Nozomu Itoshiki is depressed. Very depressed. He’s certifiably suicidal, but he’s also the beloved schoolteacher of a class of unique students, each charming in her own way: The stalker. The shut-in. The obsessive-compulsive. The girl who comes to class every day with strange bruises. And Kafuka, the most optimistic girl in the world, who knows that every cloud has a silver lining. For all of them, it’s a special time, when the right teacher can have a lasting positive effect on their lives. But is that teacher Itoshiki, a.k.a. Zetsubou-sensei, who just wants to find the perfect place to die?
So that's all for this volume and all for the moment. Have legacy costs ever left you in despair or are you a legacy cost at someone else's despair? Would you redeem the coupon?
this chapter has 20 Tsunetsuki, 0 pantyshot, 1 Uropen, 0 Amakudari-sama, 0 Miss Sakurai Yoshiko, 1 stork and baby, 1 stick dog, 1 black tear, 0 Mr. Asou Tarou, 0 Mr. Abe Shinzou, 0 eye of darkness, 0 AAA, 1 Kiyohiko, 1 god sticker, 0 Nyannyan, 1 funny sticker, 0 "The manga world shall be at peace." 0 Sento-kun, 0 Sanosuke, 0 Mr. Ishiba Shigeru, 0 Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, 0 文化庁, 1 something with various parts removed, 0 Sakai Noriko, and 0 友愛. Tsunetsuki isn't hiding of course. Not a lot of characters today, that's because most of them appear in the commemorative color page to celebrate 200 chapters. But that color page doesn't show up at the end of volume 20 with chapter 200, it opens volume 21 instead.
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>Tsunetsuki has the red string of fate on his finger cute
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Fashionable cloak..
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Thanks OP. Here's this week's Shibuya.
Shibuya Near Family Chapter 34: The foreigners tend to be the most excited
>Blurb: Volume 1 comes out September 15th!
>Shibuya's Bon festival dance... >Is a little hard to dance.
>I really don't think you need to force Shibuya-kei into it! >What are you saying? As mentioned in earlier chapters, Shibuya-kei is a genre of pop music.
>You're Shibuya kids. >What are you going to do if you can't even keep this level of rhythm?
>Just look at the high schoolers playing baseball at the Koshien. >They march in perfect rhythm no matter what sort of strange tunes they play, don't they? Koshien refers to the highly-popular national high school baseball tournaments played at the stadium of the same name. The opening ceremony seems to usually involve the teams marching around the stadium while some music plays.
>I think I'm fine with being out of rhythm, actually. >Anyway, this isn't what I came here to talk about.
>We're the ones doing the spooking this time around.
>They asked us to play the monsters. Eru-kun is dressed as Kitaro from GeGeGe no Kitaro and Ito-chan is Sadako from The Ring. The others seem to be generic yokai.
>Playing monsters? >That definitely sounds like fun!
>*Bwaaa* >Eeek!
>You can't make loud sounds! >Huh?
>You can't make a racket! >What will you do if the kids falls over from surprise and injure themselves?
>Gore is not allowed, either! >It's too extreme!
>Copyright laws are very tricky, >so you can't do that!
>And no candles! >You could start a fire!
>If you do those things, >someone could protest! Then what will you do?
>But... what AM I supposed to do, then? >These days, from the organizers' point of view...
>A "Test of courage"... >Is more like a "Test of compliance". In Japanese, this is a pun on "kimodameshi", meaning test of courage, and "dame", which means not allowed. The "dame" in "kimodameshi" comes from "tameshi", meaning test. I can't really come up with any good pun in English.
>What do you mean? >If you make the slightest mistake, you'll immediately be lambasted for not complying with rules and such.
>Each and every time, it'll have terrifying consequences. >Clockwise from top right: Hitting your head on a lantern, Tripping on ramps, Burning yourself on a candle, Touching and getting branded as a pervert
>Like someone doing a prank, who's worried he might get punched! >Sign: Prank
>Or a thrill ride operator, who's screaming for a whole different reason! >(Eeek!)
>Or a surprise confession, >that you're worried could look like harassment!
>These days, >the ones getting their courage tested are the people doing the scares!
>But, since we still need to hold the event, >we asked a compliance expert to help us.
>[Compliance-sensei, also known as Hyougennouji Yuu] >I will point out any spots that aren't in compliance. The name is a pun on "hyougen no jiyuu", meaning "freedom of expression".
>You should hurry up and change your outfit too, Ikko-chan. >Yeah.
>What sort of costume are you planning to use? >Let's see... Here.
>The sand-throwing hag. >Paper: Conceptual art Sunakake-Baba. As the name implies, it's a yokai that throws sand at people's faces.
>The sand-throwing...
>H-H- >HAG!?
>You can't use terms like "hag" in this day and age, you know! >"Hag"... No way!
>You know, I don't think that name is really going to scare anyone. >It sounds like some old person who made the news because they were being a public nuisance.
>If that's not allowed, >I suppose "the old man with a baby's cry" isn't going to fly either? Konaki-Jijii, a yokai that seems to be a crying baby. If picked up, it turns into an old man and starts to become heavier and heavier until it crushes the victim.
>Obviously. >(Senior citizen with a baby's cry.)
>Also, terms that end with -man or -woman or such >should be made gender-neutral. >Right to left: Snow woman (Yuki-onna), Snowman (Yeti) -> Snow person >That's like calling someone a dog person or a cat person. It's not scary. The gender-neutral ending used here is -nchu, which is dialectical word for "person of" found around Okinawa. In the Japanese, Eru-kun specifically refers to "uminchu", which means "person of the sea", and can refer to e.g. fishermen or pearl divers. T-shirts with "uminchu" written on them seem to be fairly popular.
>I think "wolf-person" sounds pretty cute, actually. >How about a mouse-person? They're using -nchu to come up with these names, and I think the joke is that "chuu" is the onomatopoeia for the sound that a mouse makes.
>So, is there anything else that doesn't comply? >Indeed...
>You're in a brightly lit white room with nothing in it, >and we have chained you so that you won't accidentally hurt yourselves while walking around.
>It is a safe, secure, and fully compliant... >"Test of Courage".
>No, you somehow managed to make it REALLY scary!!
>Shibuya duty diary - Mom who's gone through the whole day smiling, without getting angry at anything, is the scariest thing of all.
>Sidebar: Incidentally, a fan of Kumeta-sensei would be called Kumenchu. Would a fan of Sunday be "sanchu"? Sanchu is apparently a term for Korean lettuce, from the Korean word "sangchoo", meaning lettuce.
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