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[[WMG:Itoshiki is immortal.]]

* This also explains why he's suicidal. WhoWantsToLiveForever?

There will be at least one ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' [[ShoutOut reference]] / [[ProductPlacement plug]] [[OnceAnEpisode per episode]], just like ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]]'' in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' (especially with Kafuka and Kyoko [[AiNonaka sharing a VA]]).

[[WMG:Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is the personification of TvTropes {{expy}} in the form of an anime.]]
While it is true that SZS focuses only on social and cultural tropes that apply to UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, you notice that in every episode, Itoshiki-sensei introduces a trope in a form of a rant and then his students chip in and bring up examples including [[PlayingWithATrope subversions, inversions, deconstructions and other ways of playing with a trope]], all in an entertaining form, just like TvTropes.

[[WMG: Nozomu ends up on LawAndOrder.]]

[[WMG: GenUrobuchi and KoujiKumeta know each other, and ''Madoka Magica'' was meant as sort of a spoiler to the ending of ''SZS''.]]

There will be at least one ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' [[ShoutOut reference]] / [[ProductPlacement plug]] [[OnceAnEpisode per episode]], just like ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]]'' in ''LuckyStar'' (especially with Kafuka and Kyoko [[AiNonaka sharing a VA]]).

The story will end in a simple way. Kafuka will finally snap and just kill ''everyone'' and then kill herself. The only survivor will be Itoshiki who will promptly try to kill himself, and fail again.
* At this point, he will realise how lucky he is to be alive, and will, for once, feel joy.
* Alternatively he could end up witnessing God's Last message to His creation and finally understand happiness, thus ending his term in purgatory.

[[WMG: [[HeyItsThatVoice Kou from Arakawa Under The Bridge and Izaya from Durarara]] are members of the Itoshiki family.]]

[[WMG:Itoshiki is a distant relative/alternate universe version of Bernard Black from BlackBooks.]]

** Meru, on the other hand, could be borderline or undifferentiated schizophrenic. [[TourettesShitcockSyndrome Coprolalia]], [[InnocentFanserviceGirl no nudity taboo]], [[GenreSavvy bizarre delusions that she's in an anime]], [[EmotionlessGirl negative affect]]... they all fit.

The world portrayed in ''Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei'' is very similar to Hell as shown in ''Main/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' - just like Earth, but a bit weirder, and everybody is constantly driven to despair by minor annoyances. This means that Itoshiki died by suicide in the first episode for a crime which made him a target of [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]]. Light set Itoshiki's death to some time after the end of his natural lifespan, which is why he was able to survive a death note-induced heart attack - the reason he didn't die is that he was already dead.

[[WMG: Mr. Despair is a [[JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac Waste-Lock/Flusher]] ]]

[[WMG:Kafuka will grow up to be Asami from ''{{Audition}}'']]

* A god, like [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Oyashiro-sama]]. When she was sacrificed in the past, she gained divine powers to alter reality. The rest of the cast is suffering from [[HatePlague Hinamizawa syndrome]], and will eventually go mad (er, madder) and kill themselves. Her existence is linked to Nozomu, so she keeps trying to prevent his suicide and [[SnapBack resets the universe]] after every episode when something goes crazy/wrong. She's not perfect, though, and the GroundhogDayLoop their school is in as a result has also made her a little...unhinged.

[[WMG:Kafuka is another SuzumiyaHaruhi-person.]]

* [[EarthBound Giygas]]. The Pororokka aliens abducted two humans from Japan, who studied their secrets and then escaped, taking Kafuka with them. However, the true depths of the alien powers were so terrifying that Kafuka's father went mad and tried to kill himself. As she grew up, secret agents of the invasion force frequently chased them and tried to take Kafuka back, but her mother lied and told her they were things like debt collectors; she has a fake name for her own protection, although she isn't aware of it. Her mother's exorcism was really her being tortured or driven mad by the aliens. In the future, Kafuka will discover her origins, go mad with evil power, and possibly destroy the world/reality as we know it.

* Or, they are all a bunch of supers in a certain [[DanganRonpa high school]]. With Itoshiki as the unluckster. (or maybe a previous graduate....)

* Nope. Now He'll just despair about not having glasses.

**** It's Shinbo. You expect him to make sense?

** I get it.

Being known in better circles as the Lady of Hope and the Duke of Despair. This explains the gratuitously grand or 'mythic' portents that surround seemingly random actions: when any part of your life could be a part of a symbolic Flower Rite against the fabric of reality, [[MundaneMadeAwesome even taking a bath can become epic]]. Note the hot springs episode in particular, which shows the horrors an Excruican attack on the characters' natures themselves.

* Jinroku says Nozomu is an exceptional teacher for someone so young. So there.
** Ah...but young in relation to who or what? Someone in their 50's? 40's? 30's? There are some professions where a fairly advanced age is still considered youthful in relation to the rest of the group/institution/company/agency/whatever...
*** It says a lot about this series that incest is being invoked to make things ''less'' confusing/menacing. Although, in the light of Kafuka's...repressed aggressions, it raises a disturbing question of its own: where is her mother?
**** While this troper finds it highly improbable that Itoshiki could be anyone's parent (he's distinctly young and even more distinctly not capable of a relationship), it's not difficult to guess that Kafuka's mother is probably in an asylum somewhere after that '''one''' time, and her father might be dead, for all we know.
***** The new OP to the 3rd season doesn't help matters, IMHO, as it shows Nozomu catching Kafuka as she fell. Indeed, all the openings show the two together in some way, so there may be some link there...
****** The end of the OP to the 1st season implies it's the other way around: A pregnant Kafuka and Nozumo in fetal position with an umbilical cord (rope)
******* [[spoiler: True, but not in the way that people were thinking. Kafuka was actually DeadAllAlong and her organ donations found their way into every girl in the class, allowing her to possess them. As a result, they [[MarryThemAll all married Itoshiki]] and gave birth to more Kafuka's.]]

