Zetsubou sensei & pregnancy?
Posted by kacpyJul 29
The new Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei opening has awesome art & style & animation, but while fanservice is cool and all…
… is it my imagination or is Kafuka pregnant at the end, while the credits are sperm getting to an egg? Rethorical question? SHAFT takes it to the next level? Sure it’s not the first time we see a kid pregnant in animu - I dunno, Tide-Line Blue comes to mind (with a birth scene even), but this feels quite different - kind of ‘wrong’… Perhaps it’s another addition to the list of problems in our world the show is trying to present? 0_0
Well, to be fair, it’s only a credit sequence at the moment, in an anime that has some very stylistic sequences. Now, if she turns up pregnant in the anime… Well, Zetsubou-sensei may actually have a REASON to commit suicide, ne?
Comment by Jobrill — July 29, 2007 @ 6:37 pm
I know, but I personally find it all the more ‘wrong’ that it’s just a random preggers scene in the OP rather than plot development LOL.
Comment by kacpy — July 29, 2007 @ 8:15 pm
I think the point is something else entirely — pregnancy is a very symbolic state — and given, just as the screen cap there shows, it’s the teacher at the end of that umbilical cord, I think the OP is illustrating Kafuka’s attempts to re-birth him. I would imagine it has nothing to do with any foreshadowing of real pregnancy.
Comment by cuchlann — July 30, 2007 @ 6:38 am
I didn’t think it was foreshadowing a real pregnancy at all, lol. xD
I guess your analysis makes sense (though the sperm is even more random in this case), didn’t think of it that way. But then we also have those who think Kafuka is actually the most “troubled” character in the show. :P
The randomness of that sequence still feels ‘wrong’ though. >_<
Comment by kacpy — July 30, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
IThe preggers Kafuka seems to have an association with the cosmic buddha there– it’s been a while since I took the Japanese religions course, but that’s a very… Mandala-esque image. Depending on your sect of buddhism, said buddha is the wellspring of all things. The universe is just the meditation of the buddha given form. Which… everything in the show is sort of influenced by what Kafuka says– “It can’t be that, so close to me! It has to be this other thing!”
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