[3] The story revolves around an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his apprentice, Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl named Kagura.
[5] On January 8, 2009, the streaming video site Crunchyroll began offering English subtitled episodes of the series.
[6] On the same day, Crunchyroll also began uploading episodes from the beginning of the series at a rate of two a week.
Kagura spends the day with a runaway princess, who longs to be an ordinary girl.
Shinpachi discovers the true nature of the cat-eared Amanto as Gintoki, Kagura and Otae attempt to bring her down.
Gintoki meets Santa & his "reindeer" and attempts to improve their image and find the true meaning of Christmas.
As Kagura tries to return to the Yorozuya, she witnesses the aftermath for the rest of the cast while Otae, Sa-chan, and Catherine all try to go for the series' heroine position.