杉田智和
When the 2016 season of the anime season started, Gintoki parodied a Japanese politician, Ryutaro Nonomura, crying for misuse of fundings. While this had no negative consequences, the staff at Shueisha, the company that publishes the manga, admitted they felt nervous. Another parody was made by Gintoki in the 2017 release of the anime with he referencing the "Gilgamesh Night" show due to the series taking its timeslot. Anime News Network writer Amy McNulty had mixed feelings about Michael Daingerfield's work as Gintoki's English actor as she found it too similar to Hijikata and Katsura. On the other hand, Mike Toole, another member from Anime News Network, found Daingerfield's work as appealing as the one from the original cast, Tomokazu Sugita.