Issue Description

Meet the most melancholy high school teacher in Japan: Nozomu Itoshiki, whose fashion sense is strictly nineteenth-century, whose personal goal is self-annihilation, and whose signature phrase is “I’m in despair!” He’s similar to Franz Kafka and Jean-Paul Sartre–if Kafka and Sartre had had to deal with a classroom of short-skirted, lovesick students. And to make matters worse, Itoshiki’s family wants him to get married. Forget the bride, here comes the gloom!

The first translated work by Japan’s most savage satirist, Koji Kumeta!

Includes special extras after the story!

Chapter TitlesChapter 11 - May the Moon of This Month's Evening Cloud Over with My TearsChapter 12 - Your Front Hair Swept Back for the First TimeChapter 13 - Thou Shalt Not KnowChapter 14 - I'm Predestined to Be in the ShadowsChapter 15 - Confessions of a Pen NameChapter 16 - The People Are at the Breaking PointChapter 17 - Sister-in-law, I'm an AristocratChapter 18 - Leap Before You Lock EyesChapter 19 - That Is Why You Are to Flee, Follow Me! PhilostratusChapter 20 - Because It Is So Unstable, I Went to Search the Skies

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power Of Negative Thinking (2009)

Publisher

Kodansha Comics USA

Volume Description

Originally published in Japan as Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (literally meaning 'Good-bye, Mr Despair). The title seems to pay homage to Good-bye, Mr Chips the 1934 novel about a loved & respected teacher. Del Rey manga added the subtitle The Power of Negative Thinking to they could preserve the original Japanese title, emphasise the pessimistic view of the lead character (Itoshiki Sensei), and to play on the title of the 1952 self-help book, the Power of Positive Thinking.

PublishersDel Rey - Vol. 1-8Kodansha Comics USA - Vol. 9+Upcoming ReleasesVolume 14 - April 3, 2012

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