First Date: Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
- Title: Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
- Studio: SHAFT
- Genre: Dark Comedy
Ratings (out of 5):
- Story: If you can call this “story,” it gets ♥♥♥
- Animation: ♥♥♥½
- Characters: ♥♥♥♥
- OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥
- Overall: ♥♥♥♥ (Hang me baby, one more time.)
Thoughts:
Those of you who watched the first season of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, all you need know is that so far, the new season makes even less sense.
For those who skipped over the first season…I recommend watching it before getting into season two because it shifts into its surreal humor a bit more gradually. The second season doesn’t just pick up where season one left off in its weirdness; it takes a great leap forward.
That said, it’s still really funny. In this episode we get the extremely-belated introduction of Hito Nami, a.k.a. “the normal girl.” An introduction to all the previously-introduced characters is provided in the process, as well as some more fun with Kafuka (the optimist) and Komori (the hikikomori). Woot woot.
The OP and ED are good, but not as good as the previous season, and if you really pay attention to them they really feel like a poor man’s version of the first season’s OP/ED– they were trying to replicate the feel and awesomeness without simply duplicating, and I don’t think they succeeded in that.
The animation starts out looking a bit different, but by the end of the episode we’re back to the style we’re used to for this show.
So, there you have it: If you liked the first season of SZS, you’ll like the second season. If you didn’t, you probably won’t. If you haven’t seen any, I recommend the first season before this, but in terms of understanding the characters and setting, you can jump right into the new season…providing you completely ignore the first five or so minutes of the episode. ♥
I think ZSZS is awesome so far, and hito nami was funny, poor her she tried so hard shes just overshadowed by all these crazy people.