How old is Gintoki?


On the Gintama official page, it says Gintoki's age is 20+. But it is not
clear how old he is, because in the last generation of the Joui war, the
foursome of Sakata Gintoki, Katsura Kotarou, Takasugi Shinsuke, and Sakamoto
Tatsuma joined. So it's confusing what his real age is.




It seems that Gintoki is about 25 to 26 years old.

In the Ask Sorachi segment of `Episode 9: “You should go all out in a fight”`
Gin were described as a "hairless baby" when the Amanto first arrived. Shortly
after which the Joui war started.

> **[After credits and preview]**
>
> **Class:** Teach us, Ginpachi sensei!
>
> **Gintoki:** Um, this is a question from a Mr. Oonishi, from the second
> floor. ‘I noticed something strange the other day. Shinpachi-kun said that
> the “purge” was a movement that happened twenty years ago to drive amanto
> off earth. So, no matter how you cut it, Gin-san and Katsura-san have to be
> more than thirty years old. Is that true?’ Uh, ok now. Pay attention now,
> cuz this is gonna be on the test. The war of expulsion didn’t end in just a
> year or two, you see. When the war started twenty years ago, Gin-san was
> still just a hairless baby. The shogunate, afraid of the aliens, surrendered
> right away, but the samurai still resisted. It was around this time that
> Gin-san got a different kind of hair. When the amanto had infiltrated the
> entire government and were running roughshod over the whole nation, Gin-san
> finally entered the fight! Well, in a manner of speaking…So, that’s how the
> war of expulsion, lasting ten full years, happened. Gin-san and his friends
> only really participated in the very end of it. Oh, and Oonishi, go stand in
> the hall! Source:
> [wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gin_Tama#Episode_9:_.E2.80.9CYou_should_go_all_out_in_a_fight.E2.80.9D)

Gin was said to join the war towards the end, at which point we know he must
be at least 20 years old. As that is how long the war just about lasted. But
this was already known, as this was also answered inside the sorachi segments
(see image)

Now using [this live journal](http://gintama.livejournal.com/404315.html) as a
guide line we can see that up to episode 195 roughly 4 years have passed based
on the seasons represented, and Christmas specials. As there are now 281
episodes, and it roughly takes 49 episodes to progress a year another 1.8
years should have about passed making Gintoki 25, almost 26

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OkAYm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OkAYm.jpg)




It seems that Gintoki is about 25 to 26 years old.

In the Ask Sorachi segment of `Episode 9: “You should go all out in a fight”`
Gin were described as a "hairless baby" when the Amanto first arrived. Shortly
after which the Joui war started.

> **[After credits and preview]**
>
> **Class:** Teach us, Ginpachi sensei!
>
> **Gintoki:** Um, this is a question from a Mr. Oonishi, from the second
> floor. ‘I noticed something strange the other day. Shinpachi-kun said that
> the “purge” was a movement that happened twenty years ago to drive amanto
> off earth. So, no matter how you cut it, Gin-san and Katsura-san have to be
> more than thirty years old. Is that true?’ Uh, ok now. Pay attention now,
> cuz this is gonna be on the test. The war of expulsion didn’t end in just a
> year or two, you see. When the war started twenty years ago, Gin-san was
> still just a hairless baby. The shogunate, afraid of the aliens, surrendered
> right away, but the samurai still resisted. It was around this time that
> Gin-san got a different kind of hair. When the amanto had infiltrated the
> entire government and were running roughshod over the whole nation, Gin-san
> finally entered the fight! Well, in a manner of speaking…So, that’s how the
> war of expulsion, lasting ten full years, happened. Gin-san and his friends
> only really participated in the very end of it. Oh, and Oonishi, go stand in
> the hall! Source:
> [wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gin_Tama#Episode_9:_.E2.80.9CYou_should_go_all_out_in_a_fight.E2.80.9D)

Gin was said to join the war towards the end, at which point we know he must
be at least 20 years old. As that is how long the war just about lasted. But
this was already known, as this was also answered inside the sorachi segments
(see image)

Now using [this live journal](http://gintama.livejournal.com/404315.html) as a
guide line we can see that up to episode 195 roughly 4 years have passed based
on the seasons represented, and Christmas specials. As there are now 281
episodes, and it roughly takes 49 episodes to progress a year another 1.8
years should have about passed making Gintoki 25, almost 26

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OkAYm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OkAYm.jpg)

