(It doesn't help that watching Gintama seems to inspire thoughts and plots for the o-fic project).
Hee, yes - there's been some series I've watched that for some reason inspire original fic ideas rather than fanfic. The last novel I started is deliberately shounen-manga-based... (Gintama doesn't seem to work like that for me, though...I'm up to 30K words, oh god, no one is going to read this monster~! ^^;;;;)
Poor Yamazaki! That haircut... oh, that was hilarious yet terrible. Poor guy. I can't help but feel that despite all of that, the arc was kinder on him than Katsura Appreciation Month was.
Jackie's Nose...!!!
"hilarious yet terrible" is pretty much a 3-word summary of the entire series! (just add "heartbreaking" at the beginning and you're pretty much covered ^^)
I played a few of them, and MANY a RPG, so I was dying.
I've played enough RPGs in my day to get the broader themes if not the specifics (and Sorachi-sensei clearly loves 'em - we're on yet another parody RPG arc now!! this one has some marvelous old-skool graphics, too...and Gintoki giving dramatic epic speeches about why 8-bit was awesome. No really. I love this show.)
Okita brainwashing the sister,
That is way high on the big list of Things in Gintama That Are Highly Inappropriate That I Couldn't Stop Laughing At.
Even when it makes me cry over puppies. TWICE.
I haven't really cried over the show (I tend not to cry easily unless my mood is really wacky. Or I'm watching One Piece, but that's because Odacchi has magic powers) but embarrassingly I think the time I came closest was the Kagura vs insomnia ep, with the radio story about the dog. Which THEN went cracktastic horror and hysterical but until then...homg saaaaad. (That's something the series does, too, it has these short stories - told by Katsura more often than not - which are really just extended jokes, but to set up the punch-lines, the stories themselves actually manage effective drama in 3 minutes or less. Which is something of a gift...)
(speaking of short stories, oh man, the Garbage Urban Legend. HEEE.)
I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing that switch get flipped though. Somehow, it still takes me by surprise about, oh, half the time.
This is totally why Gintoki is my favorite, because you never know exactly when he's going to go serious, but you know he can, and when he does, oh man...
(well, okay, and I love having a shounen hero with absolutely zero motivation who whines even more than I do XP)
He doesn't have to outrun the bear, just them XDXDXD
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Hee, yes - there's been some series I've watched that for some reason inspire original fic ideas rather than fanfic. The last novel I started is deliberately shounen-manga-based...
(Gintama doesn't seem to work like that for me, though...I'm up to 30K words, oh god, no one is going to read this monster~! ^^;;;;)
Poor Yamazaki! That haircut... oh, that was hilarious yet terrible. Poor guy. I can't help but feel that despite all of that, the arc was kinder on him than Katsura Appreciation Month was.
Jackie's Nose...!!!
"hilarious yet terrible" is pretty much a 3-word summary of the entire series! (just add "heartbreaking" at the beginning and you're pretty much covered ^^)
I played a few of them, and MANY a RPG, so I was dying.
I've played enough RPGs in my day to get the broader themes if not the specifics (and Sorachi-sensei clearly loves 'em - we're on yet another parody RPG arc now!! this one has some marvelous old-skool graphics, too...and Gintoki giving dramatic epic speeches about why 8-bit was awesome. No really. I love this show.)
Okita brainwashing the sister,
That is way high on the big list of Things in Gintama That Are Highly Inappropriate That I Couldn't Stop Laughing At.
Even when it makes me cry over puppies. TWICE.
I haven't really cried over the show (I tend not to cry easily unless my mood is really wacky. Or I'm watching One Piece, but that's because Odacchi has magic powers) but embarrassingly I think the time I came closest was the Kagura vs insomnia ep, with the radio story about the dog. Which THEN went cracktastic horror and hysterical but until then...homg saaaaad. (That's something the series does, too, it has these short stories - told by Katsura more often than not - which are really just extended jokes, but to set up the punch-lines, the stories themselves actually manage effective drama in 3 minutes or less. Which is something of a gift...)
(speaking of short stories, oh man, the Garbage Urban Legend. HEEE.)
I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing that switch get flipped though. Somehow, it still takes me by surprise about, oh, half the time.
This is totally why Gintoki is my favorite, because you never know exactly when he's going to go serious, but you know he can, and when he does, oh man...
(well, okay, and I love having a shounen hero with absolutely zero motivation who whines even more than I do XP)
He doesn't have to outrun the bear, just them XDXDXD
Totally one of Gin-san's mottos in life!! XDDD