Publications for manga, anime and others have commented on the Gin Tama manga. The anime and its DVDs have been featured, at various time, in Top Ten of their respective media, while TV Tokyo has announced that the first 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, selling over 44 million copies as of July 2013. The website Crunchyroll purchased the anime's streaming rights, while Sentai Filmworks licensed the series, with distribution from Section23 Films on DVDs. 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. Besides the anime series, there have been various light novels and video games based on Gin Tama.
Two animated films have also been produced. A sequel titled Gintama '​ first premiered in Japan on Apand ended on March 26, 2012, before returning once again for a brief run from Octoto March 28, 2013. This was followed by a full anime series, which debuted on Apin TV Tokyo and finished on March 25, 2010. The series has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) by Sunrise and was featured at Jump Festa 2006 Anime Tour in 2005.
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