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The Best Episodes of Gintama

Every episode of Gintama ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Gintama!

Best episode
S4E40 When Looking For Something, Try Using its Perspective
9.85,961 votes
Worst episode
S1E24 Cute Faces Are Always Hiding Something
6.6775 votes
Top season
Season 8
9.2avg
Binge time
6d 2h
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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Gintama Season 4 Episode 40 - When Looking For Something, Try Using its Perspective
    9.8/10(5961 votes)

    S4:E40

    While on a job observing stray cats at a shrine feeding themselves,the Yorozuya waiting for the boss cat to show up with the name Hoichi. But as he finally shows up, and Kagura and Shinpachi jump out of the bushes to capture him, he escapes easily. So they ask Gintoki to help out, when they notice that he mysteriously disappeared.

    Director:Kei Umabiki
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  2. Gintama Season 2 Episode 10 - Be Careful Not to Leave Your Umbrella Somewhere
    9.8/10(4104 votes)

    S2:E10

    Kagura gets captured. Tetsuko goes to visit the injured Gintoki and tells him the truth about the Benizakura sword.

    Director:Hiroyuki Hata
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  3. Gintama Season 4 Episode 39 - We Know It’s Best to Finish Yearly Tasks Before the End of the Year, But then You Put It Off Till Next Year for a Fresh Start. That’s How the End of the Year Goes / Radio Exercises are Socials for Boys and Girls
    9.8/10(3568 votes)

    S4:E39

    Part 1 - While researching the Anti-Foreigner War, a reporter interviews Nagai, a former reporter from the war called Nagai in order to know about the White Demon's (Gintoki's alter-ego) activities in such time. He chronicles the events from war, explaining how the samurais decided to fight against the aliens. 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. Part 2 - Kagura starts going to Kabuki-cho's physical fitness lessons where she meets a kid named Hongou Hiashi, whom she befriends. Suffering from a dangerous disease that weakens his body, Hiashi is absent from various lessons even though he promised Kagura to go to every lesson. During a rainy day, Kagura is the only person to come to the lesson, but Gintoki and her friends decide to join her. Next day, Hiashi returns to another lesson and sees Kagura once again.

    Director:Yasuhiro Minami
    Writer:Kento Shimoyama

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  4. Gintama Season 4 Episode 49 - That’s How I Wish to Be, Beautiful and Strong
    9.8/10(3385 votes)

    S4:E49

    Consumed by negative emotions, Douman is transformed into a giant demon. He now possesses within his body Antenmaru, a demon sealed away over a millennium ago by the desperate efforts of the Ketsuno and Shirino clans. As Seimei is about to be killed by Antenmaru, Gintoki stands before him with his aura-charged wooden sword. Gintoki charges his sword with everybody's energy including Douman's in order to overwhelm Antenmaru and bring a sunny day. After Antenmaru is destroyed, Gintoki leaves so that Ketsuno Ana will not know about the fight. However, he requests Gedomaru to make Ketsuno Ana to give him her autograph. Douman appears alive and ends up having a childish fight against Seimei. As Odd Jobs leave, Ketsuno Ana expresses her thanks to Gintoki in her weather forecast.

    Director:Naoki Hishikawa
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  5. Gintama Season 4 Episode 42 - Kabukicho Stray Cat Blues
    9.8/10(3204 votes)

    S4:E42

    While protecting Gintoki from the stray cats, Hoichi and the cats get caught. Soon Gintoki, Katsura and Kondo goes to save him.

    Director:Shinya Watada
    Writer:Kento Shimoyama

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  6. Gintama Season 4 Episode 50 - Santa Claus Red Is Blood Red
    9.8/10(3177 votes)

    S4:E50

    It's Christmas in Edo and Kagura writes her father a letter. She is sad that Santa Claus never visited her. Moved, her father Umi Bozu dresses himself up as Santa and hides watching Kagura, Otae, Shinpachi and Hasegawa celebrate Christmas. When he finally jumps out of the bushes to surprise her there is another Santa, a dressed up Gintoki. Both of them think that their counterpart is real. They start punching each other when another three Santas show up (Sachan, Kondo and Kyubei). Kagura decides on a contest to see who's the real Santa.

