In Edo, a city where samurai once thrived with courage and ambition, the arrival of the powerful alien race known as the Amanto shattered those dreams. The former shogunate now operates under foreign rule, and a new law prohibits carrying swords in public. Gintoki Sakata, a peculiar man with silver hair and a habit of carrying a wooden sword, continues to live as a samurai despite the ban. As the leader of Yorozuya, a small business that takes on odd jobs, he often sets out on missions to help others, though his methods are unusual and frequently chaotic. Alongside Shinpachi Shimura, a bespectacled youth training to be a samurai, Kagura, a strong and gluttonous tomboy, and Sadaharu, their enormous pet dog who likes to bite heads, the Yorozuya navigate the many challenges posed by the diverse residents of Edo, from alien nobility to local gang conflicts.

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Following a year-long absence, Shinpachi Shimura makes his way back to Edo and immediately encounters something that leaves him reeling: Gintoki and Kagura, his partners in the Yorozuya odd-jobs business, have morphed into unrecognizable versions of themselves! Retreating from the Yorozuya headquarters in utter confusion, Shinpachi discovers that the entire population of Edo has been subjected to absurdly drastic alterations, both in how they look and how they behave. The most staggering of all is that his sister Otae has tied the knot with Isao Kondou, the Shinsengumi chief and notorious unapologetic admirer, and is now expecting their first child. Thrown off balance, Shinpachi agrees to enlist in the Shinsengumi at Otae and Kondou's urging, only to uncover an endless string of even more bewildering changes within and beyond the organization's ranks. Yet when he realizes that Vice Chief Toushirou Hijikata has somehow stayed exactly the same, Shinpachi and his unexpected Shinsengumi comrade set their sights on bringing Edo back to the way they remember it. Packed with even more crude humor, cheeky parodies, and unapologetic callbacks, Gintama' trails the Yorozuya crew through more of their chaotic exploits in the lively, alien-infested streets of Edo.

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