Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

(This has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)

As I made my way through my early education, I always considered myself a pretty good student. I read my books, did my homework, and played nicely during recess. There was a big flaw that took a while for me to shake off, though: talking way too much. I would talk while the teachers were speaking, I would talk over my friends, and I would talk during assemblies when I wasn’t supposed to. No matter how many reprimands or punishments I got, I couldn’t seem to get it into my noggin that there are times when ... you get to speak your mind and times when you just have to shut up. I eventually learned this lesson – it took a little too long by my family’s account – but my teachers never gave up on me. They stuck through my incessant ramblings, allowing me to realize the error of my ways, making me into a better person because of their hard work. Assassination Classroom performs similarly, offering an anime that still has lessons to be learned.

STORY

Assassination Classroom follows the “End Class,” a group of students relegated to the bottom-of-the-barrel in their school system due to their poor grades, abysmal behavior, or any combination thereof. One day, a new “teacher” arrives, tasking the class with a seemingly simple objective: assassinate him before the time limit is reached or the Earth is doomed. Picking up knives and weapons instead of pens and utensils, the kids train themselves to eliminate this otherworldly creature.

The premise is wacky, without a doubt. Having a bunch of junior high delinquents kill their artificially composed “sensei” is pretty imaginative, but simultaneously seems as if there isn’t much to work with. To an extent, this mentality isn’t too far off. Assassination Classroom leans heavily on repetition for much of the season. Specifically, the children invent an elaborate way to go about taking out their teacher that ultimately fails. This is pretty much expected given the format of the anime; killing the teacher off early doesn’t make any sense because the show would end. So no matter what the kids do, the audience already knows that the outcome will never succeed. It therefore falls on the actual events to make up for the constant lack of return on the investment already given.

Sadly, the show falls short here as well. The comedy is pretty simplistic because, like the assassination attempts, it devolves into repetition quite quickly. For example, “Professor Bitch” never fails to get mad at her students, the kids always overreact to Koro-sensei despite being around him for so long, and their individual quirks aren’t pronounced enough to be used as laughing points. Besides the comedy, the show has the tendency to reiterate the same ideas ad nauseam. “The E-Class is super dumb” and “Koro-sensei is incredibly fast” comprise a lot of the dialogue, often said once or twice (each) per episode. These facts are understood and established rather early, but the anime makes sure to shove in these ideas at every turn. It’s ironic, because such a tactic makes it seem as if the show – which is all about “getting” to these kids – doesn’t trust its viewers enough to also “get” what it has to say. There also exists an apparent tonal issue that the anime chooses to embrace. Assassination Classroom is meant to be a fun show. The weird teacher, the dichotomy of teenagers wielding combat weapons, and interactions of the students are normally meant to be lighthearted. So when the show diverts from this formula and goes dark or dramatic, it doesn’t work. While it tries to present itself as such, it instead feels forced. This is wholly apparent when, for example, the anime goes right back to its comedic roots after experiencing a life-threatening trek through a guerilla-infested hotel.

There are other problems the show maintains – unnecessary narration since it rehashes whatever has already been discussed, one-time villains, an unclear antagonist – but the anime does manage to stick with its own theme: becoming a better person. However, it’s a bit stronger than this, because the kids of the “End-Class” aren’t ordinary children. They’re the ones who need the most help, who require the greatest amount of guidance to get them back on the right track. Thus, the theme changes slightly to: anyone can become a better person. We witness this idea unfold nearly every episode. One student learns about how important it is to always take proper safety precautions, another comes to understand the value of free will, and another still realizes the benefits of friendships. They get better physically and mentally, sure, but it’s these small but hugely important life lessons that leave the biggest impact, and subsequently make them better people. The theme itself also comes naturally – a teacher essentially does just this, teaching his or her students the proper ways of life. So watching these worse-off children improve their persons isn’t only rewarding for them and the audience, but it’s completely normal, too.

ANIMATION

There isn’t too much to say about the art style for Assassination Classroom. Interestingly, it does employ this strange tactic when it comes to its foreground characters. They all seem to “pop,” mostly due to the black outlines they each hold as well as the varied colors the show uses. The backgrounds aren’t too involved, mostly consisting of the same locations – the classroom, the surrounding field, and the main complex are visited the most. While they aren’t impressive, they do at least capture the school feel needed to make the actual events remain relevant.

