[1][2][3] The story revolves around an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his apprentice, Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl named Kagura.

On January 8, 2009, the streaming video site Crunchyroll began offering English subtitled episodes of the series.

The first opening is "Stairway Generation" by Base Ball Bear and is replaced by "Light Infection" by Prague in episode 177.

"Morning Answer") by Pengin, while in episode 164 it replaced with "Wow I Nee" (ウォーアイニー, Wō Ai Nī, lit.

After one of them makes a call, somehow Gin, Kagura, Shinpachi and Hasegawa end up in a boat in the middle of the ocean, fishing for some tuna.

Due to how hard it is to find the ticket, he orders each Shinsegumi to consume five bottles of mayonnaise per day.

As Nagai is about to talk about the White Demon, he replaces him with the fictional robot Gundam to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the franchise with the same name.