...
Gin: What the hell am I doing?
W: Odd Jobs.
W: Thank you so very much.
W: Goodbye, then.
Gin: Shinpa...
Shin: Hold it!
Shin: I don't know what's going on, but ganging up on someone isn't a good look.
Shin: More than anything, I won't stand for you sullying these streets
Shin: with your v*olence.
Gin: Cut!
Gin: Okay, we're out of time. Wrap it up.
Gin: Let's move on to the next segment!
Shin: Wait...
Shin: That was a really great scene in the manga, too!
Gin: Okay, so on that note...
Gin: We know the show's still only halfway through, but change of plans.
Shin: Huh? The next segment?
Shin: What do you mean, the next segment?
Gin: After this, the Gintama anime will air an emergency special.
Shin: What the hell's going on?!
Gin: But first, some ads.
Someone: What? It was such a nice scene, too.
Gin: Order!
Gin: Order in the court!
Gin: Court is now in session for the trial.
Shin: Wait a second, Gin-san!
Shin: What's all this? What are you trying to do?!
Gin: Shinpachi-kun, stop making a fuss in the courtroom. I'll cut your screen time.
Shin: You just did earlier!
Kag: At least you got some time!
Shin: Kagura-chan?
Kag: I didn't even get to show up! What're you gonna do about this?!
Shin: That's right!
Shin: And what trial? What have we done wrong?!
Gin: That's what we're trying to clear up here.
Sign: Gintama Ending Scam Trial
Gin: So let's begin the Gintama Ending Scam Trial.
Shin: Gintama Ending Scam Trial?!
Gin: Some of you watching at home may have noticed from the program guide already.
Gin: This is the Gintama anime's...
Gin: last episode.
Ymz: What? It's ending today?
Hij: Seriously? That's so abrupt!
Gin: Order!
Gin: You're exactly right.
Gin: If the viewers went, "What are the anime staff doing?
Gin: You're supposed to figure out the perfect length. Are you messing with us?
Gin: You need to read the manga, calculate the right pacing,
Gin: use appropriate cliffhangers to stretch the plot across weeks,
Gin: get the manuscripts from the editor before Jump's release day,
Gin: and work on the series structure,"
Gin: that harsh criticism would be well-deserved.
Shin: Uh, the common viewer wouldn't know that much.
Gin: But while this may sound like an excuse,
Gin: that's not it!
Gin: It's not like that!
Shin: Seriously, what's with you?
Shin: Who are you speaking for?
Gin: There's a very good reason the anime's ending so abruptly today!
Gin: To explain this, we must rewind the clock to three years ago.
Shin: That far back? This has been three years in the making?!
Gin: And here we have the third season of the anime, which began airing April .
Gin: The series made its return around two years after the Final Chapter movie.
Gin: At this point, the manga side had already told the anime staff this:
Gin: "The manga will end soon."
Sac: W-Wait a second.
Tsu: Three whole years ago?
Kyu: You mean...
Tae: Season started because the manga was ending?
Gin: Order in the court!
Gin: That's right, actually.
Gin: Season was planned to be a year-long series that would end around
Gin: the same time as the manga.
Gin: In order to make that possible,
Gin: the anime staff reluctantly decided to skip a few small comedy arcs.
Gin: This was done to give Gintama the greatest finale possible and make the viewers happy.
Gin: It was a decision borne out of great passion!
Shin: Seriously, who are you talking for?
Shin: And why is it raining money? Can we really believe you?!
Gin: However!
Gin: Instead of ending, the manga made a shocking reveal
Gin: and expanded the story with several new developments.
Shin: Why'd you make it look like Ir*sutoya?!
Gin: And the anime ran out of time with the Shinsengumi saying farewell.
Gin: So on that note,
Gin: the Shinsengumi are found guilty for wasting episodes.
Gin: Hijikata Toshiro is sentenced to death.
Hij: Why?!
Hij: The Shinsengumi are victims in this, too!
Hij: And why am I the only one sentenced to death?
