This is your favorite anime's favorite anime. Gintama is a fantastic anime. There is action, drama and a lot of comedy in this anime.
In short this is about a samurai living on an earth that was invaded by and taken over by aliens. He takes 2 kids under his wing and they become a pseudo family performing various odd jobs (aka helping people with their problems).
It is a very long anime clocking in at 367 episodes (and it hasn't even ended yet, the movie adapting the end of the manga just released in japan). I am currently in my second re-watch just because the first watch took me so long to get through. The early episodes are for the most part self contained stories with the characters doing a customer/task/monster-of-week type of thing. Gradually as the series progresses there are numerous arc that tell a story with lots of action and violence. There is a lot of comedy mixed in as well which is what I love about it.
The comedy is a special type of humor. There are lewd jokes involving your sex/shit/puke etc. type of stuff. There are parody jokes which you will love if you are a fan of other anime. They reference numeous manga/anime, TV shows and movies (both japanese and western), various japanese and western celebrites. They also have a lot of childish arguments where a character will try to argue something that doesnt make sense and then wins lol. Or a character does something blatently dick headed and gets away with it or gets busted red handed and punished vicsciouly for it. There are also cultural japanese jokes and language puns that will sail right over your head if you are not a native japanese.
You are really going to dig this based on the anime parodies alone in my book that is why I dug it. Go on youtube and watch the spouser clip. It is a spoof on the DBZ scouter and if you find it funny then you have to watch the show. In fact that is why I decided to watch it because of that clip. I must of watched a 100+ episodes before I got to that point but by then I was thoroughly enjoying the ride. Off the top of my head they parody or mention bleach, DBZ, kenshin, Chobits, Death note, Parasyte the maxim, naruto, hunter x hunter, one piece, berserk, Power rangers, Final Fantasy VII, evangelion.
I was looking into it because I had just finished a bleach re-watch and I also finished rurouni kenshin and I wanted to watch more samurai anime. I enjoy samurai anime a lot. That was what hooked me but I majorly stayed for the humor and parodies.
The older episodes are more light hearted and enjoyable. Towards the end with the final villian/altana thing I felt like the story sort of got kind of weak and the action got repetitive. I stuck with it just because I enjoyed the beginning-middle so much. Its still good on anime standards. Just not as good based on gintama standards. I finished the manga so I basically know what is coming with the final movie which I will watch down the line.
The weak ending is what makes this show a 8.5/10 rather then 10/10 anime. But I do recommend you watch this if you are a seasoned anime veteran. I dont think a person new to anime would enjoy it as much just because of the references that they might not get. I have watched a lot of anime and truthfully there were some parodies that I missed just cuz I had never seen the show being referenced.
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