OkiKagu

OkiKagu is the het ship between Okita Sougo and Kagura from the Gintama fandom.

Canon
Sougo calls Kagura 'China Girl' or 'China' because of her Chinese appearance. Meanwhile, the latter calls him 'Sadist' for his sadistic personality. They are usually seen fighting or bickering with each other.

Jump Festa 2005 Special
Kagura and Sougo are engaged in an intense rock paper scissors game, gaining the attention of all gathered due to how quickly they are playing the game. The game progresses, and they stand up, forgoing rock paper scissors, and begin an incredibly fast fist fight. Kagura pins Sougo to the floor, continuing their brawl. Later, it's implied that Kagura set Sadaharu on Sougo, as his head is bleeding and held fastened in Sadaharu's jaw as Kagura watches with a gleeful smirk.

Gengai Arc
Kagura plays at a shooting booth hosted by Hasegawa, Instead of playing the game normally, however, she shoots his sunglasses, intending to take them for her own. Sougo appears, joining her, shooting at Hasegawa's watch. The two share a knowing look in silence as Hasegawa panics and begin harassing Hasegawa, shooting at his beard, jacket, nipple, etc.

When Gengai unleashes his robots on the festival, Kagura and Sougo show up when it seems all hope is lost, Kagura having a blue aura and Sougo a red one. The two auras overlap, creating purple. They finish each others sentences and, together, begin annihilating all robots present.

Episode 20
Kagura, Sougo, and Shinpachi all hide away in a shed away from the mosquito amanto. Sougo lights a mosquito coil and muses over how the amanto could be the evil spirit he tried to summon to get rid of Hijikata. Angered, Kagura asks if he's what caused all this terror, vowing to avenge Gintoki. The pair pull at each other, starting a small-scale fight, Shinpachi admonishing them. They stop fighting when Shinpachi sees the amanto and begins freaking out, forcing them both to kowtow in apology to the amanto.

Episode 27
Sougo tells the Odd Jobs trio his predilection for watching women fight, as the faces they make turn him on. Kagura criticizes his taste. for his sadism while watching woman fight. Later, when Sougo brings them into the fighting arena, Kagura grabs his shirt and angrily tells him that if he gives her nightmares from this experience, he'll pay. She releases him as he explains why he's powerless to stop the Rengokukan despite being a government official.

As the Odd Jobs hide out in a bush to spy, Shinpachi comments about Sougo, and Kagura replies with an annoyed look that she hates him. At the end of the episode, Sougo threatens Kagura before leaving. She smirks, looking to the audience as she says, "This guy definitely likes me. How annoying."

Episode 32
Sougo and Kagura meet again, with Sougo telling her to stay out of the ongoing altercation, saying she could die and that she's just a kid. Kagura, annoyed, tells him that he's just a kid as well.

Episode 45
Kagura clings onto a giant Sadaharu's tail, trying but failing to call her pet to heel as he sprints. Sougo drives by in his police car, telling her through a megaphone and asks her if she knows how fast she's walking her dog and that she must stop immediately. Kagura, angered, asks rhetorically if it looks like she's walking her dog, calling him stupid, and then pointing out she would've stopped a long time ago if she could've, followed by more insults about his intelligence. Sougo chooses to focus on the insults she called him, telling her he'll have her arrested for obstruction of justice as she's hurt.a police officer's feelings. Kagura calls him an idiot once more, and Sougo resigns to using his rocket launcher to stop the dog by force, smiling sadistically as he aims. As Sougo tells her "bye-bye", Sadaharu flings the car containing Sougo to the side. After a few moments of shock, Kagura laughs at Sougo, saying he's the one who ended up going "bye-bye". which Kagura finds hilarious. To her dismay, Sougo remains unharmed, clinging to the side of Sadaharu's fur. Pissed, Kagura tells him to let go, calling him a sadist, to which he replies that she's the sadist. She furiously hangs onto his shoulders to try and pull him off, and Hijikata ends up blowing up the three of them with rocket launchers.