The character designs are nice for a simple reason: they aren’t extremely unique. There are students like Nagisa who have the uncommon hair color, but for the most part, the characters look like regular junior high kids. Obviously, this isn’t true for people like Koro-sensei and Irina, but they’re designs also fit well with who they are as people. Koro-sensei’s never-ending smile, tentacles, and pattern-changing skin coincide perfectly with his craziness whereas Irina’s blonde hair, blue eyes, and large bust make her the sexy woman she is. The rest of the cast is a mix of the two – normalcy combined with uniqueness – that never feels out of place.

Actual animation is roughly average in execution. Koro Sensei takes up a lot of it, with his Mach speed and other physically impossible movements, but the students as well are given opportunities to strut their stuff. In fact, the premise makes this an easy matter; the gun fighting, martial arts, and other ridiculous situations give the show more than enough chances to work with. While it’s never stunning to see, the animation at least keeps up throughout the entirety of the season.

CHARACTERS

There are a lot of characters within Assassination Classroom, and for good reason. It’s an entire class of students, faculty members, and other people who don’t fit into those descriptions. Now, it’s nigh impossible for the show to give an adequate amount of screen-time or development for every single person, so many of them are as one-dimensional as they come. One girl is known for her chubbiness, one dude is sort of a pervert, one girl likes detective-oriented manga, etc. At the minimum, the anime, despite the cast size it boasts, does try to give everyone at least some time in the spotlight.

This widespread dividing of resources, though, introduces another problem of its own: not enough focus. Many of the bigger names within the show don’t receive nearly enough attention as they should, diminishing who they are as characters. For starters, Gakuhou, the president of the academy, is painted as evil but still a formidable educator. Yet, outside of making a few snarls or spewing some condescending words, he doesn’t do much of anything in regards to the plot. Itona, the “brother” of Koro-sensei, follows suit. He appears twice throughout the series, but besides having such strong connections and similarities to the teacher, nothing else is learned about him. Even Nagisa, technically the main student and contender to take down their target, doesn’t see much in the way of development. He sort of floats along with everyone else, gaining a ton of experience by observing Koro-sensei and participating in the daily training regimens. That’s the extent of who he is. He doesn’t seem too troubled by the events surrounding him, there doesn’t appear to be anything extravagant about who he is, and he doesn’t really grow beyond his current state. The final confrontation actually regressed his character for a time; while brief, he forgot almost everything he had learned up to the last fight.

The worst offender is, surprisingly, Koro-sensei. Maybe three times at best, the show provides the audience with a miniscule glimpse into the alien’s background, but nothing more. His origin remains unknown and his ultimate motivations are unclear. Furthermore, his complete infallibility prevents him from being affected by the kids he advises so much. It sounds counterintuitive, but a teacher learns just as much from his or her students as they do from their mentor, but Koro-sensei cannot personally develop because there’s apparently nothing left for him to learn. “Apparently” is used here because, again, there is no knowledge about Koro-sensei’s actual person, so while there may be some kind of problems or issues Koro-sensei has or needs to face, these aren’t explored.

Looking at these paragraphs here, there doesn’t seem to be anyone worth mentioning, but there are a few. Irina is investigated nicely enough, as is Yukiko, but the best character of the anime is Karma. Karma is a difficult kid to work with. He’s abrasive towards authority, he refuses to try hard, and has trouble making friends with others because of his constant bullying. Early on, Koro-sensei does manage to connect with Karma, to get him to understand the worth he has as a person. He calms down and opens up a bit to others, working with instead of against them, but still going about his own business. Later, when he loses grade-wise, he comes to learn that challenging yourself, not complacency, allows you to excel beyond what you were normally capable of. The culmination of his character development is seen near the end when, presented with a tough opponent, he not only chooses to fight him for the sake of his friends but also takes it seriously, more so than he ever had in the past. He began down and out, without people to guide him, but through Koro-sensei’s words of wisdom and friends who accepted him as one of their own, he slowly but surely turned out for the better. Still a little mean, but better nonetheless.

SOUND

The opening themes for the show, goofy dances aside, are crafted to be fun. The lyrics are mostly filled with references to their teacher, killing, and assassinations, but the beat and instruments are very lighthearted to go along with the comedic nature of the show itself. The repetition here also doesn’t work in its favor; instead of being catchy, it’s annoying. However the male and female vocalists sing in harmony – for both OPs – matching the show’s sense of togetherness that it portrays.

There is only one ending theme for Assassination Classroom. It wasn’t switched out for another because it’s too fantastic to forego. Contrasting with the OPs, it’s slow and gentle both on the ears and the heart. The lyrics and the singing give it a sense of longing; “I was waiting for,” “Hello, shooting star again,” and the “ah, ah” provide that grateful feeling when something finally returns. The instruments don’t overpower the singer, the pausing in the middle is advantageous to the ED’s theme, and the single guitar lead in at the beginning invites the listener to hear even more. It’s a phenomenal piece, and is definitely the highlight of the entire series.

