What could you expect from satire / comedy? - Characters: Awesome - as one of the episodes claims - there isn't one main character - and it's actually true. There's some background, but it's irrelevant in most cases. And now for really technical review: - Story: None - or almost none. And there is a lot, even in one sentence. I know it is almost impossible to sub/dub this thing (without or even with comments) but people make a great things great and even I could understand most of the puns / jokes. Arcs are mostly short, condensed and even recaps for them are really refreshing. Perfect drama / comedy ratio for satirical show keeps me watching one episode after another.

I'm not anime veteran (I've seen only few dozens titles), I'm not Japanese, I haven't read manga, but I'm still able to enjoy Gintama anime. Troubles that they of course try to solve, but in reality. Wherever they go, all they do is to create troubles. He and his gang, however, are also among the very few who have not forgotten the morale of a swordsman. Gintama is a story of a handyman named Gintoki, a samurai with no respect for rules set by the invaders, who's ready to take any job to survive.

All samurais have been disarmed and reduced to temp workers with no skills who just try to make ends meet. The Shogunate has become a puppet of alien occupation armies. Instead of the US fleet, the country is stormed by spaceships coming from four corners of the universe and soon we see it occupied by extraterrestrials.

That's what history tells, but in Gintama, that's not what happens. The samurai regime ended its life with the imperial restoration in 1868. In 1853, the US fleet commanded by Admiral Perry forced the doors open, leading to a modernization of the nation's sociopolitical systems and the eventual fall of the Shogunate. In the early 17th century, Japan adopted strict isolation policies and severed almost all ties with foreign countries.

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