History Manga / KoroSenseiQ

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''Koro-Sensei Q!'' is an ongoing, non-canonical SpinOff of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''.

Imagine the original ''Assassination Classroom'' plot in an RPGMechanicsVerse, heavily inspired by the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' videogame series (as the "Q" in the title stands for "Quest").

The manga is authored by Kizuku Watanabe and Jou Aoto, and is being serialized in ''Saikyou Jump''.

It received an anime film adaptation (also animated by Lerche) as a companion for the ''Assassination Classroom: 365 Days'' compilation film, which premiered in Japan on November 19, 2016. Shortly after, an anime web series sequel was announced, consisting of 12 10-minute episodes. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} is streaming the series, while Creator/FUNimation is providing an English Dub on their website.

Due to some things differing from the original source, any character tropes applied in ''Koro-Sensei Q!'' should be pointed [[Characters/KoroSenseiQ here]] instead of the original series' [[Characters/AssassinationClassroom character sheets]].
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!!This series features examples of:

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Koro-sensei, instead of being an artificial monster (who was originally a human), is now a demon.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Yada goes from having a crush on Kataoka to willingly engaging with the guys on Valentine's day, though it's implied she's just being nice, but also seems distraught when Takebayashi resists her charms.
* AnimalsHateHim: When the class ask Koro-sensei if their various quirks are caused by glitches, Karasuma asks if that was the reason why dogs bark like crazy around him. Koro-sensei replies that he isn't even in Class 3-E.
* ArtShift: Aside from the show itself being more chibi, this happens quite a bit. For instance, Nagisa's transformation due to his bug turns him into a super-buff, tall and detailed dude almost outta {{Manga/Jojo|sBizarreAdventure}}. Fanservicey scenes such [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as the skits of Irina being whipped in her underwear by her child Kunudon]], a picture of a Succubus in episode 2 and Irina's introduction as a HotWitch have the show return to the original animation.
* AttractiveBentGender: Crossdressing variant. When the rescue party finds Nagisa all dressed up as a girl in episode 9, they almost unanimously agree that Nagisa looks really cute.
* BerserkButton: Koro-sensei bans the students from attacking him with a toilet plunger that has a turd stuck to the end of it.
** Do not call Ritsu's magic, what she is currently doing.
* BigBad: A more complicated case:
** Played with by Koro-Sensei mostly being called Big Bad in most of the subs while he is only called the Big Bad Demon King.
** Gakuhou Asano acts more like a typical Big Bad that Karasuma questions on who is the actual Big Bad in the sub version.
** Played a lot straight with Shiro, who fits the role a lot more given he is the Big Bad of the original series.
* BlobMonster: Fitting for the RPGMechanicsVerse nature of this series, such monsters exist. However, they got unusually strong by LevelGrinding off Class 3-E. We also see super fast ''Mach Slimes'' that can dodge anything, though Koro-sensei is so fast he embarrasses most of them into retiring.
* BookAndSwitch: Koro-sensei is caught reading a Grimoire with a porno mag hidden inside it.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** When Karma joins Class 3-E, there was a dialogue box that says "Karma joins the party!". He asks why are they putting the message in the dialogue box, while looking at it.
** Fuwa gives more jabs in ''Koro-Q!'' than she ever did in the main series. For example, during episode 6, when Koro-sensei calls Shiro by his real name, she calls out for "spoilers"; she then later states that the gardening segment from the same episode was for Isogai.
* CastFromHitPoints: Ritsu's magic consumes a lot of HP Sso she replenishes it [[EatingMachine eating]] [[BigEater a lot]].
* ChekhovsGag: Sugino's FunnyBackgroundEvent as he tries to cast some magic in Episode 3 comes back in Episode 12, when it turns out that his bug is that his magic is delayed - so all the magic he did back then happens now.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Koro-sensei being the Demon King, the FinalBoss as it were, status ailments like Irina's Charm spell don't do crap against him.
* ColorFailure: The entire Big Five squad has this happen to them. They try to use a crystal to reveal/weaken the BigBad Koro Sensei. He dodges.
* {{Crossover}}: Neuro and Yako from ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' appear in episode 11, the latter appearing in the eyecatch and after the end credits.
* CursedWithAwesome: The keys to their success lie in the students' GoodBadBugs.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Takebayashi (who got his story cut out in the main series's anime adaptation) gets his time to shine in episode 10 of this SpinOff.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Koro-sensei is now a Demon King.
