Gintama is probably the funniest shounen, and its success is pretty interesting, but it’s also extremely long. Unlike some other shows, it’s not complete garbage, but I wouldn’t say the whole show is good. It’s a shounen and as such has its fair share of multi episode boring long fights (I personally think that as a shounen, it’s not really good).
So if you want to skip the boring bits and focus on the best part, here is my take on the subject. As usual, bold is the best of the best. I didn’t include any exposition because I don’t think it matters much, you can watch the pilot or read a wiki…
- 16 – Cab driver Madao
- 31 – Memory lost arc and Justaway
- 38 – The creation of the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon
- 47 – Tonari no Hedoro
- 50 – Brainstorming for renewal
- 51 – Infant arc
- 79 – Toilet
- 84 – Hard boiled
- 98 – Owee Arc
- 100 – Gintaman
- 113 – Toilet cleaning
- 114 – Prince Mayo
- 115 – Ryugujo arc
- 119 – Dragon Ball
- 121 – Monkey Hunter Arc
- 129 – Cats vs Dogs Arc
- 135 – JUMP editor
- 138 – Original Yorozuya
- 148 – Shinsengumi Death Game
- 150 – The end of Gintama
- 157 – Otsu Arc
- 165 – The Big Flu
- 167 – Tama Quest Arc
- 175 – The dentist
- 176 – Best lines countdown
- 182 – Character Poll Arc
- 185 – Charlie and the chocolate factory
- 188 – Madao observation
- 190 – Stray cat arc
- 195 – The onmyouji arc is a bit boring but Shinpachi does find love
This is an excellent point to start, as Gintama’ has a lot less boring shounen “serious” content than the first iteration, and a lot more goofy comedy.
- 202 – After a year break, things have changed
- 205 – The origin of the anpan meme
- 216 – The patriot factory
- 218 – Eating crab
- 220 – Bathing with monsters
- 221 – Jugemu
- 224 – The cursed blu-ray
- 227 – Sket Dance crossover
- 228 – Waifu tournament
- 231 – The funeral
- 232 – ELIZABETH
- 243 – Gintoki draws a manga
- 252 – For the last episode, Gintama apologizes
Gintama – the (actually second) movie
- 253 – When it comes back, Kintama has changed
- 266 – Gintoki breaks time
- 269 – If you’re interested in japanese history or dirty books hiding techniques
- 270 – Nice episode about the secret life of characters
- 271 – Important flashback arc about a mysterious character in the shadows of the war
- 274 – Discussion of a marketing strategy (mascot) for yorozuya
- 282 – Scary stories
- 292 – The secret of their costumes
- 298 – Writing manga in a prison is hard
- 299 – Short stories about rpg
After that the show enters a dry spell with very shounen arcs like the Shogun assassination arc. The plot isn’t too bad, but it’s a shounen (slow, only battles, etc…) so watch at your own risk.
Fortunately, this takes a break with the “Porori arc” which brings back the fun and is altogether pretty awesome:
- 329 – Kagura’s boyfriend
- 333 – Investigation of Momotarou
- 334 – Swords having sex
- 340 – The gang fixes the upcoming Gintama videogame
But as soon as it ends, it’s back to shounen mode for the Silver Soul ending arc, which is looooooooooong 😦 but you may want to do a little exception for
If you want closure, you can find it in
but you don’t really have to watch the whole arc, the end is interesting though:
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