Hokuto_Shinken,Sign: Hokuto Shinken
Kat: Every year, late on New Year's Eve,
Kat: a man would visit Ikumatsu's restaurant.
Kat: He would always order a bowl of ramen,
Kat: say, "I can't eat this much,"
Kat: divide it into three portions, and share them with Ikumatsu-dono and her husband.
Kat: However, as time passed and her husband d*ed,
Kat: the man stopped showing up.
Kat: Just who was he?
Kat: We investigated, using the scarf he forgot at the restaurant as a clue,
Kat: and the truth was brought to light through the word of an unexpected source.
Kat: That man was Ikumatsu-dono's father, Nishiki Matsugoro.
Kat: Ikumatsu-dono thought he had d*ed years ago,
Kat: but he was actually still alive and living somewhere around here.
Kat: Who is Ikumatsu-dono's father?
Kat: Why didn't he tell his daughter who he was?
Kat: And why did he disappear?
Mad: Seriously, where do you think you're taking a plunge?!
Gin: You've got it wrong, Hasegawa-san.
Mad: The Lawd's getting swept away!
Gin: This straight man really wants to plunge into Ikumatsu's pus—
Mad: Hey, knock it off!
Mad: I can't handle these three stooges!
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Slip Arc,OP Card: Slip Arc
Ep Title,Title: A Family
Mad: What's wrong with you guys?
Mad: I don't know who you came here to look for,
Mad: but forget about all this once you get back to the surface.
Mad: Here, eat some bread crust.
Mad: Like I said, everyone there wants to forget about their past.
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Mad: Nothing good will come out of digging it up.
Mad: Actually, I guess it's still okay if they want to forget.
Mad: Some of them have pasts that they can't remember even if they want to.
Odd_Jobs_Gin_cha,Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan
Oso: I'm sorry.
Oso: I actually kept something from you.
Oso: And from the young miss, too.
Shin: You kept something from us?
Oso: But you seem to be trusted friends of the young miss,
Oso: so I figured I should tell you.
Oso: Someone once came looking for the master, just like you did.
H: Why?!
H: Why won't you tell Ikumatsu the truth, Mother?
H: She'll continue to have the wrongimpression about her father for—
Mo: And that's fine.
Mo: He really did die once.
Mo: And he abandoned Ikumatsu and me in the process.
H: But he didn't!
H: All he did was forget...
H: And all because he saved someone.
Mo: Then what do you want me to tell her?
Mo: That her admirable father
Mo: saved some kid drowning in the river
Mo: and disappeared?
Mo: And when we finally found him,
Mo: he'd forgotten all about us and had married another woman?
Mo: The man we knew no longer exists.
Mo: It was all too late.
Mo: I believe that this is the best choice to make for both his sake and Ikumatsu's.
Mad: Apparently, that geezer lost all his memories.
Mad: Memory impairment, was it?
Mad: Whatever happens one day, he forgets by the time he wakes up the next morning.
Mad: And after moving from place to place, he found his way to the waste dump.
Mad: That geezer had no idea about his past or his family, but one day,
Mad: a man showed up in front of him.
H: I finally found you.
H: I looked all over for you.
H: You probably won't remember me,
H: but I have never forgotten what you did for me.
H: If you can't remember, you don't have to.
H: And if you don't want to come with me, I won't force you.
H: But even if it's just one bowl, could you please come have our ramen?
H: I know this is nowhere near enough to repay my debt to you.
H: I know it won't make up for my sin of doing this to you.
H: But I want you to come see how well your daughter is doing!
H: That's my one wish as the boy whose life you saved back then!
H: Ikumatsu.
H: This is our restaurant's year-end tradition now.
Flashback: ,Should anything happen to me, make sure you keep it going.
Mad: I hear the geezer didn't pay much attention to the man's tearful plea.
Mad: But every time New Year's Eve came around, he would go off somewhere by himself.
Mad: It's strange.
Mad: He'd lost pretty much all his memories,
Mad: but he did remember just one thing.
__Soba,Sign: / Soba
Iku: Dad,
Iku: are we having just one bowl of New Year's soba again?
Mo: Don't be greedy now, Ikumatsu.
Fa: Your mother's right. This is more than enough.
Fa: Besides, if we split it into three portions like this...
Fa: There.
Iku: Can I really have so much to myself, Dad?
Fa: Go ahead.
Fa: Your mother and I already ate at work.
Fa: I can't eat this much.
Oso: Daigo-sama talked about it so happily.
Oso: He said they finally got to eat soba as a family of three again.
Mad: At this point, on top of his memory impairment, he's also gone totally senile.
Mad: Looks like he's forgotten all about going to that ramen restaurant, too.
Mus: I can't eat this much.
Mus: Want some?
Mad: But he still hasn't forgotten about that, or so I hear.
