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Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is focused on the students of the class 2-H. Is there
a hidden meaning to that class name or is it just a common class name in
Japan?

I recently saw some other, possibly related anime, also with students in class
2-H, but I can't remember which one.


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Is there a special meaning to the class name "2-H" (2-ふ)?


I'm not sure where you got the information that the students are in class 2-H.
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sayonara,_Zetsubou-
Sensei_characters#Nozomu_Itoshiki.27s_students) lists Nozomu's class as 2-へ
(2-He). Here, the number indicates the year, while the character indicates
what class in the year they are in. Since へ is the 6th character in [Iroha
order](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha), this would correspond to class
2-F. Incidentally, 2-ふ would be the 32nd class in year 2, which is far more
than most Japanese high schools would have.

There's nothing really unusual about having 6 or more classes in a given year.
It is a bit unusual that they're labeled in Iroha order, which is pretty old
fashioned. It's more common (in my experience) for classes to be labeled with
letters in the Roman alphabet or with numbers. I don't think there's any deep
meaning to using this though; it just conjures a sort of old-fashioned
feeling.

I can't think of any hidden meaning to 2-へ, but I have not read to the end of
the manga so there could be something revealed at the end. If there is such a
meaning, though, it isn't obvious and it certainly doesn't apply to other
anime which have this same class name. The name is a pretty normal one, if old
fashioned.


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