Gintama: Yoshiwara in Flames Director Says the Team Finally Decided to Burn Down Yoshiwara After the TV Anime Didn’t

Gintama: Yoshiwara in Flames is bringing a major change to one of the franchise’s most popular story arcs: this time, Yoshiwara actually burns. Director Naoya Andô revealed that the filmmaking team deliberately chose to show the destruction of the district, unlike the earlier television adaptation, which did not depict the town burning despite the arc’s title. In an interview with Variety, Andô explained that he raised the difference with producer Takashi Maekawa, who had also worked on the TV anime.…