* DenserAndWackier: Take the original story, put it in an RPG setting, remove most of the seriousness and crank the silliness and cuteness UpToEleven and you get ''Koro-Q!''.
* DungeonCrawling: One of Koro-sensei's previous crimes is speeding through a dungeon and collecting all the treasure just as adventurers are going in to explore.
* EvolvingCredits:
** The opening of each episode features images of that same episode woven in. The ending likewise incorporates a preview of the next episode.
** The opening as of episode 7, and the ending as of episode 8 added Ritsu and Itona, and Irina changed her look.
* FireBalls: A standard magical method of attack. Okuda's usually end up hitting her teammates.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Happens in episode 8 to class 3-E, when they switch bodies, minds, and their bugs went along with them. For some reason Isogai's bug still works on his body. They manage to switch back by the end of the episode, but Koro-sensei and one of the slimes switched.
* GoodBadBugs: InUniverse. Everyone in 3-E has a glitch (called "bugs" in the English dub), but Koro-Sensei tries to show them [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower the advantages of their glitches]], as a way to defeat him.
** Nagisa's bug causes random effects when he summons his will to act. The first time it happens, it gives him 99999 strength. The next causes Kaede to turn into a green clone of Koro-sensei. The last one [[spoiler:sends the entire class and Koro-sensei back to episode 1 as a NewGamePlus.]]
** Karma's bug drops his luck to negative values whenever he makes a smart-ass remark. This usually materializes in him getting hit by a washtub, and if there's a trap nearby the washtub will trigger it. He uses it to defeat Grip by overloading it, sending himself and him flying away.
** Isogai's bug makes the back of whatever armor and clothes he's wearing vanish.
** Sugino's bug causes all the magic he casts to trigger a long time after it should. [[spoiler:Like, several spells cast in Episode 3 happen in Episode 12.]]
** Chiba and Hayami share a bug: their shots will always hit the target [[GroinAttack right between the legs]]. They use this to defeat Gastro and Takaoka by shooting them ''from the school''.
** Okuda's bug causes all of her spells to deflect.
** Kurahashi's bug makes it so she can only summon insects when doing magic.
* GroinAttack: Chiba's and Hayami's bugs make shots hit the target right between the legs. Though Chiba's is all of his long-range shots and Hayami's is that no matter where she aims.
* HotWitch: Irina is re-tooled into one. Also doubles as a literal play on "WitchWithACapitalB", alluding to her EmbarrassingNickname from the original series, "Bitch-sensei".
* HypocriticalHumor: When Asano enters in the classroom with his horse, he went through the window, and Itona asks if Asano ever heard of a door. When he himself, had entered the classroom through the wall, twice. Lampshaded by Maehara.
* IneptMage: Instead of being the "inept students" from Kunugigaoka Middle School, Class 3-E is now a group of inept magical users from Kunugigaoka Magic School who are isolated due to their bugs.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The anime assumes that you may have already either watched or read the original series by the time you are watching this SpinOff.
** When Shiro is introduced, Koro-sensei calls him "[[spoiler:Yanagisawa]]", which gets lampshaded by Fuwa. The penultimate episode also plays with it, as those two are doing a Manzai duo stand-up routine.
** In the final episode, Kaede calls Aguri [[spoiler: her sister]].
* LeakedExperience: Defied by Ritsu in her introductory episode; after she defeats a bunch of monsters, she temporarily petrifies the rest of the class so they can't get any EXP and she hogs it all for herself.
* LevelGrinding:
** Inverted as Class 3-E are so useless that slimes farm ''them'' for experience points.
** Played straight in the anime's final episode with [[spoiler:the real Terasaka, who is level 99 by the time he's caught up to everyone else]].
* LighterAndSofter: This series is a lot cuter and less serious than the main series.
* {{Magitek}}: Instead of being a computer, Ritsu in this setting is a tablet infused with all the magic expertise in history, capable of combining it in unique ways to harm Koro-sensei. She was enchanted with sentience to keep her from being used for evil.
* MythologyGag:
** The ending theme is an 8-bit version of "Seishun Satsubatsuron", the first opening theme of the original series.
** After Karma manages to get a hit on Koro-sensei, a scene similar to how he meets Koro-sensei for the first time, Koro-sensei punches a wall, when he gets upset, but did no damage to said wall.
** After Karasuma's lesson with the students, the students started complimenting him, Koro-sensei gets jealous when he thinks that Karasuma is stealing his popularity with the students.
** Takebayashi's first line is also about his liking 2-D girls, followed by someone asking him if he wants that to be his first line.
** Itona is introduced by crashing through the classroom's back wall and stating he's stronger than the wall.
** In the original series, Koro-sensei named himself "Prince of the Fateful Eternal Wind" when he was assigning nicknames for the rest of Class 3-E. In ''Koro-Q!'', "Prince of the Fateful Eternal Wind" is his human's pseudonym, while "Reaper" is his job class.
** In the final episode's confrontation, Koro-sensei sings "Tabidachi no Uta" (which is played as an insert song during his death scene in the main series).
* NewGamePlus: [[spoiler:Nagisa's bug accidentally invokes this when the main cast is in danger of being killed by a CollapsingLair]].
