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Sayonara, Zetsubou-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)
          Zan Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei Bangai-chi (OAV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (Japanese) 
So long, Mr. Despair 
Прощай, унылый учитель (Russian) 
さよなら絶望先生 (Japanese) 
안녕 절망선생 (Korean) 
Themes: dark comedy , harem , parody , satire , school , suicide 
Objectionable content: Significant 
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: 1818 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 339 votes (sub:307, raw:7, dub:7, ?:1, others:17
5 Russian subtitled
5 Spanish subtitled
4 Portuguese subtitled
2 Korean subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 552 votes (sub:515, dub:10, raw:5, ?:1, others:21
15 Spanish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Very good: 481 votes (sub:455, dub:8, ?:2, raw:2, others:14
8 Spanish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
)
 Good: 273 votes (sub:253, dub:9, raw:1, others:10
3 French subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 Russian dubbed
1 Korean subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 82 votes (sub:77, dub:2, others:3
1 Polish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 So-so: 45 votes (sub:42, dub:1, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 22 votes (sub:20, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Weak: 14 votes (sub:13, raw:1)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:3, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
Seen in part or in whole by 3242 users, rank: #261 (of 5565)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.236 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.4856, rank: #289 (of 5555)
Weighted mean: 8.127 (Very good), rank: #308 (of 5555) (seen all: 8.24 / seen some: 7.78 / won't finish: 4.60)
Bayesian estimate: 8.123 (Very good), rank: #200 (of 4230)
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 
Official website:
StarChild:さよなら絶望先生 (Japanese) 
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DVD (Region 1)
    Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Sub.DVD 1) 2010-05-25

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  (eps 1, 3, 6, 8) 
Shusuke Morita 
Animation producer: Mitsutoshi Kubota 
Color design: Izumi Takizawa 
Color Director: Jin Hibino 
Editing: Kazuhiko Seki 
Editing Assistant: Naoki Watanabe 
Extra Animation: Ryo Imamura (eps 4, 6, 8) 
Eyecatch: Ryo Imamura (ep 7) 
In-Between Animation: Chie Sekiguchi 
Key Animation:
Haruka Suzuki 
Hiroyuki Yoshida 
Masayuki Kouda (ep 4) 
Miho Ayabe 
Miyako Nishida 
Ryo Imamura (ep 12) 
Shigeki Sunada 
Soji Ninomiya 
Music Performance:
Hiroki Satou (Trombone) 
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp) 
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) 
Kotono Mitsuishi as Kotonon 
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) 
Yūichi 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) 
Cable Broadcasting: J:COM 
Clean-Up Animation:
DEXS 
Hayashi 
Editing: Seki Editing Studio 
In-Between Animation:
DEXS 
Hayashi 
Oh production 
Photography: DIGITAL@SHAFT 
Production: Starchild Records 
Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion 
English staff
English companies
(none)
Licensed by: Media Blasters 
English cast
(none)
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