Yo. New episodes are out. We now begin the Thorny Arc. Bullet Beast of the Unofficial Hunter x Hunter Podcast makes his triumphant return to the podcast. With him being the first podcast guest to return to the show now puts him at demigod status. Aritzen also stops by for a minute to announce an event that already happened. We love being timely.

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Episode 243 on Crunchyroll

Episode 244 on Crunchyroll

Hideaki Sorachi’s salad interview. Brought to you by Aritzen.

Buy your own personal Shinpachi.

The cover for Volume 43 of the manga.

Gintama Best 2 wins Animation Album Gold Disk Award.

So a bunch of Japanese voice actors will be doing covers of various Disney songs.

Here is a taste of what you will get.

OK. This is the first “regular” episode of 2012. Yes. Let’s go with that. We talk about the return of our favorite hosts and the inspiration behind our stolen catchphrase. We also attempt to make embarrassing noises in our feedback section.

We have already announced this on Twitter some time ago but we are going to be going to Anime Boston in April. So if you have any plans on going, please email to us at GintamaPodcast@gmail.com. We want to see if we can actually get a fan meetup of some sort. We are also planning to doing a Gintama panel while we are over there but let’s not get our hopes up.

Also, if you want another way to leave feedback we have a voice mail number: 954-324-7722. This number is being shared with all of the other podcasts in our umbrella so just say you are leaving a message to Just A Gintama Podcast and you may hear your voice on the show. Or you can just ask us on Skype that you want to be on the show. Whichever is less embarrassing for you.

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Episode 241 on Crunchyroll

Episode 242 on Crunchyroll

That Awesomousse post from the last episode.

The article itself is not in 1080p.

Does this count as getting in the TV ranking?

We would like to start off by apologizing to Aritzen and Awesomousse. Now that that is out of the way, here is the last podcast episode for the year 2011. It has been a very interesting year. This experiment has become something we are glad to have started.

Around this time last year during an episode of the Ass Backwards Anime Podcast, we declared that we were going to start a Gintama podcast. It took a little time but we ended up putting together the first episode. From there, we weren’t even sure if anyone would respond to it. Guess we were lucky enough to have some fans of our other show to help promote our new venture (you know who you are). Honestly, we thought that would have been the extent of our reach. Then more people started showing up. Then more people. Then an entire country. Soon enough, we realized we were stuck in a room full of crazy people. And we still ended up making a lot of new friends.

Thank you everyone. We could have done it without you.

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Episode 239 on Crunchyroll

Episode 240 on Crunchyroll

Awesomousse’s intial post.

Aritzen’s response to Awesomousse.

Top selling DVDs in Japan for 2011.

Just a reminder: Episode 241 will be postponed until January 9th. Here is the preview to make you upset. Kind of fitting really.