sayonara zetsubou sensei 3
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This is blasphemy! This is madness!
Madness? THIS IS JAPAN!
Kind of a weak episode and let down, and I think it’s because there’s just not enough Pink Supervisor and Kafuka. They make the series tick, and this episode focused a bit too much on the Busybody of Justice. Why she is enjoyable, the second half about Chiri and Maria was pretty average. That’s one thing about Kumeta… he kinda tosses in random characters for the sake of having random characters, and Maria is a fine example. Illegal immigrant? Come on…. it hasn’t been an effective anime character stereotype since Pedro.
As for Kae(d|r)e, I kinda like Kaere just because she hates on Japan so much. She’s like a blonde, melonpanriffic wrestler who enters to some obnoxiously loud music and starts spitting water on the audience and says things like, “The Sacramento Kings? Hah. Sacramento Queen.” Oh wait, that wasn’t a wrestler who did that. That was Shaq. I got my list of rigged sports mixed up. Kaede is less interesting to me just because we have enough Pink Supervisor stalkers already. It is at the point where they should just form their own support group. I did think that it would have been more interesting if they did a segment where Kaede is trying to win over Pink Supervisor, and since her l33t Japanese skillz wasn’t cutting it, she started acting and dressing more and more trashy to attract him. Finally, when she’s looking like Tara Reid and looks easier than Tara Reid, then Pink Supervisor would finally notice and then… BAM! She swaps to the man-Japan-world hatin’ Kaere. That would have been highest of high comedy. But alas.
Dark Clouds of Despair
Kae(d|r)e’s cultural personality disorder is a nice twist, but my gosh, Shaft does not know how to properly do emo facial distortions. Wasted opportunity. Anyway, I did enjoy Kae(d|r)e’s ability to go from one end of the spectrum to another, but with the Sonozakis and Rena currently setting the bar, Kae(d|r)e just doesn’t go far enough.
Second best line of the whole episode: “The busybody of justice.” I think that works pretty well. We can even start creating the Busybody of Justice All-Stars. Lacus, Nia, and Maebara would definitely be prominently involved.
I’m going to sell my shares of GOOG and APPL and purchase more CHIE. I feel very good about this growth earnings potential. Did she always have those?!? Sneaky hawt? Not anymore. Completely random scene but has welcome fanservice and shows off that she may be sensible but still has a whimsical side.
She can substitute teach my class any day, if you know what I mean.
Maybe Pink Supervisor is faking everything just to spend more time in Chie’s office. Mmm… I put the plausibility of this theory greater than the Da Vinci Code Last Supper theory but less than the probability of an event A conditional on another event B is generally different from the probability of B conditional on A.
Not as awesome as Van from Gun x Sword. Now that was an anime character who knew his condiments. You know what’s one of those sauces that looks disgusting but tastes really good but after 15 minutes you really, really regret eating it? In&Out animal style fries.
In other news, Pink Supervisor’s harem grows. Anytime you can fall in love with a loser who thinks the cup isn’t just half empty but half empty with poisoned water in an unclean glass, you gotta do it. I think. His growing harem proves that these girls are probably as mentally stable as a Hinamizawa resident. In fact, this series may be taking place in Hinamizawa for all we know.
There’s love, there’s leaving a voicemail every 15 minutes love, and then there’s “I want to watch you pee” love.
I always wonder about what happens if Shaft has to animate a series that doesn’t have a blackboard. How would they release their pent up creative frustrations if they can’t make sarcastic non-jokes on the blackboards?!?
(I hate these in this series. It got old in PPD. It was really old in Negima!?. I don’t bother stopping to read them anymore as that breaks up the flow in the episode too much.)
Another thing that I didn’t like about Negima!? was that there just was too many students to keep track of here. Introducing characters is just a cheap way of not having write real plot (classic harem anime trick)… I hope we’ll settle down and get real episodes instead of more character introductions and cheap sight gags. Sigh. I think the only studios that I trust to do a decent, average job, “C+” type work is now: Kyoto Animation; Bones; Production IG; Madhouse. That’s it. That’s the whole list.
Mutio cameo! The animation quality also seemed to have slipped a bit this episode.
