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What a pleasant surprise this was. After a.f.k has apparently dropped this for reasons unknown, it was nice to see a bunch of people from 4chan team up to release this. Granted, it was far from perfect but at this stage, less than decent subs are better than no subs. Kudos to them and hopefully, they keep this up.

A somewhat interesting episodes as we get a peek at Nozomu’s family background, which is quite surprising. This time around, the Pink Supervisor goes AWOL on his students yet again, but this time, is due to the fact he is the reluctant participant of an arranged marriage ceremony, a fact his students will discover later. But first, a Fuuka that was not feeling well decided to visit a clinic who to her surprise was owned by Nozomu’s older brother, whom she mistakes as Nozomu due to his uncanny resemblance to the latter.

No kidding, how do you REALLY pronounce your name?

There we go.

After consulting the good doctor, Fuuka and Chiri, who was coincidentally in the area found out about Nozomu’s situation and decides to head off to his hometown, along with the other girls who accidentally ended up at the same location due to various humorous circumstances. Upon arriving, they are greeted by the Itoshiki family butler, Sebastien Tokito, and it is immediately made clear that Nozomu is actually from an influencial and well-to-do family in his hometown. As the group reach the Itoshiki residence, the butler briefly explains on the family tree, which consists of 4 sons, with Nozomu being the youngest. Also, it turns out Nozomu has a younger sister, who is immediately annoyed as Fuuka utters her other name.

Oddly moe.

………

Later in the evening, it is made clear that the arranged marriage ceremony is no ordinary one, as the participant, namely Nozomu himself will have to marry whoever he makes eye contact with. If that wasn’t strange enough, the whole town is involved as well, as whoever they are bound by the same rules. Lol wut? Anyway, we are treated with Nozomu’s attempts at avoiding eye contact with people, with hilarious outcomes of course.

Because you’re a fanservice character ^^

The episode ends as the Pink Supervisor successfully overcomes the ordeal and returns to school with his harem(lulz) Not too bad an episode I guess, although I wish the sister would get more screen time. Oh well, with a new group picking this up, hopefully I’ll get to see that happen in the near future. Shin out.

Right before the show starts we have a spoof of Columbia Productions. Wow.

Physical examinations are underway at school, and as usual the girls are fretting over increased weighing scale values and *ahem* the three sizes. So they’re comparing numbers and contemplating diet plans, when Itoshiki-sensei walks in and tells them off for worrying about physical appearance, because everything will eventually crumble away.

Right. Moving on, Despair-san realizes that the materialistic world of today has left him in despair (what else is new), and promptly announces to the class of an ‘examination of their status’, aka a measure of your calibre as a human being. Basically he’s talking about judging people from their inner values instead of their outward appearance, albeit with the usual negative outlook and well….weird aspects.

For example Despair-san comments that many people do things that are not appropriate based on their status. Eg a neet making fun of other neets or showing your midriff when you’ve got a huge belly. Stuff like that.

So he then ‘examines’ each student to check if they’re living according to their status, which is pretty ridiculous, as demonstrated by lend-me-10000-yen interrogation with the balding guy student.

Unfortunately, Class Rep-san catches the bug and quickly turns everyone’s lives into hell by making sure they don’t live above their status. This means paper bags over brand-name bags, 70-character Chara Mail over 10000-character message-capable phones and photocopies over glossy hardcover manga. Whew. And oh she throws it at their heads. Calls for both rofl and OTL moments.

After the tatami oppression, Despair-san realises living according to your status is perhaps not as pleasant after all, and proceeds to do the opposite- splurge and live like a celebrity so he can die like a celebrity.(Breathe if this is not making any sense to you.)

After spending extravagantly on the finest woman and wine, he tries to drown himself in a bowl of Dom Perignon but fails because…there was not enough Dom Perignon to drown in. Right. The ‘finest woman’ comes in and passes him the bill for his brief exorbitant expenditures, and Despair-san is shocked to death at how much it costs to die. Class Rep-san wields a chopping knife Higurashi/Rena style and says ‘it doesn’t cost a penny.’ End of first half.

(I am making so much effort to remember all their names XD)

In the next part, Despair-san wins a trip to the hot spring. After all what anime is complete without the obligatory hot spring scene/episode? Topped with fanservice or course. And…..no prizes for guessing….he meets his (female, of course) students at the other side of the hot spring.

The divider falls *gasp* and now everyone is in full view of each other. Instead of shielding their bodies the girls don’t mind if ‘sensei looks’, on the other hand it is the otoko who is embarrassed at being naked. Thus, he feels less like a man. *patpat*

The girls are there because after receiving the results of the physical examination, they decided to ‘detox’, or eliminate toxins. Despair-san immediately gets up from the bath because it is apparently not good to ‘detoxify’ oneself.

