Gintama is a comedy manga series written by Hideaki Sorachi and published in Weekly Shonen Jump between the years 2003 to 2018. It follows the adventures of Gintoki Sakata, a former Joi patriot fighting against the alien Amanto invasion, now living as a broke freelancer doing odd-jobs with his friends and co-workers Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura. The three of them live in a version of 19th-century Edo, which has become abnormally technologically advanced thanks to the occupation of the Amanto. As they perform work as odd-jobbers, they come into contact with a variety of colorful characters and become involved in a number of outlandish events.