Taking a Look into Gintama's Historical Setting - The Bakumatsu Period

Part I of II for examining Gintama's historical influence. Watching Gintama has gotten me interested in a bit of Japanese history and while I by no means am an expert on it, I hope this can give further context regarding Gintama's historically-inspired setting. For the sake of transparency, my biggest source of information for this video is: A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present By Andrew Gordon Decent book, check it out if you’re interested. https://www.amazon.com/Modern-History... (My main gripe with the book is that it often drops a contentious statement without immediately justifying it and only does so a couple of paragraphs later which slightly soured my personal reading experience but YMMV) For an overview of the historical influence on Gintama’s characters: https://www.yorozuyasoul.com/gintama/... Twitter:   / brayenmomonke   MAL: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Braye...