After a one-year hiatus, Shinpachi Shimura returns to Edo, only to stumble upon a shocking surprise: Gintoki and Kagura, his fellow Yorozuya members, have become completely different characters! Fleeing from the Yorozuya headquarters in confusion, Shinpachi finds that all the denizens of Edo have undergone impossibly extreme changes, in both appearance and personality. Most unbelievably, his sister Otae has married the Shinsengumi chief and shameless stalker Isao Kondou and is pregnant with their first child.
Bewildered, Shinpachi agrees to join the Shinsengumi at Otae and Kondou's request and finds even more startling transformations afoot both in and out of the ranks of the the organization. However, discovering that Vice Chief Toushirou Hijikata has remained unchanged, Shinpachi and his unlikely Shinsengumi ally set out to return the city of Edo to how they remember it.
With even more dirty jokes, tongue-in-cheek parodies, and shameless references, Gintama' follows the Yorozuya team through more of their misadventures in the vibrant, alien-filled world of Edo.
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Features deliberate exaggeration of popular tropes or a particular genre to comedic effect.
Found Family94%
Features a group of characters with no biological relations that are united in a group providing social support.
Swordplay92%
Prominently features the use of swords in combat.
Slapstick87%
Prominently features comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions or embarrassing events.
Male Protagonist
Statistics
Watch Status
CURRENT
5.0%
PLANNING
38.7%
COMPLETED
53.0%
DROPPED
1.2%
PAUSED
2.1%
82%
Main character is male.
Samurai80%
Prominently features warriors of medieval Japanese nobility bound by a code of honor.
Meta80%
Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.
Ensemble Cast79%
Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.
Episodic76%
Features story arcs that are loosely tied or lack an overarching plot.
Aliens71%
Prominently features extraterrestrial lifeforms.
Shounen70%
Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
Philosophy68%
Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
Anachronism65%
Prominently features elements that are out of place in the historical period the work takes place in, particularly modern elements in a historical setting.
Historical65%
Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
Primarily Adult Cast60%
Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.