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** The last third of ''Zan'' Episode 8, set aboard the Mystery Train, goes into a roughly-sketched cutout style that comes across as rather trippy. There are art shifts that occur within this medium change as well, mainly pertaining to the art style used for faces, which are drawn for major characters. The same style has been reused in another [[Studio Shaft]] series, ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''.

*** Artist's offical page [http://uchu-kibo.chu.jp/ here].

** During the dream episode in ''Zoku'', Usui was drawn in a style similar to ''[[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' (particularly the art used in the third series).

** During the dream episode in ''Zoku'', Usui was drawn in a style similar to ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' (particularly the art used in the third series).

* [[Artistic License Biology]]: In one chapter, Nozomu claims he hates Christmas because he was born on November 4, which means that, if one counts back ten months and ten days, he was conceived on Christmas. Abiru immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] on the margin of error.

* [[Attention Whore]]: Probably the motivation behind Nozomu's every outrageous action. There's also Nami, but her [[Attention Whore]] tendencies only show in her first appearance, in which she tries all kinds of gimmicks to gain pity and attention from her classmates (culminating with a threat of suicide). [[The Generic Guy|They all fail, of course.]] Other cases may include Abiru, who once admitted to wearing bandages even when not injured just for kicks, and apparently Kaere is also this, always flaunting her panties even as she loudly threatens lawsuit to onlookers.

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** One segment shows Commodore Perry wearing a rape face and started "opening" things: Kaere's legs, Kiri's forelocks, and a random male student's zipper on his pants, prompting a comment about him [[Depraved Bisexual|swinging both ways]].

* [[Bland Name Product]]: The class finds a time capsule and fishes out a radio labeled "SONV". As the show is wont, this is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] immediately.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: The class finds a time capsule and fishes out a radio labeled "SONV". As the show is wont, this is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] immediately.

** Also "Photoshocker" (heavily used by teen idol Kotonon) for [[Photo Shop]].

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* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: A lot, especially from Chiri and Kafuka.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: An entire episode is devoted to this trope, going so far as to have characters distracted by minor things while an alien invasion occurs, right down to Itoshiki looking up at a [[Humongous Mecha]] attacking the city...and ultimately wondering why it has "FART" written on its chest in big glowing kanji.

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Discussed in episode 2 of ''Goku'' before immediately going into [[Self Deprecation]].

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Discussed in episode 2 of ''Goku'' before immediately going into [[Self-Deprecation]].

* [[Culture Clash]]

* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Maria and Majiru inspire this in the girls.

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** Chie also served as this in the first season, and so does Kiri (although she lasted longer), with both having been in the occasional yuri-tastic situation.

** In one ''Goku'' episode, at least 5 minutes of the show is dedicated to Harumi drawing a yaoi doujin. At one point she takes of her shirt and, after a [[Male Gaze|gratuitous shot of her chest]], spends the rest of her time wearing nothing but spats and a bra.

* [[First Name Basis]]: Kafuka calls Nozomu "Pink Supervisor". He hates the name, but has resigned himself to the fact that she's not going to stop. This is ultimately abandoned as the series went on.

* [[First-Name Basis]]: Kafuka calls Nozomu "Pink Supervisor". He hates the name, but has resigned himself to the fact that she's not going to stop. This is ultimately abandoned as the series went on.

* [[The Foreign Subtitle]]: The English translation is subtitled ''The Power of Negative Thinking'', in a parody of motivational speaker Norman Vincent Peale's ''The Power of Positive Thinking''.

* [[Freeze Frame Bonus]]: '''Many''', as [[Studio Shaft]] is wont to do.

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** Mayo Mitama... and she [[Karma Houdini|always gets away with it]] because no one would want to judge her based on appearance.

** Chiri becomes more and more of this as the series goes on, starting to carry around a shovel and making frequent references to killing people. At one point she ends up in the Sengoku period and tries to declare herself the ruler of Japan -- by killing everyone else.

* [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Voice]]

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]

** [[Hiroshi Kamiya|Nozomu]] is a decidedly more masculine [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Tieria]] and an older [[Digimon Frontier|Kouji]].

** [[Yuko Goto|Abiru]] and [[Tomokazu Sugita|Ikkyu]] are [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Mikuru and Kyon]], respectively.

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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pororoca Pororoca] is first used by Kafuka who identifies it as a planet that she believes space aliens come from. Later on, the actual meaning is used by Nozomu to make an analogy to people becoming fans of various media.

** Also counting as inherently funny are the tongue-twister in the "in the last volume" openers and any real words that showed up in the [[Gag Sub]] episode.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Chiri makes one. Subverted, as Nozomu and Maria find it [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome|extremely hilarious]], much to Chiri's annoyance.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Chiri makes one. Subverted, as Nozomu and Maria find it [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|extremely hilarious]], much to Chiri's annoyance.

{{quote| '''Chiri:''' *shows the part in her hair* This is where the contest parts!}}

* [[I Never Got Any Letters]]

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* [[Negative Continuity]]

* [[New Media Are Evil]]: Parodied in a couple of episodes during the teacher's rants, including the rant above.

