
They also come to meet Gintoki's former comrades during the Amanto's invasion, including the terrorist Kotaro Katsura who maintains a friendly relationship with them despite his ambitions to destroy the bakufu. While doing their job they encounter the police force Shinsengumi several times, who normally ally with Odd Jobs Gin in their work since they commonly involve dangerous criminals. Kagura joins Shinpachi and Gintoki to work as freelancers and the three become known as "Yorozuya" (万事屋, "We do everything"). The two of them rescue a teenage alien girl named Kagura from a group of Yakuza who wanted to use her superhuman strength to kill people. Impressed with Gintoki, Shinpachi becomes his apprentice and works with him as a freelancer in order to pay the monthly rent where Gintoki lives, as well as to know more about him. The plot is focused on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata who helps a teenager named Shinpachi Shimura save his sister Tae from a group of aliens who want to make her part of a brothel. The samurai of Japan fought the aliens, but after their defeat the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The story of Gintama takes place in Edo (known today as Tokyo because of its name change in 1868), Japan, which was conquered by aliens called "Amanto" (天人, "Sky People") in the late Edo period. Positive response have focused on the comedy and characters from the series, while negative responses concern the manga's artwork. Publications for manga, anime and others have commented on the Gintama manga.
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The anime and its DVDs have been featured, at various time, in Top Ten of their respective media, while TV Tokyo has announced that the first Gintama anime was responsible for high sales overseas along with the anime adaptation from Naruto. In Japan, the Gintama manga has been popular, selling over 29 million volumes as of December 2009. Besides the anime series, there have been various light novels and video games based on Gintama.
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The website Crunchyroll is streaming the series on its site, while Sentai Filmworks licensed the series, with distribution from Section23 Films on DVDs. An animated film premiered in Japan in April 2010. A sequel titled Gintama' premiered in Japan on April 4, 2011.
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This was followed by a full anime series, which debuted on Apin TV Tokyo and finished on March 25, 2010. An original video animation (OVA) of Gintama by Sunrise was featured at Jump Festa 2006 Anime Tour in 2005. It debuted in the January 2007 issue, and was serialized at a rate of one chapter a month. In addition to publishing the individual volumes of the series, Viz serialized its first chapters in their Shonen Jump manga anthology. The manga has been licensed by Viz Media in North America. Sorachi added the science fiction setting to develop characters to his liking after his editor suggested doing a historical series. Set in an Edo which has been conquered by aliens named Amanto, the plot follows life from the point of view of samurai Gintoki Sakata, who works as a freelancer alongside his friends Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura in order to pay the monthly rent.

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