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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei #1
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking Volume 1
GOODBYE, MR. DESPAIR
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?
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?
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September 23, 2011
When my teens described this book, I got a little nervous about them choosing it for manga book club: "It's about this teacher who keeps trying to kill himself-- but in a funny way!" They weren't wrong. It's obvious early on that Nozomu Itoshiki (a.k.a. Zetsubou-Sensei)doesn't actually want to die; he gets mad anytime someone accidentally makes his suicide attempts closer to successful. What he is is an over-the-top angst-ridden young adult more obsessed with the concept of death and despair than the actual practice. His class is full of extreme misfits representing various stereotypes in manga and Japanese culture: the stalker girlfriend, the hot blonde transfer student from America, the poor but adorable illegal immigrant, etc. But rather than feeling cliched, the characters are a vehicle for satire-- mostly light-hearted, but always with a little bite. As the teacher and students interact, they usually manage to cancel out each other's quirks, or at least soften them. For readers old enough to appreciate satire, this could make for a very fun discussion. There are even 12 pages of notes in the back explaining various cultural references.
November 21, 2023
This manga series features a teacher who has a dark and negative view of life and a student who is hopelessly positive to the point where she misinterprets what is going on around her to fit into her positive world view. These two encounter a series of problematic students and react to their issues. I found the positive student hilarious, but the negative teacher left me a bit cold, especially since some of the jokes with the teacher feature attempted suicide.
August 3, 2009
A screwed-up teacher gives screwed-up lessons to a class full of screwed-up students. No one learns anything. It's like Dead Poets Society for nihilists.
August 2, 2018
قصة أقل ما يقال عن مؤلفها إنه فيلسوف مجنون، وذلك حسبما يصف البعض الفلسفة، بأنها عدم التوقف عن الاندهاش وملاحظة ما لا يلاحظه الناس لاعتيادهم عليه.
أبطال القصة: أستاذ متشائم ونظرته للحياة سوداوية أو -كما يراها هو- واقعية، ومغامراته مع طلابه في الفصل.
المجلد الأول أشبه بتعريف بشخصيات الفصل، وكل شخصية لها صفة بارزة ومميزة
الوسواسية، المتفائلة، العاشقة، المصابة باضطراب تعدد الهوية...الخ.
يعالج الكاتب الكثير من الظواهر النفسية والاجتماعية التي نمارسها دون وعي منا، يعالجها بأسلوب ناقد وساخر في قالب كوميدي ممتع جدا.
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عمل جميل جدًا!
أبطال القصة: أستاذ متشائم ونظرته للحياة سوداوية أو -كما يراها هو- واقعية، ومغامراته مع طلابه في الفصل.
المجلد الأول أشبه بتعريف بشخصيات الفصل، وكل شخصية لها صفة بارزة ومميزة
الوسواسية، المتفائلة، العاشقة، المصابة باضطراب تعدد الهوية...الخ.
يعالج الكاتب الكثير من الظواهر النفسية والاجتماعية التي نمارسها دون وعي منا، يعالجها بأسلوب ناقد وساخر في قالب كوميدي ممتع جدا.
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عمل جميل جدًا!
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May 4, 2019I watched the anime for this ages ago with my best friend at the time, Sonia, and while I've owned volume 1 for years, I've never read it. I should revisit the series. As a young 12-14 year old, this series was something I paid a lot of mind to.
March 10, 2020
I read this manga over 10 years ago. I found it charming and sad. I liked the artwork very much. I'll probably pick this up again to reread in the near future and continue the series.
After reading the volume again, I am still fond of this story and I really liked the first season of the anime. Each student is a misfit that becomes part of the "classroom family" and finds acceptance while Zetsubou-sensei continues to imagine worse case scenarios that drive him to despair. Although I don't recommend this manga for young children, middle schoolers will understand the humor.
After reading the volume again, I am still fond of this story and I really liked the first season of the anime. Each student is a misfit that becomes part of the "classroom family" and finds acceptance while Zetsubou-sensei continues to imagine worse case scenarios that drive him to despair. Although I don't recommend this manga for young children, middle schoolers will understand the humor.
August 30, 2017
Despite its curious title ("zetsubou" means "despair") and the ultra-pessimistic protagonist who keeps thinking about dying, "Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei" is a comedy. Yes, it is a comedy and not a usual one. My advice is, 1) Don't take anything in the comic too seriously; and 2) if you don't get some of its jokes, just skip them and read on. I am Japanese and after repeated reads I still don't get some of the comic's gags.
"Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei" revolves around one young, eccentric teacher Nozomu Itoshiki. Always depressed and thinking of dying (that's what he says, anyway, and he has a guidebook for that purpose), Mr. Itoshiki is actually a good teacher, well, a much better teacher than you might imagine, for these unique (mostly girl) students in his class including Miss Kahuka (her penname), the most optimistic girl in the world, and the stalker student, a "shut-in" student, and a very shy student who keeps sending poisonous email, and....
The comic started in 2005 and has been serialized in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" since then. The unpredictable comedy is based on the characters' exaggeratedly eccentric behaviors, which often lead to unexpected and hilarious results, but the comedy also heavily relies on the parodies and pop culture references. As more than four years have elapsed since the first publication of the series, some of the gags are now obscure, hard to understand even for Japanese readers. Fortunately there are many jokes and the character-driven story never lets up ... and all the girls are charming and funny ... in their own peculiar ways.
Manga artist Koji Kumeta has created a very unique world in which old-fashioned Japanese culture such as kimono costumes and old wood school buildings co-exist with modern technologies like cell phones and pop culture references. His illustrations are meticulously drawn and not a single space is neglected. Sometimes jokes are crammed into such small spaces as TV screen or newspapers the character is casually watching.
[TRANSLATION] This means that translation is virtually impossible. I was truly surprised at the decision of Del Ray to publish the English edition because their job must have been extremely a tough one. Though I disagree with some of the words they chose (I think it is "National Team of Japan" not "Representative"), English translation is very good as a whole. Del Ray's book has also a 12-page translation notes explaining some of the obscure references to Japanese culture.
[NAMES] Most characters have strange names. I never met someone with a name like "Itoshiki," which is part of the comic's jokes. The fact is most character names are puns which are often very silly read in original Japanese. For example: the timid girl's name Meru Otonashi means "Silent Mail"; Chiri Kitsu means "Exactly"; Kaere Kimura means "Go Home, Kimura" and is also a joke on Japanese pop singer's name Kaera Kimura; Abiru Kobushi means "Get Hit with a Knuckle"; Kiri Komori means "Always Confined"; Tsunetsuki Matoi means "Eternally Stalking"; "Nami Hitou" means "Ordinary" and so on.
"Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei" revolves around one young, eccentric teacher Nozomu Itoshiki. Always depressed and thinking of dying (that's what he says, anyway, and he has a guidebook for that purpose), Mr. Itoshiki is actually a good teacher, well, a much better teacher than you might imagine, for these unique (mostly girl) students in his class including Miss Kahuka (her penname), the most optimistic girl in the world, and the stalker student, a "shut-in" student, and a very shy student who keeps sending poisonous email, and....
The comic started in 2005 and has been serialized in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" since then. The unpredictable comedy is based on the characters' exaggeratedly eccentric behaviors, which often lead to unexpected and hilarious results, but the comedy also heavily relies on the parodies and pop culture references. As more than four years have elapsed since the first publication of the series, some of the gags are now obscure, hard to understand even for Japanese readers. Fortunately there are many jokes and the character-driven story never lets up ... and all the girls are charming and funny ... in their own peculiar ways.
Manga artist Koji Kumeta has created a very unique world in which old-fashioned Japanese culture such as kimono costumes and old wood school buildings co-exist with modern technologies like cell phones and pop culture references. His illustrations are meticulously drawn and not a single space is neglected. Sometimes jokes are crammed into such small spaces as TV screen or newspapers the character is casually watching.
[TRANSLATION] This means that translation is virtually impossible. I was truly surprised at the decision of Del Ray to publish the English edition because their job must have been extremely a tough one. Though I disagree with some of the words they chose (I think it is "National Team of Japan" not "Representative"), English translation is very good as a whole. Del Ray's book has also a 12-page translation notes explaining some of the obscure references to Japanese culture.
