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Harumi is described as 'addicted to male-on-male-matchmaking' and Manami is a 'high school housewife'). Added Alliterative Appeal: The translators are fond of this for the character descriptions (i.e.While Chiri violently tortures people, or throws knives at them from her bra, Meru does what Meru does anyway (run away, cry, and then send sexually abusive text messages to the offender).

A-Cup Angst: Meru and Chiri exhibit this in very different ways.

Done normally in another episode, where while taking a memento picture for Kafuka, a woman mistakes the picture taking as trying to get a shot at her.

Then he laments that none of them sees him as a man. He runs away, with one of the girls lampshading 'That should've been our reaction'. Poor Nozomu freaks out and Screams Like a Little Girl when exposed to his class.

Subverted in the Hot Springs Episode, when the wall between the men's and women's baths falls over.

Accidental Misnaming: Half of the Itoshiki family is prone to this sort of name corruption, including the butler.

Accidental Marriage: By making eye contact with someone.

That, and maybe also some problems with reality testing inherited from her parents. May or may not be an escape mechanism to deal with her horrendous personal life. Kafuka being Kafuka, she re-frames everything in positive terms.

Played straight with Kafuka and her extremely abusive household, with her schizophrenic father trying to kill her on at least one occasion.

Ironically, the most outlandish rumor about him - that he was a former member of an elite special forces unit famous for improvising lethal weaponry from a volume of Kimagure Orange Road - may have been the only one that was true. Contrary to the wildest imaginations of her classmates and sensei, her father seems to be a rather mild-mannered man who even made her a small cake for her birthday (that nobody else remembered). The following tropes have left us in despair! Chips (although the title was probably intended as a parody).

The manga is out across the pond courtesy of Del Rey (and later Kodansha), so now you can despair in English! Especially since they stopped publishing any books following volume 14! But, now that the anime is being licensed by Nozomi Entertainment, you can continue despairing in English! As of May 2022, the first season has been released with English subtitles, with the rest of the seasons and OVAs set to follow. Despair Outside Ground), which was bundled with the manga.

There's one final two-part OVA, titled Zan: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Bangaichi (Repent/Remainder: Farewell Mr. Despair) was bundled with the limited edition of volumes fifteen and sixteen of the manga, with the second one released independently, and a third season, Zan: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (Repent/Remainder: Farewell Mr. Despair) aired in 2008.įollowing that, a set of three OVAs titled Goku: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (Prison: Farewell, Mr. The anime's second season, (Zoku) Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ( note The kanji used denotes slang or vulgarities in dictionaries, but zoku with a different kanji means 'sequel' Farewell, Mr. It was adapted into an anime by Studio Shaft in 2007. The manga originally ran in Shōnen Magazine from 2005 to 2012. The insanity only gets deeper from there. Terrified, he runs from this beacon of bright light, and ends up at his new teaching assignment where, of course, Kafuka herself awaits, along with her rather. He is saved by Kafuka Fuura, an insanely cheerful girl who proceeds to ignore his protests at her intervention, incessantly insists that his suicide attempt was only done to try and make himself taller, and attempts to bribe him with 50 yen to let her rename him after the sakura tree he was hanging from. Nozomu Itoshiki, a man so unfortunate even his name can be read as 'despair', attempts to commit suicide.

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The series happily subverts any number of slice-of-life, school anime tropes, while carrying out a wide variety of far odder ones. Despair') has become in its dark, disturbed humor and wisecracking background trivia is one of the most amusing Widget Series ever witnessed. Instead, what Koji Kumeta's Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (roughly 'Farewell, Mr.

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What do you get when you take a man who is depressed to the point of melodramatic suicide, and make him the teacher of a psychologically-dysfunctional class full of maniacs, psychos and misfits? No, it's not like your average Slice of Life show.