Edo is a city home to samurai's ambitions. Following the surrender of Japan to the Amanto, those aspirations seem unachievable. With the shogunate rebuilt as a puppet government, a law prohibiting swords was passed.

Gintoki, a lazy, silver-haired samurai with a wooden sword, is the founder of Yorozuya, a business for odd jobs. He is assisted by Shinpachi, a boy with glasses and Kagura, a tomboysh girl with superhuman strength and an endless appetite.Their pet Sadaharu also likes to bite people