Gintama

Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured!

If you like this, try

Daily Lives of High School Boys 80%

12 eps · 2012

Three friends riffing on nothing turns into gloriously absurd meta-comedy, the same escalating-nonsense energy the Yorozuya bring to their odd jobs.

Rurouni Kenshin (2023) 78%

24 eps · 2023

A wandering swordsman haunted by his past gives you the same found-family-around-a-blade warmth, minus the jokes.

SKET Dance 78%

77 eps · 2011

A ragtag clubroom crew solving trivial problems with total sincerity mirrors the freelancer gang's episodic, heart-under-slapstick rhythm.

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka 77%

43 eps · 1999

An unconventional troublemaker upends a rigid system with chaos and heart, much like Gintoki's disruptive charm in a world that wants him tame.