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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga)
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Optimism or despair? Let's rumba!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. Instead, what Koji Kumeta's Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (roughly "Farewell, Mr. Despair") has become with its dark, disturbed humor and wisecracking background trivia is one of the most amusing series ever witnessed. The series happily subverts any number of slice-of-life school anime tropes, while carrying out a wide variety of far odder ones.Nozomu Itoshiki, a man so unfortunate even his name can be read as "despair", attempts to commit suicide. 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.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... interesting classmates. The insanity only gets deeper from there.The manga originally ran in Shōnen Magazine from 2005 to 2012. It was adapted into an anime by Studio Shaft in 2007. The anime's second season, (Zoku) Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ([Vulgar]note The kanji used denotes slang or vulgarities in dictionaries, but zoku with a different kanji means "sequel" Farewell, Mr. Despair) aired in 2008.Following that, a set of three OVAs titled Goku: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (Prison: 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 2009. There's one final two-part OVA, titled Zan: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Bangaichi (Repent/Remainder: Farewell Mr. Despair Outside Ground), which was bundled with the manga.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.Not related to with Goodbye, Mr. Chips (although the title was probably intended as a parody). | |
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Unreadably Fast Text | |
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Unreadably Fast Text: The first few episodes of Season 1 opened with Unreadably Fast Anecdotes. Weird gags also show up before every episode title card. Most of Nozomu's lists of whatever he's despairing about at the moment also probably count. Another quick gag relying on this is the name of Nozomu's school. It changes on a whim, even going so far as to change itself to Hogwarts once. | |
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Hot Teacher | |
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Hot Teacher: Both Itoshiki and Chie. Chie is more of a Ms. Fanservice, but Itoshiki constantly has girls falling for him (why is he in despair is a good question). | |
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Debut Queue | |
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Debut Queue: Sort of. Each character has a focus episode where we really find out about them. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In one episode of Zoku, Mikoto states (while performing surgery on an injured Nozomu) that he has to carefully avoid hitting a certain blood vessel. Guess what happens next. | |
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Yonkoma | |
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Yonkoma: Played straight, but with a twist — according to Itoshiki, there's a hidden fifth panel: darkness. And then Maria makes a deadly Pun out of the steps of Yonkoma involving a historical massacre. She's oblivious to the implications. | |
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Phenotype Stereotype | |
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Phenotype Stereotype: Kaere — half-Japanese, half-Caucasian. In Zoku Episode 4, a textbook with English exercises is shown. The cartoon illustrations seen on the page feature grotesque caricatures of foreigners with enormous noses. Apparently Truth in Television: actual textbooks feature this kind of caricature. See this link for an example and an attempt to turn the tables. | |
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Only Six Faces | |
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Only Six Faces: Largely the case, and lampshaded once (in the instance with things not looking like the original) when Nozomu couldn't recognize Kafuka with a different hairstyle nor does he recognize that she's his "college student neighbor". Chiri (and the readers as well) also doesn't recognize Nami when she has a bed hair until she says her catchphrase. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: In one chapter, Nozomu claims he hates Christmas because he was born on November 4, which means that, if one counts back ten months and ten days, he was conceived on Christmas. Abiru immediately lampshades on the margin of error. | |
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Title Drop: In the Goku Episode 2, after Chiri decides that the show needs more despair so that it can match its title by dropping Nozomu off a cliff into a pack of ravenous wolves below. A partial example earlier than that — in Kaere's introduction episode, she attempts suicide because as a "perfect Japanese woman", she can't pursue Nozomu aggressively — as she jumps, she calls out "Sayonara, Itoshiki-Sensei". | |
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Magical Girl AU: There is a bit where characters turned into Lily Cure and Itoshiki was the Big Bad. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: The Itoshiki family is well known for being a Family Full of Pretty Boys. | |
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The ending makes it even more complicated with the reveal that Kafuka was Dead All Along and is literally part of each of the other girls through organ donations. | |
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The Blank | |
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The Blank: In the first season OP and the page image, female students are shown with facial features blanked out and various kanji written on them. | |
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The Klutz | |
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The Klutz: In Episode 9 of Zoku, Chiri attempts to be a "proper" dojikko, with horrendous results. | |
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Yaoi Fangirl: Harumi mostly, but one episode — one dealing with instances where things going normally become actually surprising — indicates that she may be not the only one. Itoshiki is proactively asked by a guy to come up to his apartment and listen to him play guitar. When Itoshiki goes back outside, the girls are squeeing and enthusiastic about finding out what happened. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Ai's awareness of the camera panning towards her in Episode 9 of Zoku: | |
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Chiri also frequently goes from obsessive-compulsive to completely psychotic. While she doesn't have much of a "dere" side she fits the concept of "love makes your murderous". For instance, when Nozomu tried going out like a celebrity, he visited a high-class call girl and tried to drown in Dom Perignon. When said lady brings him the bill at school and he complains about the expenses of dying, a displeased Chiri brings a knife and tells him that he can die for free. Another case of Chiri going nuts is when Nozomu (and guest commentators) immediately and bluntly rejected her suggestion that they could be a successful match (proper love) in the "Maybe Maybe" episode, despite considering and conceding the possibility of success of romantic relationships with Abiru (puppy love), Nami (normal love), Manami (unfaithful love), Kaere (violent love), Chie (adult relationship), Maria (acquaintanceship) and even Ikkyu (Ho Yay), upon their suggestions. Her equally immediate response is just frighteningly hilarious. | |
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Bishoujo Series | |
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Bishoujo Series: All but two of the "focus" students are female; this is lampshaded in the post-credit ending of Episode 10. Subverted in that the main character is very much a dude. | |
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Cute and Psycho | |
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Kafuka is certainly repressing, with her eternal happiness and obvious destructive past, so much so others fear her when they get a glimpse into her mind. But she's also more on the Cute and Psycho side (at least compared to everyone else). | |
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Marry Them All | |
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Marry Them All: Nozomu and the 12 main girls, as implied in the very final chapter but not in the usual sense. Nozomu only marries Kafuka, but since Kafuka is all of the girls, he marries the one that currently is the Kafuka and divorces the previous one he married. Still a harem end in a way, as the girls are living in relative peace together and having Nozomu's children, all of which are a mirror image of Kafuka, even in the personality. An outsider observer is understandably freaked out, but her attempt to escape the island turns sours and she ends up a part of the harem. | |
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It Can't Be Helped: Used incredibly frequently. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Perhaps intended to give viewers an idea of what to expect, the first few minutes of the anime open with the main character attempting to hang himself. It's a comedy, really! | |
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Kimono Fanservice | |
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Kimono Fanservice: Reference is made to the fact that a kimono would traditionally be worn without underwear, and the whole show is a massive example of type A, thriving in Awesome Anachronistic Apparel. Also, each tankobon features one of the female students in a kimono on the back cover. | |
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Chocolate of Romance | |
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Chocolate of Romance: Itoshiki gets gifts from his entire class, although only two of them are clearly chocolate hearts - a normal one from Nami and one from Chiri which is strongly implied to be an actual human heart (at the very least it's anatomically correct). | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Not particularly noticeably, but much of the setting (buildings and other background elements) bears more similarity to the Taishou Era (1912-1926) than modern times, and the art style is also very evocative of the Taishou era. Even Itoshiki-sensei's hakama and Matoi's kimono are period-correct, and the styles change with the season according to Taishou era fashions. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: "Mr. Fashion" makes a cameo arguing with Kino about what's fashionable. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: The ever-changing chalkboard writings. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Mocked by Chiri, who kills the entire class and buries herself, interpreting everyone as "seeds". The next day when everyone is inexplicably alive again, she turns out to be a Bishoujo, also mocking the Bishoujo demographic. On the other hand, she girls - and occasionally even Itoshiki - all wear traditional dress from the Showa period from time to time. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: Every single chapter title is a reference to a work of literature, albeit in parody, and with the meaning twisted beyond all recognition. The series's title itself is a Shout-Out to Goodbye, Mr. Chips. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: The names should be a good start. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Nozomu is nearly always seen wearing kimono and hakama, and most of the time that he isn't, he's sporting something else retro and Japanese. The same goes for his nephew Majiru (who lives with him) and Matoi (whose fashion sense is dictated by whomever she's obsessed with). Notably averted by most of the other characters, though. The use of school uniform invokes this trope, of course. In later stages of the manga, though, the girls' uniform undergoes minor changes at the author's will (mostly the necktie), and the changeover between winter and summer uniforms is tightly observed and used for comic effect. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: The class finds a time capsule and fishes out a radio labeled "SONV". As the show is wont, this is lampshaded immediately. Also "Photoshocker" (heavily used by teen idol Kotonon) for Photo Shop. | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Whenever Kafuka or Chiri get involved, the insanity and horror are cranked up. The first instance of the Drawing Song has Chiri('s voice actress) draw a very imprecise, childish depiction of Nozomu. This picture then takes up the whole screen and a comic horror scream is head. | |
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Dream Apocalypse | |
