Introduction Gintama (銀魂, Silver Soul ) Season 1 premiered on TV Tokyo on April 4, 2006, and ran for 49 episodes until March 27, 2007. Adapted from Hideaki Sorachi’s manga (which began in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2003), the first season was produced by Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks) and directed by Shinji Takamatsu. It introduced audiences to an alternate Edo-period Japan conquered by alien aliens called Amanto, where samurai have been outlawed, and a mysterious, lazy, sweet-toothed warrior named Sakata Gintoki runs a odd-jobs business with his two young apprentices.
Season 1 is the first step toward that messy, beautiful life.
As Gintoki himself says in Episode 1: “If you’ve got time to fantasize about a beautiful death, why not live beautifully until the end?”
Introduction Gintama (銀魂, Silver Soul ) Season 1 premiered on TV Tokyo on April 4, 2006, and ran for 49 episodes until March 27, 2007. Adapted from Hideaki Sorachi’s manga (which began in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2003), the first season was produced by Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks) and directed by Shinji Takamatsu. It introduced audiences to an alternate Edo-period Japan conquered by alien aliens called Amanto, where samurai have been outlawed, and a mysterious, lazy, sweet-toothed warrior named Sakata Gintoki runs a odd-jobs business with his two young apprentices.
Season 1 is the first step toward that messy, beautiful life.
As Gintoki himself says in Episode 1: “If you’ve got time to fantasize about a beautiful death, why not live beautifully until the end?”