Is Gintama good to watch with a friend?
A commitment. Gintama (Silver Soul) is a TV series from Spring 2006 by Sunrise Inc.: 201 episodes, about 80 hours in total, finished, 8.4/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a commitment. 201 episodes is about 80 hours of watching: at two episodes a night that is 101 evenings. Pick it as a running fixture, not a one-off. Rule: 100 episodes or more → commitment.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 201
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 80 hours — a long haul
- First aired
- Spring 2006
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 8.4/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, aliens, robots & AI, manga adaptation, comedy, crime, slice of life, detective, drama, episodic, fantasy, harem, found family, ghost, gore, historical, ninja, parody, samurai, sci-fi, shounen, space, swordplay, tragedy, violence
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Gintama?
Queue Up reads two public AniList lists and shows every anime you both have on Planning — with Gintama flagged if it is one of them — then picks tonight's with a weighted roll or a bracket.
Or open it on AniList or MyAnimeList.
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More like this: action · adventure · aliens · robots & AI · manga adaptation · comedy · crime · slice of life · detective · drama · fantasy · harem · found family · ghost · historical · ninja · parody · samurai · sci-fi · shounen · space · swordplay · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Gintama?
- About 80 hours for all 201 episodes at 24 min each — a long haul; at two episodes a night that is 101 evenings.
- How many episodes does Gintama have?
- 201 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Gintama finished?
- Yes, Gintama is finished (201 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Gintama good for a group?
- Yes. Gintama is tagged action, comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Gintama listed?
- Gintama is on AniList (id 918) and MyAnimeList (id 918); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists