If it weren't for the author orangutan's repeated deaths before the end, this drama that I liked for several years would have been titled "Gintama: How to Exchange Your Never Ending with a Lifetime of Festivals" - how much it was once sought after, probably how much it is disliked now, the so-called deep love, the love of the cut.
In fact, before the release of "Gintama Live-action Edition", I also publicly released a sense of view of "Gintama", it seems that reading the original text a few years later always feels that there is a sense of object is not human, the beginning of the writing at that time is -
I would like to dedicate this article to all those who walk into the burning expedition with enthusiasm and dreams, and when you return, you are still a teenager.
It seems that the electric guitar of one of the OP's "Taoyuan 郷エイリアン" is gently swept away, and the few funny or obscene smiles that immediately come to mind will come to mind - unfortunately, it is difficult for me to repeat what the story of the bad ending of "Gintama" is about.
If you only look at the content of the previous seasons, it can be said that "Gintama" is a gorgeous poisonous and unattainable strange flower in modern Japanese anime works; a legendary work that is suitable for one person, two people and a group of people but is by no means suitable for "family fun"; a high-risk film with nuclear radiation that is strictly forbidden to be watched during pregnancy and during meals; according to the "UNTRUE" report issued by the "Gasketin" laboratory of the World Health Research Organization "Gasketin" in 0202 - watching "Gintama" can enrich the toughness and willfulness of the abdominal muscle group. It can make your vest line more creamy and charming.
When Kuchi Yingqiu created such a "Gintama" with a pronunciation similar to "that", I am afraid that I did not expect to achieve a classic, of course, the classic here can be positive enough, but also enough pejorative. It turns out that how big the cartoonist's brain hole is, how big the gap between the reputation is big - and at the same time, looking at it in 2020, the gorilla has indeed achieved "no zuo, no die"
This small step of mankind has unfortunately achieved "a big step" in the process of human civilization. Indeed, there are such "fantasy stories" in every era and in every field, which inadvertently achieve a "great deed".
In this way, Gintama is an anime that is everything but nothing.
In the main plot, there is a lot of violence and blood, and interspersed with all kinds of "obscenity", spit from the official, tons of mosaics and can only understand the ineffable "beep beep";
In the daily chapter, there are spoofs of the times (such as the overly fanatical fan economy, the family game console industry war), there are ridicule with the works of the same publishing house, there are homages to the works of the predecessors (Akira Toriyama's "Dragon Ball" is the most typical), there are reinterpretations of historical legends (such as Urajima Taro in "Ryugu Chapter"), and then there are "imitations" of a large number of classic movies
Of course, on the surface, these are obviously not the core of this work.
Personally, "Gintama" is not an anime work full of "absolute idealism", from beginning to end, it does not blindly show that "good people must live, bad people must die", "youth is not defeated, dreams are not destroyed", "love to fight to win" is a bit of a "class two" idea, it is only to say what some people want to say and do in reality in a comic or animation way.
These people have experienced the ignorance of their youth, and they have also been full of longing to believe that the world is infinitely large, but when the purity of the past is gradually blackened by society to a greater or lesser extent, their childhood ideals become fantasies that can never be realized, and they begin to gradually compromise with reality in order to survive.
At this point, Gintama won't tell you to "be strong and work hard," but will echo your "believe that something bad will eventually happen"—chicken soup and anti-chicken soup must exist in this world, but for some people like me who are experiencing more and more, the really good chicken soup is to be boiled seriously.
Therefore, for those who are familiar with the Gintama routine, there must be a surprising reversal after the warm scenes and greasy music, how realistic is this, where there are so many shocking and shocking emotions in the world, such as "ほぼ100% の確率でビニール umbrellaを置置き forgetれてくる自分が疑い" such a rainy day and umbrella plot occasionally appears is not unusual.
Right! One of the styles of Gintama is that "the more absurd the reversal, the more powerful it is, and the more ordinary it is, the more tender it is."
In the work, there is a setting that "the positive image is not so perfect, and the villain is not so pure" - although this is not in line with the "Hollywood factory" emphasis on character symbolism, but the cartoonist has indeed taken a different path and played tricks.
Indeed, throughout all the current plots, except for the historical archetypal characters, no character is purely "evil", although there are many comments that this is a "whitewashing" of the characters, but this is the true face of society - who does not have their own selfish desires? Who hasn't had a time of evil thoughts or lust? Who is not yet a combination of angels and demons?
This is human nature, something that is rooted in genes.
When you listen to the characters' serious nonsense, when you follow the plot in the abyss of laughter and tears, when you finally understand that there is a truly practical philosophy of life in the dialogue that cannot be thrown on the table, it means that you have indeed grown.
It's an anime that is nothing but nothing.
To be sure, without animation, Gintama wouldn't have been as influential as it is now. Once the character is colored, accompanied by various sound effects and music, the moving character can show a tension that cannot be expressed on paper.
Let's take a few simple examples. This is the eye of the moon chant in the love dyeing incense, if there is no color, the brightness in the eyes will be greatly weakened. The same is the love dyeing incense, if there is less colored background and the shyness of the orangutan dynamic, the strong sense of joy that leads to "confusion and confusion" due to ecstasy cannot be highlighted.
Of course, more importantly, if Gintama fails to animate, how do you get fans to interact with the bullet screen? (Indeed, the rise of bullet screen culture has made the once independent viewing of movies a group culture) For the characters, they can be more beautiful and set off the characters - there are always some moods that are difficult to express in black and white comics!
I don't know if you can feel that cartoonists like Akira Kuchi who show countless amazing brain holes in their works often play the role of passers-by observers in real life, they watch, think, and interpret, and this style is destined to make them rarely appear and yearn for a low-key and simple life - because it is simple and pure, so they are inspired and ethereal.
At the same time, a number of first-line cartoonists such as Akira Kuchi (such as the one who is still drawing "One Piece") work several orders of magnitude higher than the average small white-collar worker, and usually have no rest time for a week, except for eating and sleeping.
When you think about it, it's also quite a pity.
However, "Gintama" repeatedly jumps between the gods and the clumsy works, and eventually has the honor of becoming synonymous with the tiger's tail. The so-called "Cheng ye Xiao He defeated Xiao He", the achievement of the orangutan "Gintama", after all, also let the cartoonist himself have a feeling of "late festival is not guaranteed", in fact, so far I have not understood that the cartoonist himself is obviously an IQ, emotional intelligence are online people, can actually be so hateful in the closing stage, annoyed!
"It's better to throw away this kind of inedible thing or throw it away", this sentence is really suitable for this rotten anime. How many die-hard fans have arrogantly coddled "How to exchange a lifetime of knots for a gintama that never ends?" ”
However, there is no feast in the world, and those "male and female tears" and "corpses all over the field" are still hula rolled into the sewers of history. Gintama ended up with a less gorgeous ending, and for those who loved the anime, whether we accepted it or not, Gintama ended in some subjective or objective way.
In the memories of each generation growing up, there will be several totems that continue to intersect with the hour hand and the minute, and condense into a part of the soul, some people's totems seem to be "just we", some people's totems seem to be "never stopping the top", no matter how unusual they once were, they will fade their former colors in this magical reality and become secular background decorations.
We laughed and scolded, although it was still a familiar word, but there was more of a touching vicissitude in the tone. After singing the wine, it was finally dispersed - then, it was scattered.
Note: Some of the passages in this article are derived from the old humble work "Gintama: How to Exchange Your Never Ending with a Lifetime of Discipline", slightly deleted.