<p>I believe this scene is a parody of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Negima!%3F" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Negima!?</a>, the Shaft reboot of the Negima anime, which I like to refer to as Pani Poni Negi due to its strong stylistic resemblance to Shaft's Pani Poni Dash. (Plus, when you're speaking, it's really hard to distinguish Negima from Negima!?.)</p>

<p>This is a classroom shot from Negima!?</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/3Ld9d.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/3Ld9d.jpg" alt="negima?! classroom"></a></p>

<p>The characters in the shot from Zetsubou-sensei also resemble the characters from Negima!?. In the shot above from Negima!?, the characters aren't all sitting at their usual positions, but of the ones who are, several appear to be in the same position in the Zetsubou-sensei shot. Starting from the top left in the Zetsubou-sensei shot and and going left to right, top to bottom, we seem to have:</p>

<ol>
<li>?</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Yuna_Akashi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yuuna Akashi</a>; we can see her trademark side ponytail</li>
<li>?</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Yue_Ayase" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yue Ayase</a>; her high forehead, small ahoge, and the two braids stand out.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Haruna_Saotome" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Haruna Saotome</a>; she has long hair with two small antennae</li>
<li>? (Could be Zazie Rainday in glasses)</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Satomi_Hakase" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Satomi Hakase</a>; she has two thin braids.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Ku_Fei" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ku Fei</a>; she has two spiky twin tails.</li>
<li>Probably <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Konoka_Konoe" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Konoka Konoe</a>; she has long dark hair like this character, and as in the Negima!? pic, she's seated next to:</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Asuna_Kagurazaka" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Asuna Kagurazaka</a>, who has long, thin twin tails tied with bells. The character in the Zetsubou-sensei shot seems to have two little buds on her head, though it's too far away to see if they're bells.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Misa_Kakizaki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Misa Kakizaki</a>; the bangs are similar and she's in the same position as she is in the Negima!? pic.</li>
<li>? Based on the Negima pic, probably <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Mana_Tatsumiya" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mana Tatsumiya</a>.</li>
<li>The Negima!? pic shows <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chizuru_Naba" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chizuru Naba</a> in this position, but the Zetsubou-sensei character doesn't really resemble her.</li>
<li>? I can't identify the character in the Negima!? pic either.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Misora_Kasuga" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Misora Kasuga</a>, who has a short, spiky buzz cut.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chao_Lingshen" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chao Lingshen</a>, who has buns and braids.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Fuka_Narutaki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fuka Narutaki</a>, although the character in the Zetsubou-sensei pic seems to have glasses. But she shares Fuka's pointy twin tails.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Akira_Okouchi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Akira Okouchi</a>, who has a long black ponytail.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Madoka_Kugimiya" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Madoka Kugimiya</a>, who has short hair and stylish angle-cut bangs.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Setsuna_Sakurazaki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Setsuna Sakurazaki</a>, who has a spiky ponytail and straight bangs. It's hard to tell who's sitting there in the Negima!? pic since they're turned to the side, but it's pretty clear in the Zetsubou-sensei pic.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Nodoka_Miyazaki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Nodoka Miyazaki</a>, who has short hair and long bangs and sits in the same position in the Negima!? pic.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Ako_Izumi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ako Izumi</a>. In the Negima!? anime she had bluish-grey hair like we see in the Zetsubou-sensei pic, although in the manga and other anime she had purple hair. She's the one on the right in this picture from my rather large collection of screenshots that I obsessively gathered for some reason when I was watching Negima!?:<br>
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/vtgLEm.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/vtgLEm.jpg" alt="ako izumi"></a><br>
This is the character you were asking about in particular. According to the sound effects (<a href="http://thejadednetwork.com/sfx/browse/ira_ira/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>ira ira</em></a>) she's angry, and I can't really say why. My only guess is that it's a reference to the Negima manga; in the manga, Ako confesses her love to Negi when he's magically aged up to 16 and later suffers heartbreak when she finds out who he really is, so maybe she's offended that Nozomu is implying that she shouldn't have said anything. That's kind of a stretch, though.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Kaede_Nagase" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kaede Nagase</a>, who has a distinctive pyramid cut.</li>
<li>The short-haired <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Natsumi_Murakami" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Natsumi Murakami</a>.</li>
<li>? The Negima!? pic shows <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Makie_Sasaki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Makie Sasaki</a> but the character in the Zetsubou-sensei shot doesn't look anything like her. She does somewhat resemble bit character Kokone from the Negima manga, though.</li>
<li>A much taller version of <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Fumika_Narutaki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fumika Narutaki</a>; she retains the trademark buns.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Sakurako_Shiina" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sakurako Shiina</a>, who has spiky twin tails and appears at this position in the Negima!? shot.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Ayaka_Yukihiro" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ayaka Yukihiro</a>, whose long blonde locks are unmistakable, and who appears in the same position in the Negima!? pic.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Kazumi_Asakura" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kazumi Asakura</a>, who has a spiky ponytail similar to Setsuna.</li>
<li><a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Sayo_Aisaka" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sayo Aisaka</a>, who has long hair.</li>
</ol>