The rest of the soundtrack actually has a wide range of beats and tracks to fit many separate and varying occasions. “Yukai na Anatsu Keikaku” is very upbeat with the jazzy brass, plethora of drums, and simple beat. “Haritsume ta Kuuki” is both ominous and mysterious, and eventually picks up to increase tension in a positive manner. “Tadashi” is quite ambient, almost techno in its presentation, and rather fitting for the “alien” scenario the students find themselves in. And “Niramiai” continues with the stealthy and covert-operation vibe that many of the events follow. It’s all appropriate and fits the overall moods of the anime nicely, but nothing is overtly astonishing or memorable.

Voice acting for the show is somewhere around average. A special shout-out is deserved for Jun Fukuyama as Koro-sensei for his zany mannerisms and way of speaking.

ENJOYMENT

As I made my way through this one, I could not get over how kiddy it all was. No amount of guns, bodacious babes, or crazy bad guys could stop me from thinking that this one was designed for a way younger crowd than it was intended for. I never really laughed when I was supposed to, the bad guys were silly rather than scary, and the drama present didn’t move me like it should.

There weren’t even any characters I really liked, save for two. Irina was there as eye-candy for me and Ritsu (who isn’t even “real”) was adorable after her upgrades. Besides these two girls, I found the rest of the known cast to be boring or lame. Koro-sensei, too, was not entertaining; he’s really fast and crazy, I get that. But his love of big boobs and constant chuckling was never fun to watch.

Assassination Classroom has an amazing ending theme, but the praise halts there. The narrative holds way too many problems to be purposeful, the characters lack the focus necessary to make them meaningful, and the show is way too childish for its own good. Hopefully this one goes to cram school before its second season, because all its doing right now is failing.

SUMMARY

Story: Bad, constant lack of return, too much pointless repetition, tonal issues, but learning life lessons is both rewarding and natural

Animation: Fine, okay art style, nice character designs, average actual animation

Characters: Bad, many students are glanced at, important members like Gakuhou, Nagisa, and especially Koro-sensei aren’t explored enough, but some like Irina, Yukiko, and Karma are

Sound: Fine, okay first OP, okay second OP, great ED, okay soundtrack, average VA work

Enjoyment: Bad, too kiddy, not funny, Koro-sensei is not entertaining, and only Irina and Ritsu out of the entire cast were tolerable

Final Score: 3/10

Usually I do not bother myself with writing negative review (this is actually a common MAL trend as reviews are usually written by fans) as I have more or less good understanding of why tv in question are so popular despite being bad in my eyes. But this one is a total mystery for me.

It is pretty easy to split this tv in 3 independent "themes" and analyze them separately:

1. Class needs to kill their teacher in order to save the world.

Sounds fun huh? But it was not.
I expected a lot of cunning assassination schemes, clever traps, constant progress in methods ... but alas - nothing of it. After few mediocre direct attempts to kill no one in class cares about it anymore, and story is shifted towards normal school live show + occasional pro-killer come to do the same dumb direct attempts to kill which is never gonna work by setting design (and therefore boring to watch). The lack of creativity is astonishing, I can't believe it was possible to do such a boring write-up with such potentially-reach material on hands.
Definitely a weakest part of the show. If you were primary interesting in this part - skip this show.

Score: 2/10

2. Class E is a class of problem children. School system is a bit evil. Classical story about making misfits into nice persons via solving their problems.

The show is struggle to find a right balance between assassinations and telling sad stories of the students. Both parts feels like incomplete attempts. But at least this part is done in more or less standard fashion. The bad part of it is the teacher character - he is very one-dimensional. He doesn't feel like a real person with any depth, and the main reason for it is a comedic relief. They wanted a comedy show similar to GTO, I assume. But while Onizuka provided plenty of fun while being a solid character which you can relate to, our teaches is just a clown with nothing to back him up. To make it worse variety of jokes are very limited and after 3-4 series you watched them all and they were not fun to begin with. This is huge letdown as show relies on it very heavily.

Score: If if take GTO as 10 than this show would be around 4/10.

3. Main plot aka who is Mr Teacher, why he needs to destroy earth, who is behind all of this etc.
Probably the best part of the show, unfortunately show is dragged into second season therefore there are no answers and overall amount of plot content is abysmal. The best way to describe this series would be - filler, slow paced, repetitive, quite boring and a bit absurdic. It really feels like you watch worst part of a good show.

