Thank you for purchasing the 20th volume of Gintama! In the 169th episode, an editor named Konishi will play an active role. To tell you the truth, I drew it at the request of Mr. Yoshida (a member of the editorial staff and the organizer of my editor Onishi’s wedding banquet), who asked me, “Could you do something for the occasion, Sorachi?” Mr. Yoshida, who was in charge of Death Note and D. Gray-Man, is handsome and very good, and he started working in the same year as Onishi, but he doesn’t seem to care about manga that he doesn’t follow. So he casually said to me, “In Gintama, could you draw an episode describing the moment when Onishi asked for his woman’s hand in marriage…?”. When I told him my reasonable objection (“Well, wait a minute! I don’t have a problem with that, but they’ll all think it’s a self-referential story made just to get a laugh out of the editors! The readers don’t have the slightest interest in Mr. Onishi!”) he simply replied, “But in Gintama it’s acceptable!”.
Seriously, among those born in ’78, there’s no decent guy.
On top of that, he asked me to do it all in my spare time while I was doing the current story (I was drawing the Shinsengumi Crisis saga at the time), because he wanted to make the episode public during the wedding banquet. It was almost obstructionism at work!
Seriously, it’s a good thing for you that I don’t own a Death Note, dear people born in ’78!
SORACHI’S Q&A: HANGING OUT WITH THE READERS #57
QUESTION FROM MR. “A BIG FAN OF YOROZUYA! IS THE SHINSENGUMI… NORMAL?”, FROM GUNMA PROVINCE.
Nice to meet you, Sorachi sensei! To tell you the truth, I noticed something just now: Shinpachi likes Otsu, and Kagura likes Izenka*… What kind of songs does Gin-san like? Or does he only like the weather lady? Since I can’t think of anything, please let me know!
ANSWER:
Gin-san basically doesn’t listen to any kind of music, at most he hums songs from commercials.
What I’m about to say has nothing to do with this, but Okita has a weakness for rakugo**. It’s perfect, isn’t it?
*Japanese folk music style.
**Comedy monologues in which a narrator tells a story.
SORACHI’S Q&A: HANGING WITH THE READERS #58
QUESTION FROM MR JUNPEI MASUDA OF KANAGAWA PROVINCE
Hello, Sorachi sensei! My name is Junpei Masuda, and I really like Gintama. So I’m going to be a mangaka like you! I’m not very good at drawing yet, so I don’t have a chance right now… I usually draw Naruto characters, but I never improve, so I’d like to become your student.
ANSWER:
I think you’re missing the point… Listen, Junpei… maybe it’s better to… ask Kishimoto sensei?
After all, for the proposal story, I completed the storyboard late because of the busy work schedule and the care I had for the bride, so I didn’t have time to finish the boards for the ceremony.
I thought, “Wow, I’m going to take advantage of this situation and make sure this project never existed!”, but on the day of the wedding, Onishi’s father said to me with contempt, “What’s Gintama? I don’t understand it…” And so the desire for revenge was born in me. Devising a method to entertain the readers and at the same time cause harm to the Onishi family, that episode was made! If you re-read it with this anecdote in mind, it will look different! I hope the Onishi family members all read it together and feel uncomfortable…
New topic: “I pretended it was nothing with a smile, but some tears came to my eyes”.
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