Is it really that good?

mazuchi said:
It has one of the highest mean scores on this website, so the probability of you enjoying it is quite high.

literally_boba said:
Yeah if I enjoyed Naruto, Dragon Ball, Attack on Titan, Drifters, etc I don’t think I won’t enjoy Gintama

BlackCrow1 said:
The first 60 something episodes are garbage, after that, it gets way better

ArcaneEdge said:
I personally think most of the show is completely overrated & FAR FROM GOOD with only a few 6-7/10 peaks in its last couple arcs. But almost everyone else seems to like it and praise it for being peak action/shonen/comedy or whatever, so you could try it & find that it is, indeed top tier and I'm just the minority anyways.

BlackCrow1 said:
The first 60 something episodes are garbage, after that, it gets way better

ArcaneEdge said:
I think most of the show is completely overrated & FAR FROM GOOD with only a few 6-7/10 peaks in its last couple arcs. But almost everyone else seems to like it and praise it for being peak action/shonen/comedy or whatever, so you could try it & find that it is, indeed top tier and I'm just the minority anyways.

Jannn said:
62 episodes in, I think it's enjoyable but I can't binge this due to the episodic nature of the anime. There are some boring moments too but that's just my opinion. Overall 6.5/10 for now

Ryustar123 said:
not to disrespect your opinion but it comes off like you missed the whole point of the show and you watched it just for the sake of action

ArcaneEdge said:
I watched it for both its comedy/arcs & thought it was bad-mid at both outside of its last 3 arcs. Its story-driven arcs were equally as snooze as its comedy eps. Also never stood out to me in any way. Mid-tier shounen in all ways tbh. Doesn't even have the best 4th wall breaks and it is not even the best at character chemistry.

Ryustar123 said:
ok lol now you're just hating mindlessly on this top tier shounen you should had dropped it in the first season if you were not liking it character chemistry is the best in the show I've ever watched and yeah none of the anime breaks the fourth wall better then gintama the last arcs of the story is consider some of the best shounen arcs now you can take your hateful thoughts for the series somewhere else you don't have any valid critizm lol

ArcaneEdge said:
Sayonara Zetsubou sensei & Saiki k stomp gintama. Hell, I wouldn't doubt inferno cop is completely clear of it & I haven't peeped it yet. Kaguya-sama is superior on top of having better-written characters, monogatari and konosuba's humor are far better too. Gintama just doesn't excel at anything. "endless hate" simply explaining my opinion. If you wanted something, I could say almost all side characters aren't COMPELLING cause the show didn't give me anything to latch onto about them for me to care about their situation given they have as much depth as a puddle, and have these one-note repetitious gags that they never, ever break away from. The chemistry is just a) character who does something -> other characters beat them or hit them in the name of slapstick. b) merely talking about how a character did something weird and OH MY GAWD ITS HILARIOUS. c) they interact in the same way as they did the past 9494949 eps & they hardly bounce off each other.

"Masterpiece level show" biggest joke I've heard. Its mean score is a meme & I'm not convinced that anyone gen

literally_boba said:
So I may watch Gintama after I finish Black Clover or any other anime like Code Geass and Jojo Part 4 and 5. I wanna know is it really worth watching? (DO NOT SPOIL, I REPEAT NO SPOILERS ALLOWED IN THIS THREAD)

literally_boba said:
So I may watch Gintama after I finish Black Clover or any other anime like Code Geass and Jojo Part 4 and 5. I wanna know is it really worth watching? (DO NOT SPOIL, I REPEAT NO SPOILERS ALLOWED IN THIS THREAD)

Ryustar123 said:
lol I've watched every show you have mentioned and no they're mid in comparison to gintama for me lol you mentioned kaguya sama it's comedy is the driest comedy I've ever seen in the piece of media and yeah the shows you mentioned aren't objectively better then gintama cause its art we are talking about If you don't know please avoid trying to state your opinion as they're facts if those shows were then gintama then they should be above gintama in ranking 😭 and yeah you missed the point of evey characters and the layers of depth they have it just sad to see that you watched a show just to hate on it and that too the show was a long running series you could have watched the different show instead of watching gintama and that too just to mindlessly hating on it you haven't mentioned any valid criticism just said the characters dont have chemistry and haven't even elaborated it how they don't has depth and chemistry into them gintama cast is one of the best and likeble cast that's why its praised for its characters that much and the reason it is so popular and loved in Japan ever member in the cast is flashed out even the dog is flashed out by his backstory and now dont say that you don't even know about how characters been flashed out in fiction

Ryustar123 said:
it's a character-driven story my guy and you should watch the banizakura movie instead of that episode which contains the banizakura arc cause the movie has better animation and everything is better in that movie than anime episode of that arc and yeah as its a comedy anime at first you should not binge it take your sweet time with the series there is a reason why every season of it is rated this high on mal 🦃

ArcaneEdge said:

I specified opinion, did I not? I don't think we need an objectivity vs subjectivity debate rn.

& I did elaborate on why I thought the chemistry they had going for each other was lame & uninteresting(which, for those other shows I mentioned DO superscede it in that regard with fresher character interactions & dialogue).

Idk, gintama likes to abuse tragic backstories. Just because character has backstory doesn't mean they're good or have depth. Like I said, they lack depth because you can summarise their character in a sentence.

>you watched a show just so you could hate on it

I was simply watching it & giving it a fair chance & my opinion. What do you think you'd say if I dropped before say, benizakura & I criticized it in the same way?

A good amount of your point hinges on the "yOU DiDn'T understand it" card. So I gotta ask, what is there to miss in gintama(with its albeit limited nuance)?

