Shachi's request: Watch this program in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!
Excuse me.
Sensei, my bowel volvulus is acting up again. Can I get some rest on the bed here?
Shachi-san, just how many times are you going to get your bowels in a bunch?
This infirmary doesn't exist for inmates to nap, you know.
No, it really does feel like they've twisted three and a half times over.
My bowels have turned into a bowknot, and the pain is making me bawl.
You just want to say "bowel" over and over, don't you?
Ouch!
Ow, ow, ow! It hurts!
Sheesh.
I'll throw you out if I find that you're faking it, okay?
All right!
I'm gonna stay up all night and finish this manuscript!
I have to get it done by the manga award entry deadline tomorrow!
Here I can focus without worrying about the guards.
Bro, let's grab hold of our dreams this time for sure!
Shoot!
I dozed off!
Huh? Where's my manuscript?
Y-You've got it wrong.
That's—
Yeah, I guess reading something this hilarious could definitely twist up your guts.
S-Sensei...
One Editor Is Enough
Visiting Room
"Hot for Sensei"?
What, so you want to turn it into a rom-com manga
about forbidden love between teacher and student?
That's so stale.
Even prehistoric rom-coms don't go down that route.
Instead of that, focus on the story
about the pajama-wearing daughter of a mafia boss
getting it on daily with the son of a hokage
whose private parts are rubber and thus doesn't need to use rubbers.
I'm talking about myself, not the manga.
Huh?
There's a doctor, Narutaki-sensei, in this prison's infirmary.
A while back, she read my manga and found it so hilarious, she was laughing.
Since then, I've visited her frequently to show her my manga,
and seeing her laugh gives me this tight feeling in my chest.
You know how I am. I've never actually been in love,
but I wonder if this pain in my chest means I love her...
Nah, you're probably imagining things.
Wh-What was that for, Bro?!
You bumbling moron.
Is that why the characters in your manga lately
have all worn glasses,
or have all been weather ladies?
The weather ladies were your doing!
"Is this love,"
my ass!
Quit being a sissy and ask her out!
Start your prison romance already!
Wait, you're actually rooting for me?
Why'd you hit me, then?
This is the perfect chance to do research for rom-com manga.
But she's a doctor, you know!
She's way out of my league!
Besides, I've never asked anyone out.
You may not be able to deliver smooth pick-up lines,
but you can compose witty ones.
In other words, you just have to seduce her using your forte, manga.
Using manga?
I'm stuck.
What's wrong, Gintoki-san?
Shachiko-sensei...
I'm having trouble with the storyboard, you see.
My, that's not good.
Could you take a look for me?
Let's see.
I want to take you out, Sensei.
This line is finalized,
but I can't come up with a good one here.
If this were you, Shachiko-sensei, how would you answer?
"Yes," I guess?
Bro! I said "yes" without thinking!
Right?
Only a mangaka could ask someone out this way, right?
In that case, there's no time to waste!
I have manga to draw!
Just you wait, Bro!
I'll definitely be back with good news!
Sensei and Me Akurogi Musai
What am I gonna do with you? You're always getting into fights.
This is an infirmary, not a field hospital.
Got that, my little soldier?
But I wish the students on my fencing team were that determined.
I didn't get into a fight.
Huh?
I cut myself with a pointed object.
Why would you do something like that?
There was something I wanted to tell you.
I want to take you out, Sensei!
Bring it on.
Welcome to the fencing team,
Chosokabe-kun.
I see.
So he's going to join the fencing team, huh?
Bro...
How did it come to this?
Take out on a date
Take out physically
She must've misinterpreted the "take out."
But this isn't a sports manga!
The protagonist isn't named Chosokabe!
I don't know about Chosokabe,
but man, this is what you get for making her the fencing team's advisor.
And needless lines like "I cut myself with a pointed object"
made her recognize Chosokabe's fencing skills.
Why is this manga character a sensei too, anyway?
With this, even if you asked her out,
how could she tell if you're saying it to this sensei
or to the actual sensei?
Which sensei are you talking about?
That sensei.
