Merry Christmas, fellow filthy animals. Now, here’s something to help us clean up some more.
Seasons greetings to our dear readers! Gintama ranges four seasons and 367 episodes at the present time and includes quite a few Christmas episodes. I have already written about the Christmas story told in episode 200. The present post concerns an earlier Christmas episode from season one. Gintama might be described as a science-fiction, samurai parody, but it covers a wide range of genres and styles within its four seasons. With episode 37 (Titled “People who Say that Santa Doesn’t Exist, Actually Want to Believe in him”), you might dub the first half Old Comedy, i.e. the sort of gut-busting low humor one sees in Aristophanes’ plays. The first half contains nothing especially edifying, but it gives the viewer a good time.
On the other hand, the second part relies less on silliness than on character flaws. Much of the comedy drives off the contrast between the way different…
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