Assassination Classroom

Admit it, Karasuma. You learned how to rip speech bubbles from Koro-sensei.

The biggest hint that he was on their side was when he said "take three days to cool your heads" instead of "wait it out until the end of the week". Pretty clever.

It would be cool if either the ending or the climax of the manga gets published on the last week of March. It could definitely happen if he keeps up this pacing.

Chapter's out.

I feel like some of the kids are going to die and Nagisa is going to perform his first kill on that smug Hojo looking fucker.

So we have what? Another 10, 12 chapters to finish? I know that at the end of the year the magazine makes a two-week break. It wouldn't be too hasty for a final mission?

Mach 20 just released the first chapter of the spin-off manga. It's... something else entirely.

Koro-sensei is a monster with bugged out stats that make him impossible to hit using normal gameplay methods, while the members of class E all have bugged out abilities of various kinds, so they've been asked to kill him by finding ways to use a power nobody else can. The power of careless programming. I'm getting 90's flashbacks. This could either be hilarious but pointless, or really, really clever.

edited 7th Dec '15 9:38:08 AM by Montegoraon

The spinoff is kind of stupid, but it's a very entertaining kind of stupid and I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. The barrier sketch at the end was pretty great.

Chapter 168: I really wasn't expecting Scarface's minions to get wrecked so easily, yeesh. Just goes to show what it's like to have the home field advantage and the element of surprise.

Well, that's about as long as the GoD arc so it's possible. Though it may be a tad longer since this is the series finale, and Shiro and his new minion haven't entered the scene yet.

I feel like the Wolfpack got overwhelmed a bit too much. As much training and terrain familiarity as the kids have, this is supposedly a hardcore group of soldiers with genuine battlefield experience.

Right? I expected the guy running away in the intro to be one of the Class E kids. They built up the Wolfpack to be these super badasses who were each stronger than Takaoka, only to get worfed by the students in less than a chapter.

Oh well. It is nice to see the kids successfully show off their assassin skills by taking down an "enemy" threat. Don't think I've seen that since the Bo-Taoshi match.

Season 2 of the anime is going to be 25 episodes. I really hope they start off with the island shipping arc.

I kind of expected the opening page to be a fakeout, but at the same time I thought it was implausible that they could have cornered the soldiers that badly.

I think we can Hand Wave it as the soldiers, at worst, just a bunch of Punch Clock Hero Antagonist that, basically, as normal human being, psychologically has hangups on going rough on children. Besides, the kids are assassins, taking out superior enemies using outside-the-box tactics is pretty much they are trained for.

I think it was stated in chapter they were really underestimating kids and weren't prepared for them to be actually effective in their own territory?

That is pretty plausible in that sense that over confidence can lead to horrible losses xD

Well, I think it would be more plausible if the kids were professional assassins, but they are still learning to be assassins. The weird thing is that while they act like pros, the soldiers act like amateurs.

edited 14th Dec '15 4:07:44 PM by DavidM-Kun

Chapter update.

Oh come on, that was disappointing. I mean okay yes, it's one of him against twenty-plus of them, and he supposedly wasn't taking it seriously, but...you'd expect such a hyped-up character to stick around for more than one chapter. Maybe he'll turn up again for the final battle.

And so we get a sign of what Shiro is up to. Although that reminds me of something I noticed earlier...if the kids' goal is to free Korosensei, they really should have targeted the force-field generators rather than the force field itself.

Also kinda interesting that he basically lost because he hadn't instinctively decided yet whether to kill them or not xD

Conservation of Ninjutsu, averted.

This is so weird.

I'm really disappointed that the guy who was hyped up to be the next best thing got stomped like that, and that his combat skills were hardly impressive while he was in his normal state. But at the same time, I'm so proud of the kids for actually having the audacity to mercilessly attack the guy before he even had a chance to "power up". Honestly, I think it would be cool if manga did this every once in a while like Bleach.

Even when it disappoints, the manga still manages to impress.

Post Island-Arc shenanigans won't be skipped in Season 2. Huzzah~

New chap's out.

I can see where this is going now.

They kill the second god of death and Korosensei uses his abilities to shapeshift into a different form so that he can live in peace.

Is it just me or does he look like the silhouette of hypothetical monster Korosensei from the flashback? .-.

Anyway, I guess this is a nice way for them to fulfill the actual purpose of the class xD

edited 27th Dec '15 2:27:31 PM by SpookyMask

To be fair, being merciless 24/7 is a good recipe for getting fragged in the battlefield (for being uncooperative, disruptive, etc) or nervous breakdown at the end of the day. Good combatants should know when you have to be merciless, and when you have to basically, cool down. Putting psychological "trigger" is usually simplest way to achieve rapid persona conversion, at least in fiction.

In the end, the guy loses because, mostly, he underestimates/ guesstimate kids' capacity for ruthlessness. One example: he mistook kids' unwillingness to use sharps bullets as weakness (doesn't want to kill him), while the kids not using sharp bullets simply because they aware sharp bullets' danger and his superior CQB experience means that there will be a lot of "redirected bullets" not working in their favor. Tranq and rubber are dangerous on their own, but their effect can be lessened easier than, say, blood loss or liquified organ.

Underestimated the kids like every villain did in this series. Meh.

So, the first episode of the second season aired a couple days ago. Humor credentials still very strong.

Also, the new opening is a very strong entry in the annals of songs that sound like they're about love, but are actually about murder.

edited 9th Jan '16 9:55:48 AM by Montegoraon

Considering Koro-sensei is thought a big plot spoiler was going to be here didn't you, would a Death Note work on him?

I would say yes, considering recent revelations.

Started watching this though it'll take awhile since I'm watching the BDs and the subgroup I'm watching has only put out the first one so far. Why exactly do people say the anime isn't good? I haven't read the manga so I don't have much to compare it to.

^^^But would his nickname work as name on the note?

Does he even have a real name?