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Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei.

I like the girls in his class but th teacher I don't. He's cheapening suicide by seemingly resorting to it at little to no provocation. Suicide is not funny and should not be made light of. Nothing wrong with him being very cynical or depressive but the excessive usage of suicide gags really annoys me.

Have you ever seen a person seriously injure themselves? Say with tools while on a building site or in a factory or a workshop? What about a car crash, do you find those kinds of injuries funny? How about if the person intentionally lunged out in front of the oncoming car, of hacked through their wrists with that buzz-saw?

So you're telling me that hanging yourself in front of class of students is funny?

Have you ever seen a person seriously injure themselves? Say with tools while on a building site or in a factory or a workshop? What about a car crash, do you find those kinds of injuries funny? How about if the person intentionally lunged out in front of the oncoming car, of hacked through their wrists with that buzz-saw?

I suppose you may not get how serious it really is, I have been clinically depressed (as in a recognised medical depression not just extreme cynicism kind of thing) and I have indeed thought about suicide (though I can't say I ever reached a point where it felt like a good idea...too much effort). No suicide is not funny.

Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei

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 though 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. 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!

So you're telling me that hanging yourself in front of class of students is funny?

Have you ever seen a person seriously injure themselves? Say with tools while on a building site or in a factory or a workshop? What about a car crash, do you find those kinds of injuries funny? How about if the person intentionally lunged out in front of the oncoming car, of hacked through their wrists with that buzz-saw?

I suppose you may not get how serious it really is, I have been clinically depressed (as in a recognised medical depression not just extreme cynicism kind of thing) and I have indeed thought about suicide (though I can't say I ever reached a point where it felt like a good idea...too much effort). No suicide is not funny.

I suppose you may not get how serious it really is, I have been clinically depressed (as in a recognised medical depression not just extreme cynicism kind of thing) and I have indeed thought about suicide (though I can't say I ever reached a point where it felt like a good idea...too much effort). No suicide is not funny.

Let us remember that Japan is the country with the highest suicide rate. They can't compete with al-Qaeda. Saying that, I don't find the suicicde gags funny at all.

But I'm still watching the show.

Some things it needs to do: Stop showing that bald-headed guy. And that ugly-looking guy who could also be part of the staff behind this show.

Also, show some more of Jun Kudo (one of the few guys in the show).

My hope is that this show doen't turn into some mostly-women-filled moe series like Paniponi Dash and Negima!?. (We needs some more interaction between men and women in anime.) Besides, Shaft has this problem of going deep into left field instead of telling us an actual story. Their "character-based" story-telling techniques leave too much to be desired.

I think you're watching the wrong show then. It's like saying that Gundam would be great if it didn't have those ridiculous large robots in it.