Ansatsu Kyoushitsu 2nd Season

Returning from their summer vacation, the students of Class 3-E at the prestigious Kunugigaoka Middle School find themselves up against unbeatable odds. Faced with the possibility of world annihilation, the students must come up with increasingly elaborate and creative ways to kill their teacher, the cunning yet optimistic and helpful Koro-sensei.

However, eliminating Koro-sensei is not the only objective the students need to worry about. Gakuhou Asano, the academy's merciless and cruel principal, seeks to prevent Class 3-E's success by brainwashing his other hard-working pupils into ruthlessly competitive studying machines. Hostility begins to linger in the air as traitors and killers alike attempt to claim the bounty on Koro-sensei's head for themselves.

Nagisa Shiota, one of Class 3-E's most skilled assassins, finds himself in the middle of the conflict. While he works to maintain his academic standing and prevent the end of the world, domestic affairs jeopardize his place in Class 3-E. Together with his dedicated classmates, he must now face the threats head-on.

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Koro-sensei Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Akabane, Karma Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Shiota, Nagisa Main

Fuchigami, Mai Japanese

Kayano, Kaede Main

Suzaki, Aya Japanese

Karasuma, Tadaomi Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Jelavić, Irina Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Asano, Gakushuu Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Nakamura, Rio Supporting

Numakura, Manami Japanese

Horibe, Itona Supporting

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Hayasaka, Ritsu Supporting

Fujita, Saki Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kishi, Seiji Director

Iida, Satoki Sound Director

Itou, Fumio Episode Director

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May 31, 2024

Peach_Main

Recommended

If you thought the first season of Assassination Classroom was perfect, I can guarantee you that you will love the second season. The continuation of the story is excellent, there is more to know about the characters, and the ending is something you will never forget.

After Nagisa defeated Akira Takaoka, Class 3-E continued their summer vacation which they earned from scoring higher exam grades over the A Class students. However, they are still tasked with assassinating their supernatural teacher Korosensei, which they were unable to since each time they come up with a brilliant plan, he just has another trick up his sleeve. Plus, there ... is still more to the academic year, so that means there are more exams to come. Time is running out, and there is a vicious assassin who is called the Reaper threatening to not only hurt Korosensei, but the students of Class 3-E as well.

There are other stories to see besides the main one. These include Class 3-E defying the unjust rules of Kunugigaoka Junior High (One of these unjust rules being that E Class students are not allowed to get part-time jobs.), Nagisa trying to convince his strict mother to let him stay in the E Class, and a secret Kaede Kayano has been keeping since before the events of the anime. I won't spoil what the secret is, but one thing I do appreciate is that it is revealed that Kaede is the one who gave Nagisa his current hairstyle.

No matter what obstacle comes their way, Korosensei and Class E students must overcome them all together. While it's good that the students are protecting their teacher from various threats, it just makes the idea of having to kill him themselves a lot harder to accept. After all, failing to kill Korosensei means the end of the world. They must perform a successful assassination while having to avoid getting assassinated themselves.

Since the studio remained the same, the art and animation remained the same as well. All the characters are just as lovable as they were in the first season. I realized I forget to bring this up in my review of the first season: I really like Korosensei's laugh. Every time he laughs, it just brings me so much joy. I also like the reference to the 2014 FIFA World Cup where Korosensei was visiting Brazil and while he was sitting down and coming up with a math question, he kept saying "7 to 1," and it was making the Brazilians angry.

Unlike the first season, I found the second season's selection of songs to be more appealing than the first. The first opening song "Question" is pretty catchy, especially towards the end. When I got near halfway through this season, I actually sang "Question, question" along during the opening when it got to that part of the song. The first ending song "Waning Moon" is a decent song. I'm not too crazy for it, but I actually like it better than Season One's ending song. The second opening "Bye Bye Yesterday" was also decent, but I personally prefer "Question" over it. I will say that for the animation sequence, I like how each time it plays, it ends with showing how much time Class 3-E has left to kill Korosensei. The second ending "Until the Day I See You Again" is emotional to listen to. There is just something about it that lets the audience know that the end is coming. These students will complete their mission. They will graduate from Kunugigaoka Junior High School. They will graduate from their assassination classroom.

However, none of these songs even compare to the insert song that plays when Class 3-E finally does the deed: "Song of Departure." The English name alone should be enough for you to know what went down in the scene it plays in. "Song of Departure" is a very beautiful song, and I can confidently say that it's one of my favorite soundtracks in all of anime. If you're someone who hasn't started watching Assassination Classroom, I will say that this song will be worth the whole journey.

Season Two of Assassination Classroom stayed consistent with the first season with the excellent storytelling, animation, characters, and a perfect showcase of what Korosensei is capable of and what are his limits and weaknesses. While I didn't like the music of Season One, Season Two managed to have songs I do not skip. Admittedly, some songs did come off better than others to me, but "Song of Departure" is so good that overall, this is an improvement over the first season. In fact, the anime's ending is so memorable that the second season here deserves to be added to my list of favorite anime. I am very grateful to my college friends for showing me Assassination Classroom.

