Everyone in Gintama is messing about, and read through attachment theory every one of them is carrying a wound. Gintoki and Takasugi lost the same teacher and went opposite ways. The Yorozuya and Kabukicho alike are substitute families, rebuilt by people with nowhere to go. Under the setups and the punchlines, this manga has been talking about belonging the whole time.
This page reads 15 Gintama characters through three layers: MBTI as the outward personality, attachment style as the hidden side, and a Big Five type. Rather than simply assigning a type, Why this type from what they do in the story and where they came from — that is how this site works.
📊 Attachment styles across the Gintama cast
The comparison baseline is the attachment split across 42,256 quiz responses: 30.1% secure, 15.5% anxious, 13.7% avoidant, 40.6% fearful-avoidant.
An unusual number of the main cast have lost someone who mattered, and how each handles it — joking it away (Gintoki), destroying (Takasugi), binding it in discipline (Hijikata) — becomes the comic register of the character. The humour is an exhibition of defence mechanisms.
🧩 Reading the relationships in Gintama through attachment
The main figures in Gintama branch three ways out of the same loss. After Shoyo was taken, Gintoki kept his distance, Katsura turned to negotiation and Takasugi chose destruction. What separates the three is not ability but the route each one's pain took. That the Yorozuya works as a loose group is partly because nobody defines the relationships. The drop between the comedy and the serious passages is accepted because most of these people land the weight by messing about in ordinary life.
📖 Character list (tap to jump)
The artwork is 16 MBTI types × 4 attachment styles = 64 combinations character images. When the same picture appears twice, those two match all the way down to the 64-type level.
Gintoki Sakata
ISFP
Avoidant
Shinpachi Shimura
ISFJ
Secure
Kagura
ESFP
Secure
Toshiro Hijikata
ISTJ
Fearful-avoidant
Sogo Okita
ESTP
Avoidant
Kotaro Katsura
ENFP
Secure
Shinsuke Takasugi
INFJ
Fearful-avoidant
Otose
ESFJ
Avoidant
Isao Kondo
ESFJ
Secure
Tatsuma Sakamoto
ENFP
Secure
Kamui
ENTP
Avoidant
Sagaru Yamazaki
ISTJ
Anxious
Taizo Hasegawa
ISFP
Fearful-avoidant
Kyubei Yagyu
ISTP
Fearful-avoidant
Ayame Sarutobi
ESFP
Anxious
🍭 Gintoki Sakata: MBTI ISFP, attachment avoidant
Hide your true feelings with dead fish eyes. He has a sweet tooth and returns to being a samurai only when it comes to protection.
MBTI radar (ISFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Gintoki Sakata is ISFP × avoidant
Dead-fish eyes, a sweet tooth and a general slovenliness — an ISFP of introverted feeling (Fi) who hides what he means by joking it away entirely. He tells nobody about losing his teacher by his own hand on a battlefield, and only when he is protecting someone do a samurai's eyes come back. Kindness that does not speak is avoidance in a man carrying a loss.
👓 Shinpachi Shimura: MBTI ISFJ, attachment secure
Glasses that support Yorozuya with common sense called Tsukkomi.
MBTI radar (ISFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Shinpachi Shimura is ISFJ × secure
He holds a lawless neighbourhood up with common sense in the form of a straight man's retorts — an honest ISFJ of introverted sensing × extraverted feeling (Si-Fe). He lost his parents and still had a place to return to in his sister and the dojo, and he is the emotional anchor of the Yorozuya too. Unremarkable is another word for secure.
🌂 Kagura: MBTI ESFP, attachment secure
A night rabbit girl who eats, sleeps, and fights. Don't hide your family feelings.
MBTI radar (ESFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Kagura is ESFP × secure
Eat, sleep, fight — an ESFP of extraverted sensing (Se), true to instinct. With the blood of a warrior race and a complicated family behind her, the Yorozuya let her go back to being a girl her own age. That she can show what she feels for her family without hiding it is evidence of attachment formed again.
🚬 Toshiro Hijikata: MBTI ISTJ, attachment fearful-avoidant
The demon's vice-commander is a survivor of loss. Mayonnaise is one of the few true faces.
MBTI radar (ISTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Toshiro Hijikata is ISTJ × fearful-avoidant
The demon vice-commander who holds an organisation together with the code and with competence — an ISTJ of disciplined introverted sensing × extraverted thinking (Si-Te). A debt about his birth, and the loss of the woman he loved and of his brother. The demon mask is feeling sealed away so that nothing that matters can be lost twice.
🗡 Sogo Okita: MBTI ESTP, attachment avoidant
A swordsman genius who doesn't let anyone touch his true feelings behind a sadistic mask.
MBTI radar (ESTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Sogo Okita is ESTP × avoidant
A swordsmanship prodigy behind a sadist's mask — an ESTP of extraverted sensing (Se) who measures distance by provoking people. He does not speak about losing his sister, and mixes the unsorted feeling into how hard he goes at Hijikata. An avoidant ironist who lets nobody near what he actually means.
🦆 Kotaro Katsura: MBTI ENFP, attachment secure
It's Katsura, not Zura. Beneath the blur is the belief of Joi.