Jannn said:
true, Im enjoying it but not as much as how i expected of 8.95 rating anime, and i expected my rating of the anime will increase as time goes so i hvnt rated it on MAL yet

Ryustar123 said:
ok lol now you're just hating mindlessly on this top tier shounen you should had dropped it in the first season if you were not liking it character chemistry is the best in the show I've ever watched and yeah none of the anime breaks the fourth wall better then gintama the last arcs of the story is consider some of the best shounen arcs now you can take your hateful thoughts for the series somewhere else you don't have any valid critizm lol

Sal4dass said:


Don't listen to him, he seems to hate everything under the sun that isn't overly dark and edgy. He prolly didn't even watch anything past the first 10 episodes and downrated all seasons to prove his superior taste.

Ryustar123 said:
yes fam I debunked him so hard don't worry he haven't even got what gintama is all about even after watching every eps of it that's what i call having zero brain cells

GinHachi23 said:
really I never thought such toxic people existed u did good bro.
Picking something for the sole purpose of hating on it
It is annoying dealing with them i get it.....really annoying always showing they have good taste and emphasizing that the others got shit tastes and picking on the top animes to hate on them cuz a large majority of people like it

Ryustar123 said:
nah this is what I call what zero pussy does to a mf 😹

GinHachi23 said:
lol but still we meet on every gintama forum lol u got great dedication

Subham2942 said:
Bruh...don't ask such stupid question...watch it and decide for yourself.
I mean the ratings already suggests that many people love this show...but then again you need to watch it yourself to decide.

literally_boba said:
Yeah people said I was gonna love Hunter X Hunter but they were wrong as fuck lmao I hated that dog shit

literally_boba said:
So I may watch Gintama after I finish Black Clover or any other anime like Code Geass and Jojo Part 4 and 5. I wanna know is it really worth watching? (DO NOT SPOIL, I REPEAT NO SPOILERS ALLOWED IN THIS THREAD)

Sal4dass said:


Don't listen to him, he seems to hate everything under the sun that isn't overly dark and edgy. He prolly didn't even watch anything past the first 10 episodes and downrated all seasons to prove his superior taste.

Ryustar123 said:
ok the shows you mentioned and their characters were not it for me I look for flashed out backstory characters so that I can get to know about their characters in a wide way every character has their backstory they represent different themes of the story, you called gintama like to abuse tragic backstory that's why I said you missed the point of gintama, gintama is a story about overcoming your past mistakes, trauma, guilt, self-hatred the reason why this story is so much character-driven is that the reason why the gintama cane its themes perfectly, you said if a character could be debunked easily he isn't well written or are bland name me a character which has been written in fiction and hasn't been debunked yet.
>giving a backstory doesn't mean the character are well written or have depth
While writing a fictional character you could give him a proper backstory with the role and themes he have to represent in its respective story or you can write a character based on of an idea from idea I mean if he represent a philosophical or physiological idea in its story for ex Johan from monster he is a whole philosophical concept of nihilism , utsuro from gintama who contradicts every themes of gintama which it stands for by bringing up the idea of nihilism in the story and becomes a contradiction to the believes of shouyo sensei too , whereas gintoki and takasugi are a same sides of different coin one is a true samurai who believe in his masters philosophy and another one is a man who left the path of samurai after his master's tragic death and gain self hatred towards this world and wants to put an end to his better half which is gintoki, what makes gintoki one of the best mc and my fav mc is that he is a great representation what is it mean to be samurai, moving on, living your life to the fullest and even after you gets flash back of your tragic past time to time which caused you to have serious disease like PTSD life is still worth leaving he has more into his character but I want gonna go even deeper then this and yeah takasugi represnt the bad and completely different side of gintoki that what he could have become if he haven't followed his masters belives after his death sorry for my writing mistakes if you get any , and yeah like wise gintoki and takasugi every character in gintama has inof depth and a great backstory which make them a great very well written character and yeah your idea of backstory and depth is completely wrong my guy there isnt any character in fiction who cant be debunked or havent been debunked yet

Ryustar123 said:
ok the shows you mentioned and their characters were not it for me I look for flashed out backstory characters so that I can get to know about their characters in a wide way every character has their backstory they represent different themes of the story, you called gintama like to abuse tragic backstory that's why I said you missed the point of gintama, gintama is a story about overcoming your past mistakes, trauma, guilt, self-hatred the reason why this story is so much character-driven is that the reason why the gintama cane its themes perfectly, you said if a character could be debunked easily he isn't well written or are bland name me a character which has been written in fiction and hasn't been debunked yet.
>giving a backstory doesn't mean the character are well written or have depth
While writing a fictional character you could give him a proper backstory with the role and themes he have to represent in its respective story or you can write a character based on of an idea from idea I mean if he represent a philosophical or physiological idea in its story for ex Johan from monster he is a whole philosophical concept of nihilism , utsuro from gintama who contradicts every themes of gintama which it stands for by bringing up the idea of nihilism in the story and becomes a contradiction to the believes of shouyo sensei too , whereas gintoki and takasugi are a same sides of different coin one is a true samurai who believe in his masters philosophy and another one is a man who left the path of samurai after his master's tragic death and gain self hatred towards this world and wants to put an end to his better half which is gintoki, what makes gintoki one of the best mc and my fav mc is that he is a great representation what is it mean to be samurai, moving on, living your life to the fullest and even after you gets flash back of your tragic past time to time which caused you to have serious disease like PTSD life is still worth leaving he has more into his character but I want gonna go even deeper then this and yeah takasugi represnt the bad and completely different side of gintoki that what he could have become if he haven't followed his masters belives after his death sorry for my writing mistakes if you get any , and yeah like wise gintoki and takasugi every character in gintama has inof depth and a great backstory which make them a great very well written character and yeah your idea of backstory and depth is completely wrong my guy there isnt any character in fiction who cant be debunked or havent been debunked yet