* [[Nightmare Fuel ~~Stationattendant~~]]: Whenever Kafuka or Chiri get involved, the insanity and horror go [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Whenever Kafuka or Chiri get involved, the insanity and horror go [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Several characters refer to each other using the anime character tropes they embody, such as "[[Ms. Fanservice|Designated Panty Shot Girl]]" or by noting that "[[Bandage Babe|the bandaged look isn't popular any more]]". This also happens in the manga, both in references to the characters and to the manga itself.

** That's just scratching the surface. The characters often worry about the show's ratings, debate who's the most popular character, and ponder the episodes' [[Aesop|Aesops]].

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* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Poked fun at. Zetsubou Sensei's class repeatedly fail their exams so they have to repeat their year over and over, thus never allowed to "grow up". {{spoiler|Then they DID graduate to their next year, without much fanfare. It's not stopping the comedy.}}

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: In chapter 223 Chiri gets a book that describes what crimes people were to commit based on their laughing faces. When she see's what Kafuka's laugh would lead to, she passes out. We never see what crime it was...

* [[Off Model]]: The art stays of high quality throughout, but there is constant lampshading throughout ''Zan'' about the animation quality suffering from the huge deadline crunch the animators were going through (as one gag noted, they were working on this, ''[[Bakemonogatari (Light Novel)|Bakemonogatari]]'', ''[[Negima]]'', and ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' at the ''same time'').

* [[Off-Model]]: The art stays of high quality throughout, but there is constant lampshading throughout ''Zan'' about the animation quality suffering from the huge deadline crunch the animators were going through (as one gag noted, they were working on this, ''[[Bakemonogatari (Light Novel)|Bakemonogatari]]'', ''[[Negima]]'', and ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' at the ''same time'').

* [[Once an Episode]]: Itoshiki's declaration that something "has left me in despair!", as well as random items in the background (a dog with a stick in its butt, [[Koji Kumeta]]'s face, a stork carrying a baby, Kaere's latest [[Panty Shot]], the shot with the diagonal clouds and the drawing song from the third season, etc. In fact, the manga even has a "find-them-all" challenge at the end of every chapter a la ''[[Where's Wally (Literature)|Where's Waldo?]]''.

* [[Only Six Faces]]: Largely the case, and lampshaded once (in the instance with things not looking like the original) when Nozomu couldn't recognize Kafuka with a different hairstyle nor does he recognize that she's his "college student neighbor".

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* [[Previously On]]: Every episode of ''Zan'' opens on a "the story up to now" recap told in pop-up storybook format. This would be all well and good, except that none of the stories being told have actually ''happened'', or indeed make any kind of sense. The stranger part? All taken from the manga itself.

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]

* [[Pun Based Title]]: The second season's title is prefaced with "Zoku", which is sees fairly common use in the titles of sequels. ''That'' "Zoku" (続) translates to "continuation". The "Zoku" used in ''this'' case (俗) is a mark used in dictionaries to denote slang terms and vulgarities.

* [[Pun-Based Title]]: The second season's title is prefaced with "Zoku", which is sees fairly common use in the titles of sequels. ''That'' "Zoku" (続) translates to "continuation". The "Zoku" used in ''this'' case (俗) is a mark used in dictionaries to denote slang terms and vulgarities.

* [[Real Joke Name]]: Dr. Mikoto Itoshiki's name resembles "zetsumei" ("death") when written horizontally, a fact reflected in his rather small pool of patients. Anytime it's mentioned ends in a [[Head Desk]] moment.

* [[Red and Black And Evil All Over]]: Used in a parody of James Bond to mark the villain.

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* [[Reference Overdosed]]

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]:

** There's suicide, weird [[David Lynch]] segments, gratuitous panty shots, and [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|a song about the Rumba]].

** There's suicide, weird [[David Lynch]] segments, gratuitous panty shots, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|a song about the Rumba]].

** [[Face of a Thug|Mayo]] gets away with the most appalling behavior even when caught red-handed, because everyone assumes that no one could possibly get caught doing those sorts of things.

** The last episode of season one features Itoshiki's "funeral," and shows [[Yaoi Fangirl|Harumi]] reading a [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina x Simon]] [[Doujinshi]] while kneeling at his coffin and ''blaming herself for his demise''.

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* [[Running Gag]]: [[Koji Kumeta]] has a habit of changing a light bulb in his house to one of the lowest wattage after one of his "paper blogs".

