We learned back at the end of December 2014 that Gintama was going to be coming back and it’s the kind of thing you can expect to happen a few more times in the years to come if the manga continues on. While we knew we were getting a spring 2015 premiere for it, the official site has updated now to reveal that the show will be premiering on April 8th, 2015 at 6pm JST, giving it a pretty plum audience to work with for the family hour.
The series is being overseen by Yoichi Fujita with Chizuru Miyawaki serving as the director and Shinji Takeuchi as the character designer with the it being produced at Sunrise again.
The series comes from the manga by Hideaki Sorachi and began its animated life back in 2006, first with a 201 episode series and then with a new 64 episode series a couple of years ago. Add in numerous specials and a pair of theatrical movies and there is a lot of material for the property and plenty more to adapt as the manga has been ongoing since 2003. There are currently 57 published volumes in Japan as well as five light novels.
Property concept: Life isn’t easy in feudal Japan… especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult career choice! This is especially true if they’re not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki Sakata’s opted for the freelance route, taking any job that’s offered to him as long as the money’s right.
Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed montsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza, and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don’t pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering, and indignities endured!
EEEE I CAN’T WAIT!! i KNEW SORACHI-SENSEI HADN’T GIVEN UP ON US !!
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