<p>The only Negima characters who aren't accounted for are <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Evangeline_A.K._McDowell" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Evangeline</a>, <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chachamaru_Karakuri" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chachamaru</a>, and <a href="http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chizuru_Naba" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chizuru</a>, and none of the mystery characters really resemble them, but otherwise it's a pretty striking match. Plus, we know that <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/17248/7579">Shaft has done this before</a>.</p>

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<p>During the teacher's monologue (s01e04 @13:30) about how sometimes it's better to not say anything (or to say less), this scene is shows which doesn't look like the class usually looks, and I'm fairly certain this is supposed to be a reference to another anime or manga, where a character with hair brighter than black appears just above the blonde girl in the middle:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/S15Pu.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/S15Pu.jpg" alt=""></a></p>

<p>Something tells me that classroom/auditorium should be familiar to someone who watched this anime/manga. What is this a reference to?</p>

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It looks like it might be a reference to Negima?!, the Shaft version of Negima. It had a classroom like that and several of the characters resemble the Negima characters. When I have time I'll compile an answer with pictures.
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@Torisuda Was there something one of the characters weren't supposed to say?
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I don't think the dialogue is a direct reference; at least, I don't remember a scene in Negima?! like that, and it definitely sounds more like a Zetsubou sensei thing based on what I've read of the manga. But I can definitely identify many of the characters in that scene with a Negima character, and that combined with the unusual classroom design and them both being by Shaft makes me think it's not a coincidence.
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Who's this person in the middle of the auditorium supposed to be?
# Who's this person in the middle of the auditorium supposed to be?
Posted by: username_0 on 2017-04-25
During the teacher's monologue (s01e04 @13:30) about how sometimes it's better to not say anything (or to say less), this scene is shows which doesn't look like the class usually looks, and I'm fairly certain this is supposed to be a reference to another anime or manga, where a character with hair brighter than black appears just above the blonde girl in the middle:

[![](https://i.sstatic.net/S15Pu.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/S15Pu.jpg)

Something tells me that classroom/auditorium should be familiar to someone who watched this anime/manga. What is this a reference to?
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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: It looks like it might be a reference to Negima?!, the Shaft version of Negima. It had a classroom like that and several of the characters resemble the Negima characters. When I have time I'll compile an answer with pictures.  
> **username_0**: @Torisuda Was there something one of the characters weren't supposed to say?  
> **username_1**: I don't think the dialogue is a direct reference; at least, I don't remember a scene in Negima?! like that, and it definitely sounds more like a Zetsubou sensei thing based on what I've read of the manga. But I can definitely identify many of the characters in that scene with a Negima character, and that combined with the unusual classroom design and them both being by Shaft makes me think it's not a coincidence.  
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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-04-26. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
I believe this scene is a parody of [Negima!?](https://en.wikipedia.org/Negima!%3F), the Shaft reboot of the Negima anime, which I like to refer to as Pani Poni Negi due to its strong stylistic resemblance to Shaft's Pani Poni Dash. (Plus, when you're speaking, it's really hard to distinguish Negima from Negima!?.)

This is a classroom shot from Negima!?

[![negima?! classroom](https://i.sstatic.net/3Ld9d.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/3Ld9d.jpg)

The characters in the shot from Zetsubou-sensei also resemble the characters from Negima!?. In the shot above from Negima!?, the characters aren't all sitting at their usual positions, but of the ones who are, several appear to be in the same position in the Zetsubou-sensei shot. Starting from the top left in the Zetsubou-sensei shot and and going left to right, top to bottom, we seem to have:

1. ?
2. [Yuuna Akashi](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Yuna_Akashi); we can see her trademark side ponytail
3. ?
4. [Yue Ayase](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Yue_Ayase); her high forehead, small ahoge, and the two braids stand out.
5. [Haruna Saotome](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Haruna_Saotome); she has long hair with two small antennae
6. ? (Could be Zazie Rainday in glasses)
7. [Satomi Hakase](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Satomi_Hakase); she has two thin braids.
8. [Ku Fei](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Ku_Fei); she has two spiky twin tails.
9. Probably [Konoka Konoe](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Konoka_Konoe); she has long dark hair like this character, and as in the Negima!? pic, she's seated next to:
10. [Asuna Kagurazaka](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Asuna_Kagurazaka), who has long, thin twin tails tied with bells. The character in the Zetsubou-sensei shot seems to have two little buds on her head, though it's too far away to see if they're bells.
11. [Misa Kakizaki](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Misa_Kakizaki); the bangs are similar and she's in the same position as she is in the Negima!? pic.
12. ? Based on the Negima pic, probably [Mana Tatsumiya](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Mana_Tatsumiya).
13. The Negima!? pic shows [Chizuru Naba](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chizuru_Naba) in this position, but the Zetsubou-sensei character doesn't really resemble her.
14. ? I can't identify the character in the Negima!? pic either.
15. [Misora Kasuga](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Misora_Kasuga), who has a short, spiky buzz cut.
16. [Chao Lingshen](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chao_Lingshen), who has buns and braids.
17. [Fuka Narutaki](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Fuka_Narutaki), although the character in the Zetsubou-sensei pic seems to have glasses. But she shares Fuka's pointy twin tails.
18. [Akira Okouchi](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Akira_Okouchi), who has a long black ponytail.
19. [Madoka Kugimiya](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Madoka_Kugimiya), who has short hair and stylish angle-cut bangs.
20. [Setsuna Sakurazaki](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Setsuna_Sakurazaki), who has a spiky ponytail and straight bangs. It's hard to tell who's sitting there in the Negima!? pic since they're turned to the side, but it's pretty clear in the Zetsubou-sensei pic.
21. [Nodoka Miyazaki](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Nodoka_Miyazaki), who has short hair and long bangs and sits in the same position in the Negima!? pic.
22. [Ako Izumi](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Ako_Izumi). In the Negima!? anime she had bluish-grey hair like we see in the Zetsubou-sensei pic, although in the manga and other anime she had purple hair. She's the one on the right in this picture from my rather large collection of screenshots that I obsessively gathered for some reason when I was watching Negima!?:  
    [![ako izumi](https://i.sstatic.net/vtgLEm.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/vtgLEm.jpg)  
    This is the character you were asking about in particular. According to the sound effects ([*ira ira*](http://thejadednetwork.com/sfx/browse/ira_ira/)) she's angry, and I can't really say why. My only guess is that it's a reference to the Negima manga; in the manga, Ako confesses her love to Negi when he's magically aged up to 16 and later suffers heartbreak when she finds out who he really is, so maybe she's offended that Nozomu is implying that she shouldn't have said anything. That's kind of a stretch, though.
23. [Kaede Nagase](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Kaede_Nagase), who has a distinctive pyramid cut.
24. The short-haired [Natsumi Murakami](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Natsumi_Murakami).
25. ? The Negima!? pic shows [Makie Sasaki](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Makie_Sasaki) but the character in the Zetsubou-sensei shot doesn't look anything like her. She does somewhat resemble bit character Kokone from the Negima manga, though.
26. A much taller version of [Fumika Narutaki](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Fumika_Narutaki); she retains the trademark buns.
27. [Sakurako Shiina](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Sakurako_Shiina), who has spiky twin tails and appears at this position in the Negima!? shot.
28. [Ayaka Yukihiro](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Ayaka_Yukihiro), whose long blonde locks are unmistakable, and who appears in the same position in the Negima!? pic.
29. [Kazumi Asakura](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Kazumi_Asakura), who has a spiky ponytail similar to Setsuna.
30. [Sayo Aisaka](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Sayo_Aisaka), who has long hair.

The only Negima characters who aren't accounted for are [Evangeline](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Evangeline_A.K._McDowell), [Chachamaru](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chachamaru_Karakuri), and [Chizuru](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Chizuru_Naba), and none of the mystery characters really resemble them, but otherwise it's a pretty striking match. Plus, we know that [Shaft has done this before](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/17248/7579).
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