Gintama Anime History

The story of GIN TAMA started in the late Edo period, Where aliens called "Amanto" attacked humanity. The samurai of Japan fight with them in order to protect the world, but the shōgun cowardly surrenders in front of the aliens realizing their super powers. He signs a contract with the aliens on placing a ban on carrying swords in public and not allowing the invaders to enter the country of japan. All the swords of the samurai are confiscated and the Tokugawa bakufu (shogunate) becomes a puppet governor.

The series focuses on Gintoki Sakata, an eccentric samurai, who works as a freelancer. He helps Shinpachi Shimura, a teenage boy, in saving his sister named Tae from a group of aliens who wants to send her to a brothel. Being so much impressed by him, Shinpachi becomes Gintoki’s freelance apprentice and learns more about the enigmatic samurai. Later, when Gintoki and Shinpachi rescues a teenage alien girl named Kagura from a Yakuza group, both of them accept her into their freelancing business and the three become known as "Yorozuya".

While working as a team, they regularly encounter the Shinsengumi police force, who often takes help from Gintoki in order to fight against dangerous criminals. They often encounter 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. You can find Gintama dub all episodes on IMDB.

TOP 10 FACTS ABOUT “GINTAMA”

1. The original title of the anime series was Yorozuya Gin-chan not Gin Tama :

The title was supposed to reflect the hard life of Sakanta Gintoki, working so hard and doing odd jobs as a freelancer to pay his rent. However, for some kind of reason the title was changed and Hideaki Sorachi decided to go with Gin Tama as the title of the anime series.

2. Sakata Gintoki wore scooter goggles all the time :

During the early stages of the manga, Gintoki used to have scooter goggles fastened around his neck all the time. But, it irritates Hideaki a lot because drawing them all the time was "a pain to draw" according to him which ultimately led to drawing Gintoki without the goggles.

3. Kagura knows Chinese a little :

Actually, she doesn't. She often ends her sentences with "aru" which is a representation of chinese anime and it is also a typical speech pattern for Chinese anime characters.

4. Sakata Gintoki had a completely different last name and character design in original drafts :

Hideaki Sorachi worked on a different one-shot story named Sakata Tomiko & Gorouzaemon before beginning the work on Gin Tama. But the one-shot story was not accepted. After that Hideaki Sorachi decided to use the last name and character design from the rejected one-shot story for Gintoki.

5. Shimura Shinpachi's name contains "Hachi" that means 8 :

This is because of the infinite number of glasses he had to change during the Gintama series because the number 8 can be used to represent the "infinite".

6. The voiceover artist of Sadaharu voices another Gintama character :

The voiceover artist Takashi Mikako not only does a great job on doing the voiceover of Sadaharu but she also gives her voice to Terakado Tsuu, who is a pop idol singer in the anime.

7. Kondo Isao has a weak anal sphincter :

According to Okita Sougo, Kondo Isao has a weak anal sphincter. Because of this, he often has to take dumps in uncomfortable situations even at his age.