GinTsu

GinTsu is the het ship between Sakata Gintoki and Tsukuyo from the Gintama fandom.

This page is full of spoilers for the story of Gintama!

Canon – Gintama
Please note that this section will describe the canon events and interactions from the Gintama Anime and Manga first, but then will also discuss the full extent of these scenes with shipping goggles on in the Fanon section.

Yoshiwara in Flames
Episode 139 - 145

Red Spider
Episode 177 - 181

Canon – Class 3-Z Ginpachi-sensei Novels
Please note that this section will describe the canon events from the Class 3-Z novels first, but then will also discuss the full extent of these scenes with shipping goggles on in the Fanon section.

Canon/Behind the Scenes – Gintama Character Books and Magazine
Please note that this section will describe the canon events from the Class 3-Z novels first, but then will also discuss the full extent of these scenes

Quotes
「きすいちとつね魂もった綺麗な面だ」"It's a (very) beautiful face with a clean soul."

- Gintoki to Tsukuyo, Episode 181 ""


 * Gintoki using "da" at the end of his sentence is him making a declarative statement that makes the sentence sound more forceful and powerful. It can be translated as "very beautiful" but you don't have to do that.

'''「いいぜ、別に. お前が望むなら俺はお前だけのものになってもいいよ」'''"It's fine, I don't mind. If that's what you want, I don't mind being only yours."

- Gintoki to Tsukuyo, Love Potion Arc 「その代わり死神太夫、お前も落籍される覚悟はあるんだろうな」


 * "In return, Shinigami Tayu, I wonder if you are prepared to be monopolized."

- Gintoki to Tsukuyo, Love Potion Arc



'''「なーんてな. 悪ィ. やっぱ調子でねェや. やっぱダメだ. 本当に口説きてェ女は……いつもみてェに…いかねェや」'''



Nicknames

 * Gintoki and Tsukuyo give each other different names during the series. It is notable that Tsukuyo is one of the only characters that calls him by his full name.
 * Gintoki to Tsukuyo:
 * o-kāsan
 * Tayuu
 * Oboko
 * Honey
 * Tsukuyo Tayuu
 * Courtesan of Boobs
 * Tsukuyo to Gintoki:
 * Darling
 * Bakemono





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Trivia

 * Gintoki and Tsukuyo are two of the few characters in the Gintama casts who's names are based on mythology:
 * Gintoki - According to Hideaki Sorachi, Gintoki's name was based on Sakata Kintoki, also known as Kintaro, from a famous folk tale set in the Heian Period. Kintaro became friends with the animals that lived on the mountain where he was raised and was even capable of battling with them. After certain events, he became a samurai and eventually went under the name Sakata Kintoki (坂田公時). Sorachi-sensei, in one of the question corners, explains this and doesn't intend on making Gin-san a descendant of Kintaro. His robot counterpart actually does take the name of Sakata Kintoki.
 * Tsukuyo - Her name and character is based on a kami from shintou mythology. Tsukuyomi, sometimes called Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (the great God Tsukuyomi), is rendered as 月読尊, or simply 月読 in Kanji. This name directly translates to “moon-reading,” a popular practice in the noble courts of pre-modern Japan where parties would stay up all night moon-gazing and reading poetry. An alternate Kanji reading is tsukuyo, moon-light, and mi, watching. His personality is described as follows: Tsukuyomi is very much a match for his wife Amaterasu. Beautiful and serene, he believes in order and etiquette and enforces them whenever he can. His enforcement of such ideals extends to the point that he is willing to kill to maintain order, despite killing itself being a breach of etiquette in the heavenly court. Thus, there is irony in Tsukuyomi’s strict adherence to etiquette: to enforce it, he is willing to break it. Though the moon is often regarded as beautiful and worthy of viewing, Tsukuyomi himself is seen as a negative figure in Shinto and Japanese folklore. This personality description can be projected onto Tsukuyo who, for example, also kills to maintain order in Yoshiwara.
 * The first (still existing) fanart on pixiv for the GinTsu ship was uploaded on February 28, 2009.

Variations

 * ShiroTsuki
 * Genderbend GinTsu

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