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Okay. Now I’m really convinced: Gintama is art. I’m going to blog it, otherwhise I will regret it one day. If you can make such a .. recap episode, you are really talented. I have never thought that eating nabe would be so interesting. It’s so well done, because original, this would be a recap episode for celebrating Gintama in the third season. So, the characters are going to eat something really delicious and rare: sukiyaki if I remember it correct. It was the plan that one of them would tell the best points of the anime, but one second after that, the characters are already distracted: If one pays no attention to the nabe, the rest will eat it without any mercy. Here you can really see that the characters have such an inpact on the story. Even they know that they have to give a recap episode, they just don’t feel like it and they don’t plan to give a recap episode either.^^

This recap episode turns from a recap episode to a nabe-eating game. The one who can eat the most meat, wins. I’m really suprised they could hold out that act for the whole episode! They are just staring in the pot, and that is the whole episode. Seriously, and make that look interesting? That has got to be art.  This episode focussed on strategy, weird arguments and eehr.. strategy. Shinpachi made a really gamble, to throw his chopsticks away and saying that he didn’t really want to eat. To do so, he forced the others to throw their chopsticks away too. Or something like that. Kagura was meanwhile still angry because they tricked her in apologizing, and Shinpachi and Gin were really in a shock because they didn’t know what to do anymore. In this killing silence, Kagura’s tummy rumbles and the ice is broken.

They all agree that it should be a waste to not eat the sukiyaki. Not that they ‘care’ (in fact: Gin wants to eat the meat and Shinpachi hasn’t eaten meat in six months), but it is a waste to just leave it. And Kagura tummy rumbles, she is hungry. And Gin and Shinpachi just can’t let her not eat because she has to grow! So they have to eat, all. Shinpachi gives Kagura something to eat, and the next problem: who gets something to eat next? Because Shinpachi already refused the sukiyaki, it would be weird for him to get the sukiyaki. The same goes for Gin.

This ice is broken by Katsura and Elizabeth. They had to ‘hide’, and just barge into the window. Katsura said that there was a ’situation out of their control’, and begins with the weirdest food pun lines, and just invites himself to dinner with them. Gin already sees through that plan but it would be rude to tell Katsura. Shinpachi breaks that ice and invites Katsura to dinner because they are all friends in here.

Gin, isn’t really happy (^^) with that because Katsura really has himself invited into dinner, and the situation starts over once again. Who is going to be the Nabe Shogun, the ruler over the pot? Who opens fire first by reaching towards the sukiyaki? Because the one who will open the fire, willl become the Nabe Shogun. And apperantly, everyone wants that.  Would it be Kagura? She is already eating so it would be normal for her to get another part of the pot. But she is still eating, so Gin and Shinpachi don’t have to worry. Would it be Katsura? No. He is a guest and that would be rude to open fire. Elizabeth? That would be unlikely, because Elizabeth can’t hold chopsticks but she/he can fold origami (but I don’t know why^^). So the real threat for Gin is Shinpachi, because he offered food to Kagura. Shinpachi meanwhile is in a shock because he only offered food to Kagura and not to Gin! Meanwhile is Kagura almost finished with her first bowl, and Shinpachi and Gin can’t offer her another bowl because this is her second and she wants to be in control of what she is eating. Shinpachi gambles it all and opens fire. But Gin has seen past that act and removes the pot because he claims that the fire is too low. Shinpachi throws his chopsticks into the pot, but no! Gin has taken them, and on the last moment.. Zura and Elizabeth open fire too. Gin and Shinpachi screwed up. XD. And Kagura sneezed into the pot.
 
Game over. XD Gin, Shinpachi, Katsura and Elizabeth can’t eat anymore of the pot, because it’s grose, and Kagura claims it all. While everyone was still thinking that she was a child and innocent.. She wasn’t. She had planned it all. And she consumes it all.^^ Otase and Catherine barge in, and big shock: What Kagura was eating wasn’t beef. It was Pork! Onooo! Kagura was defeated, by the plan of Shinpachi and Gin. Also Katsura went down, because he couldn’t take the shock that the meat was pork. Two down, still five to go. Round two!

The opponents are ‘one old lady with already one foot in the coffin’, and ‘a middle age woman with one food in the mud’. A man who is almost dying of his injuries (Katsura), and a suspicious alive weird creature. Gin and Shinpachi think that the battle is between themselves, and Shinpachi tries the same move again: offer one food. But it doesn’t work. Shinpachi screwed up, everyone has acces to the pot. but Catherine and Otase open fire. And REALLY open fire! I have never seen people in anime eating with such an intense power and I even count Light Yagamis ’special powers bag of crips opening’. Shinpachi, Gin, Katsura and Elizabeth don’t have a slightest chance of winning.

But! Shinpachi and Gin don’t give up so lightely! The only opponent to win this, is Kagura. And Kagura consumes it all.. Once again.^^ But she prefers pork.

Game over.

This was a fun episode too, but it didn’t reach the goodyness of the last episode, that’s a real shame. It was a bit too much action, which became forced. But that is just a side note, we are not going to complain about that! We have seen more action in Black Lagoon and it can always be funny. We begin this episode with Rock, explaining the dangers of the city. He knows it, but Jane doesn’t. And that has realy put her in a weird situation because she does not know how to save her own life. Remember the last episode? Eda told those weirdoes were Jane was? Eda made a really good plan out of this. She told the guys were Jane was, but not in which room she was. She told them that she was in the room next to hers. Also she had a lot of papers hanging on the ceiling with circuits which way you had to go to save your own life. After that, Rock, Levi and Eda had just to wait until Jane would come and make a deal with her. And how Eda planned everything, so it went, even the gunfight.^^ The Lagoon crew escapes due the gunshots of Eda and Levi and the driving skills of Rock and they are headed to the ocean. The plan was that the Lagoon boat was going to be there and that Jane would be taken into safety.

For the bunch with ‘Yes-it-is-onee-chan’ and all those other weird guys, the things might get a bit complicated. Levi and Eda are so infamous that they demand more payment on the head of Jane otherwhise they don’t do the job.^^

Meanwhile Levi, Rock and Eda and their job are already in the harbor, and they expect the boat to be there, but.. it isn’t. Another job came by and Dutch and Bennie have taken the boat and they expect to return later. With a pissed off Eda they’ll have to wait. And what do you do when you’ll have to wait? Of course. You’ll start drinking.^^ All I’ve seen this past episodes are Eda and Levi drinking and it might be a bit entertainment after a while. Meanwhile Jane is trying to break into her own bankaccount but she can’t enter it. And I think she’ll never be able to enter it again because that buddy of her installed it but that buddy is shot down.

Anyway, you can’t expect different from this situation to get out of control, because the assisants arrive. And a real gunfight is broken lose, (their car is used as a shield and explodes. Levi was really angry about that one because they only just had got it fixed after Roberta messed it up in episode 9.^^) some idiots set the place on fire, Levi and ‘Yes-it-is-onee-chan’ meet once again, and the situation is becoming worse and worse by the second. But you can’t really tell about that one because it’s just a gunfight. Rock and Jane hide on the roof, and the next episode we’ll see more action, and a miracle or something like that and Eda and Levi save themselves and Rock and Jane too.^^ Interesting.

(And I know! It’s a really, really, really late post. But who cares?^^ I’ve already said it a numberous times: I’m really busy. School and stuff like that. Black Lagoon was forced to stay on a hiatus, because I simply had no time at all.)