Genre: Chanbara, Comedy, Science Fantasy
Written By: Hideaki Sorachi
Episodes: 328 episodes
Synopsis: Twenty years ago, Edo-period Japan suffered a great cultural shock—the aliens called Amanto invaded the Earth, overpowered the nation's government, and outlawed the carrying of swords by the once proud samurai. Moreover, the aliens took the people's jobs and are currently running Japan as a sweatshop using the natives as laborers. In this strange new era are Gintoki Sakata, an eccentric samurai whose personal trademarks are his naturally permed silver hair, his love of anything sweet, and his addiction to Shonen Jump; Shinpachi Shimura, the teenaged heir of the Kakido-Ryu style; and Kagura, an incredibly strong alien girl from the powerful Yato clan. The trio are self-employed in an odd jobs shop called Yoruzuya Gin-chan, which offers to do almost anything for a price, from finding lost kittens to saving the world. Unfortunately, the jobs rarely go as planned, or pay enough to cover the pain and suffering the employees encounter—never mind their rent.
(source: MyAnimeList)
The Shisengumi was having a problem on people who doesn't pee properly when Captain Okita made a plan.
Thoughts: This anime is one of my favorites! The humor is unique and even though there are a lot of characters in the story, they did a great job in making each character unique. I love how Gintoki treat the people he meet in every episode. Even though some words coming from his mouth are straight and sharp, he means no harm but an advice or enlightenment to the person. No wonder a lot of people wants to stick with him and he's so loved.
As I have mentioned, the humor was very unique. Well, first most of the jokes in this anime are adult jokes. Not a double meaning or something but a straight forward adult jokes. Now, who says anime is for kids? HUH?! Another form is humor in this anime are parodies. This anime suffered a lot of cases of copyright infringement due to many anime parodies in the story. Most of the animes have parodies like, SKET Dance, Prince of Tennis, Detective Conan and Gundam. I searched for all the anime's parodies and it's actually nearly a hundred parodies inside Gintama. But since the viewers liked it so much, it never became the reason why they will stop airing this anime.
Parodies of Bleach, Dragon Ball and One Piece in Episode 50
This kind of anime have a sloppy characters, perverts and bunches of idiots for instance, the Vice Chief of Shisengumi who are feared by his people is a mayonnaise addict while his boss is a stalker but when the sword battle begun, everyone can be so badass. A little cute girl who always picks her nose was actually stronger that the main character and the strongest ninja in town is a masochist. A shogun (Take note: IT'S A DAMN SHOGUN!) who likes to wear only his white underwear while taking a troll in his city.These kinds of characters makes this anime more hilarious.
The battle of Umibozu (Father) and Kamui (Son) who both came from the strongest clan in the universe, Yato Clan.
Animation: 8/10 for Season 1 and 2; 9/10 for Season 3
Well, this anime is kind of old. It started since 2006. Some fights are not clean but when Gintama 2017 was released, this anime's animation became better. One of my favorite battle in this anime is the battle between Umibozu and Kamui who are the strongest members of the strongest clan in the universe. I consider this one of the best epic battles in anime. This scene is very intense that it makes me scream like "wooooooooooooooaaaaahhhhhhh~"
Soundtrack: 8/10
The background music was good and it always fits the atmosphere of the scene.
Overall: 10/10
This anime is so good that I can even re watch the whole 300 episodes again! No boring episode I assure you. Every episode makes your stomach hurt because of too much laughing and also we can learn things from Gintoki too. EXCEPT! This is NOT recommended to be watched with children around. There are so many adult jokes (like I posted at the upper part) which are not good for kids. While watching this anime, please give guidance to your children.
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