Audience reviews
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Aan1m
Part 1 of the beginning of the end - once again in gintama fashion it’s just brilliant I absolutely love the humour that’s brought back to the anime and the way the slowly bring back all of the important figures from past arcs to join together with the kabuki district residents it’s just great to see so much investment pay off In a great way - it makes me feel as if watching everything and liking all the characters was actually worth it to see them all together and on the same side taking on utsuro - apart from that it is the first time you can tell that the animation declines a lot from the previous seasons and you can see the affect that the change in studios and time constrains had on this season - even still though the first half of this is still much better than a lot of endgame arcs
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Unironically I can say every episode of "Gintama: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen" is worse than the last and here's why this MIGHT be the worst Gintama by far.
For starters, there is way too much bullshit happening at once. I can give them props for utilizing the original premise and some of the lore setups like the past 3 arcs. However they are introducing way too many things that either were not even mentioned, foreshadowed or barely touched upon. Like why are we NOW getting backstory on Prince Hata's (a char who was introduced in like episode 5 or something btw) race? And spending it to make unfunny penis jokes too so idk whether to laugh or to focus on the plot. And too many characters. Like why does Kintoki return? Nonsense.
The comedic moments are funny in isolation and I liked them, ho…
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The direct continuation of the climax and perhaps the moment when Gintama comes closest to a true all-out war.
Gintama: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen wastes no time: it takes everything that has been built up over hundreds of episodes and transforms it into a conflict of gigantic proportions. Here, there is no more room for isolated stories or episodic missions; it's the moment when practically all the important characters enter the scene to defend Earth.
And that's one of the greatest merits of this phase: the feeling of reunion. Characters from different arcs, factions, and moments in the work return, each bringing with them their own baggage, their motivations, and their ties to the past. The result is a narrative that deeply rewards those who have followed Gintama this far. Nothing seems…
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This is the closer experience you'll get to “Avengers: Endgame” in any anime I've ever seen. While “Gintama°” and “Gintama.” combines the multiple threads previously laid out to deliver an ingeniously written and interwoven narrative, this season takes on the task of calling upon every one of those completed characters from past events for the final confrontation.
It starts off strong with a heavily symbolic episode, and then goes on reintroducing recurrent characters and factions and how they have dealt with the new Edo landscape. Every introduction is very considerate to the characters, touching on their central gags and strengths, reminding us of their arc and what they learned, making for an overall very amusing experience on the eve of the final confrontation.
If you liked “Gintama”…
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I liked Silver Soul
It was not *as* good as 2nd season Gintama or even Slip Arc, because I am a fan of comedy. This was still much much better than the atrocity of 5th season.
This one is basically people invading earth again, and everyone gets together and fights against the green goblin monsters.
Its not a very hard plot to follow on.
Whats good is the comedy. And the OP is a banger!
Never skipped the OP!!!
But I am glad there is a lot of comedy in this one. It was nice.
Final Score: 7/10 the comedy was nice but too much action for me.
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Thanks!
-CyanCheetah
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The anime features a unique blend of comedy, action, drama, and satire, making it a one-of-a-kind viewing experience. The series also pays homage to various anime, manga, and pop culture references, making it a treat for fans of those genres.
The main characters of the series include Gintoki Sakata, a lazy samurai who runs a freelance business called Odd Jobs Gin; Shinpachi Shimura, a glasses-wearing teen who joins Odd Jobs Gin as an apprentice; and Kagura, an alien girl with superhuman strength who works with Odd Jobs Gin.
The music in "Gintama: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen" is composed by Audio Highs, and it includes a mix of traditional Japanese music, rock, and pop songs. The opening and ending themes of the series are also quite catchy and memorable.
Overall, "Gintama: Shirogane no Ta…
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In my opinion, no, actually as a matter of fact, the biggest strength of Gintama has always been the comedy. However, this season explores serious themes and seeks to finally end the anime and tie all loose ends. And it's the absolute worst. Though somehow Gintama the semi-final and final manage to be even worse.