* NoFourthWall: Everyone is aware of being a fictional character and comments on the nature of the series.
* TheNudifier: Isogai's glitch means that only the front half of his clothes/armour will appear on him.
* PersonalityPowers: Okuda is such a ShrinkingViolet, her bug has her spells deflect; in one instance even a basic fire magic demonstration ends up accidentally burning Terasaka, Muramatsu and Yoshida.
* RandomEffectSpell: Nagisa's glitch gives a random effect whenever he steps forward with a strong will. Luckily the first time we see him use it, it puts his strength up to 99999 and gives him a muscular body.
* RPGMechanicsVerse: Video game rules apply. Even pixelated text boxes appear that explain what's happening.
* RunningGag:
** Every time Hana appears, she's eating something.
** Anytime that Karma comes up with a smart-ass remark or quips, Karma's luck drops so low that a random object keeps hitting him, namely a [[DropTheWashtub wash bin]].
** "[[AWizardDidIt It's Sorcery!!]]" [[note]]Ritsu keeps making this excuse whenever her friends assume that she's a real-life person inside instead of a sage tablet.[[/note]]
** Anytime that Nagisa ends up getting dressed up in drag.
** Fuwa keeps BreakingTheFourthWall due to her bug in most episodes while Nagisa acts as the straight man.
** The Impostor Terasaka stayed with the class from his initial introduction until the real came back... in the final episode.
* ShoutOut:
** The very first time that the watcher sees Nagisa's random bug in action, his figure resembles Kenshiro from ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''.
** When Koro-sensei says he want to fight someone on his level, [[Manga/DragonBall he dresses up as Goku in the manga and anime, while his clones dresses up as Krillin in anime only.]]
** Due to it being heavily influenced by the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series, there's a lot of references here and there that are ''very'' obvious, such as the use of monsters (which are more directly referenced in the manga, instead of using Kurudons like the anime does), and the reason of why Koro-sensei became the Demon King, as he simply switched jobs at the Temple of Trades, an expy of All-trades Abbey.
** While improving the traps in Karma's Cave, Koro-sensei painted the [[Manga/OnePiece Straw Hats' Jolly Roger]] on the axe to make it look more dangerous.
** One of the anime's recurring segments is ''Ace Sorceress'', an obvious play on the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series. The segments' logo is even strikingly similar to the style of the games'.
** Part of the ending theme's visuals is a short parody of ''VideoGame/TaikoNoTatsujin'', as a nod to Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment, who made a couple of games based on the main series for the UsefulNote/Nintendo3DS.
** When the real Terasaka returns, he looks a lot like [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts]].
* SkewedPriorities: When Takaoka kidnaps Nagisa in order to force Class E to give up Koro-sensei, Kaede is more concerned about how they also took the [[TradeMarkFavoriteFood pudding]] Nagisa was carrying.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Aguri's death is one the main catalysts of the main series, but in this one, she's fine and dandy.
* SpitefulSpit: The slimes do this to Class 3-E after they beat them.
* StealthPun: Possibly unintentional, but Koro-sensei sings ''Tabidachi no Uta'' while going at mach speed in the final episode. [[spoiler:[[https://twitter.com/soymilkpudding/status/846907620657053696 A Chorus-sensei.]] ]]
* ThemeTuneCameo:
** Takebayashi sang the second ending of the second season of ''Assassination Classroom'', "Mata Kimi Ni Aeru Hi", at the end of episode 10. What's more, the English dub actually had him sing it in English, when the dub of ''Assassination Classroom'' never had any of the themes adapted.
** The final insert song, "Tabidachi no Uta", has a brief cameo in the final episode. Like "Mata Kimi ni Aeru Hi", it's also adapted for the English dub.
* TrueLovesKiss: Due to Kayano's pudding being laced by poison courtesy of Takaoka, she's put into a deep sleep from which only a princess's kiss can wake her. Naturally, Nagisa is chosen to deliver the kiss, and it works... but it also turns Kayano into a green clone of Koro-sensei because of Nagisa's bug.
* VictoryIsBoring: In this continuity, Koro-sensei used to be a hero until he reached his max level, and so decided to become a Demon King to spice up his career. Too bad for him, he was so strong that even that position didn't give him much excitement until he decided to train warriors to become strong enough to beat him.
* WizardingSchool: Kunugigaoka Magic School also teaches other fantasy skills like sword fighting and how to befriend monsters.

