Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei deserves a proper review. All these guys below me didn't do a proper job. because you can't rate Zetsubuou-Sensei as a normal anime.
If you do, you give it a 6 or maybe a 7. It has no story at all, only introductions and the episodes always have one theme they go about.
There is no fights, no love story, no ecchi and the lolli they could have done isn't touched at all.
All the 7 remaining points might be given for the animations, because they are art in it's finest way. All with that japanese sense for calmness and perfection and so many drawing styles. It has infinite.
But Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei has one thing above them all.
"Vegeta, what does the scouter say about this shows humour rating?"
"It's over NINETHOOOOOOOOUSAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!"
Sayonara makes fun of society and the people living in.
Imagine a classroom with a suicidal teacher so pissed by every inch of humanity that he tries suicide 90% of the time.
But the pupils in the class are all girls, and all stereotypes. There is one girl so normal and so happy it hurts. There is a girl showing her panties all the time while sueing everybody who looks and many many more. Together they explore japanese culture and modern life, while trying to keep their teacher from dying.
The show is firework of gags, running and one-timers.
It is a finger into societys face screaming:
"Look how stupid and ignorant you are!"
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is a boldheaded old man with sunglasses turning his head where a normal show would have his censorship.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is the anime I would take on a lonely island with me.
And in my 15 years of otakubeing I have never ever seen a subtitle translation so perfected. They translated each joke and every written thing and explained a lot of the japanese language gags to the western reader.
There are more seasons of SZS and they get crazier with each one.
Give your best and see how far you can climb on this ladder of insanity!
