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New season begins airing Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 11:35AM PST on Crunchyroll. Gintama (lit. "Silver Soul") is a shounen comedy/action series, with the original manga by Sorachi Hideki, set in a world mixing Edo-era Japan with modern-day technology, thanks to the help of alien contact. The series is known for its crazy 4th wall self-referential humor, audacious parody, occasional moving moments, and most of all, dick jokes. The series title itself is based off its similarity to the Japanese slang for testicles, kintama. Here are the episodes by season breakdown. The show only makes the switch to widescreen starting in Episode 202. Gintama (001-201) Gintama' (202-252) + Enchousen (253-265) Gintama° (266-316) Gintama. (317+) How do I watch this? What do I watch?  The series in near endgame arc territory now, so the new season is likely not a good place to start for new viewers! The series is highly episodic so starting with any other season would work, but I'd argue watching everything in order provides the best experience overall. The series is rather uneven for the first 30 episodes or so, but afterwards becomes more consistent and generally better as it goes along. If you'd like some suggestions for episodes to watch without that investment, here's a rec list of specific episodes, maintained by me. Every episode is pretty good in some respect once you get down to it though. You can skip the hour special that is the first two episodes. They're an anime original in media res story back when the anime wasn't that great, and nothing else in the show refers to it again. The ***C episodes in the Enchousen season (Season 2 (253-265) on Crunchyroll) are just reruns with the then OP/ED, and the bonus content just refers to the little movie updates continuity at the end. Just watch the originals when you get to them. One exception: Episode 138 had a brief ~1 minute scene cut out in its original airing on Crunchyroll, likely because of copyright concerns with the music. 138C restores this scene. Streaming The TV series is available on Crunchyroll. The first movie is a remake of a TV arc with better animation and some bonus new scenes. The opening and ending bits are at least worth watching for the usual fourth wall fuckery. It was licensed by Sentai and was on Hulu at one point. The second movie is an original story written by Sorachi. Unlicensed so you'll have to rely on fansubs, but very much worth hunting down. Also there's a live action movie in the works. It's going to be adapting the Benizakura arc again. Hooray. Strange Quark fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Jan 2, 2017 18:08
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hell yeah
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Jan 2, 2017 19:14
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I hope OP is permabanned to keep up the tradition.
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Jan 2, 2017 23:16
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I'm on like ep.170 or so and this is some of the stupidest, funniest poo poo I've ever seen. I love it. I won't be caught up by the 9th but I'm glad there's an end in sight.
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Jan 2, 2017 23:23
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Just another week to go. I'm pretty excited.
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Jan 3, 2017 05:02
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So.. it's finally here. The final chapter.... of the Gintama anime.
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Jan 3, 2017 08:05
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i like the manga well enough, but the voice actors make the anime really special
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Jan 3, 2017 08:38
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I feel like I'm the only person excited about the live action. It's being directed by the same creative team behind The Hero Yoshihiko, Blue Blazes and the upcoming Saint Young Men dorama, with the added benefit of a very generous budget. Can't wait for the year to end so that comes out in home video. oh and woo new Gintama anime next week I guess 
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Jan 3, 2017 22:35
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So, will this run of the anime be the end of Gintama for real? Is the manga still going, or is it approaching an end that can line up with the anime before they need to take another break
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Jan 3, 2017 22:44
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mabels big day posted:So, will this run of the anime be the end of Gintama for real? Is the manga still going, or is it approaching an end that can line up with the anime before they need to take another break I mean no one really knows, but on the other hand they used a period for this season's name (!!!).
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Jan 3, 2017 22:48
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mabels big day posted:So, will this run of the anime be the end of Gintama for real? Is the manga still going, or is it approaching an end that can line up with the anime before they need to take another break The manga is currently going through the series climax. Theoretically, Sorachi could just do comedy after this forever, but that doesn't seem likely.
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Jan 3, 2017 22:54
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even after gintama ends, i would still like sorachi to do comedy forever.
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Jan 3, 2017 22:59
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My favorite little thing about the Gintama anime, to date: Kintoki, the robot duplicate who was designed to be Gintoki's superior replacement who did everything perfectly? Same voice actor as Shiba Tatsuya, the Protagonist Who Could Do No Wrong from the justly infamous Mahouka. I mean, I can't prove he was cast as a stealth burn on Mahouka, but it wouldn't be the first time they used the choice of voice actors to set up a gag.
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Jan 4, 2017 01:47
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Rangpur posted:My favorite little thing about the Gintama anime, to date: Kintoki, the robot duplicate who was designed to be Gintoki's superior replacement who did everything perfectly? Same voice actor as Shiba Tatsuya, the Protagonist Who Could Do No Wrong from the justly infamous Mahouka. I'm pretty sure Mahouka came after his role as Kintoki (2012 v 2014).
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Jan 4, 2017 02:01
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Rangpur posted:
The gag is that Gintoki and Kintoki's voice actors are inseparable BFFs irl who have also played opposing roles in other shows, so having Nakamura play Sugita's so-called perfect counterpart makes total sense as a casting decision.
