Sounds good, I'll try and watch it LOL.Originally Posted by Neversoft
I'm currently on episode 36 and it's zoomed straight to 4th on my favourite anime list. At first, it was a little hard to get into, and I thought it was a little stupid. But I continued watching it and everything just becomes acceptable and natural to the series. You wonder how Gintama would have ever done without it's wacky comedy, unique characters, sense of reality, and nature of each episode. It's really unlike any I've ever seen. Quite recently I finished Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu! and I thought that was the funniest anime ever, but now I'm starting to wonder, because Gintama is just hilarious. Every episode makes you laugh, every episode offers you something new, it never gets old. Also, Gintama is 90% comedy, but I love how it's able to swtich to drama in the blink of an eye. It manages to go from painfully funny, to tear-jerking sad. Which is damn good direction and writing, right there! I hope that expresses my opinion on it good enough, I love it, basically. The only bad thing about it is that because it doesn't have an on-going story, it's sometimes hard to marathon, or watch in big chuncks.
If you're thinking about watching it, then watch the OVA first to decide, not the first episode of the series. The OVA did come out before the series anyway. I watched the first episode first, but didn't really think much of it. I watched the OVA a few weeks ago though, and loved it. The OVA is only one episode, so nothing long.
It's too hard to try and summarize Gintama... basically it follows this guy called Gintoki and his friends, who run a jack-of-all-trades business, and are willing to take any job offered to them for money. It's set in Japan during the Edo period, which I believe is in the 1800's, but an aliens known as the Amanto have invaded Earth and have basically taken over. Because of the Amanto, however, the Earth now has technology more advance than we have in our present time. So it's like... set in the future... set in the past. Weird, huh. It's got action, comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, everything. It also parodies a ton of animes, and I really do mean a ton. It's fun watching an anime parody an anime. Of course it also parodies TV shows, films, books, characters and other things as well. One of it's genre's could even be listed as parody. Theres a lot more to it, but thats basically the jist of things.
I'll be on msn in a be, I'm gonna go have a shower right now. No, you can't join me.
Can I at least record it Chris?...
Joking.
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Like I said to Ryuzaki, check out the OVA first. It's only one episode long, 30 minutes. Originally Posted by inVe
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OVA is a special episode Originally Posted by PaulMacC
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OVA means Original Video Animation. It's sometimes a special episode or series released direct to DVD that serves as a spin-off of an already aired anime. There are entire series that have been released as an OVA though, such as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which is 110 episodes long and was never aired on TV. There are also original OVA's such as Pale Cocoon that have no relation to another anime, they're just short stories. So it's not necessarily a special episode. The Gintama OVA for example was released before the actual series, so theres no way it could be a special episode for said series. So Josh isn't entirely correct. Originally Posted by PaulMacC
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Damn it. You have beaten me. Originally Posted by Neversoft
OVA means Original Video Animation. It's sometimes a special episode or series released direct to DVD that serves as a spin-off of an already aired anime. There are entire series that have been released as an OVA though, such as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which is 110 episodes long and was never aired on TV. There are also original OVA's such as Pale Cocoon that have no relation to another anime, they're just short stories. So it's not necessarily a special episode. The Gintama OVA for example was released before the actual series, so theres no way it could be a special episode for said series. So Josh isn't entirely correct.
Get on MSN so I can curse you.
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**** it, Gintama is my favourite. I really did think Death Note would never be beaten. Originally Posted by Neversoft
And to think that a long, on-going anime actually turned out to be my favourite.
1. Gintama
2. Death Note
3. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
4. Sword of the Stranger
5. Utawarerumono
Lol, I was on episode 36 five days ago. I'm on episode 62 now. Originally Posted by Neversoft
Last edited by Neversoft; 20-12-2008 at 05:33 PM.
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k im defo watching it next, how many eps it got? Originally Posted by Neversoft
**** it, Gintama is my favourite. I really did think Death Note would never be beaten. And to think that a long, on-going anime actually turned out to be my favourite.
1. Gintama
2. Death Note
3. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
4. Sword of the Stranger
5. Utawarerumono
Lol, I was on episode 36 five days ago. I'm on episode 62 now.
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137 so far. The subs are a bit mucked up though, theres subs all the way up to episode 96, but after that some episodes are missing because they haven't been subbed yet. Like, episode 97 hasn't been subbed, but 98 and 99 have. Episode 100 hasn't been subbed, but 101, 102, 103, 104 and 105 have, then there is no episodes with subs until episode 109, etc. The missing episodes are currently being subbed at a weekly rate though. Also, in January Crunchyroll are going to start officially uploading the latest Gintama episodes subbed a week after they've been aired in Japan, much like what they're doing with Naruto. So there will be no need for fansubbers to sub Gintama after January, apart from the missing episodes. Originally Posted by lNaughtynemo
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my favourite anime is dragonball,dragonball z,dragonball gt
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