First of all, since this is primarily a comedy anime let's talk about it. Well, it has been subpar at the very best. Most of the comedy is just a rip-off of previous seasons (Jet Armstrong Cannon, etc). The fights were boring as fuck because there wasn't any real emotion or interesting backstory behind it. The only one with any interesting backstory is Utsuro, but his story is dragged on for so long that I could barely care. Or maybe it's just me who watched the anime between lo…
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Do you blame the author for his stretches of events or the studio for poor graphics and animation, this season is one of the worst seasons for Gintama
This is due to several reasons that we will address in this review, but first
The story was complementary to the events of the anime, the episodes were not precisely proportioned, as you would feel the slowdown of events to fit in 12 episodes, it was possible to present it in the form of a movie and a short summary of the episode. Unimportant events and not funny comedy, the story was a bit complicated, but they have difficulties in coordinating the comedy and the seriousness of the events was very confusing, I expected, but I enjoyed it anyway, the pace of events is very slow. But the individual elements of the story were executed rather t…
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Gintama.: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen
Gintama: Silver Soul Arc
I already had huge doubts about the Rakuyou arc, but here they outdid themselves. Everything negative that Gintama could have ever done was present in just one season.
The plot comes to a head, the final season of Gintama was split into two halves. After these two, only the final movie comes and that's it, the story finds its end.
And yet, this season felt like half an eternity to me. 50% of the time the characters are just running and throwing meaningless dialogues around. The rest of the time extremely drawn-out fights with deadly slow pacing.
- This similar problem exists in One Piece, but here the slow pacing has practically surpassed Teo Animation.
In addition, the fights were monotonous, boring, and frankly not even m…
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“Unless you come back alive, I won’t forgive you. Come back here, accompany me to [his] grave and report to him that we protected Edo. If you don’t… I’ll never forgive you!”
- Soyo, Episode 353 (Gintama.: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen 12)
This series is a little bit like fan service but in a good way. It feels earned as we watch characters begin to fight for their home with the returning faces working well in the plot. Their motivations line up with what we know about them, and no one feels like they are out of character, which is an impressive feat when considering the sheer amount of people returning to join the fray.
Thanks to Gintama’s structure as a whole, the character interactions feel genuine; even when characters who have barely interacted previously work together, it feels natura…
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I was sort of modest with my rating of this season because I really did enjoy it, but it was a little bit slow so I hedged and went with a nine.
I don't really wanna spend too much time on this season's review because it was sort of just a battle more than anything else. What it did well was bringing back old characters to the scene that haven't been used much or seen in a while to make this season feel like it was all of Edo fighting for their planet; I liked that a lot. This season also did well to show that Gintoki doesn't always have to be at the center of every battle. Most shounen (which isn't what Gintama is entirely, but the main story definitely is) puts a heavy focus on the main character and their strength, but I like seeing through this season that Kabukicho is a central char…
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(This review applies to the entire Gintama series.)
What is Gintama about? Well, according to Gin-san: "We don't even know". But for me, Gintama is a great filler with some anime bows tucked in the middle of genius shapes.
Gintama tells a story about Japan at a time when it was dominated by alien forces, the plot focuses on our four protagonists: Gintoki, Shinpachi, Kagura and Sadaharu. Now speaking of the anime, Gintama is very good indeed, all the characters have a different charisma, from their personalities to their beliefs, like our revolutionary Zura, oh my mistake, "Zura janai, Katsura da.", Dear Hasegawa-san (Madao), the whole shinsegumi from Kondo-san (gorilla), Hijikata-san (mayonnaise) Okita-kun (sadist), among others. Seriously, there are soooo many characters, which turns out…
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The final arcs keep rolling along! Let's see... of course the story is more gripping now than ever before. We are finally seeing some questions from way back in season 1 really being fleshed out and answered. The world (especially Edo) is in more trouble than ever before. Etc. Etc.
The Art will forever be a sticking point with me. I never liked the Sunrise style so much but once they switched I was kinda sad, you know? The new style has its own merit but at worst there can be times when characters just look downright deformed.
Sound is as usual. Not much of note especially since they are still using most of the same songs they have always used. Op and Ed are good. Hmm...
Characters from way back in the series come out of the woodwork in this season, over and over and over again. Much…
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This anime accelerated right as the shogun assassination arc started. Boy, it has been a journey and each episode was a joy to watch. Gintama's comedy and humour is overtaken by the more serious silver soul arc, but that is fine with me- it's still filled with its fair share of touching moments and well-animated fight scenes.
