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* ColorCodedCharacter: Promotional material from the series and the openings gives each of the main girls a color they're associated with, those being:
** Lily: Red.
** Grete: Chartreuse.
** Sybilla: Purple.
** Monika: Blue.
** Thea: Pink.
** Sara: Green.
** Annette: Gray.
** [[spoiler:Erna]]: Orange.
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The series has a manga adaptation illustrated by Kaname Seu, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'' in May 2020. An anime adaptation to be animated by Studio feel. was announced for the Winter 2023 season.

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The series has a manga adaptation illustrated by Kaname Seu, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'' in May 2020. An anime adaptation to be animated by Studio feel. was announced for the Winter A second season is due by July 2023 season.in Japan.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Roland/Corpse is a smug bastard who thinks too highly of his skills, that only his "rival", Klaus/Bonfire can offer him a decent challenge. However, when he finally gets to confront Klaus, Klaus effortlessly defeats him and stuffs him inside a luggage bag with final insult being that Klaus only sees Roland as a pushovver. When Klaus presents Roland to his lover, he pathetically begs her for help.

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* BreakTheHaughty: Roland/Corpse is a smug bastard who thinks too highly of his skills, that only his "rival", Klaus/Bonfire can offer him a decent an actual challenge. However, when he finally gets to confront Klaus, Klaus doesn't sees Roland as an equal, merely a pushover and effortlessly defeats him and stuffs him inside a luggage bag with final insult being that Klaus only sees Roland as a pushovver. bag. When Klaus presents Roland to his lover, he pathetically begs her for her help.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Roland/Corpse is a smug bastard who thinks his skills are the best that can only be matched by his "rival", Klaus/Bonfire. However when he finally gets to confront Klaus, Klaus scoffs at Roland's idea that they were actually equals and defeats the assassin without any effort at all before stuffing him inside luggage. When Klaus presents him to his lover, Roland pathetically begs her for help.

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* BreakTheHaughty: Roland/Corpse is a smug bastard who thinks too highly of his skills are the best skills, that can only be matched by his "rival", Klaus/Bonfire. However Klaus/Bonfire can offer him a decent challenge. However, when he finally gets to confront Klaus, Klaus scoffs at Roland's idea that they were actually equals and effortlessly defeats the assassin without any effort at all before stuffing him and stuffs him inside luggage. a luggage bag with final insult being that Klaus only sees Roland as a pushovver. When Klaus presents him Roland to his lover, Roland he pathetically begs her for help.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Roland/Corpse is a smug bastard who thinks his skills are the best that can only be matched by his "rival", Klaus/Bonfire. However when he finally gets to confront Klaus, Klaus scoffs at Roland's idea that they were actually equals and defeats the assassin without any effort at all before stuffing him inside luggage. When Klaus presents him to his lover, Roland pathetically begs her for help.
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* {{Foil}}: Klaus and Grete with Roland and Olivia.
** Klaus and Roland are experts in their craft. However, Klaus is a calm and collected spy while Roland is a murderous and arrogant assassin.
** Both Grete and Olivia are apprentices and pine for their mentors' love. Grete is a sweet young girl with talent and creativity while Olivia is cruel and cynical but despite being an assassin, she is unable to adapt when the situation calls for it.
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* InnocentCohabitation: One guy and [[spoiler:eight]] girls living and working out of the same building, and no hanky-panky goes on. Grete is the only one of the girls with any romantic interest in Klaus, and Klaus turns her down, explaining that he's asexual.
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The series has a manga adaptation illustrated by Kaname Seu, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'' in May 2020. An anime adaptation to be animated by feel. was announced for the Winter 2023 season.

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The series has a manga adaptation illustrated by Kaname Seu, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'' in May 2020. An anime adaptation to be animated by Studio feel. was announced for the Winter 2023 season.
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The series has a manga adaptation illustrated by Kaname Seu, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'' in May 2020. An anime adaptation was announced for the Winter 2023 season.

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The series has a manga adaptation illustrated by Kaname Seu, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'' in May 2020. An anime adaptation to be animated by feel. was announced for the Winter 2023 season.
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* TheJinx: Erna thinks she's this. What she actually has is a DangerSense which, when combined with a subconscious desire to punish herself, causes her to continually walk into accidents that would have happened anyway.

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* TheJinx: Erna [[spoiler:Erna]] thinks she's this. What she actually has is a DangerSense which, when combined with a subconscious desire to punish herself, causes her to continually walk into accidents that would have happened anyway.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: After the first book, the stories tend to focus on subsets of the girls, with one of them being the primary focus character, rather than trying to divide focus between all eight of them.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: After the first book, the stories tend to focus on subsets of the girls, with one of them being the primary focus character, rather than trying to divide focus between all eight of them.



* InnocentCohabitation: One guy and eight girls living and working out of the same building, and no hanky-panky goes on. Grete is the only one of the girls with any romantic interest in Klaus, and Klaus turns her down, explaining that he's asexual.

