HaseGin

HaseGin is the slash ship between Sakata Gintoki and Hasegawa Taizou from the Gintama fandom.

Canon
As they are both destitute, Hasegawa and Gintoki often do activities like pachinko and horse-betting. They both also enjoy eating street food and drinking wine which doesn't really help their situation. In serious moments, Hasegawa is comparably a more goofy person and Gintoki surprisingly becomes a more 'Straight Man' character.

Gintoki and the Yorozuya often show signs of disgust to Hasegawa but despite this, Gintoki seems to be sympathetic of Hasegawa's situation as the man is punished for being true to himself. He has helped Hasegawa many times, some of which have unfortunatly worsened Hasegawa's situation, but at the end they still remain good friends.

Hasegawa at first sees Gintoki and the Yorozuya as dangerous people since they were the ones responsible for most of his misfortunes, but later on he grows to become friends with them all, with the closest being Gintoki.

Episode 7
Gintoki believes that Otose is at the door to argue with him again and attacks the then Government official, Hasegawa who angrily forces the Yorozuya to come with him. Hasegawa tells Gintoki that he believes the Amanto (aliens) and them should just co-exist while Gintoki questions his opinion. Turns out, Hasegawa and other Government officials want the Yorozuya to help find the Prince's pet octopus Pesu. After bringing back a flat Pesu, Hasegawa and the Prince pour hot water on it but Kagura went to boil it in a large pot of water, which turns Pesu into an enormous creature. When Gintoki tries to destroy the creature, Hasegawa stops him to serve his duty. Shortly after, Shinpachi gets grabbed by Pesu and is struggling to not get eaten when Gintoki goes to try destroy the creature again which then is stopped by Hasegawa, who threatens him by pointing a gun at his head. Gintoki eventually saves Shinpachi but kills Pesu in the process. This enrages Prince Hata and he gets mad at Hasegawa, who punches him in the face. The trio walk away telling him that he did a stupid thing. This event caused Hasegawa's life to go on a downward spiral.

Episode 16
It's revealed that Hasegawa actually lost his job and wife because of what he did to the Prince. Gintoki tells him to make a new start and try to find a new job. Unfortunatly, Hasegawa fails all the job interviews. One day, he meets with Gin again and he gives him the advice to take off Hasegawa's sunglasses, which turns out to be a very useful suggestion as soon, Hasegawa got a job as a taxi driver. One of his passangers is Gin, who asks him to just drive around. After another series of events, Hasegawa is left jobless once again.

Fanon
HaseGin is more of a crack ship within the Gintama fandom, most people say they ship it as a joke, this might be due to the fact that MADAO is one of Gintama's most 'meme-able' characters - fans like to call him attractive even though compared to other Gintama characters he's not the best looking to say the least. HaseGin is the most popular ship for Hasegawa. Some shippers don't really understand why the ship is so unpopular romantically despite Hasegawa being one of Gintama's most lovable and inspiring characters and the fact that he is one of the 2 only characters that Gintoki cannonically had sex with, obviously in the series played as a joke.

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