History Manga / SayonaraZetsubouSensei

* OffModel: The art stays of high quality throughout, but there is constant lampshading throughout ''Zan'' about the animation quality suffering from the huge deadline crunch the animators were going through (as one gag noted, they were working on this, ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', ''[[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Negima!]]'', and ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' at the ''same time'').

** 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/MahouSenseiNegima'''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.

* LatinoIsBrown: María.

* [[ShapedLikeItself Shaped Like Something Else]]: The final episode's disclaimer.

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

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]]'' (Sequel/Continuation Farewell, Mr. Despair) aired shortly after, meaning Nozomu had even more reasons to be in despair.

'''''I'm in despair! [[TVTropesRuinedYourLife TV Tropes has left me in despair!]]'''''

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]/Continuation Farewell, Mr. Despair) aired shortly after, meaning Nozomu had even more reasons to be 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!]] Creator/MediaBlasters also licensed the first season of the anime, but sadly, nothing ever came out of it.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Mocked by Chiri, who kills the entire class and buries herself, interpreting everyone as "seeds". The next day when everyone is inexplicably alive again, she turns out to be a {{Bishoujo}}, also mocking the Bishoujo demographic.

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 won't be publishing any books following volume 14!]] It also appears that Creator/MediaBlasters has licensed at least the first season of the anime.

* TheArtOfWar: A quote is mentioned in the fifth episode.

[[spoiler:''Which Kafuka are you?'']]

[[LoveFreak Optimism]] or [[TheEeyore Despair]]? Let's [[SurrealThemeTune rumba]]!

The manga is out across the pond courtesy of Del Rey, so now ''you'' can despair in English! Especially since they [[NoExportForYou won't be publishing any books following volume 14!]] It also appears that Creator/MediaBlasters has licensed at least the first season of the anime.

* BystanderSyndrome: Kanako Ohra has this as her particular quirk. Chapter 182 also touches on this subject, where people tend to turn blind eyes from some problems because they're actually too shy to intervene. It's also the thing that starts Chiri and Harumi's first meeting in their childhood, [[spoiler:where Chiri saved Harumi from being taken away by a {{Lolicon}} because [[AdultsAreUseless people around her were too apathetic to help]]]].

* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Hardcore Otaku Stereotypes Have Standards]]: The minor recurring pedophile character gets punched out by the minor recurring {{Otaku}} stereotype (wearing a superhero outfit) in one chapter for making advances on Maria and Meru, declaring "Keep your deviations to the second dimension!"

* RetroUniverse: Though set (more or less) in the same time period as when it was written, the series's aesthetic sensibilities evoke pre-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.]]

* [[spoiler:EmpatheticWeapon]]: Ai finds a parasol which she can't let go of until it is shared with someone she's in love with. [[spoiler: We find out it's actually a sword and it wants to cut whoever the wielder is in love with.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: It's revealed in the manga that [[spoiler: the Itoshiki family actually isn't the same wealthy family that always lived there]]. Hundreds of years ago violence threatened the [[spoiler: nobles]], causing them to find a [[spoiler: family of exact lookalikes to replace them]] while the originals [[spoiler: went into hiding]]. Since they never came back, [[spoiler: eventually the Itoshiki's decided that if they had spent centuries in the mansion and had all the wealth]] it meant that they were [[spoiler: a distinguished family themselves]]. It's also revealed that the last [[spoiler: descendant of the original family is their butler, Tokita]].

[[quoteright:300:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt http://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!]]

** Rin muses in the final chapter that their family, originally stand-ins for the powerful, influental Itoshiki family (of which [[spoiler:their butler Tokita]] is a member of), essentially became the Itoshiki family after playing the role for years.

--->'''Season 1:''' Kazuhiro Fujita (''Manga/UshioAndTora''), Akimine Kamijyo (''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo''), Kouji Seo (''Manga/{{Suzuka}}''), Hideo Nishimoto, Shimoku Kio (''Manga/{{Genshiken}}''), Kazutoshi Soyama, RumikoTakahashi (''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''), Hiromu Arakawa (''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''), Yukari Takinami, Masashi Asaki, Yuji Terashima, and Creator/KojiKumeta himself.