On an unrelated note, I wasn't intending to make this review after graduating from college myself. These last two semesters kept me busy for a while and the ceremony took place the day before I typed this. I guess since I brought this up, congratulations to anybody else who graduated this spring.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 13, 2023

EarthWoven

Mixed Feelings

I was about to add this anime to my favourites but after this season I changed my mind. The writers way of thinking is understandable, but it made me sad and now I think that this season has an unnecessarily high score.

There was a lot of fillers, and I find the story in this season mediocre at best. Besides some hype moments, it was boring. I enjoyed the first season much more than this, it showed a much more simpler, logical and clear image for a classroom setup and I admired the ideas and life advices behind it.

Yes it's not the common opinion ... as you can see, but since I go this far, I will crop some of my initial score for this season as well.




******** A very small bit of -kinda- spoiler ahead *********


















Everything will come to an end someday. Like humans, like the world. It is the grown up way of thinking. But there should be a line between what is real and what is not no matter what the context or the intention behind.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 7, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Not Recommended

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The premise of the series has to do with a class of losers being forced to kill their tentacle hentai teacher within a year. If they succeed, they will be rich. If they fail, the whole world will be destroyed. It’s silly, it makes no sense, and it’s just an excuse for fantasy empowerment. “Hey low-esteem student watching Assclass. Are you constantly being victimized by your society? Is everybody treating you like you are the scum of the earth, who will never succeed in anything in his life? Well, here’s a show to escape the harsh reality. You get to be an assassin who gets ... back on his bullies, kills his own teachers, gets lots of money for it, saves the world, and has lots of fun doing repetitive school activities! Thug life!”

And yes, I know it’s a comedy and it doesn’t need to make sense or be pragmatic, but it tries so much to be dramatic with high stakes that you simply can’t see it as a silly past-timer. Everybody has a tragic past but they are constantly doing silly things such as cross-dressing or spying on girls. One moment it’s supposed to be telling you important life lessons, and the immediate next it’s presenting assassination as a cool profession teenagers can go after. Remember kids, be good to your parents, wash your teeth every night, and kill people for a living because this yellow octopus trained you.

I can excuse the nonsense plot or the weak theme exploration, but not its lack of variety. I am not talking about different quirks for each character, it does that, I am referring to motivations. There is only one thing everybody wants to do: Kill the teacher. And there is only one thing the teacher is doing with everyone: Makes them work hard for a better future. It gets so formulaic and repetitive that you feel like you watching the exact same episode again and again.

I mean, yeah, the details change all the time, such as who is trying to kill the teacher, with what method, or in which location, but the end result is the same no matter what. There is always a battle of some sorts, Koro-sensei wins, and he lashes out a message about training hard to be better next time. I can give Assclass the credit of having a focused theme instead of being all over the place. And I like how there is variety in methods and locations. I also like how sometimes the stakes are as low as studying to score high in exams and sometimes they are high where lots of lives are at stake.

The problem is, the resolution is the same, no matter how grave the situation is. Despite the constant tactics and planning everybody seems to be using, the result is whatever the author wants it to be, since superpowers are abused and the laws of physics mean nothing. Koro-sensei has very broken powers, and thus has epic levels of plot armor. Yeah, that changes towards the end but it’s only because the show needs to end and not because someone overpowered him. As for the students using superpowers, it becomes meaningless when there are stuff such as mind control and instant healing. Free will and death lose their meaning, there is never actual tension because no matter what happens it can be easily undone. Thus the characterization is laughably meaningless.

I didn’t feel that in other anime about a teacher, such as Great Teacher Onizuka and Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei. Over there, everybody was doing something outside of a main objective. The students and assassins in Assclass on the other hand are moving like a mob and thus it becomes very hard to see them as individuals. You see them as plot devices rather than people trying to do things differently and thus developing into unique personalities. My point is, having the same goal for everybody is damaging for characterization. I understand that if they fail, the world will be destroyed, but it’s still damaging.

In fact, it goes against the core theme. If the show was promoting teamwork above everything else, I would understand the persistence of a common goal. But the formula of most episodes doesn’t play out as if it’s about working as a team. It’s mostly about a single student or assassin going after the teacher, and along the way showing something tragic in his past that made him the way he is today. What’s the point of individual backdrop stories when the end goal is the same for everyone? They are all moving towards the exact same destination no matter what they do.

What’s the point of the theme being about success when the objective is to kill the teacher? You know everybody will be constantly failing before the last episode. For a premise that is built around making the characters succeed in life, 99% of the duration is about them constantly failing. Also, it is a terrible objective. Nobody wants the planet to blow up, and nobody wants the teacher to die. The ending is either going to be a cop-out or it’s going to not feel like a success.

Beyond all that, it comes down to Assclass having dozens of unnecessary characters. The theme of the series is very specific and simple to need more than a handful for exploring it. In fact, it doesn’t need more than 2, Nagisa and the teacher. All the others are slight alterations of the exact same archetype, and the plot is basically the same in every episode: Work hard for a better future. The problem is, there is not much screen time allocated for each one of them before the focus switches to someone else, thus nobody manages to be memorable, outside the ridiculous design of the yellow octopus. And that is what leaves Assclass as nothing more that yet another forgettable school comedy.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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