Gintama°
This is the "greatest" and "most important" Gintama season of them all. Not only because it contains 2 of the best arcs, but also 2 of the biggest developments and twists in this anime that completely overturn the plot. And honestly, I respect the author for those 2 creative choices that made this season sweeter for me.
Unfortunately, this season is also practically the end of Gintama. In the sense that the quality already starts to drop massively here and reaches its nadir in later seasons.
Humor is the same goldmine as in all other seasons. This creative and insane mind that created the silliest scenes again holds countless laughs.
And as much as I love Gintama, it breaks my heart. The studio did their best and I'm glad to have seen this work animated at all. However, it doesn't change the fact that the pacing on the studio's part is disastrously slow and spongy. They are aware of this from time to time and try to use it as a "joke". From the viewer's perspective, it is less funny and resembles torture. However, this wonderfully amusing phenomenon only occurs in the "serious" arcs. Especially in the Shinigami arc, which was barely convincing half the time. And then the "Farewell Shinsengumi Arc". This one undoubtedly had a huge build-up and the result was worth seeing. Add to that one of the biggest twists as far as shounen villains go and the true identity of the mastermind behind it all is revealed. As nice as it sounds, the pacing almost froze half of the fight scenes. The dialogue was lightheartedly repetitive, the characters just run around, and there's no progress at all. It gets especially annoying as soon as there is a "character death" which is almost cannibalized to 10 minutes, where are we? In Naruto? No. Not only does the death scene itself last almost 5 minutes. No, then someone farts, then everyone calms down, then someone cries, everyone calms down. And in between, we see 3 identical backgrounds. I like the drama and found the character Deaths relatively sad, especially since I liked them a lot. But this over-dramatization almost reaches a theatrical level here.
[Story 6]
There is an enormous amount of development in the Gintama world, completely changing Edo bit by bit (excluding comedy episodes) You can also see what a clear impact the administration has on the entire planet. This becomes even clearer after the "person" behind everything is revealed, which was an impressive surprise for many viewers, including me. Especially looking back that the author hinted at it several times but I ignored it. It's probably because you just don't expect such a twist in Gintama, which makes the shock factor greater.
That being said, this season was the strongest in terms of "plot". Especially the "Assassination of the Shogun" arc revealed as many new aspects and as many new characters.
[Characters 6]
The usual Gintama clowns are represented. In the comedy episodes, everyone shows their best side. And in the serious episodes, they rain melodrama. Especially the biggest representative of "Sakata Gintoki", he could almost replace Naruto in terms of "Talk no Jutsu". Only with the exception that Gintoki first breaks a few bones of his opponent after and before his talk, so I can still accept it somehow. Honestly, I like Gintoki much more in the comedy episodes. The rest remained about the same. Shinpachi is still glasses, Kagura is still the best shounen female character, Zura is still active with his best character gag, as well as the man among men, Hasegawa.
The new characters already met in the previous season, from the new military unit Mimawarigumi are also quite amusing with their special character traits. Isaburo in particular left a positive impression with his fluctuating personality between "executioner of politics" and "the guy you want to trade emails with". His greedy partner was also an interesting substitute for Kagura.
[Music 8]
Some of the best osts , intros and outros still. Gintama impressively surprises in this area.
[Animation 6]
Fluctuating as always, this is the last good animated season though (aside from the slip arc), everything after that loses even more budget. I at least liked that the fights still had some intensity, making you feel the force of the fight.
Conclusion
Gintama has conquered the hearts of many and I love this series. This season was the highlight of Gintama On the part of the "Real Story". Since everything has been said, I can't add anything more. Another good season of Gintama.
[Enjoyment 10]
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