The trio also meets Gintoki's former comrades from the Amanto invasion, including the revolutionary Kotaro Katsura who is friendly toward them despite his terrorist activities against the alien-controlled government.Īlthough the story is mostly episodic, a few story arcs and recurring antagonists develop. While working, they regularly encounter the Shinsengumi police force, who often ally with Gintoki when work involves dangerous criminals. When the pair rescues a teenage alien girl with super-strength, Kagura, from a Yakuza group, they accept her into their freelancing business and the three become known as "Yorozuya" ( 万事屋, "We do everything" or literally "The Anything Store"). Impressed by Gintoki, Shinpachi becomes his freelance apprentice to pay the bills and learn more about the enigmatic samurai. He helps a teenager named Shinpachi Shimura save his sister Tae from an alien group that wants to send her to a brothel.
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The series focuses on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata who works as an odd-jobs freelancer. The samurai's swords are confiscated and the Tokugawa bakufu (shogunate) becomes a puppet government. He agrees to an unequal contract with the aliens, placing a ban on carrying swords in public and allowing the invaders to enter the country. Edo Japan's samurai fights to defend Earth, but the shōgun cowardly surrenders when he realizes the aliens' power. The story is set in an alternate-history late- Edo period, where humanity is attacked by aliens called "Amanto" ( 天人, "Sky People"). Positive responses have focused on the comedy and characters from the series, as well as its overarching plot and action choreography. Publications for manga, anime, and others have commented on the Gin Tama manga.
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The anime and its DVDs have been featured, at various times, in the Top Ten rankings of their respective media, while TV Tokyo has announced that the first Gin Tama anime was responsible for high sales overseas along with the anime adaptation from Naruto. In Japan, the Gin Tama manga has been popular, with over 55 million copies in print, making it one of the best-selling manga series. The website Crunchyroll purchased the anime's streaming rights and home video rights.
Sentai Filmworks initially licensed the series. It debuted in the January 2007 issue and was serialized at a rate of one chapter a month. In addition to publishing the individual volumes of the series, Viz serialized its first chapters in their Shonen Jump manga anthology. The manga has been licensed by Viz Media in North America. A live-action film adaptation of the same name was released in July 2017 in Japan by Warner Bros. Besides the anime series, there have been various light novels and video games based on Gin Tama. The third and final film premiered in January 2021.
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This was followed by a full 367-episode anime television series, which debuted in April 2006 on TV Tokyo, and finished in October 2018. The series has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) by Sunrise and was featured at Jump Festa 2006 Anime Tour in 2005. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to September 2018, later in Jump GIGA from December 2018 to February 2019, and finished on the Gin Tama app in May and June 2019. Sorachi added the science fiction setting to develop characters to his liking after his editor suggested doing a historical series. Set in Edo, which has been conquered by aliens named Amanto, the plot follows life from the point of view of samurai Gintoki Sakata, who works as a freelancer alongside his friends Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura to pay the monthly rent. "Silver Soul") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi.
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