We're the only ones who can stop us now.
The guy I have to swing my fist at
is still burned into the back of my eyelid.
I'll protect the soul of his student, our friend, and Shoka Sonjuku's Takasugi Shinsuke!
I'm Sakata Gintoki, disciple of Yoshida Shoyo!
I see. I had no idea.
I haven't been expelled yet, have I?
I thought I told you
not to waste your lives after your teacher saved them.
Shogun Assassination Arc Part Seven
The Crows Caw After the Battle Ends
Watch the Shogun Assassination Arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!
Ka...mui...
What's the matter? You can't stop me like that.
Targeting your opponent's injuries without hesitation was good,
but you were still about 100 steps short to mess around with me.
Maybe for you, since you have short legs like Papi.
But like Mommy, I have a model's figure,
so one step is enough!
This fight's just getting started, moronic brother of mine!
Sheesh. You are truly a fool, sister of mine.
"Know thyself, and know thy enemy," is a basic tenet of battle.
Take a good look at the length of thy legs,
and then thy enemy.
The enemy isn't always right in front of your eyes.
Th-These guys...
Looks like this is it.
Forgive me.
I'm sure you samurai wanted to go out in a blaze of glory by the shogun's side.
But we made you die out in the shadows, along with us.
If I'm just gonna end up as fertilizer anyway,
I don't care if my path there is paved by roses or thorns.
All that matters is that I die by my general's side.
Well said.
Then try protecting my back to the last, Toshi.
As long as I'm not dead, you're not gonna die on me either, now are you?
Jeez.
Then I ask that you take your leave at the earliest.
Rest assured.
No matter who dies first, I'll use my puppetteering skill to control the corpse.
If that's a joke, it ain't funny.
Let's do this.
We'll show them the last stand of the samurai and ninjas!
Th-That's...
Is that ship...
Shogun-sama! Everyone!
We're almost there! Hang in there for just a little longer!
There's the exit!
With this, the shogun will be...
Great job.
Your heroic acts are truly worthy of praise.
You did well to protect Lord Shigeshige from the rebels.
You are truly loyal retainers.
T-Tendoshu...
I see.
They knew everything, but they played the silent observer
and waited for this chance.
When we, the Hitotsubashi faction, and the Shogun faction had worn each other out,
they would swoop in for the kill.
Damn those corpse-eating crows.
Did they think they could pluck out our eyeballs now?
Bring it.
I hope you didn't think you'd get off easy after butting into a Yato battle.
Vice Commander!
Urgent message from the squadron on standby just off Earth!
What is it?
Don't tell me the crows flew all the way into space.
No, it's the Harusame!
Our squadron has been surrounded by a Harusame fleet!
Good grief. They've even got the Elders in their pocket, huh?
Commander...
It seems we were a bit too mischievous.
You all have fulfilled your roles.
We shall ensure Lord Shigeshige's safety.
Do not worry. You can leave the rest to us.
Not so fast!
All this time, you did nothing but wait for the chance to crush the opposition,
and now you want to take custody of the shogun?
After the Hitotsubashi,
you're looking to dispose of the shogun, because he's stopped listening to you?
Crush the Hitotsubashi faction?
I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about.
Never mind being on hostile terms with Lord Hitotsubashi, we're indebted to him.
Lord Shigeshige, you should be grateful to him, too.
Do you remember?
You tried to leave your post as shogun by submitting
Resignation Letter
your resignation letter.
Because there was nobody fit to succeed you back then, it was put on hold,
Resignation Letter
but now that a suitable candidate to take the reins of the country has been found,
the Emperor has accepted your resignation.
I give you the next shogun,
Lord Hitotsubashi Nobunobu,
henceforth known as Lord Tokugawa Nobunobu.
N-No way...
Why?
He was the flag-bearer of the Hitotsubashi's attempt to take over the bakufu,
so why'd he team up with the Tendoshu to crush his own faction?!
Kill them...
I am the shogun, your great leader.
The ones who insulted me,
and the ones who stand in my way...
Kill them all!
I am the shogun, Tokugawa Nobunobu!
That tool you prepared was unexpectedly shrewd.
In order to oppose the Tendoshu, you carried him so far and gave him so much power.
But the moment we told him we'd make him shogun,
he discarded you as an enemy without a second thought.
How stupid.
You wanted to use your foolish king,
but ended up being used by him instead.
You defied the heavens, and this is all you have to show for it?
The shogun you pinned your ambitions on
and the shogun you pinned your hopes on are both gone.
All that's left is a puppet of the heavens.
What are you doing?
You took in the enemy's flag-bearer,
and at the same time made him your puppet?
Hurry up, you fools!
Kill them!
I'm not sure he can even function as a puppet, though.
Are you defying an order from your shogun?!
Calm down, Lord Nobunobu.
The crows will soon get rid of the remaining enemies.
Besides, nobody can stand in your way anymore.
Not even the former shogun.
Now, hand over Lord Shigeshige.
You should've realized by now that your worst fears won't come to pass.
It makes even less sense to hand him over now.
Even if he has resigned from the post,
it doesn't change the fact that the shogun is the biggest obstacle in Nobunobu's way.
What? Are you saying you refuse to hand him over?
