

AFAIK, the Gintama manga series is been done for 15 years, when there is only
4 years of anime (though many of those manga volumes were made after the anime
series, so it's impossible the anime is based on them). Which years/chapters
of the manga is based the Gintama anime series?


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Which years/chapters of the manga is based the Gintama anime series?


My apologies, after being sought out I believe I didn't answer or read your
question to the fullest.

You asked if any of the managa for Gintama was based on the anime. As I had to
re-read your question, the answer to your question is **none of it as far as I
have read**. You said the anime has been done for 15 years is false, the
anime(assume your taking about the first to third season of said anime)
started in 2006 then ended in 2009.

The manga that show is based on only came out about two years prior in it's
initial Japanese release. The manga to anime followed this trend for awhile,
with some arcs being dropped or switched out.

More episodes of the anime have came out in recent years with Gintama.
Shirogane no Tamashii-hen having aired in January.

So re-state what i am trying to say in less words. 1\. the anime has not been
done for 15 years, it has continued with the latest airing of a new anime
being in January. 2\. the anime and manga have taken a break or two over the
years due to various factors (artist health being one of them.) 3\. None of
the manga has been based on the anime, considering the manga chapter the anime
is based on dropped two years prior to the anime episode being released.


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(Note that there was originally a typo in the first sentence of the question,
where the asker had said "anime" when they meant "manga".)

The Gintama manga has indeed been ongoing for about 15 years (as of 2018)
since it first started publishing in _Shounen Jump_ on December 8, 2003.

The [Gintama MyAnimeList](https://myanimelist.net/anime/918/Gintama) page does
show that it only aired for 4 years, from April 4, 2006 to March 25, 2010.
**However, more Gintama episodes aired afterwards.** The anime's animation
studio has put the anime on hiatus several times over the years to give the
manga time to get ahead. Whenever the anime resumes, it gets catalogued as a
new series on MAL. (Look in the Sequel links under the Related Anime section.)
Relevant excerpt from the [r/Gintama
FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Gintama/comments/6j6g66/gintama_animemanga_faqs_and_gintama_discord_server/):

> _Why are there so many series (and why do they take up most of the top 10 in
> MyAnimeList)?_
>
> The reason why there are so many series is because the Sunrise Studio
> decided to take breaks with the anime. The breaks last from a few months to
> a few years. They did this to allow the manga to catch up so they didn’t
> have to make a lot of filler or ruin the pacing. This is why Gintama is
> split up on MyAnimeList. Each series has its own separate name, but it is
> all connected. Think of it like the difference between Naruto and Naruto:
> Shippuden. Except without time-skip.

Though it should be noted that the first arc to air after the first anime
hiatus was the [Timeskip Arc](https://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Timeskip_Arc)...

You can see from the [Wikipedia list of Gintama
episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gintama_episodes) that after
each hiatus, the series was given a slightly different title to distinguish
the new episodes from previous productions.

  1. [Gintama](https://myanimelist.net/anime/918/Gintama): ep 1-201 (April 4, 2006 to March 25, 2010)
  2. [Gintama'](https://myanimelist.net/anime/9969/Gintama): ep 202-252 (April 4, 2011 to March 26, 2012)
  3. [Gintama' Enchousen](https://myanimelist.net/anime/15417/Gintama__Enchousen): ep 253-265 (October 4, 2012 to March 28, 2013)
  4. [Gintama°](https://myanimelist.net/anime/28977/Gintama%C2%B0): ep 266-316 (April 8, 2015 to March 30, 2016)
  5. [Gintama.](https://myanimelist.net/anime/34096/Gintama): ep 317-328 (January 8, 2017 to March 26, 2017)
  6. [Gintama. Porori-hen](https://myanimelist.net/anime/35843/Gintama__Porori-hen): ep 329-341 (October 1, 2017 to December 24, 2017)
  7. [Gintama. Shirogane no Tamashii-hen](https://myanimelist.net/anime/36838/Gintama__Shirogane_no_Tamashii-hen): ep 342-353 (January 7, 2018 to March 25, 2018)
  8. [Gintama.: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen - Kouhan-sen](https://myanimelist.net/anime/37491/Gintama__Shirogane_no_Tamashii-hen_-_Kouhan-sen): ep 354-367 (July 8, 2018 to October 7, 2018)

(See also: ["Why do anime series change titles so
often?"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9705/why-do-anime-series-
change-titles-so-often-nearly-for-every-season))

To clarify: **The anime episodes are adapted from the manga chapters. The
manga is the source material.** That said, your question about which manga
chapters the first anime series is based off of is a bit complicated to
answer, because the anime doesn't adapt the manga chapters in the exact same
order, so there is a lot of jumping around. However, chapters and episodes
more or less move in the same direction in the long run, so to get a good
rough idea of the chapter range, you can look at the latest chapter adapted by
the latest episode.

As [Gorp pointed out](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/47111/which-
years-chapters-of-the-manga-is-based-the-gintama-anime-
series#comment61323_47114), Yorozuya Soul does have a nice [mapping from
episodes to chapters](http://www.yorozuyasoul.com/anime/mapping), although
it's very out of date. (Note that in Gintama, chapters are referred to as
"Lessons".) You can see from the Yorozuya Soul table that the latest manga
chapter adapted by the first anime series (i.e. first 201 episodes) is chapter
292 (from volume 34).

Incidentally, Gintama volume 33, which contains chapters 283-291, was
published on April 2, 2010. (See the [volume
list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gin_Tama_chapters).) Compare this
to when episode 201 first aired, which was on March 25, 2010. So at this
point, the anime had more or less caught up to the manga. So you can see why
the studio would have wanted to take a hiatus at this point.

Some helpful resources with episode-chapter mappings:

  * Episode pages on the Gintama wikia (for example, [episode 3](https://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3)) generally indicate the corresponding chapter or chapters in the infobox.
  * The Gintama wikia also has a series of pages that list the mappings from arc episodes to chapters: <https://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Gintama_Episode_List/Year_2006>
  * The Japanese Wikipedia also has a nice table that lists the anime episodes and the corresponding manga chapters: [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/銀魂_(アニメ)#各話リスト](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8A%80%E9%AD%82_\(%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1\)#%E5%90%84%E8%A9%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)


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