Remember what she said about how strawberry prints scream, “I am a virgin”? Guess what’s the design of her knick-knacks…
Silver Lining
Even though Kae(d|r)e’s dynamic range isn’t as great as the Higurashi, she did have the best line of the whole episode: “The teachers in this country are strange!” O RLY! What’s so strange about a blonde 13 year old who has a degree from MIT/Columbia teaching in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a 10 year old Hogwart’s reject teaching a bunch of oversexed middle school girls in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a guy who pretends that he’s a girl just so he can teach at an all girls school in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a former gangbanger turned teacher who is more concerned about getting laid by an eighteen year old (being generous here) than he is teaching his class in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a yakuza daughter trying to go straight by teaching in Japan? Seriously. What’s so strange about these things? Teachers in Japan are as normal as Gilbert Arenas.
(And does this picture count as a self-reference? I say yes. I hope that the enduring effect of Lucky Star isn’t that more studios keep self-referencing. Though it would be pretty cool to have an Otome Gundam piloted by Orange-kun.)
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[quote post=”1127″](I hate these in this series. It got old in PPD. It was really old in Negima!?. I don’t bother stopping to read them anymore as that breaks up the flow in the episode too much.)[/quote]
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei > Negima!?
The reason is that SZS has more restraint. The proof is in the last picture. Negima!? would have had Nagi (in chupacabra form) “Hau-Hauu~”ing away while he was hiding behind that curtain. SZS realized they didn’t need anything but the visual to get the point across.
The whole episode was worth it, though, for Maria’s “They’re kind to little children” line. Epic.
I’m not sure I’m ADD enough to watch Shaft’s anime anymore…
No comment on the possible reference to Jeff Lawson’s “Hop Step Jump!”?
Cheers.
Who besides me enjoys reading all the new intro stories
Sadly this episode wasn’t as good as ep 2.
While an enjoyable episode, not as good as #2. The immigrant girl was just hummm and the other with her yamato nadesico / angry foreigner bipolarity, while providing some laughs with her swings, didn’t have enough impact. The sensei was just as dependable in despair as usual – though he missed “what if I had died!?” this time, and CHIEEEEEEE changed her clothes again as predicted.
I’m surprised people aren’t bothering with the blackboard and other scribblings, they’re almost half the fun of the show for me, even though they never seem to have relevance to what is going on.
I think I caught two anime references in this one, the very obvious Death Note “just as planned” one and the dual Lucky Star / Gurren Lagann one.
[quote post=”1127″]Who besides me enjoys reading all the new intro stories[/quote]
Like the blackboard ones, I pause to read these too.
What I really liek about this episode was the Death Ntoe parody, with Pink Supervisor falling to the ground followed by the light-o cameo and then PS closing his eyes ala L’s death. Priceless.
Anyone notice that whenever Kaede speaks for an extended length of time, her Japanese will degrade until she’s speaking with an extremly thick westerner accent?
“Brightly colored rants” ;)
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[quote post=”1127″]O RLY! What’s so strange about a blonde 13 year old who has a degree from MIT/Columbia teaching in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a 10 year old Hogwart’s reject teaching a bunch of oversexed middle school girls in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a guy who pretends that he’s a girl just so he can teach at an all girls school in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a former gangbanger turned teacher who is more concerned about getting laid by an eighteen year old (being generous here) than he is teaching his class in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a yakuza daughter trying to go straight by teaching in Japan? Seriously.[/quote]
I got all of them but the last, what series is a Yakuza Daughter trying to do straight? I feel like I will feel dumb hearing this…
Gokusen (sp?).
[quote comment=”152422″]I got all of them but the last, what series is a Yakuza Daughter trying to do straight? I feel like I will feel dumb hearing this…[/quote]
Gokusen. Google is your friend.
[quote comment=”152413″]No comment on the possible reference to Jeff Lawson’s “Hop Step Jump!”?[/quote]
Didn’t catch it since I’m boycotting, but it would be awesome if it were true. I know that a good portion of AoMM’s traffic is from .jp (probably the highest traffic to not posting comment ratio), so I wouldn’t be surprised if HSJ gets wide readership there… probably more since Jeff doesn’t mince pop culture as I do. He’s not Spider-Pig anymore, he’s Harry Plopper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHAXbV3sC8A
New op from ep 4 on. Same song, different music and some…”interesting imagery.