Score: N/A, all in second season.


Conclusion: While I expect second season to be much better, I still believe it is not worth to struggle trough 22 episodes of filler material.
With 12 episodes format it would be so-so, but 22 puts it beyond salvation. And as it was released alongside with pretty solid tiles - I see no reason to pay any attention to it.

I began to watch this anime thinking it would be both entertaining and interesting. It's not that I expected that much of this anime, but I have never been this disappointed in my life. Every episode I prayed to God that the agony would finally stop, but it didn't. I guess God gives and God takes. And he took the pleasure of living by presenting this shitty anime.
The first five minutes were quite interesting, as the plot was still in development. Some tentacle guy blew up the moon and threatens to blow op the earth unless he gets to teach some drop-out high school kids ... to and train them to kill him. As I'm typing this I begin to wonder why I didn't stop watching after the first five minutes. This was the whole plot btw. In the other 21 episodes nothing happens. At all. Not even fanservice.

- Spoilers: - The ending was entire shit. It turned out he turns invincible for a day if he wants to. Also the deadly poison of which everyone would die wasn't actually poison.
But the most excruciating part of the plot, the part where I actually had to pause the last episode and think for a second about what the writers were thinking, was the part where our trans-gendered main character Nagisa actually tries to kill a man. This was unbelievable, I've finally watched to the point in an assassination anime where someone gets killed, and the whole class and teacher say 'No don't do it Nagisa killing is wrong!'. Can you believe this shit? I can't even start explaining why I raged so hard.
Now, if there is no plot, can the characters save this anime? The answer: No. The only decent character is the 2D waifu tactical warfare robot machine from Norway, everyone else has a generic background of failing their school exams for arbitrary reasons. Also, even though they failed every exams ever, everyone in the class is actually a genius with IQ's over 130 and ace every test if they feel like it.
However, there may be a target audience for this anime. If you're a teacher, there may be some useful tips 'hidden' in every episode. If you pay attention, more than half of every episode contains a long and in-depth preach about the secret techniques of teaching and the inner workings of children's minds.
The art and sound were ok I guess. Nothing special, nothing as shit as the rest of the anime.

Overall, I was very disappointed and I feel like I wasted a part of my life watching this abomination.
Even writing a review about it made me cry inside, but I wanted to warn everyone else out there expecting something great because of everyone rating it 9/10

But the question remains... is Nagisa really a guy? No one knows

My Ansatsu Kyoushitsu (TV) review...the re-post.

Story

Ok, the plot........kill the space alien octopus within the span of one year or it will destroy planet earth...........the men.....a group of middle school losers whom were train by the antagonist itself to kill him....their mission, kill him with in one school year and if successful they will get a 10 billion yen which is roughly about $100 million . Well, the plot was really unique and quite frankly I kinda like the idea behind it. But, on a moral basis, the plot was really twisted where one can't imagine that class 3E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School were train ... to develop killer instinct which come with the training of the antagonist and the teachers, so the story itself was very much crazy and not much of any sense in even if it was meant as entertainment.


My verdict: A poor 3.


Art

Basically I would have give it a 2 since the anime itself still follows the usual cliche of MC's having their own uniform designed, I mean really Nagisa has to be this bishonen with female features, geeez now why didn't author Matsui, Yuusei portrayed him as a cute bishojo instead of a bishonen? Also , I kinda hate Karma having his own coat color instead of wearing his school's standard grey. Then again the silver lining here is Bitch sensei were she is as hot as hell, still I'm not much impress with this anime's art even in it's manga form.....then again the live version is as worse as the anime and manga combine.

My verdict: A poor 3


Sound

I gonna give a high score for the opening OST which is “Seishun Satsubatsuron” and ""Jiriki Hongan Revolution" by 3-nen E-Gumi Utatan.

So my verdict: An outstanding 10.

Character

I'm only gonna focus on those who made an impact into this anime, since I haven't gone with the manga yet.

Koro-sensei, if you look at him he was really portrayed as a funny antagonist , but unlike other antagonist he's one antagonist that one would love, ok so he gonna destroy earth just like what he did with the moon, big deal. Also, what make his character special was that it wasn't something that one needs to worry about- I mean his character in general is something that one wouldn't care whether he get's killed or not. You might say that the class of 3E are more annoying than Koro sensei.

