TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
Gintama
Scored from 39 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
In an alternate Edo where alien 'Amanto' have conquered Japan and banned swords, Gintoki Sakata — a silver-haired, sugar-addicted former rebel samurai — runs Yorozuya, an odd-jobs shop that will take any assignment for cash. He is joined by the earnest Shinpachi Shimura, whose family dojo is collapsing, and Kagura, a parasol-wielding girl from the superhuman Yato clan. The jobs rarely pay and routinely entangle them with the Shinsengumi police, rival street gangs, and Gintoki's old comrades from the anti-Amanto war. The anime alternates between fourth-wall-breaking parody and extended dramatic arcs about a dying samurai class.
Gintama is a 2005 action, animation and comedy television series. Episodes run about 24m. It plays in Japanese. Its certificate is TV-14. Its country of origin is listed as Japan.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. Only 39 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 59 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Gintama lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 39.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
