A small orange slugcat seems to watch from a distance, cautious, yet curious. They hold a bag with them, and is wearing a king vulture mask with the harpoons still attached.
Gintoki Sakata: Kagura and Shinpachi Shimura, his own de aged mentor Shouyou, Hashida Kanshichirou, and Seita
Kim Dokja: Lee Gilyoung and Shin Yoosung are the commonly accepted ones but you can also make a case for Lee Jihye and Biyoo
Who’s your favorite serial adopter?
Gintoki Sakata
Kim Dokja
Voting ended onSep 23, 2024
Propaganda under the cut!
Gintoki Sakata:
1. “Gintoki is introduced to us as a depressed twenty seven year old dealing with ptsd who first adopts Shinpachi after protecting him from Amanto (aliens, who have somewhat taken over earth) who were harassing him, which led to Shinpachi losing his job, and Gintoki having to help him rescue his sister Otae from the family’s debtors. Shinpachi comes to work for Gintoki as Odd Jobs, soon joined by Kagura (an amanto herself with super strength who was working as part of gang prior to Shinpachi and Gintoki helping her leave) Kagura leaves in his house and later Gintoki allows her to get a pet dog. It’s made clear that these three are a family and more than a few episodes make it clear that Kagura seems Gintoki as her earth father (her bio dad, the strongest man in the universe, goes around the galaxy fighting monsters) and Shinpachi feels a familial connection to him as well. There’s also Hashida, a baby who looks a lot like Gintoki, whom Gintoki takes care of when the custody battle over Hashida becomes an actual battle. This includes drinking together, tying the baby to his back while fighting his way to Hashida’s mom, and Hashida crying when Gintoki leaves, after promising they’ll share a drink when Hashida is older. In a similar vein is Seita, a street kid who tries to pickpocket Gintoki but gets robbed in return and ends up working for Gintoki’s landlady (Gintoki’s own adoptive mother) and being taken care of by her and the odd jobs family as a whole, before Gintoki discovers Seita’s mother is Hinowa, the Sun of Yoshiwara and its highest ranking courtesan, and fights Housen, a crime lord who fought Kagura’s father for three days and nights until they considered it a draw, and kills him, just so Seita and Hinowa can reunite. During the timeskip late in the series, we discover after seemingly defeating the Big Bad Utsuro (an immortal who formerly was Gintoki’s adoptive father and teacher Shouyou) Gintoki spent two years raising the reincarnated Shouyou as a baby, before being given his heart to prevent Utsuro’s followers from taking it. These are just the most notable examples, pretty much any character younger than Gintoki gets taken care of or helped by him in a way, including Kagura’s older brother, temporary member of Odd Jobs Pirako, and even to an extent youngest Shinsengumi member Okita Sougo. Gintoki is positioned as acting as the same adoptive parent role as his own adopters (Shouyou and his landlady Otose) are, taking on similar burdens and making, or trying to make) similar sacrifices as well. He can be really soft with kids at times, and has at least once carried Kagura and Shinpachi away from a fight on his back.”
2. “#hell adopt your unorphaned kid hell adopt your dad hell adopt his own deaged mentor!!!”
Kim Dokja:
1. “In the first scenario (where you have to murder something alive) his first priority is to make sure Gilyoung makes it out alive (by giving him the grasshopper before letting others know about it), and when the future version of Yoosung (41st round) is going to cause havoc his first plan is to basically the past (his present) version of her so they would have her on her side (he takes her in as his incarnation- if that isn’t an adoption idk what is); Biyoo is literally the soul of 41st Yoosung that he WENT THROUGH AN UNDERWORLD TRIAL to get her back and she is legally his child. Lee Jihye is more like the older sister-teenager of the group be she’s still adopted by association and Han Donghoon is a kid who was hypnotized and exploited by the ‘prophets’ and Kim Dokja saved him and became someone he trusts in- which is basically adopting. Mia is YJH’s little sister but with the family dynamic all of KimCom has she’s basically adopted too. This man is someone who believes the worst in himself but gives all these kids someone they need and in return they are the family he’s never had.”
2. “He saved Lee Gilyoung on the subway when he was orphaned at the time the apocalypse started even when he didn't need to and kept him by his side and fed him at his own expense and believed in him and taught him to be strong when no one else had really done that for Lee Gilyoung before.
