The BEST episodes of Gintama season 5
Every episode of Gintama season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gintama season 5!
Gintama is a story of a handyman named Gintoki, a samurai with no respect for rules set by the invaders, who's ready to take any job to survive. He and his gang, however, are also among the very few who have not forgotten the morale of a swordsman. Wherever they go, all they do is to create troubles.
#1 - Ghosts Aren't The Only Ones Who Run Wild Around Graveyards
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/2011
Pirako has double crossed Gin! Her real plan is to help Jirocho, her father, take over the town. Can Gin stop a war?
#2 - 'Tis an Honor!
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/27/2011
Jirocho and Gin battle Kada's elite Harusame forces while the rest of the denizens of Kabuki-cho take on her main forces in the streets. Kada is utterly stunned when her elite forces are beat by just these two humans, and flees the scene. Gin then helps Jirocho resolve his issues regarding Tatsugoro; Otose and Jirocho reconcile at the hospital. Outside the hospital, Kada desperately launches one last feeble attempt at conquering Kabuki-cho, but is stopped in her tracks by Pirako and the Yorozuya - Kada settles for swearing that the Harusame will be back, and flees yet again. At the very end, Jirocho denounces all other names he has ever been called except for Father of Pirako, and goes with his daughter back to the country.
#3 - Chains of a Warrior
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/13/2011
Pirako is pleased to hear that Otose, the reason for Jirocho's attachment to the Kabuki district, has been eliminated. With Otose gone, the balance of power among the Four Devas has crumbled and a war is in the works in the Kabuki district. Meanwhile, the Odd Jobs crew is watching over Otose when Saigo appears and informs them that the bar will be destroyed by the Four Devas. He urges them to leave this town, now that they've lost their home...Finally, the day comes for them to leave Snack Otose.
#4 - Everyone Looks Pretty Grown Up After Summer Break
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2011
As Katsura and Kyubei fight for the title of the best transgendered, Shinpachi leaves to find that the Shinsengumi members also suffered a sudden change in their selves; Sogo Okita is the leader from the group and orders him and Toshiro Hijikata, Sagaru Yamazaki to attack the Yorozuya. As the three leave, Hijikata knocks out Yamazaki, as he was faking his change. He and Shinpachi learn that an invasion of parasite aliens is responsible for change to their friends and proceed to destroy them. However, they find problems in the outcome, and both Hijikata and and Shinpachi are knocked out in the process, with Gintoki being actually only person without a parasite.
#5 - Everyone Looks a Little Grown Up After Spring Break
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2011
Shinpachi Shimura returns to the Yorozuya and discovers his friends drastically changed during the break. Feeling left behind, he returns home and discovers his sister, Tae Shimura, engaged to Isao Kondo. Tae and Kando enlists Shinpachi into the Shinsengumi and reveals that Tae is pregnant. Shinpachi runs to the ocean and laments the sudden change of those around him. There, he learns about Kyubei Yagyu's sex change to modify her life. They are interrupted by and Kotaro Katsura who also changed his genre due to his Kyubei's characters similarities.
#6 - Making It Through Love
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/10/2011
Gintoki challenges Shinpachi in the ultimate Love Chorus tournament in order to break his illusion of his virtual girlfriend.
#7 - We Are All Hosts, in Capital Letters
Season 5 - Episode 40 - Aired 1/9/2012
The number one host in the Kabuki district, Kyoshiro, summons the Odd Jobs members to his club, Takamagahara, and tells them that he intends to quit because of a lady named Madame Yagami who controls the night world. It seems that she declared she would be making a second visit to Takamagahara, which is essentially a death sentence. The hosts at Kyoshiro's have quit out of fear, so Gintoki and co must find hosts to handle the Madame...
#8 - People Can Only Live By Forgetting the Bad
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/26/2011
After getting drunk at the year-end party, Gintoki managed to become a six-timer in one night. In order to prevent the show from being pulled off the air, Gintoki is forced into engaging in a relationship with all of them. And now he has to go on dates with all of them at the same time...!
#9 - There Are Some Things You Should Not Forget When Drinking Away the Past Year at Year-End Parties
Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/19/2011
It's a year-end party at Odd Jobs! The Gintama anime has been through a lot, but Gintoki tells Kagura and Shinpachi to keep it cool. And then the usual members join in for some real partying... The next morning, Gintoki wakes up to discover that he's made some very bad mistakes. Will Gin-san be able to survive the worst blunder in five years of Gintama!?
