List of Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei characters

This is a list of characters from the manga/anime series "Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei". All the students in Nozomu Itoshiki's class are named after controversial social issues in Japanese society with the exception of Kafuka Fuura, whose real name has not been revealed.

Itoshiki family

The Itoshikis are a prestigious family in :Nozomu's younger sister, a seventeen-year-old ikebana master. When her name is written horizontally it resembles :The third son of the Itoshiki family, with an uncanny resemblance to Nozomu. He is a doctor at the private "Itoshiki Clinic." When his name is written horizontally it resembles :The second son of the Itoshiki family, a surrealist painter who is quite full of himself. He has a wife named Yuka who is actually a large stain on the wall of his house. When his name is written horizontally it resembles when compressed, presumably hinting at his whereabouts.

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;:The Itoshiki family butler. He is called "Sebastian" by the students.

Nozomu Itoshiki's students

Nozomu Itoshiki's class, 2-He (the hiragana character へ is the sixth in iroha order, making it equivalent to Class 2-6 or 2-F in more common terms). There are 32 students altogether, though many have yet to be introduced in the series. For a variety of reasons, the entire class ends up repeating their second year with Nozomu multiple times, but the characters themselves never age.

Female students

;::A beautiful, fair-skinned girl whose looks are hidden behind her long hair and the blanket she wears most of the time. She is a hikikomori, but Kafuka believes her to be a zashiki-warashi. Nozomu and Kafuka unintentionally frighten her out of her home during an attempt to persuade her to resume attending her classes, and she now takes up permanent residence in school. She also falls for Nozumu when he was judging her as a good double suicide partner. She spends most of her time in an unused room, but turns up every now and then in odd places such as school lockers or toilet cubicles. She inevitably became his caretaker whenever Nozomu is at school, cooking for him and doing his laundry. Her name is derived from :A shy, insecure girl who constantly apologizes for trivial matters and things she didn't even do. Her name in Eastern order sounds like :A married high-schooler who works multiple jobs to pay off her husband's debts. Her name derives from :An evil-looking girl who compulsively commits malicious acts. Not wanting to be accused of reacting to stereotypes, people simply assume she is a good girl who only looks evil and whatever she did was not her doing. Just as most girls in the class, she has developed a crush on Nozomu, but can only express her love through harming him. Maria made the comment of her being a tsundere. Her name derives from :A former male student of Class 2-He. He leaves the class by the promotion. An otaku. The origin of the name is .

;:The judge of "The mystery darkness court." The long-haired woman who put on the mask of the half drawn game from the middle. Most characters assume she is Chiri, who later appears contemporaneously with the judge, disproving this.

;Nihongo|Maeda-kun|前田君:anime voices|Maeda-kun (first season's stage name is "MAEDAX" and second season's is "MAEDAX G"):The character who grew a mustache with glasses over a skinhead. The model is of the assistant, Maeda. Appears a lot of the time in the animated version in self-imposed restraint marks. He plays the voice of himself.

Background characters

;The Nihongo|Emperor Penguin|皇帝ペンギン|Kōtei Pengin:A deformation of a chick of an emperor penguin. It has appeared in the scenery since chapter 20.

;The Nihongo|Stork|コウノトリ|Kōnotori:A stork that delivers babies. It has appeared in the scenery since chapter 41.

;The Nihongo|Stick Dog|棒犬|Bōinu:A dog that has a stick stabbed in the anus by Mitama. It has appeared in the scenery since chapter 46.

;The Nihongo|Dark Eye|黒い涙|Kuroi Namida:A parody of Japanese cinemas CM that against Bootleg recording. It has appeared in the scenery since chapter 53.

;nihongo|Ms. Sakurai|櫻井女史|Sakurai Joshi:anime voices|Yū Kobayashi:A Japanese journalist. Her likeness has appeared in the scenery since chapter 13.

;Nihongo|Mr. Asō|麻生さん|Asō-san:A Japanese politician. His likeness in the manga has appeared in the scenery since chapter 59.

;Nihongo|Mr. Abe|安倍さん|Abe-san:The 90th Prime Minister of Japan. His likeness has appeared in the scenery with "Nihongo|Depression-ful Country|鬱くしい國|Utsu-kushii kuni" and etc, parodies of his slogan "Nihongo|Beautiful Country|美しい国|Utsukushii Kuni" since chapter 67.

;Nihongo|General Winter|冬将軍|Fuyu shōgun:A Shōgun with extremely long chonmage. He is personification of cold waves from the Siberian High. He has appeared in the scenery since chapter 83.

;Nihongo|Kiyohiko|きよ彦:A man with sharp head. He has appeared in the scenery since an extra chapter in "Magazine Dragon" December 12, 2007 (a supplement of Weekly Shonen Magazine).

;Nihongo|Niáng-niáng|娘々|Nyan'nyan:A female spy from a certain nation. She has appeared in the scenery since chapter 126.

Notes and references

* Some of the female students, who have performed in Opening/Ending themes, are credited together as Zetsubō Shōjotachi.