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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.

Very nice and refreshing gag and parody anime. It has nothing to do with "cute girls & cute things" as some people think for unknown reason. The show heavily relays on breaking 4-th wall and abstract humor and it seems most of the anime watchers are not used for this and miss entire point of the series. The show is full of self-irony and mocks anime-industry quite a bit, and it feel kinda honest which I like.

People bash this show due to inability to understand content outside of typical school comedy/drama tropes. So, while I can't guarantee that you will like it, there are no ... reason to trust the current score and skip it without trying on your own, especially if you have sense of humor of more intelligence than banana peel.