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kitamars · 7 months
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listen. hijikata has TWO HANDS
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iwanttobeacheesecake · 5 months
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"Hijikata-san only accepts women with V-shaped bangs " - Hijikata Toshirou
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Yes, but does he also accept lazy war veterans, with V-SHAPED BANGS?
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hijiginhasmyheart · 2 months
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Gintoki and Hijikata post ending, at a pub one day lightly drunk talking about their lost loves. It starts with Hijikata in his tsundere style trying to get Gintoki to open up about Takasugi. Then instead Gintoki uno reverses it and somehow Hijikata finds himself talking about his regrets about Mitsuba. Then Gintoki talks about Takasugi too. As they talk more they console each other and grow closer. Cause if one thing that would help these idiots grow closer than sharing food is sharing their trauma. Hngggggggg
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suchine-toki · 1 year
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Based on @nikimarii's couple template
I wanted to make this earlier but it's always time for love and peace~ 💗
This are some of my ships from the series. I didn't want to repeat characters, that's why Kondo doesn't appear (I prefer kyuutae). I'll give the man something special... eventually 😂 but I gave Madao some love! he deserves it, especially after Sorachi forgot to reunite him with his wife at the end :(
This is a time-skip version of all of them, in which Takasugi reincarnated and has his left eye. Then why is Mitsuba there, you ask? sorry, I've to go! Hope you liked it, see ya! 👋
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ixsanacer · 1 year
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Hijikata and Mitsuba
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netrouverme · 6 months
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I made this because I like to suffer and cry myself to sleep because of nonexistent men
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lordichamo · 1 year
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taps the sign. its like this to me. hes in misery. and its insanely funny to me
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dandelionlemonade · 1 year
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Loverman... (?)
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saotome-michi · 1 year
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My least favorite take when it comes to the Hijikata x Mitsuba situation is that their separation is all Hijikata's fault. That it's him and his singular focus on the Shinsengumi, his lack of self-esteem, his fears, that are why they didn't get to be together. That just doesn't make sense to me.
Because it takes two to tango in a relationship.
Hijikata might've rebuffed Mitsuba's confession, but it was Mitsuba's choice to not continue pursuing him and to stay behind in Bushu. Because she loved them, she loved the Shinsengumi so much that she didn’t want to do anything that would be a distraction to them, to him. 
“Those three always looked happiest when they were hanging out together. There was no place for a girl among them.” 
“You’re leaving me behind. Don’t let me down. Stick to your path. I believe in you. I believe in you.” 
That’s why Hijikata goes after her shitty fiancé with no hesitation. That’s why Kondou, Okita, and everyone go to help Hijikata, even when Mitsuba’s at death’s door in the hospital. That’s why we don’t see Hijikata by her bed, hearing her last words. Because that’s the Hijikata Toushirou and the Shinsengumi Mitsuba loved. 
The Hijikata Toushirou and the Shinsengumi who she decided to protect in her own way. 
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craftydragonperson · 2 years
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Happy Birthday Mitsuba 💝 05.26
🖼 by Kennethu on Zerochan
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chapter 8 starts with chapter 7 ending. Different perspectives different impressions :) I... am doing another style test. THIS COMIC WILL BE COMPLETED!!
One way... or another.. Okay jokes aside this comic will continue being my comic style test arena, so I hope you will excuse the style changes here and there.
I am working as an animator so the drawing fatigue is making it hard to continue sometimes.
First -Previous - C8 P2 - Next - Last
I also upload these on Tapas as “Catching Sunrise” for easier reading :)
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kitamars · 3 months
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and love, you were the sun, you were the rain
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What other gintama ships do you like
Well:
- Shinkagu
- Katsumatsu
- Konhiji
- Kyuutsu
- Sakamutsu
- Gintaka
- Hijimitsu
- Hijitae
- Hijizaki (i need some crackships...)
- Zensachi
- Jirotose? (I don't know Jirocho and Otose ship name 😆)
- Kankou (Kankou x Kouka)
That's it! Maybe i can have new ones!
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hijiginhasmyheart · 3 months
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Gintama has ton of great ships. Some of them like okikagu are hetero and have my heart. But I can't really get behind any hetero ship for Gintoki or Hijikata. It just feels wrong. They are bi of course but still. No offense to anyone who ships it. Just not my cup of mayo.
