08x03 - The Song of Samurai

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Sak: The space food that our old lady chef prepares is famous

Sak: for lettin' one experience home-cooked flavor anywhere in the universe.

Sak: Did you not like it, Shogun?

Sak: This is a problem.

Sak: If you don't eat, we'll be the criminals who starved the shogun to death.

Nb: You guys are already criminals who will go down in history.

Nb: I don't know or care how you plan to use me,

Nb: but, struggle as you might, you're fated to die anyway.

Nb: You will never escape the Tendoshu!

Sak: If I may be so presumptuous, Shogun...

Sak: In our eyes, and probably the Tendoshu's as well,

Sak: you are no longer worth using.

Sak: Your retainers walked out on you, your government has rapidly lost power,

Sak: and now you've committed a huge blunder over a personal grudge.

Sak: You've been too sullied for them to use as a puppet.

Sak: At this rate, it's clear that they'll get rid of you along with us criminals.

Sak: We are in the same boat here, standin' at the edge of the same precipitous cliff.

Sak: And I'm sayin' that's exactly why you need to eat properly.

Sak: You can't fight on an empty stomach,

Sak: and for us as well as you, the real battle is comin' up.

Title Card: Gintama

Title Card: The Battle on Rakuyo

Title: Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part Three

Title: The Song of Samurai

Warning,Sign: Please watch this program in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!!!!!

Ban: We can see it now.

Ban: If Shinsuke and the rest are alive, that's where they'll be.

Ban: And that's probably where

Ban: your friend who went with Takechi and Matako will be, too.

Gin: Rakuyo...

Gin: So that's Kagura's home planet.

Kag: Sorry, Mommy.

Kag: I've decided to leave this planet.

Kag: But I promise to come back.

Kag: This time with my stupid brother and stupid father.

Kag: I'll come back strong enough to regain everything.

Mat: A grave?

Mat: Someone you know?

Kag: I just wanted to check something.

Kag: It's just as I thought.

Kag: That baldy is here, too.

UB: How my homeland has changed while I was away.

UB: This has always been a hole for people who're too stupid to live on other planets,

UB: but I'd never run into people stupid enough to pick a fight with me until now.

Abu: Unfortunately, this is a squad formed by a colossal moron who grew up right here.

Abu: You guys had better give it a rest.

Abu: I'm not getting involved, okay?

Abu: This man's son took my left arm,

Abu: and his daughter took one of my ears.

Abu: There's no telling what he'll take.

Abu: Or, what, do you want to avenge that idiot?

Abu: You really shouldn't, then.

Abu: He'll k*ll you for trying to steal his prey.

UB: Are you saying he's still alive?

Abu: Isn't that why you're here?

Abu: To continue your father-son spat?

Abu: You two are really similar.

Abu: Once you zero in on a target, you ignore everyone else until you defeat them.

Abu: Even if that target is your own father or son.

Abu: Come. I don't have any tea to offer you,

Abu: but I do have plenty of complaints about your son.

G: Vice Commander!

Abu: Didn't you hear me?

Abu: This man isn't the least bit interested in taking our lives.

Abu: If he were, we wouldn't be here right now.

Abu: And we have no way to stop this fool, or his fool son.

Abu: In that case, all we can do is wait with him...

Abu: For the other fool to come back.

Ban: It seems the Harusame haven't caught wind of this location yet.

Ban: We didn't have to be so careful and bring only our best men.

Shin: Uh, everyone on the streets looks like a space pirate to me.

Shin: Did Kagura-chan really live on such a scary planet?

Gin: As a hangout for rogues from all over the universe,

Gin: it's not all that different from the Kabuki District.

Gin: Look, even the cabaret girls here look like your sister.

Shin: That's just a gorilla!

Gin: And her customer's basically Kondo, too.

Shin: That's just a gorilla!

Gin: And the manga artist drawing all that, too.

Shin: That's just a gorilla!

Sak: Shinpachi-kun, Gintoki's sayin' there's no need to be afraid.

Sak: So what if they're gorillas?

Sak: If they can work in such a business despite being gorillas,

Sak: then maybe their technique is out of this world!

Shin: Technique?

Sak: Okay, let's split up from here.

Sak: I'll try the G Course.

G_Course,Sign: G {\fs }Course

Gorilla,Sign: Gorilla

Shin: He went down the Gorilla Course!

Mut: I see. So you want the Gehenna Course.

Gehenna,Sign: Gehenna

G_Course,Sign: G {\fs }Course

Ban: So these are the men who fought with Shinsuke.

