Gintama

- Season 1

(2006)

Gintoki and his friends Shinpachi and Kagura start their odd-jobs business with helping out a man whose house is on a faultline.

Gintoki stumbles across a conspiracy with an earthquake machine.

Shinpachi asks Gintoki for help as his sister has been abducted to pay a debt.

Kagura forces Gintoki and Shinpachi to help her escape some yakuza.

Gintoki gets embroiled in a terrorist plot.

Gintoki and Kagura get involved in jailbreak incident.

The Amanto prince has lost his pet and is driving the government and law force mad about it, and Gintoki's crew gets sucked into the chaos.

Gintoki has to fight a duel with Kondo Isao, leader of the police force, who is stalking Tae.

Hijikata tracks down Gintoki to fight him in revenge for the duel with Kondo. But Gintoki is busy repairing a roof.

Kagura adopts a giant dog as a pet, to the dismay of Gintoki and Shinpachi.

Gintoki and Kagura visit Shinpachi in the hospital. They encounter an old male inpatient, he asks them to look for his first love named Ayano.

One night, Otose finds a female alien named Catherine in a back alley. Otose employs Catherine because she was at a loss as to what to do.

A daughter of the prestigious family went missing, her father asks Yorozuya to find her.

Shinsengumi has to protect a corrupt high shogunate official, unwillingly. Meanwhile, a graceful girl wants Kagura to become a friend only a day.

Katsura meets Gintoki again with "Elizabeth", a strange creature, it's a present from Tatsuma Sakamoto, one of their old friends.

The story of Taizo Hasegawa, a former immigration officer who got kicked out and reduced to a beggar called a Madao by all around him.

The robots which Gengai Hiraga made will be featured in 20th anniversary festival of the opening of earth to the universe.

A lingerie thief is on the prowl. When he steals Tae's panties, she tries to catch the thief with the help of both the Yorozuya and Shinsengumi.

The creature from outer space which appeared on a beach and had a price on its head. Gintoki and Hasegawa heard such a story, they try to catch it with Shinpachi, Kagura and Tae.

The Shinsengumi see the ghost of a woman in their headquarters.

The Yorozuya catch a Kappa water demon at a pond. / On a hot summer day, Gintoki goes to buy a fan.

The story of how female ninja Ayame Sarutobi met Gintoki and the Yorozuya.

Kagura raffled off a trip into the space. But, the spaceship which handymen boarded is hijacked by soldiers of Sonno Joi. Gintoki has a reunion with one of his old friends, Tatsuma Sakamoto, amid the chaos.

Gintoki and Katsura offend Saigo, a muscular drag queen, who in retaliation forces them to work in his bar as drag queens.

Gintoki, Shinpati, Kagura prepare to eat Sukiyaki. They each want to eat beef more than others, try to play mind games like "Death Note".

Madao asks handymen to work part-time as staff of a convenience store. Shinpati caught a shoplifter who is one of his old friends, Taka-chin.

Yorozuya investigates an underground-arena at the request of Okita.

Because Yorozuya and Shinsengumi broke the underground-arena, one secret organization puts political pressure on Katakuriko Matsudaira, the Director of the National Police Agency.

While trying to pawn off Gintoki's sword, Kagura is attacked by a crazed sword collector. Later, the Yorozuya gang find themselves in the middle of an invasion by space cockroaches.

Shinpachi was shocked to hear that Tuu Terakado makes a date with Goemon who is one of idol. Soon after, Tuu asks Yorozuya for help because she is threatened by someone.

Gintoki lost his memories because he had an car accident. In order to recover his memories, Shinpachi and Kagura take him around Edo.

It has been 2 weeks since Gintoki disappeared. Sagaru Yamazaki, a member of Shinsengumi finds Gintoki in a factory while he is undercover investigating.

Gintoki recovered. He has to repair his office broken by Tatsuma. Tatsuma has arranged good carpenter brothers for him.

Shinpachi saved a Nekomimi-girl who had a hard time with Katakuriko Matsudaira getting drunk.