    Director:Shinya Watada
    Writer:Kento Shimoyama

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  7. Gintama Season 5 Episode 10 - Ghosts Aren't The Only Ones Who Run Wild Around Graveyards
    9.8/10(2233 votes)

    S5:E10

    Pirako has double crossed Gin! Her real plan is to help Jirocho, her father, take over the town. Can Gin stop a war?

    Director:Shinya Watada
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  8. Gintama Season 4 Episode 36 - Beware of Foreshadows
    9.7/10(2766 votes)

    S4:E36

    Okita is going through a selection of sweets at the cake shop. As Okita leaves the store, a girl suddenly comes up and stabs him!! Calling Okita her father’s killer, the girl’s action seems to be fueled by a past case called the “Rokkaku Incident.” What is the connection between this incident and Okita, as well as the girl’s father? And more importantly, what’s the fate of Okita who’s been stabbed right at the start of this episode?!

    Director:Ko Matsuo
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  9. Gintama Season 3 Episode 7 - Love Is Often Played Out In Sudden Death
    9.7/10(2728 votes)

    S3:E7

    Kagura accidentally knocks out an international soccer team when their captain was out by giving them water from a janitor's bucket. Now the Yorozuya and others have to fill the team's spots.

    Director:Ai Yoshimura
    Writer:Kento Shimoyama

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  10. Gintama Season 4 Episode 38 - An Observation Journal Should Be Seen Through To The Very End
    9.7/10(2559 votes)

    S4:E38

    Students at a temple school share their independent research projects completed during the past summer vacation. After one of the students finishes reading a well-written journal, the last one to present is a kid named Daigoro. Sleeping in on the first day of summer vacation, Daigoro arrived late at the radio exercises and met Madao, and decided to keep an observation journal about him.

    Director:Shuji Miyahara
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  11. Gintama Season 4 Episode 51 - Everybody's a Santa!
    9.7/10(2392 votes)

    S4:E51

    The contest has finally begun but instead of a real contest to decide who's the real Santa, Kagura, Otae and the five Santas together with Shinpachi and Hasegawa are shown in various scenes playing a role like a school girl and not fighting each other like in a real contest. In each scene they imagine, the Santa has to show his kind of version what he would do as Santa and this is judged by Kagura, Otae and Hasegawa. Although in the end none of the Santas has any desire to continue with this contest so they all quit. The episode ends with Kagura, all along figured out the identity of everyone, wishing everybody a Merry Christmas.

    Director:Yasuhiro Minami
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  12. Gintama Season 4 Episode 41 - Freedom Means to Live True to Yourself, not Without Law!
    9.7/10(2342 votes)

    S4:E41

    Having turned into cats, Gintoki,Katsura and Kondo (who turned into a gorilla) are brought by Hoichi to Otose to get food. While eating, Otose tells them that if caught, they can never return to this town.

    Director:Masaomi Ando
    Writer:Kento Shimoyama

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  13. Gintama Season 8 Episode 7 - Path
    9.7/10(2324 votes)

    S8:E7

    The Heavenly Kings are reunited to fight against the Harusame and Utsuro. Meanwhile, a certain father and son also reunite to kill the other; but not if Kagura have anything to say about it.

    Director:Kei Umabiki
    Writer:Taku Kishimoto

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  14. Gintama Season 3 Episode 8 - Kids Don’t Understand How Their Parents Feel
    9.7/10(2273 votes)

    S3:E8

    The Yorozuya are requested to help a Yakuza boss's son who has become a hikikomori, but little do they know how dangerous this job could turn out to be...

    Director:Seiki Takuno
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  15. Gintama Season 4 Episode 37 - It’s Goodbye Once a Flag Is Set
    9.7/10(2244 votes)

    S4:E37

    Gintoki and Shinpachi start re-investigating the Rokkaku incident. Upon learning what really happened from Kamiyama, one of Okita’s subordinates, they leave to save Okita. Meanwhile, Okita is captured by Sotatsu Tendo after falling into his trap involving Kirie. Tendo babbles on about how he returned to seek revenge against Okita, who destroyed the Sokai Faction, and goes on to reveal the truth about Kirie’s father.

    Director:Kazuo Miyake
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  16. Gintama Season 2 Episode 13 - Even Mummy Hunters Sometimes Turn into Mummys
    9.7/10(2182 votes)

    S2:E13

    Yamasaki is sent by Hijikata to investigate what has happened with that fight between Katsura and Takasugi groups. He goes around asking different people, though fails to get any real answers.

