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The anime and its DVDs have also been featured, at various time, in Top Ten of their respective media, while TV Tokyo has announced that the Gin Tama anime was responsible for high sales overseas along with the anime adaptation from Naruto. In Japan, the Gin Tama manga has been popular, commonly ranking within the Top Ten of best seller series. Besides the anime series, there have been various light novels and video games based on Gin Tama. The website Crunchyroll is streaming the series on its site, while Sentai Filmworks licensed the series, with distribution from Section23 Films on DVDs. An animated film premiered in Japan in April 2010.

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This was followed by a full anime series which debuted on Apin TV Tokyo and finished on March 25, 2010. An original video animation (OVA) of Gin Tama by Sunrise was featured at Jump Festa 2006 Anime Tour in 2005. It debuted in the January 2007 issue, and was serialized at a rate of one chapter a month. In addition to publishing the individual volumes of the series, Viz serialized its first chapters in their Shonen Jump manga anthology. The manga has been licensed by Viz Media in North America. Sorachi added the science fiction setting to develop characters to his liking after his editor suggested doing a historical series. Set in an Edo which has been conquered by aliens named Amanto, the plot follows life from the point of view of samurai Gintoki Sakata, who works as a freelancer alongside his friends Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura in order to pay the monthly rent. 'Silver Soul') is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi and serialized, beginning in December 8, 2003, in Shueisha's Weekly ShЕЌnen Jump.