

Gintama. Silver Soul Arc
銀魂. 銀ノ魂篇
After the fierce battle on Rakuyou, the untold past and true goal of the immortal Naraku leader, Utsuro, are finally revealed. By corrupting the Altana reserves of several planets, Utsuro has successfully triggered the intervention of the Tendoshuu’s greatest enemy: the Altana Liberation Army. With Earth as the main battleground in this interplanetary war, Utsuro's master plan to destroy the planet—and himself—is nearly complete. An attack on the O-Edo Central Terminal marks the beginning of the final battle to take back the land of the samurai. With the Yorozuya nowhere in sight, the bakufu all but collapsed, and the Shogun missing, the people are left completely helpless as the Liberation Army begins pillaging Edo in the name of freeing them from the Tendoshuu's rule. Caught in the crossfire between two equally imposing forces, can Gintoki, Kagura, Shinpachi, and the former students of Shouyou Yoshida put aside their differences and unite their allies to protect what they hold dear? [Written by MAL Rewrite]
After the fierce battle on Rakuyou, the untold past and true goal of the immortal Naraku leader, Utsuro, are finally revealed. By corrupting the Altana reserves of several planets, Utsuro has successfully triggered the intervention of the Tendoshuu’s greatest enemy: the Altana Liberation Army. With Earth as the main battleground in this interplanetary war, Utsuro's master plan to destroy the planet—and himself—is nearly complete. An attack on the O-Edo Central Terminal marks the beginning of the final battle to take back the land of the samurai. With the Yorozuya nowhere in sight, the bakufu all but collapsed, and the Shogun missing, the people are left completely helpless as the Liberation Army begins pillaging Edo in the name of freeing them from the Tendoshuu's rule. Caught in the crossfire between two equally imposing forces, can Gintoki, Kagura, Shinpachi, and the former students of Shouyou Yoshida put aside their differences and unite their allies to protect what they hold dear? [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Gintoki-AMVs
March 25, 2018
The Silver Soul arc brings an amazing blend of comedy and action, never seen before in Gintama. One moment your in a fight and the next you are laughing your ass off. Story - 10: This time around we are getting a space war, and it's really well written. I really like the politics this arc brings. Art - 8: Pretty good, but in a few episodes there are too much still frames. Sound - 10: As always amazing soundtrack and voice work!Character - 9: This season brings back a lot of characters from the previous seasons. A lot of unexpected characters too. Overall: Loved the season, there were sadly some pacing issues at the middle.
haekele
January 11, 2023
In my opinion, no, actually as a matter of fact, the biggest strength of Gintama has always been the comedy. However, this season explores serious themes and seeks to finally end the anime and tie all loose ends. And it's the absolute worst. Though somehow Gintama the semi-final and final manage to be even worse. First of all, since this is primarily a comedy anime let's talk about it. Well, it has been subpar at the very best. Most of the comedy is just a rip-off of previous seasons (Jet Armstrong Cannon, etc). The fights were boring as fuck because there wasn't any real emotionor interesting backstory behind it. The only one with any interesting backstory is Utsuro, but his story is dragged on for so long that I could barely care. Or maybe it's just me who watched the anime between long periods of breaks because of how boring it was. And Takasugi just felt like a chore at this point. Since this is the last season, why not just resolve all the issues he had as well? Also, all the characters felt very one-dimentional like as if they were zombies saying the same things over and over again. Saying the same catchphrases that we know best in anime when there's literally nothing else to say, for example, "Let's do our best!" or "I'm going to kick his / her ass" etc. Or just repeating what everyone else says over and over again. Since the author really had to include every single character in every single part of the battle, this left Gintama himself with nothing noticeable to do. They literally had a bunch of characters say that they showed up because they were not given enough screen time since they were introduced towards the end of the anime. And they proceeded to do just that! Similarly, Shinpachi and Kagura were equally useless. My main point is that the important characters felt muted with literally everyone piling up and giving their backstories. As a result no one really felt significant, it was like this whole anime was a blur. Honestly, I'm a fan of serious arcs in Gintama, for example the red light district arc or the white police arc (whatever it's called). But, this arc really was a disappointment for all the above reasons. Ironically, all the above-mentioned mistakes were not made in the previous arcs. Maybe it was because the author had in mind that this was primarily a comedy anime and so the anime did not take itself too seriously, always keeping a little bit of humour on the side. However, that is what made the serious moments more fresh and unexpected and impactful. This will always be my favourite comedy anime no matter what the author has done to the final season. However, I feel like this season has cursed me so that I cannot re-watch Gintama for a while now.