Then again I kinda want them together anyway so maybe I'm biased jfhdhfhdhddh
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sankatsuka · 2 months
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Takagin Discussion: Story Romantic Parallels (Part 1)
I've been wanting to make a post talking about the romantic parallels Takagin have with other more established romantic pairings in Gintama. The direct parallel with Enshou destroyed me, then I started thinking if Hijikata and Gintoki are similar... how about Hijikata and Takasugi, then found way more parallels with Hijimitsu. Then I realized there was MORE with Umibouzu and Kouka. Then accidentally found some more with Matako (whose feelings I like to think are more familial).
Warning:
Personal interpretation bias as always. I am tackling this from the standpoint that there may have been some implied romance.
I talk about Umibouzu/Kouka, Hijimitsu, Enshou and Matako.
Edit (17/2/2024): I somehow mistook Shouyou's words 'a sword is to protect your soul' to simply being 'to protect'. This makes a HUGE difference, because it means Gintoki has been fighting to understand and find himself all this time. MAN, I feel downright horrible about this - I have revised it to fit this interpretation. But this does make the parallels stand in a much better way that makes Gintoki a far more genuine, free person as he should be. It only further strengthens how Gintoki is very much a loving person. Edits have been made in the parts marked with an asterisk (*)!
Gintoki and Kouka being born different from normal people and having to fight for their survival in a place surrounded by death.
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Both bear a title that captures the life they had to live: Corpse-Eating Demon and Master of Kouan. Both are initially mistaken for monsters that turn out to be a cute child/pretty woman in a place full of death.
However, Gintoki was taken in by Shouyou early on, so he no longer had to fight for his survival. But that event also instilled the sense of obligation in Gintoki that Kouka has--
Gintoki and Kouka being trapped to a life of solitude for their obligations and birth circumstances.*
Kouka resolved to stay on Kouan to uphold her ancestors' pride who chose to endure the harsh planet, whereas Gintoki resolved to grow strong and protect his soul with a human sword as Shouyou had told him, to.
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But for Kouka, this meant a life of solitude. For Gintoki, this also meant a life of solitude but in the psychological sense: to understand what it meant to protect your soul, he had to live facing the present and suppressing the true him frightened from the battlefield of corpses - the scared child who grew up in trauma. But that was much needed if he truly wanted to live, because monsters born from bloodshed can't live among humans.
This would explain the detachment both of them suffer from - which for Gintoki still shows until now while Kouka seems to recover from it after marrying Umibouzu - which is will be something I talk about later.
Then there's Kouka's inability to live away from Kouan, which could also be likened to Gintoki's inability to escape his emptiness from childhood: Kouka's bored eyes and Gintoki's dead-fish eyes, but the latter continuing on because the scared child within him is still living in solitude... because Gintoki hates talking about the past, not trying to do anything about it. Monsters can't live among humans, after all.
Takasugi and Hijikata's thorny path as children from not being able to meet the expectations of their families
Hijikata was thrown into the thorny thicket and became obsessed with strength from having witnessed the only older brother who loved him getting hurt because of him. Takasugi was already obsessed with strength from the get-go from not being able to live up to the standard bushido, and it led the two astray, not knowing what they actually wanted out of life.
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They became lost to strength because Takasugi was not able to live up his family's expectation and Hijikata had a taste of the helplessness of being a burden to the only family member who loved him. In a way, both were made to feel like they only brought shame to their families, and it led them to trying to find a place elsewhere with strength alone, landing them in Shoka Sonjuku and Shinsengumi.
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(Both of them are being judged by the people they want to call family, except Takasugi already seems used to it... Takasugi was also casted out long before Hijikata by his family beating him up and disowning him.)
Takasugi and Umibouzu's unexpected meeting with someone stronger than them and becoming entranced with them.
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Takasugi's pursuit of strength led to a chance encounter with Gintoki, who becomes his life goal of beating. Umibouzu heavily implies that his instincts were telling him to keep away from Kouka for how dangerous and strong she was.
