Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is a long running gag manga, with a large cast of one dimensional people, satirising modern society and generally doing idiotic and crazy things for the sake of doing them. It's also really creepy, and it has a Gainax ending. And yet, despite the fact that it ran for about 7 years and spanned 30 volumes + a bonus chapter, you could read the first 10 volumes, a few chapters in 20-25, then just skip to the last 5 chapters.
So, it succeeds in being funny, creepy and all in all, unique, which was the entire point. While going into the characters themselves, aside from Nozomu and Kafuka, and maybe Chiri (though only Chiri because of backwards Character Development, but not quite Flanderisation) all of the characters are intended to be flat, one dimensional, walking quirks. And that's ok, seeing as how it's an episodic gag manga.
About the anime? Shaft screwed up, the ways some episodes or chapters were animated, screwing up or missing out a few jokes.
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Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is a long running gag manga, with a large cast of one dimensional people, satirising modern society and generally doing idiotic and crazy things for the sake of doing them. It's also really creepy, and it has a Gainax ending. And yet, despite the fact that it ran for about 7 years and spanned 30 volumes + a bonus chapter, you could read the first 10 volumes, a few chapters in 20-25, then just skip to the last 5 chapters.
So, it succeeds in being funny, creepy and all in all, unique, which was the entire point. While going into the characters themselves, aside from Nozomu and Kafuka, and maybe Chiri (though only Chiri because of backwards Character Development, but not quite Flanderisation) all of the characters are intended to be flat, one dimensional, walking quirks. And that's ok, seeing as how it's an episodic gag manga.
About the anime? Shaft screwed up, the ways some episodes or chapters were animated, screwing up or missing out a few jokes.
(sorry, British English)