8.5 average score on AniList

Gintama

銀魂

anime
Finished
2006
Action
Comedy
Drama

Watch it free on Crunchyroll YouTube

Watch it on

4 official places

Track your progress on AniList ↗ free account · keeps your reading list in one place

Read the original

The anime is based on this Gin Tama 2 official reading options

The same story, elsewhere

Every prequel, sequel, side story and spin-off AniList knows about.

Who is in it

Tap a face to see every other story that character turns up in.

The facts

Status: Finished
Episodes: 201
Studio: Sunrise
First released: 2006
Country: Japan
Format: anime
Author: Hideaki Sorachi
AniList favourites: 17,299

What it is about

Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)