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD (pretty vague):
Shin Yoosung was a character in the world of the apocalypse that occured (long story, won't explain here lol) and she was supposed to be destined to become a monster that would destroy Seoul and the two people other than Kim Dokja who knew this wanted to kill her when they found her to prevent her from becoming that but Kim Dokja refused to kill her and physically stood to protect her and then he later became her sponsor (uhhh it's a whole thing in-universe but basically pledged to back her and help her ig) and the stigma (a special power thing that can be gained through a sponsor) he gave her was based in him protecting everyone in their group and his love for all of them.
Both Shin Yoosung and Lee Gilyoung are extremely attached to Kim Dokja and have on at least one canon occasion slept clinging to either side of him.
LESS MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD (though not terrible ig and still mostly vague at least):
Biyoo is. well she's Shin Yoosung actually but also not. So basically y'know that monster future Shin Yoosung was destined to become? so that monster version of her from a different timeline was sent backwards and sideways in time (idk how else to describe it jskdfs) and nearly did destroy Seoul as prophesied but Kim Dokja tried to save her—and he nearly did but then a shitty dokkaebi (they're like admin streamer people. idk would take a while to explain) did a shitty thing and forced her to be 'evil' and then she had to be killed ;-; but Kim Dokja promised to get revenge for her and after that he went and beat up the asshole dokkaebi who did that so badly that he gained a legendary Story. And then he traveled to the Underworld at risk of his own life to retrieve her soul and put that into a dokkaebi egg that he personally hatched. And she lost her memories for the most part but could still sense a bit what he'd done for her :') and so yeah she became Biyoo and is somehow both adopted and originally parented(?? idk saying biologically is. doesn't feel quite right lol) by him.”
3. “Bro is THE DAD of the group”
4. “Adopted his kids so hard that they’d do like anything for him they love him so much”
ENGLISH DUB SCRIPT FOR: OMNISCIENT READER’S VIEWPOINT
Annotated Edition
FADE IN:
A subway with a nondescript man in a shabby suit reading on a cellphone. This man is DANIEL KIM.
[The screen opens with a view of a cell phone, a scrolling list of chapters. Each chapter has 1 view.]
DANIEL KIM (narrating): It was a novel that no one seemed to read.
[The view pans over the screen scrolling over all those numbers.]
DANIEL KIM: I wondered why no one read it. It was a masterpiece.
[The screen pans over a list of statistics, that shall be skipped over for convenience.]
[The screen then transitions to DANIEL KIM dejectedly looking down at his phone.]
DANIEL KIM: Then again, who would read a novel with over 3,000 chapters?
I’m the only reader and it took me ten years to make it to the last chapter.
[The screen transitions to black.]
DANIEL KIM: Back then, I had no idea.
[The screen flashes back to a scene of a horde of monsters pouncing on DANIEL KIM in a white coat.]
DANIEL KIM: On the day I finished the novel…
[A montage of scenes from later parts of the first Scenario can be seen.]
SCRIPTWRITER’S NOTES: They’re the same as in the Korean dub. Remember to censor the blood!
DANIEL KIM (in a different tone to indicate he’s in the scene):
No way. I know… How this story goes.
DANIEL KIM (narrating, in a calm tone): …The story I alone had been reading for the past ten years turned into reality…
[JOHNATHAN YORK can be seen clashing against DANIEL KIM.]
JOHNATHAN YORK: Who the hell are you!?
DANIEL KIM (narrating): And I… became the only person to know the end of this world.
[Transition panel to a scene of DANIEL KIM’S COMPANY, looking up at the night sky. As the camera pans up, the following text appears.]
DUB 4 KIDS PRESENTS:
OMV
FADE IN.
DANIEL KIM is sitting on a different subway, staring at his phone. His fingers are shaking over his phone screen.
DANIEL KIM: Ah, I can’t believe it’s the Final Chapter…
I’m too nervous to even open it.
[The screen transitions to DANIEL KIM looking excitedly at his phone.]
DANIEL KIM: The ending…
[The phone text appears on his screen.]
PHONE TEXT DISPLAY:
There are three ways to survive in the apocalypse.