Hij: Wait... Hey!
Gin: After that, the anime producer ran around trying to procure an additional time slot,
Gin: but staying in the evening time slot proved next to impossible,
Gin: and the stress made him visit cabaret clubs more often,
Gin: leading to friction in his family.
Shin: What did this have to do with cabaret clubs?
Gin: Even in the midst of such chaos, we somehow raised funds
Gin: and cleverly moved to a late-night time slot to make a comeback!
Gin: And that was Season here, which began with the Battle on Rakuyo.
Gin: We started working toward the finale, this time for sure.
Gin: However!
Gin: Rather than tying the loose ends, the story expanded to space
Gin: and showed off the stupid cue ball dad's love story.
Gin: So on that note,
Gin: the stupid cue ball is found guilty, too.
Gin: Death to his hair roots.
UB: N-No! Anything but my hair roots!
Kag: Uh, your hair roots have already been ex*cuted.
Gin: At this point, the anime staff decided to see what the manga was doing
Gin: and build up a buffer of material by switching strategies to buy time.
Gin: We used the hype surrounding the live-action movie announcement as cover,
Sign: Yorinuke! Gintama-san Flashback Collection
Gin: bought time with some re-airs,
Gin: and aired new material using the short comedy arcs they'd skipped.
Gin: They were all stopgap measures we came up with on the fly,
Gin: but we made it seem very natural, like it'd been our plan all along.
Shin: No, you didn't! Adapting comedy arcs at that point felt really weird!
Gin: And around then,
Sign: Manga Editor (at the time)
Sign: Poison Mushroom Manabe
Gin: the manga's editor at the time, Poison Mushroom Manabe (Idol Otaku), told us this:
Manabe: The manga will end this time for sure.
Gin: The anime staff trusted his words,
Gin: and despite the tiny budget and the harsh schedule they had due to waiting,
Gin: they believed the third time's the charm and began adapting a new long arc.
Gin: And that's how it started...
Gin: The Silver Soul Arc, which was supposed to be the final long arc.
Gin: However! However!
Gin: The story didn't end at all!
Gin: While this season was one cours, we got the time slot for episodes,
Gin: so some delay would still be okay,
Gin: or so we thought, but the story went way past that and still didn't end!
Gin: "We even made the perfect opening and ending for a finale.
Gin: What do we do now?
Gin: Is this really gonna end? Can it end?"
Gin: That's how we felt, and we expressed those feelings frankly.
Sign: Pretended to go out for work but instead went to see a play where Nagasawa Masami wore a racy costume.
Sign: Manabe
Gin: And then, Editor D*ck said...
Manabe: Uh, it doesn't look like it's ending soon at all.
Gin: Huh?
Manabe: Also, the manga's weekly serialization is going to stop soon.
Gin: Huh?
Manabe: Also, I won't be editing it anymore.
Gin: What?!
Gin: Instead of walking in step, one leg is disappearing just before the finish line?!
Gin: So on that note, Hasegawa Taizo is sentenced to death!
Mad: What? Me?! Where did that come from?!
Gin: For suddenly acting like Chief of Immigration while unemployed,
Gin: your gaudy outfit,
Gin: and pissing me off by cockily showing up in the live-action TV show and stage events.
Kag: That even got on my nerves.
Shin: No objections.
Mad: Why am I the only one getting this treatment?!
Shin: But Gin-san...
Shin: If what you said so far is true,
Shin: the one who really deserves punishment...
Kag: ...is him. It's gotta be him.
Gin: You did well to notice, Shinpachi, Kagura.
Gin: That's right. The real accused in this Gintama Ending Scam Trial...
Gin: is this man, the gorilla mangaka!
Sor: I wanna be a steamed cheese bun.
Sor: Defendant... Well, we more or less know you're getting sentenced to death,
Sor: but is there anything you'd like to say?
Sor: Now is your chance to apologize, you know. Defendant?
Shin: Ew! He pulled something out!
Gin: Oh, it's another of those things.
Gin: Kagura, you can forget your role again and read it out.
