Crunchyroll Adds English Dub of 'Gintama°'

Crunchyroll announced their English dub of Gintama° on Wednesday. Episodes 266 to 278 are currently available for streaming worldwide, excluding Asia. Additional dubbed episodes will be released every Wednesday in February.

Cast
Gintoki Sakata: Michael Daingerfield
Shinpachi Shimura: Cole Howard
Kagura: Jocelyne Loewen
Tae Shimura: Janyse Jaud
Kotaro Katsura: Matt Ellis
Toshiro Hijikata: Michael Adamthwaite
Sogo Okita: Vincent Tong
Isao Kondo: Jason Simpson
Sagaru Yamazaki: Adrian Petriw
Tsukuyo: Marlie Collins
Tatsuma Sakamoto: Andrew Francis
Tama: Chantal Strand
Yagyu Kyubei: Advah Soudak

Gintama° aired in Spring 2015 for 51 episodes and was streamed by Crunchyroll. The company announced in July 2016 that it would release select titles in Blu-ray and DVD with English dub, including Gintama. The fourth season of the series premiered in January, and is currently being simulcast by Crunchyroll.

Source: Crunchyroll

News submitted by exodvs

Good luck to the cast, they'll need it.

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Yours sincerely,
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Watched a bit of it and its mediocre. Some characters sound okay (especially Shinpachi), but some sound pretty bad, like Gintoki and Kagura. I guess the quality of the dub really depends on how the jokes will translate well to English and I haven't seen much to judge that... but I doubt it will be done well. Gintama really depends on its satirical and parodical jokes and voice acting, and replacing those two doesn't sound like a good idea.

I don't even want to imagine how many parodies and references will be lost in translation for this...

Eh.. I tried the first dubbed ep and the voices weren't so bad but....
Nobody else can really be Gintoki other than Tomokazu Sugita
And yeah, all the cool jokes will probably be lost in translation. :/

The Gintoki in live-action movie already sounds weird enough.

So they dubbing the show from 4th season? Does Gintama have dubs for older seasons at all?

How exactly would this even work? A shitload of Gintama's jokes are deeply rooted in Japanese culture so that's why I never thought in a million years Gintama would ever get a dub. I still haven't reached this season but I might check out a bit of this out of morbid curiosity to see how the comedy translates. I'm assuming most of it will just be lost in translation though....

Exactly what I thought. The nuance, puns, even the parodies would most likely not work in English

I had a bad feeling about this, and i was right, now i can't unhear those horrible voices especially kagura's, are they dumb to dub a serie such as gintama, it has the best voice acting of all time and its jokes are related heavily to japanese culture, they will not be the same in a language other than japanese, plus you can't ignore that terrible pronounciation of proper names, this is such a nightmare, don't watch it if you hate dub, it will only make you cringe

Come on guys, don't be so harsh. Yes, a lot of the more nuanced/language-based jokes will fall flat, but that goes for a lot of comedy dubs. Look at Azumanga Daioh for instance.

It's nice to have a dub option. It doesn't replace the subs. I know a few people who will watch Gintama now because there's a dub option; but for purists and long-term fans, the sub is right there beside it.

The only real-world effect the dubbing will have, is making the series more popular in the West. That's a win in my book.

EDIT: Also, yes I've sampled the dub (it's serviceable imo), just like I watched the Benizakura movie a second time dubbed. I'll be sticking with the subs for sure - but again, having the dub option is nice.

Gintama had a local dub broadcast on national television in our country. Pretty good I should say since the language counterpart of jokes come across... most of the time, but the JP ver is still better. I wonder how /English/ plays this out. Interesting.

Gintama's Japanese dub is among the best dubs I've ever heard. If I didn't know otherwise, I'd swear that the voice actors were comedians and half of the jokes were ad libbed. I doubt the American dub will live up to the Japanese dub, but I'm certain it will give Gintama some much-needed exposure.

I've watched a few episodes and I'm loving it too bad they didn't dub season 1 or 2 yet if they do though I'm gonna make sure to buy all of the seasons on DVD.

(like I do with all the anime's I like)

:)

I actually like all of the Yorozuya's VAs haha especially Gintoki. Everyone else is hit or miss though. Lacking but not terrible, better than the movie dub.

its goign ot be shin chan mark 2 overall

LOL who is this for exactly? The normies who cant read subs? I dont think normies care about Gintama anyway, or even know what it is.

I've been waiting since I started watch anime (2013) for it to get dubbed sadly I can't watch subs (mental issues) so I'm pretty hyped myself.

(sorry for butting in and sorry if I sound rude I hope I'm not.)

Will they dub season 1 of Gintama?

Who thought this was a good idea? Gintama is one of those series that will NEVER work in English.

Brb, dying. Sakamoto is a certified surfer dude now.

well I watched half of the first episode, and I think it makes me cringe.

I've watched about 4 episodes and I thought it was fine. It won't replace the Japanese cast, sure, and some jokes are definitely odd in English... but I enjoyed what I watched.

Glad to hear that ^^ (sorry for butting in and hopefully I'm not sounding rude sorry if I do)

You're not rude at all.

Ok thanks ^^ I'm always nervous I'm going to offend someone (although I guess it's the internet so theirs really no escaping that at somepoint or another lol)

But why? I mean, I dropped Gintama a while ago but I thought Gintama was one of the anime (like Bakemonogatari and Lovely Complex) that would never get dubbed.


But whatever. I'm not going to make a big deal about it since no one is forcing me to watch it dubbed. So yeah, good luck to the cast.

Isn't Crunchyroll supposed to not have english audio anymore? (I read that the concept of their partnership with Funimation was to specialize each of them in subtitled or dubbed animation)

@DatRandomDude Thank you.

It's suposed to be that but since Gintama has been licensed by crunchyroll themselves, they can have the dubs for it on crunchyroll i think. In this case, i think FUNimation is just going to distribute the BDs/DVDs of it