Shinpachi and Nekomimi-girl, what will happen to their love? / Katakuriko dotes on his daughter, he wants her to break up with her boyfriend who looks like sleazy guy.

Hanako, Tae's colleague has given many money to a cult religion. Yorozuya infiltrate to investigate into it.

In Christmas Eve, a Santa Clues has a quarrel with his reindeer. Gintoki arbitrates their quarrel. / The characters spend a noisy day as usual on New Year's Eve.

The Snow Festival is hold in Kabuki-Chou. / Yorozuya takes care of an old firework-craftsman who is a patient of dementia at the request of his son.

A wounded Katsura takes refuge in a ramen restaurant run by an attractive widow.

A dangerous extraterrestrial slips into Edo. Shinsengumi receives advice from Umi-Bouzu, a legendary alien-buster of Yato, they put a cordon around the area.

When Gintoki finds that Umi-Bouzu wants to take back his daughter, Kagura, he decides to dismiss her from Yorozuya.

Gintoki and Sadaharu who went to the terminal, were swallowed to the extraterrestrial which grew up.

The female characters certain that Kagura left Edo, they fight for the position of the new heroine. / Elizabeth was arrested by a corrupt magistrate. Katsura asks Yorozuya for help.

Go-Ninjar has to fight against Ninja-Five to rescue Elizabeth.

Sadaharu goes into a feral state and the Yorozuya team up with shrine maiden sisters Ane and Mone to restore him to normal.

Tae and Ane work in the same bar. Because both of them are troublemakers, the manager advises them to resign.

Hedoro, a kind florist who has a demonic face, moves in next door to the Yorozuya. He tries to befriend them, but ends up frightening them to death.

Revolutionaries attempt to assassinate Hijikata, but Hijikata and Gintoki keep getting into fights. / An old man asks Kagura to play the "kick the can" game, which becomes an all-out war.

Gintoki and Madao encounter a legendary gambler in a casino which Kada runs. Kada is one of the big-four of the Kabuki-Chou.

At the start of a new season, everyone tries to improve the show with several approaches.

A baby boy who looks just like Gintoki is found in front of the Yorozuya's office.

Shinpachi and Kagura make an investigation into the baby boy's history, but find themselves hunted by the boy's tycoon grandfather and his hired swordsman.

Tatsumi, a female firefighter hunts for a pyromaniac.

A country woman of middle age asks Yorozuya to seek for her son, Hachirou.

The Yorozuya deal with the yakuza trying to take over the nightclub Takamagahara, and make a surprising discovery about Hachirou, whose mother is their client.

Tuu Terakado serves as director of Shinsengumi only a day. Her new producer named Tsunpo has a hidden personality.

While Tatsuma Sakamoto's company named Kaientai made a deal, somebody attacked it, and money and articles were stolen. Mutsu, Tatsuma's right-hand woman asks Yorozuya to hunt a criminal.

A yoto sword named Benizakura has disappeared. Katsura has been missing. And Shinsuke Takasugi's violent Joi party named Kiheitai begins to move in Edo.

Tetsuko Murata tell Gintoki that Takasugi and her brother named Tetsuya have their each ambitions.

Katsura's Joi party engages in an air battle against Kiheitai, Nizou counterattacks it with Benizakura. Meanwhile, Shinpachi and Kagura are saved by an unexpected person.

Gintoki fights a duel with Nizou on Kiheitai's mothership.

Hijikata gets the witness information that Gintoki was in a battle between Kiheitai and Katsura's Joi party. He orders Yamazaki to look into Gintoki's background.

Zenzou Hattori was leader of Oniwaban; the Ninjas of Shogunate's guard, he is now a pizza deliverer, and a Jack-of-all-tread secretly. He undertakes kidnapping a girl named Okuni who is a clairvoyant. Meanwhile, Yorozuya undertakes to guard her.

Katsura takes interview by a news program as a leader of the moderate faction of Joi movement.

The Shogun has lost his pet beetle in the forest and the Shinsengumi are sent to look for it. But Gintoki and his group are in the forest too.

The storekeeper of a new cafe tries to get a property where a long-established dumpling store is. Gintoki heard that, and proposes his idea.

