From October to November 2016, Megahouse conducted a poll to determine which Gintama character would next be made into a figure in their high quality figure line for females, “G.E.M.,” and Souko Okita won it beating other three candidates.
Selected Japanese retailers (Premium Bandai, MegaTre Shop, Animate and its online store) today started accepting pre-orders for Megahouse’s new 1/8th scale figure of Souko Okita, the gender-swapped version of Sougo Okita from the Gintama franchise, for a late July 2017 release.
The female version’s character appeared in the TV anime’s 275th to 277th episodes that featured the main character’s gender-swapping situations.