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Series · 2006

Gintama

銀魂

A white-haired man in a white-and-blue robe stands in a shopping street with two younger figures partly visible beside him.
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In an Edo occupied by aliens, an unruly former samurai runs an odd-jobs business with companions whose daily work repeatedly collides with the city’s larger troubles.

Gintoki keeps the habits of a swordsman in a town of spacecraft, trains and changing values. The business gives the group a reason to move between ordinary requests and dangerous encounters. Its local scale makes room for jokes about earning a living alongside conflicts over what survives from an older way of life.

A white-haired man smiles in the foreground while a red-haired girl and a dark-haired, bespectacled boy face outward behind him.
Odd jobs give Gintoki and his companions a route through their alien-occupied neighbourhood. ©空知英秋/集英社・テレビ東京・電通・BNP

The trio’s street portrait places them among shops and an extended neighbourhood cast. The episode image brings the same central group forward against a more emphatic blue background. Their work begins with particular people in the city, even when the surrounding world is fantastically oversized.

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