Shin: This is not the time or place for that reaction!

Kat: Yes, it might actually be similar.

Kat: Maybe Leader came to the Kabuki District because it gave off the scent of home,

Kat: right, Otae-san?

Shin: I told you, that's not Sis!

Gin: The scent of home, eh?

Gin: All I smell here is mold and grime.

Mut: We can't mix in the scent of blood there, too.

Mut: Anyhow, we should hurry to where Takasugi and the rest are hidin'.

Mut: Your friend is probably there, too.

Mut: Unless we meet up with 'em and protect 'em from the Harusame soon,

Mut: we'll lose our means of fightin' the Harusame, too.

Shin: Bansai-san.

Ban: Yes.

Ban: To think I'd be leading you to the emergency meeting place

Ban: that only those in our upper echelon know about...

Ban: You can see it from here.

Ban: It's that abandoned temple.

Shin: Uh, Bansai-san, it just exploded.

Shin: P-Please tell me that wasn't the place.

Ban: Yes, maybe it was not.

Ban: Right, it was the deserted house next door.

Ban: Or not. The place next door to that.

Ban: No, two doors down.

Ban: No, three—

Shin: They all exploded!

Shin: Was he there? Was Takasugi-san in one of those?!

Ban: Yes.

Shin: Oh, no!

Shin: You mean the Harusame knew?

Gin: Wasn't he the one who did all that, and not the Harusame?

Gin: Laser beams were coming out of his finger.

Shin: No, nothing came out!

Shin: Can you not? This guy doesn't get jokes!

Gin: My bad. It wasn't his finger. Something came from his brain.

Shin: I told you, nothing came out!

G: Bansai-sama, you're alive?

Ban: You're part of the Kiheitai!

Ban: What just happened? What were those explosions?

G: We're done for.

G: It was Umibozu.

G: He sniffed out this place.

Kag: Don't tell me...

Kag: Don't tell me!

G: P-Please hurry!

Ban: How's Shinsuke? Is he all right?

Ban: Hey, answer me!

G: We're sorry, Bansai—

Shin: Gin-san! Bansai-san!

Gin: A trap.

Gin: Those guys were in bed with the enemy.

Gin: I bet they were told to bring us here if they wanted their lives spared.

Gin: But they were just sacrificial pawns, apparently.

Gin: It looks like...

Gin: this planet has long since fallen into Harusame hands.

Abu: How awful.

Abu: That would turn even us Yato into cinders.

Abu: If we were there, that is.

Abu: If not for your advice, we'd have been done for.

Abu: Some gods abandon you, and some save you, huh?

Abu: Though, to begin with, the one who both destroyed and saved our th Division

Abu: wasn't godly, but a baldy instead.

UB: I am the great Umibozu, the best alien hunter in the universe.

UB: I always get my prey,

UB: but I never try to poach someone else's.

UB: My prey is the rotten brat alone.

UB: That man is not my prey nor the Harusame's,

UB: but the prey of a moron who'll come to settle the score someday.

Abu: A moron, eh?

UB: Long story short, I hate people who meddle in other people's fights.

UB: I gave them a warning, but it seems they're serious about taking me on.

UB: They came prepared to destroy an entire planet.

UB: If that's what they want,

UB: then I have to be ready, too...

UB: Ready for the most dangerous creature I've seen

UB: in my years as an alien hunter,

UB: and ready to hunt him down.

B: I should've realized sooner.

B: To think the enemy managed to turn some of our surviving comrades...

B: The Kiheitai started to crumble the moment Shinsuke went down.

Gin: This would've happened sooner or later.

Gin: Besides, there'd be no point in us being here if it didn't.

Gin: Right, Zura?

Gin: Tatsuma?

Gin: Quit spacing out.

Gin: In battle, the ones who burden themselves with regret

Gin: are always the first to die.

Gin: The only burden samurai should carry

Gin: is their sword.

Ban: White Yaksha!

Kat: Want me to tell you how to avoid the enemy's b*ll*ts?

Kat: It's simple!

Kat: Run!

Kat: Run faster than the enemy's b*ll*ts!

Kat: Run...

Kat: Run faster than the

Kat: shadow of death looming over you!

G: They're downstairs!

G: Hurry!

Mut: Fire!

sign_ _ _Charge__,Sign: Charge!!

Ban: They used a mad rush as a feint?

