Thank you for purchasing the 46th volume! As I wrote in the previous one, there are several things to make public… Even though they’ve already been made known in Jump and on the net. To my surprise, I, Hideaki Sorachi, found blood in my urine! Has a decision been made to resume the anime, or to make a second film? True, these events are happy, but in the meantime… blood came out of the tip of my p_nis! Is the film based on a completely new story written especially by Hideaki Sorachi? Will it be released in cinemas next year? That’s all true, but first the author painted the WC red with his pen!
So instead of going to a movie theatre, I went to the urologist and went there ready to die, after washing my p_nis thoroughly thinking they would check it all. Instead, the doctor made a face as if to say, “Don’t pull that thing out!”. Then he said, “Why the fear? Everyone gets blood out. If you’re not ready to undergo something like this, you shouldn’t go to certain clubs to have fun, you damn syphilitic!”…
So, I was sent home after undergoing a urine test. But listen to me, doctors and dear readers! I, Sorachi sensei, do not have a venereal disease, and I haven’t gone out to have fun in almost a year! I’ve hardly ever left the house because of deadlines and the storyboard for the film. I thought that because of the blood in my urine they would give me some rest, but even the editor made a face that said, “Everyone bleeds, damn syphilitic!”
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 130
QUESTION BY MISS AYAKO AKAHIRA OF HOKKAIDO
Until now, Sacchan’s house has appeared often. But each time it looks like a different house, or rather a different room. Does she live in one place?
ANSWER:
Since Sacchan has a dangerous profession, the assassin, on principle she lives in the same place for too long. She keeps moving from one inn to another. She just doesn’t want to leave Gin-san’s side, so she stays around Kabukicho.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 131
QUESTION FROM MR. “BECAUSE OF GINTAMA I CAN’T GO ON WITH MY STUDIES AND PREPARE FOR EXAMS, DAMN YOU”, FROM TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA
A sixth-grade student like me, in the middle of midterm exams, asks you a question… Sensei, among the AKBs, do you support Tomochin? I’m asking because in volume 42 Sasaki says: “He might not fit in as well as Tomomi Itano in the AKBs, who is too pretty.” …
ANSWER:
Like you, there are many who believe that a comic book character’s opinion is the same as mine. But they’re two different things. Sasaki thinks so, and in the manga I draw things I don’t think at all. By the way, I’m a supporter of Miss Mariko.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 132
QUESTION FROM MISS GINTAMA LOVE, EHIME PROVINCE
There’s something that came to my mind when I bought volume 45 of Gintama. It’s about Oboro, who appeared in the Courtesan of a Nation saga. I noticed that he doesn’t have any scars on his face on the cover, but he does on the inside of the comic. Is that your mistake, sensei? Or is the scar a result of Gin-san’s injury during the story? Tell me the truth!
ANSWER:
You’re absolutely right. But rather than saying it was caused within the story, I’d say it was due to an external event. A certain gorilla, when he erased after he finished inking, also erased the scar… He may have this past, but he may not… I apologize!
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 133
QUESTION FROM MR. TORMENTED HORSE, FROM HYOGO PROVINCE.
Sensei, I find To Love-ru‘s Momo really cute, so I would like to collect the volumes of that work. But I can’t because my mother and older sister are there. And yet I wish I didn’t have to hold out until I start living on my own… What should I do, sensei?
ANSWER:
Buy the Gintama volumes and put the cover of these on top of the others! Huh? Would you be ashamed in any other way? No, don’t say that…
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 134
QUESTION FROM THE TRUE GINTAMA LOVER SIGNIOR FROM THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA
Good morning, Sorachi sensei! Once, on a TV programme, I followed a speech: “It is well known in Japan – Sazae knows this too – that ‘cats like fish’ because the Japanese have always given cats fish since ancient times. As a proof we asked what the favourite food of cats in India and the answer was was curry’. We were surprised…”
Is it true that gorillas like bananas?
ANSWER:
Actually, the gorilla hardly ever eats bananas… but a set with half a portion of Chinese-style sautéed rice.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 135
QUESTION BY MR. PARFAIT FROM IBARAKI PROVINCE
Good morning! Sorachi sensei, I heard you have bad handwriting, but then why do you write by hand on the extra pages? (Why don’t you write on a PC?)
ANSWER:
You’re right. And since it’s such a hassle, I’d really like to use the PC… But just think, I get complaints just because I’ve changed the pen to a brush tip! Like, the pen I was using before was better, etc. Since there are readers who observe even these smallest details, I think that since this style of mine is so loved by everyone, I can no longer change it. So I will continue like this. I apologise if it is difficult to read. Although I write in this way, I used to take calligraphy lessons…
Having said that, volume 46 with the special “The blood-soaked decision to produce the film”, ends here.
After all, after the tests I underwent, no problem was found, so the cause was attributed to stress.
However, I would like you to understand the whole situation, including Sorachi sensei’s feelings, who thought, “Hooray! If they put me in the hospital, I could get on with the storyboard for the film!”. Seriously, I’m working at the top of my game. Both the serial publication of the work and the making of the film can stall at any time. They say the film will come out next year, but all the staff members almost laughed. Even at the present stage it is not clear what will happen. It’s all the rage now to have films supervised directly by the writers, but since the other writers are professionals, they don’t complain at all. Instead, I, being a punk mangaka, say everything clearly: they probably all have their p_nis covered in blood. Both Luffy and Naruto don’t say anything, but they have the inside of their underwear completely soaked. They work hard to make you laugh, for the filthy grin of Shueisha and the anime company, shedding tears of blood from the tip of their p_nises! For adults, it’s no problem, because I’ll definitely drag them to hell with me and have their whole bodies covered in blood, but I’d like readers to remember that the movie was made with tears of blood, like this, and also, I’d like you not to forget that Sorachi sensei is not suffering from venereal diseases. Then, if the Gintama movie doesn’t come out, as if it was never planned, I want you to go see Conan without saying anything. I believe in all of you. So don’t believe in me… Promise me that!
New topic: “Well, I’ll try my best, but…”
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