Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei manga review
February 5th 2010 07:00
Firstly, before I start with the review, I would like to apologize here for the lack of updates here. There are a lot of book reviews that I'd like to share here but I simply don't have the time to write it here as I haven't even finished reading some of the books. As you can see here that I've been writing manga reviews. I also have thought of writing business related book that I've read but I'm not sure whether to write it or not. So feel free to give your thoughts about it. I have no idea when will be the next update but I'll do my best to update this blog
Anyway, let's proceed with the review. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is written by Kouji Kumeta. This manga has also been adapted into an anime with many titles - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. You can read Sayonara Zetusbou Sensei anime review here, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei anime review here, Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei anime review here and Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei anime review here. Just to let you know that these reviews are written by me.
Genres: comedy, slice of life
Theme: school, suicide
Synopsis: revolves around a very pessimistic high school teacher named Nozomu Itoshiki who tries to hang himself on a cherry blossom tree. Despite his best efforts, he is saved by a very optimistic girl known as Kafuka Fuura. She explains to him that it is simply unforgivable to hang himself on a day such a nice day, especially in front of such beautiful trees. She decides to nickname Nozomu "Pink Supervisor," offering to pay him fifty yen to do so. After having enough of the strange girl, Nozomu bolts to the school and starts his homeroom class, but the attempt was in vain as he finds that the girl is one of his students.
Comment:
To be honest with you, I haven't finished reading this manga yet but I just find it really amusing with this manga. The anime is really great because Itoshiki Nozomu's personality is really alive but the manga version isn't so bad after all. Somehow, I just felt that the anime seems faster so sometimes I don't seem to grasp the whole agenda but with manga, you can actually takes time to understand what sort of dilemma he faced (even though I admit his dilemma is totally ridiculous).
As far as the storyline is concerned, of course the storyline is tad similar with the anime but I'm not sure with the later parts of the storyline (let me tell you again that I haven't finished reading this manga yet). Initially, the storyline concentrate on introducing his students (where most of his students have weird habits) but I believe that the later parts of the storyline is a bit fuzzy where the storyline has become random. If my prediction is right, it's just the same with the anime version. What I actually mean random is rather than concentrating on a narrow scope of life, the storyline also focused on social problems occurred in Japan. Well, not necessary Japan alone but it can be throughout the world.
If you think that's boring, reread again how wacky the storyline in the beginning. The wackiness is just the same like in the beginning so you can also expect that whenever they talk about these serious issues, there will always be wacky illustrations and wacky expression. So, at the end of the day, it doesn't look serous after all.
Apart from that, what I really love the most about this manga is definitely the artwork. I might have missed this point in anim but in manga, I'm very much amazed with how you can actually see every single details perfectly. Well, you can say the artwork can be crowded but the details are perfectly.....well detailed. As far as the artwork is concerned, I believe this manga has the best artwork I've ever seen.
Have a look at the artwork yourself here:
Overall, this manga can look pretty much normal on the surface but it's actually not. If you have been diligently watching the anime, you know that it's not the typical comedy anime or mnaga you have encountered. So yes, this manga rocks for its wackiness. Give this manga a try even though you're not really a fan of Kouji Kumeta.
Anyway, let's proceed with the review. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is written by Kouji Kumeta. This manga has also been adapted into an anime with many titles - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. You can read Sayonara Zetusbou Sensei anime review here, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei anime review here, Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei anime review here and Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei anime review here. Just to let you know that these reviews are written by me.
Genres: comedy, slice of life
Theme: school, suicide
Synopsis: revolves around a very pessimistic high school teacher named Nozomu Itoshiki who tries to hang himself on a cherry blossom tree. Despite his best efforts, he is saved by a very optimistic girl known as Kafuka Fuura. She explains to him that it is simply unforgivable to hang himself on a day such a nice day, especially in front of such beautiful trees. She decides to nickname Nozomu "Pink Supervisor," offering to pay him fifty yen to do so. After having enough of the strange girl, Nozomu bolts to the school and starts his homeroom class, but the attempt was in vain as he finds that the girl is one of his students.
Comment:
To be honest with you, I haven't finished reading this manga yet but I just find it really amusing with this manga. The anime is really great because Itoshiki Nozomu's personality is really alive but the manga version isn't so bad after all. Somehow, I just felt that the anime seems faster so sometimes I don't seem to grasp the whole agenda but with manga, you can actually takes time to understand what sort of dilemma he faced (even though I admit his dilemma is totally ridiculous).
As far as the storyline is concerned, of course the storyline is tad similar with the anime but I'm not sure with the later parts of the storyline (let me tell you again that I haven't finished reading this manga yet). Initially, the storyline concentrate on introducing his students (where most of his students have weird habits) but I believe that the later parts of the storyline is a bit fuzzy where the storyline has become random. If my prediction is right, it's just the same with the anime version. What I actually mean random is rather than concentrating on a narrow scope of life, the storyline also focused on social problems occurred in Japan. Well, not necessary Japan alone but it can be throughout the world.
If you think that's boring, reread again how wacky the storyline in the beginning. The wackiness is just the same like in the beginning so you can also expect that whenever they talk about these serious issues, there will always be wacky illustrations and wacky expression. So, at the end of the day, it doesn't look serous after all.
Apart from that, what I really love the most about this manga is definitely the artwork. I might have missed this point in anim but in manga, I'm very much amazed with how you can actually see every single details perfectly. Well, you can say the artwork can be crowded but the details are perfectly.....well detailed. As far as the artwork is concerned, I believe this manga has the best artwork I've ever seen.
Have a look at the artwork yourself here:
Overall, this manga can look pretty much normal on the surface but it's actually not. If you have been diligently watching the anime, you know that it's not the typical comedy anime or mnaga you have encountered. So yes, this manga rocks for its wackiness. Give this manga a try even though you're not really a fan of Kouji Kumeta.
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