Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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 78207,820 users)
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Ranked: #5092
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #572
Members: 30,594
Favorites: 1,362

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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
Itoshiki, Nozomu
Main
Fuura, Kafuka
Fuura, Kafuka
Main
Kitsu, Chiri
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Supporting
Komori, Kiri
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Tsunetsuki, Matoi
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Sekiutsu, Tarou
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Hitou, Nami
Hitou, Nami
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Otonashi, Meru
Otonashi, Meru
Supporting
Fujiyoshi, Harumi
Fujiyoshi, Harumi
Supporting
Kobushi, Abiru
Kobushi, Abiru
Supporting

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Jan 28, 2014
100gates
Recommended
Quite possibly my favorite manga series, SZS is a masterpiece of satire, social commentary, and fiendishly twisted romance.

The artwork is done in Kumeta's gorgeous abstract style. Solid darks and whites in flat planes and intricate geometric patterns. Kumeta demonstrates a genius for character design, taking the concept of the silhouette to its most extreme by actually portraying his characters as silhouettes when it suits him. This plays into the fact that they are all references and satires to various manga character tropes, effectively shadows cast by other characters that came before them, yet visually distinct and instantly recognizable, boiled down to a simple geometric ...
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Jul 9, 2015
Toksic
Recommended
Please bear with my english.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is Not a Masterpiece. It's Not even great actually. Basically this manga is not for everyone. It's main genre is comedy and yet it's hard to understand that comedy. This manga's comedy is mostly about present japan i.e you have to know more about the japanese culture and about the famous people living in it. And people like me who knows almost nothing about japan had hard time understanding the comedy in the chapters. There are some chapters where comedy are only focused on the japanese cultures that I even skipped chapters. Yes, I even skipped the chapters. ...
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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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