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In a way, Umibouzu's instincts can be likened to Takasugi's pursuit for strength covering up the humanity inside him that just wants a place to call home. Especially when Umibouzu makes it a point that he has something he has to say to Kouka as himself. Takasugi's dialogue implies how he never got to be fully honest with Gintoki, even till the very end where he insists on seeing Gintoki as someone to beat. The only honesty he could express was how he didn't want to see Gintoki's disheartened face.
And furthermore, Gintoki later jokingly takes the title of the strongest from headbutting Umibouzu, when that was Kouka's title.
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Gintoki and Mitsuba's unconditional acceptance of Takasugi and Hijikata
What made Takasugi fall in love anyway? His reasons are definitely closer to Hijikata, considering their similar living conditions and origins. Despite being reduced to a thorny thug and having strange tastes, even dragging her brother so brashly like that, Mitsuba still smiles and laughs at Hijikata in adoration - and Hijikata at some point fell in love with that innocence.
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And Gintoki was the only who accepted, faced and wanted Takasugi's obsession with strength head-on, when that was all Takasugi knew as a child.
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Both Hijikata and Takasugi were appreciated despite their circumstances by someone. It didn't feel like either of them had any bad intentions too, not when Gintoki and Mitsuba treated everyone the same and it was their standard behaviour. Even though Hijikata and Takasugi had been criticized for their unruly behaviour and were shames to their families, there was someone who didn't see them any differently from any other people. It isn't surprising Hijikata fell in love, and likely Takasugi too.
Gintoki and Mitsuba's love for people*
The reason Takasugi and Hijikata found such a person in the first place was because Gintoki and Mitsuba were both selfless, loving people from the start. Albeit Gintoki is definitely far more detached and distant than Mitsuba ever was (which are where his parallels with Kouka come in).
Gintoki's love for people has been a big theme of the story, even being the reason he turned down Sakamoto's invitation to space despite the tragic war. And just like Mitsuba, this love is more about wanting people to stay true to themselves and happy over their physical presence.
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Gintoki chose to behead Shouyou, because it meant protecting what Shouyou truly wanted. Even though Gintoki loved Shouyou dearly, beheading him meant protecting his soul. Gintoki probably didn't hesitate ignoring his promise with Takasugi, because he could sense Shouyou's desire to protect his students far surpassed Takasugi's desire to protect Shouyou. That Takasugi probably just wanted to protect what Gintoki held precious. If that was really his intention, then what Gintoki held precious was the souls of his loved ones anyway, not their physical presence.
But it isn't easy. It's lonely, just as Mitsuba had her mixed feelings seeing Shinsengumi walk away, and Gintoki had shed tears at having to kill the father figure in his life for what he cherished.
But even so, both find a strong sense of joy in seeing the people they love staying true to themselves. If not, Mitsuba wouldn't have been such a good sister to Okita, and Gintoki probably wouldn't have been able to resign to just living peacefully after what he experienced as a child. Especially in Gintoki's case, when even Katsura had strayed from protecting others as his very own grandmother taught him after everything he had seen on the battlefield.
After all, everyone wants to to satiate their own ego somehow, but it seems the joy of just seeing people living the way they want overpowers that ego in both Mitsuba and Gintoki.
Gintoki and Kouka avoiding attachment to protect themselves, but end up warming up to people anyway.*
Gintoki is the very picture of detachment by living only through facing what's in front of him. Even his actions of casually throwing his textbook away contrasting Katsura and Takasugi shows how detached he is from the past too. Although he was probably the happiest back then, having been with family.
But he's also detached from the people around him. We see that in his childhood from how he reminisces looking at Katsura and Takasugi from afar, both surrounded by many children (and some official art even depicting him as distant from the others). And Gintoki is all alone, looking for another monster who is Shouyou.
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Even now with Yorozuya, Shinpachi had been worrying about how Gintoki never wanted to do anything. All he wants to do is protect what's in front of him - as the theme is in the entire story. He loves people, but he never properly lets them in. Even though he still had so many regrets and pains from the past that he never looks back on, which ends up leaking out to influence his choice to find Shouyou after Utsuro's death and making Shinpachi and Kagura realize that it was the wish he never told anyone. No one can be fully happy if they don't come to peace with their past. Especially when it makes you feel like you will never truly belong anywhere.
