Two of Japan’s loudest gag anime just decided to share a frame. On 20 August the Osomatsu-san team unveiled a full crossover visual with Gintama, closing out the sextuplets’ 10th anniversary lineup with the last comedy franchise most fans would have paired them with — Sorachi Hideaki’s samurai slackers. The reveal is currently only running on the Japanese official channels and trade press; English-language anime media has not picked it up yet at the time of writing.
Osomatsu and Gintoki, shoulder to shoulder
The big draw is a single group visual built around the two protagonists. Osomatsu Matsuno is parked next to Sakata Gintoki in the centre of the piece, the pair leaning in with drinks in hand — Gintoki nursing his signature strawberry milk while Osomatsu makes a strong argument for sake. Around them, character pairings from both casts fill out the panel: Ichimatsu shoulders a bazooka alongside Okita Sougo, Karamatsu poses with Katsura, Choromatsu hangs out with Kagura, and Sadaharu photobombs the corner while Elizabeth watches over the whole thing. The announcement on Anime! Anime! confirms the collab visual will drive a set of original goods, with sale items and purchase methods to be revealed later (Japanese).
The finale of a 10-year victory lap
Osomatsu-san has been running a rolling anniversary campaign since October 2025, when the show officially entered its 10th year. Pierrot’s Osomatsu-san Kai — the fourth TV season — is still on the air, and the sextuplets have already tagged in with two other franchises this year as part of the anniversary series. According to the Cho! Animedia writeup, this Gintama crossover is officially the third and final entry in that lineup (Japanese), which is why the visual leans so hard on both series’ full ensembles rather than just the leads.
The pairing is neat on a franchise-history level too. Osomatsu-san reboots Akatsuka Fujio’s 1962 Osomatsu-kun as a NEET comedy about six adult brothers refusing to grow up; Gintama spent its own run smashing samurai drama into pop culture parody with a similarly straight-faced idiot at the centre. Both shows have made a career of gag-anime whiplash and fourth-wall demolition, and the collab visual reads like the production teams knew exactly which characters to slot next to which — Ichimatsu’s slouching menace next to Okita’s smiling menace is almost a shared universe pitch on its own.
Watch the Osomatsu-san 10th anniversary trailer
What this means if you’re watching from Singapore
Both franchises are already familiar to SG fans. Gintama‘s newest theatrical outing, Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames, opened in Golden Village screens across Singapore in June and lands on Netflix on 27 August; Osomatsu-san Kai is available to stream via the usual anime services regionally. The catch, as always with these merchandise-first Japanese collabs, is that the goods themselves will almost certainly ship out of Japan first: past 10th-anniversary drops have been handled through Movic’s online store and franchise pop-up shops, both of which either don’t ship internationally or gate international orders through forwarders. Nothing about SG or SEA availability has been confirmed for this specific collab.
For local fans that means treating this the way you’d treat any tenth-anniversary Japan-first drop: watch the Osomatsu-san 10th anniversary site and the Gintama anime portal for the follow-up post that names actual items and prices, then decide whether to line up a proxy shopper before the initial batch sells out. Given how tightly both fandoms hoard crossover art, expect the first wave of physical goods to move fast once details drop.
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