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* InnocentCohabitation: One guy and eight [[spoiler:eight]] girls living and working out of the same building, and no hanky-panky goes on. Grete is the only one of the girls with any romantic interest in Klaus, and Klaus turns her down, explaining that he's asexual.

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** Erna: Fool


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** [[spoiler:Erna]]: [[spoiler:Fool]]
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''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu'') is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series written by Takemachi and illustrated by Tomari. It began publication in January 2020, and was licensed for translation into English by Creator/YenPress in 2021.

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''Spy Classroom'' Classroom''[[note]]Sometimes marketed outside Japan as ''Spy Room''[[/note]] (''Spy Kyōshitsu'') is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series written by Takemachi and illustrated by Tomari. It began publication in January 2020, and was licensed for translation into English by Creator/YenPress in 2021.
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But just because war has been eliminated doesn't mean that conflict has. The nature of international confrontations has changed from tanks and planes fighting in broad daylight to spies running missions of reconnaissance, sabotage and assassination in the shadows. And the Din Republic, which has the misfortune of bordering the expansionist Gilgad Empire, is at the forefront of the transition from conventional warfare to espionage.

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But just because war has been eliminated is over doesn't mean that conflict has.is. The nature of international confrontations has changed from tanks and planes fighting in broad daylight to spies running missions of reconnaissance, sabotage and assassination in the shadows. And the Din Republic, which has the misfortune of bordering the expansionist Gilgad Empire, is at the forefront of the transition from conventional warfare to espionage.
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* ThemeNaming: Every member of Inferno had a fire related codename.

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* ThemeNaming: Every member of Inferno had a fire related codename.codename.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason why [[spoiler:Annette]] killed [[spoiler:Monika]] wasn't for being an enemy agent, or using her, or being a child abuser. It was for unintentionally making fun of her height.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason why [[spoiler:Annette]] killed [[spoiler:Monika]] [[spoiler:her mother]] wasn't for being an enemy agent, or using her, or being a child abuser. It was for unintentionally making fun of her height.
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* CatchPhrase: For some unexplained reason, spies are often given one that ties into their code name.


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* InnocentCohabitation: One guy and eight girls living and working out of the same building, and no hanky-panky goes on. Grete is the only one of the girls with any romantic interest in Klaus, and Klaus turns her down, explaining that he's asexual.
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''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu'') is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takemachi. It began publication in January 2020, and was licensed for translation into English by Creator/YenPress in 2021.

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''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu'') is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series written by Takemachi.Takemachi and illustrated by Tomari. It began publication in January 2020, and was licensed for translation into English by Creator/YenPress in 2021.



There's just one problem.

Klaus may be the greatest spy in the world, but he's also a ''terrible'' teacher.

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There's just one problem.

problem: Klaus may be the greatest spy in the world, but he's also a ''terrible'' teacher.teacher.

The series has a manga adaptation illustrated by Kaname Seu, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'' in May 2020. An anime adaptation was announced for the Winter 2023 season.
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''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu'') is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takemachi. It was licensed for translation and export by Creator/YenPress in 2021.

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''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu'') is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takemachi. It began publication in January 2020, and was licensed for translation and export into English by Creator/YenPress in 2021.
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* SpySchool: Averted despite the title. The story centers around girls who flunked out of their respective official spy schools, but were then selected for a more hands-on apprenticeship under a master spy.
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** Thea: Dreamspeaker
** Many of their opponents have these as well, as they are also spies, though the code name that they refer to them as may not be the ones they are officially assigned.
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* PyrrhicVictory: The transition from war by open combat to war through covert operations happened as the result of a war that ended in one, and the world concluding that given how destructive conventional weapons were becoming, the next conventional war was likely to be even worse.
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''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu) is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takemachi. It was licensed for translation and export by Creator/YenPress in 2021.

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''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu) Kyōshitsu'') is a spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takemachi. It was licensed for translation and export by Creator/YenPress in 2021.
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Spy Classroom is a light novel spy thriller series by Takemachi. It was licensed for translation and export by Creator/YenPress in 2021.

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Spy Classroom ''Spy Classroom'' (''Spy Kyōshitsu) is a light novel spy thriller {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takemachi. It was licensed for translation and export by Creator/YenPress in 2021.




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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All the girls of Lamplight were at the bottom of their respective classes. This was actually part of the reason why Klaus selected them: no enemy spy would bother acquiring or studying information on trainees on the verge of flunking out, making them unknowns that can't be prepared for.

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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Klaus mastered spycraft intuitively. This is actually the reason why he's such a bad teacher: he's so naturally gifted at what he does that he doesn't know how to explain how he does things to anyone else.



* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Klaus to spycraft. This is actually the reason why he's such a bad teacher: he's so naturally gifted at what he does that he doesn't know how to explain how he does things to anyone else.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: After the first book, the stories tend to focus on subsets of the girls, with one of them being the primary focus character, rather than trying to divide focus between all eight of them.

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* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Klaus to spycraft. This is actually the reason why he's such a bad teacher: he's so naturally gifted at what he does that he doesn't know how to explain how he does things to anyone else.



