#SHINSENGUMI TIME

[cyborg-squid]

The cane in his 1st ascension (along with the modernizing Japan background) rocks, because it looks like it's based off of an anecdote from his old age, about him walking with his grandson when the kid mouths off at some yakuza walking by, who naturally get mad at that. The kid hides behind his grandpa here, who then tosses away his cane and straightens up, which was apparently enough to frighten off the yakuza guys. Looking at this guys face and stance, I can believe that.

Being one of the few surviving members of the Shinsengumi, he, along with Hajime (who at that point changed his name to Fujita Goro), would set up the Grave of the Shinsengumi as a memorial to their fallen comrades, and Shinpachi would later go on to write memoirs about his time in the corps.

#fate series #fate grand order #my posts #shinsengumi time #peep his 2nd ascension too. i think he likes Drive

[imma-triple-a-battery]

um

so

hijikata in a historically accurate shinsengumi uniform anyone?

#gintama #gintama fanart #shinsengumi #hijikata toushirou #gintama hijikata #cw blood #haha i started watching gintama recently #so yk #had to draw my favorite mayo addict #but also #i stumbled upon like the og fit #and it's like #really good #and so here we are #anyway #yeah #not bhna this time

[joelletwo]

[still thinking about bare ass baby] like. matako going to find him just solidifies the takasugi -> gintoki -> shouyou mirroring path. shouyou thinking gintoki's kids are what gintoki was to him (killed me) -> kihetai over and over paralleled with yorozuya inexplicably more than any other ~found family group* -> matako does for sugi what gintoki does for shouyou. sugi becomes his own shouyou mirror. in the most insanely "you were loved by the ppl whose lives u changed" way u could give a reason for sugi of all chars to mirror his teacher

#sopping wet gintoki posting #* i mean i also just skipped over every single shinsengumi scene in silver soul. lol. but i think its funny their resonances just got #totally dropped here. only so many times u can valorize everyone's dad kondou

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[kenzan-kiwami]

i really love how much your perspective on... basically everything inoue says to ryoma in ishin! changes on the second playthrough

knowing that he grassed "saito" up to kondo immediately and fucking PLAYS DUMB whenever he says something immediately suspect, and yet, through all of this, covers for his sorry ass at every turn, even knowing there's a real possibility ryoma would cut him down on the spot if he found out who he was

both of them bullshit each other so much through the whole game, and it makes me sad they didn't ever get to speak as equals with no false names attached

#ishin spoilers #kamo-san drilling ryoma in his kenjutsu style... it would be too perfect #a legendary swordsman passing on the torch kinda thing #it's an interesting look at inoue/kashiwagi's character as well; as someone who feels indebted to others & acts based on it #his loyalty to kondo isami coming from the fact he gave kamo + hirama + hirayama renewed purpose and a new start in life #and his sympathy towards ryoma having assassinated his dad & the shared experience of living in the shinsengumi under a fake name #he makes me incredibly ill #in more ways than one i think #inoue genzaburo #kashiwagi osamu #sakamoto ryoma #kiryu kazuma #ishin #text #meta #another reason i'm sad more people didn't play ishin tbh. like you're telling me i have to write the inoue character study myself? #i can barely write a good tumblr post #sure it is past time i was sleeping but #i don't think writing this earlier would have been any better #who do i have to pay to write me the inoue character analysis fic of my dreams

[akumanoken]

Imaging looking at references and Souji suddenly missing Hijikata-san.

#random HijiOki feels are random but here we are #and every time we see short hair Hakuouki Toshi #we think of Senri #my god remember when there were Shinsengumi members?? #pepperidge farm remembers

[todayisafridaynight]

just watched Taboo (Gohatto) that anon here was talkin bout and i get legal rights to talk about it on this blog because takeshi kitano (hirose) plays hijikata in the movie