#10 - Love Is Neither Plus Nor Minus
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/3/2011
Shinpachi introduces his new girlfriend to Otae… but she turns out to be Momo-san, a character from the popular Love Choris game. There are more and more boys in Edo who can no longer distinguish game from reality like Shinpachi. Otae asks Gintoki to bring Shinpachi back to the real world. The only way is by entering the world of Love Choris and talking some sense into him. Gintoki ends up choosing a very unique heroine to be his girlfriend…
#11 - Odds or Even
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/4/2011
Kagura's older brother, Kamui, visits Kada's cell where she is being kept after having been captured by the Kiheitai and loses at a game of odds or evens. He is approached by one of the 12 captains who tells him he has the 12 captains support if he chooses to overthrow Admiral Abo. Kamui orders his second to kill the members of the Kiheitai, isolating Takasugi so Kamui can duel him. As the Kiheitai's ship is about to be attacked the Admiral double crosses Kamui and imprisons him out of fear. Takasugi visits Kada's cell and loses at a game of odds or evens. After a brief conversation Takasugi rescues Kamui at his execution, overthrowing Admiral Abo. Kamui becomes Admiral and the episode ends with Takasugi visiting Kada's cell one last time to lose at a game of odds or evens.
#12 - A Vacation in Disorientation
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 12/12/2011
Everybody's stranded in the middle of the mountains. To make things worse, the Shogun goes missing.
#13 - Iron Town
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/20/2011
Tama, Tatsumi, Tetsuko, Kozen, Madao, Kyoshiro. Everybody is out in full force to fight for the Kabuki District. Male escorts vs. trannies, Cabaret girls vs. Yakuza, robots blowing things up. It’s an all-out war!
#14 - What Happen Twice Can Happen Thrice
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/18/2011
Gintoki and Hasegawa have to help the shogun when he is at the pool
#15 - It Would Take Too Much Effort to Make This Title Sound Like a Text Message Subject
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/17/2011
Kagura wants a mobile phone of her own in order to be able to text with her friends. Her wish is granted, and she starts harassing Gintoki and Shinpachi through text messaging.
#16 - Please Take Me Skiing
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 12/5/2011
The Shinsengumi are forced to guard the Shogun on his first snowboarding trip, but they run into the Yorozuya and mayhem ensues.
#17 - Goodbye Lionel, Why Don't You Say Something!
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/28/2011
The Renho join forces with Sakamoto and the Yorozuya against Dark Vader and their home planet in order to bring peace to the universe.
#18 - New Year's Envelopes Are Perfect for Dirty Jokes
Season 5 - Episode 49 - Aired 3/12/2012
Gin is trying to hand out New Year Envelopes but the lack of children characters make it hard. To make matters worse, everyone seems to have their mind wrapped around long cylindrical objects and small spherical objects.
#19 - Thorny and Rosy
Season 5 - Episode 44 - Aired 2/6/2012
Tetsunosuke has completely changed as he sincerely tries to perform his new job. Isaburo despises Tetsunosuke and tells Hijikata that he should dispose of him, but Hijikata, who came from a similar background, sympathizes with Tetsunosuke and looks after him. Meanwhile, Gintoki, who was arrested by the Mimawarigumi, has been assigned a mission by Isaburo...
#20 - Nothing Lasts Forever, Including Parents, Money, Youth, Your Room, Dress Shirts, Me, You and the Gintama Anime
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2011
Due to a lack of budget, the Yorozuya try to use old footage to make a filler episodes. While Hasegawa first plays a theme song, the characters then watch a fake trailer a supposed second film based on the series. The episode ends with a chapter of "Teach us Ginpachi-sensei", a story in which Gintoki is the teacher from high school class composed of anime's characters.
#21 - A Lawless Town Tends to Attract a Bunch of Whoohooey Folk
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/2011
Pirako Chin is looking for the strongest man in the Kabuki District. Now Gintoki has an underling who wants to turn Kabuki District into a garden of bright red flowers.
#22 - Everybody Loves Pajamas
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/19/2011
Gintoki continues creating havoc in the prison.
#23 - The Bathhouse, Where You're Naked in Body and Soul
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/8/2011
Gin, Kondo, Hijkata, and Shin are stuck in the public bath with the demons. Every lie they tell digs their grave deeper. Can they really get away with kicking heads in, ripping off horns, and setting demons on fire with lotion?
#24 - I Can't Remember a Damn Thing About the Factory Tour
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/11/2011
Kagura invites a bunch of kids to the Yorozuya. They, along with other characters get shunned by them and invites them into a "factory tour".
#25 - Piggy Banks and Trash Cans
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/14/2011
The Yorozuya, Katsura, and Sakamoto disguise themselves as Renho and infiltrate their base.