Thank you for purchasing the 17th volume of Gintama! Thanks to your support, we were able to celebrate our third anniversary, and even my editor Onishi was able to get married! I suspected he was having an affair… He once came to my house for a business meeting and had a pink umbrella. He hid it outside so I wouldn’t see it! So, given my great perspicacity, I deduced that he was getting married soon. Naturally, I avoided indelicate sentences such as: ‘What does that umbrella mean? Are you from some woman’s house?!”. I pretended that nothing had happened, except that inside I felt an unpleasant sensation, like the one you get when you discover your older brother’s porn magazines. During meetings we talk about nonsense as well as work, but never about love life. As if to say: ‘Since I’m shocked to hear something like that, I don’t want to hear it, on the contrary… let him die if he talks about it!’. Since our relationship was similar to that of Kakarot and Vegeta, who think they’ll kill each other if they let their guard down, I felt a certain disgust when I found out the news. So when he informed me of his marriage by saying, “Kakarot, I’m now twenty-eight years old, I’ve decided to get married,” I replied, “Congratulations! I’ll tell Krillin too!”. However, I felt nauseous inside: “reeeetch”! I felt like throwing up everything, from the rice balls to the senzu beans prepared by Chichi and eaten the day before. On top of that, Vegeta was blushing! That Vegeta! I wanted to shout, “Spare me!” Then, I don’t know why, Kakarot blushed too. So Vegeta and Kakarot had a big meeting, all red-faced, in a slightly tense atmosphere. You can’t imagine how many times I shouted inside: “Dear readers, give me streeeeength!” …
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 51
QUESTION FROM MR. SAKURA SAMURAI, CHIBA PROVINCE
I’m writing to you for the first time, Sorachi sensei! Gin-san belongs to the category of people who immediately throw away a Jump magazine after reading it? Or is he in the other category, that is, those who throw it away only after accumulating a few copies?
By the way, I’m with those who follow the work in monographic volumes.
ANSWER:
It is Shinpachi who throws away copies of the magazine after accumulating so many. And he doesn’t collect monographic volumes, by the way. Kagura only has a few for studying Japanese. Zenzou, on the other hand, keeps all the copies of Jump he has ever purchased in a special archive… but his father has sold most of them.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 52
QUESTION FROM MR. SAMURAI MAYORA & SWEET TOOTH OF HYOGO PROVINCE
Sacchan is an assassin, right? It is said that she was part of the Shogunate’s spies, but how strong is she realy? Also I want to ask her if “realy” is spelled that way?
ANSWER:
No, that’s wrong.
And, in fact, Sacchan is really strong.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 53
QUESTION FROM MR. ORANGE, KAGAWA PROVINCE
I’m writing to you for the first time, Sorachi sensei! I’ll come straight to the point. I have a question: in Gintama, are there no foreigners? In the manga world, are earthlings only Japanese? Let me know!
ANSWER:
There are, there are. It’s just that Edo is the only place where there’s such a large terminal, so there’s flourishing trade with the Amanto and it’s more developed than anywhere else. Consider it the gateway to Earth.
That said, the special “Farewell to Bachelor Onishi” ends here, although we still don’t know how it will end since there was no ceremony. Until the last moment, you don’t know how the relationship between a man and a woman evolves! It is very common for the bride to run away on her wedding day… In fact, I hope so! That would be fun. I hope she runs away at full speed, even though they loved each other so much. By the way, about the umbrella thing, if the situation were to escalate into sentences like “Hey, what’s with the pink umbrella?! It’s not mine!”, what will they do?! Rather… I was the one who told it, and in any case I really saw it, but it’s none of my business! Until the next volume!
Topic: “Best wishes, Onishi”
Yorozuya Shinigami 