Kugyuu: "To all the anime viewers, and the anime staff.
Kugyuu: Due to my dirty tackle, I have caused you tons of trouble, and I'm so...
Kugyuu: Huh? It's not tackle?
Kugyuu: It's the other thing?
Kugyuu: The *******, then?
Kugyuu: Huh? That was actually a huge disaster?
Kugyuu: I shouldn't bring it up again?
Kugyuu: Oh, I know.
Kugyuu: The last letter, when I revealed that Fujita, the previous director, had divorced.
Kugyuu: He's actually mad about that? Is that really so bad?
Kugyuu: I mean, after his divorce, he's now cozying up with an instructor years younger.
Kugyuu: What is he being instructed on?
Kugyuu: That's what I'd like to be instructed on.
Kugyuu: Huh? That's not it, either?
Kugyuu: What is it, then?
Kugyuu: I've been too sleepy to watch the anime since it moved to late nights, so I dunno.
Kugyuu: What part has it reached now?
Kugyuu: The part where Saito Hajime kills Usui of the Ten Swords with the Zero Style Gatotsu?
Kugyuu: That's my personal best bout,
Kugyuu: so I'd be perfectly happy if the anime ended there.
Kugyuu: I'm just so filled with satisfaction right now.
Kugyuu: I'm not thinking of my next work yet,
Kugyuu: but let's see...
Kugyuu: What if the Black Ships of the Bakumatsu were actually alien vessels,
Kugyuu: and the people in that world still grittily lived with smiles on their faces?
Kugyuu: That's the kind of story I'd like to write, or well, explore in full.
Kugyuu: If we have the chance, let's meet again in that next work.
Kugyuu: I've already come up with the title.
Kugyuu: It's a title that'd sound really vulgar when spelled slightly differently...
Sign: Gintama Final: End of Sky
Kugyuu: Gintama Final: End of Sky."
Gin: I shall hereby hand down the verdict.
Gin: The gorilla mangaka is...
Gin: Not guilty!
Kag: What part of that letter merited pardoning him?!
Shin: This gorilla never actually apologized for anything!
Gin: Okay, pipe down.
Gin: What can ya do? If it's not ending, it's not ending.
Gin: So yeah, while it was a really sloppy last episode,
Gin: the Gintama Ending Scam Trial is over! Court is adjourned!
Sign: Next Work Preview
SignL: Gintama Final
SignR: End of Sky
SignB: In the Works!
Shin: Yeah, like hell! That's never happening!
Thank you very much
for being a part of this journey.
If the manga's continuing in GIGA, what about the anime...?
Sor: Writing manga is such a pain in the ass!
Hij: Damn, I totally lost them.
Hij: Hey, Yamazaki. Get your ass here, now.
Hij: I'll give you the exact location later.
Sei: Looking for something, sir?
Sei: If it's cute girls you want, I know just the place.
Hij: I'm looking for a woman with an eyepatch, one with a facial scar,
Hij: a perverted ninja, and a female gorilla.
Sign: Yoshiwara Guide Service
Sign: Trust and Excellence No. in Customer Satisfaction!!
Sei: Give it up, sir.
Sei: Ain't an ordinary man in this world who can handle those crazies.
Sei: You won't even have butt hair when they're done with you.
Hij: That sounds terrifying.
Hij: And you're working in such a terrifying town.
Hij: How old are you, kid?
Sei: Th-The hell?!
Sign: Yoshiwara Guide Service
Sign: Trust and Excellence No. in Customer Satisfaction!!
Sei: You can't show that off here! Have some common sense!
Sei: I bet you're not popular with the ladies—
Sei: Ow!
Hin: What are you yelping about?
Hin: Good grief.
Hin: You're the one ruining this place's reputation with a lack of common sense, Seita.
Sei: Mom...
Sac: The Shangri-La of Yoshiwara is now a government-recognized tourist spot, huh?
Tsu: Two years ago, this place sheltered civilians from the flames of w*r.
