Gintama. Porori-hen
| Ranked | #136 |
| Score | 8.52 |
Dec 18, 2017 11:46 AM |
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I don't know who I should blame between Bandai and TV Tokyo, but whoever decided that this should be adapted after Gintama. has seriously dropped the ball.
If you take away anything from this review, just don't watch this season in the intended order. It would fit much better between Gintama' and Gintama° (yes, I do actually think it's funny).
For short, the Slip Arc is a return to the basis of Gintama, a back to the usual style, with 5 arcs and a few standalone episodes fitting in a 13 episode duration. Not only is it moving away from what happened at the end of Gintama° and during Gintama. where the story started ramping up, it's actually inferior to what happened before.
Older seasons of Gintama had a pretty large amount of episodes which means they could afford to make 5-6 episodes arcs, which, in my opinion are always better than the rest. However, with only 13 episodes to show for it, the Slip Arc's longest arc is only 3 episodes, which doesn't leave much wiggle room to make a good story, although that singular 3 episode arc was quite good.
For the people who dislike Gintama getting more serious, it's probably a breath of fresh air, but for people like myself who actually enjoyed the main story pacing up, well it feels like some people at Bandai were desperate for money, they probably wanted to fund that Gintama Rumble thing that was mentioned.
A shame really, I have a busy week and not much time for anime. Still a decent season, just a step down compared to everything else.
If you take away anything from this review, just don't watch this season in the intended order. It would fit much better between Gintama' and Gintama° (yes, I do actually think it's funny).
For short, the Slip Arc is a return to the basis of Gintama, a back to the usual style, with 5 arcs and a few standalone episodes fitting in a 13 episode duration. Not only is it moving away from what happened at the end of Gintama° and during Gintama. where the story started ramping up, it's actually inferior to what happened before.
Older seasons of Gintama had a pretty large amount of episodes which means they could afford to make 5-6 episodes arcs, which, in my opinion are always better than the rest. However, with only 13 episodes to show for it, the Slip Arc's longest arc is only 3 episodes, which doesn't leave much wiggle room to make a good story, although that singular 3 episode arc was quite good.
For the people who dislike Gintama getting more serious, it's probably a breath of fresh air, but for people like myself who actually enjoyed the main story pacing up, well it feels like some people at Bandai were desperate for money, they probably wanted to fund that Gintama Rumble thing that was mentioned.
A shame really, I have a busy week and not much time for anime. Still a decent season, just a step down compared to everything else.
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0May 2, 2022 2:15 PM |
5
This is not a bad choice, but by returning in the mold of Gintama's previous seasons prior to the Arch of Murder of the Xogum, in which Gintama stopped focusing on the characters and began to focus on the world, as a result their central plot did not advance.
Gintama is not an anime with a very complex plot, it only dries the mold of an ordinary Bathe Shonen and does comedy in a well made way over the problems of the characters themselves.
The problem that make the plot almost totally focused on comedy breaks the molds that Gintama's own anime built.
What I'm trying to say is that the almost total focus on comedy, which is the case of this 6th season of Gintama makes it annoying for me, missing that most serious footprint of the previous bows and I feel seeing a season filer.
Although I am a fan of Gintama and I like their characters, a good point is the return of old characters that have been left out of the last seasons.
However I would like an explanation for some returns that the plot did not bother to explain, like the Shinsengumi
and a character who was supposed to be dead.
His art and soundtrack remain good and on the same level of seasons.
Overall I consider this to be the weakest of all Gintama seasons so far, but it still retains its essence with good comedy episodes, and for anyone who is a fan of the series continues to be recommendable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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