The main character in episode 188, gives a presentation in class about meeting and befriending Madao (Hasegawa).   ~!Daigorou's father is injured and gets depressed, turning into a Madao himself. After he left, this is the reason he felt compassion for Hasegawa. Hasegawa started living with Daigorou and his mom, with his mom showing signs of affection for Hasegawa.  When Hasegawa finally shapes up and goes to a job interview, he meets Daigorou's father who did the exact same thing. Hasegawa causes a ruckus so that Daigorou's dad gets the job, and returns to his family.  Encountering Hasegawa in the park, who is back to being a Madao, Daigorou bursts into tears yelling he knew what Hasegawa did and calls him the 'nicest, best samurai'.  At the end of the presentation everyone bursts into tears. A credit roll reveals the report was written and directed by his mom.!~ Daigorou is a parody of the character in the Manga Lone Wolf and Cub (notice the similarity of their looks). Both of them also share the same first name.

Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured! 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

__Agency:__ Ogipro The Next Co. Inc.

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After a one-year hiatus, Shinpachi Shimura returns to Edo, only to stumble upon a shocking surprise: Gintoki and Kagura, his fellow Yorozuya members, have become completely different characters! Fleeing from the Yorozuya headquarters in confusion, Shinpachi finds that all the denizens of Edo have undergone impossibly extreme changes, in both appearance and personality. Most unbelievably, his sister Otae has married the Shinsengumi chief and shameless stalker Isao Kondou and is pregnant with their first child.
 
Bewildered, Shinpachi agrees to join the Shinsengumi at Otae and Kondou's request and finds even more startling transformations afoot both in and out of the ranks of the the organization. However, discovering that Vice Chief Toushirou Hijikata has remained unchanged, Shinpachi and his unlikely Shinsengumi ally set out to return the city of Edo to how they remember it.
 
With even more dirty jokes, tongue-in-cheek parodies, and shameless references, Gintama' follows the Yorozuya team through more of their misadventures in the vibrant, alien-filled world of Edo.
 
(Source: MAL Rewrite)

The samurai didn't stand a chance. First, the aliens invaded Japan. Next, they took all the jobs. And then they confiscated everyone's swords. So what does a hotheaded former samurai like Sakata "Gin" Gintoki do to make ends meet? Take any odd job that comes his way, even if it means losing his dignity.
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 
Included Bonus Chapters: 
Volume 1: Dandelion (One-shot). 
Volume 2: Shirokuro (One-shot). 
Volume 24: 13 (One-shot). 
Volume 38: Bankara-san Ga Tooru (One-shot). 
Volume 41: Special Lesson.

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