History Manga / SayonaraZetsubouSensei

* ACupAngst: Meru and Chiri exhibit this in very different ways. While Chiri violently tortures people, or throws knives at them from her bra, Meru does what Meru does anyway (run away, cry, and then sexually abusive text messages to the offender).

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BlatantLies Just]] a [[TheEeyore normal]] [[SuicideAsComedy teacher]] and [[CuteAndPsycho his]] [[DysfunctionJunction normal]] [[CloudCuckoolander students.]] ]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Just a normal teacher and his normal students.]]

The manga is out across the pond courtesy of Del Rey (and later Kodansha), so now ''you'' can despair in English! Especially since they [[NoExportForYou stopped publishing any books following volume 14!]] But, now that the anime is being licensed by Creator/NozomiEntertainment alongside a new English dub, you can continue despairing in English! As of May 2022, the first season has been released with English subtitles, with the rest of the seasons and OVAs set to follow.

The manga is out across the pond courtesy of Del Rey (and later Kodansha), so now ''you'' can despair in English! Especially since they [[NoExportForYou stopped publishing any books following volume 14!]] But, now that the anime is being licensed by Creator/NozomiEntertainment alongside a new English dub, you can continue despairing in English! However, the English release was supposed to be out in 2020, but this was delayed further thanks to the scripts being lost, so everything had to be subbed by ear. With that in mind, they have also mentioned that they not just have the [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-05-11/nozomi-ent-to-release-all-of-sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-anime-franchise/.172580 original series, but all of its seasons and the OVAs too.]]

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: In the episode about preconceptions, Itoshiki decides at the end to be more accepting of all peoples. [[RefugeInAudacity Thus, he doesn't turn down sex offers from a gay man]].

** The first ED video of the second season portrays all characters in distinctive {{Shoujo}} - [[BoysLove Shounen Ai]] - bishie-ish style, while the third OP features the characters in PuniPlush MagicalGirl style, complete with massive eyes and an upbeat poppy theme song. And [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]]. ''Lots'' of blue hair.

* {{Bishonen}}:
** The four Itoshiki brothers are all very good looking.
** All of Nozomu's male students are also shown to be pretty good looking. Apart from [[ButtMonkey Usui]], of course.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Completely averted -- all the Japanese characters have black hair and realistic hairstyles, and the Caucasian Kaere has blonde hair, which is still part of the natural hair color spectrum.
** This is, of course, referenced in a MagicalGirl parody segment of ''Zoku''.

** SelfDeprecation: On the other hand, both Creator/KojiKumeta and Creator/StudioShaft are also fond of using Nozomu's rants to make potshots on themselves. Kumeta's assistant, a certain Maeda-kun, frequently shows up in the background (voiced by himself in the anime) demonstrating some annoying tendency Nozomu is currently complaining about, while Kumeta himself appears as an unshaved version of himself (though voiced by Creator/HiroshiKamiya). Also, in each manga volume, bonus materials feature Kumeta's short and very self-deprecatory written pieces in relation to the theme of each chapter. For their part, Creator/StudioShaft made a brief reference to ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s major AdaptationDecay in ''Zan'' Episode 2, and ''Bangaichi'' is essentially a long string of jokes aimed at the studio itself and the show's own fans.

[[quoteright:300:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zetsubou_sayonara_zetsubou_sensei.jpg]]]][[caption-width-right:300:[[CatchPhrase I'm in despair!]] The fact that [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife someone would write a complete page on this series]] has left me in despair!]]

* RetroUniverse: Though set (more or less) in the same time period as when it was written, the series's aesthetic sensibilities evoke pre-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Showa Japan (1924-1945). This is driven home by the use of katakana where nowadays hiragana ought to be, and referring to the year[[note]]Japan uses calendar eras which begin from an Emperor's accession to the day of his death[[/note]] as though Emperor Hirohito (who died in 1989) were still alive and on the throne (e.g. 2011 is Showa 86 -- today this would be called Heisei 23, as in the 23rd year of the reign of the current Emperor, Akihito). [[spoiler:Towards the end of the series, it turns out that this was all deliberately invoked by Nozomu.]]

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Part of the school uniform. Luckily, they are all pretty [[MagicSkirt magic]]. Averted in the chapters that don't take place in the school, where the girls are usually wearing either pants or dresses.

* BreatheOnTheFan: Komori, on explaining what she would do on days of privation.

* WhamEpisode: The second to last chapter reveals that [[spoiler:Kafuka was DeadAllAlong. She was an organ donor so when she died her organs were given to a number of people who had attempted suicide. The organ recipients eventually turned out to be Nozomu and his students, who were all simultaneously possessed by Kafuka's spirit due to the donated organs. What this means is that every time Kafuka was seen, ''she was possessing one of the other girls in the class'', and they all saw her as Kafuka.]]

* HairColors: Completely averted; despite the surreal atmosphere of the show, every single character except Kaede/Kaere (who has foreign ancestry) has black hair. For her part, Kaere has blonde hair, which is still part of the natural hair color spectrum.

** "Koiji Romanesque", ''Zoku'''s first ending theme, {{Art Shift}}s the characters into {{Shoujo}} style and shows them attached to medical drips, or, in the case of Kagero, dressed in nothing but a billowing long coat in front of a [[CreepyCoolCrosses crucifix]].

* MeaningfulName[=/=]PunnyName: '''Every single named character''' has a name that is some sort of pun on his or her personality type, almost to the point of AnthropomorphicPersonification. See [[Characters/SayonaraZetsubouSensei the Character Sheet]], lest this section become a complete duplication.

