Comments on: Looking back at 2007: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:01:58 +0000

This anime is super hillarious especially when Kafuka suggested to call Nozomu as Pink Chief. Nozomu at first resented it as it resembles name in lewd show. I saw the anime in Veoh.
Thank you Metrolollcon Exchange for blogging about this anime which otherwise would not be known.
Nozomu suicide tendencies seems to be triggered by every little event in life and his prone to hopelessness. He have been bugging the student counsellor every now and then.
I sense that Kafuka optimisme is something to alleviate her despair over her parent suicidal tendencies whenever anything goes wrong in their lives. She have a way to describe all the negative into positive.
Hope you will keep blogging for many more interesting anime to come.

By: DKellis

DKellis — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:22:50 +0000

Oh, yes, I admit that it probably satirizes the moe harem genre among other things. But it’s kind of an affectionate parody, much like the satirization of the angst-filled sort of shows.

What really gets skewered, at least as much as they dared to show on TV anime, is all the references to Japanese current affairs. I was surprised that they actually managed to get it to air at all, even though they mostly poke fun only in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it manner. It’s a bit Monty Python-esque, except, yanno, Japanese instead of British.

By: Igunis

Igunis — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:36:27 +0000

I am not anime cultured enough to understand the parodies…the chalkboard…it haunts me…

By: ohphive

ohphive — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:30:23 +0000

The OP is awesome enough, but I actually really love the music of the ED.

Can’t wait for Zetsubou Sensei’s comeback =)

By: faye

faye — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:05:21 +0000

Everytime I watch SZS I have to keep a finger on the space bar to pause when some parody comes out. But a lot of times I miss coz it’s just too damn fast.

By: Calawain

Calawain — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:39:59 +0000

I think it’s a satire on a lot of things. The over dramatizing of everything by saying it puts him in despair can fit anything from school harem drama #235 to Gundam. But yeah, I would agree that this does effectively parody the moe harem genre, because these characters are just so fucked up, but in a great way. Plus I love the play on all of their names, stuff like that is what I go around and research/figure out for fun. I love random references and puns like that.

Nozomu is just a great lead, he despairs over just about anything, like most harem leads do. But obviously he does it in a funny way. Epic show overall with both a truly epic OP and ED.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:59:06 +0000

I don’t think it’s only a satire of harems or of angst. It’s simply a show filled to the brim with witty dark humor, and I like the show for that. It’s not redemptive, it’s very ephemeral, but who cares? It is funny, anyway.

By: DKellis

DKellis — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:34:09 +0000

I like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei for the zetsuboushita~ lament, which I use liberally to mock all the angsty-heavy stories out there, where Everyone Dies just because This Is Art.

I find it interesting to see how some of the reviews out there call it a satire of the moe harem genre (due to the presence of all the girls), while I see it more as a satire of wangst. Don’t always look on the dark side of life, people, or you’ll end up like Zetsubou-sensei.