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.