Which sensei is that sensei?
Which sensei is the sensei you're talking about?
What do I do, Bro?
Sensei said she can't wait to read more.
Which sensei are you talking about?
That sensei.
You know what to do.
He'll have to join the fencing team and ask her out once again.
But I don't know much about fencing.
And the protagonist's name isn't Chosokabe.
Just let the Chosokabe thing go already.
Let's go with Chosokabe.
Visiting Room
Wrap up the fencing thing quickly and somehow ask her out once again.
Sensei and Me
Chapter 2
Akurogi Musai
It's no good! I don't have any talent for fencing!
I can't take this anymore!
I even went from Chosokabe to Mikoshiba because my parents divorced!
Cheer up. I'm rooting for you.
Sensei, those aren't the words I want to hear!
Go out with me, Sensei.
"Go out with me, Sensei."
Happy now?
Now get back to practice, Chosokabe-kun.
That's not what I meant!
She thought "Go out with me, Sensei" were the words he wanted to hear!
And she refuses to let him quit the fencing team!
Also, he said his parents got divorced,
so why does she insist on calling him Chosokabe?
I told you, just let the Chosokabe thing go already.
You know what?
Sensei's speech bubbles are too large.
It's because you leave so much space that she can put in these needless lines.
At this point,
you should make the bubble so tiny that only "yes" will fit.
Oh, I get it.
Sensei and Me
Chapter 3
Akurogi Musai
I understand, Sensei.
I'll do my best at fencing.
Goodbye!
I'm sorry, Sensei.
My body gan't hamdle fenjing anymore...
No madder what anyone says, no madder how I sdruggle,
my body gan never hamdle fenjing.
You've done enough.
You did your best.
I won't tell you to fence anymore.
I'll never call you Chosokabe again,
so please...
Th-Thank goodness...
Can I ask you for one last thing?
Please go out with me, Sensei.
*stab*
S-Sensei!
Hmph. You are weak.
That is why you fail to protect the ones you love.
D-Dad!
You have no right to call yourself a Mikoshiba when you can't even fence!
Rest in peace in a Chosokabe grave!
Mikoshiba Yu.
One of the Fencing Elite Four.
Unable to cope with marrying into the Chosokabe family, he decided to get a divorce.
Well, it is standard practice to insert an enemy here.
She's good, that Sensei.
Don't be impressed!
This is something there's no going back from!
Sensei's gone, so he can't ask her out.
And he can't even take back the Mikoshiba name
because he's incapable of fencing now!
It's all over!
Don't give up until the bitter end!
There's gotta be something...
There's gotta be a way!
Sensei and Me
Chapter 4
Akurogi Musai
You'll pay for this!
How dare you do this to Sensei?!
I-Impossible!
Didn't you say you can't fence anymore?
I did say that,
but it was fenjing.
I'm sorry, Sensei.
My body gan't hamdle fenjing anymore...
I can handle fencing just fine, though.
N-No way! Fenjing?!
Then are you saying you're not actually a Chosokabe,
but a Mikoshiba?!
Can you stop the ultimate fencing move Sensei taught me,
the "Go Out With Me, Sensei"?!
Then I shall respond with everything in my power!
With my ultimate move,
"Yes"!
Here I come!
Go Out With Me, Sensei!
Thank you for reading!
Look forward to Akurogi-sensei's next work!
The serialization got cancelled!
It's no good, after all!
Not yet!
We're not done just yet!
Sensei and Me
Akurogi Musai
Go out with me, Narutaki-sensei. - Akurogi
There's still the afterword!
"Akurogi-sensei,
I'm not Narutaki.
My pen name has changed.
- Chosokabe."
Wh-What'd you say, Bro?
Like I said, it's here.
Our Jump debut.
For real?!
That said, we're only filler.
Gintaman's taking the week off, so we'll be filling in for it.
Apparently the mangaka, a gorilla, ran into a forest.
I-I can't believe it!
I-I'm not dreaming, right?
I'm not gonna wake up in front of a guillotine, right?
However, we only have until early tomorrow morning
to turn this 19-page storyboard into a finished manuscript.