Nagisa Shiota, ok so wtf did author Matsui, Yuusei made him into a boy with female features we'll never know, what I do know was that I really dislike him also, I really hate how his character was being exaggerated an innocent boy with a very deadly killer instinct.If author Matsui, Yuusei have made him a girl then his character would have added a good femme fetal into the whole series which was too bad.


Karma Akabane, I kinda like that he plays as this quintessential talking trash guy who can deliver, but, one part of me wants to see him gets owned by bigger guys which it did, but still hated him in the few episodes of the anime where he get's to owned a profession killer who was trying to get him. However it was rather unfortunate that he didn't get to duke out with the main antagonist Akira Takaoka where in my opinion would have also give this anime a good climax.

Akira Takaoka, ok so he is the quintessential antagonist that one would love to hate, but I kind hate it that he never went it for the kill when he faced Nagisa for the second time where his character really did fall short of what was expected of him. And I always wanted to see him duke out with Karma.

Irina "Bitch-sensei" Jelavić, ok so kinda like her for being this quintessential bimbo, then again that's what she is an eye candy of this anime.

Tadaomi Karasuma, if Bitch sensei is the eye candy for this anime then that make him the quintessential guy who just looks around and manages, you know I'd wsih that he and Bitch sensei would have a serious relationship, where either he kills her or she kills him kind of thing.

So my verdict: a good 7.


Enjoyment

The enjoyment part here wasn't whether the 3e class would be able to kill Koro sensei or what, the enjoyment stems as to how the next episode would go, it might not be boring , but the experience of watching it was that it wasn't something that one would expect something to happen to Koro sensei, but what would the kids of class 3E would be up to... or what would anybody be up to to get Koro sensei for that matter.

My verdict: good 7.


Overall

It maybe enjoyable, but definitely not for kids ages 12 and below, since there is no moral lesson in it , just random streaks of kids form 3E who are up to something to Koro sensei, other than that , there isn't much.

My final verdict: a decent 4.

While the anime came out a few years back, I have only gotten around to watching Assassination Classroom recently. I felt EXTREMELY compelled to write a review on the show after deciding to drop it.

I find that a way to describe Assassination Classroom (at least, in a way I believe to be accurate), it to imagine a piece of paper that has "GOOD CONCEPT" written on it in black marker. Then, imagine handing that piece of paper to a toddler with a box of sharpies and telling them to go hog wild. Eventually, you cant even read the original phrase because it is just covered ... in nonsense.

GENERAL OPINION:
I was drawn to Assassination Classroom for its concept. The idea of a classroom of kids trying to kill their (somehow charming) alien teacher before he destroys the planet is exciting, and dare I say, unique! The design seemed okay, the characters seemed okay- nothing appeared like it was below average quality. My opinion at the start of the show followed this belief too.

But eventually, the scribbled-on-paper mess appeared before me. Assassination Classroom has one HELL of a plot going on... so why does almost 1/4th of the episodes not even develop it? This season is FULL of filler episodes, none really adding any progress to the students goal of killing their teacher OR even adding to character development. To me, it felt as though I had been watching for an hour when only 1 episode had gone by. Everything was so agonizingly slow (both slow to develop and slow to even unfold the events in each episode).

I would like to mention that I do not mind shows that are slow and take time to unfold, such as Steins;Gate. BUT, unlike most shows that use this strategy, Assassination Classroom fails to even try and keep the viewer anticipating what will happen at the end of the buildup. It is honestly wasted episode time that could be spent in so many better ways.

OPENING:
Not to be /that/ guy, but the first OP is one of the worst ones I have ever heard. The lyrics are quite cute, since they have all to do with the actual theme of the show, but but but the music itself just... does not flow right. It does not "hype me up" or get me into the "mood" for the show. Unless the point of it was to make me get to the show faster by skipping it, the OP could have easily been anything else and would have been better.

SIDENOTE:
While this is not a legit critique of the show, it completely bothered me how happy the students were 99% of the time during the show. It seemed like every time they failed to kill their teacher, and were therefore one day closer to LITERALLY DYING, they all would just laugh the event off and pull a "teehee haha sensei youre just too good! Back to math time!". WHY are none of the actual students bothered in the slightest by this! WHY is everybody just so calm about their impending doom! okay thats all

RATING:
I decided to give this show a 5 because I will recognize the fact that this show has been admired highly by most people, so there must be some appeal to it that only I am not catching onto. It was not the worst anime I have seen, but it has so far been the only anime I have decided was so bad I had to drop.

