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ReviewBonfire's avatar
Aug 16, 2022

Gintama The Final

This review comes from the fingers of a Gintama fanboy. The content is 100% serious, biologically grown, and may be passed on to your neighbors at dinner.

Gintama is a show that really can't win everyone over. It is known for its blunt, dirty, and bizarre humor and its perfectly twisted characters. If you have no prejudices against such a show and want to give this humor a chance, you will get your money's worth here. I can hardly put into words how often we had a laughter attack while watching this show, this memory will stay with me forever.

My biggest concern has always been Gintama's well-known "Serious Arcs", I found them to be a pleasant diversion, but nothing worth mentioning. Their pacing was slow, the story behind them only small, there was a lot of talk no jutsus and immense amounts of melodrama depending on which arc it was. And unfortunately, it remained a similar pattern until the end.

What can you get out of this movie?
Let me put it this way, if you didn't like the Silver Soul arc, this movie won't convince you either. It's simply a continuation of that. More dull fights, a final fight, and then some amusing jokes sprinkled underneath and an excellent recap parody at the beginning. Even though I found the concept of Utsuro and Takasugi's story interesting, the execution wasn't good enough to convince me. Gintama tried to be both absurdly silly and overly sad and melodramatic. And this was exactly the reason why you could hardly really notice the sad and emotional qualities. You knew in one scene someone was dying. And in 5 minutes, Gintoki is puking all over the floor and bathing in it.
In that sense, if you're not a tryhard fan like me, you won't find anything in this Movie.

[Animation 7/ Music 9]

The animation was excellent, but not Movie level, there were just a few moments of brilliance scattered throughout the film. In general, it's not the best-animated film of Gintama, but visually appealing enough. Especially the final fight had a stylish arena and a nice background. I liked how this one was presented.

Nothing to add for music, good as expected. The osts are dynamic and gave the movie an extra boost.

[Story 4]

As expected, the entire movie was hyped to the skies without even reflecting that hype. I thought the film was good, I was convinced by it. But for that, I had to constantly overlook the flaws.

I wondered what they were going to do with Utsuro, Shoyo, and Takasugi in the finale and was curious to see how they could wrap up the story so briefly.

First, we had 10 minutes of comedy recap, then 30 minutes of average fighting and talking. Then a final fight and the rest was comedy again. In the end, nothing was made of Utsoro at all, his arc finale felt like a side quest. Shoyo's story was concluded in a rather cliché way, so I could hardly care about it, except for his last monologue. Only Takasugi's arc finale interested me a bit, but that was it.

[Conclusion 6]

Watching Gintama was like going to the highest-rated restaurant in town, eating there, and realizing that you liked the food, but it was just food, nothing special, no matter what anyone else said.

I have to admit that Gintama is one of the best anime I've ever seen, and it always made me laugh and want to watch the next episode. But if you don't connect with this show, you won't be able to like it the way Gintama fans do.

Gintama started as a compelling parody comedy and ended up as something it never should have tried to be.
- Probably Me

[Enjoyment 7]

4/10 story
7.5/10 animation
8.5/10 sound
4/10 characters
5.5/10 overall
Efinate's avatar
Aug 14, 2021

This was quite good it was the perfect ending indeed and i will miss this series some people must have watched it after the last season and didn't knew about the semi final episodes like me but it was good

9/10 story
10/10 animation
10/10 sound
9/10 characters
9/10 overall
hakimhashira's avatar
Oct 16, 2021

the animation was great and u can see its clearly differ from the series but much better. This Gintama ending is the best way to conclude. This the funniest anime I ever watched and I loves all the female character, they all r beau. Im crying rn writing this to know that Gintama ended and I cant see kagura-san, gin-chan, sadaharu and glasses-kun anymore. hope this really gonna be the last one bcs I'd kill shinpachi if they lied, just kidding, I'll just break the glasses.

I want to thank you to those made this masterpiece, u made my day better by making GINTAMA. 

#FOREVERYOROZUYA

*SPOILER*

I like how most of the character didnt change much till the end because it is how they should be. I dont want to watch them changed at all. I dont have much to say cause it cant be described with word, but u know if watched it.

10/10 story
10/10 animation
10/10 sound
10/10 characters
10/10 overall
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