The official website for the Gintama anime franchise posted a key visual for the original anime DVD that will be bundled with the 65th volume of Hideaki Sorachi's original Gintama manga on August 4.

This original anime DVD and the next one (bundled with the 66th volume on November 4) adapt the "Love Potion" story arc, which covers chapters 492-496 of the original series. The website promises that it will post the key visual for the November 4 original anime DVD "soon." Shueisha published the story arc in the manga's 55th compiled book volume in 2014. These OADs mark the first time that the arc has been adapted into anime, and each one runs about 25 minutes long.

In the "Love Potion" story arc, a strange incense causes the people who smell it to fall in love with the first person they see. Tsukuyo tries to collect the incense, but the smoke affects her. The Yorozuya and the entire district fall under the love potion's influence.

The television anime's main staff and cast are returning for the anime DVDs. Each volume with bundled DVD will cost 3,400 yen (about US$29). The manga will also bundle special postcards with illustrations from the original manga.

The manga's 58th volume bundled an anime DVD last April. The tagline for the bundled anime read, "It's time for all the Yorozuya members … to wake up just one more time."

Crunchyroll streamed the Gintama special event anime that premiered at the Jump Special Anime Festa 2015 tour in November. The Jump Special Anime Festa event tour also screened a one-episode Gintama special in 2014. An event anime of comedy shorts debuted at the Jump Festa 2005 event.

Sorachi's Gintama action comedy manga inspired a television anime that premiered in 2006 and continued (with several extended hiatuses) until 2013. The latest Gintama television anime series premiered in April 2015, and ended this past March. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan. The manga also inspired two anime films, including the "final" Gekijōban Gintama Kanketsu-hen: Yorozuya yo Eien Nare film that opened in 2013.

[Via Nijimen]