Gintama: Yoshiwara in Flames Arc is getting adapted as a new fully reanimated movie, set to premiere in 2026. The content covers the fight against Housen, and was previously adapted in episodes 139-146 of the anime. Studio BN Pictures will handle the animation, with Naoya Ando as the director. You can watch the trailer for the new adaptation below.
The new film will be presented in cinemascope (aspect ratio 2.35:1). The full staff includes:
- Director: Naoya Ando
- Supervising Director: Youichi Fujita
- Scriptwriter: Taku Kishimoto
- Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Shinji Takeuchi
- Animation Production: BN Pictures
Gintama’s author, Hideaki Sorachi, drew a special illustration for the announcement alongside a statement:
Thanks to everyone’s support, Gintama has once again been adapted into anime, and now another movie is being produced. Thank you very much.
It has been about six years since the manga ended. To see a work that should have already been finished turned into a tool for money-hungry adults, and milked dry until there’s no flavor left, I can’t help but think, in its own way, that this must be the greatest honor for an author.
Gintama has managed to find “success” in anime, novels, movies, and even live-action. Well, more like it barely scraped through each time, just managing to avoid collapse. It is a series that has been unusually lucky, surviving despite always looking like it was about to fail. Still, if things go on like this, it will eventually blow up spectacularly. Personally, I half-expect it will end in some kind of scandal about Tomokazu Sugita’s lower-half issues, and the whole thing will go down in flames because of that.
But, in true Gintama fashion, I suspect it will just keep slipping by and managing to dodge disaster once again.
– From the Filthiest Mastermind of All
Hideaki Sorachi wrote and illustrated the Gintama manga, which first ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2003 to 2018, and then in their Jump Giga until February 2019.
The Gintama anime adaptation was animated by Sunrise until Season 4, which is when Bandai Namco Pictures took over. The anime has a total of 367 episodes, as well as numerous OVAs, movies, games, novels and specials. The latest installment was the Gintama: The Very Final movie, which premiered in 2021 and served as the definitive conclusion to the anime adaptation by adapting the manga’s final arc. The film had a strong critical and commercial reception, grossing over 1.85 billion yen (approx. USD 17 million) at the domestic box office and ranking among Japan’s highest-earning anime features of that year.
Source: Gintama Official YouTube Channel
© Sorachi Hideaki/Gintama the Movie Production Committee
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