#hijisa

My New Year’s resolution for 2017: re-read a chapter of Gintama every day starting from the beginning and relive the joy that is Gintama lesson-by-lesson. Hopefully I will never reach the end of the series should Sorachi-sama have a change of heart and never conclude it.

What I Loved in Lesson 191: (freaking of course EVERYTHING, especially after the reveal in the last panel!)

I knew the Cloud lookalike was too good-looking to be a non-dork/loser character in reality.

Zura fanboying over another game character again is just adorable.

Hasegawa really was the obvious choice for D but I actually thought it was Yamazaki at first.

Well at least he’s good at SOMETHING.

Everything about this and everything that followed was just fucking PRECIOUS.

It made SO MUCH SENSE after the reveal why Kagura would jump in.

I totally thought these two were the actual aliens at first. But then afterwards, all of this just took on so much greatness for me, especially considering who the senior was. I guess this was Sorachi-sama’s way of indicating perhaps he’s a virgin in real life, which is just...I cannot stop giggling about it.

Laughing forever. Kondou and his exhibitionist tendencies is just too much sometimes.

I cannot get over that he is literally holding Kondou’s dick in his hands.ura

Zura is so socially awkward sometimes it’s adorable.

The reveal of who the two of them are: yeah I might’ve screamed a bit. Faintly recall jumping up and running around my room in sheer happiness. 

As if it wasn’t already quickly becoming one of my favorite arcs by this point, this pretty much sealed it.

Ships Tally:

GinHiji: omggggg so shippy, so cuuuuteeeee!!! Although I must admit I was a bit disappointed that Hijikata’s screwdriver head was just a TAD too big to fit into Gintoki’s socket wrench what-what. (And yes, I measured it.) I’m sure they could’ve still find a way to manage. 

GinOki, OkiSa, HijiSa: ok, technically all possibilities since Gintoki and Sacchan were kinda double-teaming Hijikata and Okita. And that sounded dirtier than I intended it to be.

OkiKagu: it’s that red string of Fate connecting them at work; Kagura can’t even resist Sougo even when he’s in avatar form...an alien avatar wearing a unflattering white bodysuit with antennas at that.

HijiKagu: well, since Kaguura Jusant technically was addressing both of them, this ship would apply too.

HijiOki: I should have gotten a clue just based on this statement, but somehow I still stupidly did not even have an inkling that it was them.

KonHiji: self-explanatory, I think.

HaseShin, or ShinD: I guess it’s more ShinD than the former since his fanboying stopped as soon as he realized who D was. I wonder if any AU Shinpachi/Cloud fanart or dj ever came out of this arc when it was first released. Would’ve loved to see some of that.

Disclaimer: Gintama is not only about shipping. Gintama is hilarious, clever, exciting, poignant, heart-breaking, loving, brilliant, and just so freaking amazing.  It is only due to Sorachi-sama’s generosity that I can enjoy Gintama on yet another level, the shippy level, and I am forever grateful for that. GINTAMA IS LIFE AND LOVE.