Indeed, upon rising from the bath, all the girls seem to have lost their ‘toxic’ nature and are much more well, untoxic. Blonde overseas girl loses her ‘I’ll sue’ nature, meru meru girl sends a message without it’s usual toxicity, tail girl’s wounds heal etc. Everyone’s a lot nicer now, but instead of being happy Despair-san is all freaked out because he’s not used to seeing his harem girls like this.

He orders the landlady to fix up a meal filled with preservatives and additives to retoxify the girls, and lo and behold it works. Minna-san is just as toxic as they were before. Despair-san heaves a sigh of relief. All’s well that ends well.

Elsewhere school counsellor and hikikomori-san were having their own moments…*coughyuricough*

BUT the girls decide to see what happen if they detoxify Despair-san, and throw him into the hot spring. Rising to the surface is….only his clothes. It appears that he was so toxin-laden, one detoxified there was literally nothing of him left. Aww.

No new characters were introduced this time, perhaps they’ve shown all of them. Despite the wtf-humour and pencil-thin plotline I still find SZS highly entertaining, and it’s not solely because of the parodies. I absolutely adore the meru meru girl, there’s just something about the silent but abusive girl that makes me wanna be her friend (even though she’d probably spam me with hate meru first XD). Can’t wait for the next ep which, unfortunately, is taking a while. D: midniteblu out.

If there’s one reason why I like SZS a lot, it would probably be because of the twisted and inane nature of the main characters and how they are portrayed each week. For this episode, we are introduced to another 2 of the Pink Supervisor’s students, first being Abiru Kobushi, the bandaged character so to speak, who is a suspected victim of domestic violence. The teacher is then asked to speak with her father regarding the matter and spots him shopping. Being the paranoid person that he is, the Pink Supervisor stalks him instead and watches as he makes purchases. As he enters a kitchen utensils shop, the Pink Supervisor immediately draws the conclusion that the father is buying things to abuse his daughter, no matter how unlikely these items can be used to hurt someone. The result? Every retailer in the district is informed about this matter, and they refuse to sell anything to Kobushi’s dad and come up with weird theories on how the objects will be utilized to torture her.

We then shift our focus to Fuura, who has fallen into a tiger pit. While most people will be panicking and screaming for lives, Positive-tan remains ever so calm and at first insists it’s a bad dream. Even after realizing it’s not, she remains steadfast and states that it’s okay to eaten alive, as did Buddha in the holy scriptures and claims she will become a god for doing so.

Just as Fuura is about to be attacked by the tiger, she is promptly saved by Kobushi, whom we discover actually got all her injuries when she interacts with the animals, mainly by pulling their tails. We also find out that she is also an avid tail collector. Haha, oh wow. On another note, the show slips in a parody on the Billy’s Boot Camp exercise program featuring Kobushi’s dad.

Yes, it’s as gay as it looks.

As did the previous episode, we’re introduced to the more interesting character in the second half, and this time around, we get to see Meru Otonashi, at first glance your typical shy soft spoken girl. Keeping in mind the show we’re watching, it does away with the stereotypes and Meru-chan is actually a verbally abusive person, although she can only communicate through her cellphone, probably a representation of online flamers and trolls. While we’ve seen a glimpse of her nature in previous episodes, this time she goes all out and flames everyone in her class, sparing no one, well except for Maria, since she only owns a pager.

Meru’s spot on analysis on Kaera’s character.

If you notice the pockets in her blouse first, you’re gay.

Sneak preview of future episodes?

Her SMS’ing tyranny is put to a stop when she swaps places with Fuura, whose location is out of coverage area. And if you deprive an obsessed person out of something, this is what happens. Without fail, Fuura steps in and says that Meru’s current status is similar to that of her mother’s during that time when, well…

!!!!!????

The episode comes to a close as Fuura smack Meru in the head with a gigantic cross and calms her down with a little prep talk, although in truth it actually had a reverse effect, scaring Meru out of her wits. Another week of random fanservice and weirdness! Oh, do watch out for the Final Fantasy reference at the end of the episode. Shin out.

Instead of the usual attempt at suicide, our Pink Supervisor drops dead and becomes one of Raito’s many victims….

….not. That’s how this week’s episode opens, much to my delight, considering L’s death was THE highlight of Death Note, which till today I still think should have ended at that point, since Near and Mellow’s arc was pretty lame, but I digress.

Test’s are coming up, as the ever callous teacher informs his students, although he’s not placing any sort of hope in them, much to their displeasure. He instead places all his eggs in one basket and tells them that a returnee (basically a student of the same school who has spent time overseas) will be joining their ranks, and will be relying on that student alone to raise the class average. He is then brought back to reality, as he is told a single student won’t be sufficient to raise the average should all of them do badly(duh), and it hits him, to which he reacted with attempted suicide(again)

Let’s become taller together!

