Their poor teacher is just some random guy who innocently wonders why his student's keep "transferring". Promising fun idea having a normal student trying to survive with a room full of 12 assassins. Seems like something full of wit and clever characters. Too bad it's played way too straight and no one is deep enough to be clever. Maybe this just wasn't for me but I walked away with meh opinions because everyone was so guarded.
Story
Bunch of female assassins compete with their classmates to kill one girl, the main difference here is that each assassin gets only one 24 hour period of their choice to kill her. I'd say it's a battle royal like story, but like mixed with school life story. It's the highlights of school life where the cold character hangs out with the timid target. There's some slight mystery with what each character is about but honestly I wasn't too interested in exploring it prior to their episode.
Character
I found characters interesting only after we got a flashback or a call from the character of the episode. I found them more fascinating because of what could have been, I suggest watching the eds because they show character's wish being fulfilled or their backstory. The most interesting part of their characters are their backstories, occasionally their dynamics with one other person. It's one of those things where I wish they weren't assassins, they're all so guarded so it's hard to learn about anyone in any meaningful way.
Since the story is pushed by the target being the target it would have been nice if she had something more. As it stands she's a tragic timid nice girl who wants to enjoy high school. She doesn't move anyone to her side, she barely interacts with most of them and when she does it a "let's do well" kinda comment. Like it would have been neat if she pulled people to her side or at least made them torn about killing her. The most we get is "oh we've been classmates that don't interact, so I feel bad" or "you had a tragic backstory, so I'm sorry".
General feel
It feels more like a slice of life that got the battle royal thing kinda shoved in. It just doesn't balance the assassins with the slice of life setting, they are guarded and stay guarded archetypes until it's their episode then we learn about them.
Positive:
- Good to decent character stories
- Decent fights and action
- EDs all are of the character's wishes/stories and different songs
Negative:
- Shallow feeling characters
- Everyone is so deadpan
- Upon finishing hated it but coming back I'm like meh to it
