The humor of old Gintama is the humor of density. Every pixel is screaming. And then, the pillars fall.
For 367 episodes and two feature films, Gintama was composed for the 4:3 square. Then, around episode 278 (the start of the Farewell Shinsengumi arc), the black pillars on the sides of your television suddenly retracted. The image bloomed outward into 16:9 widescreen. And in that moment, every fan felt a strange, inexplicable vertigo. gintama full screen
You started Gintama as a teenager on a square monitor, laughing at scatological humor. You finished it as an adult on a widescreen TV, crying over a silver-haired man who just wanted to protect his students’ smiles. The humor of old Gintama is the humor of density
The shift to "full screen" (16:9) was not a technical upgrade. It was a . For 367 episodes and two feature films, Gintama
Suddenly, the frame could hold more emptiness. And in Gintama , emptiness is where the tragedy lives.