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ruaki's rec from a few months back and decided to check out the Gintama anime series.
I've only watched 6 eps thus far, and... it's fairly amusing and adorable. For those not familiar with the series, the Wiki link there provides a few basic details on it without being all that spoilertastic (unless you consider the details on the characters that you get to learn during the first 6 or so eps as "spoilers," really), but if you want to know the gist of things, basically it's the story of a weirdo samurai and his companions living in the time between the late Edo Period (specifially, at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate)/beginning of the Meiji Era, except that, instead of the Americans/Europeans invading Japan, it was a bunch of highly advanced aliens (of various assorted races/species) known collectively as the "Amanto." Which is basically an excuse to combine late-1800's Japan aesthetics with contemporary (ex: Gintoki rides a scooter) and future-tech (ex: police cars that both run normally on land and can be switched to flying-mode), haha.
Anyway, I know I just made it sound a little dry and uninteresting with that explanation, but really, it IS pretty cute thus far. It even parodies itself, as in some eps, they show glimpses of different AUs with the cast - for example, the 3-Nen Z-Gumi GinPachi-sensei high school AU (Doesn't every non-school series wind up getting one of those? Haha for the author pre-empting the fans! And even more amusing, it actually wound up becoming a novel series of its own! XD), and the Kintama (Which literally means "golden balls," and in slang terms means "testicles") AU, in which Gintoki (known as "Kintoki" in this AU, natch) apparently is a blond (rather than his trademark albino-silver hair) man-whore or something. (Dunno much about this AU yet, as it has only appeared thus far as a quick "promo" of the next episode, rather than the Ginpachi-sensei AU, which got something like 2-3 minutes of airtime at the end of one of the eps.)
Anyhow, enough babble - on to a few random thoughts on the first couple of episodes! (Even though I think the only one who might be interested in these is Roo, eheh... ^^;)
- Haha, Gintoki really DOES have dead-fish eyes most of the time! Anyway, I think that this detail should totally be featured in a parody romance fic, in the form of areally bad love-poem to Gin-chan. Maybe... something like:
Your eyes... so dead...
like a fish about to be gutted...
they stare into my soul...
...suddenly I crave sushi.
Yes? No? XD
- Speaking of Gintoki... man, people in Edo must be really freakin' desperate to hire anyone, if all he does when he's not on a job is sit on his ass reading Jump and eating sweets, haha. Well, not that Kagura's much better, heh - the only one with a shred of responsability is definitely Shinpachi (though that was obvious, he's the straight man after all), poor guy. XD
- And speaking of Shinpachi, he's only cute in the actual series, but in the fake promo for the "Kintama" AU? HOLY CRAP, HE WAS SMOKIN' THERE! :O WTF?
- Kagura seems rather cute, though I'm guessing from that nosebleed she got from reading the paper in that one ep that shegets a boner from fighting really gets a little TOO into her acts of mass violence.
- The version of the Shinsengumi in this series seems like they'll be pretty amusing. I mean, the superior officer (Kondo) is apparently an idiot and a stalker (though Shinpachi's sister Otae seems to be able to fend him off well), Okita's pretty bazooka-happy and possibly nuts (and keeps making those remarks about "damn, I missed Hijikata" when he shoots, LOL), and Hijikata... well, despite his apparent (in these beginning eps, at least) crankiness and temperamentality at all of that, he appears to have the patience of a saint if he's still willing to keep coming back to work amidst all that, haha. XD
- Katsura also seems like he might be too serious for his own good, at least in these early eps. I could be totally wrong about him, though.
- Aww, Sadaharu so cute and fluffy! (And bitey!) And Elizabeth is just... I dunno, it's like maybe she once saw the true meaning of existence and it left her with that... uh, "unsettling" expression of hers, haha... XD
- LOL @ glasses-ninja (Ayame?) suggesting that the client in the first two eps become an S&M Queen just because he turned out to be decent at tying people up. Even better, the fact that he DID make rope-binding a part of his act when he became a performance artist! XD
- Also, another LOL at the ep where the escaped convict makes his way to his daughter's concert (thanks to Gintoki and Kagura's help), and it turns out that the single she's put out is titled something like "My Father is an XX!" (Yes, they even use the Japanese word that's used to "bleep out" curses instead of actual insults! XD) And he's still all proud and emotional to get to see her perform, haha! XD
- Lastly... was the "cigarette turning out to be a lollipop" gag in the Ginpachi-sensei AU scene supposed to be a reference to the censorship of Sanji's cigarette (by turning it into a lolly) in the North American version of the One Piece anime? Because that really made me laugh on both that level and the simpler "Gintoki's got a real sweet tooth in any incarnation" side of things - it can't just be a coincidence. XD
And... that's it for now. I only got to see the first 6 eps the other night, after all, so I don't have much thoughts yet on whether I'm really gonna like this series or not! (Thus far it's cute, but I'm not quite sold just yet!) Anyway, I'll post more on the series whenever I get to see further eps. :D
ruaki's rec from a few months back and decided to check out the Gintama anime series.I've only watched 6 eps thus far, and... it's fairly amusing and adorable. For those not familiar with the series, the Wiki link there provides a few basic details on it without being all that spoilertastic (unless you consider the details on the characters that you get to learn during the first 6 or so eps as "spoilers," really), but if you want to know the gist of things, basically it's the story of a weirdo samurai and his companions living in the time between the late Edo Period (specifially, at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate)/beginning of the Meiji Era, except that, instead of the Americans/Europeans invading Japan, it was a bunch of highly advanced aliens (of various assorted races/species) known collectively as the "Amanto." Which is basically an excuse to combine late-1800's Japan aesthetics with contemporary (ex: Gintoki rides a scooter) and future-tech (ex: police cars that both run normally on land and can be switched to flying-mode), haha.