* ArtShift: Aside from the show itself being more chibi, this happens quite a bit. For instance, Nagisa's transformation due to his bug turns him into a super-buff, tall and detailed dude almost outta [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo.]]. Fanservicey scenes such [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as the skits of Irina being whipped in her underwear by her child Kunudon]], a picture of a Succubus in episode 2 and Irina's introduction as a HotWitch have the show return to the original animation.

** The ending theme is an 8-bit version of "Seishun Satsubatsuron", the first opening theme of the original series.

** Part of the ending theme's visuals is a short parody of ''VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster'', as a nod to Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment, who made a couple of games based on the main series for the UsefulNote/Nintendo3DS.

* GoodBadBug: InUniverse. Everyone in 3-E has a glitch (called "bugs" in the English dub), but Koro-Sensei tries to show them [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower the advantages of their glitches]], as a way to defeat him.

* NewGamePlus: [[spoiler:Nagisa's bug accidentally invokes this when the main cast is in danger of being killed by a CollapsingLair.]]

** Due to it being heavily influenced by the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series, there's a lot of references here and there that are quite obvious, such as the use of monsters (which are more directly referenced in the manga, instead of using Kurudons like the anime does), and the reason of why Koro-sensei became the Demon King, as he simply switched jobs at the Temple of Trades, an expy of All-trades Abbey.

** Part of the ending theme's visuals is a short parody of ''VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster'', as a nod to Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment, who have made a couple of games based on the main series.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Takebayashi sang the second ending of the second season of ''Assassination Classroom'', "Mata Kimi Ni Aeru Hi", at the end of episode 10. What's more the English version of the anime actually had him sing the song in English, when the English version of ''Assassination Classroom'' never had the opening and ending themes dubbed in English.

It received an anime film adaptation as a companion for the ''Assassination Classroom: 365 Days'' compilation film, which premiered in Japan on November 19, 2016. Shortly after, an anime web series sequel was announced, consisting of 12 10-minute episodes. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} is streaming the series, while Creator/FUNimation is providing an English Dub on their website.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Koro-Sensei is now a demon.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Karma joins Class 3-E, there was a dialogue box that says "Karma joins the party!". He asks why are they putting the message in the dialogue box, while looking at it.
** Fuwa during episode 6, when Koro sensei says Shiro's real name and she call out spoilers and calls out Koro-sensei and Itona for being too violent. She then later states that the gardening segment was for Isogai.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Takebayashi -- who got his story cut out in the main series's anime -- gets his time to shine in episode 10 of this spinoff.

* DenserAndWackier: Take the original story, put it in an RPG setting, remove most of the seriousness and crank the silliness and cuteness UpToEleven and you get ''Koro-Q''.