Ban: While they distracted the enemy,

Ban: they sent their friends to surround the enemy?

sign_ _ _Die,Sign: Die

Ban: Shinsuke...

Ban: Are these the samurai we were trying to wipe out?

Ban: No wonder they gave us such a hard time.

Ban: Sure, the era did break them,

Ban: and they did degrade into something resembling a blunt blade.

Ban: However...

Ban: The steel that remains here even after breaking, crumbling, and taking hit after hit

Ban: may be tempered to cut through every metal in the universe

Ban: as the last sword of the samurai.

G: Now here's a surprise.

G: I can't believe they fended off my th Division so easily.

G: Just like that Takasugi,

G: it seems Earthlings aren't just a bunch of monkeys.

G: You're the monkey.

G: I didn't give you permission to deploy your troops.

G: This wouldn't have happened if you'd followed my orders.

G: Save your whining for your wife, you mecha geezer.

G: Wars aren't fought with your mind.

G: They're meant to be fought with headbutts.

G: My cranium is at least times as hard as yours.

G: Want to try it?

G: You know too little about the enemy.

G: They are...

G: Samurai.

G: Or should I say, the remnants of samurai?

G: That reminds me, didn't you fight in some Earth w*r back when you were a mercenary?

G: You're the Harusame's nd Division commander and said to be its finest swordsman.

G: I bet you cut down a ton of that island nation's warriors.

G: No, there was one man I couldn't cut.

G: But that's all in the past.

G: Samurai use group tactics that they call the art of w*r.

G: We'll split them up and destroy each group in turn.

G: Samurai history will end here today, by the Harusame's hands.

G: What's with these guys?

G: Weren't our enemies supposed to be just Earthlings?

G: Why are these monsters with them?

Mut: Monsters? Rude.

Mut: Sure, we have different blood flowin' through our veins than Earthlings.

Sign: But so what?

Mut: We may not carry the same blood,

Mut: but we vowed to shed it on the same b*ttlefield, for the same cause.

Mut: We're samurai!

G: Don't fight them head-on!

G: Samurai are highly experienced in close-quarters combat!

G: Burn those monkeys down!

Ban: What a boorish bunch.

Ban: During a musical performance, you're supposed to shut up and listen to the song.

Ban: Do your wax-filled ears not hear it?

Ban: This unrefined yet graceful,

Ban: haphazard yet harmonious

Ban: song of samurai?

Shin: Gin-san! Bansai-san!

Gin: Hey. Looks like you managed to run away from the grim reaper.

Ban: I didn't run from anything.

Ban: If anything, I chased after

Ban: the backs of you grim reapers.

Kat: I'm not a grim reaper! I'm Katsura!

Sak: Cease your name callin'!

Sak: How are we—

Ban: It is as you see.

Ban: Anyone who's with you can never have enough lives.

Gin: Not exactly.

Gin: As you see, we also have some helping hands.

Gin: I think I understand how Takasugi stayed alive all this time.

Gin: Were you the one defending that grim reaper's back?

Ban: Who knows?

Ban: All I know is that watching the backs of idiots like you

Ban: is never boring.

Sak: Gintoki! Zura!

Sak: We Kaientai will deal with the flies above!

Sak: You guys look for Takasugi below!

Kat: Sakamoto!

Kat: The enemy's trying to take us out one at a time!

Kat: If we split up when we're already outnumbered, we'll never win!

G: The insides, Katsura-san! The insides fell out!

Sak: Even if we gather in one place, we'll still be outnumbered.

Sak: In that case, we should each do whatever we can.

Sak: Besides, I believe...

Sak: Not in the strength of thousands of enemies,

Sak: but of those I've fought with thousands of times...

Sak: In the strength of you two.

Sak: The next time we meet,

Sak: it'll be as the four of us.

Obo: So the one who leaked the information

Obo: and saved the th Division and the Kiheitai really was him.

Obo: The reason he approached the Harusame Elders and took part in the operation

Obo: was to save his son?

U: Oboro, he has not lied to us once.

UB: It was to k*ll that rotten son of mine before you lot did.

UB: His eyes weren't lying.

UB: He wasn't thinking of anything but k*lling his son.

UB: In other words,

UB: he never thought about k*lling anyone but his son.

UB: The only exception

UB: is people who get in the way of their father-son spat.

Obo: So he, too, is meant to be an obstacle on your path?

U: I'd prefer not to call him an obstacle.

U: After all, I've finally found him...

U: Someone who, though I had yet to meet him,

U: might possibly be able to k*ll me.

