Gin: Here we are.
Gin: It's the late night slot.
Sign: Late Night
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Sign: The Goddess of the Night
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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.
Sign: To the Late Night Slot
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?!
Sign: Please watch this program in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!!!!!
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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OP Card: The Battle on Rakuyo
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!
08x01 - The Monster and the Monster's Child
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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.