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Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (TV)

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[ adapted from Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Zoku Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (TV) (sequel)
      Goku Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (OAV) (sequel)
        Zan Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
So long, Mr. Despair
Прощай, унылый учитель (Russian)
さよなら絶望先生 (Japanese)
안녕 절망선생 (Korean)
Themes: harem, parody, school, suicide
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Itoshiki Nozomu is the world's most negative person. To his way of thinking, there is no hope or meaning in this existence. Even the three kanji of his name become the two-kanji word zetsubou, "despair", when compressed. What an ironic twist of fate, then, that he becomes teacher to a class containing his precise opposite, the invincibly positive-minded Fuura Kafuka.
User Ratings: 1268 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 262 votes (sub:238, dub:6, raw:5, Spa.sub:5, Por.sub:3, Kor.sub:2, Rus.sub:2, ?:1)
 Excellent: 396 votes (sub:374, Spa.sub:10, dub:6, raw:2, Rus.dub:1, Pol.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, ?:1)
 Very good: 333 votes (sub:318, dub:5, Spa.sub:3, Por.sub:2, raw:2, Rus.sub:1, ?:1, Kor.sub:1)
 Good: 180 votes (sub:170, dub:5, Spa.sub:2, Pol.sub:1, raw:1, Rus.edit.dub:1)
 Decent: 45 votes (sub:45)
 So-so: 24 votes (sub:23, ?:1)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:12, raw:1)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:7, raw:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 2154 users, rank: #267
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.345 (Very good+.34), std. dev.: 1.4349, rank: #188
Weighted mean: 8.234 (Very good+.23), rank: #201 (seen all: 8.35 / seen some: 7.81 / won't finish: 4.84)
Bayesian estimate: 8.228 (Very good+.22), rank: #132
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2007-07-07 to 2007-09-22
Opening Theme:
#1: "Hito toshite Jiku ga Bureteiru (人として軸がぶれている)" by Kenji Ohtsuki feat. Ai Nonaka, Marina Inoue, Yu Kobayashi, Miyuki Sawashiro & Ryoko Shintani (eps 1-9)
#2: "Goin ni Mai Yeah~ (強引niマイYeah~)" by Ai Nonaka, Marina Inoue, Yu Kobayashi & Ryoko Shintani (eps 10-11)
Ending Theme:
"Zessei Bijin (絶世美人)" by Ai Nonaka, Marina Inoue, Yu Kobayashi & Ryoko Shintani
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Akiyuki Shinbo

Series Composition: Kenichi Kanemaki

Music: Tomoki Hasegawa

Original creator: Kôji Kumeta

Character Design: Hideyuki Morioka

Art director: Hiroshi Kato

Chief Animation Director:
Hiroki Yamamura
Yoshiaki Ito

Animation director: Kosuke Murayama

Sound director: Toshiki Kameyama

Director of Photography: Rei Egami

Producer: Atsushi Moriyama

2nd Key Animation:
Kazuki Nakamoto
Masana Yamamura
Ryo Imamura
Shusuke Morita

Animation producer: Mitsutoshi Kubota

Color design: Izumi Takizawa

Color director: Jin Hibino

Editing: Kazuhiko Seki

Editing Assistance: Naoki Watanabe

In-Between Animation: Chie Sekiguchi

Key Animation:
Haruka Suzuki
Hiroyuki Yoshida
Miho Ayabe
Miyako Nishida
Shigeki Sunada
Soji Ninomiya

Photography: Shinichiro Eto

Theme Song Arrangement:
NARASAKI (OP1)
Ruka Kawada (OP2)
Yukari Hashimoto (ED)

Theme Song Composition:
NARASAKI (OP1)
Ruka Kawada (OP2)
Yukari Hashimoto (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Chokkyu Murano (OP2)
Kenji Ohtsuki (OP1)

Theme Song Performance:
Ai Nonaka (OP/ED)
Kenji Ohtsuki (OP)
Marina Inoue (OP/ED)
Miyuki Sawashiro (OP)
Ryoko Shintani (OP/ED)
Yu Kobayashi (OP/ED)

 

Hiroshi Kamiya as Nozomu Itoshiki

Ai Nonaka as Kafuka Fūra

Asami Sanada as Matoi Tsunetsuki

Asuka Tanii as Kiri Komori

Marina Inoue as Chiri Kitsu

Miyu Matsuki as Harumi Fujiyoshi

Miyuki Sawashiro as Maria Tarō Sekiutsu

Ryoko Shintani as Nami Hitō

Yu Kobayashi as Kaere Kimura

Yuko Goto as Abiru Kobushi

Akiko Yajima as
Chie Arai
Majiru Itoshiki (eps 9, 11)
Rin Itoshiki

Asuka Tanii as Mayo Mitama (ep 12)

Hiroshi Kamiya as Mikoto Itoshiki (ep 6)

Keiichirou Endou as Otaku C (ep 7)

MAEDAX as
Cleaner (ep 2)
Maeda-kun

Saori Goto as Ai Kaga (ep 12)

Takahiro Mizushima as
Coach (ep 8)
Delivery man (ep 6)
Director C (ep 11)
Doctor (ep 9)
Jun Kudō
Male student A (ep 5)
Otaku B (ep 7)

Youji Ueda as
Director A (ep 11)
Kagerō Usui
Otaku A (ep 7)
Tokita (ep 6)

Yuuichi Nakamura as
Abiru's father (ep 4)
Director B (ep 11)
Employee (ep 6)
Policeman (ep 8)
White haired person (ep 9)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: SHAFT

Backgrounds: Totonyan

Broadcaster:
Chiba TV (2007-07-08)
KBS Kyoto (2007-07-11)
KIDS STATION (2007-07-25)
Sun TV (2007-07-09)
Tokyo MX TV (2007-07-09)
TV Aichi (2007-07-09)
TV Kanagawa (2007-07-07)
TV Saitama (2007-07-08)

Clean-Up Animation:
DEXS
Hayashi

Editing: Seki Editing Studio

In-Between Animation:
DEXS
Hayashi

Photography: DIGITAL@SHAFT

Production: Starchild Records

Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion

 
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