You don't need me to tell you this, but this is an order from Lord Nobunobu.
An order from the new shogun.
Do you know what will happen if you don't obey it?
You're loyal retainers who protected Lord Shigeshige's life.
We don't want to have to kill you here along with the enemy.
Please don't force our hand.
Shogun-sama?
Take Lord Shigeshige into custody.
Stand down.
You disrespect me.
I said, stand down.
Are you aware of who I am?
I am the shogun, Tokugawa Shigeshige.
Shogun-sama...
Lord Shigeshige, you are no longer—
Did you not hear me?
I'm saying I'm the shogun.
And nobody can order the shogun around.
Leave my sight at once.
Shogun, you...
Forgive me, Zenzo.
You people put your lives on the line to protect me.
Even when I was no longer shogun,
you tried to protect me simply as Tokugawa Shigeshige, a friend.
And that is exactly why I must continue to be the shogun.
So as to not waste the lives that were lost for me and this country,
I cannot run away from my battle.
I am the shogun, Tokugawa Shigeshige.
The man who protects this country where my friends live!
And to fulfill that goal, you'll even endure the deaths of your friends here?
Very well, Shigeshige!
I shall grant your wish!
Lord Nobunobu,
the friends of a real shogun aren't as weak as you think.
Shut it!
Your friends have been rendered useless!
Your swords won't reach the heavens anymore.
No, they were broken a long time ago.
So why is it, White Yaksha?
Why do you still grip that broken sword of yours?
You killed your teacher, and even battled your former friend.
Just what is it
that you are trying to fight?
My enemy is right here.
We've never changed.
In order to become the kind of samurai we want to be,
we've all been fighting our own selves.
I can't accept his brand of samurai or his methods.
I'll stop him, even if it means having to kill him.
But I'm also the one who understands how he feels better than anyone else
in this world!
We hated the same thing more than anything else in this world.
You guys have no right to kill him.
Be it killing him or protecting him,
they're both my job!
That is my brand of samurai!
You really should've died back then.
Shoyo must be crying in the afterlife.
The students he gave his life to save
are burning with hatred because of him,
and throwing away their lives.
Farewell, Shoyo's disciples.
Go home, to your teacher and your friends.
Don't take Shoyo's...
...name in vain!
Make sure you burn this into your memory, too.
Remember the last face you saw with that eye.
Was it mine,
or his?
Even if one of us dies here,
the other will definitely send you to Hell.
Survive?
You're both fated to die here!
Too bad.
Neither of them's gonna die.
Because they're both for me to kill.
Shinsuke, I can't have you dying here.
You promised to fight me as soon as I repaid my debt, remember?
I won't let anybody kill Gin-chan.
That includes you, Kamui.
Then try to make it out of this alive.
Prove that you are strong.
Lord Nobunobu.
No matter who you are,
I'm not about to take orders from you.
I shall return to my country with my own two feet.
Along with my friends.
It can't be...
Sorry to keep you waiting, Sho-chan.
It's a bit too early to be picking at corpses,
you crows.
They're not dead yet.
The shogun, and this country, still has us.
As long as the Shinsengumi are around,
this country won't go down easily.
Isn't that right, Kondo-san, Hijikata-san?
Next episode,
the Shogun Assassination Arc
reaches its end.
Outta the way!
People have more freedom than they think.
Struggle all you want.
I shall gladly be the last shogun.
As a person,
Before dawn.
The night is darkest just before the dawn.
But keep your eyes open.
Tokugawa Shigeshige makes his decision.
Pay close attention!
Teach Us!!
Ginpachi-sensei
Teach us...
Ginpachi-sensei!
Yeah, we're actually doing Ginpachi-sensei here.
Let's get right to reading fan mail.
Here's a question from pen name Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla (subject to change).
Two episodes ago,
it came to light that Gintoki became Shoyo's student before Takasugi and Katsura.
But in Gintama: The Movie: Benizakura Arc Retelling,
there's a scene where it looks like Takasugi and Katsura
are already in Shoka Sonjuku when Gintoki shows up like a transfer student.
Was that an error?
What happened to consistency?
Please tell me.
Yeah, when we made the Benizakura Arc Retelling,
we had no idea this was gonna happen.
We're so sorry!
If you were expecting that kind of answer, we're sorry to disappoint.
That stuff is perfectly consistent, too.
Let's look back at the scene in question, and I'll explain.
Yes, it does look like Katsura and Takasugi have already joined the school
when Shoyo brings Gintoki along.
But as you could tell by watching it just now,
this scene isn't voiced, is it?
In anime and video production,
it's fairly common for fully made scenes to get shortened due to time constraints.
So we'll take the scene in question and add the voices it was meant to have.
Let's watch it again and find out what really happened.
Listen up, kids.
Gintoki-kun lost his underwear.
Don't ask why.
If anyone has spare underwear or a loincloth, please lend them to him.
I'd rather not.
Don't wanna.
Is that so?
Gintoki.
Use this to wipe your ass once more and get back to class.
Well, there you have it.
That was actually a scene where Gintoki poops his pants
and gets humiliated in public.
With the added voices, I'm sure you're convinced now.
And that's all, folks.
The End
Now then, next week marks
the end of the Shogun Assassination Arc.