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Jan 4, 2017 02:26
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Mordja posted:I hope OP is permabanned to keep up the tradition. Dryzen posted:hell yeah
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Jan 4, 2017 04:28
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z0glin Warchief posted:I'm pretty sure Mahouka came after his role as Kintoki (2012 v 2014). Still you have stuff like casting Juubei's monkey with the same VA as Onihime from Sket Dance, which was 100% intentional. (Which we know because they mentioned it in the crossover episode.) In conclusion, Gintama is funny, cool and good. Thank you.
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Jan 4, 2017 22:44
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gintama is my favorite anime of all time easily
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Jan 5, 2017 21:44
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mabels big day posted:So, will this run of the anime be the end of Gintama for real? Is the manga still going, or is it approaching an end that can line up with the anime before they need to take another break supposedly he is wrapping it up, but he didn't put an end date on it. basically I think what that means is he has the rest of the story mapped out and he is just working toward that end goal. they're finally starting to tie everything together and give closure on some things so its getting closer.
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Jan 5, 2017 21:48
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Ignis posted:The gag is that Gintoki and Kintoki's voice actors are inseparable BFFs irl who have also played opposing roles in other shows, so having Nakamura play Sugita's so-called perfect counterpart makes total sense as a casting decision. Despite the fact that Nakamura constantly tells people that he and Sugita are not that close, they're such good bros, it's almost hilarious that he keeps 'denying' it. Thinking back on it, Sugita tends to be super bros with almost anybody he interacts with on a constant basis and almost every other acquaintance that I have in common with him in the Tokyo/Chiba/Saitama area (other voice actors, recording engineers, producers, composers, etc) tend to speak of him really fondly. But yeah, I'm pumped for more Gintama!
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Jan 5, 2017 22:00
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Ignis posted:The gag is that Gintoki and Kintoki's voice actors are inseparable BFFs irl who have also played opposing roles in other shows, so having Nakamura play Sugita's so-called perfect counterpart makes total sense as a casting decision. that is  as gently caress
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Jan 5, 2017 22:20
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eonwe posted:that is Here's a somewhat well known thing that has both of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7W6US_W4 (Dude in the middle is Takahiro Sakurai, who played Makishima in Psycho-Pass and Rohan in Last Year's JoJo)
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Jan 6, 2017 02:52
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Wark Say posted:Here's a somewhat well known thing that has both of them: omg
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Jan 6, 2017 03:30
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I mostly hate anime and for some reason this dumb show makes me care enough about the goofy villains' sob stories to keep watching. Wish they'd stop coming up with interesting characters then have them fall off the face of the earth once their arc is done.
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Jan 6, 2017 11:15
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the cool ramen shop girl who Katsura has a crush on has another arc in the manga but now that will never be animated  it's a shame there's some good stuff in the manga that probably can't make it in the anime because of where they left off.
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Jan 6, 2017 18:11
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eonwe posted:omg that's from tokyo encounter, which does have a group subbing it though they're behind a couple of episodes i think. it's great fun watching sugita and nakamura cut up with whoever they drag onto the show. episodes 37 and 38 have shinpachi's VA on it.
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Jan 6, 2017 21:10
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I honestly didn't even know that was a thing. I think im gonna watch it
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Jan 6, 2017 21:18
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Wish the subs didn't stop giving information in ep 200+. I'm pretty sure half the jokes they're making in this crossover episode has to do with breaking the forth wall and references the VA's, but I have no idea who's who.
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Jan 7, 2017 18:22
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Tomorrow....
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Jan 7, 2017 18:35
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Squark is my friend and she is going to stream the live action Gintama movie for me when it comes out and is subbed
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Jan 8, 2017 03:30
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littleorv posted:Squark is my friend and she is going to stream the live action Gintama movie for me when it comes out and is subbed What about when it's dubbed
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Jan 8, 2017 07:47
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i thought this was showing at 11:30 est but its PST, poo poo
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Jan 8, 2017 17:45
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Strange Quark posted:What about when it's dubbed no
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Jan 8, 2017 18:15
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I hope that somehow Shoyo turning out to be some kind of immortal guy doesn't cheapen the fact that Gintoki killed him.
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Jan 9, 2017 02:06
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dang gintama is good
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Jan 9, 2017 17:45
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my wife bought me a calendar
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Jan 10, 2017 05:52
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it's not Katsura... It's Zura! 
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Jan 29, 2017 21:08
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mabels big day posted:it's not Katsura... It's Zura!
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Jan 29, 2017 22:19
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i've been rewatching the anime, and i've gotten up to yoshiwara. i really like how gintama acknowledges how incredibly hosed up and monstrous the historical yoshiwara was even in the middle of an extended boss fight riddled with awkward metaphors and dumb gags. but man, gintama really struggled to find its pace during the third season.
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Jan 29, 2017 23:31
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I don't know how else to say this, or if I even believe it yet even though I'm watching it, but the motherfuckin' Gintama dub from canada we all forgot about is finally here, and it's on Crunchyroll
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Feb 2, 2017 04:56
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