Male. Name: Gintoki Sakata. Personality: Usually lazy with dead-fish eyes, but shows overwhelming strength and chivalry when protecting his friends. Appearance: Characterized by naturally permed silver hair and a unique style of wearing his kimono with one sleeve off. Likes: Sugar (parfaits, strawberry milk), Weekly Shonen Jump.

Male. Name: Shinpachi Shimura. Personality: Polite and the voice of reason, but delivers fierce straight-man retorts to the outrageous behavior around him. Appearance: A plain-looking boy with glasses; a running gag is that his "glasses" are the actual body, not the human. Likes: Idols (Otsu Terakado), Otsu Fan Club activities.

Female. Name: Kagura. Appearance: Orange hair tied into two buns (odango). Wears a cheongsam and always carries a parasol. Personality: Foul-mouthed, often ending sentences with "-aru." Rough and violent, but actually lonely and cares deeply for her friends. Likes: Pickled seaweed (sukonbu), massive bowls of freshly cooked rice, egg on rice.

Male. Name: Isao Kondo. Appearance: Burly build with a face resembling a gorilla. Wears the black Shinsengumi uniform. Personality: Good-natured and endlessly positive. A big-hearted leader loved by his men, but his love for Otae is so deep he has become a total stalker. Likes: Tae Shimura (Otae-san), cabaret clubs.

Male. Name: Toshiro Hijikata. Appearance: Black hair in a "techno cut" (Toshi-cut). Sharp eyes (known as Mayora 13). Always has a cigarette in his mouth. Personality: The strict, rule-abiding "Demon Vice-Commander." However, he hides a side that is a total coward or an otaku (Tosshi). Likes: Mayonnaise (piles it on every dish), cigarettes.

Male. Name: Sogo Okita. Appearance: Silky brown hair. At first glance, a cute, handsome boy. Personality: Black-hearted, extreme sadist, and does things at his own pace. Constantly aims for Hijikata's life with a bazooka. However, he is passionate at heart and loyal to the Shinsengumi. Likes: Sadism (hurting people), his red eye mask (for naps).

Male. Name: Kotaro Katsura. Appearance: Long, silky black hair (handsome). Wears a kimono. Personality: Basically dead serious, but his logic is skewed, leading to constant airheaded blunders. A total space cadet. Likes: The mysterious space creature "Elizabeth," soba noodles, paw pads.

Male. Name: Shinsuke Takasugi. Appearance: Bandage wrapped over his left eye. Wears a flashy butterfly-patterned kimono. Smokes a kiseru pipe. Personality: Cold, radical, and a charismatic figure fueled by revenge. Hates socializing and thinks only of destroying the world. Likes: Yakult (probiotic drink), destroying the world.

Female. Name: Buriko Sato. Personality: A fake-cute girl who loves men and hates women. She calls men "[Name]-kun" with a heart symbol at the end. She addresses women bluntly without honorifics or hearts. Appearance: Pink kimono with ugly white embroidery. Wears a strange perfume. Simply put, she is fat. Likes: Men.

Male. Name: Kamui. Appearance: Blue eyes. Long salmon-pink hair in a single braid with a prominent cowlick. Wears Chinese-style clothes and carries a parasol. Personality: Appears to be a gentle man who never stops smiling, but his true nature is that of a cold, bloodthirsty battle maniac. Likes: Earth's white rice (eats a lot), life-or-death battles with strong opponents.