This has been going on for so long -_-
Whenever I read/ watch/ hear of ANYTHING dealing with Hijikata, Okita, Shinpachi etc. (The Historical figures) I can never take it seriously because of Gintama. It has fully corrupted my outlook and causes me to laugh indiscriminately at any historical fiction xD

Does this happen with anyone else, and how do you cope with it?

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Take a look at the real pictures of Hijikata or Kondo. A bucket of cold water right on your head. I think of the characters and the real people as completely unrelated individuals now.

Take a look at the real pictures of Hijikata or Kondo. A bucket of cold water right on your head. I think of the characters and the real people as completely unrelated individuals now

Lol you poor thing. It was like this for me at first too but I got over it pretty quickly. It'd be too hard to read other manga featuring the same characters. It also helps if you read about the people they were based on and learn that many of them were pretty freaking tragic. Like most of the shinsengumi died very young, sad deaths.

Though Gintama was no where near as bad as Sengoku Basara for ruining characters and any sense of history you might have. (ie Date Masamune and Yukimura weren't even BORN or were kids when the major warloards were duking it out. They would have been about 14 when Oda Nobunaga died)