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reading thru the The Final utsuro fight visuals with the vocabulary i gained while liveblogging gintama
[VD: the section of the fight that has gintoki and utsuro-in-takasugi's-body slide through reanimated flashbacks to past scenes of the series that cast them as past versions of themselves, shouyou, and takasugi]
bc the maths is insanes
the initial flashback is to their immediately previous silver soul fight - the casting of the conflict as unending, progressless, in utsuro's favor. have either of them appreciably changed since then? is anything different? what is initially an incomplete brief flash - with utsuro still inhabiting takasugi - solidifies when he regresses to his original body and begins to more effectively counter gintoki. utsuro remains on the right throughout.
direct cut from there pulled further back in time to gintoki's immediately previous fight with takasugi's body in shogun assassination - takasugi on the right, giving utsuro in his body the power of Unconscionable Violence (senseless, gleeful, and knowing you well enough to perpetrate it) (joelletwo tags on squeaky toy video, 2023, repeated endlessly every day since)
but it's mutual - gintoki also knows you well enough to turn the tables and get the upper hand back
(not that this meaningfully stops you for long).
direct cut from there slightly forward in time to gintoki's first fight with utsuro in the immediately following farewell shinsengumi, where the revelations overwhelm him and reduce him to being fueled by the pure instinctual anger of The Demonic, a state of losing yourself and your ability to fight effectively (reductionisms, 2023),
conditions where it's all you can do to hold out against an enemy that represents something so big in your psyche,
which he knows about, since he's been that for you before. back in time again to the first (onscreen) takasugi confrontation, right before taking advantage of your precarious mental state to punch you out of the plotline (kraniumet tags on yamameta post addition, 2022)
but utsuro keeps a vice grip on control of the story, surfacing back into the present to stop and reverse his fall mid-air so he can stay anchored in the battle with gintoki,
meaning he remains vulnerable to the weaknesses of the body he's in, which only ever exists anymore in one memory - you're unable to move, only to witness. a third figure is introduced, who is more you than you here, while gintoki remains himself.
the you more you than you accepts death while you watch it approach with helpless despair and terror.
the collapse of utsuro back into the body he inhabits in present invites a re-examining of the series of flashbacks thus far - where the perspective of who controls the focal memory seems to flip from utsuro to gintoki back to utsuro here, does it? the farewell shins->festival transition is 1:1 substitutional, working out so that utsuro-as-takasugi winds back up on the right.
but it isn't utsuro borrowing a strength of his like Violence here - it's, just like in the execution, succumbing to one of his weaknesses. flipping between the two scenes, takasugi's derailing fear of gintoki as a figure becomes gintoki's of utsuro. there's a double elision of takasugi (missing from farewell shins due to his fight with gintoki) so that utsuro becomes both gintokis - making him both the one who looms large, and the one who is destabilized by.
gintoki signifies something huge to utsuro, after all.
he takes up the role he had back then, the one you assigned him from the start, because half of his time always exists in that one moment now as well.
being the one who acts on the story and moves it forward, brings it to an end.
the regression through history continues to child against unbeatable teacher, again the question of if either of you has grown since you met. gintoki becomes the underdog challenger on the right.
the refusal to give up an unwinnable fight, no matter how many times it's tried, the even-back-then way that gintoki becomes a shouyou figure for others, fluidly shifts you forward in time.
the reverse shot, the perspective flip - the identity lines cross.
he drags you through time with him, until you're someone he knows how to beat.
(because, again, you know each other so well as to be losslessly interchangeable, for two opposing souls in the process of finding themselves - conquering themselves - to become indivisible.) (reductionisms translation, 2024) (yamameta ouroboros poem, 2023)
and even when you win - earn by ceaseless trial and effort the right to play his trick back on him and dethrone/defang him by pushing him literally out of frame - ...
he learns from you as well and pulls himself back in by your anchor.
#gintama#sopping wet gintoki posting#undescribed#borrowing the power of gay love to beat ur dad......................... i guess#the kind of thing i could ramble on abt for 5 million words trying to untangle everything i think about. the connections here..............#but i limit myself kjsdfg so i can come back and use this as a reference for my own confusion lol. this sequence. makes me ILL#videos
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OH WAIT. i'm unemployed thursday
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never even commented on this one. must i
#zura is just here for a nice time with friends#sopping wet gintoki posting#i wish women were real in gintama so i could force takasugi to interact with them and see what happens#like with a bigger sample size. i need more data
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😭😭😭😭
#sopping wet gintoki posting#god and hes got the coolest design of all time. on top of being one of the most referential. obviously. stopping myself from saying it
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like shut the fuck up kjshdfg
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case study 1: the yona villain
hyo/hiyou YonaOfTheDawn runs the drug black market that is ruining a town and turning its people into puppets in his arc. as an antagonist, he makes the protagonist group, their newfound friend fighting her political ruler dad's political inertia, the king who is at odds with the protags, and a substantial military/merchant force mobilize and work together to take him down. hes powerful! he is primarily identified by his scar.
