Gintama arcs series#

When an opponent is about equal your strength, there will be a very competitive back-and-forth. When an opponent is too weak, you can beat him in a momentвЂ™s notice or you can choose to take him lightly. When an opponent is too strong, you struggle or even might need to gang up on him. Unlike other anime, shounen action has a good grasp of basic psychology in a fight. Seriously, you can talk shit about shounen all you want but thereвЂ™s a reason why action is always so synonymous with shounen, because quite frankly they just have the best grasp how action genre works. Watching this arc, I really forgot how good shounen action can be. Will the police system be abolished? What other changes will the new Shogun make? After all, the next arc is quite literally called вЂњFarewell, ShinsengumiвЂќ. With the current Shogun gone and the new one taking over, I also have a feeling there will be a significant shift in how the politics and the in-universe of Gintama works. The best thing about this is that the death doesnвЂ™t seem pointless, because if anything, this arc represents changes.

Unfortunately 300 episodes isnвЂ™t anything to sneeze at, and at some point, Gintama just has to вЂњpull the triggerвЂќ. With the predictability that everyone will live, GintamaвЂ™s serious arcs made it through sheer character investment, excellent fight scenes and great writing. Indeed, throughout 300 episodes, there havenвЂ™t been a single death in all the serious arcs (the good guys, at least) they had so far. At the same time, this approach is also a weakness because in order to continually take these serious arcs seriously (no pun intended), aforementioned, death is inevitable.Д«ecause otherwise, itвЂ™s just impossible to treat them seriously after seeing the characters with bloodshot-eyes about to murder the hell out of each other, when in the end, all the good guys will just survive.

Gintama arcs series#

Being a shounen, Gintama can mix in drama and seriousness to spice the show up rather than just being an вЂњepisodic comedyвЂќ, while episodic comedy is good for shorter anime, Gintama is a long-running series and this approach is one of the reasons behind itвЂ™s longevity. Gintama being both a shounen and a comedy is itвЂ™s greatest weapon, but also itвЂ™s greatest weakness. Now that when I think about it, it may also be inevitable too. Though the series is set in the future when aliens have colonized Earth, many of the character's names are inspired by figures from Japan's history (specifically the period of the Meiji Restoration), due in part to the original plan for the Shinsengumi to be the focus of the manga.This guy is totally triggering his own death flag. Though it has not been able to sucessfully translate well to the West due to its content (from the style of humor to numerous obscure or cultural references), in Japan it has been successful both in its original manga form and anime and film adaptations. However, generally, it combines the two tones and is generally regarded as a gag manga. Gintama is a comedic action manga that can make drastic tonal shifts throughout the series from dark and serious to completely bizarre gags or one-off chapters that have no real effect on the progression of the story and may not even feature any of the characters from the series (such as a chapter where characters that resemble the main cast are seen talking without showing their faces for the entire chapter before the end reveals it was just a bunch of one-off characters that resembled the main cast apart from their faces and none of the stuff they said throughout the chapter had anything to do with the characters they resembled). Translated (partially) into English as Gin Tama by Viz. Originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.