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Here is a synopsis written by our wiki editors: DocHaus, MohsinMan99, HalberdierV2, and Annabanana

Anime Synopsis

Japan has been conquered by aliens from outer space called the Amanto. The city of Edo (Tokyo, before 1868) has been transformed into a weird mish-mash of traditional Japanese culture intermixing with futuristic alien technology, resulting in what mostly resembles modern-day Japan, as the country appears to have mostly accepted the rules of the Amanto. Several samurai rallied to fight them off in a brief rebellion, but in the end they were unsuccessful, and the Amanto ended up banning all swords in public.

Gintama focuses mostly on the "Yorozuya" (the Odd Jobs Trio), consisting largely of the silver-haired ronin Gintoki Sakata, glasses-wearing Shinpachi Shimura, the incredibly strong alien Kagura and her giant pet dog Sadaharu. In this version of Edo, they simply live paycheck to paycheck doing everything from fighting villains to dressing up in costumes, even though some folks occasionally try to use them to rekindle the great war against the Amanto.

Movie

Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen is scheduled to release until May 29th in North America. This is the first time that Gintama will have a dub cast.

Synopsis by Anime News Network:

The silver-haired samurai Sakata Gintoki investigates the disappearance of a legendary sword named Benizakura while his partners Kagura and Shimura Shinpachi try to find out what has happened to Gintoki's friend, Kotaro Katsura.

Facts

Dub Cast

How Do You Guys Feel About the Dub Cast?

	Ayame Sarutobi Voice: Carli Mosier
Abuto	Voice: Kyle Colby Jones
	Ayumu Tojo Voice: Blake Shepard
	Bansai Kawakami Voice: Andrew Love
Catherine	Voice: Luci Christian
	Elizabeth Voice: Andrew Love
	Gintoki Sakata Voice: Christ Patton
	Henpeita Takechi Voice: George Manley
	Isao Kondo Voice: David Wald
	Kagura Voice: Luci Christian
	Kamui Voice: Chris Ayres
	Katakuriko Matsudaira Voice: Kyle Colby Jones
Jintetsu Mura	Voice: David Wald
	Kotarou Katsura Voice: Illich Guardiola
	Kyubei Yagyu Voice: Brittney Karbowski
	Matako Kijima Voice: Carli Mosier
	Mitsuba Okita Voice: Shelley Calene-Black
Nizo Okada	Voice: Jay Hickman
	Prince Hata Voice: Andrew Love
	Sadaharu Voice: Kyle Colby Jones
	Sagaru Yamazaki Voice: Clint Bickham
	Sogo Okita Voice: Clint Bickham
	Shinpachi Shimura Voice: Mark X. Laskowski
	Shinsuke Takasugi Voice: Kyle Colby Jones
Shoyo Yoshida	Voice: David Wald
	Tae Shimura Voice: Shelley Calene-Black
	Taizou Hasegawa Voice: Chris Ayres
	Tatsuma Sakamoto Voice: Chris Ayres
Tetsuya Murata	Voice: John Swasey
Tetsuko Murata	Voice: Brittney Karbowski
	Toshiro Hijikata Voice: Blake Shepard

Sources

• Crunchyroll
• Gintama Podcast
• Anime News Network

Edit:

Hopefully, the list does not confuse you. I realize that you cannot caption the images if you add a list to a blog. Next time, I'll create a table manually.

Overview

Welcome to the first weekly Gintama article! (The Sket Dance X Gintama episode did not count). Why I'm doing this? I got the Gintama fever after watching both crossover episodes. Though I won't able to work on Gintama because my wiki love belongs to Sket Dance and Beelzebub right now. These weekly reports will try to convince people out there to work on the Gintama pages. I have a partner, MohsinMan99, who's going to work on episode 230's report. Give him some recognitions.

I would love to work on it, but it's suicidal to work on a long shonen series at the same time that I'm working on these two projects. We need a team on this franchise.

This report covers episode 228: Love is Neither Plus or Minus and episode 229: Making It Through.

*I'm new to this series, so please bear with me as I butcher the names of characters who are not Gintoki, Kagura, and Shinpachi.

Plot

An Otaku and his Virtual Girlfriend

Shinpachi has a new girlfriend and his sister, Tae, thinks he finally has one. When Shinpachi pulls his girlfriend, he pulls out a portable handheld game that has a girl saying hello. As Tae calls Gintoki and Kagura to help her obsessed brother, Gorilla has Gintoki enter the SIM world, Love Choris, in order to save Shinpachi. However, Gintoki gets himself involved in the My Life World Tournament against his will.

