Gintama fell off a cliff because of story arcs

Aug 21, 2022 7:39 AM

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I've started watching Gintama in 2011. Absolutely loved it at first. Loved several sequel entries that followed after, but at some point it became kind of lame. The whole Utsuro arc felt super repetitive, lacked humor and was generally mediocre experience to me, which was a bit sad compared to how greatly it was received by me at start.

Do you agree or not?

ShizunaAug 21, 2022 7:48 AM

俺とシズナの幸せな結婚

Aug 21, 2022 7:48 AM

BaldWhippedCream

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heavily disagree, but ill respect your opinion

Aug 21, 2022 7:56 AM

Potatoboy11

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It's not rare to see similar takes to yours. But personally, I found story arcs great. One of the best stories in anime.

Aug 21, 2022 9:34 AM

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I respectfully disagree

Aug 21, 2022 9:36 AM

TanmaySpamzzz

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I think the silver soul arc was a bit too stretched and repetitive but the final movie was redemption for gintama

Aug 21, 2022 9:39 AM

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This trash was never good. One of the worst anime of all time. Imagine having single digit IQ and liking this anime.

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Aug 21, 2022 9:40 AM

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Kind of agree. Early story arcs were great, and then eventually after Shogun Assassination Arc, they just fell off bad

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Aug 21, 2022 11:01 AM

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TanmaySpamzzz said:
I think the silver soul arc was a bit too stretched and repetitive but the final movie was redemption for gintama

Silver Soul arc is way better in the manga so I can see why. Anime left out some things, important character moment traits and moments

Aug 21, 2022 11:15 AM

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nah... for me it's kinda get better and better... gag humor still have, what a gintama without humor... but when you see gintoki fully wrath the whole genre change drastic goosebumps every second .....just ending make me curious when utsuro enter takasugi body ... that's mean takasugi had utsuro blood in him...in movie we saw takasugi reborn as a baby doesn't mean he still had utsuro blood or utsuro already dieed because of his heart was destroy by shouyo sensei?!?!aghhhh my head

Aug 21, 2022 1:22 PM

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I disagree.

Shogun assassination was where Gintama peaked.

Farewell shinsengumi was 10/10 but not as good as SA

Rakuyou was 10/10 but not as good as SA

Silver soul arc part 1 was 9/10 for me.

Silver soul arc part 2 was 10/10 but not as good as Shogun assassination arc, Farewell shinsengumi or Rakuyou.

Gintama the very final was really good and it's my favorite movie.

I love the comedy but I also love the serious arcs.

In my opinion the serious arcs just kept getting better and better after Season 1

Aug 21, 2022 2:52 PM

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Everything after Enchousen for me was a drop in quality. Not enough for me to drop it*, but for me to not feel the same as when I started.

*At 300+ episodes in…I think I’d like to finish what’s left…

Aug 21, 2022 5:21 PM

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Huge L comedy is overrated the story carried

Aug 21, 2022 6:53 PM

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Na I 100% disagree. The reason Gintama is a great show is not only because it did comedy well but it was able to seamlessly balance being funny and serious at the same time. Yoshiwara in Flames, Shinsengumi Crisis, Kintama, Courtesan of a Nation, and Four Devas are great examples. The show peaked at the Shogun Assassination arc and it had little to no comedy at ALL and was mostly plot. Imo if Gintama had just stayed as a comedy slice of life the ENTIRE time the show wouldn’t have been as varied and emotionally layered, the serious arcs helped to add more depth to the characters. So no I don’t think it fell off at all, if anything it showed more versatility as it went on.

Aug 21, 2022 10:32 PM

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-Shizuna- said:
I've started watching Gintama in 2011. Absolutely loved it at first. Loved several sequel entries that followed after, but at some point it became kind of lame. The whole Utsuro arc felt super repetitive, lacked humor and was generally mediocre experience to me, which was a bit sad compared to how greatly it was received by me at start.

Do you agree or not?

I had the exact opposite experience, felt like the writing skyrocketed around the SA arc

Aug 22, 2022 9:25 AM

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TruePirateKing said:
This trash was never good. One of the worst anime of all time. Imagine having single digit IQ and liking this anime.

We aren't talking about one piece sadly.

Aug 22, 2022 9:45 AM

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Utsuro is a pretty trash villain tbh. If the last 50 episodes were more spread out with humor inbetween then the series would be better for it tbh.

He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.

Good luck with berserk Kouji Mori, you'll need all the help you can get. We believe in you.

Aug 25, 2022 5:53 AM

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I don't know about you but for me it was totally fun and emotional ride

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Aug 29, 2022 4:28 PM

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gintama is one of the shows that you would never realize how bad it fell off based on scores because sequel bias has uplifted the later seasons up so much

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Sep 16, 2022 11:04 AM

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TruePirateKing said:
This trash was never good. One of the worst anime of all time. Imagine having single digit IQ and liking this anime.

shut it.

I’ve read most major series. For me this is as good as One Piece if not more. The universe of Gintama is smaller, but it’s in no way inferior to one piece, Naruto or any other series in dept, back story or emotions.

Gintama is an absolute masterpiece.

Most of those who badmouth this probably dropped it after 59 episodes or smth since it was too silly. You probably never found out about the backstory of Gintoki, which is way better than any character from One Piece. Character depth in Gintama is top notch. Tell me one character who had such complicated story than Samata Gintoki, I’ll wait.

Sep 16, 2022 4:21 PM

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kaleHoneylettuce said:

TruePirateKing said:
This trash was never good. One of the worst anime of all time. Imagine having single digit IQ and liking this anime.

Don't bother check his account its a troll account

Oct 6, 2022 5:01 AM

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I also preferred the comedy, it went downhill for me when the arcs were taking up a full cours. They felt stretched out way too much. 2-5 episode is the optimal time for one story.
The last 30% of Gintama was 90% long arcs and that was too much.

There was something about being moved from Jump to another company so is the manga still ongoing or is that just another joke?

I could see them doing a film every 5 years, city hunter has got some new films 25 years after it finished so you can never say never.

Oct 23, 2022 10:42 PM

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Couldn't agree more. Gintama shines in its comedy. When it got serious, it became the very thing it made fun of.

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