[NAMES] Most characters have strange names. I never met someone with a name like "Itoshiki," which is part of the comic's jokes. The fact is most character names are puns which are often very silly read in original Japanese. For example: the timid girl's name Meru Otonashi means "Silent Mail"; Chiri Kitsu means "Exactly"; Kaere Kimura means "Go Home, Kimura" and is also a joke on Japanese pop singer's name Kaera Kimura; Abiru Kobushi means "Get Hit with a Knuckle"; Kiri Komori means "Always Confined"; Tsunetsuki Matoi means "Eternally Stalking"; "Nami Hitou" means "Ordinary" and so on.
April 6, 2018
Kafuka strolls in the park to find a man "trying to grow" hanging from a sakura tree.
Priceless.
Itoshiki sensei is in for a world of trouble when becoming the homeroom teacher of class 2-H. Even so the most negative man in the world hoping to die has to teach to Kafuka, the most optimistic girl in the world...
Itoshiki tries to finds any excuses to final plunges into the arms of death. Too bad in never goes according to plan :P
Priceless.
Itoshiki sensei is in for a world of trouble when becoming the homeroom teacher of class 2-H. Even so the most negative man in the world hoping to die has to teach to Kafuka, the most optimistic girl in the world...
Itoshiki tries to finds any excuses to final plunges into the arms of death. Too bad in never goes according to plan :P
February 13, 2019
I picked this up because I find the art style appealingly retro, and the storytelling also has what I'll call ... classic appeal. This is gag manga, heavy on the gallows humor. Zetsubou (translation: despair) is a teacher whose students are as strange as he (the shut-in, the stalker, the poison-pen emailer, etc.). The primary contrast involves this pessimistic, hopeless young man and one of his students, who is overly chipper and manages to find (or invent) a bright side to every scenario.
Over-the-top jokes, interrupted hangings, running gags, and a teacher who makes regular offers to his students to sign suicide pacts. All in good fun? I'll see how it goes.
Over-the-top jokes, interrupted hangings, running gags, and a teacher who makes regular offers to his students to sign suicide pacts. All in good fun? I'll see how it goes.
November 15, 2022
BEST MANGA EVER
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 27, 2018
SHAFT's first season of its adaptation of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei ranks among my favorite anime, whereas the next two seasons fall a little shorter. The difference, I would say, is that seasons two and three occur during a time wherein the characters have had more than enough time to stagnate, and the series had thus slid into a position of setting up jokes just for the sake of having jokes, being a comedy series first and foremost, with character drama essentially only insofar as certain characters' quirks work for certain other gags. The point is that the first season works as well as it does because its characters actually feel like they matter, better fitting the conception of a television series, whereas a simpler joke-centric approach would work better in print. It is with this assumption that I imagined a) the earlier volumes of the SZS manga should be good for the same reasons that I enjoyed its immediate anime adaptation, and b) subsequent volumes would be good in the same sense that any over-long comedy manga works because the reader can blaze through reading the jokes without having to go through the song-and-dance of "cold open -> OP -> episode as a whole -> ED -> [gag] preview for next episode" which made me take a year to watch (Zoku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei and a year and a half for (Zan) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.
Basically, for whatever reasons, it was a slog to watch too many episodes of a gag anime, but I felt it would be simple enough to read so much of its manga source. Hence, I purchased the initial eight out-of-print volumes of Del Rey Manga's translation of the series, more or less guessing I'd get my money's worth since I enjoyed the anime enough to justify paying money for the manga (where I couldn't really buy a nonexistent English-language DVD collection).
Anyway, this manga is good. As one may imagine, having originally seen the anime, this first volume generally goes chapter-by-chapter introducing each character and his or her respective quirks. The first two chapters introduce Itoshiki-sensei and Kafuka, with the second chapter moving to the classroom setting. We then have chapters for Kiri (the hikikomori), Matoi (the stalker), Abiru (the girl who gets injured after pulling animals' tails, who appears as a victim of domestic abuse - a _very_ specific character quirk), Kaere/Kaede (pantyshot-centric bilingual girl with split American and Japanese personalities, the latter of which seems to be absent from later episodes of the TV series, in one of its many character disintegrations), Meru (malicious email/texting girl), Chiri (OCD girl who later becomes a homicidal maniac somehow), Maria (the illegal alien), and Nami (the "normal" girl).
