Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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Synonyms: Farewell Mr. Despair
Japanese: さよなら絶望先生
English: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 30
Chapters: 302
Status: Finished
Published: Apr 27, 2005 to Jun 13, 2012
Genres: Award Winning Award Winning, Comedy Comedy
Themes: Gag Humor Gag Humor, Parody Parody, School School
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)
Authors: Kumeta, Kouji (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.151 (scored by 81408,140 users)
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Ranked: #4912
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #576
Members: 31,264
Favorites: 1,368

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High school teacher Nozomu Itoshiki has been waiting for a chance to end his life. He has grown averse to the very idea of toiling every day to make an ordinary living, and he makes no attempt to conceal his crushing despair. Sadly, he is almost always dragged into the bizarre—and sometimes outright suspicious—problems of his quirky students. Every time he gets a little closer to kicking the bucket, he finds himself in an absurd situation, trying to save his students from the same rabbit hole of misery that haunts him.

Despite his ever-present existential crisis, Itoshiki attempts to find a new normal in the silliness of his daily adventures—all the while chasing the sweet demise that eludes him.

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Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei had eight volumes published in English as Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei by Del Rey from February 24, 2009 to November 23, 2010. Kodansha Comics USA picked up the license, releasing volumes 9-14 from June 21, 2011 to April 3, 2012 and republishing the previous volumes digitally on July 16, 2013.
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Itoshiki, Nozomu
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May 28, 2024
Hiiranokakera
Recommended
Modern society has many holes, and SZS jumps right into that hole with details. Our MC, which is Itoshiki Nozumu, explores those holes with heavy, sometimes dark jokes. It is very common not to understand those jokes if you are not from Japan, as most of them are references to Japanese society, though they may also apply globally.

For the most part, the plot is conveyed in episodic format. Yup, "for the most part".
There's a teacher and a few students who explore the world with their own distinctive viewpoints.

The Surreality of this manga is amazing. One more thing is that this manga is loaded with ...
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Jan 28, 2024
clabsauce
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Zetsubou-sensei fucking rules and if you disagree it is probably because you are intellectually maldeveloped. Koji Kumeta is the most powerful disgruntled middle aged man in existence and it shows in every frame of this. Because the humor actually references things like sports, politics, and contemporary events, average w**aboos will not be able to appreciate most of the jokes, but this only serves to reinforce that SZS is a thinking man's manga. The way the jokes build upon themselves and upon the central idea of each episode really tickles the brain. The art is idiosyncratic and beautiful. If you like Zetsubou-sensei, then I like you.
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Jun 9, 2020
VV420
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The easiest way to convey what mind state you should read this manga in is that it is like South Park but for Japan. Every chapter has a new dysfunction of society or psychological disorder that is poked fun at and trivialized in a way that makes people afflicted with these dysfunctions laugh at themselves, a much needed remedy. The first chapter opens up with suicide being the main joke, a huge problem in Japanese society being suicide rates. This joke often comes back to in the form of the main character falling into despair over various aforementioned social or personal dysfunctions.

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