“A lazy odd-jobs shop owner who's also the strongest swordsman of the anti-shogunate resistance — same person.”
The sword style that dominated the Joui War battlefields under his alias "White Demon." Activates instantly from any resting position.
Fights with a wooden sword under the sword-prohibition law — achieves live-blade-level combat with wood.
An extreme state triggered by the deaths of companions or his master — focus and power that bear no resemblance to his usual self.
The strongest man in the room pretending to be the laziest. After losing his master in the war, he covers that pain with humor and sloth and lives on top of it. But when a companion is in danger — or genuine evil appears — that cover lifts and the White Demon from the battlefield returns. Gintama never asks which one is the real him. Both are.