#gozaimasu

‘Arigato gozaimasu’ (thank you very much), by shodo master Masato Kawahatsu.

Ohayo mina-san,

Arigato!! Many thanks for all the followers who’be kept up with this blog from the beginning up til now! It means a lot to me and I really appreciate the likes and reblogs. It makes me very happy to be able to contribute in my own way to the manga community out here on tumblr and I hope that I can continue to do so. More art and news are to come soon 😋😉

I understand what the function of ございます is, but I'd be curious to know what it means literally. The ます suffix implies that it is technically a verb, no?

Aye, it is a verb. It's an archaic, polite form of ある, in other words, an older, politer, form of です, performing the same function of adding politeness to a sentence.

It breaks down like this - ご is the same ご / お you see elsewhere, roughly "honourable", ざい is from ざる, which is an archaic alternative to ある, and ます you're familiar with, as the polite verb form from a plain verb form.