Tsu: I suppose that paid off.
Sac: But even in broad daylight,
Sac: the relationship between men and women ain't all that different.
Sac: Day or night,
Sac: the Hyakka will always be the champions of women.
Hin: There you have it.
Hin: The one running this town now
Hin: is the former Courtesan of Death turned Courtesan of the Sun, Tsukuyo.
Hin: Make sure you never disrespect women where her scar can see it.
Hin: You'll be whisked away to a world with no day or night.
Gintama,Title Card: Gintama
Silver Soul,Title Card: Silver Soul
If you missed the last episode,
this visual probably shocked you, but don't worry.
This guy right here?
That's Gin-san.
Title: Silver Soul Arc
Title: There Are Lines Even Villains Can't Cross
Tsu: An enemy to women is an enemy to Yoshiwara.
Tsu: Let me teach that guy a lesson.
Tae: Aren't you glad, Kyu-chan?
Tae: She says she'll get revenge for your panties.
Sac: What? Those were your panties?
Sac: I thought you'd be wearing a loincloth or something,
Sac: but your underwear is actually normal, huh?
Tae: Anyway, it's good that there are no stains or anything.
Tae: It's truly important to change your underwear every day.
Sac: Huh? Do I see some hair over there?
Tae: Nah, that's the hair on his head sticking out.
Sac: Huh? But I see a red stain there...
Tae: That's from when we beat him up.
Kyu: How long are you gonna keep wearing that, anyway? Give it back!
Kyu: Not the diapers!
Tae: He's grown completely defiant.
Tae: Takasugi, was it?
Tae: I hear he used to have a final-boss aura whenever he appeared.
Sac: A real shocker, right?
Sac: What happened to him?
Sac: Where did he go wrong?
Tae: Must've been when he put those panties on his head.
Tae: There are lines even villains can't cross.
Sac: Of course you'd be demoted from final boss if you wore panties on your head.
Tae: No, maybe he wore them because he was demoted from final boss.
Sac: I just happened to be having a hard time with him, actually.
Sac: I believe he came to Edo with Gin-san.
Sac: But he just wouldn't talk.
Sac: I hope you can get him to spill where Gin-san is while you teach him a lesson.
Kyu: Gintoki's back in Edo?
Tae: Why won't he come see us, then?
Sac: I don't know. Maybe he has his reasons.
Hij: It's because he's over there with panties on his head.
Hij: Shinsfake's got his back to the wall now.
Gin: Stupid broads. It's pointless trying to embarrass me.
Sac: Uh, I'd say you're just embarrassing yourself here.
Gin: Because I'm both Takasugi and not at the same time.
Gin: In other words, no matter how much you humiliate Takasugi Shinsuke,
Gin: it won't hurt me at all...
Gin: Hey, wait! Hear me out!
Gin: C-Come on! That hurts, damn it!
H: So it does hurt you after all?
Gin: That's not it! I meant it wouldn't hurt me mentally!
Tae: Uh, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Sac: You keep spouting delusional lines without backing them up.
Sac: That's why you were demoted from final boss.
Gin: That's going too far! Apologize to Takasugi!
Hij: No, you apologize.
Gin: Fine! Bring on the t*rture or whatever!
Gin: Just know that it'll make you bigger disgraces than me!
Gin: Worse than a t*rror1st in diapers with panties on his head! Serves you right!
Gin: What's wrong?
Gin: Don't tell me you hung me up here without being prepared to follow through.
Tsu: Sorry, but Yoshiwara ain't a place of t*rture.
Tsu: This is a red-light district.
Tsu: We entertain men here, not make them suffer.
Gin: You liar! This is water t*rture!
Tsu: That ain't water.
Gin: L-Lotion?
Gin: Tallgeese!
W: Welcome!
Tsu: Ladies of Yoshiwara, we have a bigshot guest today.
Tsu: Use your skills and experience to give him the warmest welcome.
Gin: H-Hey, wait! What's all this?
W: Hello there, handsome!
Gin: Hey, Gran! Where are you touching?!