[quote post=”1127″]No comment on the possible reference to Jeff Lawson’s “Hop Step Jump!â€?[/quote]
When I saw that my first thought was, what is HSJ’s name referencing to since it pops up here as well. Didn’t realize it could be a reference to his website…
[quote post=”1127″]New op from ep 4 on. Same song, different music and some…â€interesting imagery.[/quote]
Hahaha, oh wow. PS is looking quite GAR in there too. This makes me wonder what SZS’s time slot is, I don’t think this could fly around 8 or 18 o’clock.
First, thank you, I just spent the entire night reading what is so far translated of Gokusen, and now downloading the anime and live action series for the hell of it.
Also, on the note of the new OP… Oh… your… fictional apparition designed to comfort people about the horrors of death and to force people to be good through fear and to earn substantial amounts of money, power, war, slavery, and other horrible misdeeds in the name of what ever God(s) you pulled out your ass.
That was the best opening I have seen in a while.
What confused me was that, in the manga, although she made the same comment about strawberry pattern earlier… hers was pomegranates.
I suppose anything is possible, but I doubt it’s a reference to my site. The phrase comes up often in Japanese pop culture. I’ve also seen it pop up on occasion in business settings. There’s also an award bestowed upon promising new manga artists by Shonen Jump, titled the “Hop Step Award”. A lot of well-known managka hit it big after winning this award.
And, of course, it’s all a reference to the triple jump. I’ve always figured the event was popular in Japan (a staple of school athletic festivals in the past, perhaps?), but I can’t say for sure.
[quote comment=”152431″]What confused me was that, in the manga, although she made the same comment about strawberry pattern earlier…
hers was pomegranates.[/quote]
The pomegranate design was kept in the anime. I’m not sure what it means, however.
[quote]Another thing that I didn’t like about Negima!? was that there just was too many students to keep track of here. Introducing characters is just a cheap way of not having write real plot (classic harem anime trick)… I hope we’ll settle down and get real episodes instead of more character introductions and cheap sight gags.[/quote] I agree completely. Thats why im not a fan of Negima. Its just a bunch of character introductions wasting time, trying to hide the fact that there is nothing there. Not to mention it becomes hard to keep track of names.
As for this episode, it was okay, up until the “People in Japan are nice to children” joke. Not funny. Not funny at all.
[quote comment=”152427″]New op from ep 4 on. Same song, different music and some…”interesting imagery.[/quote]
That’s pretty disturbing… In a good way.
[quote comment=”152433″]The pomegranate design was kept in the anime. I’m not sure what it means, however.[/quote]
Hah, I think you’re right. I caught the live action close-up of a pomegranate right before said pantsu shot, but thought it was just symbolic for–*cough*–something else, as it certainly looks like she’s wearing a strawberry pattern at first glance. But when you pause the scene, it’s not strawberries on the pantsu. Not sure if it looks like pomegranates to me, but it would follow…
[quote comment=”152434″]As for this episode, it was okay, up until the “People in Japan are nice to children” joke. Not funny. Not funny at all.[/quote]
While I can certainly understand that opinion, I can’t disagree with you more. I found that the funniest line of the episode, if not the series to date. That’s what I’m coming to absolutely love about this series, is that dark, inappropriate humor. Sucide, depression, delusion, OCD, hikikomorism, stalking, bigotry, MPD, illegal aliens, and especially pedophilia are all serious issues that a lot of people don’t find jokeworthy, but SZS is able to paint them in a positively hilarious light.
SZS is the Japanese South Park, except instead of Kenny dying each episode, Pink Supervisor tries to kill himself each episode. Absolutely brilliant. Far and away the best series of the new season, even with all the SHAFT randomness.
I was personally amazed and stupefied at the fusion dance. Had to look it up on youtube to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. I’m not.
[quote comment=”152436″]I was personally amazed and stupefied at the fusion dance. Had to look it up on youtube to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. I’m not.[/quote]
I’m just ashamed I even knew what that was.
