Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e (TV)

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English: Classroom of the Elite

Synonyms: Welcome to the Classroom of the Elite

Japanese: ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Currently Airing

Aired: Jul 12, 2017 to Sep 27, 2017

Premiered: Summer 2017

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 23:30 (JST)

Producers: Studio Hibari, Lantis, Media Factory, AT-X, Sony Music Communications, Toranoana, Crunchyroll, Kadokawa Media House, AKABEiSOFT2

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Lerche

Source: Light novel

Genres: Slice of Life, Psychological, Drama, School

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment.

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its "inferior" students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyou, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka's situation begins to change.

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Ayanokouji, Kiyotaka

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Chiba, Shouya
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Horikita, Suzune

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Kito, Akari
Japanese

Kushida, Kikyou

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Kubo, Yurika
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Sakura, Airi

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Ichimichi, Mao
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Ichinose, Honami

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Touyama, Nao
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Sakayanagi, Arisu

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Hidaka, Rina
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Chabashira, Sae

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Satou, Rina
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Karuizawa, Kei

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Taketatsu, Ayana
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Sudou, Ken

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Takeuchi, Eiji
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Yamada, Albert

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Kishi, Seiji

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Hashimoto, Hiroyuki

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Iida, Satoki

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Neves, Emily

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"Beautiful Soldier" by Minami

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Aug 2, 2017

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

PizzaOnPineapple (All reviews)

219 people found this review helpful

,,Are human beings truly equal?“

Using a pretentious question as an opener is common in Light Novel adaptations. It's a fast way to both grab the attention of the inexperienced viewer and to introduce the general intentions of the show. If you think about the question for a second or so, it becomes clear that questioning the equality of the human race serves no purpose as anything but a rhetorical question or a joke. Coincidentally, the same applies to large parts of the series itself. The stakes in this show are so unbearably low that anything happening on-screen ultimately serves no purpose. Overall the series up to this point is uninspired, boring and so far removed from the “Elite” it is comical.

Fair warning: This review contains minor spoilers, including several ruleset spoilers from episodes 1 and 2. These spoilers shouldn’t affect your viewing experience, as most of them are either hinted at or explicitly stated in the summary of the show’s MAL entry.

First, let us get the misconception that the school in this series is an elite school out of the way. The school in this show is more of a showcase of late stage capitalism than it is of education, as the students are assigned points that function as money based on their merit.
You can buy anything with those points: food, beauty products, gold teeth, you name it. There is also a limited supply of free products for every student. But for some reason there are no student markets or the like. Students with many points don’t sell their points for money and nobody acquires products from outside the facility to sell them. None of the upperclassmen created a guide to the point system, although you’d expect such a thing to be sold out immediately, resulting in the upperclassmen not having to worry about further acquiring points. The students of Class D were told that they get a certain amount of points of value assigned just for enrolling but assume they’d get such an amount steadily per time period. The students in this school are not smart and the author of this series wasted the potential of his setting in an astonishing fashion.

Up to now it is still unclear what the point of following this story is. We do follow the protagonist but it doesn’t seem like he has any certain ambition at this point. As I said earlier there basically are no stakes, nothing to get invested in. We are just following the MC, his few acquaintances and the rest of class D through their life on this late stage capitalism campus. Now, this may sound like a Slice of Life, a genre I personally very like, but this show isn’t anything of the sort. A Slice of Life is usually carried by its characters, but the characters are probably the most lacking aspect of this show.

The characters in this show are best described as what they are: characters. They are one-liners with a twist added to them. Sometimes. None of them feel human or are even remotely likable.
This whole thing starts with the protagonist. He is a lazy guy that is bad at making friends and fairly comfortable with his position. But he also judges his entire class and as later revealed is proficient in martial arts, highly intelligent, nice and *mysterious*. Basically what I’m saying is he is a boring self-insert character without any notable flavor but a lot more bearable than other self-insert protagonists.
I can use this template for every other major character. They are one-liners with a “twist” added to them. These twists range from mindboggingly obvious, boring and unimpactful to straight up unnecessary. They are introduced through an array of “coincidences”, thus end up feeling forced and unnatural, just like the rest of the series.

While watching Welcome to the Classroom of the Elite, these uninteresting characters and nonexistant stakes made me feel so far removed from anything happening that I might as well have slept a bit more instead of wasting my time on this show.
Now to be honest, I can see where the appeal comes from. If unlike me you are not tired of these fast-food-highschool shows with some minor twists attached to them, this might be for you. If you just think the overall atmosphere or “vibe” is cool, then this might be for you.
For me however, watching this show is more of a chore than anything. If it wasn’t for the minor twists conveniently happening near the end of each episode, I would long have dropped this “Pretentious Anime - Highschool Edition” and as such I can’t recommend watching the show at this point.

Should a reachable goal for the series’ finale (or just anything of value) be introduced, the whole thing might just be salvageable. Unfortunately, with how the show is pacing itself at the moment, I don’t see anything interesting story-wise happening in the near future.

