Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Assassination Classroom
暗殺教室
Tokyo Department Sensou Taikenki
Tokyo Department Store War Chronicles

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Synopsis

In the blink of an eye, the night sky is forever changed when, with a great explosion, the moon is blasted into a permanent crescent. Confronting the governments of the world, a yellow tentacled monster boasts that it was the one responsible for the catastrophe, and in a year's time, it will do the same to Earth. Zooming around at Mach 20, the creature makes a peculiar demand: a teaching position at the prestigious Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Desperate to keep the creature in one place, the government agrees, and so the students of Class 3-E find themselves faced with an impossible task—assassinate the creature responsible for destroying the moon. Although the fate of the world now rests on their shoulders, the class has more personal issues to deal with. Trapped at the bottom of Kunugigaoka's hierarchical education system, they face harsh discrimination from both teachers and students alike. Defeatism abound, they don't believe themselves capable of success in daily life, let alone against a monster that surpasses the abilities of any human. But as the enigmatic creature—whom they dub Koro-sensei—educates them in both assassination and academia, the children slowly find the courage to rise up and take aim at their target: the greatest teacher the world has ever seen. [Written by MAL Rewrite] Included one-shot: Volume 21: Tokyo Department Sensou Taikenki (Tokyo Department Store War Chronicles)

Publication notes

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu ranked first in the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! in the Male Readers division. The manga was named the best work of 2013 on the Book of the Year list by Nippon Shuppan Hanbai. It was nominated for the 2013 Manga Taishou Award, ranking sixth, and the 19th Tezuka Osamu Annual Prize in 2015. The series has sold over 20 million copies as of 2016. The series was published in English as Assassination Classroom by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump Advanced imprint from December 2, 2014, to April 3, 2018. It was also released in Italian by Planet Manga from May 10, 2014, to September 14, 2017; in Brazilian Portuguese by Panini Comics from 2020 to 2022; in Spanish by Panini Comics from October 1, 2014, to February 22, 2018; and in Polish by Japonica Polonica Fantastica from December 14, 2017, to September 2021. A VOMIC version was broadcast in Sakiyomi Jan Bang! from January to June 2013; the series has received a fanbook, databook, spin-off manga, and an illustrated English language guidebook called Koro-tan. A live-action film of the series was released in Japan on March 21, 2015, which opened first at the box office; a second film was released on March 25, 2016.

Published

Jul 2, 2012 to Apr 25, 2016

Authors

Matsui, Yuusei

External links

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Koro-sensei20144 fan favorites
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Koro-sensei is a teacher for class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School and the main protagonist of Ansatsu Kyoushitsu. He was responsible for carving out a large chunk of the moon to become a permanent crescent moon and plans to destroy the earth after teaching class 3-E for a year. His name comes from Korosenai (殺せない) means "cannot be killed" and sensei, means teacher. Literally, his name means unkillable teacher.
Karma Akabane16516 fan favorites
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Age: 14-15 Birthday: December 25 Height: 175 cm Blood type: AB Abilities: assassination, academics Favorite subject: mathematics Least favorite subject: Japanese Favorite food: his own cooking Hobby: provocation, mischief and harassment Class seat number: 1 Karma is well-known throughout the school for his violent behavior and troublesome attitude. When he was in the main building, due to the betrayal of his most-trusted homeroom teacher, he began to hate all people who called themselves 'teachers' and as a result has almost zero respect for any adults. He is shown to be skilled in fighting, tricky, and manipulative, and takes great pleasure in harming others. He excels at using weaponry and foul play and is one of the few students thus far to have successfully injured Korosensei. Karma has been described by Karasuma as "at first glance, he comes across as being a lazy sort, but... there's a strong sense of mischief in his eyes." Karma is quite relaxed most of the time as he occasionally skips out on things he finds boring, such as the school assembly. When fighting, he becomes brutal and has no qualms of hurting people who threatens him or any of his friends from Class E. It is also shown that he is one of the most intelligent people in the entire school, shown to be ranked 4th out of all 186 students in Kunigigaoka. He does not, however, want to return to the main building, stating that he finds assassination much more interesting. Regardless of his lazy personality, Itona has stated that Karma was probably the strongest within the class despite him not excelling in any particular area (shooting, knifework, etc). Most likely this means that Karma prefers to stick to tricks and pranks for assassinations rather than going into full-out combat, and also because of a certain "vision" Itona described to Terasaka. It has been mentioned by Karasuma, and proven many times, that Karma likes to humiliate his opponent. Despite all this, Karma actually has good morales behind his motives. The reason he was placed in Class E was because he had rescued a senior from Class E being bullied by students from the main building. He was, unlike his classmates, unprejudiced against them and still considered the senior a 'senpai'. He's also shown to be hardworking when he wants to by studying diligently after the embarrassing exam arc although he hides it by making it look like he was playing video games. (Source: Assassination Classroom Wikia)
Nagisa Shiota8115 fan favorites
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Age: 14-15 Birthday: July 20 Height: 159 cm Weight: 48 kg Abilities: assassination, people reading Favorite subject: English Least favorite subject: science Favorite food: sushi Hobby: researching Class seat number: 11 He is one of students in Class 3-E. Nagisa is seen as one of the weakest students in the class due to his small stature and mediocre physical abilities that are comparable to some of the girls in the class. However, he is actually the most talented to become an assassin out of all the students, something that acknowledged by Korosensei and Karasuma. He is able to draw closer while hiding his bloodlust to make a surprise attack and able to make his opponents falter through his bloodlust alone. Nagisa usually writes Korosensei's weaknesses that at first seem minor (since it doesn't look like major weaknesses), but eventually revealed to be useful since once they're able to almost kill Korosensei because of one of his weaknesses that is the same as the one that Nagisa has written down in his note. Outwardly friendly and polite to his friends and everyone, he hides a somewhat darker side of him as an assassin that won't be able to be found out during daily classes and will only shown during training and assassination time. According to Karasuma, whenever Nagisa unleashes his killing intent, he isn't training and truly goes for a kill.
Kaede Kayano779 fan favorites
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Birthday: January 9 Height: 146 cm Abilities: assassination, acting Favorite subject: Japanese Least favorite subject: Physical Education Favorite food: pudding Hobby: karaoke-scoring Class seat number: 7 She is one of Nagisa's classmates and close friends, being the one who is mostly seen with him. She hasn't shown any capabilities during her training to become an assassin, and so far has only been shown to discuss Korosensei's weaknesses along with Nagisa. She experiences a slight inferiority complex when it comes to sex appeal, resulting in her to get angry whenever there's a woman with big breasts and readily protest.