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“The Justaways are not at fault! The one at fault is the boss, the Justaways haven't done anything wrong!”
Kondo Quotes
1 quote from Gin Tama, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
1 quote from Gin Tama, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
“The Justaways are not at fault! The one at fault is the boss, the Justaways haven't done anything wrong!”
Kondo later uses a Justaway to detonate a barrel against Mamushi. That use gives the defense an uncomfortable edge. Separating an object from its maker's wrongdoing can preserve something worth loving, but it can also be a convenient way to avoid asking what the object enables. Kondo's loyalty does not resolve that problem by declaring everything innocent. I read the distinction as an attempt to retain a personal attachment after losing the explanation that made the attachment easy. The object can still belong to his sense of himself without requiring him to excuse the boss. His subsequent use makes that separation active, though hardly gentle. The appeal of the moment is the refusal to surrender everything at once; its difficulty is that choosing a different target does not make a dangerous object harmless.