Will Gintoki survive in the tournament or will Gintoki and Shinpachi become total addicts to SIM games?

Rules of Love Choris

• The main character has to love his heroine.
• They cannot shut the game without saving, or their heroine will not love them.
• Players can customize their heroines like barbie dolls.

Verdict

Good

We got a new opening theme! It has a nice serious tone and a city theme. Too bad, it was misleading.

Gintoki has a big female audience

As a new Gintama fan, Gintoki has a lot of girls, so I was wondering about the significance. I find out soon enough as I watch these episodes.

Speaking of characters, this story has three heroines in the SIM game.

Three Heroines
Momo Anigasaki Momo is older than the main character in the game, and she is the older sister type of a woman.
Sayaka Otakai Sayaka is the captain of the railroad club. She is Isao Kondo's girlfriend, and the main character is in the same club as her.
Pinko Shiramizuu Pinko is the owner of a Chinese restaurant and the widow of Takuzo. The main character happens to be her frequent customer.

On with the good stuff for these two episodes.

• I feel bad that Gintoki has to suffer cruel humiliation as he has to interact with Pinko. Because Gorilla forces Gintoki to pick the ugliest heroine, it reminds me of Beauty and the Beast concept and Beauty is only Skin Deep concepts.

A hybrid PSP and Nintendo DS

• For Gintama fan girls, Gintoki strips in this episode. I don't have the image yet.
• The handheld game is similar to the Nintendo DS and a PSP.

Bad

A Joke/ Fetish gone wrong

• Sometimes, jokes can go too far. For example, a character named Sogo has Sayaka become his obedient love slave. He does cruel things to her while Sayaka keeps saying that she loves him. In the end, Sogo gets bitch slap by karma.

Bizarre

• According to Gintoki, Shinpachi likes women older than him.
• There was a character who likes Pinko in Kyuubei's dress, and Sarutobi who bases her Pinko on Gintoki. That was hilarious.

Custom Pinko

Anime References

• That's not how you play the Game!!!

  
• Gorilla's Quote: "A person who hasn't reached the Love Choris Hole is like a Soul Reaper in the Soul Society who can't do Bankai."

Overall, this story is bizarre and hilarious yet disturbing. I'm still looking forward to the action packed Gintama stuff.

Thanks

I like thank Mohsinman99 and my team for sticking by me, and I thank you guys for reading this. Hopefully, we get some Gintama love.

My Team's Weekly Articles and Blogs This Week

• Sket Dance 28: Shinba Michiru's Elegant Cooking by KuroNekoXIII
• Beelzebub 37: That Man Was A Teacher by Taka

Last Week's Reports

• Sket Dance 27: Clumsy Idol and Switch's Inventions
• Blue Exorcist 25: Finale
• Beelzebub 36: Viper Revenge
• Last Week of September: Blue Exorcist 24, Beelzebub 35, Sket Dance X Gintama

Last Week's Miscellaneous Blogs from Teammates

• Beginner Guide to Shaman King by Takashichea
• Massive Projects V1: Sora no Otoshimono by ShadowKnight508
• Why I can't Stop Replaying This Episode by KuroNekoXIII

Takashichea

Member of Team W.I.K.I Nation, Team Beelzebub, and Team Fairy Tail

Overview

Welcome to a special edition of the Sket Dance reports. This is the 4th report for the Sket Dance project on Anime Vice, and episode 26 of Sket Dance is the second crossover episode from another series, Gintama, that started the Crossover in its episode, 227. There will be tons of references to other animes and lots of 4th walls broken.

Team Members

For those of you who don't know my team, my teammates are Annabanana, KuroNekoXIII, Hibaru, HalberdierV2, and Piface314.

From the Sket Dance and Gintama Similarites and Differences blog, Halberdierv2 and Mohsinman99 had told me about a crossover coming to Sket Dance this week. It's thanks to them, Anna and my team are prepared to tackle it.

Plot

Gintama 227

In this episode, Gintoki tells his team that they are doing a crossover with Sket Dance, but Gintoki thinks that Sket Dance is going into their territory and stealing the spotlight. When Sket Dance comes in, Bossun and Gintoki have a challenge on Treasure Island where the winner is the first team to find the Pizazz Pizazz fruit. The Devil fruit has a strange effect on the user.

