What happens when an anime ignores every rule of storytelling and still becomes one of the greatest series ever made? Gintama is unhinged brilliance — Gintoki is fighting aliens one day and bankruptcy the next, Kagura is eating more than is legally allowed, Shinpachi is holding this show together with pure morality, and the rest of the cast ranges from “mildly concerning” to “who approved this?”

One episode is poop jokes, the next is a 10/10 war arc that makes you sob violently. The tonal whiplash should be illegal, but somehow it works — and we keep coming back for more because nothing else hits like Gintama.

The salt and pepper senpai, Brendan White is joined in the Sugoi Studio by Shad Benn, the man behind The Side Quest Hustle, to share their thoughts on Hideaki Sorachi and Sunrise's 2006 comedy sci-fi hit, Gintama.

At Sakura Society, we help you figure out if you should dive into this fever dream — or if you’re simply not ready for anime’s final boss of comedy.