Line #41 Trivia/Gintama


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** Creator/TomokazuSugita voices both Gintoki and the Leukocyte King (as Tama modeled him after the strongest person she knows, aka Gintoki).
3	** Creator/RieKugimiya voices both Kagura and her mother Kouka, as the former is said to look and sound like the latter a lot.
4	** Episode 227 (''Gintama''' Episode 26) pokes fun at the overlapping voice actors between the series and ''Manga/SketDance'' when the Yorozuya gang meet the Sket Dan, such as Creator/TomokazuSugita voicing both Gintoki and Switch from the latter group. It's [[NoFourthWall well pointed out]] in their correspondent crossover anime episodes, where ''everyone'' (with the exception of [[Creator/RieKugimiya Kagura]]) talks to themselves. Yes, even Creator/RyokoShiraishi who plays both Himeko from ''Sket Dance'' and the gag minor character and Kyuubei's monkey Jugem.
5	* AllStarCast:
6	** While they were initially not that well-known, over the anime's run the entire Japanese cast became big names. For starters, there's Creator/TomokazuSugita[[note]](Interestingly, it was Kyon who put him on the map... but both ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' and ''Gintama'' came out in the same Spring 2006 anime season)[[/note]], Creator/RieKugimiya, Creator/DaisukeSakaguchi as the Yorozuya trio; and Creator/KazuyaNakai, Creator/KenichiSuzumura, Creator/SusumuChiba, Creator/TakahiroSakurai as the main Shinsengumi police. There's also veterans and new-rising stars getting regular or guest roles either as allies (such as Creator/FumikoOrikasa as Kyuubei, Creator/KeijiFujiwara as Hattori, or Creator/YukiOno as the Shogun Shigeshige), one-shot characters (Creator/MamikoNoto as Pandemonium) or villains (Creator/TakehitoKoyasu as Takasugi and Creator/KazuhikoInoue as Oboro).
7	** The live-action version consists of a mix between widely-known names in the Japanese film and TV industry like Shun Oguri, Yuya Yagira, Masaki Okada and Masami Nagasawa and new-rising actors in the same industry like Masaki Suda, Kanna Hashimoto, Masataka Kubota, Haruna Miura, and Ryo Yoshizawa.
8	* CashCowFranchise: For Creator/{{Sunrise}} (and [=BNPictures=]), ''Gintama'' is one of their best sold anime series on DVD in Japan; it has multiple movies, [=OVAs=] and crossovers on top of the main anime, and merchandise comes and goes because of the franchise's popularity. During its run, people were in doubt whenever they said they were "stopping" or "finishing" the animated adaptation once a while.
9	* ChannelHop: The manga ran in ''Weekly Shounen Jump'' for all of its allotted run, but moved to ''Jump GIGA'' to wrap up the story, and then again into a web serialization.
10	* CrossDressingVoices:
11	** Creator/YukoSanpei (female) plays the young boy Seita.
12	** Creator/MikakoTakahashi (female) plays the TeamPet Sadaharu (a male dog). She still plays him even in instances when Sadaharu speaks.
13	** During the Dekobokko arc, the only characters who retain their male voices when they are genderflipped are Hijikata (Creator/KazuyaNakai) and Yamazaki (Tetsuharu Ohta). Conversely, Otose (Creator/{{Kujira}}) and Catherine (Creator/YuuSugimoto) keep their female voices when flipped to males.
14	** Gintoki, Katsura, and Takasugi as young boys in their flashbacks are voiced by women -- Asami Yaguchi, Creator/YukiKaida, and Creator/HoukoKuwashima, respectively. Similarly, Creator/ChikaAnzai and Creator/AoiYuuki voice Kamui and Oboro as young boys during their respective flashbacks.
15	* DevelopmentGag:
16	** Any time the Odd Jobs gang is referred to as "Yoruzuya Gin-chan", especially when Gintoki namedrops his group as such in the Rakuyo arc. The name was intended to be the series' title.
17	** The original design for a female member of the Shinsengumi (who was later split into Okita and Kagura) in the initial draft was eventually reused for Okita's genderflipped form in the Dekobokko arc.