Who will win the challenge and become the best odd jobs trio anime? What is the Devil fruit's effect?

Sket Dance - Episode 26: Spirit Dance

In this second crossover episode, Bossun and his team meet Gintoki's team again due to a machine error. They have a nice conversation that has some jokes and discoveries while Sket Dance and Gintoki time travel through a montage of Sket Dance episode clips.

Will Sket Dan and Gintoki's team gain closure and ever lasting relationship or will they have bad blood with each other?

Verdict

Beware of Mild Spoilers!

Good

Bad

Gintama	Sket Dance
Runny Diarrhea? Hime's rant scene about the Runny Diarrhea is too long and dragged out. (Though, I didn't get the joke since it's a cultural thing) Another dragged out scene is when Bossun and Gintoki try to get their team to follow them by acting weak or disheartened.	No Badminton? :( I feel like half of the episode is not that great when you compare it to the second half where they did most of the action with the time travel. Too bad, they did not do the badminton match between Hime and Kagura. I feel that the conversation part of the episode has too little action despite its great comedic scenes.

Bizarre

Gintama	Sket Dance
Gintoki's analysis of Sket Dance was brilliant and a bit strange. Gintoki explains what happens to his goggles in the anime version because he wears goggles in the manga version. The episode had many references to the One Piece X Toriko crossover. The montage of crossover images with Gintoki being the main attraction in them is awesome and strange. Goggles and Crossovers	Switch's Gintoki wig During the opening theme song, Switch puts on a Gintoki wig instead of a moe girl's mask. In the manga, Bossun had a bad relationship with Gintoki compared to the anime version of this episode. The manga story has a lot of differences such as how the story starts and the extra things that anime has put in. Be sure to check out our wiki page on episode 26.

Overall

Despite the fact that my first Gintama episode is the crossover one, I feel that Gintama has a better crossover episode than Sket Dance. The reasons are that Gintama has more action, some innuendos, and the flow of the episode is not too dragged out compared to the Sket Dance version.

Both crossovers are strange and funny. Originally, I am excited to watch these episodes a week ago, and when I get to watch the episodes, my expectations are almost fulfilled. I just wish the Sket Dance episode has more of a plot or some kind of challenge to make it more interesting.

Anime References

Thanks to MohsinMan99 and Mezmero for telling me.

The Gintama episode is making a parody on the One Piece X Toriko crossover. See these images.

The Bird and the Devil Fruit

There are tons of references to other animes, but I won't list them. You have to look them on our wiki page for episode 227 of Gintama and episode 26 of Sket Dance. I'm already giving too much spoilers.

* As of Oct. 22, 2011, MohsinMan99 is our new teammate for Team W.I.K.I Nation. He's the Gintama expert.

Interactive GIF

I found these recently on this website: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sket-dance?before=1317305507

From the Sket Dance's ending credits

2nd set

Please click on them and enjoy!

*I don't know who made them but thank them for these cool GIFs.

Thanks

I thank you guys for reading this. You guys are awesome! This is for my community and my team W.I.K.I Nation who are working hard. I'm sorry that I couldn't get good images, but I will post more and Anna will post the Sket Dance's images.

This week, it is Anna's turn to do Sket Dance 26 and the two other anime episodes, so I figured I should work Gintama 227 just for the crossover event and the characters from Switch Off: Sawa Yamauchi, Masafumi Usui, and Yukino Hirai. It will take some time.

Halberdierv2 is working Chuuma's page while KuroNekoXIII did a splendid job on The SketchBook page. Please see our team's work. Thank you.

Let's get involved and make a big team!

Give my team a round of applause.

Edit: As of 9/30, I finished Gintama 227.

Other Weekly Reports This Week

• Beelzebub 35: The VolleyBall Match

• Blue Exorcist 24: Satan's Offspring

Last Week's Reports

• Beelzebub 34: Maid Cafe
• Sket Dance 24 and 25: Switch's Origin Story
• Blue Exorcist 23: Yukio and Rin's Origin Story

Takashichea, Member of Team W.I.K.I Nation, Team Beelzebub, and Fairy Tail Guild.

Overview

Purpose: To get people to watch/ or read Sket Dance or Gintama, to reignite wiki passion in both series, and to get some ideas.

