

Nozomu Itoshiki, a man so unfortunate even his name can be read as "despair", attempts to commit suicide.

The series happily subverts any number of slice-of-life, school anime tropes, while carrying out a wide variety of far odder ones. Despair") has become in its dark, disturbed humor and wisecracking background trivia is one of the most amusing Widget Series ever witnessed.

Instead, what Koji Kumeta's Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (roughly "Farewell, Mr. What do you get when you take a man who is depressed to the point of melodramatic suicide, and make him the teacher of a psychologically-dysfunctional class full of maniacs, psychos and misfits? No, it's not like your average Slice of Life show.
