just wanted to gather all of their face to face moments, even though the last one is a bit different from the rest, but it closes the development well. Wish there was a similar moment in chapter 701, but they reunited back to back.
Snow White Katsura, dubbed as the fairest in the land with skin white as snow and hair black as ebony, accidentally eat a poisened apple prepared by Evil King Utsuro who felt that his beauty outshines his. He fell into a deep sleep, encased in a glass coffin by seven Renhos, or as he named them, Elizabeths. Until handsome Prince Gintoki see how beautiful he is lying in the glass coffin and kiss him.
GinHiji: Cinderella
Gintoki's a poor guy who just wants to go to the ball and feast on the desserts. His wish is granted by his fairy God Father Shouyou but he goes as Paako and got into a swordfight with Prince Hijikata. When it's midnight he runs away and is chased by Hijikata only to drop his bokuto, Lake Toya. Hijikata, who has fallen for him, searches for anyone who can fight using only a wooden sword. (Since it's canon that he searched for him for 2 years anyway so a few days of searching won't be a problem for him)
KonZura: Beauty and the Beast
Katsura offers himself in exchange of his grandmother who has been captured for trespassing in the castle of Prince Kondo. Kondo, who has been cursed to become a gorilla and get his servants (who all consisted of Shinsengumi members) into the mess, must make the beautiful Katsura fall in love with him to break his curse. (But when he turns back normal he still kinda looks like gorilla so nothing really changes but Katsura loves him anyway).
GinTaka: Sleeping Beauty
Princess Takasugi is in a coma deep sleep. Prince Gintoki has to face a horde of space pirates and crow assasins to smack kiss him awake. (Huh? Isn't this just the plot of Rakuyo arc?)
OkiKagu: Little Red Riding Hood
Red-hooded Kagura is sent by Shinpachi to bring sweets to Gintoki. She encounters a big bad wolf named Okita on the way who intends to "eat" her.
GinTae: The Princess and the Pea
Instead of Princess and pea, it's Samurai and bokuto. The Shimura family is looking for a true samurai to marry Tae when one night, Gintoki came to ask for shelter. Shinpachi believes that only a True Samurai can use Lake Toya. Gintoki proves himself a True Samurai when he uses the bokuto to defeat their debt collectors and marries Otae.
KatsuMatsu: Rapunzel
A wanted man Katsura comes across a tower where Ikumatsu is imprisoned by her evil step brother. He climbs the tower using her long golden hair and then they fall in love.
KaguSoyo: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
Poor street girl Kagura saves Soyo, a princess in disguise from bullies. They bond and start liking each other, but Soyo's high social status gets in their way. (This is pretty much canon). Kagura then is hired by an afro yakuza named Inoue to get a magic lamp in a cave but ends up trapped there. She awakens a powerful silver-haired genie named Gintoki who promises to grant her three wishes, including getting her together with Soyo.
Psst, Zura stans. Watch me be deprived of sleep to write fics for this dumb bitch.
Katsura Kotarou is the most shippable character I have ever had the chance of knowing. Heck, I could even write him getting railed by that one sword in the slip arc.
A Gintama episode a day keeps the ending away…Episode 123
Episode Title: Always Keep A Screwdriver In Your Heart
MY 19 FAVORITE MOMENTS IN EPISODE 123 (manga chap 192):
LOVE THIS EPISODE SO MUCH!!!
1) If Hijikata and Shinpachi would’ve just switched places, the seating arrangement would’ve been perfect.
2) They ordered 10 plates of meat for 6 people, which I thought was weird, but what’s even weirder is how do the screwdrivers expel their waste after such a hearty meal? It’s questions like that that keep me up at night.
3) In the manga, Gintoki actually grabbed his crotch to remind everyone why the hunt was important in the first place, so I kinda missed that from the episode.