#snap chats #LIKE THE ENTIRE TIME I JUST KEPT THINKING 'wait he looks really familiar' #lo and behold thats so funny #anyway What Did I Think Of The Movie #it was hilarious the shinsengumi are fucking SCRAMBLING because of this pretty boy #hijikata looking at everyone like 'kondo are you in love with him ??? SOJI are YOU in love with him?? INOUE??????' #everyone but himself smh he only got eyes for one man but we been knew #okita was peak with the Top Ten Homophobia moments i cant #bro said 'oh no i hate gay people but i love a good story' #AND THE WAY HE WAS LIKE 'hijikata you're gay for kondo tho arent you like you always get pissed when people talk to him' #ENOUGH the shinsengumi is full of homosexuals #yamazaki was prob my fave bro in this movie idk why. maybe its cause i also thought he was real handsome but dont look at me #oh but the Actual movie i should talk about right #i just felt bad for kano the whole time #like people keep lusting after him and he's just like 'please leave me be' #the whole time hiji suspects him and tashiro to be lovers but like #we don't get to see kano's feelings on the matter aside from him pulling a knife on tashiro after he tries to sleep with him #it feels like kano's feelings are pushed to the side the whole time actually #the only time we actually see him earnestly say he loves someone is about yamazaki #and of course yamazaki doesnt reciprocate- whole movie tbh is just the shinsengumi trying to get kano to Not Be Gay #but like he's not even doing anything it's the men around him that keep trying to make a move on bro #tho the film DOESS say takeda courted him for a bit ?? but the deets on that are vague- tho kano at least laughs about it so #im scratching my head about the ending of the movie too- i cant decide if okita kills kano or what #hijikata cutting down the cherry blossom tree makes me believe that's what happened but idk #ALSO i dont think they want him to be Not Gay because of strict homophobia but because.well it's causing a problem #not STRICTLY cause hes gay but its cause men are killing each other over him- Allegedly it aint confirmed if kano killed yuzawa or not #but SOMEONE tried to kill yamazaki so. #it was an ight movie tho i wasnt mad bout watchin it. if you're gonna watch it warnings for SA/dubious consent and casual homophobia

[epicdogymoment]

finally finished ep 1+2. hmm

#leologisms #gintama #leo liveblogs #revisiting early gintama makes me remember what solis (? may or may not have been solis) said #how as time passes gintama becomes late edo period media as well as 2000s japan period media #its preoccupation with ronin as penniless unemployed losers.. #oh yeah. gintoki talking about. how you have to face the things you want to forget the most. king of not listening to his own advice #hmm. im thinking (new thought) katokens childs letter about wanting to hurry up and go back home #and the house getting completely destroyed by a huge amanto device that rises from the ground #katoken of course gets his happy end and is reunited with his family (cant go too hard with the loser thing in the anime special intro) #but. the house. sorry im thinking about individual gintama arcs and episodes as microcosms #even IF you defeat the amanto you wont get everything back. and you still need to change #<- ? im unsure about this. i cant quite hone in on what exactly about it it is #different unrelated thought: the shinsengumi portrayed in gintama as being largely useless and unable to enact real change #as opposed to gintoki/the yorozuya. did i forget to say the word samurai #<- they literally explicitly say this btw. i think its funny how so many people like the shinsengumi (gintama) because theyre cool #theyre losers. come on now

[kulemii]

i know i'm asking alot of that one lil scene 😭 this is what happens when you fall for a character with little screen time. learn from me. no matter how much they draw you to them, DO NOT fall for the minor character! IT'S A TRAP

#this is about masato aizawa #currently reprising his role as harada sanosuke of the shinsengumi #i like to think of all these guys as still in modern times but someone decided to make a shinsengumi movie and asked them all to act in it #aizawa originally auditioned for shinpachi nagakura but he was casted as harada instead #kiryu and nishiki BOTH auditioned for toshizo hijikata and got casted as izo and ryouma instead #nishiki's still pretty sore about it- he thought he'd make a good hijikata and he had the hair for it too #i could go on but i wont #i got an abandoned 'rgg as actors' wip somewhere i wonder if i'll even go back to it

[grandorderconfessions]

#fandom criticism #i think #sfw #yamanami is an interesting case because akesato is really important to his story #but also hajime's wife is important to him as well #i wonder how they choose which men get to remember their s/os and which don't #even then yamanami's lines can be read more romantically depending on how much brainrot you have (and i have plenty so) #(also it seems like the hajime/yamanami ship has slowed down in popularity too) #(with more people focused on hajime/guda or shinsengumi as a combination art) #I think it might also have to do with the fact that sen's story was ramping up around that time so the focus changed

