[4] The story revolves around an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his apprentice, Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl named Kagura.
"White Demon's Birth"), set in the war between aliens and samurais, was shown in Jump Festa 2008.
On September 30, 2009, it was published a DVD named Gintama Jump Anime Tour 2008 & 2005 which contains the 2005 and 2008 OVAs.
[12] On January 8, 2009, the streaming video service Crunchyroll began offering English subtitled episodes of the series.
On the same day, Crunchyroll also began uploading episodes from the beginning of the series at a rate of two a week.