¶ Assassination Classroom Review and Discussion
Welcome back to the Zone Podcast . It's Jet Black Extreme , and joining me today is Koki Gaiju and Professor Tuck . As we're going to Review Assassination Classroom Without further ado , let's go ahead and get into it Now . Assassination Classroom . Let me just say first of all , I love this anime .
I love this anime , I love this story to where Earth is left in peril after this enormously powerful tentacle monster suddenly shows up , destroys 70% of the moon , that way it's like permanently a crescent moon . And that same creature said that within a year he's going to destroy earth next . But he gives them a chance to prevent this from happening .
If teenage well , not teenagers , are they teenagers , because I know they're in middle school ? But let's just say , some youngins gonna have to Teenage Well , not teenagers , are they teenagers ? Because I know they're in middle school ? But let's just say some youngins Gonna have to , like , kill this guy In order to prevent the world from being destroyed .
Excuse me , I had things to drink . Now , class 3E , or the in class of Bear with me with this name , kunigigakua Junior High School , the creature starts working as their homeroom teacher big plot twist , by the way where he teaches the students regular subjects as well as ways of assassination , the Japanese government .
They promises a reward of 10 billion yen , or is any , however Much . They do it because sometimes Zen , sometimes Sometimes yen , sometimes any , I don't , I don't even keep track anymore . I know it's the symbol with the y and the two lines across . So 10 billion to whoever Kills this creature .
And they also decided to Name him Koro Sensei , which translation Is Unkillable teacher . However , they seem to have a hard Time trying to kill this dude because he has a whole bunch of superpowers , like accelerated healing , cloning , invincible form . He can fly at Mach 20 .
But you want to know what his best superpower is Eating Like see , here's the thing , my whole , the whole thing with assassination collection room . I knew from the moment I walked into this show they're gonna have to kill this guy , but the way they carried it out at the end beautiful . I almost walked away with tears in my eyes .
I was like bro , the way they did it was just uh , I saw it coming , but I still can't believe it .
It's like I knew from the beginning that it's going to be one of those shows where , yeah , they're going to have to kill their teacher , but Watch is going to be so likable that they're going to try to find a way to try to save his life , but ultimately that's just not going to fly . A way to try to save his life ?
But ultimately that's just not gonna fly . But I'll just . It was one of those things where I just needed to see it play out . So , with all that being said , time progresses , things get more complicated . More assassins come after koro sensei's life , some wanting that uh bag on his head . Others want to kill him for personal reasons .
The students eventually learn the secrets involving him , the moon's destruction and the ties that they have with their previous homeroom teacher , and the real reason why he must be killed before the end of the school year . Now , there's a whole bunch of kids in this class , so I'm not gonna pay too much attention to all of them , but there are some notable ones .
Like for starters , the series is narrated by nagisa shioda , one of the students in the class whose main strategy for killing koro sensei is having a list of weaknesses for him , and and at first , nagisa appears to be one of the weaker members .
But nah , this kid built different and , without further ado , let's go ahead and open it up to the panel , starting with Tuck . How are you feeling about Assassination Classroom ?
Assassination . Classram is my joint . Okay , the character development is so good it's um , it's kind of intriguing . You know , I love white haired characters . For some reason , I don't know why , they always seem to be dope to me . But shout out to Kakashi . But you know the story , the characters . I actually cried . I laughed . The whole story was .
It's complete and it's dope . I actually have a quote up in my office from Korra Sensei too , that I've had up for the last year . What's that say too , that I've had up for the last year .
The quote is , if I remember off the top of my head , because I have been partaking in some adult beverages , but there's a certain time to take someone's hand and then there's a certain time to let them be .
Essentially , okay , yeah , I think I remember that line being said too , but it was like something about an arm , oh yeah yeah , I mean I , you know .
But yeah , the whole story was dope to me . Um , I was a little spoiled on it , first because , you know , somebody spoiled the manga to me before I because they recommended it to me , and then , before I watched it , they told me the end and I was so mad . But I digress , it was still a great story . It didn't end great .
I actually watched it after watching Death Note , ironically enough .
Okay , okay .
What you got yeah .
Oh , my bad , that came a little sooner than I thought . Honestly , pretty much just kind of agreeing with Tuck onto it . Test Nits classroom Was one of those ones that kind of snuck up on me . So I watched it . I watched the first season . I think it was like about a month after it came out , that's when I had watched the first season .
It was one of the shows that I was just like I had started watching the first episode and I was like , nah , I said this is one of those ones that I'm gonna be mad , trying to wait week for week for this episode to come out . I'm gonna to wait until , like it's quite a few episodes .
Then , by the time I'm really binging it , I'm going to pretty much be able to finish the first season , which I was successful in . Is it Shona ? Yeah , yeah , I think it was Shona . Yeah , it's the life message ? Yeah , most definitely .
But the thing about it is it's also for like it's crazy she mentioned Death Note because come from Kida , from Light , being the having the God complex and believing he should have the powers of God , but in actuality he's still just a weak , frail human versus Kuro Sensei , who literally has essentially the powers of a God but is more human than anyone , and it's
honestly it's . It's a great development because one of the things about it is that in the whole , throughout the whole show , kuro sensei changes every single person he comes in contact with , like he has that naruto complex with talk no juice per se , but it's one of those things that it doesn't matter every single person that he's come in contact with .
