gintama rec list

	A	B	C	D	E
1			Serious Arcs	Anime Original
2			Plot Important	Favorites
3				Honks' Top Picks
4	Episode #	Title	Arc	Related Arcs/Episodes	Extra Notes
5	3	Nobody with Naturally Wavy Hair Can Be That Bad	Stand-Alone		The real first episode.
6	13	If You’re Going to Cosplay, Go All Out	Stand-Alone
7	15	Pets Resemble Their Owners	Stand-Alone
8	16	If You Stop and Think About It, Your Life’s a Lot Longer as an Old Guy Than a Kid! Whoa, Scary!!	Stand-Alone
9	17	Sons Only Take After Their Fathers’ Negative Attributes	Stand-Alone		Takasugi introduction
10	20	Watch Out for Conveyor Belts!	Stand-Alone
11	25	A Shared Soup Pot Is a Microcosm of Life	Stand-Alone		Death Note parody
12	31	You Always Remember the Things That Matter the Least	Memory Loss
13	32	Life Moves On Like a Conveyor Belt	Memory Loss		Justaway introduction
14	34	Love Doesn't Require a Manual	Stand-Alone
15	35	Love Doesn't Require a Manual, Continued / You Can't Judge a Person by His Appearance, Either	Stand-Alone
16	37	People Who Say that Santa Doesn’t Really Exist Actually Want to Believe in Him / Prayer Won't Make Your Worldly Desires Go Away! Control Yourself	Stand-Alone
17	38A	Only Children Play in the Snow	Stand-Alone		Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon introduction
18	39	Ramen Shops with Long Menus Never Do Well	Stand-Alone
19	45	Walk Your Dog at an Appropriate Speed	Stand-Alone
20	47	Do Cherries Come from Cherry Trees?	Stand-Alone		Gin-san Meets Ghost Paralysis
21	48A	The More You're Alike, the More You Fight	Stand-Alone
22	50	Pending Means Pending, It's Not Final	Stand-Alone	125	Grab hold of it! DragonBleaPiece!
23	58	Croquette Sandwiches Are Always the Most Popular Food Sold at the Stalls	Benizakura	17, Infant Strife (51-52)	Kiheitai introduction
24	59	Be Careful Not to Leave Your Umbrella Somewhere	Benizakura
25	60	The Sun Will Rise Again	Benizakura
26	61	On a Moonless Night, Insects Are Drawn to the Light	Benizakura
27	64	Eating Nmaibo Can Make You Full In No Time!	Stand-Alone
28	68	Like a Haunted House, Life Is Filled with Horrors	Stand-Alone
29	69	Please Help by Separating Your Trash	Fuyo		Tama introduction
30	70	Too Many Cuties Can Make You Sick	Fuyo
31	71	Some Data Cannot Be Erased	Fuyo
32	75	Don’t Complain About Your Job at Home, Do It Somewhere Else	Recap	25
33	76	In Those Situations, Keep Quiet and Cook Red Rice with Beans	Yagyu		Kyubei introduction
34	77	Yesterday's Enemy, After All Is Said and Done, Is Still the Enemy	Yagyu
35	78	People Who Are Picky About Food Are Also Picky About People, Too	Yagyu
36	79	Four Heads Are Better Than One	Yagyu
37	80	When Someone Who Wears Glasses Takes Them off, It Looks Like Something's Missing	Yagyu
38	81	A Woman's Best Makeup Is Her Smile	Yagyu
39	83	Rank Has Nothing to Do with Luck	Stand-Alone		Shogun introduction
40	84	Hard-Boiled Egg on a Man's Heart	Hard-Boiled Detective
41	85	Hard-Boiled Eggs Don't Crack	Hard-Boiled Detective
42	86	It's Often Difficult to Sleep When You're Engrossed with Counting Sheep	Mitsuba Okita
43	87	Perform a German Suplex on a Woman Who Asks if She or the Job Is More Important	Mitsuba Okita
44	89	What Happens Twice, Happens Thrice	Stand-Alone		Bleach parody
45	92	Be a Person Who Can See People's Strong Points and Not Their Weak Points	Stand-Alone		Ben Johnson scene #1, discussion of ways for anime to keep from outpacing manga
46	94	When Riding a Train, Make Sure You Grab the Straps with Both Hands	Hasegawa Prosecution		Opening bit on storyboarding
47	98	Play Video Games for Only an Hour a Day	Nintendo Wii
48	99	Life and Video Games Are Full of Bugs	Nintendo Wii
49	100	The More Something Is Disliked, the More Lovely It Is	Gintaman	135	"Shut up, そして die."
