If someone told me this was how Gintama ended. I would’ve no doubt believed them.
I almost started ep 266 before I remembered that Gintama had a couple of movies. Only found out about this while checking them out :P
The movie sure had a lot of pitfalls. The whole time travel plot was wild. That always happens when you introduce multiple timelines. Everything gets so jumbled up.
But in my eyes, they can certainly be justified by how much emotion this packed. It was an all-out ending. That’s the message I felt from it. It wasn’t meant to be logical. It was meant to be a send-off. Considering the author wrote this as an alternate ending. No wonder it felt so heavy.
In a sense, the show didn’t explain anything. It was completely focused on the yorozuya. You know, all this time, when people mentioned yorozuya this and yorozuya that. I wondered why they were so attached to that word. It’s just the three of these guys. Call them a gang or something. Now. I completely understand where they’re coming from. This movie rewrote the word’s meaning fundamentally.
Watching this movie felt different. I’ve been with these characters for close to four months already. That’s far longer than I’ve associated with any other. The witcher series comes as a second. Though It took me only two months to finish all the books. Half of the time I’ve spent with Gintama.
I’ve grown so used to them and their antics. So watching all of the characters five years from what I’m used to. Was like how it is when you look at old pictures of yourself. Reminiscing about how it used to be and how it is now. Hell, Madao is literally an ojiisan now. Nothing comes even close to a portrayal like that!
And for those who ramble on whether this is canon or not;
Gintama is literally the show where they had an arc about characters reacting to a real-life popularity poll and then conspiring against each other to get higher numbers. With that many fourth wall breaks and characters reacting like they’re everyday occurrences lead me to believe that canonicity in Gintama is as tangible as the day Madao becomes a functional part of society.
Woohoo, finally finished writing notes for both this movie, the last season and the season before that. Ever since I started watching Gintama. My note-taking rate went down sharply. It’s not that I don’t want to. It’s that, I didn’t have anything special to say. There’s only so much you can praise before the praise becomes normality. This movie was a good refresher on that. It was a self-contained story and entry. Letting me write whatever the hell I pleased like back when I used to watch different shows that weren’t Gintama. Man, I’ve been watching this show for a long time. No wonder why I’m so attached to it.