    Director:Youichi Fujita
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  17. Gintama Season 4 Episode 48 - Never Losing that Smile
    9.7/10(2143 votes)

    S4:E48

    Seimei takes the risk of being dismissed as lead guardian of Edo by undoing the Shikigami placed throughout the city, and fueling himself with all their power to face Douman. Their fierce magic clashes, and Douman is forced onto the defensive as Seimei's techniques overwhelm him. Just when the battle seems over, Douman recalls the history between his family and the Ketsuno clan as repeatedly told by his father.

    Director:Kei Umabiki
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  18. Gintama Season 8 Episode 8 - Master of Kouan
    9.7/10(1628 votes)

    S8:E8

    Umibouzu vs. Utsuro and Kagura vs. Kamui. Though along the way, the father and son reveal the figure who has a connection to all four of them, the deceased wife and mother of three of them, Kouka.

    Director:migmi
    Writer:Shu Matsubara

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  19. Gintama Season 4 Episode 43 - Cooking is About Guts
    9.6/10(1810 votes)

    S4:E43

    After eating egg over rice for three days straight, Gintama is fed up with Kagura being the cook in charge and doesn't want any egg over rice. Frustrated by Gin's reaction Kagura goes over to Shinachi's house to talk to Otae. Then Otae asks her if she wants to join a cooking class with her. Together with Shinpachi and other odd faces they start the cooking class.

    Director:Yasuhiro Minami
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  20. Gintama Season 5 Episode 7 - Glasses Prevent You From Seeing Certain Things
    9.6/10(1524 votes)

    S5:E7

    Gintoki and crew continue to defend Sarutobi against the Lethal Punishers. But against such assassins as the Pillow Masa, T-shirt Tatsu, and the Chuubert Chu Brothers, will they win?

    Director:Yasuhiro Minami
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  21. Gintama Season 5 Episode 8 - Nothing Lasts Forever, Including Parents, Money, Youth, Your Room, Dress Shirts, Me, You and the Gintama Anime
    9.6/10(1470 votes)

    S5:E8

    Due to a lack of budget, the Yorozuya try to use old footage to make a filler episodes. While Hasegawa first plays a theme song, the characters then watch a fake trailer a supposed second film based on the series. The episode ends with a chapter of "Teach us Ginpachi-sensei", a story in which Gintoki is the teacher from high school class composed of anime's characters.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Gintama Season 5 Episode 11 - Chains Of a Warrior
    9.6/10(1459 votes)

    S5:E11

    Pirako is pleased to hear that Otose, the reason for Jirocho's attachment to the Kabuki district, has been eliminated. With Otose gone, the balance of power among the Four Devas has crumbled and a war is in the works in the Kabuki district. Meanwhile, the Odd Jobs crew is watching over Otose when Saigo appears and informs them that the bar will be destroyed by the Four Devas. He urges them to leave this town, now that they've lost their home...Finally, the day comes for them to leave Snack Otose.

    Director:Shuji Miyahara
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  23. Gintama Season 2 Episode 38 - Perform a German Suplex on a Woman Who Asks If She or the Job Is More Important
    9.6/10(1452 votes)

    S2:E38

    Mitsuba is in bad condition due to her sickness; Sougo decides to go help Hijikata.

    Director:Hirofumi Ogura
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  24. Gintama Season 5 Episode 9 - A Lawless Town Tend To Attract a Bunch of Whoohooey Fo
    9.6/10(1434 votes)

    S5:E9

    Pirako Chin is looking for the strongest man in the Kabuki District. Now Gintoki has an underling who wants to turn Kabuki District into a garden of bright red flowers.

    Director:Ai Yoshimura
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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  25. Gintama Season 5 Episode 12 - Iron Town
    9.6/10(1308 votes)

    S5:E12

    Tama, Tatsumi, Tetsuko, Kozen, Madao, Kyoshiro. Everybody is out in full force to fight for the Kabuki District. Male escorts vs. trannies, Cabaret girls vs. Yakuza, robots blowing things up. It’s an all-out war!

    Director:Kazuo Miyake
    Writer:Akatsuki Yamatoya

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Best Episodes Summary

"When Looking For Something, Try Using its Perspective" is the best rated episode of Gintama. It scored 9.8/10 from 5,961 votes. Directed by Kei Umabiki and written by Akatsuki Yamatoya, it aired on January 7, 2010.

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