he wears ornately patterned floral robes and has delicate features and longish hair, none of which stand out to me as an unusual design choice considering the rest of the cast, but he /is/ immediately characterized as very vain and 'prissy,' especially about his scar.
and, uh, his own men scoldingly call him slurs for acting femininely (the other translation has him say a shrill voice like a woman's, like here v)
he hates busty women and his men police his gender. subtle
(the scar is doubled after yona slashes him in their confrontation.) he has lots of comedic exaggeration panels, which is normal for defanging and pathetic-ifying yona villains (tae-jun.............<3) and also the cast as a whole (yona as a series has exceptional comedic timing, for all its serious plot)
but this doesnt diminish his threat as an antagonist, which i remember being very heightened for yona's normal villain writing to that point, especially due to it being very. women focused. (in an author's note later, she notes that the "carve pieces from her thighs" was a typo of the originally less charged "from her belly," but she left it in because it was fitting for his misogyny.)
he obsessively and creepily hunts yona throughout the arc for derailing his plans (and adding to his scarring), but in the end, he's pretty unceremoniously punched out of the plot by yona's shoujou image of masculine perfection/future boyfriend, hak.
#u can see where im going with this lol. but hang on dont engage yet i do want to see if i can put matoba in.#sopping wet gintoki posting
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[ID: gintama fanart of kid gintoki and shouyou, zurako, and a takagin kiss described individually in alt]
drawing guys for @soppymilkgin @istherewifiinhell @deadgrantaires thankies thankies for the indulgences 🎉 going insane in the middle of the night learning how to draw on the fly
#art tag#gintama#sopping wet gintoki posting#SORRY THE. EATING AND DIGESTING THE UNCONSCIONABLE VIOLENCE made me understand dearly the desire to see takasugi freshly laundered and calm#its still gonna weird me out when i see him in show but kjsfg looking at shoass panels intending to draw some freak shit and instead got#derailed dreaming about it. one must imagine a world where he could be#gintoki's dead fish eyes escape me at the best of times and i dont know how to draw kids. lol.#and comfort zone zura of easy drawing easy coloring to take a fucking break from painting kjsfg i hate painting i hate lighting (eats it up#dont get my ass for saying postcanon takasugi im in denial.
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ohhhhhhh they fucked this line up Bad lol
#sopping wet gintoki posting#OR THEY DIDNT. plot twist misunderstanding gintama has been about suicide is okay
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IS takasugi supposed to read so. gestures. brain foggy and also this isnt the thing i want to spend time on typing so how to say quickly. parent issues-sublimated-onto-teacher issues. like that cant just be my own baggage im bringing in but also it feels like a wild basis for ur sympathetic antag-turned-series meow meow is for him to be more obsessed w ur dead teacher than u were but u were yalls dead teacher's favorite and he was just another [precious but not specially] student.
like what do we know about his relationship to shouyoutsuro. bc they relate on being lost in life but his initial draw to shoukason is more about gintoki to my memory. gintokis the one who chose takazura on purpose and shouyou was just like they seem like good kids good for u :) has been my reading lol. so any feelings he'd have about shouyou would be filtered/interpreted thru gintoki first. or vice versa. not engaging w shouyou one-on-one yet. and then im really extremely unclear on the timeline of the fire->the war->the execution so who knows but none of that is specifically about takasugi and shouyou. does it really just all boil down to hating the world that made gintoki cry again.
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THATS A REALLY COOL LINE AND ALSO PRETTY FUNNY
#already autocompleting i studied the blade but they beat me w something better ksf insane. say that shounen ass shit#sopping wet gintoki posting
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disinclined to hunt down a fuller body image but does anybody remember trucker gin. something something gintamas economic commentary undertones the hottest gins are when he is embodying The (ungainfully employed) Worker
#sopping wet gintoki posting#looking at mechanic gin. thats a real guy i see when i take my car in that i do want to fuck for a beautiful two hour wait in the lobby
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[gregory berryconing my readings] gintoki as the unplucked apple floating on a picked-bare tree.......................................
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THEEEEE most beautiful sequence of images ever.
#and also her shouyou whimsy for life and the joy of children/being a head. natch.#sopping wet gintoki posting
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