The Deadpool of Anime
My favourite anime?
NARUTO!
It’s the best - hands down - but it’s spoken for already (like twice in this challenge alone), so I’m going to rant about my second favourite anime of all time.
Gintama!
Gintama is one of those rare gems, unknown to many of the anime community, mainly because of how impossible it would be to translate a large portion of their jokes to the western world, the series itself acknowledged this.
But I kid you not; it is the Deadpool of anime. The art of breaking the 4th wall is mastered by this series and lots of my habits of doing that is inspired by this series. They’ve done so many parodies that it is literally untraceable to find them all – few sites have tried.
It is the funniest anime I have ever experienced, and according to myanimelist.net, I’ve watched over 4800 episodes worth of anime, so that’s saying something.
This anime has the ability to make you cry two seconds after laughing your head off. It rips your heart out while you’re rolling on the floor in laughter. There’s no way to properly depict the epic, hilarious, tear-jerky, chaos-filled, copyright-littered, mess of an anime Gintama is, but I recommend it to the world.
With that said, it is a really long series and the first 19 episodes of character introductions are kind of slow (unless you already love the characters), but on the bright side, the actual story is cut into occasional arcs and all the episodes in between are more or less not related to the plot which means many episodes are skippable, but unless you're acquainted with someone who knows all the must-see episodes *wink wink nudge nudge* why would you want to skip them?
Anyway, I could literally spend a day fangirling about this series - from the characters, to the fight scenes, to the analogies, to the voice acting, to the movies, to the AMVs, to the FANART - but I'll spare you the time between reading this, and watching that anime.
Because you really should....
Watch...
G I N T A M A A A A A A A A A A A A A
*starts screaming*