Gintama inspired its first smartphone game titled Gintama Kabukichō Daikatsugeki (Gintama Kabuki District Great Action Movie) for iOS and Android that launched last year.
The fifth and latest Gintama television anime series premiered on January 8, before the reruns started airing in April.
Sorachi began the original Gintama manga in 2004 and it continues to be ranked among the top-selling manga in Japan.
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in 2006 and continued (with several extended hiatuses) until 2013.