Stuff happens. What kind of stuff? I’m still not sure.
What They Say:
Gintama is a story of a handyman named Gintoki, a samurai with no respect for rules set by the invaders, who’s ready to take any job to survive. He and his gang, however, are also among the very few who have not forgotten the morale of a swordsman. Wherever they go, all they do is to create troubles. Troubles that they of course try to solve, but in reality…
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
With the Pirako and Jirocho arc behind us now, thankfully, Gintama moves on to other things. With the previous arc being so involved in the very earth bound and bloody side of things, this one brings us a bit more of the science fiction that does populate the series as it spends a good part of its time out in space with the amusing cast of characters that exist there, including the cow-butler that I can’t help but to stare at. There’s some amusing moments as it deals with the men there, particularly when they go on about the woman of their dreams in whether she’s more of a DS or a Genesis, followed my insistence that one of them is definitely not a Sega fan, certainly has its moments. But it all comes down to the main point that there are things occurring on Earth that need to be dealt with, tools that need to be put away, and that has them heading there to make sure that their bosses main interests aren’t interfered with.
Where the show really made me laugh is when it took on the Tokyo Youth Ordnance bill briefly and just went off the rails with Shinsuke’s position on the whole thing. And it gets brought back up again as well, which just makes it even more amusing, particularly with the way Shinsuke presents it.
This episode spends all of its time in space with events that are being played out against sides that are using each other for various means. This episode felt like a whole lot of nothing in the end though because, probably due to my missing about a hundred and fifty episodes, I haven’t a clue who any of these characters are and there’s no quick reminder for anyone else either who may have come onto the show since it started back up several weeks ago. It does play some fun little Legend of Galactic Heroes aspects to it and there’s some intrigue and politics mixed in on a base level, but there’s no real connection to anything here for me. It’s looking to build up to something big considering how much time it’s spending on fairly serious material here and expanding the scope of events, so it’s an interesting starting point, but it’s not one that I think is all that friendly to newer viewers in the slightest.
In Summary:
Sometimes Gintama makes me laugh a whole lot. Sometimes it juts offers up a few chuckles and on some very good occasions, it gives me a very serious show with a lot of action that’s almost surprising from a show that’s generally more comedy oriented. Episodes like this, however, are the most frustrating because it just doesn’t work in the slightest for me because there isn’t a shred of context for anyone. If it was the middle of the arc, that’s one thing and I wouldn’t raise an eyebrow, but with it being the start of one, there’s no context provided here and no connection with the core cast of characters not even in the show outside of the opening and closing sequences. At least we get a new closing sequence this time around which is pretty nice, but it’s sad when the most interesting part of the show is the ending sequence.
Grade: D
Simulcast By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
“Episodes like this, however, are the most frustrating because it just doesn�t work in the slightest for me because there isn�t a shred of context for anyone. If it was the middle of the arc, that�s one thing and I wouldn�t raise an eyebrow, but with it being the start of one, there�s no context provided here and no connection with the core cast of characters not even in the show outside of the opening and closing sequences. ”
That must be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, especially when you didn’t even watch the first season.
“I think is all that friendly to newer viewers in the slightest.”
Obviously. Do you think it would be user friendly to start watching Naruto from season two and then complain about “Seriously, there’s this guy named Sasuke? I don’t even understand why the hell they are after him since he’s a bad guy.” It’s a second season, not a remake, a direct continuation. If you want them to explain everything that happen in the first season, then half of this season would be recaps.
Next time, try to watch everything before making stupid complains like those that are beyond anyone’s logic, but yours.
Actually, I’ve watched the first years worth of episodes, so I’ve seen a good deal of it. And the comparison doesn’t make sense. Did Sasuke show up in the first season of Naruto? Yeah. Did this guys show in the first season? Have that been integral to the series since then?
1/4 of a series is still nearly nothing if you compare it to a book. You are not supposed to know about everything about the context when you skip most of it and jump to the next one…
I take it you didn’t watch the first season of gintama? If you did you would know all of this..
This review is a total fail.
your review sucks no offense
Go eat a dick faggot.