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Gintama Anime's Courtesan of the Nation Arc Also Gets Compilation Screenings in June
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The official website for the anime of Gintama on Theater 2D: Ikkoku Keisei-hen compilation will open in theaters for a limited engagement in June. The compilation screenings will have their own website, launching at a later date.
The arc encomes episodes 257-261 of the anime.
The announcement follows the three-week limited engagement for the "Baragaki" (Thorny) arc, which ran in in Japanese theaters starting on November 10.
The compilation is part of the Gintama franchise's 20th anniversary celebration, with 2023 being the 20th anniversary of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga debuting, and 2026 being the 20th anniversary of the television anime's premiere. The Yorinuki Gintama-san rerun of the television anime also spawned two "on Theater 2D" compilations in 2012 and 2013.
anime adaptation.
Sorachi's original "science-fiction period-drama comedy" manga began in 2003 and Viz Media published the manga's first 23 volumes in English.
based on the finale of the original manga, combined with new story elements, opened in Japan in January 2021.
released the film digitally in January 2022, and on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in February 2022.
The manga also novel by Mirei Miyamoto that shipped in January.
Sources: Comic Natalie, Gintama anime's website