Gin: Stop it! Gross!
Gin: Oh... Wait... Not there!
Sac: Huh? What's going on here, Tsukky?
Tsu: This is how Yoshiwara does things now.
Tsu: Demons of lust are made to drown in women.
W: Welcome!
W: Welcome back, Master!
Tsu: And what lies beyond that lust...
Tae: Oh, he's back.
Gin: What's sexy about boobs, anyway?
Gin: Why are there two of them?
Tae: He's a sage now.
Gin: Hmm? What's this cloth doing here?
Gin: Get it off.
Kyu: How could you?!
Tae: Freed from his worldly desires, he's at the gates of enlightenment.
Tsu: Hey, has some of your evil been washed away?
Tsu: Then answer me.
Tsu: Is it true that you were traveling with Gintoki?
Gin: As I am now, both that and boobs come across as pair of trifling matters.
Gin: Speaking of which, why do boobs come in pairs?
Sac: Our sage has lost interest in everything.
Sac: And why does he keep talking about boobs?
Tae: Let's make him take another lap and forget about boobs.
Kyu: Wait. Two laps, one for each boob.
Hij: Uh, the enlightened one is screaming.
Sac: Three laps around hell will surely make him a better man.
Tsu: Don't call it hell, Sarutobi!
Tae: Oh, he's back from his pilgrimage.
Tsu: Don't call it a pilgrimage, Otae!
Tae: God?
Gin: I am naught.
Sign: I am naught.
Gin: I am empty.
Sign: I am empty.
Sac: Uh, I think we went way too far.
Tae: A lap for each boob was too much for him.
Tae: We should've left one boob.
Gin: I hath no interest in boobs.
Sign: I hath no interest in boobs.
Tae: See?
Kyu: You know, he still seems to be hung up on boobs.
Tsu: Hey, is Gintoki...
Gin: All is vanity. All is vanity.
Sign: All is vanity.
Sign: All is vanity.
Tsu: Nope. We're not getting anything out of him.
Gin: I am naught.
Sign: I am naught.
Gin: I am empty.
Sign: I am empty.
Gin: Boobs art two.
Sign: Boobs art two.
Kyu: Look, his head's filled with nothing but boobs!
Sac: Oh, well.
Sac: Let's stimulate his lust and turn him back a little.
Sac: Tsukky, take the grannies' place in there and let him fondle your boobs.
Tsu: Why me?!
Sac: Well, I can't do it. I'm getting married to Gin-san.
Sac: And Kyubei-san can't handle being touched by a man.
Tae: Sarutobi-san, why was I not considered?
Gin: Tae doth be naught.
Sign: Tae doth be naught
Gin: Boobs art zero.
Sign: Boobs art
Sign: zero.
Tae: Hey! What happened to "boobs art two"?
Tae: What do you mean, "zero"?!
Tae: Now I'm mad. I'm gonna go.
Kyu: Wait, Tae-chan!
Tae: Don't stop me. I have my pride as a woman, too.
Kyu: That's not it.
Kyu: Okay, I'm on standby.
Sac: How would you fondling her help?
Sac: Kyubei-san...
Sac: You said you were ready for arranged marriage, but you haven't changed at all.
Kyu: But I can't let that pervert defile Tae-chan!
Tsu: Okay, fine.
Tsu: You're right. This is a job for me.
Tae: Tsukuyo-san?
Gin: Why?
Sign: Why?
Sign: Why go so far...
Gin: Why go so far...
Gin: Courtesan of Boobs?
Sign: Courtesan of Boobs?
Tsu: Who're you calling Courtesan of Boobs?!
Hin: You're such a fool, really.
Hin: You could've gone after him, you know?
Tsu: Hinowa.
Tsu: Once Yoshiwara sees the light of day, it will gradually turn into a normal town.
Tsu: That may be a joyous occasion,
Tsu: but I'd be a little sad...
Tsu: Living life watching the things I know change and go away.
Tsu: Leaving the people I was meant to see the future with and walking on alone.
