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While meandering through the Anime & Comics board over at RiceBowlJournals, I picked up on this title and although a cursory glance over at AnimeNfo wasn't particularly overwhelming, I took a look anyway. Twenty episodes later, I'm pretty glad that I did. The overall humor and zaniness of this series tickles my funny bone perfectly and it's also got a very catchy OP: Pray by Tommy Heavenly6. I normally jump right past the OP/EDs but this one had me scouring BitTorrent.

What makes the series so good? Well, Gintama's a naturally-permed, silver-haired, JUMP and chocolate-parfait addicted ronin living in an Edo where aliens have taken over the world and brought their advanced technology with them. So even though he dresses traditionally, he putters around on a scooter and the police have flying cars. Plus the antics of the Shinsengumi is such a contrast given their traditionally more serious roles in series like Rurouni Kenshin and Peacemaker Kurogane. The humor draws from literally everything. They make fun of anime, themselves, even stuff from recent history, nothing is untouched. Plus there's a warm-heartedness that's thrown in for good measure. It's just a fun, fun series to watch. A bit long though; it's still running in Japan (right after Bleach) and there's currently 50+ episodes.

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kaige:

You might also want to check out Tommy February6 -- her pop persona, that sings cute pop songs while at the same time mocking them in her videos.

Or her old group -- the brilliant green -- which in 2001 Time listed among their Top 10 non-US bands.

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