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Gintama S3E1 — The More Something Is Disliked, the More Lovely It Is
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Gintama•Season 3•Episode 1

The More Something Is Disliked, the More Lovely It Is

8.3/10 · 663 votesApr 3, 200824 min

Ranked #44 of 51 in Season 3•−0.6 vs season avg

Discussion

Gintoki gives his suggestions to the editor and author of "Gintaman" on what should the series improve on.

Directed byYouichi Fujita
Written byMichiko Yokote

Season 3 Episodes51

The More Something Is Disliked, the More Lovely It Is stillE1 8.3Now viewing

The More Something Is Disliked, the More Lovely It Is

Rules Are Made to be Broken stillE2 8.5

Rules Are Made to be Broken

Otaku Are Talkative stillE3 9.2

Otaku Are Talkative

There's a Thin Line Between Strengths and Weaknesses stillE4 8.9

There's a Thin Line Between Strengths and Weaknesses

Important Things Are Hard To See stillE5 8.8

Important Things Are Hard To See

It’s All About the Beat and Timing stillE6 9.3

It’s All About the Beat and Timing

Love Is Often Played Out In Sudden Death stillE7 9.7

Love Is Often Played Out In Sudden Death

Kids Don’t Understand How Their Parents Feel stillE8 9.7

Kids Don’t Understand How Their Parents Feel

Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid stillE9 9.5

Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid

Life is a test stillE10 8.1

Life is a test

People Are All Escapees of Their Own Inner Prisons stillE11 9.2

People Are All Escapees of Their Own Inner Prisons

Definitely Do Not Let Your Girlfriend See the Things You Use for Cross-Dressing / There's Almost a 100% Chance You’ll Forget Your Umbrella and Hate Yourself For It stillE12 8.8

Definitely Do Not Let Your Girlfriend See the Things You Use for Cross-Dressing / There's Almost a 100% Chance You’ll Forget Your Umbrella and Hate Yourself For It

A Birthday in Your Twenties Has No Deep Meaning / Lucky Is a Man Who Gets Up and Goes to Work stillE13 9.0

A Birthday in Your Twenties Has No Deep Meaning / Lucky Is a Man Who Gets Up and Goes to Work

Cleaning the Toilet Cleanses the Soul stillE14 8.7

Cleaning the Toilet Cleanses the Soul

They Say Soy Sauce On Pudding Tastes Like Sea Urchin, But Soy Sauce On Pudding Only Tastes Like Pudding and Soy Sauce stillE15 8.7

They Say Soy Sauce On Pudding Tastes Like Sea Urchin, But Soy Sauce On Pudding Only Tastes Like Pudding and Soy Sauce

Summer Vacation is the Most Fun Right Before It Begins stillE16 9.0

Summer Vacation is the Most Fun Right Before It Begins

The Older, the Wiser stillE17 9.0

The Older, the Wiser

Beauty Is Like a Summer Fruit stillE18 9.0

Beauty Is Like a Summer Fruit

Even if Your Back is Bent, Go Straight Forward stillE19 9.0

Even if Your Back is Bent, Go Straight Forward

Within Each Box of Cigarettes, Are One or Two Cigarettes That Smell Like Horse Dung stillE20 8.3

Within Each Box of Cigarettes, Are One or Two Cigarettes That Smell Like Horse Dung

Japanese Restaurants Abroad Taste Pretty Much Like School Cafeteria Lunches / Once You've Taken a Dish, You Can't Put It Back stillE21 8.7

Japanese Restaurants Abroad Taste Pretty Much Like School Cafeteria Lunches / Once You've Taken a Dish, You Can't Put It Back

Novices Only Need a Flathead and a Phillips stillE22 8.3

Novices Only Need a Flathead and a Phillips

Imagination Is Nurtured In the 8th Grade stillE23 8.7

Imagination Is Nurtured In the 8th Grade

Always Keep a Screwdriver In Your Heart stillE24 8.7

Always Keep a Screwdriver In Your Heart

When Nagging Goes Too Far It Becomes Intimidating stillE25 8.3

When Nagging Goes Too Far It Becomes Intimidating

Entering the Final Chapter! stillE26 8.7

Entering the Final Chapter!

