Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Nominees Announced". Anime News Network. March 23, 2015. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015 . Retrieved March 24, 2015. A-Team Firing: The opening of the story begins with the entire class trying to gun Koro-sensei down. Not only does this fail, but Koro-sensei continues as if nothing were happening, taking attendance as the class continues shooting. The only notice he takes is when he asks a student to speak up, since he can't hear well over the gunfire. Japanese Bookstores Recommend 15 Top Manga of 2013". Anime News Network. February 4, 2013. Archived from the original on October 8, 2013 . Retrieved September 4, 2013. Koro-sensei appears as a playable character in J-Stars Victory VS, originally released in Japan for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on March 19, 2014, with an international version, J-Stars Victory VS+, released for PS3, PS Vita, and PlayStation 4 in Summer 2015. [37] Reception [ edit ] Manga [ edit ] Sales [ edit ] She made her official debut in Chapter 8, appearing before Korosensei as a damsel in distress. Some thugs were bothering her and Korosensei saved her. She thanked him and asked where Kunigagaoka Junior High was. Korosensei took her there, and was introduced to the class as their new English teacher.

While Koro-sensei is reading a newspaper, Nagisa encourages Tomohito Sugino to attempt to assassinate Koro-sensei by pitching a baseball embedded with pellets. However, Koro-sensei easily dodges the baseball and catches it with a baseball glove. Later after lunchtime, Sugino is downhearted when Koro-sensei crushes his dream of being a pro baseball star, but this is due to his wrists and elbows not being as flexible as they should be. Koro-sensei encourages Sugino to focus on his own strengths for future attempts of assassination. The students of Class 3-E fail to kill Koro-sensei, even when he deliberately ties himself to a tree branch. Karasuma joins Class 3-E as the physical education teacher, observing how the class is ridiculed by the other students of the school. Another student due to transfer into the class is informed of his mission. Persona 4's Seiji Kishi Helms Assassination Classroom at Lerche". Anime News Network. June 15, 2014. Archived from the original on June 9, 2017 . Retrieved June 25, 2014. Earth is left in jeopardy after an enormously powerful tentacled creature suddenly appears and destroys 70% of the Moon, leaving it in the shape of a crescent. The creature claims that within a year, he will destroy the planet next. However, he offers mankind a chance to avert this fate. Better to Die than Be Killed: In Chapter 176, Koro-sensei asks the students to kill him before the government's Kill Sat can. His students agree, as they believe it's better for Koro-sensei to die by their hand than by anybody else's. When he asks Irina to assist, she respectfully declines. A video game based on the series, Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Koro-sensei, [Jp. 9] was developed by Bandai Namco Games and released on Nintendo 3DS in Japan on March 12, 2015. [34] In January of the same year, Bandai Namco also announced a mobile game based on the Assassination Classroom series, titled Assassination Classroom: Enclosure Time. [Jp. 10] The mobile game released later the same year. [35] A sequel to the 3DS game, Assassination Classroom: Assassin Raising Project!!, [Jp. 11] was released by Bandai Namco for the Nintendo 3DS on March 24, 2016, exclusively in Japan. [36]Baseball Episode: Episode 12 (Chapters 33-36) has the Class 3-E boys going up against the school baseball club team in the annual exhibition match typically used to humiliate them. Thanks to Koro-sensei's training, however, Class 3-E manages to turn the match in their favor, gaining 3 points in the first round and forcing Chairman Asano to step in and coach the baseball club team himself. Manami Okuda attempts to poison Koro-sensei, but to no effect. She has poor communication skills, but she has a passion for chemistry. Because of this, Koro-sensei offers to help Manami make an effective poison. However, it turns out to be a tonic that transforms him into a speedier liquid form, teaching Manami to improve her communication skills so she can successfully deceive him someday. Later, the students of Class 3-E are forced to travel from their old campus and head to the main campus to endure a school assembly. The students from others classes become envious due to the students of Class 3-E having Karasuma and Irina as cool teachers. Koro-sensei shows his support by disguising himself as a scholar, providing extra copies of handouts previously not given to Class 3-E. Afterwards, Nagisa manages to use his experiences in Class 3-E to handle himself against Nobuta Tanaka and Chōsuke Takada, two bullies from the main campus. Anime Limited Acquires Assasination[ sic] Classroom and New K". Anime News Network. September 27, 2015. Archived from the original on September 3, 2023 . Retrieved September 27, 2015.

