Gintama Review, crazy humor anime

Gintama may be Shonen Jumps most weird and twisted manga. Gintoki Sakata is a former samurai, and now a kind of freelancer or jack of all-trades who is trying to get along with his taste for sweets and rent payments. Gintoki has no option but to try to knock money by doing odd jobs involving miscellaneous persons. And things are certainly helped by the fact that the aliens have taken all the jobs...

 Gintama milieu is in Tokyo sometime in the Edo period, where UFOs landed and developed land to their liking. Series creator Hideaki Sorachi has clearly been sitting on history lessons, because characters and the course of events refer directly to the Meiji Restoration. Gintokis old friends are samurai legends Katsura and Sakamoto, as well as in Shinsengumi maintaining the law. The names of these historical persons are edited, but recognizable.

Animation in this series in my opinion deserves some praise, even though it's been going on for so long it's always been pleasing to watch.

This series is pretty much character driven comedy anime "sit-com", if I should somehow describe it so the character part of this review is the most important one: the humor relies on watcher being familiar with each and every one of the characters and their habits from which some of the humour is pulled off. That being said I think that the author has been somewhat successful in creating a bunch of characters that are somewhat original and manage to please the watcher.

 At worst, there's idiotic feces humor, but the characters at their funniest verbally whip themselves pretty well. Some of the humor hits to today's events and pop culture. So humor is ripped from soap runs as well as gender switching.Another peculiarity is the (at least until what I've watched) the complete lack of a big plot arc. .