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* [[Actor Allusion]]: He was once depicted wearing a [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Celestial Being]] space suit, and behind him is what looks like Tieria Erde -- both are voiced by [[Hiroshi Kamiya|the same guy]].

* [[Apathetic Teacher]]: The only time he's not apathetic to his students is when he rants at length about his latest excuses to commit suicide.

* [[Attention Whore]]: Apparently the motivation for every outrageous action he does.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: At the end of the day, and in stark contrast to most of his students, Nozomu is actually a sane, rational man whose pessimistic streak stems mostly from his high school days as an accidental member of the "Negative Club".

* [[Plague of Good Fortune]]: His legion of admirers from both sexes.

* [[Tsurime Eyes]]

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: In the anime she frequently faces the audience backside-up, a [[Shout Out]] to [[Crayon Shin Chan|Shin-chan's]] ass-exposing antics -- both share [[Akiko Yajima|the same voice actress]].

* [[Berserk Button]]: Spell out "zetsurin" and she will scream for a katana in no time.

* [[Hime Cut]]: With a slightly wavy hair from below the shoulders onward.

* [[The Maiden Name Debate]]: She ''badly'' wants to get married in order to lose her maiden surname and consequentially her sexually-suggestive nickname. Unfortunately there's a Japanese custom that if the bride is of a wealthy clan (the Itoshiki family is one such clan) the ''groom'' can opt to adopt his wife's surname instead, and one of her suitors, Nozomu's "old friend" Ikkyu, is all too happy to be part of the centuries-old clan.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: Her name, written horizontally and compressed, can be read as 絶倫 -- "zetsurin" ("peerless"), which at first glance refers to her expertise at many skills, but is also ([[Berserk Button|much to her ire]]) a slang for sexual prowess.

* [[The Ojou]]: She fits both the traditional (style of dress, an ikebana master) and snobby (enters Nozomu's school just to feel what it's like being a commoner, buys off all surrounding property and evicting their residents) variants.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]/[[Rich Bitch]]: Kind of an odd combination. Rin will often do generous things for the purpose of laughing at people, such as giving [[Charlie and The Chocolate Parody|golden tickets]] to [[Nerds Are Virgins|virgin nerds]] with no girlfriends to give them them chocolate.

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* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]

* [[Break the Cutie]]: [[Played for Laughs]] -- he is very easily (and frequently) traumatized by Nozomu's students' antics.

* [[Innocent Prodigy]]: Comes across as more mature and down-to-earth than his uncle, but can also act in a way fitting his age. There's also some situations that might be either this or [[Ping Pong Naivete]], like having a crush on a net idol and commenting on her breasts, while also thinking that [[Delivery Stork|storks deliver babies]].

* [[Likes Older Women]]: Hinted at, with his relationship to Kiri.

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* [[Bishonen]]

* [[Head Desk]]: His head repeatedly meets the wall every time his nickname "Dr. Death" gets mentioned.

* [[Hospital Hottie]]

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: According to him, the embarrassing [[Alternate Character Reading]] of his own name -- "death" -- is what's keeping most prospective patients away from his clinic.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: With Nozomu -- no wonder Kafuka was confused when she saw him for the first time. Sharing the [[Hiroshi Kamiya|same voice actor]] also reinforces this.

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* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Her (pen) name sounds similar to [[Franz Kafka]]. Also, speculation has it that her real name, based on several hints throughout the series, is "An Akagi", referring to ''[[Anne of Green Gables (Literature)|Anne of Green Gables]]'', whose Japanese name is "Akage no An".

* [[The Nicknamer]]: Once called Nozomu "Momoiro Kakaricho" ("Pink Superintendent"), after she caught him trying to hang himself on a sakura tree.

* [[Paper Talisman]]

** Kafuka overdoes it when she doesn't want Kiri to leave her house.

** She also [http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1325/szsflvsnapshot030820101.jpg uses the tags] during the [[Magical Girl]] spoof as a shoutout to [[Sailor Moon|Rei]].