Tsu: But that's exactly why I have to see it all through.
Tsu: See how those things end, and what they give birth to.
Tsu: And one day, when he does come back to us,
Tsu: I want to tell him all about it.
Tsu: That way, he can walk with us again.
Tsu: So please tell me.
Tsu: Where is he now? What does he have his eyes on?
Tsu: Is it the past, or is it the future?
Tae: He started a lap by himself.
Sac: Did she get through to him?
Sac: Maybe he went to get himself ready for spilling the beans.
Tsu: Oh.
Tsu: He's... back?
Tae: What kind of enlightenment is this?!
Sac: He just passed through the gates of K*ntucky!
Kyu: Do you want to be thrown in a pot and fried?!
Tae: Wait... Where have I seen this C*lonel before?
Hij: You moron!
Hij: I told you to keep watch! Where'd he go?!
Kyu: Huh?
Tae: It's you!
Ymz: I'm sorry, Hijikata-san.
Ymz: I was pretending to be a statue and keeping watch over there,
Ymz: but he ran away.
Gin: That was close!
Gin: I was about to attain enlightenment and tell them everything!
Tae: But I would've wanted him to see it.
Tae: You in a wedding dress...
Sac: I will not let you have Sakata Gintoki.
Sac: This is his home.
Tsu: That way, he can walk with us again.
Gin: Damn it all...
Gin: What the hell am I doing?
W: Odd Jobs.
W: Thank you so very much.
W: Goodbye, then.
Gin: Shinpa...
Shin: Hold it!
Shin: I don't know what's going on, but ganging up on someone isn't a good look.
Shin: More than anything, I won't stand for you sullying these streets
Shin: with your v*olence.
Gin: Cut!
Gin: Okay, we're out of time. Wrap it up.
Gin: Let's move on to the next segment!
Shin: Wait...
Shin: That was a really great scene in the manga, too!
Gin: Okay, so on that note...
Gin: We know the show's still only halfway through, but change of plans.
Shin: Huh? The next segment?
Shin: What do you mean, the next segment?
Gin: After this, the Gintama anime will air an emergency special.
Shin: What the hell's going on?!
Gin: But first, some ads.
Someone: What? It was such a nice scene, too.
Gin: Order!
Gin: Order in the court!
Gin: Court is now in session for the trial.
Shin: Wait a second, Gin-san!
Shin: What's all this? What are you trying to do?!
Gin: Shinpachi-kun, stop making a fuss in the courtroom. I'll cut your screen time.
Shin: You just did earlier!
Kag: At least you got some time!
Shin: Kagura-chan?
Kag: I didn't even get to show up! What're you gonna do about this?!
Shin: That's right!
Shin: And what trial? What have we done wrong?!
Gin: That's what we're trying to clear up here.
Sign: Gintama Ending Scam Trial
Gin: So let's begin the Gintama Ending Scam Trial.
Shin: Gintama Ending Scam Trial?!
Gin: Some of you watching at home may have noticed from the program guide already.
Gin: This is the Gintama anime's...
Gin: last episode.
Ymz: What? It's ending today?
Hij: Seriously? That's so abrupt!
Gin: Order!
Gin: You're exactly right.
Gin: If the viewers went, "What are the anime staff doing?
Gin: You're supposed to figure out the perfect length. Are you messing with us?
Gin: You need to read the manga, calculate the right pacing,
Gin: use appropriate cliffhangers to stretch the plot across weeks,
Gin: get the manuscripts from the editor before Jump's release day,
Gin: and work on the series structure,"
Gin: that harsh criticism would be well-deserved.
Shin: Uh, the common viewer wouldn't know that much.
Gin: But while this may sound like an excuse,
Gin: that's not it!
Gin: It's not like that!
Shin: Seriously, what's with you?
Shin: Who are you speaking for?
Gin: There's a very good reason the anime's ending so abruptly today!
Gin: To explain this, we must rewind the clock to three years ago.
Shin: That far back? This has been three years in the making?!
