It has been announced that the first bonus for attendees of the new animated film "Gintama: The New Movie - Yoshiwara Enjo," based on Hideaki Sorachi's popular manga "Gintama," will be a "Gintama" comic-style booklet titled "Volume 1 Enjo," which will be distributed from February 13th. The 60-page booklet will include a collection of art, a "Past Editors Roundtable Discussion" in which all nine of Sorachi's past editors gathered to talk about the inside story of how they prepared for the controversy, and a special edition of the manga "Gintama" drawn by Sorachi, which was unveiled at the event "Gintama After Festival 2023 (tentative title)" and has become legendary for its content.
The new movie will be a completely new anime adaptation of "Yoshiwara Burning Arc," known as the most passionate and famous episode in the original work's history. Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura of the Yorozuya family enter Yoshiwara, an underground red-light district that has lost its light and is now ruled by the "King of the Night," Housen. Directed by Naoya Ando and produced by BN Pictures, it will be released on February 13th.
"Gintama" is set in a fictional Edo, where Sakata Gintoki solves various cases brought to the Yorozuya (a general store) alongside his friends Shinpachi and Kagura. The series began serialization in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha) in December 2003 and concluded in June 2019. The first season of the TV anime aired from 2006 to 2010, the second from 2011 to 2013, the third from 2015 to 2016, and the fourth from 2017 to 2018. The animated feature films "Gintama: The Movie - The Red Shadow Arc" was released in 2010, and "Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya" was released in 2013. The film "Gintama: The Final" was released in 2021.
