Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei

paizuri · Post by **paizuri** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:24 pm

This is the official Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei discussion thread.

Official website (japanese, has Flash)

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:55 pm

This is a new anime series directed by Akiyuki Shinbo with animation done by SHAFT. And you can figure out that this is comedy series. But unlike his previous comedy works like Pani Poni Dash and Negima!?, this is more of a dark comedy tale of a teacher, Nozomu Itoshiki, who's ridiculously depressed and despises the world. The first episode started out with him trying to hang himself until a cute girl named Kafuka Fuura stopped him. She's a total contrast him in which she's blooming with lots of hope. Of course she can be a little dense considering she thought the teacher was trying to get taller. Hell, she mentioned that's what her parents tried to do!

There are a few recognizable gags here and there like the "changing blackboards" thing, but the way they censored the fanservice is so damn FUNNY; they basically covered the "tasty" moments with some picture of bald guy who's expression changes depending of what's covering!

The color pallet goes for the old film style (like something out of the early 1900s), but it doesn't skimp on the darker moments. You can say it looks like something out of CLAMP's xxxHolic. The OP sequence is basically a running old film strip with flashing credits while the ED sequence is just flat out creepy! It's safe to say the style seems to border on what Shinbo used to do in his darker works like the Soultaker but a bit more subdued.

Luckily this series will only last 12 episodes so hopefully this won't get skimped half way through (he's seems to drop the ball in the 24/26 episode series). Really cool stuff!

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:13 pm

I'll have to look into Soul Taker, but this show is great. I like the animation style too, though the quality could have been better, unless that was just the fansubbers fault. I would have preferred a different/no censor for those scenes, but it works I guess.

Shinodude · Post by **Shinodude** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:00 pm

I saw the first episode and it was pretty entertaining

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:11 pm

Oh wow, Episode 2 was just......wow!

Spoiler :

Man, that Kafuka has some weird way in looking at the "positive" outlook of these characters to a point that she doesn't believe them to exist except in news stories and such. I thought the way she interpreted Matoi as her way of showing her "intense love" was hilarious. Why am I getting a feeling Kafuka has some really dark secret that's she keeps on repressing?

On the blackboard side, I found this amusing!

aragami_frog · Post by **aragami_frog** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:13 pm

It's VERY hard to watch this series cause I kept having the pause the first episode so I could read what was written on the chaulk boards LOL

spacekase · Post by **spacekase** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:42 am

I'll give it one more ep, but this show is proving a bit too Japanese (puns, references, etc.) for me...

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:24 am

But c'mon! You get go wrong with an anime series that makes fun of suicidal people, stalkers, and hikikomoris (though Kiri might turn out to be the creepiest yet cutest one yet)!

ZephyrStar · Post by **ZephyrStar** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:38 am

*sigh* dammnit....yet another one added to my list

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:50 am

Bwahaha episode 3!

Spoiler :

This series is so wrong.....in a good way.