Sorachi meets the readers,question corner 224

<Question from pen name I love sakura san>

All the things about Utsuro and the altana is so hard to get. I am a little supid so could you explain it to me please? I really don’t get it.

<Answer>

The Altana is the energy of planets, the one that is on earth is called the “Dragon’s vein” and this energy flows inside planets ‘ grounds like a stream. Other that than, the energy goes out through holes, called “dragon’s holes”. similar to the fengshui, the lands upon those holes prospered and a lot of mansions and such were built. In the Gintama’s world those places were of course blessed with the grace of prosperity thanks the Altana’s energy. But here, humans that obtained that strong energy, were called mutants, and even if rare they started to come to existence. The immortal Utsuro was one of them. But that caused Utsuro to be persecuted by the others around him, cause it didn’t matter how many times they tried to kill him he would never die. That created contrasted feelings in him, with time this became pain, and in order to escape from this pain he created various personalities inside him. And he locked his true self inside his heart. So the ones that humans kept to make suffer wasn’t Utsuro but different personalities. Then he started to massacre humans for revenge. But that cause an other personality to come to live in order to stop those ones, and that was Gintoki and the other’s teacher Yoshida Shoyo, but even as Yoshida Shoyo he was still seen as an outcast from humans, so he was fated to suffer, because of all this pain, Utsuro that was locked deep inside his heart began to kill all the other personalities and Shoyo, so that this endless pain could be over. But to end himself he has to put an end to the earth, and to do this he has to provoke a huge war.