Aguri Yukimura has short hair in the manga and the anime, but in the live-action movies she has long hair that goes over her shoulders. Nagisa has shoulder-length hair that he ties into pigtails in the source material, but he has short boyish hair in the live action movies. Incidentally, Nagisa's mother (who forced him to have long hair) is absent from the movies. Her first attempt was humiliatingly unsuccessful, with Karasuma and even the students knowing that the drink she was carrying for him was drugged. Knowing that Lovro could strike any time, she is surprised to witness him attempt a frontal assault on Karasuma in the staff room, though this too was unsuccessful. Karasuma also demands her to get serious if she wants to win, scaring her (and Korosensei) in the process. Irina does try again, this time luring him with the art of conversation and "to get this over with". She surprises him when she makes him lose his balance before pinning him down. Her attempt to stab him with a fake knife though is intercepted by Karasuma. Knowing that he would win if it came to a contest of strength, she requests him to relent with puppy dog eyes. While not at all impressed by this, he does so and gives her the win. The whole thing was seen by Lovro, who realizes how dedicated she is to her work as an assassin and teacher thanks to Korosensei. With this, Lovro allows Irina to stay, much to her joy and relief. in Japanese). Nippan. February 4, 2013. Archived from the original on June 19, 2013 . Retrieved December 11, 2013.in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on September 3, 2023 . Retrieved April 30, 2021. It’s clear there is a disconnect between community values and the values promoted by public schools. We’re not asking for schools to censor books, we’re asking for schools to offer materials that promote academic achievement and healthy psychological concepts. This series promotes content which undermines the fabric of our community.”

They seem to have a friendly relationship, even with Korosensei constantly making fun of her assassination attempts on him, and, especially, her love life. Blu-ray＆DVD 第２巻" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 26, 2015 . Retrieved June 25, 2015. Bait-and-Switch: In Episode 18, during a video made to distract Koro-Sensei out of embarrassment, it's said that he takes rigorous advantage of free tissue samples, and considering the kinda guy he is, one probably wouldn't expect him to fry them... for whatever reason. An original video animation based on the series was produced by Brain's Base for the Jump Super Anime Tour and shown at 5 Japanese cities between October 6 and November 24, 2013. It was bundled with the 7th volume of the manga, which released on December 27, 2013. [15] An anime television series based on the manga began airing on Fuji TV from January 9, 2015 and ran for 22 episodes. [16] [17] The anime television series was directed by Seiji Kishi at Lerche, with Kazuki Morita as character designer and Makoto Uezu as the lead scriptwriter. [18] An OVA episode was included on the first BD/DVD volume released on March 27, 2015, following a screening at Jump Special Anime Fest in November 2014. [19] The anime had been licensed by Funimation, who simulcast the series as it aired and began a broadcast dub version from February 18, 2015. [20] [21] Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll. [22] The first opening theme is "Seishun Satsubatsu-ron", [Jp. 2] while the second opening theme is "Jiriki Hongan Revolution"; [Jp. 3] both are performed by 3-nen E-gumi Utatan [Jp. 4], a 5-member group consisting of the characters Nagisa Shiota ( Mai Fuchigami), Karma Akabane ( Nobuhiko Okamoto), Kaede Kayano ( Aya Suzaki), Yūma Isogai ( Ryota Osaka), and Hiroto Maehara ( Shintaro Asanuma). The two openings were released as singles on February 18 and May 27 respectively. The ending theme is "Hello, shooting star" by Moumoon.Jensen, Paul (August 5, 2016). "Five Lessons I Learned From Assassination Classroom". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on September 3, 2023 . Retrieved July 8, 2020. Delayed 3rd Assassination Classroom Episode Rescheduled for Friday (Update 2)". Anime News Network. January 30, 2015. Archived from the original on January 31, 2015 . Retrieved January 30, 2015. Koro-Sensei moving around at several times the speed of sound should cause immense winds that would swiftly destroy the classroom and everything in it, but usually it only makes the students' hair flutter.