Shi: I know you must be homesick this time.
Shi: I hear your wife back home is close to giving birth.
Shi: If you have the time to engage in particle cannon fire with neighboring countries,
Shi: why don't you stay by your wife and do Lamaze with her?
Shi: Or is the mighty hero of w*r afraid of becoming a father?
Shi: How about it, Gunpowder Prince Ensho?
En: Shijaku, in m*llitary Empire Burei,
En: custom says a man who returns empty-handed from w*r cannot be a father.
En: His wife will kick his ass and send him back to the b*ttlefield.
En: My wife is fighting, too.
En: I was told that we're competing to see which of us can claim victory sooner.
Shi: Then, as your archrival, I must fight in a manner befitting your resolve.
En: Archrival? As if.
En: Your head will be nothing more than a nice toy for my child to play with.
G: Prince!
G: We've received word from Burei.
Shi: It seems your wife emerged victorious.
Shi: What's the matter, Ensho?
G: The Empire's Altana Gate went out of control.
G: The cause was likely man-made.
G: The Imperial Capital has been destroyed.
G: Nobody survived.
En: For the first time, I fled from w*r and came back empty-handed.
En: But the one who would chastise me for that was nowhere to be found.
En: Why did you sit back and let me escape?
En: Why didn't you take this chance to att*ck my empire?
Shi: Like I said,
Shi: I must fight in a manner befitting the Gunpowder Prince's archrival.
Shi: And I realized that the enemy isn't in the neighboring countries, but elsewhere.
En: The Gunpowder Prince?
En: You still call me that after I've lost my empire?
Shi: Ensho...
Shi: You didn't come back empty-handed.
Shi: You've gained a comrade to fight the Tendoshu's unjust rule with.
En: Even after losing my empire,
En: I still belong on the b*ttlefield?
En: Then from that b*ttlefield,
En: from within the gunpowder smoke, let us seize it all!
En: Seize our freedom!
En: We, the Altana Liberation Army, shall liberate the universe from the Tendoshu!
Gintama,OP Card: Gintama
Silver Soul,OP Card: Silver Soul
Title: Silver Soul Arc
Title: A Delinquent's Kid Has Long Neck Hair
Warning,Warning: Watch the Silver Soul Arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!
Sign: Shimura Ken
Shin: I knew it.
Shin: You were here, Sis.
Shin: It isn't safe to walk around alone right now.
Tae: But that's exactly why.
Shin: Are you going to tell Father that Earth will be destroyed?
Sign: Shimura Ken
Tae: Yeah.
Tae: "Earth could be destroyed."
Tae: "But your crybaby son, my unreliable kid brother,
Tae: hasn't shed a single tear and is fighting along with everyone."
Tae: "Shimura Shinpachi has grown into a fine samurai."
Shin: Sis, I haven't changed at all.
Shin: I just blindly chased after the back of the strange samurai I saw back then.
Shin: I kept chasing after it,
Shin: and I was here before I knew it.
Shin: All that stuff about saving Earth or protecting Edo is really beyond me.
Shin: It's not that I changed.
Shin: I didn't want to change.
Shin: I just wanted to stay by the strange samurai and his friends forever.
Shin: Do you think Father will forgive me for wielding my sword for such a reason?
Tae: Shin-chan, you don't have to ask for forgiveness.
Tae: You're now capable of finding all the answers for yourself.
Tae: You now stand side-by-side with the back you blindly chased all this time.
Tae: And if you want to protect that,
Tae: I'm sure Father feels the same way.
Tae: He's watching over you
Tae: from right beside you.
G: Get a load of them.
G: They're still walking around here.
G: Damn Amanto. Get off this planet already.
Cat: Say what? You were pissing your pants in front of the Liberation Army!
Cat: But you grow balls when you're up against women and children, huh?
G: That was a woman? I thought it was an old man.
Kag: You heard 'em.
Tam: Please don't lump Kagura-sama in with the Liberation Army!