Episode 65
Collecting beetles and forcing them to fight one another is all the rage with the children of Kabukicho. Kagura shows up to a beetle brawling match with her own beetle, but hers is a dung beetle, instead of the mandated rhinoceros beetles. Her fellow children get angry at her, and she calls them out for their ignorance. Sougo shows up to her defense, asking if he can play with his Sadomaru No. 21. The scene then changes to a makeshift grave for her own Sadoharu No. 18 beetle, which was valiantly defeated in combat by Sadomaru No. 21. Kagura cries over her dead beetles grave, mourning him, incorrectly calling him Sadoharu No. 21, then correcting herself and, again, incorrectly calling him Sadoharu No. 28.

Kagura returns to Odd Jobs and persuades her fellow members to go beetle hunting in order to exact revenge against "that bastard" for killing her dung beetle. They end up being persuaded due to the potential money they could make if they find a rare species, so they set forth. Shinpachi spots a giant beetle hanging onto a tree and the trio kick the tree, forcing the beetle to fall onto the ground. Kagura excitedly grabs the beetle, turning it over, elated that she'll be able to avenge her previous beetle. However, the humongous beetle turns out to be Sougo in a beetle costume. The Odd Jobs get angry at him and Kagura demands to know why he's there. Sougo explains his initial plan of attracting the beetles by appearing as one of them as he struggles to get up. His fellow Shinsengumi members eventually come to his aid, and Kagura tells all gathered her grievances, and that she wanted to avenge her beetle by using Sougo. Sougo tells her that she was the one who killed her beetle, and not him, as she got so exhilarated whilst watching a match that she crushed the bug herself. Kagura still pins her beetle's death on Sougo, saying it was him who got her excited to the point of killing her beetle.

Everyone then spots an actual beetle, and the Shinsengumi and Odd Jobs charge towards it. Kagura steps on Hijikata's head, using it as a launching pad to reach the beetle. She is just within reach, but Sougo grabs one of her legs and smashes her face into the ground. Gintoki kicks Sougo into the ground, trying to reach the beetle himself, and as Gintoki and Hijikata fight on the tree the beetle resides on, Kagura is enveloped by her red aura and Sougo his blue. They, again, finish each others sentences, and their auras join together to create an intense purple one. They form a combo move, Sougo unsheathing his sword which Kagura uses as a launching pad to create a giant explosion.

As night falls, the Shinsengumi and Odd Jobs set up their own camps. Sougo lays in a tree, smiling, wistfully saying to himself: "That girl... I'll beat her this time."

Sougo taunts the Odd Jobs, as they have a barbecue, whilst the Odd Jobs have nothing. Angered and hungry, Kagura forces herself to vomit all over the grill the Shinsengumi are using. Satisfied, she smirks at Sougo, who meets her gaze with an undaunting one. The next day, Kagura challenges Sougo to a beetle sumo wrestling match to attain her revenge. He accepts, saying he knew she'd come and that he prepared his best bug for her. She unveils that she will be using the shogun's pet, a luminous golden beetle. The Shinsengumi expect that Sougo will be using his brain and will get the shogun's beetle back unharmed in a calculated move, but he is just as stupid as Kagura, presenting his monstrous, man-eating beetle, which is twice as tall as he and thrice as wide. They start the battle but are cut short when Gintoki uses a special move to knock out Sougo's beetle. Sougo and Kagura both complain to Gintoki about his disruptance, but he smacks them both on the head, telling them if they want to fight, they must duke it out themselves and without a proxy.

Episode 65
When Kagura enters the Yagyu Dojo, a bowl of rice with an is thrown on top of her head, with egg white staining her crotch. Sougo asks if she's ovulating, and Kagura responds by throwing him by his face, a move that everyone agrees he deserved for his comment. When Sougo is used as a hostage, Hijikata says it's futile since Sougo has no value as one. Kagura agrees, telling the Yagyu Dojo members to kill him with a laugh.

Kagura is tossed into the air during the fight, and just as one is about to finish her off, Sougo strikes the assailant in the back, saying that he will be the one to get Kagura. Kagura, Hijikata, and Sougo momentarily team up to take care of the Yagyu Dojo members, but Kagura complains at this arrangement, saying she'd've been better off with the Odd Jobs trio. Sougo makes fun of her, asking if she feels homesick. Kagura begins to run off to join Gintoki, but is stopped by a Yagyu elite member. She ends up breaking her wrist, grimacing, and Sougo asks what's wrong, as none of the members are a match for her. Sougo attempts to help her, and breaks her wrist in the opposite way. Kagura screams in pain and breaks Sougo's ankle in retaliation. The two team up and head into an empty house, waiting for the members to strike.

