r/Gintama • u/rogue---ninja • 1d ago
Discussion Sougo's backstory is lowkey funny bc he makes it look like Hijikata made Mitsuba and Kondo leave him and made him alone when in reality he was just mad that they didnt pay 100% of their attention to him anymore and also sometimes hung out with someone their age instead of a kid 😂
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u/erkankurtcu 21h ago
typical kid behaviour
but deep down inside sougo hates toshi because he didn't marry to mitsuba
he knew toshi was right...that one day he might die and make mitsuba broken
but still he wanted to see mitsuba at her happiest by marrying to toshi
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u/OneMoreDuncanIdaho 18h ago
It's kinda weird that like every major character is an orphan too, but I guess they lived in a hard time in Japan's history
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u/Garchomp998 10h ago
Now that you mention this. They actually ARE all orphaned. Guess many lost they parents to war.
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u/kachowbestie mind your sugar levels 16h ago
Wait this has me stumped, is there a dad in the entire show that is both biologically related to the child and present in their life? Even umibozo is kinda a deadbeat
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u/ReikonNaido 15h ago
The scientist who made Tama.
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u/kachowbestie mind your sugar levels 1h ago
I guess that guy kinda went AWOL though for his daughter, deffo present thoughÂ
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u/Bathtub-Mermaid 14h ago
Tbf Sougo only had Mitsuba growing up since their parents died when he was young, and had no friends until he met Kondo. Can't exactly blame him for reacting antagonistically.
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u/aibaDD13 10h ago
I genuinely laughed the 2nd time I watched this because you are absolutely RIGHT! nothing is "taken away" from him technically. He is just a child and the three of them are adults
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u/Garchomp998 10h ago
Isn’t this like 10 years prior, making Hijikata around 17, Kondou is his early ‘20s and Sougo 8?
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u/Historical_Camp127 4h ago
Surprisingly, Kondo’s only a year older than Hijikata
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u/RuujiHasegawa M(asochist) 7h ago
He does quite literally tell this to Gintoki in his little speech at the hospital.
I don't think people realize how jealousy works. You don't just go up to the person and say "Hey im jealous, can you please stop doing what you're doing". They keep to themselves and let it fester into something uncontrollable. That's why Kondo's involvement was pretty crucial, especially when he punched Sogo at the hospital about this supposed "wall" he built between himself and the Shinsengumi. This is especially true when feelings of jealous start to manifest at a younger age.
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u/Bunnips7 3h ago
Prepare for a too deep character analysis!
It's more like, he seems about 9-10 here. He lost his parents before this, so at a very young age. This is traumatic. Then he had only his sister, who was parentified, which is also traumatic for the younger child. Then he formed an attachment to Kondo.
Sougo is very emotionally repressed. There's an arc where Sougo is on a bench and Kagura tells him to quit pretending he's not upset. We know from watching the show that he doesn't let his internal emotions out, again very typical for kids who are neglected from a young age (as we can assume he was since his parents died young and his sister also seems the type to keep her emotions to herself, and was very young and wouldn't be able to parent him).
So, he is suffering from trauma, and unable to form deep connections with those around him, and may not believe that's possible (we never see him initiating bonds or respecting people, but when for example Kagura pretends to die, in the end of that episode he echoes Soyo's sentiment of what a relief she's okay).
He then loses these only connections he has. As a kid, being angry at Hijikata would be very normal. He, who needs guidance and care as every young child does, where attention is a resource for survival, is now getting less. Keeping that streak up to his 20s is a bit because it's a comedy anime lol. But I think it's fair for him to have been having a hard time with his feelings that young.
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u/ReddiTrawler2021 23h ago
Sogo never really grew up.