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When the series not only delivered the awakening of an archer, but also the narrative of a so-called fodder going all out with a bang, it means Kingdom’s greatness is unleashed. Ten’s life is on the line in this devastating situation. The splattered blood indicated death. Who will survive? Keifu was close, but then he took an arrow to his head.

The chapter opens strong with the intensity on life and death scenario. I had a good feeling Ten wasn’t the one to die, though the damages still startled me. Instead, Keifu is the man who takes the fall and what a way to kick off the high tension stake. It wasn’t just a headshot; it’s right on the eye, a bullseye if I may add. I like the atmosphere with its shock effect, where everyone stopped and flabbergasted at the sight. It gives time for fans to feel the effect, and it’s great. All thanks to Jin with his fantastic accuracy, though not for long.

I’ll admit, I was a bit disappointed that it was Jin and not Tan. I have nothing against him, but I want Tan to rise up and awaken his upmost skills as an archer. Jumping ahead a bit, it will definitely make up and then some. What follows up also makes up with its incredibly tensed moment involving with the newcomers and Ten. Needless to say, I’m more than pleased with this direction.

Jin is already weakened enough to be nowhere near close to his amazing prime status. Even saying that doesn’t sound much of a problem. It was outstanding to see him aim perfectly a long time ago, but it’s even more outstanding that he’s able to run and shoot with really good accuracy. Have he not been weakened, he would have been a true monster. Jin is going all out to save Ten, shooting and gaining close to the enemy’s ground, like he’s prepared to dive in a suicide mission. Kinmou is very persistent to kill Ten, so the tension escalates immensely.

At one point, Jin aims for the archer’s head, but the shot lands on the neck. That’s still a kill shot if hit at the vital point. At first, it warned me about his weakened stamina; however, it wasn’t the only issue as his bow is breaking apart. Just when Jin is determined to take out five enemies with five arrows, it finally breaks. I like this approach to keep Jin looking strong in hindsight. It’s better to have the arsenal breaking off than a man breaking down. It keeps his credibility strong. If he survives, we the fans will know he’s not a force to be reckon with.

It gets better in terms of pushing Jin’s credibility. When Ten’s chance of survival was lost, Jin still runs after her. Not only that, but he stops a charging horse with his own body. That’s insane yet incredible. I am no man who ever took on a charging horse, but I know damn well that it will hurt really badly; potentially kill. One of my biggest fear is Jin’s chance to die. Many series often kills off a brother, mainly the older one, so Hara is pulling my chain when he was building up that death flag. It’s at this point where Hara could pull the trigger and I was taking it all in. It could be a way to push Tan to unleash the beast inside, but little did I know, death isn’t necessary.

The scene with the guard closing in to kill Jin startled me for reasons I already addressed early. Then, what appears to be a beam goes across the guard, instantly decapitated him without a jaw. Like the reactions from everyone, I too couldn’t comprehend on what I just saw. It wasn’t Goku from Dragon Ball to save the day. It’s none other than Tan, now filled with rage for harming his dear older brother. Now, my hype is complete, but wow, I didn’t see this power coming at all.

It’s not that he really shot a beam, rather an illustration to say his shot is powerful as one. It’s devastating to say the least, and it stands out differently from Jin. The impact of those shots can be described as dealing with 50 caliber sniper rifle. Basically, it’s capable to penetrate through wall or armor with ease and can wipe out a limb like an eraser. That’s Tan’s specialty and he downright goes all out. Kinmou, desperate he still is, goes for Ten, but Tan shoots down one-by-one. He kills them swiftly like the body is made out of a soften clay. One lost 1/6th of their head very cleanly. It’s insane. Kinmou still persists, but at last, he’s taken down, but not without his final words.

He’s the only one to get taken down normally; well, normal in compare to other fatalities. At least he had a page worth of takedown to show his significant value. Hara has some respect for his character as well as giving him the floor room to make a speech to let out his feelings on being weak and unable to avenge his men. As stated earlier, the presentation determines the value of a character and Kinmou standing up with a hole in the chest shows strong willpower as well as the respect he earned despite being the enemy. In short, I wasn’t wrong about Hara’s approach with the character and it’s a nice change.

Technically, Kinmou is the underdog here, but he had no chance at winning once Tan got going. You can see it as role reversed. The only thing he can do now is speak out his frustration at Ten for destroying his and fallen men’s reason to fight. It pains him so badly, mentally and literally, that his eyes start to bleed. It’s a sign of true anger. Honestly, I felt really bad for him. Fortunately, Hara has his way to handle the farewell in a respectable manner albeit brutal, but the context is what counts.