The arrangement they make ends up being Sougo sitting on top of Kagura's shoulders, and Kagura complains about his crotch being too close to her. He sheepishly apologizes, and the member they face attacks them. At first, the Okikagu combo seems to be working, as they dodge his repeated sword jabs, but upon closer inspection, Sougo repeatedly gets hit in the face as Kagura expertly dodges. They charge, and Sougo's face slams into the ceiling. Kagura takes advantage of this, grabbing his ankle as he falls, and uses him as a weapon to get rid of their attacker. Kagura then poses for a selfie, taking a picture of her with her foot on top of Sougo's back as he lays facedown on the elite member.

Popularity Poll Arc
Sougo looks over his allies, saying he trusts them all, save for Kagura. Kagura angrily questions him if the only reason he's cozying up to Gintoki is because he vies for first place. The two close the distance, only a few inches away as Sougo reassures her, saying he doesn't care about her dirty 6th place seat. Kagura tells him to watch his back, as she doesn't care about his placement and that she'll always be after his head. They angrily press their foreheads against each other.

Kagura and Sougo are locked into a fight. Kagura gloats about her win, but panics as her rank begins to fall, and Sougo laughs at her misfortune, telling her that Kondou, who she's allied herself with, is so disgusting that he's dragging her rank down. Kagura and Sougo both try to make him more nasty and more attractive respectively, with Sougo trying to decorate his nude body with ugly accessories, and with Kagura trying to make him fashionable.

Vacation Arc
Sougo reports to Hijikata over his walkie-talkie that he's found a suspicious person building a giant snowman. Hijikata tells Sougo to make them leave, and Sougo complies. He trails after Kagura as she makes a large snowball, telling her to find somewhere else to play. Kagura pauses and turns to him, telling him to shut up and that she isn't building a snowman, but the feared Neo Armstrong Jet Armstrong Cyclone Cannon. Tensions rise, and one of the two launches the giant snowball into the helicopter carrying the shogun.

Quotes
"WHICH ONE'S STRONGER, YOU OR ME?!!"

- Both Kagura and Sougo, chapter

"Aren't you a policeman? At least deal with the traffic, then. I can't even walk my dog like this."

- Kagura, Episode 309

"Wait, are you cheering me up right now? Did you think I was depressed?"

- Sougo to Kagura, Episode 309

"TOO LATE TO BEG FOR YOUR LIVES! You're hindering our walk!"

- Kagura and Sougo Episode 309

Fanon
OkiKagu is, without a doubt, the most popular ship within the Gintama fandom.

There is a theory of Kagura and her relationship with the bridge. She would go to the bridge and look down at the water to reassure herself. Fans think that in the Farewell Shinsengumi arc, her kicking Okita down the bridge is possibly a way of her showing the negative emotions she feels at the moment because of Okita leaving Edo. They also believe that the two promising each other to get stronger and not losing to anyone else is their way of saying 'stay safe'.

There is another theory that Sougo and Kagura were, at the start of the series, meant to be romantically involved. There are several moments in the beginning of the anime/manga that have romantic connotations, and the author, Hideaki Sorachi, stated in a volume extra that Sougo was anywhere from 15-20 despite already drinking, which makes the age gap between the two much smaller. However, it seems he ultimately decided against this, and aged Sougo up to being 18 so he could have Sougo be an extreme sadist in an attempt to make him funnier, having him commit a degree of unsavory acts as a sadist, as Sorachi wouldn't have been able to make the sexual jokes he did had Sougo been a minor.

Fans also enjoy calling Kagura's older brother, Kamui, Sougo's 'brother-in-law'. This may be one of the reasons why the fight between the two mad men is one of the most popular fights in the series.

OkiKagu week is usually held on September 1st to the 7th, with fans creating social media accounts to post various fan art, fan fiction and all things related to celebrate the two characters.

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