Fujiyoshi (the "fujoshi") and the bald guy (whose name I aptly cannot remember right now, fitting his character) will not get chapters until the next volume, though I feel the anime introduced them before it did the "normal" girl. Regardless, it is retroactively clear that Akiyuki Shinbo must be a huge fan of the series, because god damn the anime is so close to its original manga source! The only noticeable difference is there are no panels to set up SHAFT's stock footage preceding Itoshiki's "zetsuboushita!" catchphrase, but the catchphrase itself is still present, complete with the pose Itoshiki makes (not sure why I imagined that could be a SHAFT construction). Anyway, where it was annoying to pause the video to read all the text of things that bring Itoshiki to despair, it is much more bearable to read them at my own pace in book form, though I am still made to take metafictional action by disrupting my reading to flip to the translation notes at the back of the book after every chapter in order to "get" the jokes that otherwise flew out of my head (DFW-style). Also notable is that the scribbled jokes and references on blackboards in the anime did indeed originate here, meaning Shinbo took Kumeta's concept and applied it more broadly to the later works of SHAFT.
Kumeta's art, by the way, looks absolutely perfect here. The stark contrast between black and white works better in print than it does in the anime adaptation. Sure, SHAFT retained the extreme-pale countenances of the series's cast, but everything just looks better without any color whatsoever. I guess the contrast augments the blackness of the comedy? I'm not sure, exactly, but it just "feels" right.
Basically, for whatever reasons, it was a slog to watch too many episodes of a gag anime, but I felt it would be simple enough to read so much of its manga source. Hence, I purchased the initial eight out-of-print volumes of Del Rey Manga's translation of the series, more or less guessing I'd get my money's worth since I enjoyed the anime enough to justify paying money for the manga (where I couldn't really buy a nonexistent English-language DVD collection).
Anyway, this manga is good. As one may imagine, having originally seen the anime, this first volume generally goes chapter-by-chapter introducing each character and his or her respective quirks. The first two chapters introduce Itoshiki-sensei and Kafuka, with the second chapter moving to the classroom setting. We then have chapters for Kiri (the hikikomori), Matoi (the stalker), Abiru (the girl who gets injured after pulling animals' tails, who appears as a victim of domestic abuse - a _very_ specific character quirk), Kaere/Kaede (pantyshot-centric bilingual girl with split American and Japanese personalities, the latter of which seems to be absent from later episodes of the TV series, in one of its many character disintegrations), Meru (malicious email/texting girl), Chiri (OCD girl who later becomes a homicidal maniac somehow), Maria (the illegal alien), and Nami (the "normal" girl).
Fujiyoshi (the "fujoshi") and the bald guy (whose name I aptly cannot remember right now, fitting his character) will not get chapters until the next volume, though I feel the anime introduced them before it did the "normal" girl. Regardless, it is retroactively clear that Akiyuki Shinbo must be a huge fan of the series, because god damn the anime is so close to its original manga source! The only noticeable difference is there are no panels to set up SHAFT's stock footage preceding Itoshiki's "zetsuboushita!" catchphrase, but the catchphrase itself is still present, complete with the pose Itoshiki makes (not sure why I imagined that could be a SHAFT construction). Anyway, where it was annoying to pause the video to read all the text of things that bring Itoshiki to despair, it is much more bearable to read them at my own pace in book form, though I am still made to take metafictional action by disrupting my reading to flip to the translation notes at the back of the book after every chapter in order to "get" the jokes that otherwise flew out of my head (DFW-style). Also notable is that the scribbled jokes and references on blackboards in the anime did indeed originate here, meaning Shinbo took Kumeta's concept and applied it more broadly to the later works of SHAFT.
Kumeta's art, by the way, looks absolutely perfect here. The stark contrast between black and white works better in print than it does in the anime adaptation. Sure, SHAFT retained the extreme-pale countenances of the series's cast, but everything just looks better without any color whatsoever. I guess the contrast augments the blackness of the comedy? I'm not sure, exactly, but it just "feels" right.
May 31, 2025
This is not quite for me. There were a few things I liked and even found funny as dark/sarcastic humour is something I enjoy. However....
My biggest gripes are:
The artstyle, I sadly can't stand the way the characters are drawn aside Zetsubou himself. I like his design.
The way too overly positive girl. She's just a pain in the ass. I can't stand her and it's rare for me to hate characters in general in any form of media.