It’s been a while since Ten has spoken up against her enemy, so this is a nice return of style. She’s like a Shounen character in terms of speech delivery. However, the choice of words and context wouldn’t be encouraging, since it presents fighting is the only option. I do like the reasonable and logical approach to the morality of war. There’s no real good versus evil here; it’s all about the reason to fight. Granted, the reason could simply be for killing, but that’s beside the point. When two collides, they will have to fight and sadly, end one. There will be blood and lives will be taken. There’s no other option. It’s grounded and down to Earth. But it isn’t all bad.

She let him know that his hopes, dreams, and everything that drives him to fight will carry on Hi Shin Unit’s shoulders. In other words, his life won’t go in vain. It’s actually a nice way to say he won’t go out like a normal fodder, and in my opinion, confirmed his character design to be as such. I like to think those blood tears has become symbolic to tears of fate restored, hence the panel zoomed-in shots to his eyes. Her words hits him right in the emotional point; no longer believe he was defeated by mere children, rather true warriors.

The best part is his sendoff; arguably the best way to end his character. Context matters a lot in this chapter, let alone in general. Although he was moved by her words, he continue to act like a typical enemy as in very stubborn, asking for an easy death. The major key difference is his awareness. He knew Tan has set his target on him, yet he follows through the act to kill Ten. Thus, Tan takes a shot and kills him for good. This was a well-earned sendoff. He didn’t die as a coward or betray his pride. He followed through to the very end; died as an honored warrior.

Gintama 銀魂―ぎんたま― Chapter 618 Review

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Four is greater one. Sparda3g reviews Gintama 銀魂―ぎんたま― Chapter 618. Enjoy!

Chapter 618

Okay, I think I’ve figured out why I love these two a lot and ship them so hard. They’re pretty well-developed as characters in a short space of time, which is always a good thing, and their relationship, for all the intense difficulties it’s gone through recently, just feels like it’s in firmer shape than ShinRan or HeiZuha.

Kansuke has just come back from the dead. Correct me if I’m wrong about any of this, but the way some of the other officers are talking earlier indicate that this is probably his first case since getting back on the force, and it might not have been very long since he woke up. When we first see him and Yui, he’s yelling at her quite angrily, but that’s probably been the first time since he woke up that he’s seen her and he might not have known for long that she was married. One of the officers says that “they were happy together”, and while I don’t want to hang too much on the quality of the translation (though from the looks of the credits I think this was a DCTP scanlation? They were always good quality) that particular phrasing suggests to me that they were in an actual romantic relationship prior to the avalanche that took Kansuke down. So for him, one minute he’s a hot young cop in a relationship with another hot young cop, then he chases a criminal and when he wakes up he’s down an eye and a fully functional leg and he’s told that not only has he been asleep and missing-presumed-dead for six months, but in that period not only has his girlfriend moved on with somebody else but moved on far enough to get married. Zero to married in six months seems fast enough to reasonably question whether she was cheating on him before, though he never suggests this. So he’s pissed off at her the first time he sees her, and while Yui’s response is harder to read, it’s probably not easy to say what she admits here, especially within days of her husband’s murder and while still living in his family’s house. 

Despite whatever degree of jealousy Kansuke’s feeling when he gets on this case, though, he is never once unprofessional about it. While he is certainly aggressive at parts of the investigation, he is never needlessly difficult, even during his later interactions with Yui, nor ever acts out in any way against the memory of her husband or his family. Which, y’know, is just a decent way to behave, but it says a lot for how childishly Gosho usually has characters handle jealousy that this is so standout. He’s already feeling out whether or not she wants to return to the force even before she makes this confession, too, and he specifies that she’s welcome back when she’s ready, giving her space to deal with whatever she might have felt for her husband.

There’s also an honesty to this relationship which, again, is uncharacteristic of the way Gosho usually handles relationships. They’re both quite frank with each other in the panels shown above. Kansuke’s already heard it suggested by somebody else that Yui only married her husband to investigate Kai’s murder and didn’t really love him, and Yui was there too so she knows he heard it, but she still feels that it’s important that he hears her reasoning from her directly, and he accepts it immediately, which is a good sign of trust. And while he doesn’t straight out say “come back to the force”--actually, wait, he does. He takes the time to make sure that she knows that he wants her to come back to the force. He weakly covers it with his comment about the chief detective missing her coffee, but both his face and hers indicate that she knows what he’s really saying. Since it’s Gosho we can safely assume they’re going to resume a romantic relationship with each other, but everything about the way they’ve interacted with each other and handled their relationship thus far suggests that they will continue to be honest, patient and mature about it.

It’s just such a marked and pleasant contrast to how Gosho usually handles couples having any degree of jealousy issue, and contracts especially strongly with how the Ran and Kazuha are handled in relationship to Shinichi and Heiji in this case.