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| Assassination Classroom, its teachers, and fellow schoolmates |
Status: Ongoing
Plot: Part of the moon has been destroyed so that now it is a permanent crescent moon. The one who comes forward and says that he is the one that destroyed the moon is a large creature that is a mix between an octopus and a teru teru bozu with a touch of mood ring(no joke, his skin even changes colors depending on his mood). He states that in a year's time, he will do the same to the Earth. So all the Governments agree to destroy him. Problem, he moves at Mach 20 and will retaliate by making what he calls "maintenance and improvements" (he cleaned a rocket that was shot at him by the American Government and returned it to the person who ordered its fire later that day).
What can people possibly do against the impossible to kill? Enter Kunugigaoka Junior High's Class 3-E (E as in End). Our lovely octopus friend proposed that he will teach them so they can have an opportunity to kill him everyday. There, everyday, they learn how to kill the newly named Korosensei (combined from korosenai and sensei, which in Japanese means unkillable and teacher respectively) as well as regular lessons. Two more students join (one being a computer), as well as there are two other teachers, their assistant teacher who is from the Government and their language teacher who is a pro-assassin named Bitch-sensei. Oh, and if your worried about if the kids will feel bad about trying to kill their teacher, don't be, they do it with a smile on their face. And everyone is aiming for the ¥10 billion( about $26 million) So, class is starting, きりつ、きおつけ、れい！(stand, at attention, bow!)
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| Time to start class! |
Review: OMG, this is such a good manga!!! I did not read much of the mangaka's other works, but my friend read Neuro and loved it. The plot seems slightly dark, though once you start reading it, it is really light hearted, the darkest it gets is either the discrimination of class E or Korosensei's past, which not much is known, aside from he might have once been human (I know, hard to believe). The art is simple, but pleasant, and I can distinguish each character (sometimes, I can't in manga. It's worse than my dad trying to tell asians apart [he's full white] -_-"). Also, no one in class E has a 2-D personality to me, not even the AI.
The class is a nice mix of personalities. First, you got seemingly carefree Korosensei, then you get the narrator, Shiota Nagisa, and his close friend Akabane Karma, (Karma-kun is the only one who got close to killing Korosensei), plus the seemingly cold Karasuma-sensei and the easily annoyed tsundure Bitch-sensei (that's what the kids call her). The only one's you can forget are those that only show up for a couple of chapters. No one in the classroom is forgettable, even if you forget their names, you will still recognize characters like 20 chapters later (unless you haven't really met them).
Many would think that this manga would be dark, but in reality it is really light hearted. Though it is about kids about 13-14 learning to assassinate, they also are learning life lessons from their very target. In the classroom, almost all the character's have a somewhat inferiority complex when compared to the rest of the school due to the school's discrimination of the class. You are either put into class E because you do poorly grades wise or, like Karma, you defend class E and beat up regular students (yes, he was suspended as well, but main punishment was being in class E despite his grade's being 4th best in the entire school). I find that this is the darkest part of the manga (not even what we know of Korosensei's past is as dark) due to the fact that this is a social commentary. Korosensei, of course, made it somewhat of his mission to change that before the students graduated.
Overall, I gotta say that I fully enjoy this manga and give it 5 stars. If you like light hearted, fun manga that won't go on forever, I suggest you try it. It is published weekly in Shounen Jump (for you in Japan), but for those who read it online, it is done by Mangatopia. So shall we join the students of Class 3-E to save the world and earn that prize money. ;) Oh yeah, don't question if the weapons work, they are only affective on him.
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| Korosensei shooting himself in the arm with pellets that are only harmful if they get in your eyes |
Oh yes, for you toxin experts, yes, he will drink your poison, even with a straight face
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| Korosensei's straight face |
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