hijikata who puts shinsengumi over anything including his own happiness. hijikata who chose shinsengumi over his first love that shared a weird taste in food chose to follow his new love with a shared weird taste in food instead of staying with the shinsengumi. for once he put his own wishes first and that wish was gintoki. he spent two years searching for one man and he was going spend more if he needed to just to bring him home... even in bfy its hijikata who investigated into gintokis disappearance to figure out what happened to him... he was always meant to be the one to go on this quest for his beloved... with his bad tsundere act that its just to repay a favor as if that is enough for a person like himself to put aside his precious duty just to reunite a man with his family he holds dear. a family that now hijikata himself is part of even if he hasnt realized or accepted it yet. they have all the time in the world now to finally share that promised reunion drink back home where they both belong together
anon i. i don’t even know what to say to this. yes to all of that. my brain is so empty and it will be rotating this for the next week. please have a quick mediocre doodle of them finally having their drinks as my show of thanks bc i cannot stop thinking about that as well
Translation of HijiGin manga: Diary Exchange by saki1010_gt (Twitter)
I think about this manga literally once a week because I think it's akin to something Sorachi would write, so I'm sharing a translation here!
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And the link to the Twitter thread of this translation if anyone is interested!
Translation
[page 1]
G: Oh, so you like me, huh, Vice Chief-san?
G: That's not a good joke to go along with this alcohol.
H: Even so, this is a once-in-a-lifetime confession. Don't make light of it.
G: Hmm.
G: Well, if you say it like that,
G: I can probably answer you through a diary exchange.
H: ...
H: Okay, sure!!
[page 2]
H: Who would have thought that a man one would assume to have dysfunctional relationships like him would suggest a diary exchange?
H: 70% of the world's HijiGin starts with physical contact (based on experience), how hard to get are we being, really? Even rural middle school students are more chill in their relationships than us.
H: Still, handwriting and way with words are also treasure troves of information on one's personality.
H: Maybe it's unexpectedly also a good way to know more about this guy who is the hardest to understand in all of Gintama.
H: I gave him some questions in my first diary I passed to him so he wouldn't have too much trouble writing his, let's see what his reply is...
G: The fleeting spring is slipping away and the heat is encroaching upon us, but I hope you are doing well as you are... Or whatever, doing that each time is a pain so I'm just gonna talk normally from now on like you told me.
H: Hmph, he's unexpectedly a decent writer.
G: Um, first off, my favorite food, right? It'd have to be sweets for sure. Anko and dango are my favorites, but recently I'm into fresh cream too... Yaaawn. I woke up early today so I'm getting kind of sleepy...
H: Hm?
K: My favorite food is sukonbu.
[page 3]
K: I can eat boxes and boxes of sukonbu. I also like foods that go well with rice. Stuff like seaweed tsukudani is the best.
H: Why is the China girl the one answering!? Anyway, the diary exchange thing got completely found out by the kids! Whatever happened to his personal life!?
S: A place I'd like to go have fun at would be a Terakado Tsuu concert.
H: Glasseees!! You too!?
S: Ah, but you don't have to trouble yourself with going with me. I'll just go with the Yorozuya. You can just get us the amount of tickets we need.
H: Plus, he's rude and no fun at all!
G: Wait, what? I was dozing off and suddenly the page got filled up somehow.
H: Yorozuya, realize that you've been infiltrated by an entity called your family! And either way, why don't you read the page back a little!
G: But this kind of thing isn't bad, too. I can say stuff that are hard to say out loud here. To be honest, about you, I... I actually quite...
H: *ba-dump* Huh? Yorozuya?
[SADAHARU PAW PRINT]
G: Man, that's so out of character to say! I'll never write that again! Well, then, until next time. —Gintoki
H: THAT DOOOOOOG!!! I CAN'T READ THE MOST IMPORTANT PAAAAART!!!
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