As this is my first review, I’d highly appreciate any and all criticism, so feel free to message me either through private messages or comments on my profile if you have ideas what I could improve on.
Thanks for reading.

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Aug 2, 2017

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

ItzToxic (All reviews)

205 people found this review helpful

Classroom of the Elite indeed took me by surprise with a first episode that grasped my attention. It takes place in a prestigious school where the good and the great are separated. Or in this case, the good and the bad.

Class D, the worst one, is the main focus of the anime which consists of the characters. Of course, not being in class D gives you a sense of superiority. Class D students are seen as piles of garbage, I mean even the teacher thinks so too.

It introduces the point system, which I suppose is the currency in the school (1 point read more

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Aug 2, 2017

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 1

TheRenegader (All reviews)

121 people found this review helpful

After watching 4 episodes of this anime, I would like to say, I am severely disappointed, but, for now, I'm going to start with what I like. FIRST OF ALL, SORRY, BUT THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. BUT I WILL LEAVE OUT AS MANY AS POSSIBLE(Not that it matters, the show isn't worth anyone's time).

For one, the character designs look nice, even though they're quite generic.

Another thing is that the art and animation is good for the most parts with some weird stuff every now and then(quite rare though).

Now that I've gotten what I like about this show, let's move onto the rest.

First of all, the story is garbage. Basically, the cliff notes version is that they go to a prestigious high school and they're split into four classes: A, B, C, D(You can guess which one's the worst one). We follow the D class in this anime. It turns out that you get an allowance each month and everyone starts out at 100,000 points per month. You lost points based on your overall classes score based on some secret system they have that you know "nothing" about(You can glean some shit from it after the first episode). After their first month, they get no points in their second month cause their overall class acted like shit. You follow the main cast, which I will get to later, and their goal of getting to A-Class Rank, which they never really get anywhere with in 4 episodes.

Why is the story shit? I mean, the concept sounds really nice. Competing to be the best class. Who wouldn't like that? Right? Well, nothing really happens. I mean, things happen, but they are played out so mundanely that you might as well watch grass grow. The first scene is so mundane that most of it didn't even need to happen. And that's the thing with this show, everything is so mundane that most of it doesn't really matter and doesn't add anything to the show, at all. Another thing that plagues this show is its pacing. Bad enough that it's boring, it's also really slow to boot. Things take too damn long to happen for the story to move along nice enough. After four episodes, nothing really important actually happened after the first episode. Why? Because it's like every event happens in seclusion from the others. You'll see one scene and then another but they don't seem to add up. Everything accumulates to nothing. You just have a bunch of scenes smushed together in an awkward way that you start to wonder if this even a story at this point. To me, I see this as if you took someone's high school life and made it even more boring and pointless than it already is.

Next thing I would like to talk about the characters, and how much they suck. It feels like they took the core cast of My Youth Romantic Comedy SNAFU and stripped everything interesting. literally. It seems like the author took some real inspiration from that other, better light novel series. So why do they suck? A lot of reasons. The main character has no personality. If you put a robot in his place, no one would notice a thing. You're lead on to believe that he's hiding something, but all he's hiding is that he really is that boring. His voice is always monotone and he acts the same way for everything he does. So, even some interesting scenarios get washed out by his pathetic personality and actions. Sometimes, they try to make him give important talks to others, but when it comes from him, it just sounds like pure BS, fresh from the butthole. The main girl is just as bad. Her whole thing is that she's obnoxious and intellectual. She has no real depth to her just like every other character in the show. She's just a one off character with nothing interesting about her, at all. Not once have I seen anything about her in the show that made her the least bit interesting. The last part of the core cast is a girl who wants to be friends with everyone in the class. Not much else to say about her that doesn't go into major spoiler territory. From what I see, the characters will stay just as flat and mundane as they are now for the rest of the show.

The last thing I want to talk about is the dialogue. It's horrid. It feels like there was a checklist of things they needed their characters to say so the dialogue feels wholly unnatural and sometimes borderline cringy. When they to talk about the importance of things, it comes off weird and stupid. They want you to take event seriously or be engaged in them, but, the dialouge is so jarring and executed so poorly that makes things that are intrinsicly interesting just plain flat and boring.

I am really disappointed that a show with such an interesting concept falls flat on its face. This is probably the only time I'll say this, but go watch anything else but this show. It has nothing at all. It would be more worth your time to watch Sword Art Online or almost any other show. There is nothing good about this dribble.

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Aug 2, 2017

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Haoto_Akiyama (All reviews)

96 people found this review helpful

This is the 1st time for me to write a review for an airing anime....... So I'll try and keep it fresh.

I mean, it's a light novel adaptation. It'll be interesting, right? The concept built for students who aim high in a prestigious school. It's about to get bumpy as it doesn't go as well as expected.

Story:
The plot is really interesting. As a reader of the LN, I say that it's a combination of Oregairu and Ansatsu Kyoushitsu. But to be clear, wouldn't you find it entertaining as it really gives of a good vibe just from the 1st episode? A system which determines the read more

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