Tam: She has the power to destroy Earth before them if she so wishes!
Kag: Uh, you're not helping, 'kay?
Cat: What's going on?
Tam: Even though there are Amanto who side with earthlings,
Tam: the discrimination only grows worse by the day.
Cat: Maybe it'd be best to abandon this stupid planet and bail.
Cat: Even if Earth does survive, there may not be a place for us here.
Kag: I never had a place here anyway.
Kag: I was just an unwanted guest squatting in a tiny space that I pried open for myself.
Kag: But before I knew it, those guys were squatting in my space.
Kag: They shamelessly made themselves at home without even paying any rent.
Kag: Turns out I was the one with unwanted guests.
Tam: Maybe that's what you call a real home.
Sign: Snack Oto
Tam: Even if you lose your house or your planet,
Tam: that place alone will remain strong and await your return.
Tam: It exists within us as well...
Tam: A place for you and everyone else to return.
Cat: Just know that my rent's higher than Otose-san's, though.
Tam: Same here.
Kag: That so?
Kag: Then I guess we'll all have to go out and earn that rent money.
Tam: Indeed.
Kag: But thanks to that, I can go wild until Edo is flattened.
Shin: The crucial battle was upon us.
Shin: While the Liberation Army isn't making any moves...
Kag: ...we must find the Tendoshu...
Shin: ...and defeat Utsuro.
Kag: Or else this planet has no future.
Shin: Gin-san suddenly went missing, and I'm worried about what he's up to.
Shin: I hope he's hit upon some kind of idea.
Gin: What? They're making a second live-action Gintama movie?
Gin: I had no idea this was decided while I was out in space.
Gin: "Oguri Shun returns in the role of Sakata Gintoki"?
Gin: Well, he barely passed with his long legs,
Gin: but they could've gone for a cute Johnny's idol for Gin-san, too—
Gin: Ow... What do you guys think you're doing to Oguri Shun's jaw?
Sign: Ueda Bookstore
Gin: Do you realize how many billions this jaw's gonna bring in again?
Shin: You're not Oguri Shun!
Shin: We thought you were looking for the Tendoshu! What are you doing?
Gin: Oh, shut it.
Gin: Even you ignored Earth last week and were Granbluing on a rooftop!
Shin: Granblue...
Shin: I wasn't Granbluing!
Shin: Even Granblue Masaki isn't making those ads anymore!
Shin: Sadaharu!
Gin: Oh, you're back? I've been waiting.
Shin: Gin-san, don't tell me...
Gin: To find the Tendoshu, we gotta investigate the bakufu.
Gin: They may hide, but they can't fool a dog's nose.
Shin: Look, he has something in his mouth.
Shin: Er, this is...
Gin: Jean-Claude...
Sad: Wan!
Gin: ...Damme, huh?
Shin: He's just requesting an actor!
Shin: You weren't satisfied with the CG?
Shin: You want Van Damme to play you? You want him to be Wan Damme?
Shin: Don't give me that!
Shin: Do you realize how many billions that "wan" is gonna cost us?!
Sign: Ueda Bookstore
Shin: Knock it off! Earth really will be destroyed!
Gin: What's this? You guys wanna request actors, too?
Gin: Sorry, but these days, they can add as many extras as they want with just CG—
Shin: Wait, Gin-san!
Shin: These people...
Shin: What's going on?
Kag: After the Liberation Army, we're fighting the public?
Gin: Nah, these guys aren't ordinary folk.
Gin: Ack! They're coming from the front, too!
Nob: Took you long enough.
Nob: I'd grown sick of waiting.
Shin: Nobume-san!
Nob: No. I'll take someone like Kuriyama Chiaki, please.
Shin: You too?!
Nob: By the way, those masses
Nob: aren't who you think.
Gin: Naraku?
Gin: Why are they disguised as townsfolk?
G: How long do we gotta twiddle our thumbs here?
G: Admiral Shijaku's orders.
G: He told us not to act unless the earthlings att*ck.