Not to mention a couple of bits which rubbed me the wrong way/felt icky. I get the icky parts are probably meant to be more a satire/parody of manga and society rather than fanservice and weird kinks. Not shaming anyone, but the way the tail thing is presented and with a kid.... that was just weird/icky for me. Had it been young adults/adults doing all these things in this story I wouldn't have batted an eye and probably rated this manga higher as I can see where it wants to go. But in this story setting it just gives me the icks more than other fanservicy manga I have read recently.
My biggest gripes are:
The artstyle, I sadly can't stand the way the characters are drawn aside Zetsubou himself. I like his design.
The way too overly positive girl. She's just a pain in the ass. I can't stand her and it's rare for me to hate characters in general in any form of media.
Not to mention a couple of bits which rubbed me the wrong way/felt icky. I get the icky parts are probably meant to be more a satire/parody of manga and society rather than fanservice and weird kinks. Not shaming anyone, but the way the tail thing is presented and with a kid.... that was just weird/icky for me. Had it been young adults/adults doing all these things in this story I wouldn't have batted an eye and probably rated this manga higher as I can see where it wants to go. But in this story setting it just gives me the icks more than other fanservicy manga I have read recently.
December 25, 2017
I ended up enjoying this more than I initially thought I would. It’s clear that the author isn’t making light of suicidality, if anything, it’s the opposite because our titular teacher doesn’t take death (and thus life) seriously. This comic actually reminded me a lot of Monty Python: it’s irreverent, often silly, and is critical (and satirical) of the society from which it comes.
That said, there is a LOT that I know I missed. References I’m not aware of or jokes I didn’t catch, although the translators did a really good job making it as accessible as possible.
I could see myself reading another volume or (re-reading this one) if I want something to make me laugh (some of the jokes are laugh out loud funny) that isn’t too brain-draining.
That said, there is a LOT that I know I missed. References I’m not aware of or jokes I didn’t catch, although the translators did a really good job making it as accessible as possible.
I could see myself reading another volume or (re-reading this one) if I want something to make me laugh (some of the jokes are laugh out loud funny) that isn’t too brain-draining.
December 27, 2017
This manga is about a teacher that finds life to be hopeless and constantly tries to commit suicide. His students of course do not want that to happen and always tries to stop it. Unfortunately in their attempts to stop him, they somehow make it worse - causing more harm to him, and he gets mad because "what if he had died!"
I'm on the fence about this. It reminds me of Love Hina but for nihilists, except it's actually funny? It's definitely a unique manga that I want to know more about before deciding whether to continue with it or not.
I am concerned about the mental health problems of his students and how they are portrayed in this manga, but personally for me, it doesn't appear to be mocking these health problems.
I don't know, we'll see.
I'm on the fence about this. It reminds me of Love Hina but for nihilists, except it's actually funny? It's definitely a unique manga that I want to know more about before deciding whether to continue with it or not.
I am concerned about the mental health problems of his students and how they are portrayed in this manga, but personally for me, it doesn't appear to be mocking these health problems.
I don't know, we'll see.
January 13, 2021
I wouldn’t have liked this book nearly as much if I hadn’t have found out that Koji Kumeta is a satericist. That being said, sometimes I very frankly didn’t get the joke. That’s not to say it was badly done or that it wasn’t funny, more that satire itself is greatly dependent on the time and place that it was made. That being said, the jokes I did get, like commentary on hikokumori, sexualization of young girls, and the sue-happy nature of foreigners (Americans), made me, more often than not, cackle out loud in their cleverness and hyperbole.
I wont stand here and say that the joke may go over your head. That isnt fair. I will say that my knowledge of social and historical context in Japan helped me greatly to enjoy this book. That being said, it was hilarious and well written.
I wont stand here and say that the joke may go over your head. That isnt fair. I will say that my knowledge of social and historical context in Japan helped me greatly to enjoy this book. That being said, it was hilarious and well written.
October 8, 2022
Not really for me. The teacher is depressed and 'suicidal', but it's played for jokes. With each girl having a different personality, (seriously are boy students extinct in this universe?) it felt a little too creepy harem like, particularly with the one panty-flash character used as a running gag. At times he is a saviour, saving each of the girls' from their particular hangup. At other times he is a foil. The nasty e-mailer was the most funny to me, as it was so unexpected considering the build up. Perhaps the first volume is still making the setting; will try one more volume to see if it changes once the world is built.
April 1, 2019
Zetsubou-Sensei is a dark comedy that is stuffed full of weirdness and anime cliche characters taken to the nth degree. Some of the jokes were funnier than others, with my favorite being the "ordinary" girl who .
