A Gintama episode a day keeps the ending away…Episode 136
Episode Title: It's Your House, You Build It
MY 12 FAVORITE MOMENTS IN EPISODE 136 (manga chap 230):
1) The anime team trying to kill a few minutes again.
2) I loved Hasegawa’s puppy. His dirty state made me so sad.
3) The puppy was so well behaved too, knew how to follow everything his master did. I appreciated the Death Note mention too.
4) This was not in the manga: loved the little can badges on this dog house!
5) Not in the manga either and omg.
6) That room had to have stunk from all that blood and I reallyyyy wish Gintoki didn’t sit on the stains. Dried up or not, it’s still disgusting.
7) Ok, Gin-chan’s analogy was quite different in the manga, much nicer. In here, it became the similarity between a room that has been “done” and a good girl who’s been “done” (I think the word the translators probably should have used was “soiled” because that is actually what he meant). So messed up. I really only liked this because he was in a uniform. In his analogy, in addition to the dyed hair and ear piercing, that chick also looked like she aged 10 years...but I guess that was the point since she was “done” by a bad boy during summer vacation.
8) Poor poochie. I hope he was able to escape the room.
9) Well, technically none of them escaped, but not like realism ever mattered in the Ginta-verse. It was funny how they were trying to hand off the keys though.
10) I actually got creeped out cuz the anime made things scarier by having the static effect like the one used in The Ring. And of course hearing the voice from the radio is so much worse than just reading the words. I really don’t like this moment at all but it did leave an impression.
11) We will never know what actually happened to Gintoki, Madao and the old realtor in that room.
12) Poor Hatsu. Although since there was no one around, I guess the room might’ve only just made her homicidal? Anyway, again, we’ll never know. Glad she survived whatever it did to her though.
SHIPS TALLY:
Hasegawa x Hatsu: still not sure how she found his new place without an address, but in the manga, it seemed like Madao was the one who sent her the postcard, which would’ve been a bit of a dick move, so I’m glad the anime made it more clear that “Noboru”, the demon or spirit in the room, actually did it. Honestly, she’s better off just not associating with him overall. Even if she hadn’t been possessed or whatever, she would’ve had to clean that blood soaked apartment for him. Who needs that headache?
Gintoki x Hasegawa: Gin-chan is always so supportive and encouraging to Hasegawa, it’s really touching. Damn it.
Hasegawa x Slave: that guy looked like he was more than willing to play fetch for Madao.