18	* DuelingDubs: Due to licensing issues, ''Gintama'' had three completely different English casts. Firstly, the movie got a dub by Sentai set in the company's location. Later, the fourth season got a dub by Crunchyroll, but set in Vancouver under Creator/TheOceanGroup. And in late 2019, the first season was released on Creator/{{Hulu}} with a cast set in Miami by Universal Cinergia. To further compound this, a new dub for the final movie was announced by Sentai, mixing in both pre-existing cast members (with Creator/MichaelDaingerfield, Cole Howard and Jocelyne Loewen returning from the Ocean dub, and Creator/LuciChristian, Creator/DavidWald and Creator/AndrewLove from Sentai's earlier dub of the first movie) with new ones also based out of the Austin area.
19	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Brazilian voice actor Alexandre "Alex" Alvarez voiced Katsura in the Portuguese dub and later Sakamoto in the English dub of the first season. Justified as both dubs were produced by the same studio in Florida (Universal Cinergia).
20	* NetworkToTheRescue: Initially Creator/SentaiFilmworks rather infamously only ever dubbed the first Gintama movie, to rather mixed results. The remainder of the franchise [[NoDubForYou would be left undubbed]] until a few years later, when Website/{{Crunchyroll}} commissioned a brand new dub for Gintama to stream on their platform, starting with Gintama°. This dub was provided by Creator/TheOceanGroup.
21	* NoDubForYou: Gintama as a whole currently has a really tricky licensing issue. There are [[NewSeasonNewName four official]] ''Gintama'' series [[note]]''Gintama, Gintama''' (including ''Enchousen''), Gintama°,'' and Gintama.'' (including ''Gintama.: Porori Arc'', and ''Gintama.: Silver Soul Arc'')[[/note]] and three animated movies [[note]]''Benizakura Arc, Be Forever Yorozuya'' and ''The Final''[[/note]]. Creator/SentaiFilmworks officially holds the licenses for the first series and the ''Benizakura Arc'' movie and has only dubbed the movie, while Website/{{Crunchyroll}} has only licensed and dubbed ''Gintama°'', and the first season was dubbed and released on Hulu. The remaining content has yet to see an official dub.
22	* NoExportForYou: Although the anime or manga has been released in some places, it has seen a lack of English releases.
23	** Prior to Crunchyroll releasing the dub of ''Gintama°'' in February 2017, the only dub release was the Benizakura movie done by Creator/SentaiFilmworks. Additionally, outside of Crunchyroll streaming, the only home releases with English subtitles were done by Sentai Filmworks and only for the first season, meaning the rest of the episodes are yet to be available in home release form. (Crunchyroll has announced their intention to release ''Gintama'' on DVD and Bluray, however, and the ''The Final'' was released by Creator/ShoutFactory through licensor Eleven Arts.)
24	** The manga was initially translated by Creator/VizMedia, but it was cancelled after Volume 23 for both low sales and because there were some translation difficulties (killing also the possible adquisition of licenses for similar comedy series that rely mostly in the wordly dialogue and Japanese jokes such as ''Manga/SketDance'', ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' and ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'').
25	* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: The first half of Episode 67 was based on the winning submission for a contest to create an Amanto character.
26	* TheOtherDarrin: Characters have had their voice actors replaced for various reasons.
27	** Creator/TakeshiAono used to voiced Gengai up until his death in 2012. Creator/BinShimada started voicing him from ''Enchousen''.
28	** In Prince Enshou's case, Creator/YuichiroUmehara was replaced by Creator/TomoakiMaeno during the ''Silver Soul Arc'''s anime run due to the former's illness.
29	** After Creator/TomoSakurai (briefly) retired from voice acting, Creator/KikukoInoue became the voice of Hinowa.
30	** Zenzou's voice actor Creator/KeijiFujiwara passed away in between the anime's final season and the final movie. Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (the voice actor for Isaburo Sasaki [[spoiler:who is dead at this point and has no more lines]]) filled in as Zenzou for the movie.
31	** The Italian dub replaced the entire cast from episode 50 onwards, as those episodes were dubbed by a different company [[UnfinishedDub after a 14-years long hiatus]].
