manga: Gintama Vol 11-12
May. 13th, 2009 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreOh, poor Kagura. That may have been the worst possible introduction to the concept of slash ever, right up there with learning about sex by walking in on your parents. The anime’s adaptation (Kagura comes in near the end. Warning for almost everything you can think of except for mutilated bodies and actual sex):
So, aside from Kagura’s eternal scarring at a young age (so much for Gin and Shinpachi’s attempts to keep her from ever learning about the birds and the bees, though she may be scared off dating for life) my Gintama got serious for a while! Well, kind of serious! But Katsura was dead! Gin was all hospitalized! There was a bitter revolutionary who looked like Hijikata’s long-lost brother terrorizing everyone! And angsty children of a swordsmith!
Actually, I loved the swordsmith’s kids. Takasugi made for a good storyline, but didn’t interest me. But we also had Katsura returning from the dead and Kagura searching Edo for him and then Kagura and Shinpachi beating him up when they learned he was only faking it.
And Kagura and Shinpachi have learned to make their evil smiles just like Gin’s so cute! And the mangaka really is calling him their parent left and right, isn’t he?
These volumes, though, were very light on the Shinsengumi, something I find to be very sad. Though their arc with Otae was rather choice. Also choice was Otae and Kagura reacting to Shinpachi on a date with the catgirl, which was not pretty, but it was entertaining!
And 20+ pages of seeing who got to the sukiyaki bowl first was actually entertaining! That should not be possible!
So, aside from Kagura’s eternal scarring at a young age (so much for Gin and Shinpachi’s attempts to keep her from ever learning about the birds and the bees, though she may be scared off dating for life) my Gintama got serious for a while! Well, kind of serious! But Katsura was dead! Gin was all hospitalized! There was a bitter revolutionary who looked like Hijikata’s long-lost brother terrorizing everyone! And angsty children of a swordsmith!
Actually, I loved the swordsmith’s kids. Takasugi made for a good storyline, but didn’t interest me. But we also had Katsura returning from the dead and Kagura searching Edo for him and then Kagura and Shinpachi beating him up when they learned he was only faking it.
And Kagura and Shinpachi have learned to make their evil smiles just like Gin’s so cute! And the mangaka really is calling him their parent left and right, isn’t he?
These volumes, though, were very light on the Shinsengumi, something I find to be very sad. Though their arc with Otae was rather choice. Also choice was Otae and Kagura reacting to Shinpachi on a date with the catgirl, which was not pretty, but it was entertaining!
And 20+ pages of seeing who got to the sukiyaki bowl first was actually entertaining! That should not be possible!