Thanks for reading :)

Sigh... another potentially good story ruined by a lamppost like execution. And what do I mean by lamppost like execution. Basically, everything is centred around Koro-sensei in that the only reason why the other characters exist is because of Koro-sensei. However, this isn't as lampposty as other anime as Koro-sensei has a decent character and isn't hopelessly there just so others can have some air time. Now for the main review.

Story 4:
The general outline of the story would've been 9, however the execution of it reduced it to 4. You'd think that having junior-high school students learning to become an assassin would be a great ... idea. In fact, this somewhat reminded me of Akuma no Riddle (which wasn't great but it's a comparison). Since it's set in a school setting the writer wanted to have some school related stuff/activities, which is fine. However, it seemed like he wanted to do both assassination and normal school life and what he ended up with was neither.

There was literally almost no mention of any assassination techniques, nor is there much air time of any assassination related type information, as one would find in say, a cooking/sports anime. In fact this was more of a school life with an assassination theme dlc attached to it. This story feels more like GTO but much more poorly executed and much less interesting.

And since this is a shounen series, when the students are presented with the prospect of possibly being allowed to actually kill someone, it's suddenly labelled as bad and they're forced to perform non-lethal takedowns. Basically just another generic, naive moralistic story that's contradictory since their entire purpose is to assassinate their teacher.

Art 9:
There's not much to complain about the art, but perhaps with the lighting on the faces a tad too bright. I didn't explicitly notice any weird frames or distorted characters so not much to complain about overall.

Sound 6:
Intro/outro not my type, the BGM isn't memorable and the voice acting is pretty standard stuff.

Character 3:
Here's the majority of the show's problem. We get introduced to a large cast where most of them are then given very little personality due to the lack of air time for each one. As we go further in we are introduced to another couple of characters who then continue to serve very little purpose to the overall story.

We get introduced to Karuma who's the cool/lazy/smart guy who's just there for convenient purposes. We get introduced to the AI who becomes a huge plot convenience outside of her introduced episode. We get introduced to Ms. Bitch who ended up being an unfunny gag and is sidelined for most of the episodes. And... there's the bunch of the other classroom students that we really have no idea about because neither their background nor determination to assassinate is explored. A bunch of other characters appear for a brief period of time to 'spice up' the anime, but in reality, it feels like they just diluted the entire story instead.

Now for Nagisa. He's our main protagonist and was thrown into Class E for... no one really knows... with the anime complete, I still don't know how much he has developed. Supposedly he has great potential to be an assassin except he's never actually allowed to kill anyone (besides the octopus) and we don't really know how good he is since we have had very little to compare to, not to mention the lack of actually seeing him train. The majority of the time he is on, we just see him enjoying a somewhat normal school life, or having an exposition on what's happening/happened so far.

This story would've been much more interesting if it was focused between Koro-sensei and the school's headmaster and dropping the assassination theme all together, as we actually spend more time focusing on the students welfare/education than we do about their actual ability to assassinate.

Enjoyment 4:
There's not really much humour, you're not inspired, you're not thrilled, you're not given the sensation of anything much overall.

Overall 4:
It tried implementing morality of killing in an assassination themed story, which makes no sense at all. They introduced several characters which have killed more than a dozen high value targets, yet it's somehow wrong for the students to do the same thing (which they are actually being trained to do). So the anime both tries to glorify assassination and denounce it at the same time, leading it to be unable to present a compelling story.

Now before people start raging at me for my opinion, i want to make it clear that i really enjoyed the second season, enough to give it an 8. The writer for this season was different than that of the writer of the second season, i think this directing is what makes this part seem so much worse. This watch was not even enjoyable imo, i was rather frustrated while watching this program. Without further ado lets get into it.

Story: 4.5/10
While i enjoy the concept of this super human being threatening to destroy the earth while working as a teacher, the concept is the only ... good thing about this batch. My problem lies with the lack of forethought from the writer of this manga and the government in the fictional story. Who the **** allowed this alien creature to sit in a room and teach while time ticked down. IDC what sensei offered, this is the dumbest decision to ever be made from a government in reality or fiction. They put full faith in a class of children to learn how to kill the global threat. While there was potential for interesting episode dynamics, they waste this time to show some idiotic scenes. They have sensei, Infront of the entire class when every student has ak 47s, they all shoot and he can dodge them all (prolly hundreds of bullets a second). Only to have a serious arc where a government sniper might shoot sensei and finally kill him (Did they expect viewers to believe one bullet would suddenly do the job?). The writing is extremely inconsistent and treats its viewers like they cant remember the previous episode. An absolute botchfest. Any of the emotional beats would not come until the second season.