* [[The Pollyanna]]

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

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* [[Control Freak]]/[[Neat Freak]]: Now cranked up to [[Serial Killer|murderous]] [[Yandere|heights]]!

** In one incident, Kafuka challenged her and other girls to a "Schrodinger's Wife" dilemma, to see who Nozomu would pick. Chiri tries to force herself onto Nozomu, much to the guy's distress. Later that day, she starts having paranoid thoughts that people may be badmouthing her behind her back, and decides to turn Clas 2-He into a "class in potentia".

* [[The Friend Nobody Likes]]

* [[Game Face]]: She's usually pretty cute, but when she turns into a [[Gonk]], people die !

* [[Panty Shot]]: Still not as frequent as Kaere, but recent strips show her in a [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/sayonara_zetsubou_sensei/c243/8.html slight upskirt with striped panties].

* [[Shotgun Wedding]]: Insists on this to Nozomu after accidentally sleeping together in a clinic bed (though it is Chiri herself who rolls through the curtains into Nozomu's side).

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]

* [[Straight Edge Evil]]

A hikikomori accidentally scared out of her home by Nozomu and Kafuka; she has since become a resident at school and eventually a caretaker figure for Nozomu and Majiru.

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* [[The Caretaker]]: For Nozomu and Majiru.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Don't open it."

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Majiru.

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Due to being inside 99% of the time, she's always barefoot.

* [[Hikikomori]]

* [[Hot for Teacher]]: Once to Chie, recently to Nozomu.

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* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Sort of -- she's a manga-loving nerd with incredible athletic prowess.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: Her given name is an [[Alternate Character Reading]] of Harumi district (晴海) in Chuo, Tokyo, previous site of the Comiket before it went big and moved to the larger Tokyo Big Sight; her surname is a corruption of 腐女子 -- "fujoshi", a derogatory term for [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fangirls]] like herself.

* [[Meganekko]]

** Also, this little exchange between her and Nozomu.

{{quote| '''Kaere''': The (''custom in question'') in this country [i.e., Japan] is/are weird! In the country where I came from we (''perform an extremely bizarre custom'').<br />

* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Wears a more westernized school uniform with a plaid skirt, jacket, and long socks.

* [[Evil Foreigner]]: As Kaere, though she's more of a lawsuit-happy [[Jerkass]].

* [[The Fool]]: She even accidentally headbutts her assailants while apologizing during the first third of the first episode of ''Zan''.

* [[Guilt Complex]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Named After Somebody Famous]]/[[Punny Name]]: In Japanese order her name can be read as 加害 -- "kagai" ("perpetrator"). Her name is also a pun on that of Morning Musume [[Idol Singer]] Ai Kago.

* [[Tsundere]]: [[Wrong Genre Savvy|So her many admirers think she is]], with her [[Guilt Complex]]-driven tendency to explain that she doesn't want anything in return for helping others, fearing she'll be a burden in the long run.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: Her name can be read as 大らかな子 -- "ooraka na ko" ("big-hearted girl").

* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Everyone refer to her as a big-hearted girl.

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* [[The Pig Pen]]: She manages to either create a huge mess of clutter all around her wherever she goes, or attract garbage, literal (e.g. trash) or metaphorical (e.g. drug addicts, hippies, and others at the dregs of society).

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: On the other hand, if she wanted to and had the time, she can groom herself up as perfectly as her sister, such as that time when she dated [[Chick Magnet|Nozomu]]. So far she's the only girl whose affection to Nozomu was reciprocated, upon the latter learning of her predicament.

* [[Trash of the Titans]]

* [[Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness]]: Inverted. She's the good sister, while neat and clean Chiri is the evil one (sort of).

* [[Author Avatar]]

* [[Perma Stubble]]

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* [[Cameo]]: She appears during an audition to choose Meru's voice actress.