Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (懺・さよなら絶望先生) 03

The new opening and is mostly about space exploration, extraterrestrial and cult?


The plaque on Pioneer 10 and mysterious pattern...


... and last but not least, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster... (Nozomu appearing on the side seems to be poorly drawn to me.)


An ET Kafuka falls from the sky and is caught by Nozomu who is walking alone in a desert. Then after the catch, the surroundings transform into a place similar to where they first met.


Part 1: Flipping switches. Chrismas is coming but Nami keeps encountering characters whose switches are accidentally ipped by Kafuka and Nozomu inside an underground room and their switches are as the following: tails, socks, Meru, green shorts and the greeting "merry x'mas?"


Nozomu also has his own switch/sensitive spot behind his left ear and he'd make some strange noise when it's touched...


But if it's being pressed for too many times or too hard, it'd trigger Nozomu's self-explosion...


Part 2: Third choice. When one couldn't decide between two things, s/he tends to end up with a completely different third alternative as a result.


What happen if Ikkyu uses 50:50 and has two choices left, maybe then he just takes the money...


At last, Nozomu and his students realize they're trapped in this so-called "town of third choices..."


Of course, Chiri wouldn't like the idea of third alternative because things are either black or white and there shouldn't be exception but she's shocked to find out her parents have also made this kind of decision when naming their new baby girl...


Nozomu's sick of this kind of meaningless decision making and torn by the thoughts of killing himself or living cowardly...


...inevitably, he chooses the third option and sleep in a baby bed in hope of starting his life over @@


Part 3: Over-protection and it seems like another continuation of Nozomu's trip.


Nozomu's kagemusha is still on duty and Nozomu thinks that it's overused and he's over-protected.


Examples are unnecessary signs blocking people in historical sites...


... too much emphasis on killing germ...


... and limits on ATM withdrawals...


Rin (in bikini ~.~) appears and reminds Nozomu that he's been over-protected for his entire life so far and asks him to attend the meeting of the Society for the Protection at the beach...


Members includes otaku who buys multiple copies of the same volume for various purposes: collection, reading, sharing, etc...


... and stupid copyright enforcement... and then to be continued again!?


Nowadays, any character could appear on "Let's Draw Itoshiki..."


Comments: The "Let's Draw Itoshiki" part in the end is added three in a row seemingly to kill off the last one or two minutes. What an effort ><