Main/Side Characters: 4/10
Show me one individual that can name all 20 students in the classroom..... the author bit way more than he could chew. Besides Karma there is no one even above average here. I thought Sensei was more annoying than funny. Bro would gloat about not being killed by 12 year olds.

Antagonists: 3/10
Oh no, bad government guys who are simply just trying to save the earth...... this would be fine if it wasnt wrote like the government was the scum of the earth (I was cheering for the government tbh).

Power System/Action: 4.5/10
Its fine, Sensei being overpowered can be exciting for a few scenes but most other actions are pretty lame assassination attempts. Wtf is a clap of doom lmao. Mostly just unorganized gun shots.

Comedy: 2/10
I was too busy being angry with the writing competency of the author. comedy is subjective but this was not amusing at all.

Art: 7/10
Actually pretty decent, not bad animation for its time and decent speed shots when attempting to show Sensei's speed. Nothing bad or jaw dropping.

Music/Openings: 2.5/10
The first 2 openings are actually E or F tier. They are soooo boring and generic with the students all doing one dance move for the whole 1:30. Its more jarring when you see how good the 3 and 4th opening are.

Story/Conclusion: 5/10
Not the true ending to the story but at least it ends with an okay arc with the tower.


Final Notes:
If you like to smoke or dont mind watching something that doesn't require thought this is for you. I honestly don't know if this season is worth pushing through to get to the better moments in season 2.

The setup looks nice on paper, but the show main focus is comedy, and of all the jokes on the show they made me smile 3 time and laugh not even once, and i'm the kind of guy who laugh at every joke in gintama... the "class" is made of every possible cliche characters, the worst part is how everyone is "happy and smiling" after each episode without worrying about their sensei, a monster who will destroy the earth very soon if they don't "assasinate him". it appear the target audience is very young kids, wich i found odd when we know the setup and ... the main theme (being assassination/murder) and how some jokes are flat out terrible (in an episode there is a tentacle rape occuring). overall i think the author wanted to do a dumbed down GTO with the seinsei being the main comic relief but the humor did not stick at all, reminded me of space dandy wich i also hated (but mostly for it's lack of plot)

Really, I can't understand why everyone think this is a good series.

Sopilers ahead.

Assassination Classroom is about Koro-sensei, a monster that is so powerful, that he could break the 70% of the moon with no problem. He, for some reason, wants to be a teacher. The goverment, for some reason, gives him what he wants, and so, he starts teaching to a class of social scum that is not so social scum.
God, where do I start.
I can't stand the character design, those flashy colors in their hair look real bad, especially Nagisa and Karma. And talking about Nagisa, I hate him with all my soul ... and body. Nagisa is a plain protagonist that looks like a girl, yeah, thats all, he doesn't has a strong personality, he is just the typical polite and good protagonist of all the time. BUT WAIT, MY HATE FOR HIM DOESN'T ENDS THERE, another reason I have for hating him, is that he is the narrator. I CAN'T FUCKING STAND LISTENING TO WHAT HE IS THINKING ALL THE TIME, HE FUCKING TELLS THE OBVIOUS THINGS, AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN, telling us why does the professor felt that way, explaining how are they and basically, treating the espectator like he's a fucking retard, in other words, excess of exposition. for good exposition, just follow this simple phrase: "Show, don't tell".
I can't say too much about the other characters, they are so boring and plain, that they depend of the characters that are active in the story, like for example, Koro-sensei.
Let's go with the antagonist: Uh, he is a previous villain who went mad because the protagonist beat him in a fight... EXCELLENT ANTAGONIST. Nah, don't believe it, he is just cannon fodder so the protagonist can look cool in the end, and really, I can't take seriously a character who looks like a fucking closet transexual, and that is also an unknown person for me.
The only good thing that made want to keep watching was Koro-sensei's past. BUT FORGET ABOUT IT, THEY JUST SENT IT STRAIGHT INTO THE TRASH CAN, YEPPPP, WHO CARES ABOUT IT, HE IS JUST A FUCKING GOOFY OCTOPUS THAT NEEDS TO BE KILLED. FUCK YOU, KORO-SENSEI, AND FUCK ALL THE END CLASS.

Yeah, this review is a relief of hate towards this series, I don't like it at all and the only thing I can rescue is a couple OST and Koro-sensei.