* [[Sarcastic Confession]]:

** On ''Zoku'' Episode 3 (prior to the "[[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome]]" segment, below) Nozomu rants on how grave matters are related in a casual tone, such as Class 2-He repeating another year, Abiru's father telling her that he divorced her mother a month before, Nami being told by her father that he got laid off, the mother of one of Jun's friends telling him that her husband is in jail, Meru's mother introducing her father's mistress to her, and Harumi overhearing her mother tell her neighbor that she was an ''unexpected child''.,

** On ''Zoku'' Episode 3 (prior to the "[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]" segment, below) Nozomu rants on how grave matters are related in a casual tone, such as Class 2-He repeating another year, Abiru's father telling her that he divorced her mother a month before, Nami being told by her father that he got laid off, the mother of one of Jun's friends telling him that her husband is in jail, Meru's mother introducing her father's mistress to her, and Harumi overhearing her mother tell her neighbor that she was an ''unexpected child''.,

** There's one incident dealing with an inversion of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", wherein trustworthy people's jokes/lies will always be taken seriously. Jinroku tells a lie that illustrates this concept, and when questioned about a bandage on his head, tells Nozomu that he just extracted a bullet from his time as a mercenary. He and Nozomu both laugh, but it's implied he was actually telling the truth.

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]:

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** [[Studio Shaft]] seems delighted to call out [[Kyoto Animation]] for anything, such as [[Akiyuki Shinbo]] saying his own work would've been done better by them. One of the signs of a zombie revival and subsequent apocalypse, according to them, is ''[[Lucky Star]] 2'' (and ''[[Lucky Star]] 3'') being made. One episode also has a segment about providing "more accurate" titles for books. One such suggestion was "[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of a Middle-Aged Pedophile]]".

** In an episode dealing with countercurrents, a background character comments that he got into [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s films through those of his son [[Tales From Earthsea|Goro]], leading to a comment that "there's some currents that shouldn't be traveled".

** [[Self Deprecation]]: On the other hand, both [[Koji Kumeta]] and [[Studio Shaft]] are also fond of using Nozomu's rants to make potshots on themselves. Kumeta's assistant, a certain Maeda-kun, frequently shows up in the background (voiced by himself in the anime) demonstrating some annoying tendency Nozomu is currently complaining about, while Kumeta himself appears as an unshaved version of himself (though voiced by [[Hiroshi Kamiya]]). Also, in each manga volume, bonus materials feature Kumeta's short and very self-deprecatory written pieces in relation to the theme of each chapter. For their part, [[Studio Shaft]] made a brief reference to ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'''s major [[Adaptation Decay]] in ''Zan'' Episode 2, and ''Bangaichi'' is essentially a long string of jokes aimed at the studio itself and the show's own fans.

** [[Self-Deprecation]]: On the other hand, both [[Koji Kumeta]] and [[Studio Shaft]] are also fond of using Nozomu's rants to make potshots on themselves. Kumeta's assistant, a certain Maeda-kun, frequently shows up in the background (voiced by himself in the anime) demonstrating some annoying tendency Nozomu is currently complaining about, while Kumeta himself appears as an unshaved version of himself (though voiced by [[Hiroshi Kamiya]]). Also, in each manga volume, bonus materials feature Kumeta's short and very self-deprecatory written pieces in relation to the theme of each chapter. For their part, [[Studio Shaft]] made a brief reference to ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'''s major [[Adaptation Decay]] in ''Zan'' Episode 2, and ''Bangaichi'' is essentially a long string of jokes aimed at the studio itself and the show's own fans.

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Parodied in the [[Magical Girl]] spoof, "Model Warrior Lily Cure". When Masked Despair starts monologuing, Kafuka just blows him away before he can even say, "Let me finish!"

* [[Take a Third Option]]: The third episode of ''Zan'' mocks this trope.

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* [[Wham Episode]]: The second to last chapter reveals that {{spoiler|Kafuka was [[Dead All Along]]. She was an organ donor so when she died her organs were given to a number of people who had attempted suicide. The organ recipients eventually turned out to be Nozomu and his students, who were all simultaneously possessed by Kafuka's spirit due to the donated organs. What this means is that every time Kafuka was seen, ''she was possessing one of the other girls in the class'', and they all saw her as Kafuka.}}

** There is also the revelation that {{spoiler|when the girls attempted suicide, they were possessed by the ghosts of girls from the Showa period who had committed suicide but regretted it. The entire show was a ploy by Nozomu to exorcise the spirits from the girls' bodies by trying to recreate Showa period school life and having the girls "graduate", giving the spirits the closure they need to pass on. [[Fridge Brilliance|This is why Nozomu always dressed in such old fashioned clothes.]]}}

* [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome]]: Episode 3 of ''Zoku'' explores the trope by having characters make mundane statements... ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VvO3rjiFeI&feature=related in overly dramatic ways]''!!!

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Episode 3 of ''Zoku'' explores the trope by having characters make mundane statements... ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VvO3rjiFeI&feature=related in overly dramatic ways]''!!!

** [[Bread Eggs Milk Squick]]: Chiri then announces that she's given her sister illegal vitamin injections in a grandiose manner -- because, apparently, doping one's sister isn't a big deal to her. The battery acid, however, was a different story...

** [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Chiri then announces that she's given her sister illegal vitamin injections in a grandiose manner -- because, apparently, doping one's sister isn't a big deal to her. The battery acid, however, was a different story...

* [[Widget Series]]

* [[World Gone Mad]]