Gintama Anime Quotes
After a one-year hiatus, Shinpachi Shimura returns to Edo, only to stumble upon a shocking surprise: Gintoki and Kagura, his fellow Yorozuya members, have become completely different characters! Fleeing from the Yorozuya headquarters in confusion, Shinpachi finds that all the denizens of Edo have undergone impossibly extreme changes, in both appearance and personality. Most unbelievably, his sister Otae has married the Shinsengumi chief and shameless stalker Isao Kondou and is pregnant with their first child. Bewildered, Shinpachi agrees to join the Shinsengumi at Otae and Kondou's request and finds even more startling transformations afoot both in and out of the ranks of the the organization. However, discovering that Vice Chief Toushirou Hijikata has remained unchanged, Shinpachi and his unlikely Shinsengumi ally set out to return the city of Edo to how they remember it. With even more dirty jokes, tongue-in-cheek parodies, and shameless references, Gintama' follows the Yorozuya team through more of their misadventures in the vibrant, alien-filled world of Edo.
Score: 9.03 out of 10
★★★★☆
Gintama: Damn that sister of mine! She's always talking about our father, but what did that baldy ever do for us?! He just played Othello with us from time to time!
Gintama: In this world, there are things you have to protect even if your hands get stained with blood.
Gintama: I watch over Gin-san to protect him. Just like a fairy, like Tinkerbell!
Gintama: Manga endings might always end the same. However, if it comes to life. Neither you or I are mere readers. We are writers. We can change the ending.
Gintama: Sometimes, it's necessary to look back at the past in order to move on to the future.
Gintama: Whether I go or not, I'll die anyway. I have an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going through my head down to my feet, and I know it exists within me. It lets me stand on my feet, it lets me walk forward without trembling. If I stop here, I feel like it would break... My soul will break.
Gintama: There's no short-cut to becoming strong. Even if you try to look strong on the outside, that thin layer will soon fall off.
Gintama: The night is in its darkest just before dawn. But keep your eyes open. If you avert your eyes from the dark, you'll be blinded by the rays of a new day. So keep your eyes open, no matter how dark the night ahead may be.
Gintama: It's often said, "People who are similar can be called friends", right? You haven't been making a good life for yourself, have you? Well, I guess I'm no better.. People don't try to make a life that they can't be proud of... They have the intention of staying on the straight path, but out of blue, they're in the dirt. But, even so, with heart and soul you try to brake through. There will be a day, that even dirt will dry and fall off.
(Gintoki to Catherine
"Gintama chapter 24, page 19")
Gintama: [crashing through the gate on his motor scooter] Thanks for the support! Here come the real heros!
Gintama: For a pregnant woman to give birth, she's gotta feel the pain of pulling a watermelon out of her nostril. For an Artist to create a masterpiece, he's gotta feel the pain of pulling entire galaxies out of his ass.
Gintama: You don't need a driver's license to hit and run!
- Kagura
Gintama: Yeah, I know. It's not good to be reading Jump at my age.
Gintama: Even if you're a main character, you can still die... I better be careful-ttebayo.
Gintama: I'm not eating early. In my country, we always ate hot dogs during class.
- Kagura
Gintama: Life is like a mountain - you can say you've reached the top, but only after climbing back down.
Gintama: Don't go thinking you're my rival, you circus freak!
Gintama: Ironic, isn't it? How people without truly important things know about them more than those who have them.
Gintama: We've got nothing left at home but salt and sugar.
Gintama: Happiness depends on each person. If you think you're happy, then you must be happy.
Gintama: That's like what an evil organization in some anime would do.
Gintama: Shinpachi, just remember this... We aren't friends with justice or even your sister. We're YOUR friends.
Gintama: The Other Side of the Other Side of the Other Side would be the Other Side.
Gintama: Planets are just places for people to stand on. Planets are just rocks. It takes people to make it a world. You can have as many "Earths" as you want. I only care about what's inside.
Gintama: Love is based on unpredictable events.
Gintama: If we're unable to climb down the mountain, then we won't know whether there's another mountain to climb up.
Gintama: You mean that we failed again to prevent a bombing? What are you doing, Hijikata-san? You should take this job more seriously.
Gintama: You're absolutely right. I can't do anything alone. Everyone has their flaws and imperfections, but that's what drives us to work together... To make up for those flaws. Together, we make the perfect main character.
Gintama: [after the client asks Shinpachi, Kagura and Ayame to get him stronger] Well, whatever. At any rate, raise his hit points another hundred or so.
Gintama: Inside your mouth, it's rat-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, wonderful.
Gintama: Shut up you! What's with that TV drama attitude?!
Gintama: The only people who say that money doesn't matter in this world are the ones with lots of it.
Gintama: A prison, you say? You think you'll be free if you go to the world above? A girl like you can never be free no matter where you go. After all, we humans are apes put in a cage called Earth. There is no difference between the world above and the world below. The only difference is which is bigger or smaller. People who pout about how confining the cage is can never be happy. They live their lives only seeing the iron bars. A true lack of freedom is when you cage your soul.
- Gintama
Gintama: Honest feelings can sometimes lead to cruel endings.
Gintama: No matter how hard you blow, you can never extinguish our fire. As long as a single flare remains, the others can be relit.
Gintama: What are you talking about? We LET you corner us.
Gintama: *about Katsura, who apparently got his head hit very hard* Forget his name, this guy's questioning his own existence!
Gintama: I don't like men with glasses.
- Kagura
Gintama: *talking about Shinsengumi* Every time I'm with all of you, there's always a gap. I'm different from all of you.
Gintama: What are you, some tantrum throwing brat who forgot to buy his Jump? Having no money is like having a sinus infection. You just have to ignore it and not pick at it, and it'll go away.
Gintama: Even if you can't move anymore, or your back gets bent out of shape, it doesn't matter! What matters is what's inside! Not what someone looks like, dammit!
Gintama: *to Shinpachi* Was your sister raised by gorillas?
Gintama: Sake sure is nice. You can forget your troubles if only for a moment. You'll have to remember them tomorrow though, and they'll be even more painful than they were the night before. You can't run away from things like this. Especially from things you really want to forget.
Gintama: Gin-san, aren't you gonna make fun of me? Are you just gonna ignore me?!
Gintama: Hijikata-san. I forgot my flute at the headquarters, so I'm gonna go back and get it real quick.
Gintama: The zipper is a window to society.
Gintama: Unfortunately, I don't have a nice eyeball like you, that can see this and that. All I can do to pursue one thing in front of me. So whether it's the abyss of death or an empty void, I won't fight for the manju offered to my grave. I'll fight for tomorrow's breakfast. That's all.