[gothmoneyswag]

every gintama character got like one cool scene a piece for their tragic backstories and the rest of it is just total ass every time without fail

#my post #gintama #i am aware this is a bad take but thats where i stand rn #gintoki #gintoki sakata #kotorou katsura #takasugi shinsuke #im trying to think of who else #the shinsengumi guys i guess but i dont feel like tagging them all #some characters get hoed #they dont even get a cool scene or a tragic backstory at all if that #save my guys from the gintama format #im going to hell for this #gintama one of the only times i can think of where fleshing out your characters had the opposite effect like how #for the record gintoki's cool scene is that graveyard otose scene when they first met #but just because it appeals to my aesthetics #one day ill make a post where i explain what makes that scene so much better than all the other ones

[cyborg-squid]

this is honestly one of my favorite, one of the the funniest, and one of the sadder moments in the event, Serizawa lambasting the others for being a bunch of backwater samurai playing at, and failing at, being friends, it’s so funny hearing it being phrased that way because he’s not fucking wrong, the shinsengumi were very close but also the spent so much of their time together killing each other or forcing each other to kill themselves, it’s so funnyfuckedup to look at that and go “yeah they were friends” and be right about it all! a bunch of crazed manslayers and genius swordsmen none of who knew how to interact with one another none of who were able to truly be with the others as they fell to battle or illness or their own blades, but who still, who still, in these seconds lives of theirs, chose to reach out once more to each other, to try and understand one another, to continue standing for the way of lives that they had lived.

Most of all, I love how Hijikata’s Bond CE puts it, the “Comrades who dashed through the ages together”.

#fate series #fgo #my posts #shinsengumi time #gudaguda #fate grand order #fate meta

[woundedheartwithin]

I think my favorite part about Ishin being historical fiction based loosely on something that really happened is that I can make up whatever shit I want to and nobody can say anything about it

#she speaks #yakuza #ishin #for instance the real todo joined Shieikan a year before the Shinsengumi was started #and accounts only say that he began to take his meals there #not that he actually trained there #he trained in hokushin itto and there’s no actual evidence that he knew Tennen Rishin #but in all my zhaomaji fics heisuke trained in shieikan since he was an early teen and had known okita that entire time #because I find that dynamic more interesting and they don’t say shit about his actual tenure at shieikan in game #but even if they did fuck that it’s AU time lmao #I write what I want and nobody can stop me #not even the abysmal numbers I’m getting on these fics #because I like them and I’ve made them my dolls to smash together and giggle over

[seishun-emergency]

subaru and eichi are so funny once they start being friends. tbh. the way subaru goes oh i can do a funny bit here hey eichi are you getting married to makoto? and eichi, that little shit, goes "yeah <3 i'll take good care of him don't worry <3" they're horrible for the blood pressure of everyone around them

#leo liveblogs #leo eplink lb #reminds me of uh . shinsengumi #when they were bantering and bickering the whole time

[risuwu]

for the blorbopost- itou gintamas?

i would not classify itou as a blorbo, hes more of a meow meow or a gf which i consider to be separate, but here u go

original

btw these are 2 different girlfriends to me

#need to explain how i got obsessed with itou even though no one asked #so i watched gintama for the first time in 2019 and didnt think much of him #then early 2021 i got into danganronpa and byakuya was such a guy to me plus his va made all those hilarious recording requests #around then i also rewatched fairy tailand had loke on the mind #so then when i rewatched shinsengumi crisis arc-as u do every couple of months- itou was such a weird combination of them toome #like byakuya being an annoying know it all asshole who sort of gets redeemed + loke short spikey hair and glasses #so i made woof wof bark bark itou vid and its been downhill since #also at one point i developed an appreciation for sad pathetic men #so the scene where he was dangling off the train really hit that part of my brain #spontaneous gushing over #ask game #ask #itou

[averagelonelypotato]

hijikata when he stays up late at night realizing he once again fumbled the bag with gintoki after not understanding what gintoki was implying earlier and missed the chance to be with him 

#damn rip hijigin nighttime funsies #hello zuragin fun time #we are acting like zura wouldn't hear about how hijikata fumbled with gintoki and would not let that slide #katsura has a duty as joui rebel to one up the shinsengumi #and as one of gintoki's homies to make sure he gets the nighttimes funsies