G: The brass wanna take over this planet too, right?
G: Then why wait around...
G: Hey, what's wrong?
G: Did a fish bite your d*ck?
G: H-Hey!
Nob: It's time
Nob: for the beginning of the end.
Nob: Utsuro's planet busting is about to start.
G: Have you lost your minds?
G: You're picking a fight with us?
G: Did you come here to die?
Uts: Precisely.
Uts: I am here to die...
Uts: Along with you all
Uts: and this planet.
Zen: Not exactly a great view.
Zen: Watching a country crumble from atop an empty castle doesn't feel good.
G: What's going on?
G: Just when the Liberation Army finally calms down, now the masses are rioting?
G: That is why I said to keep watch on them so they don't do anything stupid!
G: And who was going to do that?
G: Everyone ignored this national crisis and ran off somewhere!
G: Nobody even shows up to the meetings!
G: Even if everyone showed up, would anyone here be of use?
G: What was that? I shall cut you down!
G: Take responsibility and cut yourself first!
G: The earthlings did what?
G: An unidentified unit has att*cked our base on Earth.
G: We're fighting back, but they've already sunk two of our battleships.
G: We've lost many men, too.
G: This is bad.
G: You're the one who oversaw the riots and withdrew our troops,
G: Admiral Shijaku.
Nb: I'm sorry to ask so much of you.
Nb: But if you will stop your men, I promise to bring you the Tendoshu's heads.
Nb: If I can't keep that promise, I'm prepared to offer you my head as shogun.
Shi: Is that what "disembowelment" truly means?
Shi: Do you have a chance of winning, though?
Sak: If we don't take back our freedom with our own hands, it's pointless.
Sak: Besides, that's when our battle will truly begin.
Sak: Now that the Tendoshu's rule has weakened,
Sak: Altana has become a symbol of freedom that can destroy an entire planet.
Sak: And we'll all end up attainin' it.
Sak: If we succumb under the pressure of that "freedom,"
Sak: only destruction will await us in the future.
Sak: You and we both must fight...
Sak: Fight freedom and ourselves.
Shi: As they spoke those words, the look in their eyes wasn't that of puppets.
Shi: This incident couldn't have been caused by earthlings.
Shi: It's a trap laid by one who wishes to use the tensions between us to expand the w*r.
G: You're the one who fell for a trap! How could you let those apes talk you into...
En: You don't get it.
En: This universal w*r itself may be a trap laid by the Tendoshu.
En: That's what that man is saying.
En: If you want someone to blame, blame me for starting this w*r.
G: Prince Ensho...
Shi: I didn't say that.
Shi: Both your appearance and your words lack subtlety.
En: Look who's talking. You're former royalty who is acting as a mercenary.
Shi: Don't lump me in with you.
Shi: I cast away my homeland and my royalty and gave all I had to the b*ttlefield.
Shi: I rose up with you all because I felt this w*r had just cause.
Shi: But those earthlings said that
Shi: freedom without responsibility would only lead to destruction.
Shi: Ensho, it may be our responsibility to stop this w*r.
G: What? Stop this w*r?!
En: Is the situation that grave, Shijaku?
En: Are you saying the Tendoshu destroyed those planets in a bid to start this w*r?
En: Do you mean they're trying to make the world self-destruct?
Shi: Ensho, I've arranged a secret meeting.
Shi: At this point, we cannot resolve this situation without their cooperation.
Shi: You can hear the details straight from their mouths.
En: Is that so?
En: Actually, there's someone I wish to introduce to you in secret, too.
Shi: Introduce to me? Who is it?
En: Do you remember the day when I first turned tail from the b*ttlefield?
En: That day, I swore to take down the Tendoshu, who took everything from me,
En: and take their heads to my wife and child no matter what.
En: Everyone gathered here is like me.
En: They had their countries or families taken from them,
En: swore revenge, and started this w*r.
En: If it were to end here, what do you think is to become of their smoldering hatred?
