Gintama

Alternative Titles

English: Gin Tama

Synonyms: Dandelion, Shiro Kuro, Black and White, Shirokuro, 13, Thirteen, Bankara-san ga Tooru, Here Comes Mr. Uncivilised, Silver Soul

Japanese: 銀魂

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 77

Chapters: 709

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 8, 2003 to Jun 20, 2019

Genres: Action, Comedy, Historical, Parody, Samurai, Sci-Fi, Shounen

Authors: Sorachi, Hideaki (Story & Art)

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

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Score: 8.56¹ (scored by 31,259 users)

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Ranked: #93²

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Popularity: #110

Members: 70,717

Favorites: 7,742

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MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Sorachi, Hideaki (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

During the Edo period, Japan is suddenly invaded by alien creatures known as the "Amanto." Despite the samurai's attempts to combat the extraterrestrial menace, the Shogun soon realizes that their efforts are futile and decides to surrender. This marks the beginning of an uneasy agreement between the Shogunate and Amanto, one that results in a countrywide sword ban and the disappearance of the samurai spirit.

However, there exists one eccentric individual who wields a wooden sword and refuses to let his samurai status die. Now that his kind are no longer needed, Gintoki Sakata performs various odd jobs around town in order to make ends meet. Joined by his self-proclaimed disciple Shinpachi Shimura, the fearsome alien Kagura, and a giant dog named Sadaharu, they run the business known as Yorozuya, often getting caught up in all sorts of crazy and hilarious shenanigans.

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Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Dandelion
Volume 2: Shirokuro (Black and White)
Volume 24: 13
Volume 38: Bankara-san ga Tooru

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Background

As of February 2018, publisher Shueisha revealed that Gintama has more than 55 million copies in print in Japan. The series was nominated for Best Manga under the comedy category in 2008 at the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation.

VIZ Media published the manga in English as Gin Tama under the Shonen Jump Advanced imprint, with 23 volumes published from July 3, 2007 to August 2, 2011 before release was discontinued. It was also published in Spanish by Glénat, with 16 volumes published from October 2007 to May 2010; and in Italian by Planeta DeAgostini from July 4, 2008 to January 9, 2010 before release was discontinued. Star Comics picked up the license and re-released volume 1 on April 25, 2015.

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Characters

Sakata, Gintoki

Main

Kagura

Main

Shimura, Shinpachi

Main

Hijikata, Toushirou

Supporting

Katsura, Kotarou

Supporting

Okita, Sougo

Supporting

Takasugi, Shinsuke

Supporting

Tsukuyo

Supporting

Hasegawa, Taizou

Supporting

Kamui

Supporting

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Aug 12, 2019

709 of 709 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

Tumppiman1 (All reviews)

69 people found this review helpful

I have never written an review for any anime or manga before, but I absolutely had to make the exception for Gintama. (I apologize if my English is not perfect before hand...)
It always feels so much easier to start series that have only 12 volumes or episodes. I have always personally stayed away from the longer running shows, as I have thought for them to be a waste of time, when I could finish 20 or more series in their time. Gintama truly showed me how wrong I was about how I thought.

Gintama does not only have the most colorful and large cast of characters but an overall interesting story and rich world. Whilst the series does seem quite innocent type of comedy manga for quite a few chapters, Sorachi does show later on his clear talent to write good action packed shonen too. What I feel like I should specially praise is how Gintoki Sakata is like, as he is far from what you would think an average anime role model or shonen hero is like. Whilst other protagonist's do have their bad sides too to make them seem more human and bad at something, Gintoki is instead the last person you should take model after. In other words, a drunken broke mess of an man. Still, Gintoki manages to be the most human than any other character I have seen, whilst still influencing everyone's lives around him.

The overall score for the story from me is easily a 10. Giving any less would feel wrong. Each chapter, no matter if it was an stand alone story or part of an long going arch felt special. All of the chapters gave you an interesting, thrilling and absolutely chaotic dumb experience, that made me laugh, cry and face palm with the characters time and time over. Some of the side stories felt more stupid than I could tell, but they still tied up always well and felt like a good part of Gintama in the end. There was not a single chapter that felt like a bore to read.

For the art I would give an good 9. I am not an pro when it comes to describing art, but I think Gintama had a beautiful style and nice warm feeling to it. The art style was able to make the world seem more alive and convey feelings well. Fight scenes were absolutely amazing through the art too to follow.