The returnee, that goes by the name of Kaere Kimura then walks in on them, and at first glance resembles an obnoxious kogal with bleached hair which she is, although there’s more to it than meets the eye. Disturbed by the clash in cultural differences she witnessed, she rambles on about the some gestures and how they mean certain things in the country she went, of the which are really weird, like apparently if you’re male and posses an image of strawberries, it means you’re virgin (lawl)

Pink Supervisor Foreign Country Laws

Being the patriots that they are, the students get annoyed with Kaere’s behavior and tells her off. This triggers some sort of personality change within Kaere and she then switches to her other self, the well-mannered and shy, all Japanese, Kaede Kimura. It wouldn’t be such a hassle of she stayed this way, but it doesn’t last long and to make matters worse, her Japanese self falls in love with the Pink Supervisor.

Of course, his number one fan, stalker-chan has something to say about that. Kaede is at despair and she witnesses the “closeness” of the latter’s relationship with the teacher, and attempts suicide(uh huh), but is stopped in time by the Pink Supervisor. You’d think this would make her like him even more than before, but alas, she switches back into Kaere who then threatens to sue him for sexual harassment. ORZ

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Moving on to the second half of the show, we’re introduced to a lovable little brown girl by the name of Sekiutsu Tarou(what?), which somewhat irritates Chiri since it’s pretty obvious it’s a boy’s name and everyone act nonchalantly despite having someone who they’ve not seen before attend their class all of the sudden. Chiri then tails the little brown girl home, and stumbles upon Fuura, who tags along. They then reach a ramshackle and dilapidated room and to their shock, is filled with illegal immigrants or Asian returnees, as per Fuura’s implausible logic.

And the rest are named Toyota, Sony, Sanyo, Toshiba and etc. The little
brown girl is known as Maria though.

Japan, the land of abundance, throws away working television sets, bicycles, refrigerators and even…

Why Japanese people are so kind….

All in all, it’s a pretty decent episode, but only in the second half when Maria-chan is introduced. And judging from what I’ve read in the (scanlated) manga thus far, there should be a few more girls left to be introduced, including Bandage-tan and Cellphone-tan. I doubt this show would make it past the 12 episode mark, but that’s pretty normal nowadays, unless they decide to extend it, like Nagasarete Airantou or Seto no Hanayome. Shin out..

Oh man, this is easily my most favorite show this season so far. It would seem at the beginning of each episode, the Pink Supervisor will attempt to take his own life(as usual) only to be stopped(only to worsen things) by Fuura and then utters that one hypocritical line.

Then the show will be over and I’d have nothing to watch. ;_;

In a way, this show is a twisted and demented harem show (to put it simply) where each and everyone of the girls have some sort of weird characteristic, ranging from ever-so-positive Fuura, the shy but extremely moe hikkikomori Komori, obsessive compulsive Kitsu to stalker Tsunetsuki.

SO MOE I’M GONNA DIE!

At first glance, it would seem that our Pink Supervisor will deal with each of these girls and their distinct personalities in his callous, empathetic nature, which ironically works, and bonds them together in some way, albeit with funny results. Another great thing about this show is Fuura and her inane logic as to explain the dysfunctional personalities of some of the girls. For example, refusing to acknowledge the fact Komori is indeed a shut-in, Fuura simply states that she is actually a demon and prevents her from leaving her room while Tsunetsuki’s stalking behavior is justified as “pure love” ORZ

UR DOING IT WRONG!

I don’t think so, Tim.

As it was the previous episode, the show is laden with subtle references to other shows, be it Death Note, Code Geass or even Lucky Star, which makes the show more enjoyable (I’m a sucker for in show references)

ZOMG KONNA-CHAN!!111

What else can I say? I love this show, but I’m going to go watch Lucky Star now. Shin out.

What you get if Satou-kun of Welcome to the NHK was a teacher who’s gloomier than usual and is on the verge of suicide. The show starts off with our protagonist, Nozomu Itoshiki, attempting suicide by hanging himself in a park only to be saved by Kafuka Fuura, a happy-go-lucky high school girl who can see only the positive things in life. So, a chanced meeting that should have never occured then?

Tried and tested.

And so, she manages to talk him out of it(for the time being anyway) and from the preceding conversation, their vastly contrasting personalities show as Fuura names him the Pink Supervisor and shares her past experiences about her parents which is nothing short of amusing(in a gloomy way)

So he was hanging himself because he was…

We later find out he turns out to be a homeroom teacher at her school, and we’re given an insight of how he acts around his students, spreading his gloominess and hopelessness about. We also discover the origins behind the show’s unfortunate title.

And you thought you had an awful name.

That pretty much concludes the first episode, although they managed to include some fanservice shots in between.

Most annoying form of censorship since Cover Crows from Air Gear. Instant boner-killer. :@

A pretty good show judging from the first episode, with its dark sense of humor akin to NHK and stylized animation. Episode 2 is out as I post this(I usually get hold off 1 or 2 episodes before I start a new series) so I guess I’ll stop now and start watching. Shin out.