The official website for the anime of Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama manga revealed on Thursday that the Gintama on Theater 2D: Kintama-hen compilation, the third of the new Gintama on Theater 2D compilations, will have a three-week limited screening in Japan starting on November 22, and revealed the main visual.
The first of the new Gintama on Theater 2D compilations, Gintama on Theater 2D: Baragaki-hen (Thorny Arc), opened a three-week limited engagement in Japanese theaters in November 2023.
The compilations are 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.