
These in-depth, off-kilter analyses (along with the reactions of the students according to their own personality quirks) are usually brought to a head with a punchline based on the overall premise, or more rarely, a non-sequitur gag or piece of fan service. On other occasions, Nozomu challenges his students to think about the negative aspects of something usually considered positive. Typically, this involves the subject being taken either to its most logical extreme (a discussion of amakudari, the practice of "descending" from the public to the private sector, results in Nozomu "descending" until he reaches his previous life), or taken literally (in Nozomu's family, omiai, normally a meeting between a potential match in an arranged marriage, is instead a marriage made official by eye-contact).
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Not only that, but Kafuka is just the tip of the iceberg, due to each and every student in his class representing a new personality quirk or bizarre obsession, posing challenges that he must overcome in spite of himself.Įach chapter or episode of the series revolves around a particular aspect of life, Japanese culture, or a common phrase in the Japanese language. After having enough of the strange Kafuka, Nozomu bolts to the school and starts his homeroom class, but the attempt to escape was in vain as he finds that she is one of his students. She decides to nickname Nozomu "Pink Supervisor" ( 桃色係長, Momoiro Kakarichō), and offers to pay him fifty yen to call him by that nickname. She explains to him that it is simply unimaginable that he would hang himself on such a nice day, especially in front of such beautiful trees. He is saved by an extremely optimistic student known only as Kafuka Fuura (though in her effort to save his life, she almost kills him). Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei revolves around a very pessimistic high school teacher named Nozomu Itoshiki who, at the very beginning of the series, tries to hang himself on a sakura tree. See also: List of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei characters