Hello guys. I'm Takashichea, a member of Team Wiki Nation and part of other teams on other franchises as well. Recently, due to a request by Piface314, Team Wiki Nation is created to tackle Sket Dance franchise with three partners, Anna, Piface314, and Hibaru. As I watched the show and did research on the web, I noticed Gintama pops out a lot. I learned that Kenta Shinohara was the assistant to Hideaki Sorachi, author of Gintama.

I haven't watch or read Gintama yet, and I have only watched Sket Dance up to episode 15.

Let's brainstorm!

Edit:

Thank Halberdierv2 for this image.

Similarities

Characters

Characters are the important thing in anime and manga. I put this in a separate section.

Sket Dance	Similarities	Gintama
Yusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki	Both are the leader. Both use references to Bleach such as Bankai. Both lost their parents. Both tell people how to live life.	Gintoki Sakata
Hime Onizuka	Both are strong, beautiful women physically as well. Both love to beat their teammates. Both are the only female member on the team.	Kagura
Kazuyoshi "Switch" Usui	Both wear glasses, black hair. Both are handsome without their glasses. Guessing that they are the brains of the team. Both have 1 sibling.	Shinpachi Shimura

Points of Interests

• Both Sket Dan and Gintama have a trio that helps people which are usually odd jobs.
• Both franchises rely on parodies of other franchises such as Shounen series for their humor.
• Both franchises break the 4th wall.

Differences

Characters

Characters are the important thing in anime and manga. I put this in a separate section.

Sket Dance	Differences	Gintama
Yusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki	Bossun is younger than Gintoki. Bossun relies on his slingshot whereas Gintoki relies on his bokuto (similar to a bokken). Bossun has a concentration, artistic, and memorization abilities while Gintoki has excellent swordsmanship. Gintoki is more laidback than Bossun.	Gintoki Sakata
Hime Onizuka	Hime's weapon of choice is her field hockey stick while Kagura's weapon of choice is her parasol. Relationships with the leader: Hime's relationship with Bossun is more of a close friends, and Hime tends to blush sometimes when Bossun compliments her cooking or other things. There is some chemistry between the two. Compared to Kagura, her relationship with Gintoki is said to be a father to daughter relationship. Kagura is more vulgar than Hime because Kagura just picks her nose without any sense of shame.	Kagura
Kazuyoshi "Switch" Usui	Switch communicates by a laptop and speech synthesis software while Shinpachi speaks normally. Switch's sibling is a brother while Shinpachi's sibling is a sister. Switch is smarter than Shinpachi. Shinpachi is the straight man.	Shinpachi Shimura

Total: Bossun to Gintoki = 3, Hime to Kagura = 2, and Switch to Shinpachi = 1. I don't know much about Switch, and Shinpachi's wikia info is vague.

Points of Interests

• Sket Dance is set in a school setting while Gintama is set in a feudal period and futuristic style combo. (sorry guys, I couldn't describe Gintama's setting as well.)

Updates

I will list any changes and suggestions from comments below. I want to see the change and the additions of information.

Changes 9-18-11

Thank Mohsinman99 for his contributions.

• Gintoki is a laidback and a smart guy.
• Shinpachi is a hard worker but not that bright. A straight man.
• Kagura loves to pick fights, insult others, and eats a lot. She''s more vulgar than Hime.

Afterword

I will use these thoughts and comments to write for the similarities to other franchises. I used mostly wikia for Gintama to compare my experiences from watching Sket Dance anime. I have no trouble spoiling myself to Gintama during my quick research, but for Sket Dance, I don't read the wiki or other sources. See example below.

Similarities to other franchises

See Shaman King franchise for an example. I was proud of this work. It's amazing how Zatch bell and Law of Ueki is similar to Shaman King. I could not relate D. Gray Man or Blue Exorcist to Shaman King more than its use of supernatural and demon themes.

GINTAMA

SINOPSES

GENRES

CHARACTERS

Why i must see this anime?

1. Its realy funny XD
2. If you like shounen, than you should like this anime becouse of the action and the parodies about outher shounens
3. Dark humor
4. Some times non-sense comedy
5. Great action
6. The voice actors give a show
7. All characters are funny. Yes, all the 54748645644645446 chars lol

OPENING

ENDING

BONUS

5 Things that you must know about Gintama

1. Dont annoy the Shinpachi
2. Dont tread on ladybug
3. Not underestimate the shit that Shinsegume can make
4. Mayonnaise is nutritious
5. Otose is stronger than a whole universe