This tiny little web drama had the perfect balance of ridiculous humor and them feels! I wish the movies were like that, too, because their humor was simply not my cuppa. Here, it offered a nice counterbalance to the heavy emotional stuff.

And Yoshizawa Ryo killed it as Sougo. He does so well in emotional scenes. I haven't read the manga nor have I watched the anime so I didn't know that Sougo, Hijikata and Kondo had known each other from way back when, that Hijikata and Kondo met Sougo when he was a little brat. And though they would rather die than to admit it - especially Hijikata! - they both saw him as their kid brother, despite his rather sadistic and violent tendencies.

The scenes where it was revealed that Hijikata went after Mitsuba's fiance not just because the guy hurt Mitsuba who was dying and so vulnerable but also because he wanted to protect Sougo, his position within the Shinsengumi! Or when Sougo told Kondo that he'd always felt like there was a distance between him and Kondo & Hijikata, that he'd felt like he didn't belong with them, the way Kondo closed his eyes for a moment because he'd never realized that Sougo saw it like that - and then he punched Sougo for being stupid. I mean, of course he did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, yeah, it's kinda funny - and honestly touching, too - that Sougo despite being so brutal and sadistic and actually a rather merciless killer when push comes to a slight shove has always been protected and looked after by so many people in his life, mostly without him realizing it, Gintoki included.