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Gintoki

Gintoki from Gintanama
Sprite author: Mikel8888, el usuario sonico

Gintoki Sakata is the main protagonist of the Gintama series.
He is the founder and president of the Yorozuya, as well as a highly-skilled samurai, having fought in the Joui War in the past.
During the war, he became known as the Shiroyasha (literally meaning White Yaksha, Yaksha being a spirit or demon in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism) due to his powerful swordsmanship, demonic appearance, white clothing, and silver hair.

It is unknown where he was born, what happened to his parents, and what he was doing before becoming a child scavenger.
It is also unknown how long he was doing this.
He gained the nickname Corpse Eating Demon from the nearby villagers due to being commonly seen wandering in deserted battlefields searching corpses for food and weapons to survive.
During one search, Gintoki encounters Yoshida Shouyou who had heard the rumors about the child and came to investigate.
Taking a liking to Gintoki and seeing himself in the child, Shouyou gave Gintoki his sword and asked him to follow him.
Gintoki became Shouyou's first student of his newly opened school, Shoka Sonjuku, where he learned basic swordsmanship and academics.
After gathering more students, all mostly poor, the school earns the attention and scrutiny of the wealthier people in the village.
They also gained the attention of two military academic students who became disillusioned with the academy and the people attending it, Katsura Kotarou and Takasugi Shinsuke.
The two were attracted by the school's goal for the children, striving to achieve their own ideal of a samurai while struggling against themselves.
The two will later officially join after helping fend off some officials from trying to arrest Shouyou.
Gintoki later earns himself a rival in Takasugi.

Years later during the Kansei Purge, despite Gintoki's best efforts to stop them, the Tenshouin Naraku arrested Shouyou and burned down the school.
Before leaving, Shouyou asked Gintoki to protect his fellow students, as a promise, to which Gintoki mentally agreed.
After learning what happened, the students decided to join the ongoing Joui War, allied with the Joui, to rescue their imprisoned teacher.
They met Sakamoto Tatsuma during the fight and Gintoki gains the nickname Shiroyasha (White Yaksha) due to his mostly white attire, silver hair, and of course, his ferocious fighting style.
At one point, Takasugi asked Gintoki to protect Shouyou in his stead, though Gintoki never truly agreed and instead asked Takasugi for a promise: to stay alive.
During a battle, after Sakamoto was taken off the front lines due to injury, everyone except Gintoki, Katsura, and Takasugi were killed, and the trio was captured.
Gintoki was forced to choose between killing Shouyou to save Katsura and Takasugi and vice versa.
He decided to keep his promise to Shouyou and protect his friends, but in turn broke his promise to Takasugi. Shouyou gives Gintoki a final thank you before he is beheaded by him.
After their enemies left, the trio buried their teacher's head and their comrades' corpses, then went their separate ways, leaving the war.
Sakamoto was only able to find Gintoki before he too, left.

Sometime later, a wandering Gintoki overheard a man trying to offer his daughter to be executed in his place to a group of officials.
The man was a Joui informant who had given up information on certain Joui and their families to these officials that belonged to a political faction within the government.
Gintoki offered himself in the daughter's place to protect her; both he and the informant were arrested.
In jail, he unknowingly met the girl that he saved, who was adopted by the executioner, the 16th Ikeda Yaemon.
He saw Gintoki's deeds, and after executing Asaemon's father, declared that he had no right to execute the person who was a good man, then presumed to release him.
Injured and starving he wandered in the cold winter night to a graveyard to die, until he encountered Otose leaving food offerings at her husband's grave that he was leaning on.
He asked her if he could have the manjuu offerings she set down and she told him to ask her husband, who was receiving the offerings instead of her.
Gintoki then ate her husband's manjuu without asking him, saying that dead people don't speak.
In return, he made a promise to her husband that he would protect Otose until she dies.

After this encounter, Gintoki became a tenant on the second floor of Snack Otose and founded the Old Yorozuya with Kanemaru, Ikesawa, and Furuhashi.
Together, their business flourished and they became famous.
Nevertheless, for many reasons, Gintoki threw his partners into a river and ended up working in the Yorozuya alone until the start of the series.

Link:https://gintama.fandom.com/wiki/Sakata_Gintoki

Type: Swordman.

Super Attack: Yes.