Gin: Forgot everything?
Gin: That's not true.
Kat: If he remembers that much...
Gin: ...it's more than enough.
Mad: Gin-san... Zuracchi...
Bro: Is that Ikumatsu's old man?
Mad: Wh-Why are you guys here?!
Bro: Don't go looking down on the homeless information network.
Bro: I knew you'd make a move, Katsura.
Bro: Don't worry.
Bro: I've sent Ikumatsu an invitation, too.
Bro: After all, she is the main heroine in my revenge story.
Kat: That'd be a problem.
Kat: We just called that restaurant
Kat: and made a reservation...
Kat: For a bowl of ramen.
Iku: You kids...
Kag: Wow.
Kag: When did this restaurant get popular enough to have people lining up, Matsu-nee?
Shin: Too bad.
Shin: And here we thought it was a hole in the wall that only we knew about.
Shin: Did people finally realize how good the food here tastes?
G: Enough of your nonsense, you brats!
G: Do you have a death wish? Outta our way!
Kag: Cutting in line isn't nice.
Kag: Sorry, but we have a reservation.
Shin: Ikumatsu-san.
Shin: Can we get a bowl of ramen on the double?
Shin: We've got a delivery order.
Kag: To an unknown address...
Shin: Nishiki Matsugoro-san's residence.
Bro: Katsura, are you thinking of not handing that geezer over?
Kat: Even if I did listen to you,
Kat: I don't believe scum like you would leave Ikumatsu-dono alone.
Bro: You're right. That's the way I like it.
Kat: Father, could you entrust yourself to us for a while?
Kat: We swear to help you eat Ikumatsu-dono's ramen one more time.
Bro: What can a samurai who ended up homeless and abandoned his sword do?
Bro: Go!
Bro: Get them, old man and all!
Kat: A sword isn't a samurai's only w*apon!
Mad: Forget the samurai crap! That's not a w*apon!
Kat: Here we go, Father!
Mad: Where? Is that what you meant by entrusting himself to you?!
G: What's wrong with you? Don't you wanna save that geezer?
Gin: To a samurai, everything within his reach is a w*apon,
Gin: a hammer to crush scumbags like you!
Mad: People who call human beings hammers are much bigger scumbags!
Mus: Getting out of here takes priority.
Mus: Please hang in there, Father.
Mad: Hey! His senility's getting even worse!
Gin: Tch.
Gin: The old man's head is gonna be empty by the time we get him to Ikumatsu's place.
Mad: That's your fault!
Gin: If we waste too much time, Ikumatsu'll be in danger, too.
Gin: Oh, well.
Gin: I'll let you hog the spotlight, Zura.
Gin: Get going, before the ramen gets soggy.
Kat: Nonsense. There's no spotlight left to hog.
Kat: We were simply led here by the two men who loved Ikumatsu-dono.
Kat: All we can do is sip on their leftover ramen soup.
Kat: Maybe we never had a role to play in this at all.
Kat: Because Ikumatsu-dono only has eyes for one man.
Gin: But even then,
Gin: if the two men's feelings reach her,
Gin: then whether his own feelings reach her or not,
Gin: the third guy's still gonna go, right?
Gin: For the sake of his beloved Ikumatsu's ramen.
Kat: Not ramen. Soba.
Kat: But I've eaten enough to get sick of it.
Kat: Leftover soup will be enough to fill me up.
Gin: That so?
Gin: Then get going and sip on that leftover soup or a body sh*t or whatever!
Bro: Hold it, Katsura!
Gin: Whoa there.
Gin: You're dealing with me.
Gin: Let's play nice as fellow lonely extras.
Bro: My targets are Katsura and Ikumatsu!
Bro: I couldn't care less about y—
G: Boss!
Gin: Did you not hear me?
Gin: I'm saying he's too good to be taking on trash like you.
Gin: Did you guys know?
Gin: The people who were at rock bottom in the lower world can make it to the top here.
Gin: I don't know how far down you pieces of trash got...
Gin: It's gonna be great, huh, Hasegawa-san?
Gin: The hole this guy and me fell into is a bottomless pit of despair.
Gin: Zura...
Gin: You're no different from those two, if you ask me.
Gin: All of you are nothing but morons.
Shin: Go!
Iku: Why did I forget?
Iku: Why didn't I remember?
Iku: I loved him so much...
Iku: When did I lock him away in the depths of my memories?
Iku: I feel like we could clearly see what was important when we were poor.
Iku: If it weren't for that, I'm sure his eyes wouldn't have strayed from us.
Iku: I was the one who abandoned her dear family.
Iku: He watched over me for years, even though he'd lost his memories.
Iku: And he brought us together in order to tell me that.
Iku: But I...
Iku: Dad, I'm sure you've already forgotten about such an awful daughter,
Iku: along with the taste of the bowl of soba the three of us shared as a family.