As I stated before, I loved the characters of Gintama, so 10 is easily the right choice from me. It is impressive for me how Gintama has so many characters with so many colorful personalities. Many other shorter and longer mangas/animes do not pull it as well as Gintama did. Still, what I appriciated more with the chars was that they could all go from 0 to 100 and backwards so fast. From an all super serious moment, things suddenly could turn full on comedic without making it feel too out of place, more like part of whom the characters were.

What can I say for the enjoyment? I loved it. The comedy, the fights, sad parts and slight fan service. It all tied down well making the manga extremely enjoyable and fun to follow all the way from the beginning to the end. easy 10.

Overall score: 10 I would give Gintama even more, since the manga has become a very close part of me. I loved it from the first chapter to the very last. Usually, at the end of such masterpieces, I would say that I'd feel incredibly empty, knowing that I won't be able to read or watch more of the characters adventures, but with Gintama, I feel extremely happy and fulfilled. I got so much good out of gintama and will keep praising it for all days to come. So, instead of being empty after reading Gintama, I feel like I got my own silver lining to my soul.

Thank you for the great journey odd jobs and the cheese cake, Sorachi.

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Aug 16, 2019

709 of 709 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

MeguminPlace (All reviews)

35 people found this review helpful

I can´t express how much Gintama change me and my sourrounding. How much I LOVE this series from the VERY bottom of my heart. The characters were real, complete real persons in my eyes. heart and soul.
There is no series perfect in every aspect in every moment, and Gintama is no exception. Even thought is very close to that in so many times and aspects, and yet is not a series that apeal to the objective aspect of a Series. Gintama want to apeal to the heart and soul of a person. The meaning of Gintama as silver soul is no "joke".
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Jul 26, 2020

709 of 709 chapters read

Overall Rating: 5

hcoctopus2 (All reviews)

17 people found this review helpful

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

I am very offended at the number of 10/10 reviews for this manga, so i will write about it. i don't want to write this as a preliminary review because i know how it ends. the ending was a disappointment, but perhaps i didn't appreciate it enough. but to me, the plot is basically one big circle. convoluted, and nothing useful came out of it. (i could be wrong, since i skipped through some chapters)

Let me explain myself more. You have a trio of the most important characters who have very strong plot armour. I failed to feel anything for them. they're read more

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Aug 20, 2019

709 of 709 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

RPWPA (All reviews)

18 people found this review helpful

Making a good manga that lasts long is tough, we've all read some manga that were so good yet end up being axed because they didn't get enough attention, we also know about lots of manga that are still popular and becoming even more successful because the author decided to follow what was popular and got rid of his ideas that made that manga stand out in the first place, there are some that ride on the popular trending genres and rarely do you find one that takes you to a whole new world with genuinely good characters, I think all this shows you how good Gintama is. A manga that is so unique that it went against so many things with the constant change in the industry and audience.

Gintama is by far one of the best manga I have ever read, At first I found it through the anime while looking for some actual funny anime to watch and ended up finishing the whole series even when the anime stopped. Most of us know the idiom "A jack of all trades is a master of none" but Gintama proved that this isn't always the case, you could go master anything if you put enough effort to it. The best thing about the author is that he was never afraid of going outside of the comfort zone, he found his comedy to be working yet when he wanted to do a serious fighting arc he went and did it. Taking a huge step that could easily damage your popularity yet still going on and doing it is a very brave thing to do and thankfully it worked out, him taking those chances helped create what is arguably one of the best manga ever.

Gintama excels at a lot of things, whether it be comedy, action, drama or almost any genre out there, the mangaka managed to take the standards to a higher level, now when deciding to watch a comedy anime, if you see gintama in the recommended tap then you will most likely watch it compared to something else like oreimo for example, that's the influence it has.

What is also great about gintama is the great great effort put into the characters, there is not a single character (apart from Tsuu) that I hated and even she was made to be that annoying idol character. Each one of them had unique characteristics, motives and goals that it wanted to achieve, their designs were also all unique that I don't think there is a single design I found to be repeated throughout the manga/anime, before I end this section just know this, the inarguably best character in the entire manga is "Taka-Tin"

One of the downfalls I found in Gintama was the final arc, I felt like the author started pulling asspulls to not end the lives of certain characters and I felt it to be longer than expected but thankfully he fixed that soon and managed to end the magna in a very great satisfying way.

Another downfall is that sometimes the jokes would be the written type (idk its name) where the entire page would be filled with sentences.

Finally, the art is great and consistent, I don't remember reading and finding a change or parts that I thought would be better to be redrawn or anything.

Overall I would give the manga a 9/10, the manga is entertaining and that is more than enough reason to make me rate it highly.
Would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to have fun, doesn't matter if it's a person that likes manga or reading in general.

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