Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei – So Long Mr. Despair

I haven’t been able to get this short series out of my mind ever since I watched it. It’s a hilarious anime with very satirical characters and a twisted random second opening sequence that really makes you go “WTF?!?!” (My fav though is the ending of the show.)

Actually, the entire anime does that to you. If interested, check out the summary at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayonara_Zetsub%C5%8D_Sensei

It’s sick and twisted where each character (with their names being puns to describe their personalities) has issues (sounds familiar?) which are exaggerated to unbelievable proportions. Thus the recipe for comedy. There’s the suicidal teacher, an eternal pessimist, the obsesssive-compusive, shiny straight hair girl, the eternal optimistic happy girl (foil to the teacher who prevented his first suicide attempt in the show), the stalker girl, the forever-injured girl, the immigrant from China that sneaked over the border and bought someone’s identity to go to school, the “normal” girl and a whole bunch of other colourful cast. Oh yeah, and most of the girls have a crush on the teacher.

My favourite though is Meru Otonashi , the abusive phone girl (which I have been ranting about for the last couple days at work.) Short, cute, and super quiet, nearly completely mute in the show, she shows her true side when she texts on her phone, always abusively insulting in her comments. I LOVE HER! When she texts, there’s always this high pitched electronic sound that goes “Mail mail”.

Given my attachment to Protocol, I may consider taking Meru on as an avatar in some places. I need to get that for my ring tone, especially since I think it’ll annoy quite a few people around here. BWHAHAHAHA

~ by darksilvercorbi on February 21, 2008.