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Dream Apocalypse: One episode features Nozomu dreaming, and the characters realizing what will happen if he wakes up. They decide to kill him instead. | |
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Massive Multiplayer Crossover | |
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Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Nozomu shows up in a supporting role in the Shounen Sunday x Shounen Magazine: Taisen Action fighting game for the PSP. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Everyone, really. Readers can't really guess that Kaga is an excellent violinist and from a family of ninjas, Matoi plays the cello as a hobby, or Nozomu's old friend is the youngest and strongest street brawler in the setting just from reading or watching some segments. Not to mention that the students of 2-He are having such a Dark and Troubled Past which almost successfully drove them to suicide. You will end up wondering whether the black comedies in the series are really plays for laugh or foreshadowings when you finish reading the manga. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: It's not suicide, he's just trying to make himself taller! | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: Subverted by Nozomu. In one segment of Zan, for the sake of being open-minded, he had a one night stand with a butch, crossdressing gigolo (who looked like an unshaven twin of Onizuka-sensei in a dress) in a love hotel... and hated it (he was filled with despair while they were doing it). | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: It's revealed in the manga that the Itoshiki family actually isn't the same wealthy family that always lived there. Hundreds of years ago violence threatened the nobles, causing them to find a family of exact lookalikes to replace them while the originals went into hiding. Since they never came back, eventually the Itoshikis decided that if they had spent centuries in the mansion and had all the wealth it meant that they were a distinguished family themselves. It's also revealed that the last descendant of the original family is their butler, Tokita. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: Subverted in the Hot Springs Episode, when the wall between the men's and women's baths falls over. Poor Nozomu freaks out and Screams Like a Little Girl when exposed to his class. He runs away, with one of the girls lampshading "That should've been our reaction". Then he laments that none of them sees him as a man. 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. The entire town reacts. | |
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Censor Steam | |
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Censor Steam: Very disturbing censor steam. | |
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Suicide as Comedy | |
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Suicide as Comedy: Though the number of suicide jokes have declined in favor of, among other things, a more psychotic Chiri. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: Every episode of Zan opens on a "the story up to now" recap told in pop-up storybook format. This would be all well and good, except that none of the stories being told have actually happened, or indeed make any kind of sense. The stranger part? All taken from the manga itself. | |
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Attention Whore | |
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Attention Whore: Probably the motivation behind Nozomu's every outrageous action. There's also Nami, but her Attention Whore tendencies only show in her first appearance, in which she tries all kinds of gimmicks to gain pity and attention from her classmates (culminating with a threat of suicide). They all fail, of course. Other cases may include Abiru, who once admitted to wearing bandages even when not injured just for kicks, and apparently Kaere is also this, always flaunting her panties even as she loudly threatens lawsuit to onlookers. | |
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Pretty Freeloaders | |
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Pretty Freeloaders: Kiri taking up residence at Nozomu's home, although she subverts it by doing the cooking and cleaning. Matoi, for obvious reasons. She may not have been in her own house since the first season. | |
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Evolving Credits | |
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Evolving Credits: Season one's credits initially consist of some random title cards with lots and lots of text on them — far more than anyone could ever read without freeze-framing. The text changes in each episode... until Episode 4, when it switches to a fully-animated intro. The opening to Zoku starts off in black and white. Despite additional animation, the "film" appears to gradually deteriorate episode by episode. In the penultimate episode, one scene of the sequence is in color for a few seconds before the film becomes misaligned and the next 20 or so seconds are simply the credits on a white background. In the last episode, the film quality is back to perfect and the whole sequence is in full color. | |
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Out of Focus | |
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Out of Focus: Only certain members of the cast will appear in any given episode, but some of them have been given less and less screen time, especially Chie. This trope is a basis for the big ending reveal, as at each time Kafuka is visible, she has possessed, thus replaced, one other girl. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: Parodied. After Chiri absorbs the power of the ancient superweapon to fight an alien invasion (It Makes Sense in Context), she begins calling her attacks... in German. The other characters are somewhat confused as for why she does that. The reason, of course, is that Chiri is reenacting Asuka's final fight from End of Evangelion. | |
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Split Personality | |
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Split Personality: Kaere, between lawsuit-crazy Kaere and demure Kaede. If an (as usual) fairly surreal anecdote is to be believed, Kafuka in her childhood as well. | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
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Once an Episode: Itoshiki's declaration that something "has left me in despair!", as well as random items in the background (a dog with a stick in its butt, Koji Kumeta's face, a stork carrying a baby, Kaere's latest Panty Shot, the shot with the diagonal clouds and the drawing song from the third season, etc. | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: Several characters refer to each other using the anime character tropes they embody, such as "Designated Panty Shot Girl" or by noting that "the bandaged look isn't popular any more". This also happens in the manga, both in references to the characters and to the manga itself. And that's just scratching the surface. The characters often worry about the show's ratings, debate who's the most popular character, and ponder the episodes' Aesops. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: The Hot Springs Episode about toxins ends with Ax-Crazy Chiri realizing that to Mother Nature, human beings are a toxin. | |
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The Pollyanna | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_3e74b72e | comment |
It especially doesn't help when Kafuka jumps in and tries to put her own "spin" on things — it usually only means the examples are crossing the line into insanity. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: The second season's title is prefaced with "Zoku", which is sees fairly common use in the titles of sequels. That "Zoku" (続) translates to "continuation". The "Zoku" used in this case (俗) is a mark used in dictionaries to denote slang terms and vulgarities. | |
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Konami Code | |
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Konami Code: During the opening for the Magical Girl spoof, Meru's phone uses this code (must be game breaking). | |
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Gaussian Girl | |
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Gaussian Girl: About Once per Episode or more, the character will focus on a (generally female) character about to speak, and they will be framed in soft light and sometimes sparkle. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: Kafuka calls Nozomu "Pink Supervisor". He hates the name, but has resigned himself to the fact that she's not going to stop. This is ultimately abandoned as the series went on. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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In one chapter, Kumeta's assistant, who coincidentally does the best art in the entire manga is a real-life bear, does a high kick in a micro-skirt. So does Maria but that's another issue. | |
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Love Hurts | |
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Love Hurts: Poor, poor Nozomu and Manami... | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: The girls that failed to commit their respective suicides, are initially attending the so called promised land that is class 2-He to give a form of 'posthumous' graduation for the spirits that possess them. Then The Power of Friendship prevails. This is also the case for the boys as well. Rin muses in the final chapter that their family, originally stand-ins for the powerful, influental Itoshiki family (of which their butler Tokita is a member), essentially became the Itoshiki family after playing the role for years. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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There's even an entire segment about this trope in Zan, with the conclusion that in order for the Love Dodecahedron to hurt less, Nozomu must take up relationships with as many people as possible (in order to make it a non-pointy circle, you see). It goes about as well as you would expect. | |
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UnpleasableFanbase | |
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Unpleasable Fanbase: Discussed In-Universe in the latter half of Season 1 Episode 11 as part of a larger discussion about how people use the "I-just-followed-the-X-to-the-letter" excuse to escape criticism — in this case, negative fan reactions to the way a film adaptation relates to its source material. On one hand, a director complains that despite staying faithful to the source material, his adaptation is still panned as boring. On the other hand, Nozomu then points over to the flip side: a group of angry fanboys (including Harumi) beating up another director for straying from the source material. | |
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Screams Like a Little Girl | |
