He loves alcohol, but his tolerance for sake is not high. His favorite food is chocolate parfait and he loves chugging down strawberry milk whenever he gets access to it. He has many childish personality traits despite his age, and has even called himself a "child in a man's body." One such trait is his insatiable love for sweets, which has placed him at a risk of getting diabetes several times. His fear for the supernatural is shared by Hijikata and usually results in quite a few comic interactions between the two. He is extremely frightened of ghosts, but will usually deny their existence so that he doesn't look like a coward. However, he is willing to risk his life for anyone and he is shown to be extremely caring towards his friends, and has killed Naraku members, terrorists and Amanto to protect them. The more comical stories depict Gintoki as a coward, attempting to leave behind many of his friends to save his own life. He told Kawakami Bansai, during the Shinsengumi Crisis Arc, that the only reason he fought in the Joui War was to protect his friends and not his country or the samurai way. This carelessness can be seen in how Gintoki can plow through armies without tiring, apathetic to the serious injuries he sustains whilst cutting down his enemies. As a result, he is very protective of his current friends and holds very little value to his own life. His inability to protect many of his friends in the Joui War still haunts him, especially the crushing guilt and regret that consumed him when the Tendoshu forced him to execute his own teacher in front of Takasugi and Katsura.
When Jiraia called himself Tsukuyo's teacher and yet harmed her both emotionally and physically, his ideal for what a teacher was supposed to be resulted in Gintoki becoming enraged and taking his anger out on Jiraia. The other was to protect his friends who also joined the war). He is very respectful of the memory of his teacher Yoshida Shouyou due to his actions (the arrest of his teacher is one of the main reasons he joined the Joui War. He admitted to Umibozu in episode 42 that he believes that having a loving family is all someone really needs in life, due to his lack of a family during his childhood. Gintoki's past continues to influence who he is and how he acts. However, even though he is lazy, Gintoki is quite dedicated to his job and tries to help people with the best of his abilities (usually in a very strange and twisted way). He often blows all of his savings on Pachinko and other gambling games, which Shinpachi and Kagura often scold him for. Due to his poverty and unwillingness to do mostly anything, he is always behind on his rent and often runs away when Otose, his landlady, comes to collect the payment. He is often seen wearing a dumb expression on his face and spends his days lounging around reading Shounen Jump whilst imparting wise and sage-like advice to his younger employees, even though he doesn't actually know what he's talking about most of the time. Later, he wears a sleeveless white yukata with a blue swirl pattern on the bottom with a blue obi and black boots.Īs with most Gintama characters, his outfit and appearance change regularly for the sake of gags. In that form he had silvery-blue hair and was wearing Gintoki's normal clothes. All in all, his outfit suggests an air of laziness and may be a reflection of Gintoki's own personal sense of style, though it is revealed that his usual attire is actually the school jersey for the Zunborans (episode 292).ĭuring the winter, he will sometimes wear a haori, thicker kimonos, or more layers of vary colors as well as scarves.ĭuring the events of the Dekoboko Arc he switched genders due to a curse and was seen in his female form.
It is shown that he has a closet full of replicas of this outfit, so whenever it gets destroyed he can appear in the next episode or chapter with a new one.
He also wears knee-high black boots, buckled at the top and above his foot, which appear to add about half an inch to his height. Underneath, he wears a black red-lined shirt with a popped collar and black pants. Over this he wears a black belt buckled so that there is leftover dangling from the buckle, from which his bokutō Lake Toya hangs.
His standard outfit consists of a white yukata with a blue swirl pattern on the bottom and at the end of the sleeves, worn so that his arm only goes through the left sleeve and the right half droops down over his obi. He has indeterminate grey/green (in the manga) or bordeaux-colored (in the anime) "dead fish eyes" (comparison courtesy of Hijikata Toushirou), which are called such because they are nearly always half-lidded. His silvery-blue hair is in a perpetually messy state, which is sometimes exaggerated into a frizzy afro when Gintoki's hair is hit by extreme heat. Gintoki has a natural perm which causes him no end of distress. 6.1 Gintama The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya.