It’s crude. It’s meta. It’s absolutely unhinged.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An alien race has invaded feudal Japan. They’ve banned swords. The samurai are jobless. And the main hero... gintama trailer season 1
The trailer intentionally sells Gintama as a . You’ll hear epic orchestral music, dramatic voiceover lines like “In a world ruled by aliens… one samurai will rise again” , and zero jokes. It’s crude
Gintama takes place in a version of Edo (Tokyo) that has been colonized by the Amanto (aliens). The once-proud samurai class has been disbanded. Amidst this chaos, we meet Gintoki Sakata , a silver-haired ronin with a "natural perm" and zero motivation. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
...is a lazy, sugar-obsessed idiot with a permanent natural perm.
Season 1 introduces us to the iconic trio that carries the show: