Kouji Kumeta is the author of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. This is obviously his art style but I have no idea why this exists...

Isn't that Chie Arai on the right panels? :D

Lepperchaun said:
Isn't that Chie Arai on the right panels? :D

lol, it is.

WTF?

No, all his characters just look identical.

(this is from genshiken vol 6)

Who are the last two characters supposed to be?

So I'm assuming Chie is the age she should be in 2005 or so as a school councilor in the Geshiken universe (~30 years old).

She seems to be a young adult in 1995 for Evangelion (~20 years old).

She looks like a middle school student in ~1985 for Urusei Yatsura (~10).

In the third panel she looks to be about ~5, which would be ~1980 which is the end of "Space Battleship Yamamoto", and I think Oono is cosplaying as Mori Yuki from that series (see her posts on Danbooru & the figure with the belt posted here:http://www.dannychoo.com/images/photo/blogg_thumbs/1690.jpg .

The last panel is Chie as a baby, which must be at age ~0 and year ~1975. Being as Urusei Yatsura is well before my time, I haven't got a clue what was popular then or who Oono might be cosplaying there.

This isn't sayonara zetsubou sensei, it's other of the kohji kumeta's work, probably katte ni kaizou

it's not SZS because it's genshiken.

MrVacBob said:
Kouji Kumeta is the author of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. This is obviously his art style but I have no idea why this exists...

I believe the author of Genshiken solicited several other manga artists to do guest strips for one of the Genshiken tankobons.

Project G...

This is just friendship on both artist.

Wow... for Kanako to age that well is something else....

In the first one there ise a Saiyuki's picture, in the back XD

Note that for the first couple of panels, there's a flower on the notebook label. In the last panel, the flower has fallen off.