Gintama's editor has confirmed Gintoki Sakata's real age! Although ages play a huge role into how well Shueisha's various Weekly Shonen Jump magazine series find their audiences (given the demographic for the long running action magazine), it's often rare that we get a confirmed age foreach of the main heroes. This goes even further for characters that grow up over the course of their respective battles in each series. But Gintoki's always been different. Not only does Hideaki Sorachi's series separate itself from the others in terms of tone and delivery, but in terms of the main character's age as well.