SAYONARA ZETSUBOU SENSEI
STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
30
RELEASE
June 13, 2012
CHAPTERS
301
DESCRIPTION
Nozomu Itoshiki is depressed. Very depressed. He's certifiably suicidal, but he’s also the beloved schoolteacher of a class of unique students, each charming in her own way: The stalker. The shut-in. The obsessive-compulsive. The girl who comes to class every day with strange bruises. And Kafuka, the most optimistic girl in the world, who knows that every cloud has a silver lining. For all of them, it's a special time, when the right teacher can have a lasting positive effect on their lives. But is that teacher Itoshiki, a.k.a. Zetsubou-sensei, who just wants to find the perfect place to die?
(Source: Kodansha USA)
CAST
Nozomu Itoshiki
Kafuka Fuura
Chiri Kitsu
Matoi Tsunetsuki
Kiri Komori
Tarou Sekiutsu
Nami Hitou
Abiru Kobushi
Chie Arai
Meru Otonashi
Harumi Fujiyoshi
Kaere Kimura
Rin Itoshiki
Ai Kaga
Jun Kudou
Kouji Kumeta
Majiru Itoshiki
Mikoto Itoshiki
Kanako Oora
Ikkyu
Mayo Mitama
Kagerou Usui
Tane Kitsu
Kei Itoshiki
Manami Ookusa
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REVIEWS
Pordexel
One of the greatest endings to a story I have ever read.Continue on AniList_Thank you, Shaft._ 
Kafuka Fu’ura is an angel From the very first episode, you know that Fuura is special. When the rest of the characters are introduced, you know that something weird is going on with Fuura. Why is she the only one with a pen name? Why is she seemingly more important than the other girls? After finishing the show and analyzing the openings (especially the Goku OP), you may come to a speculation that Fuura is actually dead. But this still makes no sense because everyone can see her.
When you read the last 10 chapters (or all 300 if you’re a real man), there is no way you could have predicted what the actual truth was. What was introduced as a gag in a random chapter (that was not in the anime) turned out to be the glue that was keeping this entire cast together. Who would have thought that transplantation induced memory transfer was behind everything?
This is a story about hope. A girl who died in an accident but was so stubborn and hopeful that she refused to remain dead. A girl so hopeful that pieces of herself being transplanted into suicide victims is enough to save them from the despair of their life. All of the girls are truly damaged individuals whose negative traits were possibly what drove them to attempting suicide, but Fuura was the beacon of hope that turned their life around, which is why these traits that originally brought them all despair are now a source of comedy instead.
The other person who was saved by Fuura was Nozomu himself. When he is first introduced, Fuura has to literally save him from hanging himself. This is Nozomu’s first meeting with his love who is supposed to be dead. A meeting that was never meant to happen. Eventually, we learn that Nozomu secretly does not want to die, and there is a gag about how he trains his body to survive these suicide attempts (neck training for example). Fuura’s revival is what is keeping him alive. She is what gave birth to his new life, along with the other students’ lives. In the first episode, Nozomu’s line “I am a person whose life is worth nothing” hits much harder when you read the final page of the manga, when he says, “I have no special talents and I am a simple man of no merit”.
_accurate portrayal of Fuura curing my depression_ The Zetsubou Sensei anime inspired me to be unique and laugh at all of life’s sorrows. It also inspired me to create; haven’t you seen the animation clip at the start of this review? I hope that this obscure Japanese gag manga can potentially save someone the way Fuura saved everyone. Because that’s another special thing about comedy. Being able to joke about taboo and dark topics is what keeps people from being exhausted. We know there’s nothing we can do about most of our and society’s problems, so what’s the point in being miserable? Comedy should be about laughing at the darkest parts of the human condition, and I think that’s the reason why Zetsubou Sensei is so special to me.
Even if people watch the show and just like it because it’s an obscure gag show that’s kinda wacky and they don’t care about reading the manga, that’s fine. Even if nobody will ever understand this show, I hope it at least made them laugh, because there will never be another comedy like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
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SCORE
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