Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Fuura Kafuka

Main

A somewhat strange and exceedingly optimistic student who always sees everything in the single most positive light possible: the polar opposite of Nozomu, who sees only the dark side of things and is constantly in despair. She often has bizarre, childishl...

Itoshiki Nozomu

Main

Birthday: November 4The main character, a high school teacher and the youngest son of the Itoshiki family. He always wears a hakama and kimono abroad, preferring flippant casual western clothing in his hometown. When his name is written horizontally it re...

Aoyama

Supporting

Birthday: 11 October (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)Another friend of Kino and Haga who is nearly, but not quite, as negative as Nozomu. In the manga, Aoyama was also given the responsibility to become the substitute Mr. Despair which he keeps up for a couple chapte...

Arai Chie

Supporting

The student counselor. If one supplies an alternate reading for the first kanji in her surname, her name is read "Niichie", a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche. She has an excellent figure and a large bust, which is admired by the local people during the s...

Fujiyoshi Harumi

Supporting

A fan of yaoi and cat ears, and the classroom's resident illustrator. She has an innate coupling instinct, imagining slash pairings between all sorts of (male) characters, her favorite couple being Pine × Napple; she has also imagined pairings between Noz...

Haga

Supporting

Birthday: 24 June (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)The perverted friend of Kino and Aoyama....

Hitou Nami

Supporting

Birthday: March 31 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)A girl whose only trait is that she is completely ordinary (relative to her classmates); however, she takes offense at being called "normal," which she considers boring and undesirable. Her name derives from the Japa...

Honoi Shun

Supporting

A former male student of Class 2 - He transferred to another school. Apparently nobody remaining in the class knew who he was....

Ikkyu

Supporting

Birthday: 11 October (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)The self-proclaimed "old friend" of Nozomu Itoshiki, who, like Nozomu, likes old things. It is later found out that they werent old friends but rather "one day friends" in elementary school. His name is a reference...

Itoshiki Mikoto

Supporting

The third son of the Itoshiki family, with an uncanny resemblance to Nozomu. He is a doctor in his private "Itoshiki Clinic". When his name is written horizontally, it resembles zetsumei (絶命, zetsumei "death"), which explains why his hospital is rarely vi...

Itoshiki Kei

Supporting

The second son of the Itoshiki family and Nozomus older brother. Hes an artist. His name can be read as "Zekkei-sensei," which means "Beautiful view."...

Itoshiki Majiru

Supporting

Nozomus nephew, the son of Enishi. He was sent to live with Nozomu when his parents abandoned him. Although he is rather arrogant for his age, he is quite vulnerable to the psychological trauma caused by Nozomus students. His name becomes zekkō (絶交?, "bre...

Itoshiki Enishi

Supporting

The older brother of Nozomu Itoshiki, he is the first child of the Itoshiki family.He supposedly worked as a divorce attorney but currently works as a posthumous marriage counselor, giving marriages to people that could not get married while alive to help...

Itoshiki Rin

Supporting

Birthday: 4 May (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)Nozomus younger sister, a seventeen-year-old ikebana master. When her name is written horizontally it resembles zetsurin ("unequaled"), which describes her exceptional talent in various skills; however, calling her zets...

Jinroku

Supporting

School teacher, Nozomus colleague. He is generally gentle, but has a tattoo at his back, suggesting he has a past with the yakuza. He is a fan of Nightmare....

Kaga Ai

Supporting

Birthday: January 8 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)A shy, insecure girl who constantly apologizes for trivial matters and things she didn't even do. At one point she tried to become a tsundere. Her name in Eastern order sounds like kagai (加害, "perpetrate"), and is m...

Kimura Kaere

Supporting

Birthday: February 5 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)She is left-handed (you can see it on art in "Pictures") A returnee to Japan suffering from dissociative identity disorder. One is an ultimately Japanese woman named Kaede, a very gentle personality well-versed in ...

Kino Kuniya

Supporting

Birthday: 20 October (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)Kuniya is described in episode 10 of the second season as "Library commitee member, hates losing. Supposed to appear as a rival character to Jun Kudō, but his strange clothes and interest in Ai Kaga are now his mos...

Kitsu Tane

Supporting

Chiris older sister and in contrast to her a complete slob who creates disarray and dirt by her mere presence. According to Harumi, Tane would not have been so dirty had it not been for Chiri. In a flashback, a young Chiri and Tane were shown with a pet g...

Kitsu Chiri

Supporting

Birthday: January 20 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)A student who demands all things in her life to be precise, equal and conforming. This is most notable in her hair style, which was originally curly and is parted in the center. She often tries to set things straig...

