Gintama
Gintama, 은혼
Gintama (銀魂 Gintama, lit. Silver Soul) is a comedic manga created by Hideaki Sorachi. The original manga began in April 2004 and is currently being published by Shueisha under Weekly Shōnen Jump. The manga has sold over 20 million copies in Japan.[1] In March 2007, Shueisha announced that sales of the first volume had passed one million copies.
The story takes place in Edo (known today as Tokyo because of the name change in 1868), Japan, which has been taken over by aliens called Amanto since the late Edo period. The samurai of Japan have fallen, and the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The story focuses on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his (partial) apprentice Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl: Kagura. All three are "free-lancers" who search for work in order to pay the monthly rent, which usually goes unpaid anyway.
(Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, s.v. "Gintama")
