blkmage (post: 1361400) wrote:Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is fantastic as long as you are cool with satire. It's probably not the best thing if you're easily offended.
I recently watched the some of the first season again and for something that doesn't rely on or have a lot of continuity, the difference in style from, say, the third season and the OVAs and the first season is really noticeable. This is especially strange because the particular chapters that are animated for each season aren't necessarily done in any order.
For me, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei was also my introduction to SHAFT and Akiyuki Shinbo. If you're a fan of the direction style (fast, random cuts, heavy use of patterns and shapes, a billion references on the screen, shots from weird angles), you'll definitely want to check out some of their other works. It's particularly interesting to see it applied to things that aren't comedies.
Agreed. Akiyuki Shinbo is definitely one of my favorite anime directors. Shaft and Shinbo worked on an anime called Pani Poni Dash, which I could consider a lighter version of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei even though it was made a couple years before (but PPD is an excellent series in its own right, as well). And I really like some of Shinbo's earlier works, like: SoulTaker (a surreal action series that Akiyuki Shinbo did for Tatsunoko), Uchuu Senkan Yamamoto Yohko (parody of Yamato/Star Blazers, right down to the title), Le Portrait de Petit Cossette (did I spell that right?), Tsukuyomi Moonphase and Bakemonogatari (both excellent vampire comedies with their own twists), and the second Negima anime. But enough about that.
Let me get to the true point...
SAYONARA ZETSUBOU SENSEI IS AWESOME! Enough said and done. But if you're easily offended, it'd be a good idea to pass on it. If you want a (relatively) cleaner series with biting satire, Pani Poni Dash would suffice, but if you love black humor (as I do), you simply can't beat Nozomu Itoshiki and the crazy students he has to teach. I hope some company (especially Sentai Filmworks or Media Blasters) gets around to licensing this awesome series. And if people say that Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei has no chance of getting licensed, well, the manga already did...and it's selling reasonably well.
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What I'll be reviewing in the future:
SoulTaker (soon to start)
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