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I could be watching Digimon right now...instead I'm watching Gintama. What has my life come to...
Every Wednesday on Crunchyroll!
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What's Gintama?
The dude who made the last Gintama OT said:
Gintama is a long-running manga by Hideaki Sorachi that nobody should read, as well as a long-running anime that nobody should watch, and thankfully it has been canceled multiple times. Unfortunately, it has been brought back yet again after a two-year hiatus, with brand new episodes. Hopefully it's canceled soon, this time for good. Oh, this series is called Gintama°, with the "°" added on to the end, but honestly it's just more of the same crap. Who are they trying to fool?
To summarize Gintama, you know the plot of Rurouni Kenshin? Yeah, it's like that, except with silver-haired samurai, aliens, shonen jump, video-games, idol singers, stalkers, giant penguins, worthless old men, and, well, it pretty much has everything the writers think to throw into it. While there are longer story-based arcs, at most they occupy about 1/4th of each season, with the rest of the episodes being silly filler plots that have no bearing on anything. It's like X-Files, except the writers have even less of a clue what the end-game plot is.
Who Made The Gintama Anime?
Sunrise, the company behind Yoshiyuki Tomino's classic sci-fi war epic, Gundam AGE.
BUT, this season is being done by BN Pictures.
Who Is In It?
A collection of well known Japanese voice actors such as Tomokazu Sugita (Kivat in Kamen Rider Kiva), Daisuke Sakaguchi (Takeshi's Usokkie in Pocket Monsters Diamond and Pearl), Rie Kugimiya (Thomas in Santa Company), Mikako Takahashi (Andou Romeda in Rockman.EXE Stream), Kazuya Nakai (Ollie Paisley in iCarly), Kenichi Suzumura (Bartholome in Beyblade), and Akira Ishida (Weird Electrical Appliance in The Brave Little Toaster).
Seriously though, I've never heard of any of these people. Where's Nolan North?
Why Should I Watch Gintama?
So, why should you watch Gintama then? Well, some people say that the show has a great sense of humor that's unlike anything else in anime, and loves to take the piss out of each and every anime trope you can think of. There are people who hate anime (I know, I know, it's hard to believe that) yet like Gintama because it's humor is apparently delightfully crude and irreverent. It's been called the "Japanese Family Guy" due to its use of running gags, pop-culture references, and scatological humor, except unlike Family Guy, it was never actually good in the first place. It's actually the American Dad of Japan.
People also say that Gintama, despite being a humor-based series, nevertheless is capable of bringing viewers to tears whenever it actually decides to get serious, with surprisingly strong writing and characters who really shine when they need to, and can instantly switch back to humor on the dime without destroying the narrative flow. But you know, there are people who cry when watching Naruto. Go check out a few episodes for yourself to see what the fuss is about.
Plus, you know, Digimon Tri isn't airing this season like Bandai promised. What else do you have to watch?
Where Can I Watch Gintama?
Oh...so it's come to this. You're not heeding my advice to avoid Gintama°, and actually want to check it out?
Well, unfortunately for you, it's very easy to watch Gintama. Crunchyroll has the entire first two series up to watch, and will be adding new episodes on the day they air (Wednesday) for premium users, and a week later for regular users. The show is subtitled, of course. So, now that I've said this, that means you have like 265 episodes to watch so you can understand the plot of the first episode of the new series. Well, what are you waiting for? Get watching!
I'm completely unable to form opinions on my own when it comes to what anime I want to watch, and need silly GIFS to convince me.
