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I didn't see a topic for this Manga, so I'm creating one.
The story focuses on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his (partial) apprentice Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl who's from one of the strongest races in existence: yato. All three are "freelancers" known as the Yorozuya. They search for work in order to pay the monthly rent. The story takes place in the Edo Period, but instead of the Europeans invading in the late 1860s they are invaded by aliens, which they call Amanto.
Gintama arc are either parody or serious battles, but there aren't super powers or special techniques, the fights are quite magnificent.
About this week chapter: could that guy that we saw on the flashback be Gintoki's father? And damn, this arc is really good.
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+ Show Spoiler [Chapter 520] +Flashback guy is Oboro (I think that's who you're referring to?), from chapter 392-398 (episodes 258-260), hope Takasugi is still alive, he needs to do more fighting. This arc is really good so far and is looking to be the longest in Gintama.
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There is a thread specifically for the anime
Man this arc though......god fucking damn it.
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Meh, to be honest this manga (and anime) stopped being good a long time ago. Remember the first two episodes of the anime (that were not in the manga) and how shit they were? That's pretty much how this series turned out in the end. Like Bleach, it had its run.
Yeah sure it's cool that [spoilers]Gintoki chopped off his master's head[/spoiler], but seriously other than that this manga stopped being funny a long time ago and I was literally just flipping through the pages like I do with Bleach each week it came out without even a smirk whenever someone tried to tell a joke.
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Looks like the final boss is Shishio Makoto.
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Dear OP please add description of anime/manga into OP.
Relevant: seems interesting. I'm intrigued.
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On December 07 2014 18:13 Foblos wrote:
Dear OP please add description of anime/manga into OP.
Relevant: seems interesting. I'm intrigued.
It's there now. Copied the description from mangafox.
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Typical shounen badass, standing when he should be already dead.
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ZURAAAAAAAAAAA!
HAHAHA BOOYA!
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God I want to read the manga so fucking badly because I love the author of Gintama is so fucking good. But going to wait for the anime but I know this last arc has been godly hasn't it
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On February 07 2015 18:36 SK.Testie wrote:
God I want to read the manga so fucking badly because I love the author of Gintama is so fucking good. But going to wait for the anime but I know this last arc has been godly hasn't it
Sadly this manga has been going gradually downhill for a very very long time. The lack of character development has meant that the author needs to pull emotional plotlines out of his ass each arc and the same jokes are being overused (e.g. Shinpachi being represented by only his glasses, Otika being a sadist, Gintoki only coming to eat sweet deserts rather than save someone, etc).
It's time for this manga to come to an end, but milking it for all its worth seems to be the way things are going, which is why the Bakfu will never die.
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![[image loading]](http://i26.mangapanda.com/gintama/525/gintama-5431849.jpg)
Says so much about this series, haha.
Definitely one of my favorites. When I was reading through it I had to stop a few times and read something else because I was laughing too much and had hit my limit. Guess the humor style used fits me fairly well or something.
For anyone that hasn't read it, just look at a list of chapter titles and see if they make you laugh or not. Gems like 'The Red on Santa is probably Blood,' or 'It's Only a Superstition that Bees Stings Go Away When You Piss on them In Reality It's Just a Great Way to Get Germs So be Careful!', or my personal favorite 'There are Two Types of Humans in the World, Those that Shout Special Attacks and Those That Don't.'
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This new chapter, bloody streets.
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Gintama is my absolute fav.
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I feel like the author for the past two volumes has been trying to throw in too many "damn that was awesome" moments in at a time.
It would have been better if he spread it out, that way it doesn't lose its effect. Everytime someone is about to die, suddenly another hero jumps in to save them.
He (or his company) really needs to stop milking this manga by doing pointless short comedy chapters (that aren't funny anymore) and just start doing a longer, overall plot with one bad guy like Rurouni Kenshin.
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Since this manga feels the need to have a "wow" moment every chapter, with 20 or so enemies suddenly turning good guys who were only pretending to be enemies saving good guys at the last second (the gag will never be up), the boss is likely Gintoki's former master, who's all evil and shit but as he dies and does a Darth Vader moment he will say I always believed in you Gintoki and this was my plan all along to see you rise to becoming a Samurai blah blah blah:
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How does Gintoki cleanly chop his master's head off with a sword, yet manages to not chop a single hair so that when the head flies off, the long hair still remains?
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On May 20 2015 14:03 Grand Symphony wrote:
How does Gintoki cleanly chop his master's head off with a sword, yet manages to not chop a single hair so that when the head flies off, the long hair still remains?
That's how good Gintoki is.
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The author's really got to stop with the same formula every chapter for the last 30 or so chapters. Everytime someone is about to have a killing blow landed on them, another character steps in to save them. It was good the first time it happened. He did it twice in today's chapter alone.