Gintoki wrecks an alien delivery girl's scooter and has to help her with her job delivering packages. / Sa-chan goes undercover to find an organ stealing doctor, but is derailed by Gintoki's presence at the hospital.

The Yorozuya gang helps out with the haunted house at the neighborhood's's summer festival.

Gintoki finds a severed head of girl at a garbage collection point near his home.

Many housemaid-robots assault Yorozuya suddenly. Yorozuya hurries to Gengai's factory with Tama.

No. 502 tries to carry out a coup by machines.

Kagura is concerned that Sadaharu's physical condition is not good. / Gintoki happens to encounter Katsura in a driving school.

The Yorozuya goes to the mountains to pick matsutake mushrooms, despite being warned that the mountain is dangerous.

A virus is spreading through Kabukicho causing people to grow a thick uni-brow. Just like the main character from the manga Kochikame.

An omnibus of Gintama with Yorozuya's comments.

It's likely that Kondou is forced to marry an Alien girl for political reasons by Katakuriko Matsudaira. Shinsengumi begs Tae to engagement to him, but she has had fiancé since she was child.

Yorozuya, Kondou, Hijikata and Okita head to Yagyuu's house after Tae. The best four belonging to the Yagyuu confronts them.

When the victory or defeat of the battle of Kagura and Okita versus Nishino is decided, the battle of Hijikata versus Kitaouji begins.

Gintoki, Kondou and Binbokusai Yagyuu get into a desperate situation at bathroom.

Gintoki fights a duel with Binbokusai. Meanwhile Hijikata finds something while he fights against Kyubei Yagyuu.

It's revealed that Kyuubei's past and Tae's real intention.

A mysterious monster appears in a remote village in the heart of a mountain. Yorozuya tries to get rid of it for the prize money. / Hamuko asks Yorozuya to rescue her boyfriend.

Tae asks Gintoki and his friends to fill in at the Snack Smile Club as her co-workers are on sick leave. But the same night they are at the club, the Shogun of Edo pays a visit.

Gintoki helps a detective to track down a thief.

Kozenigata catches up with Chogoro, only to find duplicates of him and a starting secret from his youth.

Okita's elder sister, Mitsuba visits Shinsengumi Headquarters. It's revealed that Shinsengumi's past.

Mitsuba's condition has changed suddenly when Gintoki visits her in the hospital. Meanwhile, Hijikata finds out the purpose of Mitsuba's fiancé, and heads to him alone.

Gintoki plans a gokon - a blind date - to make Kyuubei into more of a girl.

Gintoki, Shinpachi and Kagura hear "Sleepers, wake" in the pitch-dark world. Meanwhile, Kondou, Hijikata and Okita hear "Sleepers, wake" in the dazzling light world.

The Yorozuya end up in the hospital, and they try to aid a romance.

Kagura, Otae and Satchan have all been gaining some weight lately, and they decide to join a fasting dojo. There they run into Otose, Catherine and Kyubei.

A sniper aims at Katakuriko Matsudaira, he is so panicked because he cannot stop feeling that Gintoki saw through his scheme.

Yorozuya provides relationship consultation for the super-heroine who defends the universe.

Hasegawa finally gets a job, and now he wants to get back together with his wife. However, he is suddenly arrested by his wife's new lover, an influential prosecutor.

Hasegawa goes to court, with the Yorozuya as his defense attorneys.

Mysterious creatures invaded a planet, so the inhabitants are in the depths of despair. Saving such people is work of the legendary alien-buster Umi-bouzu.

Friends from Catherine's robber past tempt her to do another job. / Shinpachi and Kagura carry out a job by themselves, as Gintoki is laid up with a bad cold.

The Yorozuya and Shinsengumi face off to buy a limited-release new game machine, the Owee.

A game tournament commences with the Owee as the winners' prize. Who will win?

Gintoki meets the creators of the Gintaman manga to give them advice on improving their comic.

Shinsengumi Crisis. Hijikata gets a new sword. Unfortunately it is cursed by an otaku spirit, which causes Hijikata to act strange. Just as Shinsengumi advisor Ito returns to Edo.

