Gintama

Since Gin-san was the White Yaksha, a major player in the Joi war, Hijikata orders a stakeout on Odd Jobs in order to find out if he's still connected to the Joi rebels. This stakeout mission lands at the feet of Inspector Yamazaki Sagaru.

Gin-san's invited to a Joi Rebels reunion, where he finds Katsura and Sakomoto, fellow survivors of the Joi War era, reminiscing about the past. Sick of seeing them in OPs and EDs all the time, Gin-san tries to leave immediately, but he's shocked by the revelation that the organizer of the reunion wasn't Katsura or Sakomoto, but rather the phantom fifth man, Kurokono Tasuke.

With the letter from Takasugi proving to be a catalyst, the Joi rebel gang starts to remember Kurokono, and takes a trip down memory line to the Joi War era. After a gruelling battle with the Bakufu army, Gin-san and his comrades were taking a momentary rest at an abandoned temple.

Gin-san figures that the reason Odd Jobs isn't get any requests at all lately is because of a lack of publicity. In order to make an advertising poster, he tries to come up with a catchy copy along with Kagura and Shinpachi, but the ideas they come up with all seem somewhat familiar. Just what kind of poster will they create?

The mysterious light that covered all of the Kabuki District swapped the genders of everyone who was exposed! The culprits were Dekobokkoists, a religious cult on all the interspace wanted lists, who end up taking over the Kabuki District through its surveillance network.

Thanks to the efforts of the Gintama hunks (?), the gender-swapping situation running roughshod over the Kabuki District is resolved. Or so it appears, but Ginko and everyone else in the Dekobokkoism base don't get their original bodies back.

Seita has started going to temple school, but it looks like he's finding it hard to fit in with the others. Apparently the reason lies in Hinowa's extravagant stacked lunch boxes, but Hinowa herself doesn't understand that at all. As such, she makes Tsukuyo make lunch for him, but...

Asaemon points her blade at Yaemon of her own free will, but has a hard time due to Yaemon's overwhelming strength. Gintoki joins the fight but gets wounded by Hitotsubashi retainers backing Yaemon up. With Gintoki and Asaemon on the backfoot, Yaemon tells Asaemon about how Gintoki killed her biological father. This makes her waver, with sword in hand. Just who will Asaemon kill, Gintoki or...

Gin-san opens up a confessional booth for Tama, but things go awry very quickly as the confessions lead him to a very painful truth.

Gin-san gets arrested for killing a shogun! The Shogun, meanwhile, loses his memories.

The two big events of summer, watermelon splitting and endless homework, come together in this episode! Kagura and Princess Soyo wonder if there's a way to make watermelons even tastier, and Gin-san tells them how. However, this somehow leads to the princess getting kidnapped! With summer break drawing to a close, Seita visits Odd Jobs with the most troublesome of requests: he wants help...

When they meet with a traffic accident, Gintoki and Hijikata miraculously escape without a scratch, but their souls end up switching bodies. With no means to return to normal, Gintoki has to live as a freedom-loving Hijikata, and Hijikata as a Gintoki who stresses strict discipline. The change in these two leaders transforms the Shinsengumi and Odd Jobs into completely different organizations.

Upon finding out that their egos were switched by Gengai's Fully Automatic Egg-on-Rice Maker, Gintoki and Hijikata head out to find the cat's corpse that sucked in half of Gintoki's soul, only to find it transformed into something completely unexpected.

Gintoki and Hijikata try everything they can to split Otae and Dozaemon-san up, but there are some other switcheroos happening behind the scenes.

Shinpachi and the rest of Odd Jobs decide to go for a new look, with predictably disastrous results. In the second half, Shinpachi is tasked with learning the ultimate move his father left behind.

Katsura infiltrates the Shinsengumi in a bid to take it down from the inside, but he finds he has an unexpected foe to deal with.

Katsura spreads baseless rumors about Saito and puts him on trial. Gin-san and the others try to prevent his execution.

The extreme heat of summer reminds everyone that Kagura is weak to sunlight. She is taken seriously ill, or so it seems...

What was supposed to be a mere feigned illness turned into a state funeral sending Kagura off! How can Kagura get out of this?

Tetsuko, the swordsmith, asks Odd Jobs to look after her store, and Tama makes an oil-blooded friend.

The shogun's assassination is set in motion.

The full truth about the Iga ninjas' involvement in the shogun assassination plot comes to light, as well as a surprising aspect of the shogun and Oniwaban's past.

Kagura vs. Kamui. Gintoki vs. Takasugi. The long-awaited battles finally begin!

Gintoki and Takasugi continue their fierce battle, and the truth about their past, and the animosity between them, is finally revealed.