Comments on: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 2 and 3 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/09/02/sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-2-and-3/ Get decultured Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:02:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: ConcreteBadger http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/09/02/sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-2-and-3/#comment-24763 ConcreteBadger Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:58:19 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/09/02/sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-2-and-3/#comment-24763 @Orion: The ease by which so much of the humour transfers across the cultures gives me hope that it'll be licenced...hopefully without a shitstorm from the tabloid media (cue the humourless Daily Mail and Mary Whitehouse with another 'ban this sick filth!' tirade). Cheers for clearing things up over Tsunetsuki too - I thought the hairstyle was different from Kamori but I wasn't sure. Either way, it was funny :) @Orion: The ease by which so much of the humour transfers across the cultures gives me hope that it’ll be licenced…hopefully without a shitstorm from the tabloid media (cue the humourless Daily Mail and Mary Whitehouse with another ‘ban this sick filth!’ tirade). Cheers for clearing things up over Tsunetsuki too - I thought the hairstyle was different from Kamori but I wasn’t sure. Either way, it was funny :)

]]> By: 0rion http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/09/02/sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-2-and-3/#comment-24700 0rion Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:04:45 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/09/02/sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-2-and-3/#comment-24700 I laughed my butt off seeing the "Best of Enya" in the suicide kit. I must have rewound and watched that scene at least a half dozen times. :D "My own view is that laughter is an antidote to the gravity of the world’s problems - I was nodding in agreement at Itoshiki’s paranoid fears because they actually contain a few grains of truth!" Absolutely, and I think that's exactly why the show's humor is so universal. It's based on things that we can relate to, to some degree or another. Incidentally, the "you'll soon grow used to it" scene was Tsunetsuki-san, the stalker girl, not Komori-san. I laughed my butt off seeing the “Best of Enya” in the suicide kit. I must have rewound and watched that scene at least a half dozen times. :D

“My own view is that laughter is an antidote to the gravity of the world’s problems - I was nodding in agreement at Itoshiki’s paranoid fears because they actually contain a few grains of truth!”

Absolutely, and I think that’s exactly why the show’s humor is so universal. It’s based on things that we can relate to, to some degree or another.

Incidentally, the “you’ll soon grow used to it” scene was Tsunetsuki-san, the stalker girl, not Komori-san.

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