Episodes 1-3 – GINTAMA – Mr. Ginpachi’s Zany Class

So I have to say, the existence of this show feels both weird and obvious. After seeing Gintama Anime and manga have experienced three or four different endings before Sorachi Hideaki and sunrise I’m satisfied, I’m pretty sure they’ve squeezed as much blood out of the stone as possible, but there’s obviously a lot of money to be made, so here we are. In hindsight, with the manga ending, a spin-off was the best way to keep the anime going, and with Mr. Ginpachi’s shorts sprinkled throughout the original, it only makes sense. Gintama animation, turning it into a full series is probably the smartest way to make more animation.

I’m glad the show started off with the funniest gag it could have delivered, which was a mockery of its own existence. Gintama has never been shy about poking fun at his own work, and begins with Gintoki handing over the lead role to “Mr. Ginpachi” while continuing that the show is basically the end result of one producer’s drunken zeal to put out another work Gintama Anime is both very economical and very consistent with Gintama’s usual meta humor style. It also helps that the characters themselves are very much in a Looney Tunes-esque relationship with the fourth wall, they’re all well aware that they’re in a spin-off, and while they’re mostly committed to that, they’re still reminded every few lines that these are the same versions of the main series, which makes the fact that most of them are tied up and posing as students all the more interesting. This comes to a head in the third episode, where Gintama’s resident anti-hero Shinsuke and his band of rebels are reimagined as a group of delinquents returning to school after being suspended, and while you’d think a character as serious as Shinsuke would avoid being the butt of jokes, you’d be wrong. While he largely keeps himself serious, when he’s brought on the talk show to discuss what kind of role he’ll play in the spinoff, all he can do is rattle off some canned quotes about wanting to start a revolution before dishing out a bad joke, a moment so surreal that the episode itself ends with the animation staff apologizing in advance to his fans for what they had to do to him.

While all the meta humor was sharp, I wasn’t too interested in the rest of the show. As funny as many people Gintama Yes, a big part of the reason the series works is that it’s also very good at melodrama, switching quickly between making you laugh and tugging at your heartstrings. Sometimes it can even do both at the same time, which is a trickier trick to pull off in a spin-off since the characters are more or less relegated to whatever their main gimmick is. The third episode ends a little closer, with Mr. Ginpachi taking on the responsibility of keeping Shinsuke in his class despite knowing how much pain he’ll be in, but while it gives the character something to do besides react to the joke, the resolution feels like a standard sitcom scene compared to the previous one Gintama Usually capable.

The only character who really benefits from this spin-off is the obnoxious alien prince, who has now been elevated to sitcom nemesis as he serves as the school principal hell-bent on getting Mr. Ginpachi fired at any cost. It’s certainly more than what he got in the main series, otherwise he would have faded into the background, but others just feel like they’re playing high school students. While this is basically a joke, it’s in danger of being repetitive, so I don’t know how much profit the show can squeeze out of it. That being said, it still made me laugh, so even if it doesn’t quite reach the heights of its main series, the fact that most of the jokes still hit home means this show is doing something right.

I can also view dubbingas surreal as anything seen Gintama Drawing out multiple endings, what’s even weirder is that we somehow end up with multiple endings Gintama dubbing The cast, especially the dubbing Gintama Previously, this in itself seemed like an almost impossible task. Of the ones we got, the one that impressed me the most was the Canadian dubbing Projected from Ocean Groupbut I guess this doesn’t perform well enough crunchy To keep paying more (although some legal red tape preventing it from starting with the first episode probably didn’t help either), so we never got to see the cast crack the rest of it. The dubbing duties for previous seasons fell to macias group In Miami, and the cast dubbing Everyone seems to be reprising their roles in the show. Since Miami dub doesn’t have the best reputation for quality, I never got around to checking it out macias group dubbing of Gintama Yes, while I expected to be pleasantly surprised by it, it didn’t make a very strong first impression on me.

Raleigh GutierrezThe rhythm of Ginpachi and Tomokazu Sugitainitially, but his overall performance was more stilted, which hurt much of his comedic timing. The same applies to Clay CatlanThe performance as Shinpachi sounds very close Daisuke Sakaguchitone, but lacks the high energy needed to sell all of Shinpachi’s loud reactions to the other characters’ antics. Probably my favorite performance from the actor in the first episode was Christian Vanderpas As the alien’s principal, he sounds like a real cartoon villain because of his higher pitch and slimy lines, but the rest of the cast largely sounds like they’re trying too hard to match lip-sync, and a lot of the humor is hurt by all the awkward pauses between lines. Despite my many technical quibbles, I can at least say that some of the line delivery did manage to make me laugh, so even dubbing Not the most polished, but its service is adequate for anyone who wants to watch English-language programming. However, a bigger problem has to do with dubbing itself, and how it is presented crunchyvideo player because it lacks any closed captions or on-screen text subtitles. In addition to making dubbing Not very easy to follow (which kind of defeats the purpose), it completely detracts from the experience because the lack of these subtitles means important text like character introduction cards or whatever Elizabeth wrote on their sign to communicate. Hopefully this gets corrected in the coming weeks, because as is, it makes dubbing Overall, it’s a not-so-accessible experience and an unforgivable disservice to any viewer who watches it.

Those issues aside, I had a great time with this show, although I would have been quite satisfied if there wasn’t more GintamaI certainly wouldn’t be upset about it. Gintama – Mr. Ginpachi’s funny classroom It probably won’t pack as much of a punch as the main series, but if it finds a better way to incorporate its premise, it could be a pretty interesting alternative.

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