En: Where will all our sorrow go?
Shi: Ensho...
En: A recon team sent to Earth found a shipwreck one month ago.
En: The investigation revealed it to belong to a certain group of people.
En: Shijaku, this w*r cannot end.
En: Because...
En: It's already over.
En: Let me introduce you.
En: They are our archenemies, the Tendoshu.
Shi: I-Impossible! What happened to them?
En: They're alive.
En: Or, well, perhaps it'd be better to say that they cannot die.
Shi: If the Tendoshu are in this state, who is attacking our base?
En: It doesn't matter who,
En: as long as they're enemies who are willing to be targets for our hate.
Shi: Ensho, you...
En: Shijaku,
En: the Liberation Army needs an enemy.
En: If everything is already over, there won't be an end for us.
En: In that case, the w*r simply need not end.
En: That way...
En: We can keep fighting.
En: We can keep hating.
En: I can stay on the b*ttlefield.
En: Throw him in a cell.
En: And tell our troops
En: that we will crush the rioters and take over Earth.
Gin: That's Utsuro's plan?
Gin: He wants to use the Liberation Army to engulf Edo in the flames of w*r?
Nob: And also to eliminate you people who stand in his way.
Shin: Does that mean Katsura-san and the others' negotiations were all in vain?
Nob: We knew things would come to this eventually.
Nob: Utsuro isn't the only one who wants a w*r.
Nob: And they aren't the only ones who must fight to obtain an ending.
Gin: Please don't tell me that includes you.
Nob: Who knows? At the very least, I'm thankful for this situation.
Nob: I finally caught a glimpse of the elusive Utsuro's tail.
Nob: If he was to show up anywhere,
Nob: it'd be here, the most dangerous and hard-to-cr*ck spot.
Shin: The Liberation Army's troops have been wiped out!
Kag: Not just them. The Naraku, too.
Shin: They fought to the death to take down the enemy?
Nob: To Utsuro, there are no allies or enemies. Only tools.
Gin: Looks like I'm just like you, too.
Gin: If I don't fight...
Gin: If I don't defeat him,
Gin: there's no ending for me.
Gin: Not unless I take you out!
Nb: What is the meaning of this?
En: If you're the kind of foolish leader who can't understand that,
En: it is understandable that your country would fall.
En: You earthlings are the ones who ignored our ceasefire and took aim at us first.
En: Die, together with the Tendoshu.
Sak: I see.
Sak: If you're the kind of foolish leader who can't understand the Tendoshu set that up,
Sak: your army will die, too.
Sak: But if you're doin' this while fully aware of that, there's still hope for you.
Sak: Surrender before the samurai unsheathe their swords.
En: I see Shijaku was right. You have guts and a way with words, if nothing else.
En: But rest assured.
En: There won't be a w*r.
En: It'll all be over before you can look up at the sky and blink.
En: This is but a ritual sacrifice.
En: Those sticks you call swords
En: won't reach anywhere.
Gin: Th-These guys... Could they be...
Shin: Immortal?
Gin: Utsuro, you bastard. You gave them your blood?
Uts: Yes, although they are fakes made using a few drops.
Uts: Is it painful?
Uts: But that too will end soon.
Uts: It's all too late. For everything.
Uts: Will you withdraw your sword and wait to die with the planet,
Uts: or will you use it to fight me and die right here?
Uts: You're free to choose.
Gin: Then...
Gin: I'll use this sword to crush both you and the Liberation Army!
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Nob: I'll secure an escape route. Run away.
Zen: This country's done for.
Zen: You only have one job now.
Gin: The guy in front of me is nothing but a villain.
Title: The Line Between Tenacious and Annoying Is Paper-Thin
TextR: While messing around a little bit
TextL: and getting in trouble a little bit...
TextR: Next time,
TextL: it's finally their turn...?!
10x03 - A Delinquent's Kid Has Long Neck Hair
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Japanese manga series where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.
Japanese manga series where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.