Gintama 25
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.
