Taizou Hasegawa

Taizou Hasegawa is a former government official at the beginning of his first appearance, but later lost his job and become a MADAO, short for marude damena ossan, which roughly translates into "totally hopeless old guy". MADAO does however, have other meanings throughout the course of Gintama. He wears a ragged, old brown suit and a pair of sunglasses. His eyes are rarely shown, and he is often seen smoking. He has dark brown messy hair. Like Shinpachi, many of Hasegawa's friends stated that Hasegawa's sunglasses are more Hasegawa than Hasegawa himself. Throughout the series he is seen weari...

He is a kind and good-hearted man but he always ends up alone, sad and miserable. Hasegawa is a man defined by his sunglasses. He treasures them as the only thing he could hold on to after losing his job and his wife left him. Interestingly enough, most of his misfortunes could be led back to his in...