[quote comment=”152435″] That’s what I’m coming to absolutely love about this series, is that dark, inappropriate humor. Sucide, depression, delusion, OCD, hikikomorism, stalking, bigotry, MPD, illegal aliens, and especially pedophilia are all serious issues that a lot of people don’t find jokeworthy, but SZS is able to paint them in a positively hilarious light.
[/quote] Im fine with jokes about all the stuff you mentioned, including pedophilia. Child molestation jokes, though, kind of get to me.
I was going all guns for this show through episode two. This one expanding the harem even further has made me somewhat weary. Over-positive girl and hikikomori-demon girl – funny. Stalker girl – funny, but a bit annoying. But creepy. Good creepy. Like a teacher who constantly talks about suicide and death creepy. The illegal immigrant character was pushing it. Like Love Hina’s Kaora, but collecting “junk” instead of building death machines.
Speaking of teachers, I had a teacher who told us she watched a friend fall to her death down a well, and an ex-EMT teacher who told us about “getting there too late”, but nobody who wanted to die. That would have actually made me enjoy high school. Finally, someone the kids can relate to.
1: Don’t be hatin’ on the Sacramento Kings.
1a: I’m from Sacramento, CA.
1b: Basketball is not much of a rigged sport as it is a place where rappers can’t rap.
2: More panty shots are always welcome.
3: Better to have more characters to look after than less. I hope to get an episode of that average schoolguy soon. :)
“Or what’s so strange about a guy who pretends that he’s a girl just so he can teach at an all girls school in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a former gangbanger turned teacher who is more concerned about getting laid by an eighteen year old (being generous here) than he is teaching his class in Japan? Or what’s so strange about a yakuza daughter trying to go straight by teaching in Japan?”
Does anyone know the names of those stories? are they manga/anime or j-drama?
[quote post=”1127″]Does anyone know the names of those stories? are they manga/anime or j-drama?[/quote]
The first sounds like I my me! Strawberry eggs, second like Great Teacher Onizuka (maybe), third like Gokusen (as already mentioned in earlier post). They’re manga and/or anime. There’s a j-drama made of Gokusen too, I think.
The reality of life is really blended right in this one.
I hate this lpart of the fat man and the young girl scenario.
“Don’t Worry, I’ll be gentle.” That fatso should die…
better know his name, and write it down then wait for 40s…..
Even the fusion dance technique perfectly synchronize is applicable to a teacher in despair with stalker girl. He take advantage of her in that part.
Are girls really allowed to stare at someone’s peeing haha…
Gurren Lagann Memorable Reference posted at the wall of the classroom
“Use your drill to make through the heavens”
continuation…. of the recent comment
“Believe in the You who believes in you”
Last continuation of the comment….
At the end Kaere is crazy created a madeup report using penal code 176 against Itoshiki Sensei and even fake medical certificate haha.. Then playing the guitar lol. She should be around with Rena, Rika and the others lol, Satoko might learn something from her.
Yeah those girls in his class maybe the missing people of Himazawa. haha
Add some list of of those teachers…. cause it seems fun to compare it with theother anime that revolves around the teacher.
1)A female teacher from outerspace that fell in love with her student. Their relationship as lovers are too much open even in the class. Is that educational?
2)Looks like a child but deep inside she’s already old teaches at school though she seems the one often make mistakes.
3)A young girl graduated early becomes a teacher in a school though she’s always make fun of her students due to her age and treat like a child.
4)A teacher secretly married with one of his student teaches at school where everyone doesn’t know about their relationship and always defend each other whenever troubles arises on the other.
Well that’s it. expect something nice next episode.
I liked this episode except for the kaere part. The multiple personality thing irritated me, that is both of her personality’s got on my nerves. However, I like our new illegal immigrant girl, Matorou. Shes just adorable and I find it interesting to get a look at how Japan is dealing with the arrival of Latin Americans versus here in the States. While the ‘saturation level’ of Latin immigrants in Japan is a fraction of 1% compared with USA’s, oh, 20-30%, the Japanese race is a lot more insular compared to Americas. The arrival of the “Pedro” character in anime is a social reflection on the issue, and I’m glad its been largely a positive one.
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The issue is generally overlooked in the anime we watch, but if Japan doesn’t do something, probably within our life times, it will begin to wither and die. That means no more anime, no more tuner cars, manga, ect ect.