B-By tomorrow?!
That's absurd!
I had a feeling this day would come,
so I gathered them beforehand...
The greatest team of manga assistants,
the Akurogi Gang.
The G-Pen Is Capricious, and the Maru Pen Is Stubborn
Bro, how much longer is the Akurogi Gang gonna take?
We're running out of time.
I knew it! It was impossible to sneak them into this prison, wasn't it?
Damn it!
What the hell have I been doing with my life?
God of Manga,
I don't care if I never get outta here.
But please, don't take this dream...
Don't take our dream—
Give it a rest.
Your pretty lines are starting to break down,
Akurogi-sensei.
B-Bro!
Sorry to keep you waiting, Shachi.
With these chosen ones, the greatest team of assistants,
the manuscript will be done before dawn!
This is our Akurogi Gang!
First, the assistant in charge of screentone:
the Slasher,
Takuma of the Short Sword
Takuma of the Short Sword!
Sentenced to 280 years!
Just like all the panties on balconies his long nails have cut,
there are no tones he can't cut!
Next, the one in charge of inking and outlining:
Ango the Jet Black Sniper!
Ango the Jet Black Sniper
Sentenced to 320 years!
Nothing gives him more joy than staining a pure white canvas!
There are no whites he can't blot out!
And lastly, the one in charge of panty shots:
Loincloth Mask the Underwear Thief!
Loincloth Mask the Underwear Thief
They're all just panty thieves!
Wait a second.
Aren't you all inmates here?!
Where are the assistants?
Where is the Akurogi Gang?!
I had a hard time finding guys who seemed useful in a prison, you know.
They're useless!
Never mind experience as assistants,
the only thing on their résumés are criminal records!
They've never drawn manga, have they?
I can draw panties.
I can cut tones of panties.
I want to stain panties.
You guys don't want to draw anything but panties, do you?!
You can put pen to paper for other stuff and not just panties, right?
Of course.
"My long-standing wish to draw panties in Jump has come true.
Instead of fan mail, I'll be waiting for fan panties.
- Musai."
Who needs assistants to write afterwords?!
In the end, it's about nothing but panties!
Everyone will hate us!
Not necessarily.
"Akurogi-kun, my former assistant, has made his Jump debut.
His style of drawing panties left a mark on my heart.
I'll be waiting for more panties.
- Hideaki."
Don't go rewriting other people's comments!
And why would you make the Gintama mangaka welcome this?
He doesn't have any friends!
Looking for Friends!! Sorachi Hideaki Gintama What does he look for in friends? 1) Talk to me first. 2) Only talk about manga, games, and anime. 3) Don't invite me out often. 4) Actually, don't invite me out at all. 5) Panties.
What do you mean, looking for friends?!
A public execution in the style of an assistant classified?!
Knock it off!
Forget panties and afterwords!
We don't have time for this crap!
We know.
Shachi, you just focus on inking the characters for now.
I'll give these guys instructions.
But...
I told you, we'll be fine.
Believe it or not, these guys trained for this.
Trained?
Okay. You first, Takkun.
Your wish is my command. I shall cut anything you want.
He's become good friends with a slasher!
Apply this tone here.
Piece of cake.
You haven't forgotten what I taught you, right?
Who do you think I am?
If you apply too much pressure when cutting off the tone,
you risk cutting even the manuscript.
Just like cutting only panties loose from clothespins,
I merely have to cut the tone free
in a gentle-yet-bold manner, right?
He's already grasped the fundamentals of dealing with tones.
No, that's not all!
His crime, the work he did in cutting off only panties,
was a delicate art resembling dealing with tones in itself!
Did Bro put him in charge of the tones because he realized that?
All right. Take care of it.
Forget dealing with tones, he can't even deal with daily life!
Sharpening my claws for today came back to bite me.
More importantly, don't come to be my assistant with hands like that!
I apologize.
I'll fix it.
"Sensei picked on me at work, but I'm doing just fine.
I'll be waiting for panties.
- Takkun."
What are you fixing?!
