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Format
TV
Episodes
51
Episode Duration
24 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Spring 2011
Aired
2011-04-04 to 2012-03-26
Source
Manga
Rating
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Genres
Action
Comedy
Historical
Parody
Samurai
Sci-Fi
Shounen
Gag Humor
Studios
Sunrise
Producers
TV Tokyo
Aniplex
Dentsu
Trinity Sound
Miracle Robo
Studio Jack
Shueisha
Licensors
Gintama' (銀魂')
After a one-year hiatus, Shinpachi Shimura returns to Edo, only to stumble upon a shocking surprise: Gintoki and Kagura, his fellow Yorozuya members, have become completely different characters! Fleeing from the Yorozuya headquarters in confusion, Shinpachi finds that all the denizens of Edo have undergone impossibly extreme changes, in both appearance and personality. Most unbelievably, his sister Otae has married the Shinsengumi chief and shameless stalker Isao Kondou and is pregnant with their first child. Bewildered, Shinpachi agrees to join the Shinsengumi at Otae and Kondou's request and finds even more startling transformations afoot both in and out of the ranks of the the organization. However, discovering that Vice Chief Toushirou Hijikata has remained unchanged, Shinpachi and his unlikely Shinsengumi ally set out to return the city of Edo to how they remember it. With even more dirty jokes, tongue-in-cheek parodies, and shameless references, Gintama' follows the Yorozuya team through more of their misadventures in the vibrant, alien-filled world of Edo. [Written by MAL Rewrite]