History WMG / SayonaraZetsubouSensei

[[WMG:Maria is the Great-Great-Great-Great Grandmother of Ed from ''CowboyBebop.'']]

[[WMG:Itoshiki is a grown up Shinji after he halucinated the events of NeonGenesisEvangelion]]

[[WMG:SayonaraZetsubouSensei 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 {{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.

** Or he could despair at the fact that God's Last Message to His Creation is "[[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy We apologize for the inconvenience.]]"

[[WMG:If StudioShaft does decide to animate the last few volumes now that the manga is coming to an end...]]

Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

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

[[WMG:Nozomu wrote ''MadokaMagica'', at least in the Zetsu-verse.]]

[[WMG: Kafuka [[spoiler:is the reincarnation of [[MadokaMagica Madoka]] Kaname]].]]

[[WMG: Conversely, [[MadokaMagica Madoka Kaname]] was [[spoiler:Kafuka's]] reincarnation]].]]

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

* Itoshiki is a dead soul that will be consumed by despair and become [[{{Bleach}} Ulquiorra Schiffer]]. [[spoiler: Now that Ulquiorra is dead, he will arrive in his own afterlife - as L from Death Note]]

This is sort of inspired by the episode where the class breaks Nozomu out of confinement, as well as an instance in the manga where Chiri tries to act out the plot of ''BattleRoyale''. While Nozomu and the class are unaware of this, they were actually selected as part of a GovernmentConspiracy to train agents that will help free Japan from its "peacetime boke" (see that episode with Maria) and allow it to TakeOverTheWorld. The project is funded by Nozomu's father, who is both one of the wealthiest people in Japan and a member of Parliament. The cast's skills are as follows:

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, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome 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.

******* [[spoiler: True, but not in the way that people were thinking. Kafuka was actually DeadAllAlong and her organ donations found their way into ever girl in the class, allowing her to possess them. As a result, they [[MarryThemAll all married Itoshiki]] and gave birth to more Kafuka's.]]

* [[DidNotDoTheResearch Schizophrenia is not dissociative identity disorder]]. Having multiple identities is in no way a symptom of schizophrenia. Not even close. It isn't even a related disorder. Different thing entirely. [[http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-schizophrenia-and-multiple-personality-disorder.htm Look it up]].

[[WMG: Conversely, [[MadokaMagica Madoka Kaname]] was [[spoiler:Kafuka's]] reincarnation.]]

[[WMG: Kafuka [[spoiler:is the reincarnation of [[MadokaMagica Madoka]] Kaname.]]

Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

[[WMG:Itoshiki is the author of the book of [[TheBible Ecclesiastes]]]]

* Some related ideas: Kiri and Kafuka were both born with the shinigami eyes (hence why they both have red eyes). Kiri became a hikikomori because she didn't want to always see how long people had to live. On the other hand, Kafuka [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went mad from the revelation]]. Both of them are drawn to Nozomu, because similarly to [[{{Discworld}} Rincewind]], he has a weird combination of amazing luck and awful luck with the result that it's not clear when/if he'll die. Also, Chiri is definitely Kira material. She and Mikami would be a perfect couple.

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

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]].

Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

To wit: Mostof the more normal stories — Itoshiki-sensei's trips into town with the girls to find things to despair about; most of the classroom stuff — actually happened, while the more surrealistic episodes are stories that Kafuka makes up to poke fun at and to entertain her class, Itoshiki-sensei and herself. It explains why she's always around, and it even help explain the single-trait characterization and Flanderization of the girls and Itoshiki-sensei — it'd be damn hard to display your friends' full range of emotional depth in a verbal story, so Kafuka simplifies them. The connection with her name, particularly that it's explicitly called a "pen name", also makes sense.

This troper believes that "Kafuka Fuura" is juts a personality created by the girl to be able to cope with her tragic past. It is actually mentioned in the series that Kafuka is not her real name. In response to Kimura having developed split personalities from trying to adapt to Japanese and whatever-the-country-she-lived-in culture, she mentions having done a similar thing in order to fit in after moving to another part of the country, but she mentions creating two personalities in addition to her own. Maybe one of those is her true self, and she created the eternally cheerful Kafuka so she wouldn't have to deal with her father and mother trying to kill themselves and all the other nasty stuff that happened to her. Her traumatised real persona occasionally surfaces, explaining her yandere-moments and the fact she's seemingly unaware that she's thinking about killing he other students in one episode(as that was her true persona thinking).

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, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome 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.

*** 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?

** Conversely, Kafuka leaves herself and Pink Supervisor alive (I can't see Kafuka killing herself, she's just not that person, even if she were to snap) and they then travel to a new school. Kafuka probably holds all of her negative emotions inside (which can be seen in the Meru episode when all of that {{BlackSpeech}} coming from her eyes) and needs to let it loose every once in a while. Nozumo will inexplicably end up teaching another crazy class, looking on them with pity because he knows that soon they will be slaughtered by Kafuka.

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

Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

* 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!).

** 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.

* Actually, he ''might'' [[http://www.onemanga.com/Sayonara_Zetsubou_Sensei/86/12/ have slept with a man once.]] But since it looks like the guy is just starting to coax Itoshiki's clothes off, we don't know if he went through with it. However, when you consider the situation as a whole, this might just be evidence against the above theory. He had some [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad weird motives]] for sleeping with/almost sleeping with the guy. And there's [[OhCrap the face he's making]]. Funny when a guy ''accepting the advances of another man'' seems to be the only indication of his possibly being heterosexual. [[GagSeries Only this show...]]

* Half of the reincarnated soul of Franz Kafka. Itoshiki is the other half.

** Mindscrew xD

[[WMG:This entire show is because [[Main/TheSandman Despair of the Endless]] got bored.]]

* Are we talking about [[TheSandman Despair]] [[{{Gonk}} of the Endless]], here? If so, {{Squick}}.

That they have different names can be explained by the Itoshiki family's power- they were able to ensure that the characters were given pseudonyms. Kou could easily be the Itoshiki who is Majiru's father and was disinherited and abandoned him. Presumably, he had a falling out with his father and decided to live under the bridge permanently.

Chiri Kitsu:The Second Kira. They have similar goals,Chiri will do anything to see that the world is in perfect order and she was born with a shinigami eye.(It's also why the two of them hang out so much,even though they seem to have nothing in common and why Kafuka never makes excuses for Chiri's behavior.)

Chie Arai:The Third Kira. She has shinigami eyes(hence everyone's fear of her stare) and seems to have a superiority complex(she and Kafuka also hang out a lot).

[[WMG:SayonaraZetsubouSensei is the personification of {{TvTropes}} {{expy}} in the form of an anime.]]

* 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.

** 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.

->''I'm in despair! The revelation that [[EpilepticTrees trees suffer from epilepsy]] has left me in despair!''
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Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

[[WMG:Nozomu is a [[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt ghost]] who is the embodiement of all of the despair in the world.]]

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Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

I'm in despair! The revelation that [[EpilepticTrees trees suffer from epilepsy]] has left me in despair!

Think about it. Nozomu seems like a depressive teacher who wants to die, but really is just an eccentric and harmless death fetishist. Kafuka on the other hand seems very optimistic and harmless, but may very well be a yandere that will kill everyone. The two balance each other and creates a dynamic that keeps each other in check and actually gets things done. [[ItGotWorse Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing…]]

[[WMG:Kafuka is related to [[AzumangaDaioh Ayumu Kasuga]].]]

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

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