->''"I'm in despair! [[MadLibsCatchphrase [the subject of today's episode] ]] has left me in despair!"''

[[quoteright:300:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zetsubou_sayonara_zetsubou_sensei.jpg]]]][[caption-width-right:300:[[CatchPhrase I'm in despair!]] The fact that [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife someone would write a complete page on this series]] has left me in despair!]]

->''"I'm in despair! [[MadLibsCatchphrase [the subject of today's episode]]] has left me in despair!"''

->''"I'm in despair! [the subject of today's episode] has left me in despair!"''

The manga is out across the pond courtesy of Del Rey (and later Kodansha), so now ''you'' can despair in English! Especially since they [[NoExportForYou stopped publishing any books following volume 14!]] But, now that the anime is being licensed by Creator/NozomiEntertainment alongside a new English dub, you can continue despairing in English! However, the English release was supposed to be out in 2020, but delays happened in fact that the scripts got lost, so everything had to be subbed by ear. With that in mind, they have also mentioned that they not just have the [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-05-11/nozomi-ent-to-release-all-of-sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-anime-franchise/.172580 original series, but all of its seasons and the OVA's too.]]

Nothing to do with ''Film/GoodbyeMrChips'' (although the title was probably intended as a [[ParodyNames parody]]).

** One chapter has Maria accidentally barge into an nude obese man's bathroom, resulting in a two page spread of him [[CompletelyMissingThePoint covering his chest]] while panels zoom in on his crudely-drawn junk. Later in the chapter, Kaere gets only a small panel for her obligatory panty shot and then complains why she only got that tiny panel compared to the two-page spread of male nudity from earlier.
*** In one chapter, Kumeta's assistant, who [[StylisticSuck coincidentally]] [[SceneryPorn does the best art in the entire manga]] is a real-life bear, does a high kick in a micro-skirt. So does [[GoingCommando Maria]] but that's another issue.

* MarryThemAll: Nozomu and [[spoiler:the 12 main girls]], as implied in the very final chapter but not in the usual sense. [[spoiler:Nozomu only marries ''Kafuka'', but since ''Kafuka'' is all of the girls, he marries the one that currently is the ''Kafuka'' and divorces the previous one he married. Still a harem end in a way, as the girls are living in relative peace together and having Nozomu's children, [[StrongFamilyResemblance all of which are a mirror image of]] [[MindScrew Kafuka]], even in the personality. An outsider observer is understandably freaked out, but her attempt to escape the island meets accident and [[ItMakesSenseInContext ends up as the part of the harem]].]]

The manga is out across the pond courtesy of Del Rey (and later Kodansha), so now ''you'' can despair in English! Especially since they [[NoExportForYou stopped publishing any books following volume 14!]] But, now that the anime is being [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-07-06/right-stuf-nozomi-ent-add-sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-a.d-police-el-hazard-anime/.148682 licensed for a 2020 release]] by Creator/NozomiEntertainment alongside a new English dub, you can continue despairing in English!

The manga originally ran in ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 2005 to 2021. It was adapted into an anime by Creator/StudioShaft in 2007. The anime's second season, ''[[OddlyNamedSequel (Zoku) Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' ([Vulgar][[note]]The kanji used denotes slang or vulgarities in dictionaries, but ''zoku'' with a different kanji means "sequel"[[/note]] Farewell, Mr. Despair) aired in 2008.

What do you get when you take a man who is depressed to the point of melodramatic suicide, and make him the teacher of a psychologically-dysfunctional class full of maniacs, psychos and misfits? No, it's not like your average SliceOfLife show. Instead, what Creator/KojiKumeta's ''Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei'' (roughly "Farewell, Mr. Despair") has become in its dark, disturbed humor and wisecracking background trivia is one of the most amusing WidgetSeries ever witnessed.

The series happily subverts any number of schoolgirl tropes, as well as consisting of many more normal ones. It's also gorgeously animated -- the most jaw-dropping scenes are often beautifully rendered. A second season, ''[[OddlyNamedSequel (Zoku) Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' ([Vulgar][[note]]The kanji used denotes slang or vulgarities in dictionaries, but ''zoku'' with a different kanji means "sequel"[[/note]] Farewell, Mr. Despair) aired shortly after, meaning Nozomu had even more reasons to be in despair.

Following that, a set of three [=OVAs=] titled ''Goku: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei'' (Prison: Farewell, Mr. Despair) was bundled with the limited edition of volumes fifteen and sixteen of the manga, with the second one released independently, and a third season, ''Zan: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei'' (Repent/Remainder: Farewell Mr. Despair), recently finished airing. There's one final two-part OVA, titled ''Zan: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Bangaichi'' (Repent/Remainder: Farewell Mr. Despair Outside Ground), which was bundled with the manga.

The manga ended in May of 2012.

--->'''Zan (Season 3):''' Hiroaki Samura (''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal''), Rendou Kurosaki, Asumiko Nakamura, Shunji Enomoto, Hiroshi Tamaru, Shizuru Hayashiya (''Manga/HayateCrossBlade''), Takako Shimura (''Manga/WanderingSon''), Hiroyuki Asada (''Manga/TegamiBachi''), Yumi Unita (''Manga/BunnyDrop''), Atsushi Kamijo, Yowoko Nihonbashi, Shou Tajima (''Anime/OtogiZoshi''), and Creator/KojiKumeta.

->''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB7o8x0wPhs I'm in despair!]] [the subject of today's episode] has left me in despair!"''