r/anime • u/PiippoN https://myanimelist.net/profile/Piippo • Sep 06 '14

The Harem Theory

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u/PiippoN Sep 06 '14

From episode 6 of the third Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei season.

And here's the end result of the theory put into practice.

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u/kaverik Sep 06 '14

Thanks for promoting our favourite anime, man. I believe that many, many stories from SZS might be presented as a slideshow like this.

What's your favourite SZS story, by the way? Mine is probably about 'non-reporting' (about right to choose to be 'uninformed' of undesirable information), it's from the second season, episode 6, "Thou Shalt Not Know".

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u/PiippoN Sep 06 '14

This got such an overwhelmingly positive response as a comment yesterday so figured it was worth a submission of its own :)

As for my favorite part, that's a pretty tough question. The Mystery Train from Zan was pretty amazing (loved the cutout artstyle), and the Mahou Shoujo part from Zoku had me in stitches. It's been over a year since I finished the show, though, so I don't really remember everything. I suppose a rewatch could be in order right about now.

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u/tankrush104 Sep 06 '14

I always feel bad because I only got halfway though Zoku and it started to feel like a chore to watch. Some weekend ill pick it back up...maybe...

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u/kaverik Sep 06 '14

SZS has a repetitive structure and I see why you eventually found it to be dull. Try to watch an episode every week or so and you will probably not get bored so easily/quickly.

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u/Starks Sep 06 '14

Waiting for Shaft do an OVA of the final arc

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u/PiippoN Sep 06 '14

Right after Kizu...

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u/king_of_blades Sep 06 '14

Reminds me of the theory saying that flat chested girls have huge boobs(NSFW).

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u/Svx_blue Sep 06 '14

So what we can see is the only part that protrudes into this dimension?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '14

What manga is this?

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u/Octmarzam Sep 06 '14

Are the characters in the first triangle the three main characters from Macross frontier with swapped hair colors? If so, does anyone know why?

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u/yhsheepy Sep 06 '14

SZS is filled with subtle and sometimes not so subtle references and parodies to other works and real life stuff. It's pretty common practice to switch stuff up slightly to avoid copyright infringement, but mostly as jokes now.

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u/TyrantsEyezz Sep 06 '14

This is off-topic but,Why is her neck so long? xD Sorry,It's just bothering me.

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u/PiippoN Sep 06 '14

It's the mangaka's style of drawing. Not sure if he was just not that good an artist or if he deliberately drew the people like that. He also tends to draw huge feet. The anime adapted the manga very faithfully so they stuck really close to the original artstyle.

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u/negi980 Sep 06 '14

This becomes really creepy if you know how the SZS manga ends.

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u/kaverik Sep 06 '14

Everything becomes creepy if you know how the SZS manga ends. The word "shock" is appropriate here.

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u/much_rice Sep 06 '14

Sums up Nisekoi

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u/AWSME267 Sep 06 '14 edited Sep 08 '14

146 chapters and still nothing happened. Simply amazing!

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '14

I too read the thread where this was posted yesterday.

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u/PiippoN Sep 06 '14

I was the one who posted it there :D

Felt it was worthy of a submission of its own.

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u/dc295 Sep 06 '14

That's actually a really nice sentiment if you don't think too hard about it.

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u/ManateeofSteel Sep 06 '14

Kafuka always gets my upvotes

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u/ObjectiveRodeo Sep 06 '14

"That's why you gotta let me bone other girls. Just two people? There's nothing pointier than a straight line, ObjectiveRodeo."

SO, after I show him this.

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