Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Cover of the first manga volume
さよなら絶望先生 (Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei)
Manga
Written by	Kōji Kumeta
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Kodansha Comics USA
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run	April 27, 2005 – June 13, 2012
Volumes	30 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Produced by	Atsushi Moriyama
Written by	Kenichi Kanemaki
Music by	Tomoki Hasegawa
Studio	Shaft
Licensed by	NA Media Blasters
Original network	TVK, CTC, TVS, SUN, MX, TVA, KBS, Kids Station
Original run	July 7, 2007 – September 22, 2007
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
(Zoku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Produced by	Atsushi Moriyama
Written by	Yuichiro Oguro
Music by	Tomoki Hasegawa
Studio	Shaft
Original network	TVK, CTC, TVS, SUN, MX, TVA, KBS, BS11 Digital, Kids Station
Original run	January 5, 2008 – March 29, 2008
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
(Goku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Produced by	Hiroaki Morita Masayuki Haryu Atsushi Moriyama
Written by	Fuyashi Tou Akiyuki Shinbo
Music by	Tomoki Hasegawa
Studio	Shaft
Released	October 17, 2008 – February 17, 2009
Runtime	24–25 minutes
Episodes	3 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
(Zan) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Produced by	Junnosuke Miyamoto
Written by	Fuyashi Tou Akiyuki Shinbo
Music by	Tomoki Hasegawa
Studio	Shaft
Original network	TVK, CTC, TVS, SUN, MX, TVA, KBS, BS11 Digital
Original run	July 4, 2009 – September 26, 2009
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
(Zan) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Bangaichi
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Produced by	Junnosuke Miyamoto
Written by	Fuyashi Tou Akiyuki Shinbo
Music by	Tomoki Hasegawa
Studio	Shaft
Released	November 17, 2009 – February 17, 2010
Runtime	26–28 minutes
Episodes	2 (List of episodes)

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Japanese: さよなら絶望先生, Hepburn: Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei^?, literally "Goodbye, Mr. Despair") is a Japanese manga by Kōji Kumeta, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It is a comedy about a teacher who takes all aspects of life, word, and culture in the most negative light possible. It satirizes politics, media, and Japanese society. In 2007, the manga received the 31st Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.Shaft produced three anime television series and two sets of three original video animation episodes between 2007 and 2012.

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei revolves around a very pessimistic high school teacher named Nozomu Itoshiki who, at the very beginning of the series, tries to hang himself on a sakura tree. He is saved by an extremely optimistic student known only as Kafuka Fuura (though in her effort to save his life, she almost kills him). She explains to him that it is simply unimaginable that he would hang himself on such a nice day, especially in front of such beautiful trees. She decides to nickname Nozomu "Pink Supervisor" (桃色係長, Momoiro Kakarichō^?), and offers to pay him fifty yen to call him by that nickname. After having enough of the strange Kafuka, Nozomu bolts to the school and starts his homeroom class, but the attempt to escape was in vain as he finds that she is one of his students. Not only that, but Kafuka is just the tip of the iceberg: each and every student in his class represents a new personality quirk or bizarre obsession, posing challenges that he must overcome in spite of himself.