Abu: What a striking sight.

Abu: Six of the twelve Harusame divisions

Abu: have moved out just to k*ll some survivors?

Abu: And half of them have moved out to hunt down just one man?

UB: All I see is a bunch of maggots crawling about.

Abu: Where I come from, a "striking sight" is one that strikes you with despair.

UB: Why are you coming with me?

UB: Your best chance to run is while I'm raising some hell.

Abu: They're planning to wipe out the Yato.

Abu: If we're gonna die anyway,

Abu: it wouldn't be too bad to die with a living Yato legend.

UB: I'm the guy who's here to k*ll your commander.

Abu: It's ironic.

Abu: To survive and see our commander again, we have to

Abu: cling to the power of the living legend, the man who came to k*ll our commander.

UB: Tell me what you know about the enemy.

Abu: We're up against three of the twelve Harusame divisions.

Abu: The most dangerous one of them all is the st Division, which leads the rest.

Abu: Its commander, Shirei, is

Abu: the longest serving and most successful leader in the Divisions.

Abu: He's smart and strong.

Abu: You could call him the best of the best.

UB: Any others I should be wary of?

Abu: The Three Mad Stars have probably been reinstated, too.

UB: The Three Mad Stars?

Abu: Dangerous elements who were among the strongest in the Divisions,

Abu: but were imprisoned for a long time due to breaking the rules.

Abu: The first...

Abu: The only commander in the Divisions without any foot soldiers.

Abu: But this scheming monk can take over all troops on the b*ttlefield.

Abu: The rd Division Commander, Uranus Hankai.

Abu: The second...

Abu: has an eye that can read people's minds,

Abu: and the moniker of "The Star Sword King."

Abu: He is the best swordsman in the Harusame,

Abu: nd Division Commander, Pluto Bato.

Abu: And lastly...

Abu: The man possessing the most strength and athleticism in the Harusame,

Abu: the syndicate's best assassin...

G: Good grief.

G: How did my division get crushed

G: by a man with such delicate and effeminate features?

Kat: I'm not effeminate. I'm Katsura.

Kat: Out of the way, monkey.

Kat: I have no time to feed you millet dumplings or go to India with you.

G: I'm not a monkey.

G: I'm the Harusame's th Division Commander and one of the Three Mad Stars,

G: Neptune Shokaku!

Kat: Talk about long!

Kat: Your title is really long.

Kat: It's too long to remember.

Kat: Can't you make it more compact, like my "I'm not Zura. I'm Katsura"?

Sho: Yeah, but what am I supposed to do? That's my title.

Kat: I get wanting to say it all out loud.

Kat: But if you throw that much information at someone, they won't remember any of it.

G: Well, I'm not telling you to remember all of it.

Kat: Oh, is that so?

Kat: If that's how you're going to roll, then I'll do the same.

Kat: I'm not Zura!

Kat: I'm a Joi leader and former member of the Joi Elite Four,

Kat: feared as the Rampaging Noble and Runaway Kotaro,

Kat: Katsura Kotaro, type AB,

Kat: whose fortune for today is moderate. If you sweat the small stuff, you'll regret it.

Kat: Call me that!

G: Uh, the latter half wasn't even a title!

Kat: If you ask me, your "Three Mad Stars" is just as pointless as "type AB."

Kat: Like I could remember that!

G: Yeah, that's impossible.

G: Was the Three Mad Stars thing that pointless?

Kat: Basically, the important thing is to pick what you want to say most

Kat: and to do it in a clear and concise manner!

Sign: Nobody cares, so could you get on with it?

G: Fine, I get it!

G: I get it, so don't say any more. Damn, you're annoying.

Kat: Do you really get it, monkey?

G: I'm not a monkey.

G: I'm Shokaku, a big-hearted type O!

G: That's what you go with?!

Kat: Bring it on, Sho... Shoke?

Kat: You rotten monkey!

G: In the end, you still couldn't remember it?!

TBC,: To Be Continued

Preview,Sign: Preview

Kat: So, yeah, I ended up fighting... er... that... thing.

Gin: I know you're hardheaded,

Gin: but did your brain turn hard, too, Zura?

Kat: I'm not Zura! I'm Katsura!

Title: Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part Four

Kat: No, I'm...

Title: Zura

Harusame's th Division Commander and one of the Three Mad Stars, Neptune Shokaku,

has Zura (type AB) about to go berserk on him?!

There's not much room in these captions for such long titles,

so we like the nice, compact ones!