Gin: And here we have the third season of the anime, which began airing April .
Gin: The series made its return around two years after the Final Chapter movie.
Gin: At this point, the manga side had already told the anime staff this:
Gin: "The manga will end soon."
Sac: W-Wait a second.
Tsu: Three whole years ago?
Kyu: You mean...
Tae: Season started because the manga was ending?
Gin: Order in the court!
Gin: That's right, actually.
Gin: Season was planned to be a year-long series that would end around
Gin: the same time as the manga.
Gin: In order to make that possible,
Gin: the anime staff reluctantly decided to skip a few small comedy arcs.
Gin: This was done to give Gintama the greatest finale possible and make the viewers happy.
Gin: It was a decision borne out of great passion!
Shin: Seriously, who are you talking for?
Shin: And why is it raining money? Can we really believe you?!
Gin: However!
Gin: Instead of ending, the manga made a shocking reveal
Gin: and expanded the story with several new developments.
Shin: Why'd you make it look like Ir*sutoya?!
Gin: And the anime ran out of time with the Shinsengumi saying farewell.
Gin: So on that note,
Gin: the Shinsengumi are found guilty for wasting episodes.
Gin: Hijikata Toshiro is sentenced to death.
Hij: Why?!
Hij: The Shinsengumi are victims in this, too!
Hij: And why am I the only one sentenced to death?
Hij: Wait... Hey!
Gin: After that, the anime producer ran around trying to procure an additional time slot,
Gin: but staying in the evening time slot proved next to impossible,
Gin: and the stress made him visit cabaret clubs more often,
Gin: leading to friction in his family.
Shin: What did this have to do with cabaret clubs?
Gin: Even in the midst of such chaos, we somehow raised funds
Gin: and cleverly moved to a late-night time slot to make a comeback!
Gin: And that was Season here, which began with the Battle on Rakuyo.
Gin: We started working toward the finale, this time for sure.
Gin: However!
Gin: Rather than tying the loose ends, the story expanded to space
Gin: and showed off the stupid cue ball dad's love story.
Gin: So on that note,
Gin: the stupid cue ball is found guilty, too.
Gin: Death to his hair roots.
UB: N-No! Anything but my hair roots!
Kag: Uh, your hair roots have already been ex*cuted.
Gin: At this point, the anime staff decided to see what the manga was doing
Gin: and build up a buffer of material by switching strategies to buy time.
Gin: We used the hype surrounding the live-action movie announcement as cover,
Sign: Yorinuke! Gintama-san Flashback Collection
Gin: bought time with some re-airs,
Gin: and aired new material using the short comedy arcs they'd skipped.
Gin: They were all stopgap measures we came up with on the fly,
Gin: but we made it seem very natural, like it'd been our plan all along.
Shin: No, you didn't! Adapting comedy arcs at that point felt really weird!
Gin: And around then,
Sign: Manga Editor (at the time)
Sign: Poison Mushroom Manabe
Gin: the manga's editor at the time, Poison Mushroom Manabe (Idol Otaku), told us this:
Manabe: The manga will end this time for sure.
Gin: The anime staff trusted his words,
Gin: and despite the tiny budget and the harsh schedule they had due to waiting,
Gin: they believed the third time's the charm and began adapting a new long arc.
Gin: And that's how it started...
Gin: The Silver Soul Arc, which was supposed to be the final long arc.
Gin: However! However!
Gin: The story didn't end at all!
Gin: While this season was one cours, we got the time slot for episodes,
Gin: so some delay would still be okay,
Gin: or so we thought, but the story went way past that and still didn't end!
Gin: "We even made the perfect opening and ending for a finale.
Gin: What do we do now?
Gin: Is this really gonna end? Can it end?"
Gin: That's how we felt, and we expressed those feelings frankly.
Sign: Pretended to go out for work but instead went to see a play where Nagasawa Masami wore a racy costume.
Sign: Manabe
Gin: And then, Editor D*ck said...
Manabe: Uh, it doesn't look like it's ending soon at all.