Everything is fading and becoming unclear now.
But one thing is certain.
If you’re reading this, you will survive.
[Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse - Final Episode]
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DANIEL KIM: Huh…?
[DANIEL KIM begins frantically swiping on his phone, only for the screen to barely move.]
[DANIEL KIM looks up from his phone and at the camera.]
DANIEL KIM: I’m Daniel. Nine times out of ten, people make weird assumptions about my name.
RANDOM SALARYMAN: Oh, you’re Danny, huh? Are you an only child?
DANIEL KIM: The name’s Daniel.
RANDOM SALARYMAN: Uh…
DANIEL KIM: Though I am an only child.
RANDOM SALARYMAN: Whoops, sorry to make assumptions.
DANIEL KIM: However, their assumptions weren’t wrong. I’ve been lonely my entire life.
DANIEL KIM: This is who I am in a nutshell.
[A screen of informational text appears on screen.]
Scriptwriter’s Notes: It’s the same as in the Webtoon so there’s no need to rephrase it, just change some names.
DANIEL KIM: My hobby is reading novels on the subway on my way home from work.
But today’s subway ride was unlike any other.
[A young woman with light brown hair and a light brown suit appears. Her name is SARAH YOUNG.]
SARAH YOUNG" Oh, my. At this rate you might get sucked into your phone.
[The camera pans up at SARAH YOUNG’s beautiful expression. DANIEL KIM appears to be enamoured with her.]
DANIEL KIM: It was Sarah Young.
DANIEL KIM: W-What are you doing here!?
SARAH YOUNG: Are you heading home?
DANIEL KIM: Yes, you too?
SARAH YOUNG: Yes, I got lucky. My team manager is away on a business trip.
[SARAH YOUNG’s hair flies by DANIEL KIM’s face. He blushes madly.]
DANIEL KIM: Do you usually take the subway home?
DANIEL KIM (internal monologue): I bet there’s a line of men willing to take her own… Grubby jerks.
SARAH YOUNG: No, someone stole my bicycle.
DANIEL KIM: You bike to work?
SARAH YOUNG: Yes. I’ve been working a lot of overtime recently, so I thought I could use the exercise. And I have some personal reasons too…
[SARAH YOUNG smiles at DANIEL KIM, who blushes.]
DANIEL KIM (internal monologue): She’s really pretty up close…
DANIEL KIM (internal monologue): However, she’s out of my league. We live in two different worlds. And just so you know, Sarah wasn’t the reason why today’s subway ride was different.
SARAH YOUNG: ¿Puede Prestarme Dinero?
DANIEL KIM: Pardon?
SARAH YOUNG: It’s Spanish. It means, “Please lend me some money.”
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): Studying on the subway… She’s really extraordinary. Where would you even use that?
DANIEL KIM: You’re studying hard.
SARAH YOUNG: What about you, Daniel? What are you reading?
[DANIEL KIM holds his phone away from SARAH YOUNG, who is peering over his shoulder to look at it.]
SARAH YOUNG: Is it a novel?
DANIEL KIM: Yeah… I guess you could say I’m studying, haha…
SARAH YOUNG: Wow, I love novels! My favorites are Haruki Murakami, Raymond Carver, and…
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): Of course.
SARAH YOUNG
Who’s your favorite author, Daniel?
DANIEL KIM
You probably wouldn’t know, even if I told you…
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): Yes, my hobby is reading novels on the subway. The reason why today is unlike any other is because Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse, TWSA for short, which I’ve been reading for the past ten years…is ending today.
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): This novel is very special to me. I’ve been reading it since eighth grade.
I read it when I was bullied in school…
When I failed the entrance exams and ended up at a third-rate college…
And even now, as a contracted worker to a gaming company…
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue)" It’s bittersweet that the novel was coming to an end. Today is the day the epilogue of TWSA will be uploaded.
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue)
A serial of 3,149 chapters. A ten-year long epic journey that began in my teens and ended in my adulthood.
I can’t believe the series went on for so long with an average view count of just one.
Scriptwriter’s Notes: The rest of the subway dialogue is omitted because it’s the same as the Korean dub, aside from name changes.
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): If I were in a different genre…
[A brown grasshopper is onscreen.]