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Screams Like a Little Girl: Nozomu during the second half of Episode 5 of the first season, combined with a Big "NO!". What makes it even funnier is that in such a situation, the roles should be reversed. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Some characters have drifted from their original premise: Kaere is always billed as having multiple personalities, but after her introductory episode, her Yamato Nadeshiko personality Kaede is rarely seen. Kiri was introduced as a typical ill-tempered hikikomori, and while she loses this after Nozomu and Kafuka scare her into leaving home, she's definitely presented as fairly creepy during the first season. However, a couple of episodes into the second season, she acquires a sweet personality that she keeps for the rest of the series. Nozomu himself experienced this. He never stops with his rants, but earlier on was more misanthropic and constantly attempted suicide. This change is actually lampshaded in the series itself, as Chiri accuses him of no longer fitting the title of "Mr. Despair", something she tries to remedy by driving him off a cliff with ravenous wolves (complete with a Title Drop). Related to the above, Chiri herself kind of fits this. While she always had psycho moments, she used to often play the Straight Man and complained about the oddity of her teacher. This is a sharp contrast to the later, Ax-Crazy Chiri who everyone else (even Kafuka at times) sees as nuts. In one chapter, Nami gains weight over the summer. Though she loses this weight instantly she is thereafter associated more with food and gluttony than normality, always seen eating, and the girls continue to quip about it, particularly Kafuka and Abiru. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: Nearly every time Itoshiki prepares to say his catchphrase. Other characters have used similar stock footage as gags. In the Magical Girl Parody, Itoshiki's stock footage doubles as a pseudo Transformation Sequence, (though initially it's a reaction to all of his students being drawn in Chibi-style, he does gain a "suspicious cape and staff" when the shot returns to him, apparently from nowhere). | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Breathtakingly! Some of the most mind-blowing scenes also beautifully rendered, accompanied by full orchestration. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: Mayo Mitama... and she always gets away with it because no one would want to judge her based on appearance. Chiri becomes more and more of this as the series goes on, starting to carry around a shovel and making frequent references to killing people. At one point she ends up in the Sengoku period and tries to declare herself the ruler of Japan — by killing everyone else. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: Mayo anally violates dogs with pencils and branches as a Running Gag. Matoi's clingy behavior occasionally borders on this. There was that one time when Abiru forced Nozomu to wear a tail from her collection... One segment shows Commodore Perry wearing a rape face and started "opening" things: Kaere's legs, Kiri's forelocks, and a random male student's zipper on his pants, prompting a comment about him swinging both ways. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: Chapter 290, and how! It's already established that Abiru's left eye is a transplant and it recognizes things from its previous owner's memories, but for it to see its previous owner replacing every single named students in the class, including Abiru herself, through its POV is very disturbing. Seeing Abiru, who famous for being straight-faced and notorious Deadpan Snarker, suddenly losing her composure when the revelation dawns to her really shows that it was a Wham Shot even in-universe. | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: If there's anything on this page that makes you arch an eyebrow, chances are it would make you arch both your eyebrows if you actually saw it. | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation: The show is just made of these. | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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Painting the Medium: The punctuation in Chiri's dialogue shows up on-screen in the lower right corner, accompanied by Kabuki Sounds. The characters for certain sound effects (jiiiiii~ being the main example) have been written on the screen, like in a manga. Zan takes this further with every sound effect being spoken, such as doors ("ga-CHA"), a tense crowd ("piri-piri"), and in one case, constantly in the background, the ocean ("za-zaaaan"). One chapter has Itoshiki complaining about how the world is full of wasted space. He does this in a two-page spread consisting of nothing but two relatively small word bubbles and his head taking up less than half the right page. Another chapter has Itoshiki basically declaring take-backsies on the whole chapter, starting it over again (complete with chapter title). | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: The upshot of every girl in class being in love with Nozomu. He's almost pathologically resistant to their affections (ethical concerns aside), but is painfully aware of the UST, which is why he has stopped resisting Matoi's antics, as doing so only spurs her to more extreme behavior. Class 2-He exists in a kind of equilibrium where the tension never boils over, at least until somebody/something kicks over the anthill, such as Nozomu's Arranged Marriage in Season 1 and his flirtatious body-double Haga in Zan. A major case of Ship Tease occurs with Kiri, who lives with Nozomu in school and serves as caretaker for both him and his nephew Majiru. At one point she seems fine with sharing him with Matoi. At least when Nozomu is around, when he isn't looking, apperently both of them have fought sometimes offscreen Another case (this time in Bangaichi) occurs with Tane, Chiri's flirtatiously sexy (yet messy) sister, though it's likely that his affection for her stems out of pity for her situation (having to sacrifice her hygiene in order to curb Chiri's murderous obsession with cleaning their pet goldfish with shampoo). On one occasion Kafuka became jealous of Chie when Nozomu was smitten by the sight of her in a Sailor Fuku. Normally Nozomu would already have a love interest (or perhaps a harem) were it not for his students' — especially Chiri's — Clingy Jealous Girl antics (at least the others are willing to settle on Marry Them All). So far the only time Chiri agreed to such a solution was in Zan, where he was literally divided per piece. Other girls whom Nozomu apparently started falling for include a college girl introduced in Zoku and a mysterious girl from another school that confessed to him in Zan who works at a Maid Cafe, making desperate losers fall for her. The absurdity of the situation arises from the fact that Nozomu was never one of her customers, so it's not only a complete role-reversal for her but a totally unexplained one unless Chiri's explanation is to be believed — that his popularity with girls is starting to spread beyond the classroom. Interestingly, in Zoku Episode 13 Kafuka was shown to work in the same cafe. She's also without her standard hairclip in later appearances. May be coincidental, but other hints imply that the mysterious girl is none other than Kafuka in disguise. Oh, and the college girl is Kafuka herself in a wig. | |
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The Chikan | |
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The Chikan: Nozomu handcuffs himself to the railings on a train to avoid being accused of this, but when Nami screams out for an unrelated reason, he gets arrested anyway. He still wants to be punished after Nami clears things up, because he thinks people will think badly of him if he protests innocence. | |
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Hikikomori | |
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Kiri was introduced as a typical ill-tempered hikikomori, and while she loses this after Nozomu and Kafuka scare her into leaving home, she's definitely presented as fairly creepy during the first season. However, a couple of episodes into the second season, she acquires a sweet personality that she keeps for the rest of the series. | |
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Didn't We Use This Joke Already? | |
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Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: Nozomu brings up the topic of people ignoring distressing things around them. Chiri says something to the effect of the show already doing this joke. Nozomu quips "Ignoring that...", and proceeds with his rant. | |
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Chronic Self-Deprecation | |
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Chronic Self-Deprecation: Believe it or not, the author himself. Be sure to read his notes at the ends of volumes. | |
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Catchphrase Interruptus | |
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Catchphrase Interruptus: Nozomu's surprised when a one-shot character borrows his catchphrase. In one episode Rin asks him if he's in despair, following one of his rants, before he has a chance to scream "I'm in despair!". | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: As revealed in Chapter 302, Nozomu believes it's his fault Kafuka died. He picked up her hat from the crosswalk and she was hit by a car when he tried to give it back. | |
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Not Allowed to Grow Up | |
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Not Allowed to Grow Up: Poked fun at. Zetsubou Sensei's class repeatedly fail their exams so they have to repeat their year over and over, thus never allowed to "grow up". Then they DID graduate to their next year, without much fanfare. It's not stopping the comedy. | |
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Zombie Apocalypse | |
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Zombie Apocalypse: Of sorts. It's a revival of things that should've stayed dead. Like suits with shoulder pads and old relationships. The show turns the gun on itself when a bite from one of the zombies turns Nozomu into one himself, jabbing that the series might turn into a Franchise Zombie. | |
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TheCollectorOfTheStrange | |
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The Collector of the Strange: Abiru's collection of mounted animal tails. For that matter, Nozomu's collection of unwanted admirers, each with a quirk of her own. | |
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Pædo Hunt | |
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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. The entire town reacts. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: Many, as Studio Shaft is wont to do. | |
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Image Song | |
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Image Song | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_63cd6ccb | |
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Measuring Day | |
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Measuring Day: In episode 5. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_65158166 | |
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Noodle People | |
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The art evolved again. The characters were given more angular mouths, and, while they were very downplayed Noodle People, they became slightly more realistic, reverting back to the old art style. The only thing that consistently changed was how the faces became less and less realistic, until everyone had the same face. Excluding Kafuka, by virtue of being the female lead, Chiri, also by virtue of appearing often, and Matoi. The only noticeable difference is in the eye shape. | |
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Security Blanket | |
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Security Blanket: Kiri is nearly always wrapped in one, and a segment discussing her loss of it (and others' metaphorical security blankets) is titled "We are Linus", in reference to the Trope Namer from the Peanuts stories. | |
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Untranslated Title | |
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Untranslated Title | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_68a77024 | |
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BestBeerEver | |
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Best Beer Ever: Nozomu in the second ending to Zan. Maria once with "children's beer". | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_69ab19d7 | |
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Chewing the Scenery | |
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Chewing the Scenery: Nozomu's rants (and especially his catchphrase) tend to be delivered in a grandiosely overblown manner. Nobody takes them seriously, and one or more of his students will frequently hang a lampshade on it. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_69fb91e8 | |
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Improbable Weapon User | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6a2ae11f | comment |
Improbable Weapon User: Played for Laughs when Itoshiki, suspecting Kobushi's father of physically abusing her, follows him around when he goes shopping and imagines how everything he picks up could be used to abuse his daughter, from bicycle pumps, to erasers to manga. But it's true that he's in a special ops that kills people with manga, though. There are instances where the students use the weirdest things as weapons. Kiri's introduction has her using her TV as blunt weapon, in Zan Episode 1, when his students break him out of the jail, Harumi uses her Comiket catalog and Meru stabs people with her phone's antenna, in one episode Abiru uses her bandage as whips... | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6a2ae11f | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Played with every which way short of aversions. The main source of humor in all versions is taking the most minor things seriously, to ludicrious extremes. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6b35bdff | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: The phrase "A meeting that was never meant to happen" is usually played for laughs, suddenly turns into drama when it's revealed that the girls failed to commit suicide because of the donored organs from the eternally cheerful and optimistic Kafuka. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name/Punny Name: Every single named character has a name that is some sort of pun on their personality type, almost to the point of Anthropomorphic Personification. See the Character Sheet, lest this section become a complete duplication. | |
