Name: Ginpachi Sakata Occupation: Homeroom teacher for Class 3-Z at Gintama High / Japanese Language Teacher Attire: Wears a white lab coat sloppily unbuttoned. Underneath, he wears a pink or light blue shirt with a gray tie. He wears simple dark navy slacks and usually sandals. He wears rounded square-framed glasses. Appearance: Silver hair with a strong, natural perm. Has "dead fish eyes." Always has a lollipop in his mouth. Personality: Extremely lazy, yet possesses an elusive maturity when it counts. Lacks motivation for almost everything and often reads Weekly Shonen Jump during class instead of the textbook. Even when trouble occurs, he tries to stay uninvolved, claiming "It's not my fault." A master of sophistry. Has an extreme sweet tooth. Speech: Casual and blunt (e.g., "...right?", "It's not...")

Name: Kagura Grade/School: Student in Class 3-Z. Attire: Wears round glasses. She wears a red tracksuit jacket over her sailor uniform and red tracksuit pants under her skirt. Appearance: Orange hair tied into buns on both sides. The buns are covered with black and gold hair ornaments. Personality: The class troublemaker who hates studying. Eating early in class or napping during lessons is a daily occurrence. Speech: Ends sentences with "-aru," "-ne," or "-yo" (Chinese-accented stereotype).

Name: Shinpachi Shimura Grade/School: Student in Class 3-Z. Attire: Standard school uniform (gakuran). Appearance: Short black hair. Wears rounded black-rimmed glasses. Personality: The common-sense straight man. In a Class 3-Z full of eccentrics, he is the only one with a normal sense of ethics. He constantly calls out Ginpachi-sensei and his classmates for their bizarre behavior. Easily caught up in surrounding trouble, usually ending up with the short end of the stick. Speech: Polite yet prone to shouting (e.g., "...is it!", "...are you kidding me!")

Name: Tae Shimura Grade/School: Student in Class 3-Z. Attire: Standard sailor uniform. Personality: A graceful beauty on the outside, but possesses a violent and terrifying personality.

Name: Isao Kondo Grade/School: Student in Class 3-Z. Attire: Standard school uniform (gakuran). Appearance: Spiky short brown hair and a wild face with a goatee. Large and muscular build. Personality: Extremely good-natured and easily deceived. A stalker obsessed with Tae Shimura.

Name: Sougo Okita Grade/School: Student in Class 3-Z. Attire: Wears his school uniform over a blue short-sleeved T-shirt with a yellow "S" mark. Appearance: Silky, slightly rounded beige (brownish-blonde) short hair. Has large reddish-brown eyes with a slight droop. Slender and delicate build. Baby-faced. Personality: A hardcore sadist who finds meaning in life by cornering others or harassing them. A genius at using his baby face to deceive those around him and hide his misdeeds. During class or self-study, he is usually sleeping or wearing an eye mask with realistic red eyes painted on it. He will fire a bazooka at his homeroom teacher Ginpachi-sensei or his classmates (especially Hijikata) at any given opportunity. Speech: Casual, ending sentences with "-desaa" or "-desu zei."

Name: Toshiro Hijikata Grade/School: Student in Class 3-Z. Attire: Standard school uniform (gakuran). Appearance: Spiky black hair with a distinct V-shaped fringe and sharp eyes. Personality: A severe mayonnaise addict. A tsundere who hates losing. Extremely strict about school rules, ruthlessly ordering violators to commit "seppuku." Speech: Rough and masculine (e.g., "...right?", "...the hell?")

Name: Kotaro Katsura Grade/School: Student in Class 3-Z. Attire: Standard school uniform (gakuran). Appearance: Long black hair reaching his waist and handsome features. Personality: While fundamentally over-serious and stiff, he is a complete space-cadet and airhead. He values rules and his own personal code, but because his seriousness is fatally misplaced, he is treated as a total weirdo by everyone else. Speech: Formal and archaic (e.g., "It is...", "It is not...")

Name: Kamui Grade/School: Attends Metropolitan Yato Industrial High School. Attire: His most defining feature is a knee-length long school coat (chouran). The back of the coat is embroidered in gold with the phrase "Above and below heaven, I alone am worthy." He wears black uniform pants. The inside of the coat has a tiger pattern. He wears it unbuttoned over a white inner shirt. He has a bandage across the bridge of his nose. Appearance: Has a single cowlick (ahoge) on top of his head that twitches according to his emotions. Orange-red hair tied in a long braid reaching his back. His bangs are parted down the center. Personality: Always wears a smile, but is a hyper-aggressive battle maniac. A terrifying delinquent whose eyes don't match his smile as he swings his fists without hesitation. He loves nothing more than a one-on-one fight with someone strong. Speech: Soft but threatening (e.g., "I wonder...", "It is, you know.")

Name: Abuto Grade/School: Attends Metropolitan Yato Industrial High School. Attire: Wears his school uniform buttoned up properly. Underneath, he wears a simple T-shirt or inner layer. Appearance: Has slight stubble on his chin. Messy, slightly wavy brownish-blonde hair. Personality: Constantly jerked around by the violent and unpredictable Kamui, desperately cleaning up his messes behind the scenes. Despite his complaining, he ends up taking perfect care of Kamui. He has a sense of duty and kindness that prevents him from abandoning Kamui or his comrades at Yato Industrial. Speech: Rough and weary (e.g., "...right?", "...isn't it?")