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): If the genre of my life wasn’t nonfiction…
[A brown-haired boy with a bug tank is centered on by the camera. He is EUGENE LYON.]
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): But fantasy… Could I have been the protagonist?
Scriptwriter’s Notes: The omitted section is essentially the same as the Korean dub, but with the names changed.
DANIEL KIM: I have to live my own life…
SARAH YOUNG: Your own life… You’re so inspiring, Daniel!
DANIEL KIM: Sorry?
SARAH YOUNG: I should also live my own life!
Scriptwriter’s Notes: The following portion has been omitted because it’s the same as in the Korean dub.
[The subway stops.]
PANICKED MAN: What’s going on!?
PANICKED WOMAN: Is it a terrorist attack!?
PANICKED CITIZENS: Ahhh!!!
[A creature with white fur smiles. This is BENJAMIN.]
DANIEL KIM: Sarah, are you okay?
SARAH YOUNG: Y-yes. What do you think’s happening?
DANIEL KIM: Don’t worry, it’s probably nothing.
SUBWAY ANNOUNCEMENT: Ladies and gentlemen, if you would. P-please evacuate—! (abruptly cut off)
[A small ball of red sparks manifests in the middle of the subway.]
SYSTEM DISPLAY MESSAGE: The free service of the 8612th planetary system has ended.
The main scenario will begin now.
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): That was the moment that the genre of my life changed.
RANDOM CIVLIAN: “I-it’s a goblin!”
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): No way, this is just like what happened in the novel… That can’t be. Subways stop all the time.
SARAH YOUNG: A goblin?
[DANIEL KIM turns to look at SARAH YOUNG.]
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): There’s no way that this can be happening in real life.
RANDOM CIVLIANS: What is that?
[BENJAMIN manifests in front of the subway car.]
BENJAMIN: *speaks in garbled nonsense*
TEENAGED GIRLS: What’s it saying?
SARAH YOUNG: I think it’s speaking in Spanish. I’ll try talking to it.
DANIEL KIM: You really want to ask it to lend you money!?
BENJAMIN: Testing, testing. Can anyone hear me? Gosh, the language pack was malfunctioning for a bit. Can everyone hear me now?
RUDE BOY: Hey, what do you think you’re doing?
BENJAMIN: Pardon?
RUDE BOY: I’ve got an audition to get to, so can you hurry up?
BENJAMIN: An audition, huh. That sucks. They said we’d get the most customers if we put the paywall up right now…
BENJAMIN: Okay, everyone, listen up! I’ve got something very important to tell you all!
AFFRONTED CITIZENS:
Hurry up and restart the train!
You can’t do this to us!
I’m gonna be late for my appointment!
DANIEL KIM (inner monologue): No way. I know how this story goes. I’ve gotta stop them.
BENJAMIN: I… Told you… To be QUIET!
[The body of the rude boy from earlier suddenly turns black, and it falls to the ground. The blood splatters are recolored to be dark purple. The civilians nearby look on, horrified. More of the same happens to everyone that spoke earlier.]
BENJAMIN: We are not filming a movie. This isn’t a dream, or a novel. And it certainly isn’t the reality you’re familiar with! Do you understand?
All of you had quite the cushy life until now, didn’t you?
You were able to live without paying the costs!
You’ve all been enjoying privileged lives!
[A man in a black-and-white striped suit appears in front of BENJAMIN. His name is MITCHELL HART.]
MITCHELL HART: Is it money that you want? I’ll give you as much money as you want if you let me leave.
BENJAMIN: Money is good. It can be used in exchange for goods and services.
[BENJAMIN turns the money to ash.]
BENJAMIN: Too bad it only works within the confines of your spacetime.
Try a stunt like that again, and you’ll end up in the Darkness Realm, got it?
MITCHELL HART: Ugh…
BENJAMIN: Ugh, at this rate, it’ll be faster to let you figure it out by yourselves.
SYSTEM DISPLAY MESSAGE:
Channel #BY-7623 has opened.
The Constellations are now entering the channel.
[A bright blue window pops up in front of everyone in the subway. Some notable people include a boy with white hair, NATHAN COOK, and a muscular man, HADRIAN LANG. Then, it pops up in front of DANIEL KIM.]
