The story is set in the late Edo duration. Mankind is attacked by invaders called "Amanto" (天人?, "Sky Individuals"). Thesamurai of Japan sign up with the fight versus the invaders, but when the Shogun recognizes the electrical power of aliens, he betrays the samurai and abandonments to the aliens. The Shogun creates an unequal contract with invaders which allows the aliens to get in the country as well as places a restriction on lugging swords in public. The swords of samurai are taken away so they could no more resist the aliens. Afterwards the Shogunate ends up being a client state.

The plot is focused on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata (also known as Odd Jobs Gin) who aids a young adult namedShinpachi Shimura conserve his sister Tae from a group of aliens that want to make her component of a brothel. Excited with Gintoki, Shinpachi becomes his apprentice and also collaborates with him as a freelance odd-jobs man in order to pay the monthly rent on Gintoki's mix house and also workplace, in addition to know more about him.

The two of them save a teenage unusual girl named Kagura from a team of Yakuza who wanted to make use of hersuperhuman strength to kill people. Kagura joins Shinpachi as well as Gintoki to work as freelancers and the three ended up being known as "Yorozuya" (万事屋?, "We do everything" or essentially "The Anything Store").

While doing their task, they come across the law enforcement agency Shinsengumi several times, that typically ally with Odd Jobs Gin in their work given that the jobs frequently entail harmful lawbreakers. They ultimately satisfy several of Gintoki's former sidekicks from the battle versus the Amanto's intrusion, including the cutting edge Kotaro Katsura that preserves a pleasant connection with them regardless of his terrorist activities against the bakufu. On the various other hand, Shinsuke Takasugiacts as a significant villain throughout the collection, as he wishes to ruin the bakufu and sees his previous pals as opponents.

Although the series' tale is frequently anecdotal, there are also a few tale arcs which are established with numerous chapters. [1] Across several story arcs Takasugi starts gaining allies including Kagura's bro, Kamui, as well as the elite unitMimawarigumi to prepare for his huge range coup d'état.