Friend away! Would love to have more Gintama fans on board (can't guarantee how much more I'll be talking about it, but the way the new eps have been it'll probably come up at least a bit!) And glad you liked the fic (especially "...Happy Ending," really gratified how it went over, when I wasn't sure I would even post it... ^^;)

And yes, I've skimmed enough of this arc to have been dying to see it animated (especially looking forward to the next ep - the confrontation between the Yorozuya is one of the bits that I actually stopped and read the Japanese for, and oh, so intense and beautiful...)