Don't mind the review at the top- Karhu, as usual, leaves steaming piles of shit wherever he goes.
Gintama will always be my favourite long-ish anime (with more than 440 episodes), and it has the right balance of strength between "main characters", heart wrenching scenes and a pretty nice plot twist. I thank Sorachi for writing this amazing story, and the studio for not letting us down with the animation. The sound track and recent openings however, are lack luste…
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Reading the other reviews posted here, and guessing that people watching this have already watched all previous seasons of Gintama; this will be a short review pointing out the worst things of this season.
Since the end of Gintama: Enchousen, every season of Gintama that has been released has had less quality than the previous one; reaching a point where It has lost its former essence and gets painful to keep watching.
The reasons of why this season is the worst and kills the anime, are these:
1 - Almost all the characters that have appeared in the series (even side characters from 2 or 4 episodes of 350) make cameos and participate in the action, and everyone says a motivational speech a couple of times while fighting. It happened the same in the arc of Shogun's death, every character…
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I might not be a fan of Gintama, but I would be lying if I said that this season wasn't pretty damn good.
This first part of the Silver Soul arc has been a big improvement in both the serious parts and especially the comedic ones. Excluding some parts that were the standard "too gross for my preference" of Gintama, I found myself laughing a lot nearly each episode, all while also delivering impactful and badass scenes nearly at the same time, the switch from comedy to serious back to comedy worked so well, and the pacing of this season was very good.
This season brings back A LOT of characters, and god it was great, seeing all those recognizable faces appearing and getting some awesome scenes was so nice, 350~ episodes already passed since the start of the series and that could be seen h…
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Well, it’s the beginning of the end. The real end, the one we never expected after all the hoaxes and fakes but knew nonetheless would have to come eventually.
12 episodes of pure awesomeness. You can tell that watching all 350+ episodes has really paid off when even the appearance of minor characters is enough to make you smile or shout joyfully at the screen. (Or groan loudly as you hope that this is the arc they’ll finally be killed off.)
Gintama seems determined to bring back every single character who’s ever been featured. You’ll see people who you’ve almost completely forgotten about back to help save Edo, make dramatic speeches about friendship, discover Elizabeth’s real identity (…again), and get more screen-time while they’re at it! (but they don’t waste flashbacks on the minor…
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Gintama is an anime franchise with several seasons end more of 350 episodes. This season follow the events Shogun Assassination Arc, Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc and Rakuyou Decisive Battle Arc, adapting the Silver Soul Arc.
Silver Soul is Gintama arc. The representation that what Gintama is. This seasons shows your goal since the first episode: The blend of comedy and action that represents Gintama. And this is the strong point of this season!
Story: 10/10
This arc follow Utsuro plot, adding some facts extras that make a more complex development of the events of the war. Enshou wants to destroy the earth because your fury. Utsuro want to destroy he and all, because he is sick of living, but at the same time is sick of human existence. And our protagonists want protect what they love, those…
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I could say a lot about this franchise, but I'm just going to discuss about this season.
Gintama.: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen adapts the first part of the Silver Soul arc, the end game of Gintama. So if you haven't watched anything related to Gintama yet, this season will not be for you.
Story: 10
Silver Soul continues the story after the Rakuyou's Decisive Battle Arc (Gintama.).
All the build-up done in the past it's now coming to it's climax, we see a lot of early plot elements and characters come back, and becoming relevant once again.
This arc has a lot of action, sad and fun moments blended together without altering the pacing or the story itself. It's great.
Art: 8
The art has been mostly consisent, but there are some still frames that doesn't look so good. Nevertheless, the backgr…
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The Silver Soul arc brings an amazing blend of comedy and action, never seen before in Gintama. One moment your in a fight and the next you are laughing your ass off.
Story - 10:
This time around we are getting a space war, and it's really well written. I really like the politics this arc brings.
Art - 8:
Pretty good, but in a few episodes there are too much still frames.
Sound - 10:
As always amazing soundtrack and voice work! Character - 9:
This season brings back a lot of characters from the previous seasons. A lot of unexpected characters too.
Overall:
Loved the season, there were sadly some pacing issues at the middle.
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