Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Farewell Mr. Despair Japanese: さよなら絶望先生 English: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei More titles InformationType: Manga Volumes: 30 Chapters: 302 Status: Finished Published: Apr 27, 2005 to Jun 13, 2012 Genres: Award Winning, Comedy Themes: Gag Humor, Parody, School Demographic: Shounen Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly) Authors: Kumeta, Kouji (Story & Art) StatisticsScore: 8.151 (scored by 8,240 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #4982 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #579 Members: 31,745 Favorites: 1,390 Available AtResources |
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Jan 28, 2014 100gates Recommended Quite possibly my favorite manga series, SZS is a masterpiece of satire, social commentary, and fiendishly twisted romance. The artwork is done in Kumeta's gorgeous abstract style. Solid darks and whites in flat planes and intricate geometric patterns. Kumeta demonstrates a genius for character design, taking the concept of the silhouette to its most extreme by actually portraying his characters as silhouettes when it suits him. This plays into the fact that they are all references and satires to various manga character tropes, effectively shadows cast by other characters that came before them, yet visually distinct and instantly recognizable, boiled down to a simple geometric ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 9, 2015 Toksic Recommended Please bear with my english. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is Not a Masterpiece. It's Not even great actually. Basically this manga is not for everyone. It's main genre is comedy and yet it's hard to understand that comedy. This manga's comedy is mostly about present japan i.e you have to know more about the japanese culture and about the famous people living in it. And people like me who knows almost nothing about japan had hard time understanding the comedy in the chapters. There are some chapters where comedy are only focused on the japanese cultures that I even skipped chapters. Yes, I even skipped the chapters. ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 9, 2020 VV420 Recommended The easiest way to convey what mind state you should read this manga in is that it is like South Park but for Japan. Every chapter has a new dysfunction of society or psychological disorder that is poked fun at and trivialized in a way that makes people afflicted with these dysfunctions laugh at themselves, a much needed remedy. The first chapter opens up with suicide being the main joke, a huge problem in Japanese society being suicide rates. This joke often comes back to in the form of the main character falling into despair over various aforementioned social or personal dysfunctions. Each volume is sub-titled ... Read more Open Gift Report More stacks Interest StacksSimilar to xxxHolic by soparamen 24 Entries·61Restacks best rated shounen 51-100 (part 2) by etanmess 50 Entries·3Restacks 300-399 by g10r1x 37 Entries·8Restacks More recommendations |
Poll: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Chapter 301 Discussion ichig0fan - Jun 11, 2012 | 32 replies | by thischeetobussin »» Aug 19, 10:11 PM | |
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Chapter 302 apotheosi - Sep 15, 2013 | 6 replies | by thischeetobussin »» Aug 19, 9:54 PM | |
Poll: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Chapter 20 Discussion Kino_no_Tabi - Mar 10, 2009 | 2 replies | by a2dfjk1 »» Mar 24, 10:41 PM | |
Poll: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Chapter 19 Discussion Karva1 - May 17, 2022 | 1 replies | by a2dfjk1 »» Mar 24, 7:04 PM | |
Poll: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Chapter 18 Discussion Karva1 - May 17, 2022 | 1 replies | by a2dfjk1 »» Mar 24, 6:58 PM |