Anyway, I know I just made it sound a little dry and uninteresting with that explanation, but really, it IS pretty cute thus far. It even parodies itself, as in some eps, they show glimpses of different AUs with the cast - for example, the 3-Nen Z-Gumi GinPachi-sensei high school AU (Doesn't every non-school series wind up getting one of those? Haha for the author pre-empting the fans! And even more amusing, it actually wound up becoming a novel series of its own! XD), and the Kintama (Which literally means "golden balls," and in slang terms means "testicles") AU, in which Gintoki (known as "Kintoki" in this AU, natch) apparently is a blond (rather than his trademark albino-silver hair) man-whore or something. (Dunno much about this AU yet, as it has only appeared thus far as a quick "promo" of the next episode, rather than the Ginpachi-sensei AU, which got something like 2-3 minutes of airtime at the end of one of the eps.)
Anyhow, enough babble - on to a few random thoughts on the first couple of episodes! (Even though I think the only one who might be interested in these is Roo, eheh... ^^;)
- Haha, Gintoki really DOES have dead-fish eyes most of the time! Anyway, I think that this detail should totally be featured in a parody romance fic, in the form of a
Your eyes... so dead...
like a fish about to be gutted...
they stare into my soul...
...suddenly I crave sushi.
Yes? No? XD
- Speaking of Gintoki... man, people in Edo must be really freakin' desperate to hire anyone, if all he does when he's not on a job is sit on his ass reading Jump and eating sweets, haha. Well, not that Kagura's much better, heh - the only one with a shred of responsability is definitely Shinpachi (though that was obvious, he's the straight man after all), poor guy. XD
- And speaking of Shinpachi, he's only cute in the actual series, but in the fake promo for the "Kintama" AU? HOLY CRAP, HE WAS SMOKIN' THERE! :O WTF?
- Kagura seems rather cute, though I'm guessing from that nosebleed she got from reading the paper in that one ep that she
- The version of the Shinsengumi in this series seems like they'll be pretty amusing. I mean, the superior officer (Kondo) is apparently an idiot and a stalker (though Shinpachi's sister Otae seems to be able to fend him off well), Okita's pretty bazooka-happy and possibly nuts (and keeps making those remarks about "damn, I missed Hijikata" when he shoots, LOL), and Hijikata... well, despite his apparent (in these beginning eps, at least) crankiness and temperamentality at all of that, he appears to have the patience of a saint if he's still willing to keep coming back to work amidst all that, haha. XD
- Katsura also seems like he might be too serious for his own good, at least in these early eps. I could be totally wrong about him, though.
- Aww, Sadaharu so cute and fluffy! (And bitey!) And Elizabeth is just... I dunno, it's like maybe she once saw the true meaning of existence and it left her with that... uh, "unsettling" expression of hers, haha... XD
- LOL @ glasses-ninja (Ayame?) suggesting that the client in the first two eps become an S&M Queen just because he turned out to be decent at tying people up. Even better, the fact that he DID make rope-binding a part of his act when he became a performance artist! XD
- Also, another LOL at the ep where the escaped convict makes his way to his daughter's concert (thanks to Gintoki and Kagura's help), and it turns out that the single she's put out is titled something like "My Father is an XX!" (Yes, they even use the Japanese word that's used to "bleep out" curses instead of actual insults! XD) And he's still all proud and emotional to get to see her perform, haha! XD
- Lastly... was the "cigarette turning out to be a lollipop" gag in the Ginpachi-sensei AU scene supposed to be a reference to the censorship of Sanji's cigarette (by turning it into a lolly) in the North American version of the One Piece anime? Because that really made me laugh on both that level and the simpler "Gintoki's got a real sweet tooth in any incarnation" side of things - it can't just be a coincidence. XD
And... that's it for now. I only got to see the first 6 eps the other night, after all, so I don't have much thoughts yet on whether I'm really gonna like this series or not! (Thus far it's cute, but I'm not quite sold just yet!) Anyway, I'll post more on the series whenever I get to see further eps. :D
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Re: I have far too many Gintama icons.
Date: 2008-10-10 03:14 am (UTC)And man, I guess I'm just gonna have to see the Festa ep next time I have the time to watch stuff. It sounds like a riot! XD
Hahaha, Sorachi sounds like an adorable (and dorkalicious) kind of guy! And somehow, his age being around ours isn't much of a surprise to me... something about his sense of humor seems to make me want to peg him as being around our age.
And yeah, I've seen the Sorachi-as-monkey making commentary once already, hee. I didn't notice that about his monkey-depiction resembling Kondo's design, though! Will have to see that sometime. And his personality resembling Gin-san's... LOL, I think I can already picture that a bit too well despite still being a newbie to the series! Guess he took the advice "write/draw what you know" a bit to heart, eh? XD