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Yeah, combat loses a fair amount of its impact when everybody and their mother has plot armor. Every series doesn't need to kill people off as fast as Game of Thrones, but there's already plenty of manga that are essentially "through the power of friendship, nobody dies and everybody lives happily ever after." Did actually kill the shogun, at least.
Even if Gintama goes back and forth between serious chapters/arcs and comedy ones, there's still a limit. Replacing some of the characters would let him use new gags/character quirks instead of needing to continue reusing them past their expiration date. Hijikata's mayo fetish hasn't been too entertaining for awhile, though the rest of his character is interesting enough (such as his reasoning behind the mayo usage). Still, it's not an easy thing to decide to kill any character that is even remotely popular as there's likely to be a significant part of the audience whose primary interest in the series is because of that character.
As an aside, for anyone that's never come across it, here's an image that expresses Gintama's plot in comparison to a few other mangas.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/lhWpHSp.png?1)
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On May 25 2015 10:23 Vortok wrote:Did actually kill the shogun, at least.
Don't count on it. Remember when Otose supposedly died? Or that machine building guy?
There's also the formula that the bad guy made you think he killed [insert character], only to find out their intentions were actually noble, and that they end up being good guys (after having a final fight with Gintoki).
I wouldn't be surprised Gintoki's master is still alive too, despite having his head chopped off.
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This week's chapter... So full of surprises!
Oh no! Looks like Hijikata's about to die!
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/rxC5fiG.png)
+ Show Spoiler +Katsura and Elizabeth save the day! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/CiFYOxv.png)
Oh shit, looks like Sogo's gonna get it!
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Hfto10a.png)
+ Show Spoiler +Fuck yeah, Shinpachi! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/IEkuGmm.png)
Oh shit, Shinpachi, it was a trap!
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/uISN2L2.png)
+ Show Spoiler +Oh, Sogo, you sly old dog, you were only pretending to be unconscious! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/q68RloY.png)
Damn, that hot chick has been stabbed... Surely she will now die!
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/yF8OO3I.png)
+ Show Spoiler +Whoops, silly me, how could we forget that the main character will appear from above! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/TXfmJs2.png)
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On May 16 2015 11:40 Grand Symphony wrote:
Since this manga feels the need to have a "wow" moment every chapter, with 20 or so enemies suddenly turning good guys who were only pretending to be enemies saving good guys at the last second (the gag will never be up), the boss is likely Gintoki's former master, who's all evil and shit but as he dies and does a Darth Vader moment he will say I always believed in you Gintoki and this was my plan all along to see you rise to becoming a Samurai blah blah blah.
I FUCKING CALLED IT.
So predictable, really.
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Ahh, fuck, looks like the Mimawarigumi is on its last legs now...
Yeah, look, he's having flashbacks now to the time when he first recruited his right hand chick:
Such a shame that it all ends here for them, really, they had a good run together:
The enemy strikes, surely there is no-one left to sav...
+ Show Spoiler +..Oops, shit, yeah, sorry guys, this is Gintama we're talking about here, what the fuck am I going on about:
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I swear if nobody dies this arc I'll be pissed.
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On June 12 2015 20:39 BLinD-RawR wrote:
I swear if nobody dies this arc I'll be pissed.
You know what pisses me off? How they went through all that trouble to save Shigi Shigi after he pretended to be killed by that ninja guy but in the end he was really alive and fights alongside them with many near deaths if not for last minute saves by random characters and then after it all ends only later for him to die off screen apparently through being poisoned by some tea. Obviously I wouldn't bet on him being TRULY dead.
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Poll: Is Kondo dead?LOL are you fucking retarded this is Gintama we're talking about here (5) 83% The author has decided to do a 180 turn from everything he's done up til now and he is actually dead (1) 17% 6 total votes Your vote: Is Kondo dead? (Vote): LOL are you fucking retarded this is Gintama we're talking about here
(Vote): The author has decided to do a 180 turn from everything he's done up til now and he is actually dead
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GEE WHIZ WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE I THOUGHT HE DIED I AM ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED THAT HE IS NOT DEAD THE FACT THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE WAS COMPLETELY UNPREDICTABLE.
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Well, at least last arc some guy did die. But it was pretty much a stupid death. No one must die in combat in Gintama it seems.
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Hey, looks like someone died!
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Lets go kill an immortal men
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Jesus Christ, what the fuck is going on with this series now? Ever since they dug themselves into the hole of shit that was Utsuro, it has been pointless resurrection garbage after resurrection garbage. I did not want to see this manga go the way of Bleach (as in, being absolute shit every week), but unfortunately that is what it has become.
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(Disclaimer: I've only watched the anime) but I gotta wonder if there are some major differences compared to the manga? People are trashing the manga here left and right but imo the anime was great thorough it's run and it is one of the most acclaimed ones in MAL 
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People are just being difficult for no reason. Gintama resurrected like 2 people. Everyone else who died, stayed dead.
Not much is different from the anime to the manga. Anime has fillers obviously but there isn't much change.
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