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FanService | |
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Fanservice: The show offers a constant stream of fanservice so random, pretext-free, and in-your-face that it might as well count as parody. Kaere is explicitly designated as a Panty Shot character and goes through several in every episode, sometimes complaining about it and at other times regarding it as her duty (at one time she actually greets strangers by mooning them). Other characters chip in as much as they can, with practically every female character (and some males) appearing in a random erotic context multiple times per season. Rin seemed to take over for Kaere for a while in Zoku. The fact that her name can be read as zetsurin — "confidence in (her) sexual prowess" hints at this as well. Chie also served as this in the first season, and so does Kiri (although she lasted longer), with both having been in the occasional yuri-tastic situation. In one Goku episode, at least 5 minutes of the show is dedicated to Harumi drawing a yaoi doujin. At one point she takes of her shirt and, after a gratuitous shot of her chest, spends the rest of her time wearing nothing but spats and a bra. There's frequent female topless nudity in the manga (usually on magazine covers or centerfolds), but the nipples are covered with tiny stars. Most explicit is a two-page centerfold with girls with enormous breasts having a boob contest - with their nipples covered with stars, of course. There's also an ad for a panty shot contest coming soon. Rumor has it this scene is what caused Del Rey to change the T (Teen) on the back cover of the books to OT (Older Teen). There are quite a few special edition centerfolds featuring Nozomu and his male students, particularly Jun, in suggestive possesses. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6bf93fc7 | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Nozomu, at least once an episode. Though when he almost does die, he is rather angry about it. However, this behavior was slowly dropped from sight as other character quirks become the center of jokes. | |
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Cloudcuckooland | |
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Cloudcuckooland: The rest of the world isn't much saner than Itoshiki's students. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6d6e3015 | |
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Teacher/Student Romance | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6d892421 | comment |
Teacher/Student Romance: Played for dark laughs. The plot revolves around a suicidal teacher who accidentally wins the hearts of nearly all of his students, some more extremely devoted than others. Itoshiki himself rarely returns any of the feelings of his Harem. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: Nozomu and the 12 main girls have a bunch of kids who all bear a strong resemblance to Kafuka in looks and personality. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6d9bc945 | |
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The Tetris Effect | |
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The Tetris Effect: In a chapter dealing with Chiri coming to clean Nozomu's house, she ultimately falls into this in a typically crazy way, stacking objects and people in an attempt to eliminate "dead space". At one point, Harumi comments about Chiri always being good at Tetris. | |
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Real Joke Name | |
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Real Joke Name: Dr. Mikoto Itoshiki's name resembles "zetsumei" ("death") when written horizontally, a fact reflected in his rather small pool of patients. Anytime it's mentioned ends in a Head Desk moment. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_6f0966ad | |
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Culture Clash | |
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Culture Clash | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_70ade2c4 | |
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Erotic Eating | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_714342fb | comment |
Erotic Eating: Chie with a strawberry in the second ending of Zan. There's an instance in the manga where Nozomu has a thick sushi roll in his mouth and Nami sees Harumi smirking at the sight and she asks why she's smiling. | |
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Bungled Suicide | |
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Bungled Suicide: This happen repeatedly. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: Discussed in Episode 2 of Goku before immediately going into Self-Deprecation. | |
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Radish Cure | |
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Radish Cure: When Nozomu and Kafuka board up Komori, plus probably some others. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_73a7d1b3 | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: "How normal" or variations thereof, to Nami. Nozomu's "You were here?" to Matoi whenever the latter butts in during a conversation. Everyone seems to call Kanako "magnanimous" or (depending on the translation) a "big-hearted girl", which is what her name basically means. | |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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Periphery Demographic: Discussed In-Universe in Chapter 279, which deals with what happens when a product attracts a demographic different from that that which is intended (e.g. children's cooking shows and aging perverts, Shōnen Genre magazines and Yaoi Fangirls (like Harumi), seaside condos meant for happy families and suicides who want to jump off the balcony, etc.). | |
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Wacky Homeroom | |
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Wacky Homeroom | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: Parodied in a couple of episodes during the teacher's rants, including the rant above. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_7a12aabf | |
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Hartman Hips | |
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Hartman Hips: Let's just say that the women of Class 2-He are very curvy. | |
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Sailor Fuku | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_7c4b9d2 | comment |
On one occasion Kafuka became jealous of Chie when Nozomu was smitten by the sight of her in a Sailor Fuku. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_7c4b9d2 | |
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Magical Girl | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_7d7f4e4f | comment |
"Lyricure Go Go!", Zoku's one-shot opening for Episode 7, was the theme for a Magical Girl parody. | |
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Animation Bump | |
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Animation Bump: True for all the openings. For example, Abiru's hair, in both the anime and manga, is a simple, charming series of connected circles. In the openings, they actually look like braids, and are a lot more dynamic. Kaere, the incredibly busty Jerkass, decided not to wear a bra that morning. The same goes for Chiri, whose hair is the magical skirt equivalent of hair, and Nozomu, whose hair bounces around. Same goes for Matoi's kimono, and Nozomu's hakama. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Mayo Mitama is said to be one. If she is, though, she's probably the tsunnest Tsundere ever. | |
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Wall of Weapons | |
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Wall of Weapons: One episode of Zan has Chiri revealing one behind a blackboard. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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The upshot of every girl in class being in love with Nozomu. He's almost pathologically resistant to their affections (ethical concerns aside), but is painfully aware of the UST, which is why he has stopped resisting Matoi's antics, as doing so only spurs her to more extreme behavior. Class 2-He exists in a kind of equilibrium where the tension never boils over, at least until somebody/something kicks over the anthill, such as Nozomu's Arranged Marriage in Season 1 and his flirtatious body-double Haga in Zan. | |
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Lethal Klutz | |
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Lethal Klutz: Chiri tries to be a normal klutz, but ends up as one of these instead. | |
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Cuteness Proximity | |
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Cuteness Proximity: Maria and Majiru inspire this in the girls. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: Everyone except for, apparently, Nami. Though at times her extreme normalcy could be a dysfunction in its own right. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: The manga ends this way. Kafuka is Dead All Along and has possessed the rest of the cast by way of organ donations after they attempted suicide before the show started. | |
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Pun | |
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And then Maria makes a deadly Pun out of the steps of Yonkoma involving a historical massacre. She's oblivious to the implications. | |
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Straight Man | |
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Related to the above, Chiri herself kind of fits this. While she always had psycho moments, she used to often play the Straight Man and complained about the oddity of her teacher. This is a sharp contrast to the later, Ax-Crazy Chiri who everyone else (even Kafuka at times) sees as nuts. | |
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Inherently Funny Words | |
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Inherently Funny Words: Pororoca is first used by Kafuka who identifies it as a planet that she believes space aliens come from. Later on, the actual meaning is used by Nozomu to make an analogy to people becoming fans of various media. Also counting as inherently funny are the tongue-twister in the "in the last volume" openers and any real words that showed up in the Gag Sub episode. | |
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Apathetic Teacher | |
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Apathetic Teacher: Definitely Nozomu, who is often too "in despair" to even come to class and doesn't do much teaching when he does. Probably Chie as well — she has some of the attitude, and doesn't really seem to do any kind of conseling, although she's the one teaching Nozomu's classes when he doesn't show up. | |
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World of Pun | |
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World of Pun: Oh dear Lord, everyone with a name has this applied to them. A more obscure example is Mikoto's first appearance when Kafuka visits him and calls him "Itoshiki-sensei"...then corrects herself to "Itoshiki-sensei". Mikoto just sits there and says "Yes?" because "sensei" can mean "teacher" or "doctor." | |
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Truth in Television | |
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In Zoku Episode 4, a textbook with English exercises is shown. The cartoon illustrations seen on the page feature grotesque caricatures of foreigners with enormous noses. Apparently Truth in Television: actual textbooks feature this kind of caricature. See this link for an example and an attempt to turn the tables. | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
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No Communities Were Harmed: The Itoshikis' native Kuraizawa, Shinshuu Prefecture. Kuraizawa is based on Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture ("Kurai" means "dark"); "Shinshuu" was another name for "Shinano", one of Japan's former provinces (replaced by prefectures during the Meiji Restoration), now also known as Nagano Prefecture. Incidentally, one can't get to Karuizawa from Tokyo via local (futsuu) trains without taking a major detour, because the line through the Usui Pass was abandoned when the Nagano Shinkansen opened. Knowing this makes Nami's predicament even funnier. | |
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Cosplay | |
