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[edit] Gintoki Sakata
Gintoki Sakata |
Gintama character |
First appearance |
Lesson 1 (anime/manga) |
Created by |
Hideaki Sorachi |
Voiced by |
Tomokazu Sugita |
Profile |
Nicknames |
Gin-chan |
Age |
In his twenties |
Gender |
Male |
Species |
Human |
Occupation |
Samurai (former)
Freelancer for hire (current) |
Gintoki Sakata (坂田銀時, Sakata Gintoki?) is the fictional lead character of the manga and anime series Gintama, created by Hideaki Sorachi. A former rebel samurai who lives in a fictionalized version of 1860s Japan after being invaded and transformed by aliens, he fought the invaders until he realized the lack of sense in doing so, leading to him choosing to instead make a living as a freelancer for hire in Edo.
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When Hideaki Sorachi chose to create his first major series, his initial plan was to base the series in and around a fictionalized version of the Shinsengumi, mostly to ride off the prepared hype regarding Shinsengumi!, a J-drama starring idol actors as the famed Japanese force. Sorachi's version, though, was planned to be about as "unrealistic" as possible: his force included males and females who possessed bizarre traits that were nothing like the original Shinsengumi and that would seep into many of the characters that would be part of his eventual manga. One of the characters that came from this set was a silver-haired male
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