Hijikata is suspended from the Shinsengumi and Ito is moving forward with his plan to take over the organization.

Itou makes an attempt on Kondou's life. Yorozuya and Hijikata become aware of it, they go after a train that Kondou and Itou are taking.

Hijikata has broken the curse and can fight Ito to protect Kondo and the Shinsengumi. Meanwhile Bansai of the Kiheitai faces Gintoki and reveals their reason for supporting Ito.

Ito comes to terms with his life and himself after his attempted takeover of the Shinsengumi. Gintoki and Bansai's deadly battle nears its conclusion.

Kagura accidentally poisons the FC Oedo soccer team, and now the Yorozuya has to find replacement players just two hours before the game starts.

Odd Jobs are hired by a Yakuza boss to help his son who has locked himself in his room for the past five years.

Kyoujirou tries to take his boss's place at any risk. What the secret does he keep?

Yamazaki goes undercover and tries to join the Anti-Foreigner Faction. But becoming a member is more difficult than he he planned, with both a job interview and an entrance exam.

Katsura goes to hopeless prison, Gokumon-island after he was under arrest. He makes the prisoners think differently about a jailbreak, and gets on with a most villainous prisoner Shachi.

Yorozuya provides relationship consultation for one of drag queen Agomi in Kamakko-club. / Kagura wants a girlish umbrella.

Even though Tama is a robot, Otose doesn't want her to work all the time. She asks Gintoki to show Tama how to enjoy herself on her day off.

Concerned over the lack of bathroom hygiene in the Shinsengumi headquarters, Hijikata and Okita starts a Toilet Revolution.

When Katakuriko Matsudaira notices that many men make advances on his beloved daughter, he makes plan for knock them off.

The Odd Jobs are working as lifeguards at the beach for the summer. A man dressed up as a turtle says he can take them to the legendary Ryugu Palace.

Yorozuya, Tae, Kyuubei, Madao and Katsura drift ashore on an uninhabited island. Meanwhile, there is a terrorist attack in Edo.

Kamenashi tells Yorozuya and their company that the Dragon King's Palace's past and Otohime has a terrible plan. They have to make her stop doing anymore.

Gintoki, Katsura and Shinpachi try to scatter Edo with a lot of vaccine.

After a smoking ban is implemented throughout the nation, chain-smoker Hijikata is forced to leave Earth in search of a planet where he can have a cigarette.

Katsura infiltrates into an alien restaurant that discriminate against people of the Earth. / Madao becomes a temporary manager of the conveyor belt sushi restaurant, however, he asks Yorozuya to help because he cannot make sushi.

A couple of aliens are abducting people all over Edo and turning them into screwdrivers.

Trying to track down the aliens responsible for turning them into screwdrivers, everyone is playing the online game 'Monkey Hunter'.

Yorozuya and their company have lost a clue to the identity of the culprit. Can they return to their original form?

Otsu's producer sprained his finger when his helicopter crashed and can't write a new single. Determined not to let down her fans, Otsu decides to write the song herself.

Yorozuya and Tae encounter Shinsengumi when they are enjoying cherry-viewing.

Shinpachi finds a message in a bottle at the beach. It's from a girl who wants to find a friend to correspond with.

Shinpachi needs help with writing a love letter. Gintoki, Kondo and Hijikata offer their advise.

Kirara gets overwhelmed by the whole situation and runs off. Everyone goes looking for her and find her at the top of a building.

Sadaharu has not had his usual appetite for a few days, and a worried Kagura takes him to the veterinarian.

Trying to reunite a dying man with his dog, Kagura finds herself caught up in an intergalactic fight between cats and dogs.

Otose sends the Odd Jobs to a hot spring resort to help the owner, Oiwa, in managing her Ryokan inn. However there are rumors saying the inn might be haunted.

At the inn, Shinpachi, Kagura and Tae are possessed by ghosts. Besides, Oiwa forces Gintoki to give ghosts hospitality with Rei.

Gintoki plans to lose the reputation of the inn using Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Mitsuhide.