Kobushi Father

Supporting

Kobushi Abiru's father is the sole survivor of the Japanese Special Operations Group "ＤＥＳＥＲＴ　ＣＲＵＳＨＥＲＳ", a unit so deadly that individual soldiers are trained to be capable of eliminating an entire enemy platoon with a single volume of Kimagure Orange Road...

Kobushi Abiru

Supporting

A girl who is always heavily bandaged, and assumed by most people to be the victim of domestic violence. She has a fetish for pulling animal tails, and her injuries are actually caused by irate animals reacting to having their tails pulled by her. She wor...

Komori Kiri

Supporting

Birthday: June 9 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)Age: 17Height: 165 cmBlood type: AThree Sizes: 84/55/84A 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...

Kotonon

Supporting

A net idol. Her website of heavily photoshopped images is extremely popular; in reality she is overweight and unattractive, and wears gothic lolita-fashion. Her name is derived from voice actress Kotono Mitsuishi....

Kudou Jun

Supporting

Birthday: 14 June (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)Jun is described in episode 4 of the second season as "Genius Storyteller. There is no story he cant tell. Good-looking guy". His name comes from the bookstore "Junkudo-Shoten" and Jun Kudō, its founder. His stories u...

Kumeta Kouji

Supporting

The author of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei who seems to appear randomly during the series. He frequently blames his boss for keeping him at work....

Manseibashi Wataru

Supporting

Wataru is a hardcore otaku who puts more priority on his hobby than anything else. His name comes from "Manseibashi o wataru" (万世橋を渡る?, "to cross over Mansei Bridge"); Mansei Bridge is a bridge that connects Chiyoda and Akihabara. He is not in Nozomus cla...

Marui Madoka

Supporting

A tea ceremony club member who likes Kino, but despairs at his fashion sense....

Maruuchi Shouko

Supporting

A girl that works as a street-vendor to earn money. She partners up with Miko Nedu. Together they employ rather questionable business methods. Her name is a pun on "multi-level marketing" (maruchi-shouhou) in Japanese.(Source: Wikipedia)...

Merus Father

Supporting

Meru's father who appears from the final episode of Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. He calls his daughter 'Meru Meru' and tries to do anything that she wants, but Meru herself does not want him to interrupt her. ...

Mitama Mayo

Supporting

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 ha...

Nedu Miko

Supporting

A merchant girl and friends with Shōko. Her name is a pun on "pyramid scheme" (nezumi-kou)....

Ookusa Manami

Supporting

A married high-schooler who works multiple jobs to pay off her husbands debts. Her name derives from okusama-nami (奥様な身, "a married person").It is revealed in episode 5 of Zan that her husband is unfaithful and shes aware of it....

Oora Kanako

Supporting

A very open-minded girl that can not refuse to entertain new ideas and let other people express their ideas, even if it means possible negative effects on herself or her property. Her name derives from the phrase "ōraka na ko" (大らかな子) which means "big-hea...

Otonashi Meru

Supporting

A very shy girl who does not talk and only communicates via text messaging on her cell phone; she is notably and viciously abusive in her e-mails. Her family name, Otonashi, means "soundless", and her given name derives from the loan word "mail". Her e-ma...

Sekiutsu Tarou

Supporting

Birthday: June 2 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)An illegal immigrant of unknown nationality. She is nicknamed "Mataro" by Kafuka, although she refers to herself (as do most others) as simply "Maria". She purchased the birth certificate of a male student and is atten...

Shogun Fuyu

Supporting

Appears in episode 07...

Suzuki Sonokou

Supporting

A former male student of Class 2-He. He leaves the class by the promotion. He is an otaku who wants to be an animator. He looks like Wataru Manseibashi but with a different hairstyle....

Tanaka Ichirou

Supporting

A former male student of Class 2-He. He leaves the class by the promotion. He belongs to the soccer club....

Todana Tsuko

Supporting

A famous "liberal" subtitler....

Tsunetsuki Matoi

Supporting

Birthday: September 8 (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)A girl with short, straight-fringed hair who stalks whoever she falls in love with. She is also known for changing her manner of dress to partner those of her current love interest. She falls in love with Nozomu a...

Usui Kagerou

Supporting

Birthday: 7 August (Zan SZS. 9 Episode)The actual class president of 2-He, who is ignored to the point of vanishing into thin air; only when his baldness is exposed does he become visible to others. In the anime, he has a major crush on Abiru, but leers a...