The main staff from the first TV series remain in Gintama with Yoichi Fujita as the director.

[1] The story revolves around an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his apprentice, Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl named Kagura.

All three are "freelancers" who search for work in order to pay the monthly rent, which usually goes unpaid anyway.

Eventually, he grows sick of the thought of anpan— which was mostly caused by the slow progress with his stakeout.

However, Yamazaki succeeded in his mission of apprehending the woman and her brother, who turned out to be Anti-Foreigner defectors.