Gin fights Oiwa, who has let herself be possessed by her dead husbands spirit.

The once popular manga 'Gintaman' has been losing readers, and the new editor takes help from Gintoki to revive the series.

Hasegawa invites his estranged wife over to his apartment. The only problem is Hasegawa is currently homeless, living in a cardboard box. Gin helps him find a place to live.

Sa-chan and Kondou try to play matchmaker to get the other's love for them. / Christmas is coming. Gintoki reunites with Santa and his reindeer Ben.

Gintoki tells Shinpachi and Kagura a tale about a previous Yorozuya group formed before them.

The street child Seita believes one of the courtesans working in the underground citadel of Yoshiwara is his long-lost mother. The Yorozuya sneak in to investigate.

The Hyakka, Yoshiwara's law enforcement squad, are sent to kill Seita to keep him away from his mother.

Kagura's brother Kamui has arrived in Yoshiwara, intending to confront his former mentor Hosen.

Gintoki and the gang has come to save Seita but their path is blocked by Abuto, another Yato clan warrior.

Kagura finds herself because Shinpachi continues to call her. Meanwhile, Kamui visits Hinowa with Seita.

Gin is outmatched in his fight against the King of the Knight. Tsukuyo and the Hyakka comes to his aid.

Kagura and Shinpachi are trying to reach the control room to open up the ceiling and let Yoshiwara see the sunlight for the first time in many years.

The sun shines upon all alike. It's revealed Housen and Hinowa's past under the sun.

After recently having faced opponents stronger than they had seen before, Shinpachi and Kagura want to train to become stronger.

Hijikata and Okita wake up and find themselves chained together in an abandoned room. A mysterious man calling himself Jigsaw wants to play a game.

After two days of Jigsaw's captivity Hijikata and Okita continue to search for a way to escape.

The Odd Jobs gang talk about how they should end the series, as they now have reached the final episode.

Gintoki goes for a haircut and when the barber has to run an errand he leaves the Odd Jobs in charge of the barbershop.

The shogun comes in to the barbershop requesting to have his chonmage redone.

Kagura can't fall asleep, so she goes to Gintoki's room and troubles him about her trouble.

It's Kyubei's birthday and everyone is attending her birthday party. Although it turns out to be a bit fancier than they are used to.

Hasegawa is tired of always losing and being called a Madao, so he bets everything on the horse races trying to escape his spiral of bad luck.

Three samurais who seem to be Gintoki, Hijikata, Kondou come in Oden stand. They want to complain to vender in the stand about each other while drink, but they can't. They have awkward moments gradually.

After a Tsu Terakado concert Shinpachi notices that there are only four members in the fan club left and the other members quit and joined the Tsusengumi fan club instead.

To stop fights between fans, Tsu Terakado announces a contest to decide her official fan club.

The first round in the Tsu Tearakado's Official Fan Club contest is a 10 km race. Takachin is hit by a taxi, but thanks to Gin's quick thinking makes an instant recovery.

Both Toshi's Tsusengumi and Shinpachi's Imperial Guards has qualified for the next round; a Tsu Terakado trivia quiz.

For the second round the two teams will try to woo Otsu in a charisma contest.

It's time for the final round in the Tsu Terakado's Official Fan Club contest. Shinpachi and Hijikata face off in an Otsu card battle.

Despite Otsu's plea for them to stop, Shinpachi and Toshi have turned the final round into a boxing match.

Yorozuya learns that the fake Yorozuya has made money hand over fist through shady business. / Shinpachi encounters a man who is wearing a blue Zentai. He says he came from the future.

Everyone is sick, but the comedy goes on.

While Hijikata is on a stakeout Gintoki shows up, and Okita handcuffs the two together for the day for fun.

Tama has been working hard everyday causing her to catch a cold. A computer virus that is making her appearance become pixelated.

The Odd Jobs trio have been shrunk down in size and entered Tama's body to fight the virus from the inside.

With the help of the Leukocyte King the gang has made their way to Tama's main system which has been taken over by the Archfiend Tapir.

