Oug: W-Wait...
Oug: After breaking the code and abandoning your crew,
Oug: where are you going to live out your life now?
Oug: You're the Dakini's greatest warrior, the one hailed as the "Divine Horn."
Oug: Are you really going to leave the b*ttlefield forever?
Hed: I'd give away these horns if I could.
Hed: How many planets do you think we've turned into wastelands?
Hed: How many lives blooming on those planets have we plucked right out of the ground?
Hed: Just as we Dakini were born to fight,
Hed: the lives we plucked out must've been trying to bloom for a purpose of their own.
Hed: I now want to see how they live, and what kind of flowers they will make bloom.
Oug: I hear you were being treated for a parasite you contracted on Planet Kohaku.
Oug: They said it was a parasitic plant that takes root in its host's brain,
Oug: and that you changed completely as a person ever since.
Hed: I didn't change.
Hed: I bloomed.
Hed: I grew a flower of my own.
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Silver Soul,OP Card: Silver Soul
Title: Silver Soul Arc
Title: Jump and Power Creep Go Hand-in-Hand
Warning,Warning: Watch the Silver Soul Arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!
: Your friends are takin' a nap outside.
: You should be careful. This town is a bit dangerous.
: If you're caught sleepin', you'll have everythin' stolen in a flash!
Sot: You fiends!
Sot: We operate under the policy of one for all.
Sot: We would gladly lay down our lives for the greater good.
Sot: That's the way of the Shinra.
Jir: I told you...
Jir: We remember how you people k*ll.
Gin: You're not alone?
Jir: Well, neither are we.
Jir: I guess fighting as a group isn't so bad once in a while.
Gin: I dunno. I was this close to skewering the annoying ganguro geezer, too.
Jir: Well, too bad about that.
G: Sotatsu-sama!
See that?
This is the power of the universe's greatest gangsters,
the Sewer Rats led by Jirocho!
And I'm the Sewer Rats' right-hand man,
the greatest seven-three part in the universe, Kurogoma Katsu—
Kag: The universe's greatest gangsters, my ass!
Kag: Our young'uns were the ones who took down the enemy's boss!
Kag: We're the universe's greatest gangsters, the Odd Jobs Family!
Shin: When did we become gangsters?!
Chin: Besides, you ain't the right hand man of the Sewer Rats, Kacchan.
Chin: Jirochon said he'd leave the family's future in my hands.
What?!
Why haven't I heard of this? What's this about, Jirochon?!
Jir: Who're you calling Jirochon?
Do you have any idea how much I did to keep the g*ng going while you were gone?
Ever since that time, I've always thought of you as...
Yes. Back then, I was as sharp as a Kn*fe, hurting anyone who dared touch me.
Jir: Whoops. Sorry about that.
Flashback: ,Hey, hold it right there!
Flashback: ,You bump into someone and that's all you got to say?
Flashback: ,Wh-Who are you?
Jir: Kid, snapping at everyone around you in a youthful frenzy is all well and good,
Jir: but let me say just one thing...
Jir: Do we really need a flashback for you?
Flashback: ,He rejected my flashback within the flashback!
Jir: I think it went something like that.
Could you not alter my old man?!
You can't do this after multiple flashbacks about your youth!
Anyway, I fell for you back then and followed you all this while!
And you're tellin' me to quit right after I got the g*ng back on its feet?!
Jir: I don't remember ever saying that in the first place.
Jir: What kind of father would want his daughter to be a gangster?
Chin: What? But you said, "I'm sure you could handle being the young leader."
Jir: It was a hypothetical statement. I didn't tell you to actually take that spot.
Chin: You did, too.
Jir: No, I didn't.
Chin: You did, too!
Jir: No, I didn't.
Chin: But you really did say it...
Jir: Pirako, I can't back down on this.
Jir: If I let you take such halfway measures,
Jir: I'd never hear the end of it from your mother, who left you in my care.
Jir: If you're gonna do it, take the throne, Boss Pirarin.
Jir: Jirochon will be yakuza association chairman.
Chin: Hooray!
That's what you meant by halfway?!
Jir: Aren't you glad, Katsuo?
Jir: Now you'll forever be the right-hand man—halfway to the top.
I never said I wanted to be the right-hand man of the Pirarin Family!
There's a limit to bein' a doting father!
Young Miss, when will the Jirocho we know and love return to us?
Chin: Not Young Miss, Kacchan. That's "Boss" to you.
Chin: What will I do with you?
Chin: I'll let you off with five chopped fingers this time.
Chin: It'll be ten each from next time.
How many fingers do you think I have?!
Gin: Good grief. I really should've skewered him.
Gin: If this keeps up, even if we chase off the Liberation Army,
Gin: this town still won't ever be peaceful.
Jir: Do you think this town will calm down once I die?
Jir: You'll still be here after I'm gone.