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During the discussion of things not being true to the original, Halloween becoming a cosplay fest comes up. Chiri agrees that it's not good, and says that she's staying true to the spirit by dressing as a witch...while still cosplaying. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Played straight but exaggerated severely with Matoi Tsunetsuki. Chapter 4 of the manga (Matoi's introductory chapter, naturally) has a block-long string of them. In Zoku, one of Nozomu's neighbors is a cute young college girl who occasionally brings him homemade meals and commiserates with him about whatever rotten thing his students did to him that day. The end of Episode 8 reveals that the girl is actually Kafuka in a wig, complete with creepy bunny-boiler overtones. Even creepier: in Zan (and possibly earlier), there's a framed picture of her on his desk. Apparently he likes her enough to keep something like that. One can only wonder how he would react if he ever put two-and-two together and realized just whose picture he keeps prominently displayed on his dresser drawers... | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: The anime's episodes are in a very different order from the manga chapters; the most obvious example of this is Nami's introduction, which is in the anime's second season despite Nami having already shown up in one episode with no fanfare in the first season. Kanako, Miko, and Shoko aren't introduced until the third season. Kumeta complains about this in a chapter of the manga, saying Shaft "wasted his jokes", among other things. | |
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Reference Overdosed | |
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Reference Overdosed | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: The second to last chapter reveals that Kafuka was Dead All Along. She was an organ donor so when she died her organs were given to a number of people who had attempted suicide. The organ recipients eventually turned out to be Nozomu and his students, who were all simultaneously possessed by Kafuka's spirit due to the donated organs. What this means is that every time Kafuka was seen, she was possessing one of the other girls in the class, and they all saw her as Kafuka. Amazingly, a re-read of the manga shows the author held to this rule as early as chapter 1, complete with instances of Kafuka having illnesses or injuries a different girl got in the previous chapter. There is also the revelation that when the girls attempted suicide, they were possessed by the ghosts of girls from the Showa period who had committed suicide but regretted it. The entire show was a ploy by Nozomu to exorcise the spirits from the girls' bodies by trying to recreate Showa period school life and having the girls "graduate", giving the spirits the closure they need to pass on. This is why Nozomu always dressed in such old fashioned clothes. Chapter "30X," titled "As One Possibility." The exorcism worked, allowing the Showa period ghosts to pass on... but it did absolutely nothing to the spirit of Kafuka. Years later, Nozomu is married to Kafuka in the form of living with all 12 girls as Kafuka rotates between their bodies. Worse, all 12 of the girls have had at least one child, each of them being Kafuka, as "Kafukaism" can be spread by a mere blood transfusion. | |
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Skyscraper Messages | |
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Skyscraper Messages: One chapter is about getting dragged into other people's drama. Itoshiki-sensei is staying at a hotel whose manager wants to write a message for some holiday or other and his room has to be dark. | |
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud | |
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Matoi's "Jiiiiiiiiii..." ("Stare..."). Throughout Zan, many sound effects appear written on screen as the sound is heard. Whenever this happens, the girls' voices also read said sound effects. | |
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Demonic Possession | |
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Demonic Possession: Implied to be one of Kafuka's mother's many, many problems. Luckily it means she knows we can get a Blackly Speaking Meru to behave by knocking her upside the head with a giant cross! | |
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Art Shift | |
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"Omamori", Zoku's ending theme for Episode 13, Art Shifts into gothic horror, drawn in a style reminiscent of Hellboy. | |
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Cute Mute | |
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Cute Mute: Meru, who talks through her cellphone and sends people abusive text messages (it also helps that her limited vocalizations, usually wordless gasps, are voiced by Studio Shaft mainstay Chiwa Saitō). Mayo also never actually talks to anyone, you only hear her voice in a narrative sense. In Goku, she didn't communicate her idea verbally, words appeared above her head instead. | |
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Hot Springs Episode | |
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Hot Springs Episode | |
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Improbably Female Cast | |
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Improbably Female Cast: Apart from the titular character, the majority of the main cast is made up of his female students, with only a handful of his male ones ever doing anything. Lessened somewhat by the supporting cast, which features plenty of male characters. | |
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Our Lawyers Advised This Trope | |
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Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: At the end of every episode there's a "This show is a work of fiction" disclaimer. It usually contains a lot of Suspiciously Specific Denial. | |
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Unmoving Plaid | |
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Unmoving Plaid: Anything anyone wears that has a pattern. Most often applies to Nozomu. | |
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Transfer Student Uniforms | |
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Kaere wears a westernized private school uniform with a plaid skirt. | |
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Dynamic Entry | |
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Dynamic Entry: Earlier on, Maria had a habit of delivering flying kicks, generally to Nozomu, because she couldn't distinguish things she saw on television from reality. In one instance, Harumi attacks Chiri until she flies through a door with a dropkick after Chiri insults her manga. Then Nozomu proceeds to praise her athletic ability... | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: The third episode of Zan mocks this trope. | |
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Behind the Black | |
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Behind the Black: Played with when Matoi and Kiri get into a brawl over Nozomu (while he's in the same room as them). Neither the audience nor Nozomu see or hear anything, and whenever one of the two are seen, they're just sitting around nonchalantly with mysterious bandages appearing on their faces. Ai also exploits this in the first season of the anime by staying behind it until the last episode because she didn't want to ruin the show. | |
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Vulgar Humor | |
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Vulgar Humor: Several times. Mostly tame, but there are some examples like a Take That! for Shintaro Ishihara part in Chapter 247, where his avatar tries to ban erotic manga and anime while punching holes on a canvas door with his erection, then seeing that random things such as wood grains and cellphone antenna could pattern into naked women's crotches and breasts (in great details, mind you) and proceeds to ban them too. And then, there's Chapter 260's punchline. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: Averted - the school has a psychiatrist. She just doesn't help at all. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: Zetsubou-sensei, to his class. | |
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This Is a Work of Fiction | |
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This Is a Work of Fiction: A different parodic disclaimer at the end of every episode, culminating in one which disclaims any resemblance between the show and itself. | |
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Mistaken from Behind | |
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Mistaken from Behind: Chiri accidentally stabs Nozumo from behind because of this, and that she was trying to act like The Ditz. | |
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School Festival | |
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School Festival: With the absolute minimum amount of culture possible, as demanded by Itoshiki. | |
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Fan Art | |
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Fan Art: In-series, there's Harumi and her yaoi. At the end of each episode of Zan the "Zetsubou-Sensei Drawing Song" features renditions of Nozomu by the voice actors who also sing. The first few opening sequences of Zoku feature a massive wall of fan art. At the end of every episode for all seasons, there are artworks drawn by fellow mangaka. The list below shows which artists did, in episode order: | |
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Fan Sub | |
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One Fan Sub at least added the original dialogue from the manga, where a lookalike of Matthew Perry, the American commodore who ended Japan's self-imposed solitude back in 1854, threatened to open everything in the school, from books in the library, Kaere's legs, a random male student's zipper to even the swimming pool. | |
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Gag Sub | |
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Also counting as inherently funny are the tongue-twister in the "in the last volume" openers and any real words that showed up in the Gag Sub episode. | |
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Sarcastic Confession | |
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Sarcastic Confession: On Zoku Episode 3 (prior to the "Mundane Made Awesome" segment, below) Nozomu rants on how grave matters are related in a casual tone, such as Class 2-He repeating another year, Abiru's father telling her that he divorced her mother a month before, Nami being told by her father that he got laid off, the mother of one of Jun's friends telling him that her husband is in jail, Meru's mother introducing her father's mistress to her, and Harumi overhearing her mother tell her neighbor that she was an unexpected child., There's one incident dealing with an inversion of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", wherein trustworthy people's jokes/lies will always be taken seriously. Jinroku tells a lie that illustrates this concept, and when questioned about a bandage on his head, tells Nozomu that he just extracted a bullet from his time as a mercenary. He and Nozomu both laugh, but it's implied he was actually telling the truth. | |
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Good Parents | |
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Good Parents: Ironically, given the suspicions that he's an abuser, Mr. Kobushi is actually a very caring dad who has a close relationship with Abiru. Granted, one might question his seeming endorsement of her tail-pulling hobby. For that matter, Matoi's mother, who even supports her... unhealthy habit. | |
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Character as Himself | |
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Character as Himself: The opening credits list all the characters as being played by themselves. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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In one chapter, Nami gains weight over the summer. Though she loses this weight instantly she is thereafter associated more with food and gluttony than normality, always seen eating, and the girls continue to quip about it, particularly Kafuka and Abiru. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Mayo Mitama... and she always gets away with it because no one would want to judge her based on appearance. | |
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Surreal Theme Tune | |
