Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei

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Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei

Postby paizuri » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:24 pm

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Postby 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! :lol: :shock:

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! :lol: :lol:

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! 8-)
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Postby 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.
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Postby Shinodude » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:00 pm

I saw the first episode and it was pretty entertaining
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Postby angelx03 » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:11 pm

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

[spoiler]- So the teacher and Kafuka were able to get a hikikomori named Kiri Komori out of her room and make her go back to school. This unfortunately led to Kiri to reside in various parts of the school!

- Later the two of them dealt with Matoi Tsunetsuki who's extremely obsessive to her ex-boyfriend to a point that she stalks him. Stuff happens (including the teacher's comment that if you really love the person, you should commit suicide together :lol:), and Matoi ended up having the hots for the teacher and stalks him (plus a string of other stalkers).

- There's also a scene of Kitsu going a bit nuts over trying to cut a strawberry-topped cake evenly among a bunch of people that keeps on coming. :lol:[/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? :roll:

On the blackboard side, I found this amusing!

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Postby 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
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Postby 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...
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Postby 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)! :o
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Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:38 am

*sigh* dammnit....yet another one added to my list :)
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Postby angelx03 » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:50 am

Bwahaha episode 3! :lol:

[spoiler]Only in this series would you find a cute girl named Maria who's been stashing illegal immigrants in her home, and she still manage to be a charity case to all of her classmates! And not to mention the foreign exchange student Kaere Kimura has a split personality between her Japanese counterpart, and other foreign parts (and not to mention being ridiculously blonde and she wears strawberry panties). For some reason she reminds me of that blonde singer from the Idolmaster game.[/spoiler]

This series is so wrong.....in a good way. 8-)
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Postby chosef » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:38 am

After seeing the OP for episode 4 I can't say that all anime OPs suck and I skip them all the time 8-)

I feel as though this series becomes more and more wrong and wicked with every episode. I hope it will stay that way :D
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Postby Jnzk » Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:43 am

The last half of episode 4 was great. I love that "mail mail" sound! :lol:
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Postby angelx03 » Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:20 am

God, episode 4 has so much fu**ing win! In addition it has probably the most disturbing yet awesome OP sequence ever (which by the way it finally got animated). I mean I can't think of any regular anime opening that has all of the following:

- yuri
- bondage
- detailed look of pregnancy?! :shock:

[spoiler]This episode introduced the bandaged girl Abiru Kobushi whom other people thought she always gets abused at home. This lead the teacher to accidentally spread rumors across the shopping district for the shop owners to beware of the father that may be abusing his daughter. Of course the reason Abiru wears bandages is because she has a bad habit of pulling animal tails which led the animals to attack and injure her!

It also introduced Meru Otonashi who's your token quiet, nice girl whom the teacher took quite a liking to. Until he found out she's absolutely obsessive on sending text from her cell phone. In addition her text mostly slams and insults all the people in her class.

- The Final Fantasy-esque battle that appeared once were amusing. Though that weird exercise workout video was just creepy! :x[/spoiler]

Never before a school slice-of-life series has this number of completely messed up girls. I love this! 8-)
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Postby Lyrs » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:12 pm

hahaha, this anime is crazy. i love how this compliments Lucky Star.
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Postby angelx03 » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:43 pm

Episode 5 introduced no new characters (I guess the introductions are done). Though I found the overall theme of this episode fascinating. [spoiler]The first half dealt with the teacher making a stern point that the students should maintain their status quo and not go over it. Kitsu got really into it especially! :lol:

Second half is an ONSEN episode (wow, already?! :o )

You know how hot springs tend to clean spirit within as well as the outside (I think they referred to it as detox)? Well the girls were in the hot springs, and behold they felt much happier and forgot their one-note personalities (and it's been revealed that tail-grabbing girl Abiru actually has different colored eyes). This freaked out the teacher, and then he forced his students to eat a bunch of greasy and fried foods. Their original personalities came back.

On another note, Kiri's single bath with that female teacher (damn, what was her name again?) was pretty hot! And there's Kafuka's Unlucky Channel! :lol:[/spoiler]
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