You have to be in the mood for this strange manga, but if you want a black comedy with characters that could be committed, you'll get a good laugh out of this. If nothing else, it's worth a read to say you read it.
You have to be in the mood for this strange manga, but if you want a black comedy with characters that could be committed, you'll get a good laugh out of this. If nothing else, it's worth a read to say you read it.
January 30, 2020
I laughed so much reading this on the train that the woman next to me moved to get away from my suppressed sniggering, true story. (It was the "legendary task force whose members could single-handedly annihilate an entire platoon using just one volume of Kimagure Orange Road" line.)
If your sense of decency hasn't been deadened by years of dodgy manga, you probably won't find jokes about suicide and other assorted social ills funny. Which makes you a good person!
If your sense of decency hasn't been deadened by years of dodgy manga, you probably won't find jokes about suicide and other assorted social ills funny. Which makes you a good person!
May 27, 2021
One good gag:
There’s no way that anyone can even think of killing themselves! Not on a day like this... you were just trying to make yourself taller... my father often tried to make himself taller. At times even mother would try to get taller.
Also the teacher doing a “write down three dreams you will never attain” lesson.
Psychotically optimistic people are rare enough in fiction to carry this book. Also fake suiciders.
There’s no way that anyone can even think of killing themselves! Not on a day like this... you were just trying to make yourself taller... my father often tried to make himself taller. At times even mother would try to get taller.
Also the teacher doing a “write down three dreams you will never attain” lesson.
Psychotically optimistic people are rare enough in fiction to carry this book. Also fake suiciders.
August 31, 2022
tl;dr read the wikipedia for Osamu dazai/ No Longer Human
I love the title bc it's like sayonara | (bye, like I'm going to die), then sayonara zetsubou | (goodbye despair, good thing) | sayonara zetsubou sensei (goodbye person bc they gonna die)
I tried watching this initially bc I like SHAFT's different ways of representing/animating things, but to me it's too wild/odd jokes - even when reading it, it feels okay but maybe lost in translation? I did read like the first 40 ch. + last 20 ch. - the ending is kinda... interesting. I think maybe some comedies are more readable/enjoyable as weekly things, and are more compelling with a story but some things can exist without that.
I don't have anything to add I have despair from the fact my sleep schedule has shifted to 10 -530, spider infiltration, not being engaged enough to read/play games w/ ppl, clothes being $100, etc.
I love the title bc it's like sayonara | (bye, like I'm going to die), then sayonara zetsubou | (goodbye despair, good thing) | sayonara zetsubou sensei (goodbye person bc they gonna die)
I tried watching this initially bc I like SHAFT's different ways of representing/animating things, but to me it's too wild/odd jokes - even when reading it, it feels okay but maybe lost in translation? I did read like the first 40 ch. + last 20 ch. - the ending is kinda... interesting. I think maybe some comedies are more readable/enjoyable as weekly things, and are more compelling with a story but some things can exist without that.
I don't have anything to add I have despair from the fact my sleep schedule has shifted to 10 -530, spider infiltration, not being engaged enough to read/play games w/ ppl, clothes being $100, etc.
April 11, 2022
Rereading Zetsubou Sensei has been fun, just on volume 1 but it's a breath of fresh air a nice dark satire. Each chapter focuses on a student from Class 2F and goes over their various quirks.
If you are looking for a nice classic comedy with very clean art check out Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.
If you are looking for a nice classic comedy with very clean art check out Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.
March 13, 2019
Tenía años que quería leer este manga pero no lo había encontrado hasta que al fin se me hizo!
Me encanta sensei y todas las locas alumnas con las que tiene que lidiar
Me encanta sensei y todas las locas alumnas con las que tiene que lidiar
June 19, 2019
Entertaining
August 20, 2020
Darkly funny. Same concept of GTO just a litlle bit shounen.
March 17, 2021
I loved the anime. There are a lot of references to Japanese culture I missed but the manga is still really funny.
July 25, 2022
It was written in a far more comical light then I was expecting.
November 25, 2022
Simply a fantastic job by Mr. Kumeta.
June 28, 2023
Man I am not sure if I should be laughing or not...
August 19, 2024
I liked art but was not as funny as I think it was trying to be
September 5, 2024
Dnf, not for me.
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