Some Things Can Only Be Conveyed Through the Written Word stillE27 9.0

Some Things Can Only Be Conveyed Through the Written Word

Sometimes You Must Meet to Understand stillE28 9.3

Sometimes You Must Meet to Understand

Sometimes You Can’t Tell Just By Meeting Someone stillE29 9.3

Sometimes You Can’t Tell Just By Meeting Someone

Beware of Food You Pick Up Off the Ground stillE30 9.0

Beware of Food You Pick Up Off the Ground

Cat Lovers and Dog Lovers Are Mutually Exclusive stillE31 8.7

Cat Lovers and Dog Lovers Are Mutually Exclusive

Fights Often Ensue During Trips stillE32 9.0

Fights Often Ensue During Trips

Briefs Will Unavoidably Get Skidmarks stillE33 8.7

Briefs Will Unavoidably Get Skidmarks

Gin and His Excellency's Good-for-Nothings stillE34 9.0

Gin and His Excellency's Good-for-Nothings

Be Very Careful When Using Ghost Stories stillE35 9.0

Be Very Careful When Using Ghost Stories

Before Thinking About the Earth, Think About the More Endangered Gintaman’s Future! stillE36 9.0

Before Thinking About the Earth, Think About the More Endangered Gintaman’s Future!

It's Your House, You Build It stillE37 8.3

It's Your House, You Build It

99% of Men Aren't Confident in Confessing Their Love / People Who Don't Believe in Santa Are the Very Ones Who Want to Believe, You Contentious Bastard stillE38 9.0

99% of Men Aren't Confident in Confessing Their Love / People Who Don't Believe in Santa Are the Very Ones Who Want to Believe, You Contentious Bastard

Let's Talk About the Old Days Once in a While stillE39 8.0

Let's Talk About the Old Days Once in a While

Don't Put Your Wallet In Your Back Pocket stillE40 9.0

Don't Put Your Wallet In Your Back Pocket

Beware of Those Who Use an Umbrella on a Sunny Day! stillE41 9.3

Beware of Those Who Use an Umbrella on a Sunny Day!

Butting Into a Fight is Dangerous stillE42 9.0

Butting Into a Fight is Dangerous

Life Is About Making Consecutive Decisions stillE43 10.0

Life Is About Making Consecutive Decisions

Those Who Stand On Four Legs Are Beasts. Those Who Stand on Two Legs, Guts, and Glory, Are Men stillE44 9.3

Those Who Stand On Four Legs Are Beasts. Those Who Stand on Two Legs, Guts, and Glory, Are Men

Don’t Trust Bedtime Stories stillE45 9.3

Don’t Trust Bedtime Stories

The Color for Each Person’s Bond Comes in Various Colors stillE46 9.3

The Color for Each Person’s Bond Comes in Various Colors

The Taste of Drinking Under Broad Daylight Is Something Special stillE47 9.7

The Taste of Drinking Under Broad Daylight Is Something Special

All Adults are Instructors for All Children stillE48 8.7

All Adults are Instructors for All Children

Zip Up Your Fly Nice and Slowly stillE49 8.7

Zip Up Your Fly Nice and Slowly

When Breaking a Chuubert in Half, the End with the Knob Should Be Better. It's Also Tasty to Drink from There stillE50 9.0

When Breaking a Chuubert in Half, the End with the Knob Should Be Better. It's Also Tasty to Drink from There

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them stillE51 8.3

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

Cast18

Tomokazu Sugita

Tomokazu Sugita

Gintoki Sakata (voice)

Rie Kugimiya

Rie Kugimiya

Kagura (voice)

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Shinpachi Shimura (voice)

Akira Ishida

Akira Ishida

Kotarou Katsura (voice)

Fumihiko Tachiki

Fumihiko Tachiki

Taizou Hasegawa (voice)

Kazuya Nakai

Kazuya Nakai

Toushirou Hijikata (voice)

Kenichi Suzumura

Kenichi Suzumura

Sougo Okita (voice)

Takehito Koyasu

Takehito Koyasu

Shinsuke Takasugi (voice)

Yuhko Kaida

Yuhko Kaida

Tsukuyo (voice)

Satoshi Hino

Satoshi Hino

Kamui (voice)

Kazuhiko Inoue

Kazuhiko Inoue

Oboro

Susumu Chiba

Susumu Chiba

近藤勋(配音)

Crew2

M

Michiko Yokote

Writer

Youichi Fujita

Youichi Fujita

Director

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Episode Summary

"The More Something Is Disliked, the More Lovely It Is" is episode 1 of Gintama season 3. It scored 8.3/10 from 663 votes, ranking #44 of 51 episodes this season (season average 8.9). Directed by Youichi Fujita and written by Michiko Yokote, it aired on April 3, 2008.