Gintama: Yorinuki Gintama-san on Theater 2D

Demonic Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi, Toushirou Hijikata, acquires a cursed sword—one which completely rewrites his personality, morphing him from a hard-boiled, no-nonsense cop into a hopeless otaku. As he struggles to break the curse, an ambitious new member of the police force, Itou Kamotarou, seizes the opportunity to depose Hijikata in his bid for power within the organization. However, Itou's scheme is revealed to be more devious than anyone imagined, and the very existence of the Shinsengumi is thrown into peril.

In another time and place, the Yorozuya squad is suddenly greeted by a potential new recruit. Before them is a mysterious young woman named Pirako Doromizu who hides a penchant for extreme violence behind her smiling, enthusiastic exterior. However, unbeknownst to Gintoki and the others, Pirako has strong ties to one of the ruling figures of the Kabuki district of Edo, and her arrival sets off a chain reaction that throws the inhabitants of the district into a civil war.

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Sakata, Gintoki Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Kagura Main

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Hijikata, Toushirou Main

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Shimura, Shinpachi Main

Sakaguchi, Daisuke Japanese

Doromizu, Jirochou Main

Sugou, Takayuki Japanese

Itou, Kamotarou Main

Madono, Mitsuaki Japanese

Okita, Sougo Supporting

Suzumura, Kenichi Japanese

Takasugi, Shinsuke Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Hasegawa, Taizou Supporting

Tachiki, Fumihiko Japanese

Kondou, Isao Supporting

Chiba, Susumu Japanese

SPYAIR Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Performance

DOES Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Arrangement

Sorachi, Hideaki Original Creator

Takeuchi, Shinji Character Design

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Dec 31, 2021

abystoma2

Mixed Feelings

Rating recaps always feels a bit conflicting. Should I rate based on all of its content, ignoring that most of it Is completely reused from previous work? Should I only rate the extra parts as rating of the reused content is already covered by rating of the title it’s being reused from? Or should I rate it based on how the cuts and shortening makes sense? I usually lean towards the 2nd option with a bit of the 3rd one.

Are Shinsengumi Crisis and Kabukichou Four Devas one of the best Gintama arcs? Yes. Does this recap actually add anything of value? No, I don’t think ... it does. At least, I certainly haven’t noticed any difference. Someone might compare those frame by frame to the original airing and please, do prove me wrong as I’d like to see what the extra content actually is, but currently I’m pretty sure nothing worth of noting was added. Should this get high rating just because the content it’s copypasting is great? I don’t think so – just the original version should. In fact, I would argue that watching this recap movies is the worse experience than just plainly watching the original episodes. Thankfully the arcs are short so the content didn’t have to be cut down drastically, so you’re not losing much there. But there’s one small but major detail – those recap movie are only available in SD, as the only physical media it was released on were DVDs. So unlike the series which is available on bluray, you can see this only in 480p. And why would you want to watch the great arcs pixelated? And if you’ve already seen them, why would you want to see them pixelated instead of the available HD regular episodes?

Plainly said, it’s a worthless recap that brings nothing of value. So an average recap. Well, it’s still Gintama and the arcs are still great so I can’t bring myself to give it 5/10, but you get the point.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 15, 2022

Im_Stuff

Mixed Feelings

What the hell is a bundle of recap movies doing in the top 150 of MAL (number 144 as we speak)? I'm willing to recognize that Gintama is a great anime, and the movies did cover the most important arcs of each one of the two first seasons but still. Is it really worth watching those arcs all over again, but harder to find and in lower quality? Hell no.

What is there to say about it? The arcs are great, although the Shinsengumi rebellion one has aged poorly regarding Gintama's increase in quality.

Honestly, a waste of time. The only reason it's even this ... high is because the arcs themselves are good. As I said, the best of their respective seasons, at least in terms of how the world progresses if nothing else.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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