Gin: Huh?
Manabe: Also, the manga's weekly serialization is going to stop soon.
Gin: Huh?
Manabe: Also, I won't be editing it anymore.
Gin: What?!
Gin: Instead of walking in step, one leg is disappearing just before the finish line?!
Gin: So on that note, Hasegawa Taizo is sentenced to death!
Mad: What? Me?! Where did that come from?!
Gin: For suddenly acting like Chief of Immigration while unemployed,
Gin: your gaudy outfit,
Gin: and pissing me off by cockily showing up in the live-action TV show and stage events.
Kag: That even got on my nerves.
Shin: No objections.
Mad: Why am I the only one getting this treatment?!
Shin: But Gin-san...
Shin: If what you said so far is true,
Shin: the one who really deserves punishment...
Kag: ...is him. It's gotta be him.
Gin: You did well to notice, Shinpachi, Kagura.
Gin: That's right. The real accused in this Gintama Ending Scam Trial...
Gin: is this man, the gorilla mangaka!
Sor: I wanna be a steamed cheese bun.
Sor: Defendant... Well, we more or less know you're getting sentenced to death,
Sor: but is there anything you'd like to say?
Sor: Now is your chance to apologize, you know. Defendant?
Shin: Ew! He pulled something out!
Gin: Oh, it's another of those things.
Gin: Kagura, you can forget your role again and read it out.
Kugyuu: "To all the anime viewers, and the anime staff.
Kugyuu: Due to my dirty tackle, I have caused you tons of trouble, and I'm so...
Kugyuu: Huh? It's not tackle?
Kugyuu: It's the other thing?
Kugyuu: The *******, then?
Kugyuu: Huh? That was actually a huge disaster?
Kugyuu: I shouldn't bring it up again?
Kugyuu: Oh, I know.
Kugyuu: The last letter, when I revealed that Fujita, the previous director, had divorced.
Kugyuu: He's actually mad about that? Is that really so bad?
Kugyuu: I mean, after his divorce, he's now cozying up with an instructor years younger.
Kugyuu: What is he being instructed on?
Kugyuu: That's what I'd like to be instructed on.
Kugyuu: Huh? That's not it, either?
Kugyuu: What is it, then?
Kugyuu: I've been too sleepy to watch the anime since it moved to late nights, so I dunno.
Kugyuu: What part has it reached now?
Kugyuu: The part where Saito Hajime kills Usui of the Ten Swords with the Zero Style Gatotsu?
Kugyuu: That's my personal best bout,
Kugyuu: so I'd be perfectly happy if the anime ended there.
Kugyuu: I'm just so filled with satisfaction right now.
Kugyuu: I'm not thinking of my next work yet,
Kugyuu: but let's see...
Kugyuu: What if the Black Ships of the Bakumatsu were actually alien vessels,
Kugyuu: and the people in that world still grittily lived with smiles on their faces?
Kugyuu: That's the kind of story I'd like to write, or well, explore in full.
Kugyuu: If we have the chance, let's meet again in that next work.
Kugyuu: I've already come up with the title.
Kugyuu: It's a title that'd sound really vulgar when spelled slightly differently...
Sign: Gintama Final: End of Sky
Kugyuu: Gintama Final: End of Sky."
Gin: I shall hereby hand down the verdict.
Gin: The gorilla mangaka is...
Gin: Not guilty!
Kag: What part of that letter merited pardoning him?!
Shin: This gorilla never actually apologized for anything!
Gin: Okay, pipe down.
Gin: What can ya do? If it's not ending, it's not ending.
Gin: So yeah, while it was a really sloppy last episode,
Gin: the Gintama Ending Scam Trial is over! Court is adjourned!
Sign: Next Work Preview
SignL: Gintama Final
SignR: End of Sky
SignB: In the Works!
Shin: Yeah, like hell! That's never happening!
Thank you very much
for being a part of this journey.
If the manga's continuing in GIGA, what about the anime...?
Sor: Writing manga is such a pain in the ass!