I would say it's doing all the different type of stories very well. The comedy, the sad stories, the ones full of action. The really big ones were really well done and were completely enjoyable. There were some misses in stories or execution, but even then there were still good moments mostly from the supporting cast showing up and doing what they do.
Compared with other shonens, not so sure, since most of the main shonens are in my backlog cluster. While I haven't finished it, I can see it easily getting the top rank if the quality of the stories continue to hold up.
yeah I disagree on the sad story part, most shounen I seen have manged to tell or executed a couple of good sad stories but not gintama (as of yet)it's so bad at it, I wish it would stop trying, all it manages to do is be very boring.
Sounds a lot like One Piece!
it's nothing like One piece, no overarching plot.
it's like filler, episodic self contained plot, each episode is about gintoki doing everyday stuff like helping people or just being gintoki or sometimes some boring story about someone not gintoki.
Reason to watch it:
If your into funny/funnyish "smartly written" dialogue based jokes then gintama second to none.
neat, i really should start reading what's translated of the manga soon :>
ewww poor man's bleach with a mix of soul eater.
Blood lad is a piece of vapid shait wrapped in common shounen tropes, it will fool you into thinking it has some potential but your only going to find yourself 25 chapters in with nothing to show for it, cause it has yet it to accomplish anything other then being stupid, underwhelming and moe.
As shounen advisor I would not recommend this to anyone, don't get me wrong it's not the worse thing ever it just does nothing.