MBTI radar (ENFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Kotaro Katsura is ENFP × secure
It is not Zura, it is Katsura — an ENFP of extraverted intuition (Ne) with a line of joi conviction running under the comedy. What counts as a secure core is that Shoyo was taken from him and many comrades with him, and he never swung over to the side that destroys.
🎋 Shinsuke Takasugi: MBTI INFJ, attachment fearful-avoidant
Revenge on the world that stole my teacher. The only way to talk about pain is by destroying it.
MBTI radar (INFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Shinsuke Takasugi is INFJ × fearful-avoidant
He can only converse with the world by breaking it — a dark idealist, an INFJ of introverted intuition (Ni). Revenge on a world that took his teacher became his reason to exist, and he refused even the comrades who shared the pain. Hating exactly as much as he loved is the structure of the fearful-avoidant type.
🏮 Otose: MBTI ESFJ, attachment avoidant
Snack's mom has a bad mouth but is more caring than anyone else. Watch over Kabuki Town from a distance that doesn't make you feel uncomfortable.
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Otose is ESFJ × avoidant
She collects the rent and quietly picks up anyone in trouble — an ESFJ of Kabukicho competence and feeling, extraverted feeling (Fe).
🦍 Isao Kondo: MBTI ESFJ, attachment secure
Director of Shinsengumi. Even if he is treated like a stalker, he never gives up in front of his subordinates.
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Isao Kondo is ESFJ × secure
He picks up what everyone in the room is feeling and keeps the place itself running — an ESFJ led by extraverted feeling (Fe). The grounds for a secure reading are that being laughed at and being looked down on do not damage how he rates himself.
🚀 Tatsuma Sakamoto: MBTI ENFP, attachment secure
A man who left the Joi War and became a space merchant. Looking farthest away while smiling.
MBTI radar (ENFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Tatsuma Sakamoto is ENFP × secure
He moves without hesitating towards wherever possibility smells strongest — an ENFP led by extraverted intuition (Ne). The grounds for a secure reading are that he made the hard choice of parting from his comrades and carried it out leaving neither resentment nor guilt behind.
☂️ Kamui: MBTI ENTP, attachment avoidant
The young head of the night rabbit hunts the strong with a smile on his face. He declares that he abandoned his family to protect him.
MBTI radar (ENTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Kamui is ENTP × avoidant
He stirs a situation up from outside the rules — an ENTP of extraverted intuition (Ne) and introverted thinking (Ti). The grounds for an avoidant reading are that he explains leaving his sick mother and his sister Kagura as having left because they were weak.
🏸 Sagaru Yamazaki: MBTI ISTJ, attachment anxious
Supervision of the Shinsengumi. An information agent who supports the organization more than anyone else, even though he is aware of his humble nature.
MBTI radar (ISTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Sagaru Yamazaki is ISTJ × anxious
He gathers facts carefully and writes them down — an ISTJ led by introverted sensing (Si). The grounds for an anxious reading are how strongly he reacts to being forgotten. He carries out an assignment perfectly, sulks when he is handled carelessly, and brings up being treated as background himself.
🕶️ Taizo Hasegawa: MBTI ISFP, attachment fearful-avoidant
Former elite official turned unemployed. Get up as many times as you like, but return to the same spot again and again.
MBTI radar (ISFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Taizo Hasegawa is ISFP × fearful-avoidant
Honest about whatever he feels in the moment, and unable to manoeuvre — an ISFP led by introverted feeling (Fi). The grounds for a fearful-avoidant reading are that wanting to be involved with people and not wanting to be seen failing to meet expectations operate at the same time.
⚔️ Kyubei Yagyu: MBTI ISTP, attachment fearful-avoidant
A swordsman who lived as a man for his family. In order to protect her friends, she suppressed her own gender and emotions.
MBTI radar (ISTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Kyubei Yagyu is ISTP × fearful-avoidant
She sharpens only the motions that are needed — an ISTP of introverted thinking (Ti) and extraverted sensing (Se). The grounds for a fearful-avoidant reading are that the behaviour repeats: the more someone matters, the further away she puts them.
🥷 Ayame Sarutobi: MBTI ESFP, attachment anxious
He is top-notch as a ninja, and extreme in love. His obsession with Gintoki is a caricature of attachment anxiety.
MBTI radar (ESFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Ayame Sarutobi is ESFP × anxious
She moves on the immediacy of stimulus and response — an ESFP of extraverted sensing (Se) and introverted feeling (Fi). The grounds for an anxious reading are that every way she shows affection is pushed all the way into drawing a reaction out of the other person.
❓ Frequently asked questions
How many Gintama characters are listed here?
Gintama currently has 15 characters listed. Each one carries MBTI, attachment style and a Big Five type, with the reasoning for the call. (Gintoki Sakata, Shinpachi Shimura, Kagura and others)
Which attachment style is most common in Gintama?
Of the 15 listed here, the most common is secure at 5 (33%). On MBTI, ISFP leads with 2. Ways of keeping distance differ even inside one work, so the same MBTI does not mean the same way of relating to people.
Is this type assignment official?
Not official. This is our editorial reading, based on actions and descriptions in the work. It is not a psychological diagnosis and not the view of the people or studios involved.
Can I find out my own type?
A free 46-question quiz crosses the 16 MBTI types with the 4 attachment styles into 64 types. No sign-up. Reading it against the Gintama cast makes your own way of keeping distance easier to see.
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