Wosiest
March 25, 2018
I could say a lot about this franchise, but I'm just going to discuss about this season. Gintama.: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen adapts the first part of the Silver Soul arc, the end game of Gintama. So if you haven't watched anything related to Gintama yet, this season will not be for you. Story: 10 Silver Soul continues the story after the Rakuyou's Decisive Battle Arc (Gintama.). All the build-up done in the past it's now coming to it's climax, we see a lot of early plot elements and characters come back, and becoming relevant once again. This arc has a lot of action, sad and fun moments blended together withoutaltering the pacing or the story itself. It's great. Art: 8 The art has been mostly consisent, but there are some still frames that doesn't look so good. Nevertheless, the backgrounds and characters design look good. The animation is good, but not amazing. It's understandable though, since this arc is realy action-heavy. Sound: 10 There are some new tracks, but it mostly uses the good ol' soundtrack from past seasons, which is good. The opening 'Katte ni MY SOUL' and ending 'Hana Ichi Monme' are catchy, and blend well with the current mood of the series. Character: 10 Remember how I said the build-up was coming to it's climax in regard of the story? The characters are the best thing in the series, in Silver Soul, this is no exception. This arc features a lot of characters from past arcs and it's done in a really well and realistic way. All characters have their moment to shine, and this is incredibile rewarding for everyone that watched the series since the very beginning. Enjoyment: 10 Silver Soul continues using the formula of past seasons. There are new gags, while some older ones return. While sometimes the comedy may be a little "too japanized", it's still understandable. Overall: 10 This is arc is the most 'Gintamesque' arc of the series, and while it's not finished yet, the first part of Silver Soul is amazing for every fan that has watched the past seasons, and this is why I love it so damn much. I feel rewarded for watching the series since the beginning. Thanks for reading my review!
megamachine
May 10, 2018
Reading the other reviews posted here, and guessing that people watching this have already watched all previous seasons of Gintama; this will be a short review pointing out the worst things of this season. Since the end of Gintama: Enchousen, every season of Gintama that has been released has had less quality than the previous one; reaching a point where It has lost its former essence and gets painful to keep watching. The reasons of why this season is the worst and kills the anime, are these: 1 - Almost all the characters that have appeared in the series (even side characters from 2 or 4 episodesof 350) make cameos and participate in the action, and everyone says a motivational speech a couple of times while fighting. It happened the same in the arc of Shogun's death, every character gives a speech with sentimental background music; it ruins the mood and gets annoying. 2 - Everyone is overpowerd for the sake of plot twists. 3 - There are a lot of flashbacks, some last half an episode. 4 - Gintoki lost his personality somewhere in the series, and now he is just a guy who yells at people, vomits at people, and tramples hordes of enemies. He was a young adult with financial problems, drinking problems, gambling problems, diabetes, who cared more for sugar or taking a nap than getting involved with women. Now he has become someone who goes around doing barely nothing. In my opinion Gintama should have stayed as a full comedy series with ocasional half comedy half serious arcs, and have an open ending; this is just a bad shonen. In conclusion, I give this series a 6; but I recommend you to watch this. Why?, because you are going to watch it anyway; and is a good way of learning how to kill a good show.
YGP
March 28, 2018
Gintama is an anime franchise with several seasons end more of 350 episodes. This season follow the events Shogun Assassination Arc, Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc and Rakuyou Decisive Battle Arc, adapting the Silver Soul Arc. Silver Soul is Gintama arc. The representation that what Gintama is. This seasons shows your goal since the first episode: The blend of comedy and action that represents Gintama. And this is the strong point of this season! Story: 10/10 This arc follow Utsuro plot, adding some facts extras that make a more complex development of the events of the war. Enshou wants to destroy the earth because your fury. Utsuro want to destroyhe and all, because he is sick of living, but at the same time is sick of human existence. And our protagonists want protect what they love, those they love and the place they love. Art: 8/10 Better than last two seasons, this seasons animation has some problems, but this doesn't change the fact that most of the time the animation is good. The art is more consistent and fights was very good. Sound: 10/10 Nothing to complain about. This season has the same OST of past seasons. Great. Character: 10/10 Several old characters return in this season, this fact creates a nostalgic feeling. Many characters has a great development, as Hata, Elizabeth, Gintoki, Tama, Kintoki, Nobume and mainly NobuNobu, that is becoming increasingly a better character. Enjoyment: 10/10 Exciting, funny, epic. Simply great! Overall: 10/10 Gintama is my favorite show. This anime always shows that because is loved for several. Was a very funny season with great characters, good action and story. I hope the same in the Part 2.
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