All 77 Volumes of Gintama Free for 3 Days on LINE Manga and ebookjapan
The promotion bundles a full-series free read with a theatrical re-release, a tactic that drives both digital platform engagement and cinema attendance for a franchise that ended its serialization years ago.
Reporting from 2 sources: Comic Natalie, Nijimen.
All 77 volumes of Hideaki Sorachi's manga series Gintama are available to read for free on the LINE Manga and ebookjapan platforms from May 29 to May 31. The three-day campaign celebrates the long-running popularity of the series and the start of 4DX screenings for the film New Gintama Movie: Yoshiwara in Flames, which began on May 29. On LINE Manga's special page, readers can participate in a user-voted ranking of the best Gintama episodes and browse a curated collection of famous scenes. A separate gacha event, running from May 29 to May 30, offers chances to win manga coins or time-saving items. The campaign covers the monochrome edition of the series, published by Shueisha, and is exclusive to the two services.
The free-reading campaign covers all 77 volumes of the monochrome edition of Gintama, the series by Hideaki Sorachi that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2003 to 2019. The offer is exclusive to two digital services: LINE Manga, a major mobile manga app in Japan, and ebookjapan, an e-book store operated by Yahoo Japan. Both platforms are making every volume available at no cost for the full three days, a span that includes a weekend.
The campaign coincides with the May 29 launch of 4DX screenings for New Gintama Movie: Yoshiwara in Flames, a film that adapts the Yoshiwara in Flames arc from the series. The movie originally opened in Japanese theaters in 2024. The 4DX version adds motion and environmental effects to the theatrical experience.
On LINE Manga's dedicated campaign page, users can vote in a community-driven ranking of the best Gintama episodes and browse a pre-selected list of recommended famous scenes. The companion gacha event, which runs for only two days through May 30, lets users spin for prizes including manga coins and items that speed up reading timers on the platform.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Comic Natalie 「銀魂」全話が3日間限定で、LINEマンガとebookjapanで無料に
- Nijimen 『銀魂』全77巻が5月31日まで全話無料！「LINEマンガ」「ebookjapan」限定での公開