It bears a resemblance to Kouka settling for what little happiness she had in Kouan to uphold her ancestor's pride and to keep living, and only being swayed when shown a greater happiness by Umibouzu. As for Gintoki, he didn't want to lose himself to the past and so has to keep avoiding it, back in Shoka Sonjuku and even now, even if it means having to settle for a present that isn't fully him. Even if he's actually an empty monster very much like Utsuro.
Both show an inclination to distance themselves from others, as seen by how Kouka remained indifferent throughout her conversations with Umibouzu and Gintoki never talking about himself. But they end up caring too much about the people they distance themselves from, which is what ends up entirely distracting Kouka from the way she initially intended to live whereas forcing Gintoki to carry even more burdens that would obviously make it harder for him to live with his soul intact.
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This teaches them both that happiness in the present can only be found from letting people in. Because of this, both change their minds: Kouka decides to leave Kouan, and Gintoki decides to take on the burden of letting more people in when he had already decided he could no longer doing so. This leaves Kouka doomed to die, and Gintoki to have to fight an even harder battle to not lose himself to the past.
But this was still a far better happiness than choosing to live alone to protect yourself.
Gintoki's words that end up saving Kamui from his despair sound very much like the basis for Kouka's words to Kagura about family - you just need someone who'll stay with you, no matter how idiotic they are.
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Life isn't about living up to some name to feel good enough and capable to do what you want to do, which Kamui was trying to do to protect his family. This is something Kouka herself was trying to do, but learned that it didn't matter after Umibouzu kept insisting to reach her and Orochi celebrated her departure instead of punishing her.
Gintoki knew this from the get-go because he learned from Shouyou early on that it was about your soul, to not give in to the what the world around you decided for you and truly find yourself. So this stops him from losing himself to the name of the Corpse-Eating Demon, and allows him to wander lost to find the answer within the people around him, including Edo. Edo to Gintoki became what her family was to Kouka.
But unlike Kouka, a piece of Gintoki still stays alone in the past because of this very same mindset of how the present matters. Because his past isn't a commonly shared experience, he can't just share his past with people and expect to be be understood and still be treated as a normal human. Only someone who is determined to understand him like Umibouzu was with Kouka could truly drag him to the present (spoiler: Takasugi obviously).
The realization that the present is most important, not what you are outside of that, is the reason why Kouka allowed Umibouzu to be part of her life, even if it meant her physical death. And Kamui was put at ease by such values, like sleeping on his mother's lap who had once struggled like him.
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(I just wanna say--Kamui is such a good example of what it's like to blame yourself hard for not being able to protect family. If Takasugi's main goal was truly Shouyou, then his choices and dialogue should've been more similar to Kamui, methinks.)
Takasugi and Hijikata not feeling suited to making the person they love happy, and so instead protect their happiness from afar.
This whole discussion is already delusional enough but this is by far the most delusional and based on pure inference. But this makes most sense to explain why Takasugi thinks so much about Gintoki's suffering without telling him straight up. This what I think Takasugi's obsession with Shouyou was all about, a way to protect Gintoki's happiness.
Takasugi's actions with Tendoshuu intersects with Hijikata's actions with Tenkaiya. Both went on a suicide mission on their own against them without the people who they know would want to fight alongside with them no matter what (Kiheitai and Shinsengumi). Hijikata would kill the fiance of a dying woman out of revenge and anger at him for not making her happy, Takasugi would let the world Gintoki loves get destroyed if it meant they could go back to the past and Gintoki could be happy with Shouyou again.
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Of course there is still Takasugi's love and appreciation for Shouyou accepting him and teaching him his way of life - but it really feels only to a similar extent as Katsura. Not when he didn't say a single word about suffering without Shouyou in his clash against Gintoki to come to terms with his suffering. You can even interpret his gaze and smile upon Shouyou as feeling like he's finally made amends for his guilt at the very end--
In part 2, we talk about post-Shouyou execution Takasugi where more of the Enshou and Umibouzu parallels come in!! How his guilt towards Shouyou may be similar to one Enshou felt towards his brother.
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lordichamo · 2 years
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Mitsuba my fuckign beloved i would kill and die for her. miss u everyday queen :((( head full just okita sibs (and kondo. hes an honorary member of the fam in my mind at this point)
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