That leaves us with a...

three :)

This series drags on and on and on... I feel like it could've been a single 12 episode show if they weren't trying to milk it into another hundred-episode shounen. Every episode is like the last with no glimpse of a conclusion ever coming. The idea of the plot is great, but the execution is god awful. Watching through the series is more of a chore than anything else. It gets boring when the students fail time and time again. This is basically Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner in anime form. And there's another season after this?! A conclusion will never be reached ... at this point.

I felt like this show was created to appeal to junior high kids in the Congo. It tries to make killing and school look fun. It teaches cliche life lessons that you would see on a PBS kids show. their was even a point were the MC says "just be yourself" and even shows a kid saying no to drugs. If you are a child you might enjoy this show as it makes assassins look "cool". But when they compare tests to monsters that can only be slain by studying and working hard and "doing your best" I felt like I was watching an educational ... video. This show has a serious setting but ignores all the serious aspects. these children don't seem to understand the situation they are in. and if they did they would HATE their teacher as he is threatening to kill them and their family's. All they care about are their grades and wanting to be liked. its almost as if they don't know what assassins do or know what killing or death is. If they were to kill their teacher they would be filled with regret since they are so attached to him. Not to mention that these CHILDREN are being taught that killing is OK. what is this the Congo? Sorry I know I already used that joke. these children are gonna serial killers in a few years.

I thought this show would be an enjoyable action anime. the action is pointless because there is no real outcome instead focusing on the students willingness to learn keep in mind the teaching is only half about assassination. there is NO KILLING in an a show about assassination. Other than this it could've been a great story if only they didnt go out of their way to not assassinate anyone. This shows true name should've been "Lessons from a creepy octopus" and that would've been more accurate.

for anyone who has watched the show and doesn't agree all you have to do is rewatch episode ... 21 & 22 and it should be clear.

For all the rest including art and music. to me this only matters if the story is any good. I would watch a recording of a comic if the story as amazing so while the animation style is good it is totally crippled by the story.

I was recommended Assassination Classroom after asking people for anime similar to Naruto's Chuunin Exam arc. The arc where taking a difficult written exam becomes really big drama-fueled mind games and students use creative methods to cheat on it, I've always felt that was a really underrated part of the show.

I feel Assassination Classroom is largely only similar to that on paper. This is mostly a comedy and while there is some test-driven drama, it's not very common, so I don't feel it was an accurate recommendation.

However, it wasn't a completely terrible show. Though I found the comedy hit-and-miss, there were moments where I laughed, ... as well as a few other moments I enjoyed. There were a couple particularly likable characters as well.

For me personally, though, the laughs weren't frequent enough and the plot too thin for me to score this very high. Despite its bizarre concept it's a pretty mediocre anime and left me feeling neither here nor there, which can be categorized as a waste of time.

Oh boy. The story is completely stupid, even if it's original, it does not mean its stupid. Basically a whole class has to kill their teacher with 'anti sensei' shit in like 2 years otherwise the whole planet might be destroyed. Also, the sensei has crazy powers. (2)
Art is mediocre (5)
Sound is ok (5)
The characters are plain and cliche. We have the main character who is a trap, has a 'secret' power, and just plain in general. Then we have Karma who is basically the cliche 'cool' kid. Then there is Koro-sensei who is the only likable main character (IMO). (2)
Did I enjoy the anime? ... No, not really. The biggest problem, in my opinion, was that the tone of the show was way off. Imagine going to school and realize that you have to assassinate your teacher who could destroy the world. What tone would that be? Serious? Yeah, it would be, but the show just tries to be a comedy.
Overall the anime is overrated.

For me personally, all the characters where just so plain. only 2 that i didn't feel that way about was koro-sensei and karma. It even felt like the producers knew the characters where plain so they gave characters a random back story that didn't fit the plot. the ending was not satifying at all. the characters never developed. and the fighting (when they had it) was just ok. Nothing to hype up but it wasnt terrible. the only thing i can give this anime was the animation. other then that the story ,the characters, and the ending where not good at all. i would not ... recommend this anime to anybody

I won't spoiler anything:
This anime got hyped beyond the clouds, i've never get so confused so many times by watching an anime. Literally if someone says "cringe" i thinking about this.
It's simply bad, the story is boring, those who have never watched an anime an wants to start with this or if you are 10-14 years old here you go, just watch it, it's for you. I just changed the score i gave to it from 4 to 2/10 probably i gave it 4 because i've never gave an anime worse than a 6... yes, in my opinion it's that bad.
I remember i felt asleep ... several times by watching it, but those confusing moments omg there was the episode 9 or 10 i couldn't finish just skiped it.

After all, this anime is a waste of time. Also why they have to make characters you can't decide it's gender by it's appearance?