Ansatsu Kyoushitsu
Assassination Classroom
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Synonyms: Tokyo Department Sensou Taikenki, Tokyo Department Store War Chronicles
Japanese: 暗殺教室
English: Assassination Classroom
German: Assassination Classroom
Spanish: Assassination Classroom
French: Assassination Classroom
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 21
Chapters: 187
Status: Finished
Published: Jul 2, 2012 to Apr 25, 2016
Genres: Action Action, Comedy Comedy
Theme: School School
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)
Authors: Matsui, Yuusei (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.241 (scored by 8050280,502 users)
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Ranked: #4012
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #76
Members: 166,902
Favorites: 7,022

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In the blink of an eye, the night sky is forever changed when, with a great explosion, the moon is blasted into a permanent crescent. Confronting the governments of the world, a yellow tentacled monster boasts that it was the one responsible for the catastrophe, and in a year's time, it will do the same to Earth. Zooming around at Mach 20, the creature makes a peculiar demand: a teaching position at the prestigious Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Desperate to keep the creature in one place, the government agrees, and so the students of Class 3-E find themselves faced with an impossible task—assassinate the creature responsible for destroying the moon.

Although the fate of the world now rests on their shoulders, the class has more personal issues to deal with. Trapped at the bottom of Kunugigaoka's hierarchical education system, they face harsh discrimination from both teachers and students alike. Defeatism abound, they don't believe themselves capable of success in daily life, let alone against a monster that surpasses the abilities of any human. But as the enigmatic creature—whom they dub Koro-sensei—educates them in both assassination and academia, the children slowly find the courage to rise up and take aim at their target: the greatest teacher the world has ever seen.

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Volume 21: Tokyo Department Sensou Taikenki (Tokyo Department Store War Chronicles)

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Ansatsu Kyoushitsu ranked first in the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! in the Male Readers division. The manga was named the best work of 2013 on the Book of the Year list by Nippon Shuppan Hanbai. It was nominated for the 2013 Manga Taishou Award, ranking sixth, and the 19th Tezuka Osamu Annual Prize in 2015. The series has sold over 20 million copies as of 2016.

The series was published in English as Assassination Classroom by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump Advanced imprint from December 2, 2014, to April 3, 2018. It was also released in Italian by Planet Manga from May 10, 2014, to September 14, 2017; in Brazilian Portuguese by Panini Comics from 2020 to 2022; in Spanish by Panini Comics from October 1, 2014, to February 22, 2018; and in Polish by Japonica Polonica Fantastica from December 14, 2017, to September 2021.

A VOMIC version was broadcast in Sakiyomi Jan Bang! from January to June 2013; the series has received a fanbook, databook, spin-off manga, and an illustrated English language guidebook called Koro-tan. A live-action film of the series was released in Japan on March 21, 2015, which opened first at the box office; a second film was released on March 25, 2016.
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Akabane, Karma
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Nov 16, 2022
darkpixelftw
Recommended
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Read this. Funny, thoughtful, emotional, this is a real classic.

Story: 9/10
Excellently written, we get to follow the characters throughout the academic year. It's relatable and consistently intelligent both in terms of assassinations and how to tells it's message. And it does have a message despite the silly premise, this is a very opinionated manga. This manga is essentially the authors education philosophy in graphic form. I have seen multiple people say that it inspired them to become teachers and I can absolutely see why.

On the other hand, the manga can feel a bit too blunt with the message sometimes, for example, making the ...
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Jun 8, 2022
Macchan01
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I absolutely LOVED this manga. This is one of the best ones out there. The story is absolutely amazing, with the school setting mixed with action and comedy. I don't even know how they did it, but it all perfectly blends together to create a fun, action-packed, yet emotional story.

The art is really good! I like the sleek look of the characters, and each of them has their own personality to them just based on their character design. They're all unique in their own way.

The characters are fun, yet driven by their motivation so much so that you're cheering them on. Koro-Sensei is an overall ...
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Dec 4, 2025
Talco_Najja
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Assassination Classroom is the kind of manga people think is good because it tries to do so many things, when in reality it doesn’t success at any of them. It’s a comedy, but with the most basic school-manga jokes; it’s action, but the fights rarely matter; it tries to be emotional, but its dramatic moments feel manufactured through blatant cheap emotional manipulation. Every time the story needs to convince you that a character “has layers” it just throws a generic tragic flashback:
absent parents, bullying, impossible expectations, recycled school traumas.
It’s as if the work believes that showing automatic suffering makes a character complex. On ...
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