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Surreal Theme Tune: All of them. "Hito Toshite Jiku ga Bureteiru", season one's first opening theme, set to (among other things) annotated diagrams of bondage positions, laments on how everything is twisted. "Zessei Bijin", season one's ending theme, set to scenes of murder and death, enthuses about a couple's double suicide while playing in a peppy jazz number. "Kuusou Rumba", Zoku's opening theme, talks about a man trying to dance the Rumba being turned down. "Koiji Romanesque", Zoku's first ending theme, Art Shifts the characters into Shoujo style and shows them attached to medical drips, or, in the case of Kagero, dressed in nothing but a billowing long coat in front of a crucifix. "Lyricure Go Go!", Zoku's one-shot opening for Episode 7, was the theme for a Magical Girl parody. "Omamori", Zoku's ending theme for Episode 13, Art Shifts into gothic horror, drawn in a style reminiscent of Hellboy. "Ringo Mogire Beam!", Zan's opening theme, translates to "Apple Plucking Beam!". The lyrics are about a man who believes he has found his soulmate, but is afraid to proceed (by "giving her his password"), accompanied by repeated exclamations of the song's title. "Ringo Mogire Beam!" could be viewed as the password mentioned in the song... or it could just be a random exclamation. (Note: Apparently it parodies doomsday group "Cosmic Brotherhood Association" which believes the world would be destroyed by a flood, and the only way out is rescue by UFOs with the password "Ringo okure C". This from SchwarzXD on YouTube.) The full version is even MORE surreal. Somehow. "Zetsubou Restaurant", Zan's ending theme, sings about leaving the troubles of the world behind, while depicting the various evening activities of Class 2-He (save Kafuka, who is only shown standing in front of the school in a kimono). Subverted with "Marionette", Zoku's second ending, a rather normal anime song with rather normal images... probably due to Nami's presence. But that doesn't stop its lyrics from making nary a sense. | |
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Written Sound Effect | |
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Throughout Zan, many sound effects appear written on screen as the sound is heard. Whenever this happens, the girls' voices also read said sound effects. | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: Kafuka in the full-color "Kuusou Rumba" opening. | |
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Artsy Beret | |
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Artsy Beret: In one volumean extra at the end makes the (false) claim that the manga's author, Koji Kumeta, is actually a pen name for two authors, one of whom is identified as Osamu Kometa, and who is depicted wearing a beret. This is a reference to/parody of the famous manga author Osamu Tezuka who was known for wearing a beret. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The final episode of the first season features Nozomu hanging himself (again) while "Happy Birthday to You!" plays in the background. Cheerful or peaceful music is always playing when Kafuka presents an implausibly optimistic view of a negative situation. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All chapters are plays on the titles of pieces of classical literature. | |
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Blue with Shock | |
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Blue with Shock | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: Apples seem to be a favorite food for Maria, and when she's first introduced and receives gifts from her classmates, she's presented with "Ryuk"-brand apples. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Half of the Itoshiki family is prone to this sort of name corruption, including the butler. | |
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Accidental Marriage | |
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Accidental Marriage: By making eye contact with someone. | |
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Awesome Anachronistic Apparel | |
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On the other hand, she girls - and occasionally even Itoshiki - all wear traditional dress from the Showa period from time to time. | |
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Unsound Effect | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_afe75982 | comment |
Unsound Effect: A Running Gag. The most notable is Matoi's constant "jiiiiiiiii" for staring, but there are numerous instances where a chorus of girls will say a sound effect (with it often being written on-screen as well). One of the other major one is when Meru is Trolling others; as she types, the sound "meru meru" is played. It's oddly hypnotic. | |
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Beauty, Brains and Brawn | |
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Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: In the anime, Nozomu attempts to exclusively categorize everything as Liberal arts, Science or Athletics. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Chie Arai was one in the first season, but Kiri Komori seems to have taken over for her in Zoku. Both pale in comparison to Kaere, though. | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule: Kaere wears a westernized private school uniform with a plaid skirt. In the broader sense of adult women in school uniforms being attractive, Nozomu is shown to be attracted to Chie when she puts on a Sailor Fuku. | |
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Fridge Brilliance | |
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There is also the revelation that when the girls attempted suicide, they were possessed by the ghosts of girls from the Showa period who had committed suicide but regretted it. The entire show was a ploy by Nozomu to exorcise the spirits from the girls' bodies by trying to recreate Showa period school life and having the girls "graduate", giving the spirits the closure they need to pass on. This is why Nozomu always dressed in such old fashioned clothes. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Subverted in Abiru's case. 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). 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. Played straight with Kafuka and her extremely abusive household, with her schizophrenic father trying to kill her on at least one occasion. Kafuka being Kafuka, she re-frames everything in positive terms. May or may not be an escape mechanism to deal with her horrendous personal life. That, and maybe also some problems with reality testing inherited from her parents. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Spoof Aesop: Anything Itoshiki considers a valid aesop — the show doesn't tend to take him very seriously, and invites the viewer to do the same. It especially doesn't help when Kafuka jumps in and tries to put her own "spin" on things — it usually only means the examples are crossing the line into insanity. If Chiri takes the Aesop on, we can expect her to come within an inch of killing everyone in a sequence bordering mixing horror and comedy. | |
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Shoujo | |
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The first ED video of the second season portrays all characters in distinctive Shoujo - Shounen Ai - bishie-ish style, while the third OP features the characters in Puni Plush Magical Girl style, complete with massive eyes and an upbeat poppy theme song. And blue hair. Lots of blue hair. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Even Hardcore Otaku Stereotypes Have Standards: The minor recurring pedophile character gets punched out by the minor recurring Otaku stereotype (wearing a superhero outfit) in one chapter for making advances on Maria and Meru, declaring "Keep your deviations to the second dimension!" | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: The translators are fond of this for the character descriptions (i.e. Harumi is described as "addicted to male-on-male-matchmaking" and Manami is a "high school housewife"). | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: This ain't a satire series if it doesn't include at least a potshot to any given anime, issue or whatever. "You're purposely talking about stuff nobody cares about right? Like how to eat a chocolate coronet? Nobody cares about stuff like that!" Also coming up frequently in Nozomu's rant-of-the-day, especially when he starts talking about soccer, or politics. Meru also claims that the term "creepy fangirl" was made for Harumi. Studio Shaft seems delighted to call out Kyoto Animation for anything, such as Akiyuki Shinbo saying his own work would've been done better by them. One of the signs of a zombie revival and subsequent apocalypse, according to them, is Lucky Star 2 (and Lucky Star 3) being made. One episode also has a segment about providing "more accurate" titles for books. One such suggestion was The Melancholy of a Middle-Aged Pedophile. In an episode dealing with countercurrents, a background character comments that he got into Hayao Miyazaki's films through those of his son Goro, leading to a comment that "there's some currents that shouldn't be traveled". On the other hand, both Koji Kumeta and Studio Shaft are also fond of using Nozomu's rants to make potshots at themselves. Kumeta's assistant, a certain Maeda-kun, frequently shows up in the background (voiced by himself in the anime) demonstrating some annoying tendency Nozomu is currently complaining about, while Kumeta himself appears as an unshaved version of himself (though voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya). Also, in each manga volume, bonus materials feature Kumeta's short and very self-deprecatory written pieces in relation to the theme of each chapter. For their part, Studio Shaft made a brief reference to Negima! Magister Negi Magi's major Adaptation Decay in Zan Episode 2, and Bangaichi is essentially a long string of jokes aimed at the studio itself and the show's own fans. | |
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Political Overcorrectness | |
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Political Overcorrectness: In the episode about preconceptions, Itoshiki decides at the end to be more accepting of all peoples. Thus, he doesn't turn down sex offers from a gay man. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: During the discussion of things not being true to the original, Halloween becoming a cosplay fest comes up. Chiri agrees that it's not good, and says that she's staying true to the spirit by dressing as a witch...while still cosplaying. In one chapter/episode, Nozomu is doing his typical commentary around town and stops at a Tsundere Maid Cafe. He sees Kafuka working there and scolds her for not being at school. While Nozomu does so little teaching that it doesn't immediately come across as Hypocritical Humor, since Nozomu is theoretically Kafuka's teacher, he should also be at school rather than doing what he's doing. Chiri criticizes Nozomu for obsessing over grudges and apparently Matoi finds stalkers gross. | |
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Harem Genre | |
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Harem Genre: Parodied, with the way girls randomly fall in love with Nozomu, but then don't bring it up again, with the probable exception of Matoi, Kiri, Chiri and Kafuka. While they do bring that up frequently in the manga, it's not in a good way. And there is enough Ship Tease: an episode of Zoku has even Chie and all the boys in the class showing attraction to him. This is taken to another level entirely in Zan - Abiru has been "promoted" into a regular Nozomu fangirl, and several other characters get distinctly "friendlier" with him at times. As of Bangaichi, there are now seventeen females officially in love with/attracted to Nozumu, either openly (Kiri, Matoi, Chiri, Abiru, Mayo, Nami, Kirara, Maria, Tane, the freshman from another school [assuming she's not Kafuka in disguise], and even Niang-Niang) or secretly (Ai, Harumi, Meru, Chie, Manami, and of course Kafuka in her college-girl disguise). The ending makes it even more complicated with the reveal that Kafuka was Dead All Along and is literally part of each of the other girls through organ donations. | |
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Empathic Weapon | |
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Empathic Weapon: Ai finds a parasol which she can't let go of until it is shared with someone she's in love with. We find out it's actually a sword and it wants to cut whoever the wielder is in love with. | |
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Color Failure | |
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Color Failure: Majiru has one after a quest to catch measles as a child (metaphorically) ends with him groping Chiri and ending up on her bad side. Needless to say, he's no longer interested in breasts. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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It Makes Sense in Context: Kind of a prerequisite to describing anything that goes on in this series. | |