Jir: And those guys will still be here after you're gone.
Jir: Those brash kids who only feel
Jir: truly alive within the hustle and bustle.
Jir: Tatsugoro...
Jir: This ain't your place to die.
Jir: Let's go back together, Tatsugoro,
Jir: to our town.
Tsgr: But if we walk this slowly, she'll become a gran by the time we get back.
Tsgr: But I guess that ain't too bad.
Tsgr: That's the one thing I want to see most right now.
Tsgr: Jirocho...
Tsgr: What kind of town do you think our home will become?
Tsgr: What kind of geezers and grans will you become,
Tsgr: and what kind of youngsters will gather there?
Jir: Knowing us, we'll be stubborn geezers lecturing youngsters who can't stand us.
Tsgr: That sounds amazing.
Tsgr: I want to hurry up and lecture some kids.
Jir: Yeah, I can't wait, either.
Oug: The first was that man.
Oug: And I used my broken horn as motivation to grow much stronger.
Oug: So why have I had a horn broken once again?
Oug: Why are we once again...
Oug: running in fear from these apes like so?
Oug: And it isn't just us.
Oug: The head?!
Oug: Retreat!
Tsu: Don't let them escape!
Oug: What are these people?
Oug: How are they driving back proud warrior races one after the other?
Hed: The lives we plucked out must've been trying to bloom for a purpose of their own.
Oug: What were they born for, and what are they living for?
Oug: What is the name of the flower these Earthlings are growing?
Jir: They're finally falling apart.
Jir: But unless we do something about their main force,
Jir: we'll still be in a desperate situation.
Jir: If they regroup with the main force, that's it for us.
Jir: What we did would amount to nothing more than sticking a needle into an elephant.
Gin: Sure, one needle isn't enough to defeat an elephant.
Gin: But if it were tipped with poison, it'd soon spread throughout that huge body
Gin: and render the elephant immobile.
Gin: Fear is contagious, you know?
Kaubki: , Kabuki District First
Gin: If they wanna get out of this town, let them.
Gin: But...
Gin: Only after we've laced them with the poison known as fear!
Sai: Pako?
Gin: Our visitors will be leaving, Mama.
Gin: They had their fair share of fun in our town.
Gin: Right down to their butt hair, we'll...
Kag: ...fleece them for everything they've got!
G: N-No way!
G: The last mercenary group came back with their tails between their legs!
G: It's not just here!
G: Even at the West Gate...
G: and the South Gate!
Jir: I've gotten in on quite the gamble.
Jir: Opening all the gates to drive out the enemies inside
Jir: and using that momentum to make the main Liberation Army force withdraw?
Jir: But who knows if we'll be able to make that huge force sense impending defeat?
Jir: I'm a gangster, and even I wouldn't make such a reckless gamble.
Bim: But maybe the only one capable of doing something as absurd as saving the world
Bim: is a huge moron who could doom the world to destruction with one misstep.
Gin: Run!
Gin: Keep running forward until you can't see any enemies up ahead!
Gin: Squeeze out every last ounce of energy you have!
Gin: Burn everything you have, and leave nothing behind!
Gin: Keep running until you're running on empty!
Oug: Your enemy is that way.
Oug: If you still want to withdraw, then I'll take you on.
Oug: Fight, you small fry!
Shin: With one roar, he revived their fighting spirit!
Shin: Their fear of us was overwritten by an even greater fear!
Oug: I am a Dakini. One who was born to fight, and one who lives to fight.
Oug: There is nothing I fear.
Oug: If there were something, I would simply pluck it out with my own hands.
Oug: Hey, you. Didn't you hear me?
Oug: Anyone who flees here has to answer to me.
Hed: I'm terribly sorry.
Hed: I heard a w*r was about to break out, so I was helping everyone evacuate.
Hed: That's why I couldn't get here in time.
Hed: If only I'd planted you elsewhere sooner...
Hed: I'm so sorry!
Oug: Th-That flower... It can't be!
Oug: The parasite, Parappa Heaven!
Oug: It takes root in its host's head, gradually takes over his thoughts,
Oug: and eventually turns their mind into an empty, blissful bed of flowers...
Oug: A deadly parasitic plant from Planet Kohaku!
Hed: I bloomed.
Hed: I grew a flower of my own.
Oug: Are you...
Oug: The Dakini's greatest warrior, the one who broke my horn...
Oug: The one hailed as the "Divine Horn"...
Hed: I have no idea who you are.
Hed: I'm just a friendly neighborhood florist.
Hed: I love the flowers, the lives, that bloom on this planet,
Hed: and to Odd Jobs, I'm...
Hed: Neighbor Hedoro!
Hed: And so, I ask.
Hed: Who was it that trampled upon one of this planet's lives?
Hed: Please be honest and raise your hand!
Shin: H-Hedoro-san...
