Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
April 4, 2006
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
Edo-period at Japan suffers a big cultural shock. First, the aliens invaded the earth, overpowered the nation’s government, disbanded carrying swords for the once proud samurais. moreover; these aliens took the people’ jobs and are currently running a sweatshop using them as laborers. going with the flow, Sakata Gintoki, an enigmatic vagrant samurai whose personal trademark is not only his naturally permed silver hair but also his love of anything sweet and addiction Shounen Jump is making a life out of this chaotic era. He is self employed in a do-it-all shop named Yoruzuya Gin-chan who offers any job for any amount of money. Their jobs range from searching lost kittens and saving the world.
Sakata Gintoki is a samurai living in an era when samurais are no longer needed. To add to his troubles, oppressive aliens have moved in to invade. Gintoki lives with Kagura and Shinpachi, taking on odd jobs to make the world a better place...and to pay their rent.
Written by warriorgoddess on October 20, 2010 at 10:52 AM
Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
I started watching this anime about a month ago and I'm about 3/4 of the way through and I gotta say that it is possibly the best anime I have ever seen.
Plot? There IS no distinguishable plot. What you have here are amazing characters thrown in situations so ridiculous that your brain will be overloaded by how insane it all is. But it is also the funniest thing I have ever seen. I'm a hard person to make laugh and this show has made me laugh from beginning to end.
Occasionally you have an arc that appears everyn 30 or 40 episodes or so and it will last for about 4 episodes, but really, there is no plot. The arcs are awesome though. But you grow really fond of how each episode totally doesn't relate to the last.
The best thing about this show is the characters. They are all suitably crazy, but so much fun and they all have hearts of gold. The show makes you laugh a lot, but there is a lot of intelligence to it too.
It's one of the few anime that will make me laugh myself silly and cry from time to time too.
If you're after intelligent plot and a gripping storyline, I wouldn't recommend this.
But if you're after something to sit back, chill and let the absurdity and awesomeness carry all your troubles away, this is the show for you.
