Nozomu Itoshiki

Itoshiki Nozomu is the protagonist of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and the teacher of a class of 32 students. His name contains an unlucky number of characters, and when written horizontally, his name forms the kanji for "zetsubou". Nozomu appears to be a skinny, pale male in his early 20s. He regularly sports a kimono and hakama, with geta sandals and socks. His eye color is blue and his hair is black. He wears round glasses as well, and wears a white dress shirt underneath his kimono on occasion. He is regularly an extremely negative and realistic person, going so far to attempt to ruin his wh...