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Manga: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei さよなら絶望先生 (Chapter 1, さよなら絶望先生)

Translation

  • Context: a character's nickname is a wordplay on the components of his name. It's particularly obvious when written horizontally. Although in this case the series focuses on it, generally this sort of wordplay about how Japanese text is written is easy to miss if you never bother learning to handwrite text.
  • Itoshiki Nozomu
    糸色 
    (character name.)
  • zetsubou shita
    絶望した
    [I] gave up all hope.
    [I'm in despair.]
    (suru-verb in past form.)

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