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Okay, I have minutes before class, and I’m going to do a quick review of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, because I’ve been watching it.

Short Version: It’s really weird, but the kind of weird I laugh at. For example, see Youtube video of the opening.

Long Version: It is a story of a man who is over-dramatically depressed. When you write his name sideways, it says “Despair.” Apparently one of his brother’s names, written that way, is “Death” as well. He’s a doctor.
Anyway, he’s a school teacher, and he has a class full of female stereotypes: Panty-shot prone forgeiner. Shy Text-messager. Anal-retentive leader-type. Stalker. Hikkomorri. Etc, etc. All of them have very punny sorts of names that reflect who they are. Although all of these characters are fairly one-dimentional, it’s just silly to watch them all interact together in one place. You add this sort of feeling to the incredible randomness of the people making the anime (every time the camera cuts away from a blackboard, it says something different, and what it says is almost always pointless and unrelated. They also use this head of someone I assume is on the anime team all over everywhere. It’s even in that opening I linked.) and you get this sort of crazy humor which often appeals to me. It’s not going to break any sort of new anime ground or be art in any way, but it’s an enjoyable show. About how I feel about Lucky Star, actually, now that I think about it. Not going to become fanatical about it, but it’s entertaining enough to make me want to keep getting new episodes to fill my time. I suppose that’s all most shows can ask for.

In non-review related news, apparently Ecks was not insane, and the title of my blog is cut off when you’re viewing it with Vista’s version of Internet Explorer (I’m on a Vista PC at the computer lab at school right now). I’m not going to worry about it, it looks pretty fine anyway, but that’s really weird. I guess that’s just more proof that Vista is not something you really want to be near right now. Give it at least another year for Microsoft to hammer out a lot of the suckiness, yeah?

Okay, class time. Trying to catch up on reviewing all the stupid things I’ve been consuming. Up soon: Invincible, Metroid Zero Mission, Metroid Fusion, Kino’s Journey. I’m sure you don’t care, but stay tuned for thoughts on those anyway.