Is Gintama' good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Gintama' (Gintama Season 2) is a TV series from Spring 2011 by Sunrise Inc.: 51 episodes, about 20 hours in total, finished, 8.73/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 20 hours for the run, 26 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
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
- 51
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 20 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Spring 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 8.73/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, aliens, manga adaptation, comedy, slice of life, drama, episodic, harem, found family, gore, historical, detective, martial arts, ninja, parody, robots & AI, samurai, sci-fi, shounen, space, swordplay, tragedy, yuri
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'?
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Related anime
More like this: action · adventure · aliens · manga adaptation · comedy · slice of life · drama · harem · found family · historical · detective · martial arts · ninja · parody · robots & AI · samurai · sci-fi · shounen · space · swordplay · tragedy · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Gintama'?
- About 20 hours for all 51 episodes at 24 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 26 evenings.
- How many episodes does Gintama' have?
- 51 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Gintama' finished?
- Yes, Gintama' is finished (51 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 9969) and MyAnimeList (id 9969); 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