Oug: Get him!
Oug: All hands, defeat this man!
Oug: Break the Divine Horn!
Hed: This won't do.
Hed: I did ask you to be honest and raise your hand,
Hed: but I wasn't expecting so many of you to do it.
Hed: I wanted the culprit to apologize to the flower, but this will take all day.
Oug: Corrupted by the flower, you've lost your character and all your fighting skill.
Oug: You don't need those horns anymore!
Hed: But...
Hed: Even if making you all apologize is out of the question,
Hed: I think I can manage punishing each of you with a punch.
Hed: Now...
Hed: I'd like to get this over with quick, so could you all come to me at once?
Shin: H-Hedoro!
Shin: He took out that monster in one hit!
Shin: He threw the Liberation Army into the deepest depths of fear!
Shin: The enemy's been consumed by fear and is retreating all at once!
Shin: Hedoro-san, you're too scary! You really are the scariest one of them all!
Shin: Gin-san! Now's our chance to g*ng up on them!
Shin: Even these guys are running away!
Shin: Why are you all being consumed by fear, too?!
Gin: Are you stupid?
Gin: If that monster's flower withers, that'll mean the advent of a new demon king!
Gin: This final arc was nothing but the prologue for Jump's trademark power-creep system!
Gin: I've had it with this! I'm making the jump to Shonen Sunday!
Shin: What are you even talking about?!
Gedo: No need to worry, Gintoki-sama.
Gedo: No matter what manner of demons or evil monsters show up,
Gedo: Edo has the Ketsuno Clan of onmyoji on its side.
Kag: Gedomaru! Ketsuno Ana!
Shin: Wh-Why are you here?
Ket: The Ketsuno Clan was entrusted by the bakufu with the guarding of Edo.
Ket: Did you think we only take on demons or spirits?
Ket: Tell them, Gedomaru-san.
Ged: I'm late 'cause Satan stubbornly started the Third Underworld w*r with Nurarihyon,
Ged: but I'm now prepared to switch from occult to sci-fi.
Shin: Uh, that other thing sounds much more scary!
Ged: From here on, I won't be a shikigami of the Ketsuno Clan.
Ged: I'm ready to fight together with you all as a human friend.
Ged: So Gintoki-sama, please wipe that pathetic look off your face.
Ged: If you still want to withdraw,
Ged: then I'll send you to the same hell I sent Satan to. Is that okay with you?
Shin: The bad guy just played that same card earlier!
Ged: Fight, you small fry!
Shin: I can't tell which ones are the shikigami here!
G: Wh-What the hell is that?
G: They're coming this way!
G: Run for it!
Shin: Wait a damn second!
Shin: Instead of making the enemy retreat, we're retreating faster than the enemy here!
Kag: We overtook the enemy! We left them in the dust!
Gin: Hey, this is bad! We're gonna catch up to the monster up ahead!
Shin: We're sandwiched between monsters!
Shin: What kinda sandwich is this? Which earl came up with this thing?!
Gin: Crap! There's nowhere left to run!
Ged: Get going already.
Sei: An illusion technique?
Sei: To make an army that large retreat, we can't fight with only what we have on hand.
Dou: You must make your empty hand look like it's full of cards
Dou: and borrow the strength of the nonexistent.
Dou: Only con men or we onmyoji could pull that off.
Sei: Indeed.
Sei: Con man, I don't intend to recognize you as an onmyoji.
Dou: But I will recognize you as this country's best con man.
Dou: Even a con man's ability can come in handy at a time like this.
Sei: Doman!
Dou: Seimei!
Bo: Throw in everything you've got!
G: Hold your ground!
G: If we retreat any farther, the entire force will collapse!
G: We have an overwhelming numbers advantage!
G: Surround the enemy and crush them!
G: Reinforcements will arrive soon! Hold out until then!
G: Is it reinforcements?
G: N-No way...
G: There's no way they still have so many troops remaining...
G: Hey, look!
G: They keep showing up from everywhere!
G: I-In crazy numbers!
G: Is this it? Are we surrounded?!
G: Calm down! That can't be!
G: How are we supposed to calm down?
G: D-Does that mean we're... we're...
G: Hey, wait!
G: I said wait!
Shin: We did it.
Shin: The Liberation Army...
Shin: ...retreated!
Kag: Gin-chan, we did it!
Kag: W-With this, a little peace will return to the Kabuki District.
Kag: Gin-chan?
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Kag: Nothing beats peace after all.
Jir: This town is noisy all year round.
Title: Silver Soul Arc
Jir: Nights like these ain't so bad once in a while.
Title: Peace and Destruction Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
TextR: The battle ends, the sun sets,
TextL: and we jump out of the frying pan into the fire.
TextR: Now that the flower's been ripped out,
TextL: what's going to happen?
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Japanese manga series where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.
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