Iku: But that's okay.
Iku: That's all right.
Iku: This time, I promise not to forget.
Iku: My eyes will never stray again.
Iku: So please, Dad, just one more time...
Iku: Just one more bowl...
Kat: Ikumat—
Mu: Ikumatsu.
Mu: I can't eat this much.
Mu: It's all right.
Mu: Ikumatsu...
Mu: I already ate with everyone.
Mu: I'm already full.
Mu: So share this ramen...
Kat: Ikumatsu-dono!
Mu: ...with the people dear to you, the ones standing by your side.
Kat: Ikumatsu-dono!
Mu: That's what both Daigo-kun and I want.
Mu: Really...
Mu: I'm so full.
Iku: Was it really his voice that I heard back then?
Iku: Did he really still remember me?
Iku: There's no way to tell anymore.
Iku: All I can say is that if it weren't for him, I couldn't have met my husband.
Iku: I couldn't have survived and seen these guys again.
Iku: That much, I know for sure.
Kat: Ikumatsu-dono.
Kat: I asked for soba. I don't remember ordering ramen.
Iku: Really?
Iku: Men shouldn't nitpick.
Iku: Look at your stupidly long hair.
Iku: You should get a crew cut already.
Kat: What does my hair have to do with this?
Iku: This is a ramen restaurant, y'know?
Iku: Wouldn't hurt you to have some ramen for once, would it?
Iku: Or do you mean to say one idiot eating New Year's ramen is enough?
Iku: Why did you, Gin-san, and the kids stop showing up after that?
Kat: I owed them one, you see.
Kat: So they made me look for something they lost and whatnot.
Kat: They drove me like a sl*ve.
Iku: Lies.
Iku: I bet you stayed away out of needless concern for me.
Iku: So distant.
Iku: At least let me thank you...
Iku: You could at least let me make you some ramen on the house!
Kat: I don't see why we must be thanked or fed ramen by someone with such a sad face.
Iku: Please eat that.
Iku: You're the only one left.
Iku: I went through the trouble of making it... I waited all this while...
Iku: But the family I wanted to feed it to
Iku: are all gone now.
Kat: All the more reason not to eat it, then.
Kat: I don't have the right to. I'll come some other time.
Kat: Ikumatsu-dono.
Kat: There's just one thing I want to say.
Kat: I couldn't possibly bring myself to eat that ramen...
Kat: But even if we can't share ramen as family,
Kat: we can share your suffering as friends.
Kat: Let us know when you want to look for something you lost.
Kat: Also, let me make this clear.
Kat: It's not like I hate ramen.
Kat: It's just...
Bo: I can't eat that much.
Iku: Late on New Year's Eve,
Iku: that man ordered a bowl of ramen.
Iku: "I can't eat this much."
Iku: Saying that, he took his ramen...
Iku: and divided it into six portions.
Mad: I've tripped and stumbled my way through life until now.
Mad: So at least in the end, I'll stay far away from the dirt
Mad: and fly high toward the blue sky above.
Ep Title,Title: Life, Death, and Shades
Gol: Don't do it. You'll be mincemeat if you fall from this high up.
Gol: Put yourself in the shoes of the man who runs the BBQ place down there.
Mad: Don't get the wrong idea.
Mad: I just want to know if I still have the wings to fly.
Mad: And I came here to find out, is all.
Gol: Dunno what happened, but surely you have family and friends who will mourn you.
Gol: Most of all, if you d*ed here, it'd cause problems for me.
Gol: Life is precious. Don't throw it away.
Gol: Didn't you hear me?
Gol: If you cause a fuss here, everything will be ruined.
Gol: Life is precious. Don't waste that gift.
Mad: Look who's talking!
Mad: You totally wanna lay waste to a life!
Mad: You're totally trying to k*ll someone, right? You're an assassin, aren't you?!
Gol: Don't get the wrong idea. I'm just here to hunt boars.
Mad: From how far away are you trying to hunt boars?!
Mad: Really, don't be stupid. Don't commit a m*rder.
Gol: I don't wanna hear that from a suicidal man.
Mad: I don't wanna hear that from an assassin!
Gol: I don't wanna hear that from a man wearing filthy-ass shades.
Mad: I don't wanna hear that from a man wearing lame-ass shades!
Gol: Your shades are more lame.
Mad: Nah, your shades are more lame.
Gol: Let me be honest.
Gol: I couldn't care less what kind of shades you wear, or when and where you wear them.
Mad: We're talking about shades now?!
Text: The next episode
Text: will go something like that.
TextR: Hasegawa wants to take offahead of schedule.
TextL: Next time, find out if he gains wings.
TextR: And it won't just be about shades.
TextL: We'll also run a story about cops.
09x04 - A Family
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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.