32	* PlayingAgainstType: For Creator/ShowHayami, his character Umibouzu is one of his few roles where he is not evil or a ManipulativeBastard, even though Umibouzu's morals as a space hunter are usually in the grey zone (with the obvious exception of the love for his family).
33	* ProductionPosse: The Brazilian Portuguese dub[[note]]done in Miami, Florida by Universal Cinergia (the same who later did the English dub of the first season), but with Brazilian actors[[/note]] is known for carrying the same cast who works in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. But while fitting for the series' genre, most of the secondary voice actors hired there didn't seem to have a good experience in voice acting in comparison to the ''South Park'' dubs.
34	* RealLifeRelative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Gintoki and Catherine's voice actors (Creator/JesusBarrero and Banny Barrero respectively) are married in RealLife, and the latter is also the voice director of that dub.
35	* RoleReprise:
36	** Though the actor is different, the voiceover for Shouyou in the first live-action movie is done by his anime voice-actor Creator/KoichiYamadera (the actor's face is never shown so it works out).
37	** The anime voice-actor for Hasegawa, Creator/FumihikoTachiki, also acts for him in in the second live-action webseries.
38	* ThrowItIn: When the initial title of "Yorozuya Gin-san" was rejected by Hideaki Sorachi's editor, another one was urgently needed. Expecting that his other ideas would be shot down too, Sorachi decided to play a little joke and submitted a random title his dad had made up: "''Gintama''".
39	%%* TrollingCreator: Sorachi is known as the greatest troll on the other side of Japan. There's even a special idiom for him, "Gorilla is playing with the reader's crotch again." %%ZCE - needs examples/explanation of how he enrages the audience
40	* TroubledProduction:
41	** As Gintoki explains a little too honestly (and in hilarious fashion) in the final episode of the Silver Soul anime adaptation, ''Gintama゜'' was created because the anime staff were told by the manga team that the series was ending. Originally intended to be the final anime series that would end at the same time as the manga, things went downhill when it became clear Sorachi was most definitely not finishing the manga any time soon thanks to continuously expanding the plot; therefore, the anime staff made many adjustments to be able to keep the anime adaptation going, and the cycle continued. Cue a nine-month break after ''Gintama゜'', ''Gintama.'' (intended final anime 2.0), another break (with the ''Yorinuke'' reruns taking its place), ''Gintama.: Porori Arc'' (intended to be a buffer while the the rest of the anime adaptation was planned/produced), and finally ''Gintama.: Silver Soul Arc'' (split cours, intended final anime 3.0)... which ''still'' didn't get round to finishing the series off thanks to the manga being unfinished at the time.
42	** This all came to a head in Chapter 698, [[SeriesFauxnale the final chapter published in Weekly Shonen Jump]]. Sorachi addressed the issue in a letter at the end of the chapter where he apologized to both the fans, Shueisha and studio for not ending the series when he promised. [[SelfDeprecation He compared himself to an old man who kept telling his family he thinks it's his time to die, only to continue living]]. The final six chapters were finally published properly in Jump Giga.
43	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
44	** Hideaki Sorachi once wanted to do the series based on the Shinsengumi, and he is a declared fan of them. In fact, Shinpachi and Gintoki were once conceived as police units of the group. Hasegawa would eventually lead them (he was replaced by Kondo), and a girl who ended up being split into Okita and Kagura (her weapon was an umbrella, which became the defacto weapon for the Yato clan).
45	** The title of the manga was originally going to be "Yorozuya Gin-san", reflecting the nature of Gintoki's odd-jobs shop, but the editors of the magazine didn't like it, so it ended up being "Gintama".
46	** The "Be Forever Yorozuya" movie was originally stated for a release in Spring 2013, just after ''Gintama': Enchousen'' ended. However, as provened in the anime previews, the script seemed to have suffered many changes in the process, making it postponed to a more proper release in Summer.
47	** On one of the [[https://youtu.be/tPh9joO7J2c Gintama segments]] during Animemashite special, when the seiyuus talked about their first time recording, it was mentioned that Sugita thought [[Creator/KenichiSuzumura Suzumura]] was planning on giving Okita a cutesy voice based on his appearance. Suzumura was later told to go for a lazy voice instead.

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