4) Ok, not a favorite moment per se but more like wtf: those two figures in the doorway were so freaking weird and creepy almost. The guy looks like he has one of those kabuki masks on and then that thing on his shoulder, I couldn’t figure out if it was a kid or a monkey, but they both sounded DRUNK. It was odd enough to actually distract me from the scene.
5) Zura managed to escape from prison even though he was handicapped in his screwdriver form. Man deserves to be free.
6) Gin-chan looked so good as a truck driver. And I loved that he was smoking a cigarette. Gave him one more thing in common with Hijikata.
7) I almost wish they could have stayed as drivers since they had a steady income and most likely were having regular meals since they could afford them.
8) I don’t even understand why. And the anime team were the ones who came up with all the weird Sacchan stuff as she was looking for the aliens.
9) Hijikata’s “O” pleasure face. Bless the anime team for coming up with this bar scene.
10) Gin-chan being brutal to Sacchan as usual, though she probably enjoyed it as usual as well.
11) Sacchan looking good even after being run over. She really was the MVP of the episode, heck, of the arc considering she found the location the aliens.
12) That’s Gintoki’s crotch and it looked magical. It kinda looked more vaginal than penile or even screwdriveral.
13) Just another magical crotch shot.
14) I couldn’t stop laughing cuz it basically looked like Gintoki was forking the ship to death, causing it to explode. We even got to see the moment of his climax ffs. They took away the crotch grab and yet the anime team thought THIS was ok to show. Lmao.
15) I wondered the same thing but thankfully everything was back to normal the next time we seem them.
16) Something the anime team came up with to fill in the extra minutes of the episode at the end. Basically Gintoki offering a glass-half-full look to Kagura’s concerns about cicadas and mosquitoes.
17) Yeah, they really should have continued driving that truck. This made me so sad.
18) Rudeass mosquitoes.
19) I love that Gintoki had no glass-half-full counter to Kagura’s feelings about Madao.
SHIPS TALLY:
Gintoki x Hijikata: so much flirting!
Okita x Kagura: a couple that beats up Zura together, stays together.
Kondou x Otae: I was so glad he was still thinking of Tae-chan even though it looked like he was ready to move on to Princess Phillips. This moment was not in the manga.
Zura x Elizabeth: they are a unit, forever together.
Gintoki x Sacchan: I never thought it would be her boobs that turned into screwdrivers...don’t know how that would work with Gin-chan unless they actually became hex sockets. And every time I get to this scene, I picture it both ways. I need to go wash my eyes and brain now.
Hijikata x Okita: that whole scene, the way it was lit and the fact that Sougo bought him a drink, smacked of romance of the one night stand variety.
Kondou x Zura: they teamed up and were so in sync.
Kondou x Princess Phillips: She was cute! And their heads fit together. That’s probably how the people of Planet Screw reproduces.
Hijikata x Zura: it was nice of Hijikata to offer Zura a nice, last meal.
Okita x Zura: even though Sougo was much meaner in the anime...he only ordered raw meat in the manga, but in the ep he ordered TAINTED raw meat...it was still sweet that he was feeding Zura (with an assist from Hijikata).
Disclaimer: Gintama is not only about shipping. Gintama is hilarious, clever, exciting, poignant, heart-breaking, loving, brilliant, and just completely unbelievably amazing. It is only due to Sorachi-sama’s immense generosity that I am able enjoy Gintama on an extra another level, the shippy level, and I am forever grateful for that. GINTAMA IS LIFE AND LOVE.
Chapter 701 of Gintama was great, loved every bit about it. From the jokes, to the emotional moments, to the "it's not ending again lol" trolling, everything was past perfect.
But my favorite thing about it was, without a doubt, the unexpected Konzura moment it had!!
That's my all time favorite rare pair!! My Gintama OTP. I loved every single small interaction they had over the course of the series, and I absolutely adored how their relationship grew during the Farewell Shinsengumi arc. And I thought we wouldn't see him together again now the series is ""ending"", but here they are.
Thank you Gorilla! You been so nice to this fan 😭 Can't wait to see the next chapter(s?)
