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2017 Gintama Anime Visual & Staff Revealed

The official website of the anime adaptation of Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama manga has revealed an updated visual and the staff members for the upcoming 2017 season.

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Many production staff members will return in the new series from previous seasons, however no animation studio has been revealed thus far:

  • Director: Chizuru Miyawaki (Gintama°)
  • Supervisor: Yoichi Fujita (Gintama and ClassicaLoid Director)
  • Chief Animation Director and Anime Character Designer: Shinji Takeuchi (Gintama, Fairy Tail)
  • Art Directors: Nami Maniwa (Gintama and Detective Conan Background Artist), Takayoshi Fukushima (Gintama and Natsume Yuujinchou Background Artist)
  • Sound Director: Shinji Takematsu (Debut Role)
  • Music Composer: Audio Highs (Bakuman., Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou)

The Opening theme song of the anime will be Kagerou by ЯeaL and the Ending theme will be SILVER by RIZE.

The 2017 Gintama anime will start airing at 1:35am JST on Tokyo MX, TV Hokkaido, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi and TV Kyushu from Monday, January 9th. The anime will also air on TV Osaka from the 10th at 1:05am JST. The official title of the new anime has yet to be revealed.

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Gintama (Gin Tama) is an action comedy manga written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi. The series began in 2003 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine where to date a total of 65 compiled volumes have been released. Since its release the manga has received high sales and praise for its writing and parodies other other popular manga and anime series. As of June last year a total of 44 million volumes have been sold. The series received many light novel and anime adaptations and spin-off. The first anime adaptation was an OVA produced by Sunrise (Love Live! School Idol Project, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch) in 2005 and was then adapted into a full series the following year, mostly directed by Yoichi Fujita (Binbougami ga!). A sequel series began in 2011 and ended in 2013 for a total of 64 episodes. Another season of the anime was aired in Summer 2015. There has also been two anime films based on the series. A live action film was also announced.

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

Life isn’t easy in feudal Japan… especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they’re not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki’s opted for the freelance route, taking any job that’s offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don’t pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured!

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A new TV anime adaptation of the Gintama manga is in production and will debut on January 9th at 1:35am JST on Tokyo MX, during the Winter 2016/2017 anime season. Further information about the anime will be revealed at a later date.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/gintama/
And follow their Twitter: @GINTAMA_PR

Source Article and Image - Gintama Anime Website
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