Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Kumeta Koji

Volume 2

Sayonara, Zensubou-sensei

Shonen

Teatro Glamour

Snack Yonekura

High-class Club Rodan

Teatro Glamour

Sensual Friends

The Two Soaked in Sin

Starting Soon

Love Celeb

Starting Soon

Haou Airen

Nightclub Maruyama Hall

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Comiket Catalog

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Spring

Live concert 10 years later

Live concert 10 years later

Free Tibet!

Vacant shop

We have closed as of 3/30. Thank you for your patronage.

Nakano misfortune

In front of the Chuo line...

Shibuya misfortune

Smacked by some foreigner right in the street

Toyoshima misfortune

Clipped by a cart on Otome Road

Shinjuku misfortune

Mixed up with scary people

Chiyoda misfortune

Get caught up in an Akiba demonstration

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Hokkaido

Divorce

Etsu-Fuga Shrine

licious!!

- OP --

The story until now.

His partner in a false marriage, introduced to him by right-wing guerrillas, was a spy for a certain country.

Without knowing, he is pressed to divulge secrets.

His butthole that even his parents had never seen was probed,

with the insistence that this was normal married life.

Though he was in his twenties, he applied for a middle-aged divorce,

but was told “sure, fine, just show me your butthole”,

and pursued by a clerk resembling Kaga Takeshi.

In a hotel in Maruyama-cho, sobbing, he showers.

Nozomu.

Sob, sob. Sob, sob.

Why? Why did it come to this?

These must be test-luck goods!

One of my relatives is taking her middle school entrance exams, so I figured I’d try buying them superstitiously.

Aren’t you being too superstitious?

All of them are pretty overbearing.

Trying everything in order to pass exams, no matter what.

But examinees are that desperate.

Isn’t it more the businesses that are desperate?

After all, if they eat nothing but these snacks,

won’t they break out, and be unable to concentrate on the day of the exams?

Well, foods eaten due to superstition have always been high-calorie.

If you’re too enthusiastically superstitious, it’ll never turn out well!

Mr. Ikkyu, are you following a superstition?

Why yes, yes, I am.

Well, I’ve certainly heard of superstitiously not shaving one’s beard, but haven’t you let it get too long!?

People, attempting to follow a superstition, often lose sight of important things.

One’s five-sided pencil being difficult to grip during a test, and making one unable to write one’s answers well!

Taking a roundabout but more auspicious path to the meeting place, and getting lost!

Giving up halfway through because one’s number on a test is unlucky!

Hello, Zekkei-sensei!

Are you following a superstition?

Brother, just what are you—

You’re even tanned...

Well, today’s lucky color is black.

I’m following a superstition.

Brother, what is that you’re carrying?

Ah, isn’t it so black?

Well, I asked what it was.

And I told you it was something black. Do you really need to know anything else?

There are people so fixated on their lucky color they even dye themselves red.

I think the problem with Zekkei-sensei isn’t the color in particular.

Yes!

When people are too superstitious, terrible things happen!

I guess it’s fine to satisfy yourself with superstition,

but by trying to get rid of ill omens you inflict it on other people!

Like telling people not to use ill-omened, taboo words;

I think Japan is unique in terms of the power of language, so we can’t help but worry about it,

but still, we sure are enthusiastic about changing even place names.

If you change Kamenashi’s surname to Kameari because it’s ill-omened,

it really does change his image.

The seniors’ hallway certainly is tense.

What is it?

Are you Zetsubou-sensei?

How can we allow such an ill-omened name in a place of learning!

Until the exams are over, we’re quarantining you!

Why did it come to this.

What!?

Teacher was taken off somewhere because his name was ill-omened!?

At the hands of the Neo J-bleep-U?

Let’s all go save him together!

But where is he?

Just where is this?

Sorry, but you’re under strict guard.

No one will be coming to rescue you.

You can rot there until the exams are over!

Actually, I’ve already been rescued.

What?

I’d been thinking that I wanted to get away from my troublesome students,

and spend my remaining years quietly alone.

You’re just saying that for the sake of your pride! Solitary confinement is lonely!

It’s not solitary at all.

Since I’m here.

You were there?

Yes, always.

How did you get in here?

Did you manage to slip through the strict guard?

It’s just deep love.

Uh... Very well.

Adding in one little girl won’t change anything.

Good gracious, what’s this?

I think it’s over here.

I can’t do it.

Go.

It’s open.

Charge!

Who are you!?

How’d you get in here!?

Stop the violence, you’re setting a bad example.

I’ve got you threatening girls all on camera right here.

If we get feminist groups on our side, we’ll be able to get hundreds of millions in a settlement!

I’m sorry! I’m sorry!

What a horrible sight..

Damn you!

I’m really sorry!

What have I done?

I’m sorry! I’m sorry!

Kaga, you sure are hardheaded.

I’m sorry! I’m sorry!

Nice finisher.

I’m sorry!

If a strange organization suddenly shows up,

isn’t that an ill omen meaning we’re nearing the final episode!?

Oh no! Intruders!

How did they get in? Capture them!

The door opened on its own!

Teacher, let’s run away!

Before those other women show up!

Can’t you run away yourself and leave me alone?

How did you get out!?

I’ll be leaving now.

You can’t! It’s ill-omened!

It’s a crime against the examinees if someone as ill-omened as you goes to school!

What are you saying?

There’s no way teacher is ill-omened!

It’s the other way around, he’s the god of the examinees!

He’s perfectly suited for for superstition!

There he is!

Let us worship you!

What?

Let us pin our hopes to you!

What!?

Why am I being revered as a good-luck charm?

Is it just by reading my name simply as “Nozomu”!?

Why?

Because if you read it that way, there’s no gag to Zetsubou-sensei!

No choke! No choke!

We’ll be sure to pass!

They’ll never choke!

An amazing rate of not choking!

Examinees, be sure to buy them!

They’re good omens!

There’s no gag!

We’ll keep all of them a secret.

Clip this out and take it to your exams!

Letters of thanks are arriving from all over the country for the exam-passing prayer!

If one person passes per letter,

nowadays, that makes the pass rate 100%!

It sure is spring!

Are the tidings of spring here?

By tidings of spring, you mean things that remind me of the season? Like horsetail rushes?

Yeah, tidings of spring like that.

It’s a tiding of spring!

It’s a tiding of spring!

Something that makes you feel like it really is spring.

It really is something that brings spring to mind, but—!

Don’t give me something you had in your tighty-whities!

Yes.

It’s all very well to speak of tidings that spring has come,

but they don’t have to be just good tidings.

if you think spring is just horsetail rushes, cherry blossoms, nightingales, and the like, you’re sorely mistaken.

Aren’t there tidings of spring that aren’t as good?

No-good things that make you feel like it’s spring!

The empty chair of the manager after he’s demoted!

Personal effects found around the gorges after the snow melts!

More and more shed hairs on your pillow!