Let's talk about "Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei", a.k.a. "So Long, Mr. Despair."

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is a manga series with a two-season anime series that recently obtained an OVA. It's an incredibly, for lack of a better term, WEIRD series that can often be a chaotic whirl of disconnected and often disturbing images and phrases.

It's also hilarious.

The "plot" follows a suicidal teacher and his class composed of incredibly deranged students (about three of whom have the possibility of flipping out and murdering the entire class, one of whom has come dangerously close to this feat on several occasions). It's original has a great deal of political and social satire which is definitely retained in the anime, but the anime also introduces just a greater level of out and out weirdness.

The anime itself hasn't been licensed, but the manga will be hitting stateside spring 2009. Check it out, it will leave you in despair.