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Ship-to-Ship Combat | |
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Ship-to-Ship Combat: Mocked in-universe in Goku, being described as one of those kinds of battles with no victors. | |
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Drop-In Character | |
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Drop-In Character: Practically every major character has played the part at least once. Many a chapter begins with Itoshiki at home when suddenly one or more of his students barge in, or one of his students (usually Nami) at home when Itoshiki, just happening to be passing by, overhears them say something that prompts him to barge in and launch into one of his rants. | |
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Negative Continuity | |
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Negative Continuity | |
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Interrupted Suicide | |
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Interrupted Suicide: Way too many. If the first episode doesn't clue you in... | |
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Retro Universe | |
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Retro Universe: Though set (more or less) in the same time period as when it was written, the series's aesthetic sensibilities evoke pre-World War II Showa Japan (1926-1945). This is driven home by the use of katakana where nowadays hiragana ought to be, and referring to the yearnote Japan uses calendar eras which begin from an Emperor's accession to the day of his death as though Emperor Hirohito (who died in 1989) were still alive and on the throne (e.g. 2011 is Showa 86 — today this would be called Heisei 23, as in the 23rd year of the reign of the current Emperor, Akihito). Towards the end of the series, it turns out that this was all deliberately invoked by Nozomu. | |
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Jade-Colored Glasses | |
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Jade-Colored Glasses: Like everything else in this page, parodied. When Nozomu loses his glasses, Kafuka buys him (with his students' donation money) a pair of tinted colored glasses and Nozomu (and anyone else) can only say bad about everything when they're wearing them. | |
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Too Hot for TV | |
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Too Hot for TV: Most censors are just Rule of Funny but a few are removed for the DVDs. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: An early joke in the series is Itoshiki deciding to watch a baseball game, only to get distracted by a bald player wearing a team cap when his team logo resembles the character for hair. | |
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Anime Accent Absence | |
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Anime Accent Absence: Averted in the fake 'Story So Far' segment of Zan's 11th episode: the American official and Bob the left-wing academic have absolutely terrible American accents. Then again, these segments are always read purposefully ridiculously, in one case the narration was entirely nonsensical jabbering noises. | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back! | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back!: In Episode 5 of the first season the hot springs turn all the girls in the class into normal, well-adjusted people. Itoshiki will have none of this, and feeds them junk food. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Some fanservice scenes can be a little awkward when they're censored by the face of Maeda-kun, Koji Kumeta's assistant, who sometimes is even facepalming disapprovingly. Shame on you. One chapter has Maria accidentally barge into an nude obese man's bathroom, resulting in a two page spread of him covering his chest while panels zoom in on his crudely-drawn junk. Later in the chapter, Kaere gets only a small panel for her obligatory panty shot and then complains why she only got that tiny panel compared to the two-page spread of male nudity from earlier. In one chapter, Kumeta's assistant, who coincidentally does the best art in the entire manga is a real-life bear, does a high kick in a micro-skirt. So does Maria but that's another issue. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
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Cliffhanger: Episode 11 of the first season, where Nozomu gets hit by a train and his students are waiting outside the emergency room. As usual, he got better. He was just barely able to exclaim "Eh?!" during the post-credits Our Lawyers Advised This Trope outro. How the manga ended combined with a nice dose of Gainax Ending: Nozomu runs into a church to avoid being forced into a "posthumous" marriage and sees what looks like Kafuka in a wedding dress. The final words spoken are "Which Kafuka are you?" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Now has its own page. | |
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Bystander Syndrome | |
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Bystander Syndrome: Kanako Ohra has this as her particular quirk. Chapter 182 also touches on this subject, where people tend to turn blind eyes from some problems because they're actually too shy to intervene. It's also the thing that starts Chiri and Harumi's first meeting in their childhood, where Chiri saved Harumi from being taken away by a paedophile because people around her were too apathetic to help. | |
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Magic Skirt | |
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Magic Skirt: Aside from Kaere, there are barely any panty shots of any of the other girls aside from the occasional gag. Maria's skirt in particular has the highest concentration of magic, because it's not just shoes and socks that she doesn't wear... | |
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Legacy Character | |
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Legacy Character: One mini-arc has Nozomu pass on the title of "Zetsubou-sensei" to Aoyama, and the next chapter has him standing in for Nozomu until he finally decides he can't handle it and passes it on to Haga, who then passes it on to another character, etc. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Kafuka, the eternally happy girl. Maria, the somewhat-innocent illegal immigrant. Heck, almost every girl in the show is in her own fantasy world. Special mention however goes for Kanako. She barely seems to notice the frequent carnage around her, never letting her vacant smile slip. | |
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Epileptic Trees | |
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Epileptic Trees: In-universe lampshading: | |
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LampShade | |
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All but two of the "focus" students are female; this is lampshaded in the post-credit ending of Episode 10. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: In Chapter 223 Chiri gets a book that describes what crimes people were to commit based on their laughing faces. When she see's what Kafuka's laugh would lead to, she passes out. We never see what crime it was... | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist: Although in earlier episodes, Chie (see directly below) is shown alerting Nozomu to things like Abiru's alleged domestic abuse at the hands of her father, as well as Kiri's truancy, there's an absence of any kind of social services being involved. And then there's Kafuka's situation... | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_cfdb9e17 | comment |
Cerebus Syndrome: Subverted. The show has gradually glided from a showcase and parody of a suicidal man teaching a dysfunctional school class to becoming a showcase and parody of social ills in modern Japanese society — but don't think for a moment this means it's taking itself the least bit more seriously. If anything, it's taking itself even less seriously. In fact, the tendency of many comedy anime such as this to get inflicted with this on their final episodes is even parodied in Episode 11 of the first season, when Nozomu got ran over by a runaway streetcar, and the episode ends with his students anxiously waiting for his surgery to end. Needless to say, he got better—he just barely managed to exclaim "Eh?!" at the last few seconds of the episode during the Our Lawyers Advised This Trope outro. Played straight in the last ten chapters of the manga. All this time we thought we were reading a goofy comedy about a teacher's rants...but it turns out we were wrong. | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance: Nozomu and Mikoto are practically twins. Majiru looks like a young Nozomu, and even has the same fashion sense. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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On Zoku Episode 3 (prior to the "Mundane Made Awesome" segment, below) Nozomu rants on how grave matters are related in a casual tone, such as Class 2-He repeating another year, Abiru's father telling her that he divorced her mother a month before, Nami being told by her father that he got laid off, the mother of one of Jun's friends telling him that her husband is in jail, Meru's mother introducing her father's mistress to her, and Harumi overhearing her mother tell her neighbor that she was an unexpected child., | |
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The Foreign Subtitle | |
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The Foreign Subtitle: The English translation is subtitled The Power of Negative Thinking, in a parody of motivational speaker Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking. | |
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Yamato Nadeshiko | |
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Kaere is always billed as having multiple personalities, but after her introductory episode, her Yamato Nadeshiko personality Kaede is rarely seen. | |
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World Half Empty | |
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Frivolous Lawsuit | |
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Frivolous Lawsuit: Threatened by Kaere all the time. The manga volumes even feature the actual lawsuit documents. | |
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Girls with Moustaches | |
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Girls with Moustaches: In one chapter a bunch of otaku reject normal women for having "subtle facial hair" (also a case of Minor Flaw, Major Breakup). | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Mayo gets away with the most appalling behavior even when caught red-handed, because everyone assumes that no one could possibly get caught doing those sorts of things. | |
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Psychotic Smirk | |
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Psychotic Smirk | |
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Alternate Character Reading | |
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The Itoshiki Family members' cry against writing out the Alternate Character Reading of their names. | |
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Offscreen Inertia | |
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Offscreen Inertia: In-universe example in an episode dealing with hyping things. Matoi and Kiri are unwillingly paraded around to shouts of "Stalker! Stalker!" and "Hikikomori! Hikikomori!", respectively. The scene later shifts to what appears to be several hours later, and they are still being paraded around, and Kafuka announces that the show's over, so there's no indication of when the people actually stopped parading them. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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"Zessei Bijin", season one's ending theme, set to scenes of murder and death, enthuses about a couple's double suicide while playing in a peppy jazz number. | |
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Contrived Coincidence: When Kafuka and Chiri go to visit Nozomu's family home, they discover that all the other students ended up at the same place for completely separate individual reasons (Maria climbing onto a fruit truck, Meru boarding a train trying to get a cell phone signal, Abiru chasing an animal tail sticking out of a van). A number of episodes/chapters also start with one of Nozomu's students (usually Nami) saying or doing something at home while Nozomu just happens to be by their window, causing him to launch into one of his rants. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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A major case of Ship Tease occurs with Kiri, who lives with Nozomu in school and serves as caretaker for both him and his nephew Majiru. At one point she seems fine with sharing him with Matoi. At least when Nozomu is around, when he isn't looking, apperently both of them have fought sometimes offscreen | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Nozomu crossed this horizon way before the series even started and is a frequent flier. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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In one Goku episode, at least 5 minutes of the show is dedicated to Harumi drawing a yaoi doujin. At one point she takes of her shirt and, after a gratuitous shot of her chest, spends the rest of her time wearing nothing but spats and a bra. | |