* TeenGenius: Klaus only just aged out of the category. This is actually the reason why he's such a bad teacher: he's so naturally gifted at spywork that he doesn't know how to explain how he does things to anyone else.

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Lily is a trainee at one of Din's spy academies. Not a very good one, however. Despite having a unique and very useful ability, her natural clumsiness and absentmindedness has caused her to only just barely avoid flunking out of every practical examination she takes, to the point where all her classmates are wondering when she'll finally wash out. Given one last chance to avoid expulsion, she is transferred out of her school into a special unit being trained for a special mission. Upon arriving, she finds several other girls there, and learns that every single one of them is a borderline washout from one of Din's spy academies.

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Lily is a trainee at one of Din's spy academies. Not a very good one, however. Despite having a unique and very useful ability, her natural clumsiness and absentmindedness has caused her to only just barely avoid flunking out of every practical examination she takes, to the point where all her classmates are wondering when she'll finally wash out. Given one last chance to avoid expulsion, she is transferred out of her school into a special unit codenamed Lamplight being trained for a special mission. Upon arriving, she finds several other girls there, and learns that every single one of them is a borderline washout from one of Din's spy academies.



Klaus is a ''terrible'' teacher.

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Klaus is may be the greatest spy in the world, but he's also a ''terrible'' teacher.teacher.

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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Lily is naturally immune to just about all poisons, which why she was trained in how to make and utilize them.
* ChekhovsGun: The rules Klaus sets down for Lamplight, most notably the one about "living as seven". [[spoiler:If you aren't paying close attention, it's easy to miss that there are actually ''eight'' girls in Lamplight. This was so that the double agent who wired their HQ would let his guard down after taking out the first seven.]]
* CodeName: Every member of Lamplight has one.
** Klaus: Bonfire
** Lily: Flower Garden
** Grete: Daughter Dearest
** Sybilla: Pandemonium
** Monika: Glint
** Sara: Meadow
** Annette: Forgetter
** Erna: Fool
* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason why [[spoiler:Annette]] killed [[spoiler:Monika]] wasn't for being an enemy agent, or using her, or being a child abuser. It was for unintentionally making fun of her height.
* GadgeteerGenius: Annette's specialty.
* ImpossibleMission: Any mission that has already been attempted previously by another team and failed is assumed to be one, because the enemy will know for a fact that someone is actively targeting that location and be ready for the follow-on team. Handling these was Inferno's specialty.
* InterserviceRivalry: The army is rather unhappy about how funding priorities have shifted from conventional military forces to the intelligence services.
* TheJinx: Erna thinks she's this. What she actually has is a DangerSense which, when combined with a subconscious desire to punish herself, causes her to continually walk into accidents that would have happened anyway.
* LoopholeAbuse: The most recent treaties on WMD proliferation prohibit the ''usage'' of bioweapons, not their ''development''.
* MasterOfDisguise: Grete's specialty.
* SoleSurvivor: Klaus is the only surviving member of Inferno, and the only reason he didn't die with the others was because he was sent on a separate solo operation when the rest went on the mission where they were killed.
* SurpassedTheTeacher: Klaus eventually settles on a training method of challenging the girls to defeat him, followed by him explaining why they failed when they inevitably do.
* TeenGenius: Klaus only just aged out of the category. This is actually the reason why he's such a bad teacher: he's so naturally gifted at spywork that he doesn't know how to explain how he does things to anyone else.
* ThemeNaming: Every member of Inferno had a fire related codename.
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Spy Classroom is a light novel spy thriller series by Takemachi. It was licensed for translation and export by Creator/YenPress in 2021.

The Great War left millions dead, most of them civilians, and the collateral damage was such that despite the Gilgad Empire having surrendered, nobody could truly claim to be the winner. In the aftermath, the world was forced to conclude that in a post-Industrial Revolution era, conventional warfare is simply too expensive and too destructive to ever be cost effective. The world has been at peace ever since. Officially, at least.

But just because war has been eliminated doesn't mean that conflict has. The nature of international confrontations has changed from tanks and planes fighting in broad daylight to spies running missions of reconnaissance, sabotage and assassination in the shadows. And the Din Republic, which has the misfortune of bordering the expansionist Gilgad Empire, is at the forefront of the transition from conventional warfare to espionage.

Lily is a trainee at one of Din's spy academies. Not a very good one, however. Despite having a unique and very useful ability, her natural clumsiness and absentmindedness has caused her to only just barely avoid flunking out of every practical examination she takes, to the point where all her classmates are wondering when she'll finally wash out. Given one last chance to avoid expulsion, she is transferred out of her school into a special unit being trained for a special mission. Upon arriving, she finds several other girls there, and learns that every single one of them is a borderline washout from one of Din's spy academies.

Their teacher, a young man named Klaus, is the last surviving member of the legendary spy unit known as Inferno, and explains that he hand-picked each of them to help him complete the mission in which his former team was destroyed, and he will be training them until they are good enough to do so.

There's just one problem.

Klaus is a ''terrible'' teacher.

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