* Think about it. (But not too hard, or you'll notice the flaws) While Johnny is in Hell, Satan says that most "flushers" turn their negativity in on themselves rather than on the outside world (Ranting doesn't count as turning it on the outside world). Both Johnny and Itoshiki are in despair about society (Their methods are a wee bit different of course). Both attempt to end their own lives (kinda-sorta for Itoshiki, but just ignore that because I'm trying to make a point that doesn't even make any sense). Hell, they almost kinda look sorta similar (Both tall, thin, and black hair. Jhonen has said that Johnny is more "beige" than pale, but JTHM was in monochrome, so it counts). Mr. Despair seems incapable of permanently dying (and Johnny was brought back to life). Ultimately, it could be said that their cosmic positions are, if not the same, then at least very very similar (Hey look, a parenthetical comment after every sentence!).

* Notwithstanding the fact that she is an illegal immigrant from a disaster stricken land and thus likely to be smaller than average due to long term poverty, the fact that she bought her identity from a boy proved she wasn't too worried about making sure it would convince any authorities that she is who she claims to be, thus I seriously doubt that she cared too much if the new ID would be suitable for her agewise.
** In other words you are saying that she's reaqlly a 12 year old girl who just happens to have bought an ID from a 16 year old boy? Makes perfect sense in the context of this show.
** She's also not as stupid as you think she is. She's ignorant about many things because she's not Japanese and she often behaves like a kid because she's actually 10 years old.

* Who is the only other person that is this depressed in any fictional work aside from Marvin from HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy or Eore

* Isn't that canon?

** What a very cute pun ^__^

* While it is true that SZS focuses only on social and cultural tropes that apply to UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, you notice that in every episode, Itoshiki-sensei introduces a trope in a form of a rant and then his students chip in and bring up examples including [[PlayingWithATrope subversions, inversions, deconstructions and other ways of playing with a trope]], all in an entertaining form, just like TvTropes.

* Let's look at the facts:
** 1) He trains his neck muscles at the gym so that his neck doesn't break when he hangs himself.
** 2) He frequently says "I could've died!" if he actually ''is'' in danger of dying. And...
** 3) He has a whole classroom full of attractive high school girls (including his [[IncestSubtext sister!]]) who want him.
** He probably tries auto-erotic asphyxiation as a way to...relieve himself of his dispair and the [[BelligerentSexualTension sexual tension]] in the classroom. But of course, with students like Kafuka and Chie, he never gets around to actually trying it.

* Panty and Stocking will eventually have to take him out.

Leave it to him to come up with such a nihilistic, depressing series. However, the fact that the title character [[spoiler:never gave up hope despite the torture she goes through]] shows that even he still has ''some'' spark of idealism left in him...hence why he's always unsuccessful at suicide, and why he hasn't been attempting it much lately.

[[WMG: Kafuka [[spoiler:was deliberately killed]].]]
With all her talk about how her father always been chased by debt collector, [[spoiler:then that one passing mention about the life insurance her father got for her suddenly takes a darker turn. Kafuka might also knew this and let herself to be run over by her father, but not before filling out as donor so even after death, she still can be useful]].

[[WMG: Kafuka [[spoiler:is the reincarnation of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka]] Kaname]].]]

[[WMG: Conversely, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka Kaname]] was [[spoiler:Kafuka's]] reincarnation]].

[[spoiler:Let's see, there's a superoptimistic girl who is basically now removed from existence. She posthumously managed to save a bunch of suicidally depressed girls and their suicidally depressed teacher. And now, "as long as you remember her, [[FridgeHorror you are not alone]]..."]]

* The things she does works counter to the despair and maladies of the show and according to the anthromorphic principal things are only the way they are because the observers of that world are present or it wouldnt be that world if they werent present. By Kafuka going around fixing things, she is destroying the world.

** Special Victims Unit of course.

[[WMG: Nozomu actually has a College Student Neighbor, who is being [[spoiler:possessed by Kafuka]].]]
* Nozomu's next door neighbor is a leukemia survivor who managed to pull through thanks to a bone marrow transplant from [[spoiler:Kafuka]]. Her hair hasn't grown back yet from chemotherapy, explaining the wig. When [[spoiler:Kafuka possesses her, she can suppress the normal hallucination effect that causes the other girls to appear as Kafuka. Likely, this is because Kafuka noticed she was wearing a wig, and came to the assumption that she was supposed in disguise. ("No one could have cancer so close to me!") Since she thinks people shouldn't be able to recognize her, they don't]]. She probably doesn't mean any harm (you can never know with her), but it just makes the whole thing even more creepy...

There will be at least one ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' [[ShoutOut reference]] / [[ProductPlacement plug]] [[OnceAnEpisode per episode]], just like ''[[HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]]'' in ''LuckyStar'' (especially with Kafuka and Kyoko [[AiNonaka sharing a VA]]).

* Kafuka optimistically notes that [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries in a few hours, the sun would rise]].

* Or, they are all a bunch of supers in a certain [[DanganRonpa high school]]. With Itoshiki as the unluckster. (or maybe
a previous graduate....)

WMG: Kafuka is evil but only from the shows perspective.

* WMG: Nozomu ends up on LawAndOrder.

[[WMG:Ishitoki has [[PrincessTutu Mytho's]] 'despair' heart shard]]