Gintama

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Gin Tama, Silver Soul, Yorinuki Gintama-san
Japanese: 銀魂
English: Gintama
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Type: TV
Episodes: 201
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 4, 2006 to Mar 25, 2010
Premiered: Spring 2006
Broadcast: Thursdays at 18:00 (JST)
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, ComedyComedy, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: Gag HumorGag Humor, HistoricalHistorical, ParodyParody, SamuraiSamurai
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.931 (scored by 405452405,452 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #182
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #144
Members: 1,095,822
Favorites: 59,856

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Synopsis

Edo is a city that was home to the vigor and ambition of samurai across the country. However, following feudal Japan's surrender to powerful aliens known as the "Amanto," those aspirations now seem unachievable. With the once-influential shogunate rebuilt as a puppet government, a new law is passed that promptly prohibits all swords in public.

Enter Gintoki Sakata, an eccentric silver-haired man who always carries around a wooden sword and maintains his stature as a samurai despite the ban. As the founder of Yorozuya, a small business for odd jobs, Gintoki often embarks on endeavors to help other people—though usually in rather strange and unforeseen ways.

Assisted by Shinpachi Shimura, a boy with glasses supposedly learning the way of the samurai; Kagura, a tomboyish girl with superhuman strength and an endless appetite; and Sadaharu, their giant pet dog who loves biting on people's heads, the Yorozuya encounter anything from alien royalty to scuffles with local gangs in the ever-changing world of Edo.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Gintama adapts chapters 1-292 of original manga.

Several games based on Gintama have been released on a variety of platforms, such as the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS. Characters from the series have also appeared in Weekly Shounen Jump's crossover titles, including Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars.

The series received high-definition reruns of older episodes by TV Tokyo from April 5, 2010 to March 28, 2011 under the name Yorinuki Gintama-san, which included 51 selected episodes as well as four new opening and ending songs.

Gintama received a live-action movie adaptation that premiered on July 14, 2017. Shortly after the film's release, a sequel was announced in November 2017 and was later released on August 17, 2018.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Takamatsu, Shinji
Co-Director, Director, Storyboard, Animation Director
Kobayashi, Noriko
Producer


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Opening Theme

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R1: "Bakuchi Dancer (バクチ・ダンサー)" by DOES (eps 1-9)
R2: "Kaze no Gotoku (風のごとく)" by Inoue Joe (eps 10-26)
R3: "Kanousei Girl (可能性ガール)" by Chiaki Kuriyama (eps 27-39)
R4: "Katoniago (カートニアゴ )" by FLiP (eps 40-51)
1: "Pray" by Tommy heavenly6 (eps 1-24)
2: "Tooi Nioi (遠い匂い)" by YO-KING (eps 25-49)
3: "Giniro no Sora (銀色の空)" by redballoon (eps 50-75)
4: "Kasanaru Kage (かさなる影)" by Hearts Grow (eps 76-99)
5: "DONTEN (曇天)" by DOES (eps 100-125)
6: "Anata MAGIC (アナタMAGIC)" by monobright (eps 126-150)
7: "Stairway Generation" by Base Ball Bear (eps 151-176)
8: "Light Infection" by Prague (eps 177-201)
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Ending Theme

R1: "Bokutachi no Kisetsu" by DOES (eps 1-9)
R2: "Wave" by Vijandeux (eps 10-26)
R3: "In My Life" by AZU (eps 27-39)
R4: "Sakurane" by Piko (eps 40-51)
1: "Fuusen Gum" by Captain Straydum (eps 1-13)
2: "MR.RAINDROP" by amplified (eps 14-24)
3: "Yuki no Tsubasa" by redballoon (eps 25-37)
4: "Candy Line" by Hitomi Takahashi (eps 38-49)
5: "Shura" by DOES (eps 50-62)
6: "Kiseki" by Snowkel (eps 63-75)
7: "SIGNAL" by KELUN (eps 76-87)
8: "Speed of Flow" by The Rodeo Carburettor (eps 88-99)
9: "Sanagi" by POSSIBILITY (eps 100112)
10: "This World is yours" by plingmin (eps 113-125)
11: "Ai, Ai, Ai" by GHOSTNOTE (eps 126-138)
12: "Kagayaita" by SHIGI (eps 139-150)
13: "Asa Answer" by PENGIN (eps 151-163)
14: "Wo Ai Ni" by Hitomi Takahashi feat. Beat Crusaders (eps 164-176)
15: "Wonderful Days" by ONE☆DRAFT (eps 177-189)
16: "SAYONARA no Sora" by Qwai (eps 190-201)

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Oct 18, 2009
Over the years there have been a multitude of comedy shows that have graced our TV screens, from the surreal stylings of Monty Python and sarcastic wit of Blackadder, to the sci-fi tomfoolery of Red Dwarf and the strange antics of The Fast Show. There are numerous notable series that have taken their rightful places in our DVD collections, and in an age where comedians are treated like rock stars, maybe it's fate that comedy anime would also come of age.

It's strange to say this, but humour has never been a strong department for the medium, partly because of the cultural differences between East and ...
Sep 22, 2019
Mixed Feelings
Gintama is a very inconsistent and overrated series.

Many Anime fans tend to praise Gintama as the best battle shonen Anime of all time, and they inflate it’s status even further by giving it perfect ratings, and while Gintama is a show that does good in some aspects or during some arcs, it fails at being a consistent show throughout it’s long two hundred and two episode run, which hinders it from becoming good or even great by extension. Gintama is definitely not a bad show, far from it actually. It is just that Gintama suffers from problems that cannot be overlooked, and today we ...
May 20, 2015
Gintama is an ongoing manga by Sorachi Hideaki. From 2006 to 2010, Sunrise, the same studio behind the Gundam franchise, did an anime adaptation which lasted for just over 200 episodes. So, does the anime manage to stay entertaining for that long, or even be entertaining at all? Let’s take a peek and find out.

Story:

There isn’t a single cohesive narrative to Gintama. There are some loosely connected arcs, and a whole lot of episodes that have nothing to do with those arcs, but there is no single narrative. The basic setup is that the world has been conquered by aliens, referred to in Gintama as ...

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