The Leukocyte King gets angry because Gintoki takes hasty action. And so they argue between themselves.

Two burglars break in to the Odd Jobs office. / The Yorozuya find their hair is falling out.

A serial killer is brought to the Shinsengumi office for interrogation. Kohei Tanaka might have information about a terrorist attack his radical Joi group is planning.

Katsura's pet Elizabeth looks completely different from usual, but Katsura doesn't notice it./Gintoki wakes up and realizes he has switched bodies with Sadaharu.

The Yorozuya go fishing with Hasegawa, and later on get trapped in an elevator with a sad man.

Gintoki and Hijikata have tooth problems, so they go to see a dentist. He turns out to be terrifying, but neither can give in to the other.

This story is at the halfway point through S4. Yorozuya chats a lot as always, and they make a momentous announcement suddenly.

Gintoki returns to Yoshiwara to help with a new criminal gang that has moved in after Hosen's death.

Gintoki and Tsukuyo infiltrate the Red Spiders gang to find the man with a spider tattoo, but are quickly discovered by the leader, Jiraia.

Tsukuyo is held captive by her former master Jiraia, who intends to set fire to Yoshiwara and burn down everything and everyone Tsukuyo cares about.

Gintoki reproaches Tsukuyo for her acts of incurring alone. And he fires up Jiraia because he has betrayed her trust as her master.

Yoshiwara is recovering after the recent incident. But Tsukuyo has been feeling down so everyone tries to cheer her up.

The results of the second Gintama popularity poll is announced and Shinpachi is depressed after learning that he's still in 8th place, unchanged from the previous ranking.

Characters unhappy with their rank in the popularity poll are attacking higher ranking characters.

Things turn into an all out war between all the major characters as they try to raise their popularity ranking.

Hijikata's dream come true when he wins a tour of a mayonnaise factory. / A group of monks hire Odd Jobs to get rid of a giant alien beehive that appeared at their temple.

As Okita leaves a cake shop a girl suddenly comes up and stabs him, accusing him of killing her father.

Yorozuya reinvestigates Rokkaku Incident. When the truth comes out, they head to Okita and his company to help.

A class of schoolchildren are reporting on what they did over the summer break. One child tells how he found a Madao in the park and let it stay with him for the summer.

A journalist interviews a old man about Joi War in a remote village. The old man says, there were four famous young samurais fighting together in the war. / Kagura gets to know a boy where she went to radio calisthenics.

The Odd Jobs are hired to catch a stray cat that had been causing trouble in the neighborhood. But Gintoki gets turned into a cat.

Houichi takes Gin the Cat, Zura the Cat and Kondou the Gorilla to Otose's bar to get food. Meanwhile, someone lets people catch many stray cats alive.

Gin, Zura and Kondou learn that an alien cat king comes incognito to the Earth, and he has caught many stray cats using Yakuza. They tried to rescue the cats, but get into trouble by the plot of the Cat King.

Kagura is in charge of cooking but after several days of only eating egg over rice Gin has had enough. Otae invites Kagura to join a cooking class with her.

Shinsengumi gets an information and heads to an inn to arrest Joi lordless samurais who have a meeting to capture the terminal. Then Hijikata notices that something sticks out of Kondou's nostril in strained silence.

Lately popular weather presenter Christel Ketsuno's forecasts have been wrong. Gintoki sees her walking the rainy streets of Kabukicho and decides to help her out.

Weather girl Ms. Ketsuno's forecasts are being sabotaged by someone using their powers as onmyoji to change the weather.

To save his sister Seimei Ketsuno accepts Doman's challenge to a Shikigami tag-team mystic death match.

Despite the high risk for being driven out of his position, Seimei assembles his magical power that he placed everywhere to protect Edo, and confronts Douman.

Consumed by negative emotions, Doman is transformed into a giant demon. A demon sealed away over a millennium ago by the Ketsuno and Shirino clans.

It's Christmas time and Kagura is sad that she has never been visited by Santa Claus. But at the evenings Christmas party not one, but two Santas appear.

Kagura announces the very first Very Merry Contest to determine who the real Santa Claus is.