An assistant shouldn't be using the afterword to bitch!
Okay. Next up, An-chan.
These guys aren't even dressed for assistant work.
You ink all these areas with x-marks in black.
That's the way.
Right, make sure to stay in the lines.
You've got a knack for this.
Yeah, there's an x-mark on my face,
but could you ink the manuscripts instead?
Does he not realize that I did it on purpose? Oh, just talking to myself. -Ango
What's with the spiteful afterword?!
Your heart is blacker than the manuscript!
"He looked like he was proud of that pun. Kinda infuriating, wasn't it?
-Takkun."
And his retorts are too long, lol. Though I didn't bother listening to most of it. - Ango
Quit using the afterwords to have a conversation!
Sensei, what should I do? -Loincloth
"Sensei, what should I do?"
"Well, there aren't any panty shots yet, so add the speech bubbles or something."
Use your mouth!
Give him the instructions directly!
Hiroshi-kun, I love you. - Sachiko
Sachiko-chan, I love you too. - Hiroshi
Now even the manga speech bubbles look like afterwords!
Forget it! Just forget it!
Forget about inking and tones now!
Finishing the character and background art so that
this manga is at least readable is the priority here.
Let me concentrate.
Okay, got it.
Then we'll split up the pages and ink your line art.
Wait a second, Bro.
If we make amateurs do that, the lines will be a mess!
It'll be fine.
Any idiot can trace over lines, right?
Listen up, you guys. Make sure to stay in the lines.
If you can't even manage this simple task,
you'll be fired on the spot—
Was there a character like this?
Was she more realistic?
No, she might've been deformed, too.
Wait, before all that, I think there's something missing.
Thanks for the hat.
Oh, it's the hat!
The heroine receives a hat from the protagonist at the end!
What was it like?
What kind of hat did Shachi draw?
The last four pages, with the heroine wearing the hat, are with them!
What do I do?
How's it going?
You guys are taking this pretty seriously.
I never imagined it'd be this difficult.
This hat in particular is complicated.
Let me take a look.
Was the hat like this?
It's just a pair of panties!
Or so I'd like to say...
What do you think?
Come to think of it, I get the feeling the hat looked a lot like panties.
All right, I guess—
That can't be right.
The heroine would never wear something so vulgar on her head.
R-Right?
You know the heroine would never wear something like this!
Are you stupid?!
I mean, these are panties—
Frilly panties are what the heroine is wearing.
It's still a pair of panties!
But I drew it according to the line art.
As did I.
So it was panties, right?
Both of them drew panties,
so it was panties all along, right?
You two, that's not the problem.
You forgot to stain the panties.
No, you're the biggest problem here!
If nothing else, I can tell you're wrong!
Which is the real pair of panties?
I can tell yours isn't right!
The art will be inconsistent like this.
Oh, Sensei.
What are yours like?
Huh? Er...
I, uh...
I prefer going commando, actually.
We couldn't care less about your filthy underwear.
We meant the heroine's panties.
She can go commando, too.
Jump's all about making readers dream.
You're getting it all wrong.
We want you to show us your panties.
Why mine?
Quit keeping it from us.
Crap!
I was so tired, I dozed off!
This is the worst!
What about the manuscript?
Did you sleep well? We finished the manuscript, so get some rest. Good work, really. - Akurogi Gang
Did you sleep well?
We finished the manuscript, so get some rest.
Good work, really.
-Akurogi Gang.
B-Bro...
Guys...
Thank you.
Man, I was shocked.
I honestly thought there was no way you could finish in time.
I owe it all to everyone in the Akurogi Gang.
It's just...
The first half was great,
but the last four pages
don't show the heroine's face.
Preview
Gin-san, when you see a sword, can you tell what kind of person is using it?
Swords, watches, and cars are status indicators for samurai.
They tell you a lot.
What does this sword say, Gin-chan?
So next episode, we have a swordsmith and one more.
Strike When the Sword and Overlord are Hot Oil Rain
The other story next episode
focuses on Tama the robot maid.
It's a slightly moist story
about rain and cigarettes.