“Oh, no. It was just a joke. A joke! I'm always doing it, aren't I?”
Okita 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.
“Oh, no. It was just a joke. A joke! I'm always doing it, aren't I?”
Okita has aimed a bazooka at Hijikata's turned back. Familiarity is his entire defense. Repetition ought to make the accusation harder to escape; he offers it as proof that there was never anything to accuse him of. The joke depends on a disagreement about what habit establishes. There is a fair objection to treating this as a serious confession: comic violence runs on a different scale, and reading every attack as realistic intent would destroy the register. But that does not rescue Okita's reasoning. Even within the joke, he demands that the target accept his preferred definition of their relationship. The sentence is funny because it sounds soothing while taking away the other person's right to complain. His calm is more aggressive than an outburst would be.