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The Perfectionist | |
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The Perfectionist: For Chiri, everything has to be done "properly". Even things that are not right, if you don't do them the right way.... let's just say things don't get pretty. | |
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Red and Black and Evil All Over | |
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Red and Black and Evil All Over: Used in a parody of James Bond to mark the villain. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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There are quite a few special edition centerfolds featuring Nozomu and his male students, particularly Jun, in suggestive possesses. | |
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Art Evolution | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: Spoofed in Goku. It's also lampshaded in the manga. Being the first two characters introduced, this was likely to happen with Kafuka and Nozomu. Kafuka's hairline was much further back, her feet were slightly smaller, her legs were somewhat wider, and she didn't have her freckles. Nozomu's face wasn't as sharp or angular, and he was actually taller. That, or Kafuka grew slightly (aside from the 10 year old immigrant and girl who hasn't hit her growth spurt, or the agoraphobe who doesn't leave the house, she's the shortest in the entire class). Chiri's 50/50 split was also wider. The art evolved again. The characters were given more angular mouths, and, while they were very downplayed Noodle People, they became slightly more realistic, reverting back to the old art style. The only thing that consistently changed was how the faces became less and less realistic, until everyone had the same face. Excluding Kafuka, by virtue of being the female lead, Chiri, also by virtue of appearing often, and Matoi. The only noticeable difference is in the eye shape. | |
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Gonk | |
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Gonk: One girl from the class, as well as numerous one-shot characters, have a flat nose, rectangle mouth and small, beady eyes. | |
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Yaoi | |
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In-series, there's Harumi and her yaoi. | |
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A-Cup Angst | |
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A-Cup Angst: Meru and Chiri exhibit this in very different ways. 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). | |
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Battle Aura | |
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Battle Aura: Chiri exhibits one a la Dragon Ball Z in Episode 2 of the first season, because cutting cake is Serious Business. | |
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Berserk Board Barricade | |
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Berserk Board Barricade: Subverted, as Kafuka and Nozomu build one to lock in Kiri. Nozomu seemed to be doing it as Reverse Psychology. Kafuka's just crazy. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Despair Speech: A poster boy. "I'm in despair!" | |
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Forgettable Character | |
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Forgettable Character: Kagero Usui is technically the Class Representative, but has a property to slip away from other characters' memories because his only distinctive feature is his Prematurely Bald head—which he tries to hide most of the time. | |
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Kabuki Sounds | |
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The punctuation in Chiri's dialogue shows up on-screen in the lower right corner, accompanied by Kabuki Sounds. | |
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I Never Got Any Letters | |
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I Never Got Any Letters | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor: In the chapter about commercialism, Nozomu goes on and on about how you get sports stadiums and crap named after you if you have the money. He says he wonders if Mt. Fuji is going to end up renamed to "Mt. Shonen Magazine". | |
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All Just a Dream | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: Zoku's sixth episode explicitly states the second of the Three Shorts is Nozomu's dream, then goes into the nature of dreams themselves while slipping into a Bizarro Universe: Kafuka is in despair, Meru has become a Motor Mouth, Usui became more noticeable, Chiri became a slob, etc. And as soon as they all realize that, they figure that they'll all die if the dream ends and so try to kill Nozumu in order to keep it going, and themselves alive. Interestingly, they start demanding an ending to the dream only a few minutes later. | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_eb0df85e | comment |
Ham-to-Ham Combat: The live concert with Ootsuki Kenji and the Despair Girls turns into this, especially during Ringo, Mogire, Beam! | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_eb5b71fe | comment |
Normally Nozomu would already have a love interest (or perhaps a harem) were it not for his students' — especially Chiri's — Clingy Jealous Girl antics (at least the others are willing to settle on Marry Them All). So far the only time Chiri agreed to such a solution was in Zan, where he was literally divided per piece. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: It's not really last minute, but the premiere episode of Zan features this as Chiri leads the other main heroines in freeing Nozomu. | |
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Snap Back | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_ec8290b6 | comment |
Snap Back: One episode ends on a cliffhanger when Itoshiki gets so fed up he storms off downtown only to get ran over by a runaway streetcar. The episode ends with the entire class anxiously waiting for him in the hospital, and the "in operation" light finally turning off. The only indication the above actually happened is the fact that Chie is acting as substitute teacher in the next episode and Itoshiki has to storm into the classroom and resume his rantings. It's entirely possible that this was related to the first half of that episode, where a brief mention was made of "being completely disconnected from the source material". | |
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Zashiki-warashi | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_ee747f5 | comment |
In the last half of first season's Episode 1, Kafuka claims Kiri is a Zashiki-warashi, a playful demon/spirit that also protects its home from decline and ruin as long as it's there. In Zan, she leaves the school. It crumbles to dust. Just like she said it would. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_eef90616 | comment |
Chiri then announces that she's given her sister illegal vitamin injections in a grandiose manner — because, apparently, doping one's sister isn't a big deal to her. The battery acid, however, was a different story... | |
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World Gone Mad | |
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World Gone Mad | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Mayo appears in background scenes prior to being introduced. | |
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Last Episode, New Character | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_f09b6509 | comment |
Last Episode, New Character: Two, as of Season 1 — Ai, who claims she didn't show up earlier because her presence could be a detriment to both her class and the show's ratings, and Mayo. Both made cameos in Episodes 1 and 11. Kitsu Tane, Chiri's sister and a minor character, has her first anime appearance in the concluding OVA. A screen caption expresses regret for not introducing her sooner. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_f10d3363 | comment |
Distracted by the Sexy: There is a segment on this (or rather, getting distracted in general, and forgetting the point of what you're watching) that involves an invading alien leader getting completely sidetracked from his invasion by gratuitous fanservice... which the viewer is also shown, and which generally does succeed in distracting the viewer from the actual plot until the next obvious reminder. Other non-sexy distractions include showing the credits onscreen at moderately high speed without stopping the action or dialogue in any way. It works, too. | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_f2877d9e | comment |
Incredibly Lame Pun: Chiri makes one. Subverted, as Nozomu and Maria find it extremely hilarious, much to Chiri's annoyance. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_f288cf3 | comment |
Innocent Innuendo: This exchange after "Commodore Perry" shows up and pulls apart Kiri's bangs: | |
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Joshikousei | |
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Joshikousei | |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Parody | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_f7140ff8 | comment |
Charlie and the Chocolate Parody: One manga chapter has Rin opening a chocolate factory catering to nerdy guys without girlfriends. She explains that it is a "cherry and chocolate factory". This is also a pun, because there's only one character dissonance between "Charlie" and "Cherry" in Japanese. | |
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The Shadow Knows | |
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The Shadow Knows: In one episode, Chiri dresses as a "ditzy nurse". As she smiles, her shadow also smiles, and has a Psychotic Smirk. | |
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Running Gag | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
The final episode of the first season features Nozomu hanging himself (again) while "Happy Birthday to You!" plays in the background. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_fabef10f | comment |
The reason, of course, is that Chiri is reenacting Asuka's final fight from End of Evangelion. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: An entire episode is devoted to this trope, going so far as to have characters distracted by minor things while an alien invasion occurs, right down to Itoshiki looking up at a Humongous Mecha attacking the city...and ultimately wondering why it has "FART" written on its chest in big glowing kanji. | |
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Cyberbullying | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_fc1d7df0 | comment |
Cyberbullying: Meru is normally a quiet girl. Give her a cell phone and she will heap piles of verbal abuse at you. | |
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Cherry Blossoms | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_fca96b8e | comment |
Cherry Blossoms: Featured in the first episodes of all four seasons. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: In the last half of first season's Episode 1, Kafuka claims Kiri is a Zashiki-warashi, a playful demon/spirit that also protects its home from decline and ruin as long as it's there. In Zan, she leaves the school. It crumbles to dust. Just like she said it would. One episode/chapter even depicts the "seven-year punchline", when a woman burst out of a wall that she had been trapped behind. This was the punchline of a joke from Katteni Kaizo. And it's been seven years since that chapter of Kaizo was first published. Pulled off spectacularly near the end of the manga. Note that SZS started in 2005 and ended in 2012, making the chapter about "seven-year punchlines" into glorious foreshadowing. | |
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Talking Is a Free Action | |
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8 | comment |
Talking Is a Free Action: Parodied in the Magical Girl spoof, "Model Warrior Lily Cure". When Masked Despair starts monologuing, Kafuka just blows him away before he can even say, "Let me finish!" | |
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