50	101	Rules Are Made to Be Broken	Shinsengumi Crisis	Benizakura (58-61), Otsu Fan Club (157-163)
51	102	Otaku Are Talkative	Shinsengumi Crisis
52	103	There's a Thin Line Between Strengths and Weaknesses	Shinsengumi Crisis
53	104	Important Things Are Hard to See	Shinsengumi Crisis
54	105	It's All About the Beat and Timing	Shinsengumi Crisis
55	107	Kids Don't Understand How Their Parents Feel	Guardian Dog
56	108	Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid	Guardian Dog
57	109	Life Is a Test	Stand-Alone
58	110	People Are All Escapees of Their Own Inner Prisons	Stand-Alone	Prison (225-226)
59	114	They Say Soy Sauce on Pudding Tastes Like Sea Urchin, but Soy Sauce on Pudding Only Tastes Like Pudding and Soy Sauce	Stand-Alone	35B, Shinsengumi Crisis (101-105)
60	119	Within Each Box of Cigarettes Are One or Two Cigarettes That Smell Like Horse Dung	Stand-Alone		Dragonball parody
61	120B	Once You've Taken a Dish, You Can't Put It Back	Stand-Alone
62	121	Novices Only Need a Flathead and a Phillips	Monkey Hunter	34	Monster Hunter/MMO parody
63	122	Imagination is Nurtured in the 8th Grade	Monkey Hunter
64	123	Always Keep a Screwdriver in Your Heart	Monkey Hunter
65	125	Entering the Final Chapter! / Even if You Aren't Drunk, Pretend You Are and Yank Your Boss's Wig off	Recap	50, 75, 114	Last third is an abbreviated version of the 2005 OVA.
66	126	Some Things Can Only Be Conveyed Through the Written Word	Penpals
67	127	Sometimes You Must Meet to Understand	Penpals
68	128	Sometimes You Can't Tell Just by Meeting Someone	Penpals
69	129	Beware of Food You Pick Up Off the Ground	Kintarou		Explanation for ED10 ("This World is Yours")
70	130	Cat Lovers and Dog Lovers Are Mutually Exclusive	Kintarou
71	131	Fights Often Ensue During Trips	Ghost Ryokan
72	132	Briefs Will Unavoidably Get Skidmarks	Ghost Ryokan
73	133	Gin and His Excellency's Good-for-Nothings	Ghost Ryokan
74	134	Be Very Careful When Using Ghost Stories	Ghost Ryokan
75	135	Before Worrying About the Earth, Think About the Even More Endangered Future of 'Gintaman'	Gintaman	100
76	136	It’s Your House, You Build It	Stand-Alone
77	138	Let's Talk About the Old Days Once in a While	Stand-Alone
78	139	Don't Put Your Wallet in Your Back Pocket	Yoshiwara in Flames	Red Spider (177-181)	Tsukuyo introduction
79	140	Beware of Those Who Use an Umbrella on a Sunny Day!	Yoshiwara in Flames		Kamui introduction
80	141	Butting into a Fight Is Dangerous	Yoshiwara in Flames
81	142	Life Is a Series of Choices	Yoshiwara in Flames
82	143	Those Who Stand on Four Legs Are Beasts. Those Who Stand on Two Legs, Guts, and Glory Are Men.	Yoshiwara in Flames
83	144	Don't Trust Bedtime Stories	Yoshiwara in Flames
84	145	The Color for Each Person's Bond Comes in Various Colors	Yoshiwara in Flames		Ben Johnson scene #2, another discussion on anime/manga pacing
85	146	The Taste of Drinking under Broad Daylight Is Something Special	Yoshiwara in Flames
86	147	All Adults Are Instructors for All Children	Stand-Alone	Yoshiwara in Flames (139-146)	Training arcs
87	148	Zip up Your Fly Nice and Slowly	Shinsengumi Death Game		Saw parody
88	149	When Breaking a Chuubert in Half, the End with the Knob Should Be Better. It's Also Tasty to Drink from There	Shinsengumi Death Game
89	150	If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them	Stand-Alone		Final episode gags
90	153	Sleep Helps a Child Grow	Stand-Alone
91	155	The Other Side of the Other Side of the Other Side Would Be the Other Side	Stand-Alone
92	157	Any Place with a Bunch of Men Gathered Around Will Turn into a Battlefield	Otsu Fan Club	Shinsengumi Crisis (101-105)
93	158	If a Friend Gets Injured, Take Him to the Hospital, Stat!	Otsu Fan Club
94	159	If One Orange in the Box Is Rotten, the Rest of Them Will Become Rotten Before You Realize It	Otsu Fan Club		"Tomokazu, do a better job of singing." (Extra scene referencing 133)
95	160	From a Foreigner's Perspective, You're the Foreigner. From an Alien's Perspective, You're the Alien.	Otsu Fan Club
96	161	Laputa's Still Good After Seeing It So Many Times	Otsu Fan Club
97	162	Love Is Unconditional	Otsu Fan Club
98	163	The Black Ships Even Make a Scene When They Sink	Otsu Fan Club		Ending gag referencing 145
99	165	If It Works Once, It'll Work Over and Over Again	Stand-Alone		Live-action Gintama
100	166	Two Is Better Than One. Two People Are Better Than One.	Stand-Alone