Gintama
銀魂
Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Gintama is a tv with 201 episodes, from Spring 2006, produced by Sunrise, rated 8.5/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
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Tags
- Parody — Features deliberate exaggeration of popular tropes or a particular genre to comedic effect.
- Ensemble Cast — Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.
- Samurai — Prominently features warriors of medieval Japanese nobility bound by a code of honor.
- Found Family — Features a group of characters with no biological relations that are united in a group providing social support.
- Slapstick — Prominently features comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions or embarrassing events.
- Meta — Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Surreal Comedy — Prominently features comedic moments that defy casual reasoning, resulting in illogical events.
- Anachronism — Prominently features elements that are out of place in the historical period the work takes place in, particularly modern elements in a historical setting.
- Aliens — Prominently features extraterrestrial lifeforms.
- Episodic — Features story arcs that are loosely tied or lack an overarching plot.
- Satire — Prominently features the use of comedy or ridicule to expose and criticise social phenomena.