Assassination Classroom

I LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING.

It's not like they definitely won't address it in the future, but I kinda wish they had a bit of acknowledgement that the students just had a potentially fatal experience. They were apparently not in any real danger, but they didn't know that. It should have psychologically affected them more than has been shown so far.

Hey, they've all pretty much gotten used to the idea of hanging out with a tentacle monster that's planning to destroy the world.

This was brought up in a previous chapter, where Karasuma notes that after the very dangerous battle against Gun-Eating Dude the students looked like your typical middle schoolers that just won a sports event or something.

edited 22nd Jan '14 2:35:23 AM by fillerdude

I think that's also the point of Karma's talk in this chapter—he's saying that Nagisa has that problem (a weakening sense of danger) just as much as he does, and it's easy to generalize that out further.

Perhaps, but I think that part is mistranslated somewhat. When I read the raws, I read it as being about how Karma has realized that Nagisa is a better assassin than him, because the scariest thing of all is not a strong opponent, but the one you don't see coming. If you re-read the chapter, I think you'll agree that this makes more sense. If you don't, I can explain in more detail, because either way, this passage is an important piece of character development.

Right. The way the translation is worded seems to have given some people the impression that Karma is concerned for Nagisa, and that's clearly not right. It's worded weirdly in a few places, but I think the bit that's really wrong is where Karma says that Nagisa didn't seem scared or alert. I think it should be that Karma wasn't scared or alert, that is, that he couldn't detect anything to be scared of in Nagisa, even though he had just seen his strength. That's what made him realize that "Things you can't watch out for. Things you aren't afraid of. For the first time, I felt like those are the most frightening of all." That makes much more sense than the translation, where it says that Karma "isn't capable" of being alert, which isn't true.

edited 23rd Jan '14 12:15:36 PM by Montegoraon

That was my interpretation too: Karma's afraid of not being afraid, because it means he doesn't know how to be cautious. He's the stronger fighter, but Nagisa's the better assassin.

So, there's a note I want to make about Nagisa's character, but I'm not sure what trope it would be covered by.

It has to do with his resolve and composure. Normally he's a pretty timid, unconfident guy, though over time he's growing out of that. But there's something I've noticed at certain points. In chapter 11, when he was confronted by those bullies, at first he shrunk away from the conflict, but once they threatened to kill him he immediately woke up and scared the crap out of them. The other time that stands out is in chapter 66, when he's made to crossdress. At first he acts understandably embarrassed. But then, when he's put into a situation where he has to actually act the part of a girl, while talking to someone who doesn't know about his disguise, he seems to be fine.

What I'm talking about here is how the more pressure he's under, the more confident and able he seems to become. Sort of a Non-Newtonian Resolve, if you will. Does a trope like that exist?

Chapter out.

It's funny how this pairing had basically no support before last chapter and yet I now support it totally. I guess that means I like this manga then.

Just found this one. Only read five chapters so far, so I'll check back later. But, yeah. WTF did I just read?

I am mildly annoyed that the solution presented itself in the first friggen chapter and they seem to be ignoring it. (you can't dodge AOE). That, and the moon wouldn't stay like that, but whatever.

He actually can dodge AoE, and if he can't he can still take quite a beating. This is not including further developments.

Chapter out. Basically setting up another arc. Kinda jumped around a lot.

Well something like that have to happen if you write story about assassins...

Dangling plot threads right from the first page! Nagisa's family issues, a Yukimura-sensei, the God of Death, an increase in the bounty, Itona's power up, and someone leaving Class E. Whew. That's a lot of story to work with.

In related news, my favorite Class E couple has to be Chiba and Hayami.

edited 8th Feb '14 4:26:35 PM by fillerdude

Clearly Nagisa's father is Yukimura-sensei, the God of Death, and Itona's new hair. All at once. (He moonlights.)

Chapter out. Have we even seen this guy before? Not much impact.

We have. I remember him. Though admittedly Takebayashi's transfer still doesn't have a big impact.

edited 12th Feb '14 12:58:54 AM by fillerdude

One imagines it has a much bigger impact for the students. He's the one who was taking care of the sick during the hotel infiltration mission. Okuda too, but he's the one who had the medical know-how.

spoilers: http://raw.senmanga.com/Assassination_Classroom/79/17

Own'd.

Just saw that mangafox has taken down Assassination Classroom because apparently it's been licensed. Does anyone know anything about this? The last I heard, the WSJ editors considered it unimportable, what with the whole students trying to kill their teacher thing.

So... why would Asano send him back if he was so mad? That's clearly what he wanted.

Just saw it on mangafox, so...

With Takebayashi's display in front of the whole school, they'd have no choice but to send him back to class E. Or expel him, I suppose.

edited 26th Feb '14 1:26:49 AM by ashnazg

So why didn't he just expel him, then? It's not like he couldn't have justified that, and it would've been a pretty effective scare tactic.

edited 26th Feb '14 6:22:00 AM by Gilphon

Dunno, I guess at that point it would have been pointless and more of revenge? <_< I mean, who is that supposed to scare? The E-Class? The non E-Class? The non E-Class is already afraid of getting transferred to E-Class and I don't think Chairman can scare E-Class with expelling. I mean, he needs reason for that and E-Class purpose is to be bottom feeders, so... Yeah

Why does it have to scare anyone? The idea is to punish him.