** In general, the opening of each episode features images of that same episode woven in. The ending likewise incorporates a preview of the next episode.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Happens in episode 8 to class 3-E, when they switch bodies, minds, and their bugs went along with them. For some reason Isogai's bug still works on his body. They manage to switch back by the end of the episode, but Korosensei and one of the slimes switched.
* GoodBadBug[=/=]HeartIsAnAwesomePower: InUniverse. Everyone in 3-E has a glitch (called bugs in the English dub), but Koro-Sensei tries to show them the advantages of this.

* IneptMage: Class 3-E is now made up of them.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Koro-sensei called Shiro [[spoiler:Yanagisawa]] which gets lampshaded by Fuwa. The penultimate episode also plays with it, having the two personas in a stand-up routine.

* LevelGrinding: Inverted as Class 3-E are so useless that slimes farm ''them'' for experience points.
** [[spoiler:Played straight in the anime's final episode with the real Terasaka, who is level 99 by the time he's caught up to everyone else.]]

* {{Magitek}}: Instead of being a computer, Ritsu in this setting is a tablet infused with all the magic expertise in history, capable of combining it in unique ways to harm Korosensei. She was enchanted with sentience to keep her from being used for evil.

** After Karma manages to get a hit on Korosensei, a scene similar to how he meets Korosensei for the first time, Korosensei punches a wall, when he gets upset, but did no damage to said wall.
** After Karasuma's lesson with the students, the students started complimenting him, Korosensei gets jealous when he thinks that Karasuma is stealing his popularity with the students.
** The ending theme is an 8-bit version of "Seishun Satsubatsuron", the first opening theme of the main series.
** When Korosensei assigned nicknames for class 3-E, he named himself, Prince of the Fateful Eternal Wind, in here, he called himself that in his human form.
** In the final episode's confrontation, Koro-sensei sings ''Tabidachi no Uta'' (which played as an insert song during his death in the main series).

** Anytime that Karma comes up with a smart-ass remark or quips, Karma's luck drops so low that a random object keeps hitting him, namely a wash bin.

** The Impostor Terasaka.

** When Korosensei says he want to fight someone on his level, [[Manga/DragonBall he dresses up as Goku in the manga and anime, while his clones dresses up as Krillin in anime only.]]
** The "slimes" are really just Kurudons with hats looking suspiciously like the slimes from ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''.
*** Koro-sensei switched jobs at the Temple of Trades, an expy of Alltrades Abbey.
** While improving the traps in Karma's Cave, Korosensei painted the [[Manga/OnePiece Straw Hats' Jolly Roger on the axe to make it look more dangerous.]]

** Part of the ending theme's visuals is a short parody of ''VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster''.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Aguri's death is one the main catalysts of the original series, but in this one, she's fine and dandy.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Takebayashi sang the second ending of the second season of Assassination Classroom, ''Mata Kimi Ni Aeru Hi'', at the end of episode 10. What's more the English version of the anime actually had him sing the song in English, when the English version of Assassination Classroom never had the openings and endings in English.
** Insert song ''Tabidachi no Uta'' has a brief cameo in the final episode. Like the above, it is also adapted for the dub.

* VictoryIsBoring: In this continuity, Koro-sensei used to be a hero until he reached his max level, and so decided to become a Demon Lord to spice up his career. Too bad for him, he was so strong that even that position didn't give him much excitement until he decided to train warriors to become strong enough to beat him.
* WizardingSchool: ''Kunugigaoka Magic School'' also teaches other fantasy skills like sword fighting and how to befriend monsters.

''Koror-Sensei Q'' is also an ongoing, non-canonical Spin-Off manga of ''Anime/AssassinationClassroom'' by ''Creator/YuuseiMatsui''. Basically imagine the plot in a Role Playing RPG-Mechanics Verse. (The Q stands for Quest.)

The manga received an anime film adaptation which premiered in Japan on November 19, 2016. It was animated by Lerche, the same studio that animated the first two seasons of the original anime. An anime series sequel adaption has been announced consisting of 12 10-minute episodes. Crunchyroll will stream the series with Funimation providing the English Dub.

Character sheet '''[[Characters/KoroSenseiQ here]]''' and underwork

!!'''This series features examples of:'''