He changes them even just like the little one-off villains that you get in the first season . You see them come back again in season two when it comes down for the um , what is it when they had the restaurant so uh , you know what ?
I don't look it up . Uh , I didn't find the exact quote , but he said a bunch of quotables . Well , um , some other characters too , but um , particularly him . He said some quotables that I really fuck with , Like . For starters , he said that the difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried .
I'm like ooh .
Tell you one thing he's not quoting something . He's usually being hilarious . He's one of the best teachers out there .
Oh yeah , he's one of those characters where he kind of wears his emotions on his sleeves , like you can see it clearly on his face a lot of times , where he changes colors or whatnot . And can I also mention all the different anime references to , like naruto , dragon balls and all that ?
I thought that was funny , one piece when he wore he wore um luffy's hat , man man this one was ones , of course and say he shows that he absolutely loves anime . He looks manga . He's like , yeah , I watch and be a read manga too . You know we dealt with this like no , you can't read that , that's not a real book and stuff like that .
I did a book report on the kitchen and I got an A . Fuck all that bro On the kitchen . And I got an A . So fuck all that bro . Uh .
That reminds me of that one kid that was like the pervert Of the um class , Showing all that pornography to um Koro sensei . I'm like you know what that kind of you would think ? Um Koro sensei , you shouldn't be looking at all that . But then he's like oh well , let me see what you got .
And then that's how he reminds me of Kakashi and Jiraiya in a sense .
Yeah , is there another character that you know ? He dressed up like Detective Conan too , because of that girl that liked Detective Manga . I thought that was pretty cool too . Oh , hell , yeah , that used to be my dream . One truth for this .
Yeah , another quote that he said was the world will always be filled with injustice . If you have time to give up or hold a grudge against that injustice , then use that time to enjoy battling those injustices instead . So in other words , that's like saying , oh why are you complaining when you could actually do something about it ?
Oh God .
It's a very truthful thing , because that's one of those things like and I do think it was like after watching Assassination Classroom was why I kind of made that whole thing
¶ Character Growth in Assassination Classroom
. For me was that I just don't like to complain about stuff , like if I'm going to say something , I may have a solution , or at least I'll come up with some type of idea .
But other than that I'm just like if I don't have a solution , I tend to keep my mouth quiet , mostly because I'm just trying to find something out , because if you're upset about something , there's always some way to kind of help make things a little bit better yeah , like I can understand if it's like a very frustrating situation , to where it's like , okay , you
can't really figure out how to resolve the problem , like you need to like really ask around , get some resources going on .
But , uh , if you pretty much already have an idea of how you can resolve the problem , like there's steps to um , do so , then I'm like , ah , not to be that guy . But I say just , um , take the necessary steps and you'll be alright . Um , with that being said , let's talk about some of the characters real quick , like we already talked about .
Well , I didn't really talk about Nagisa that much other than his name . But , okay , I did a lightning review on Bakken Test and I was talking about this one character , hideyoshi , to , where he's so androgynous that In universe people Are like , I think you're a girl , I'm like , no , I'm a guy , I'm like , nah , I'm not buying that .
And then it's almost the same way With Nagisa , where , except , they know he's a boy , but at the same time it's like , if you don't know if he's a boy , like , um , some of those one-off characters , you know , like those uh , mob characters , uh , and you get a man to dress like in that one episode is like oh well , you look like a young girl , but no ,
that's a boy . Yeah , the hair kind of throws you off a little bit , but that's a boy yeah , the timidness yeah , and they be ready to dress him up too even his body structure you know what that's funny ?
because , uh , when I was talking about in baka and says well , I don't think I mentioned it , but uh , one character , hemaji , likes um , she has this fantasy of having the main character dress up in these different clothes , even though he's not really androgynous , even though there's a clearly more androgynous character , it's just that she likes him so much he has
like this weird thing going on with him , like but , um , yeah , there's Nagisa , ah oh boy well , real quick .
If I could just mention something for Nagisa , is the fact that I love his dynamic change and throughout , especially when you understand his whole backstory , like when you understand as far as , like he's so timid , so so kind of to himself , but then you understand he actually has a controlling mother , mother who goes so far as to drug him and try to make him
commit arson , make him commit crimes and felonies , just because she wants him to turn out a certain kind of way . And it's one of those things where it's like dang no , let the boy live , let him be who he wants to be . And I want to get to that point where kuro sensei had to step up to really kind of help him out .
But then you get to see that big change for him because he was like he finally found something he was good at , because he always felt like he failed at everything .
He was in class e because he sucked in his grades , he was always getting picked on and he even had said I think he did say himself too he was like he feels like he fails at being a boy because everyone thinks that he's a girl all the time . So he's like I fail at everything . I can't even succeed at being a guy and I just fail at that .
¶ Character Analysis in Assassination Classroom
But assassination was something that he was like , he was fantastic at , he was perfect at it , it was his thing , it was his niche . It reminded me of a character all the way from um shit . Now my brain is uh , no , akami got killed , the girl with the , the giant scissors because it was pretty much the same thing . Yeah , she like she failed at everything .
When it came down to killing she was perfect . It was like her thing , something she was just fantastic at . Why that specifically , no one knows , but that's just how it was . It was the same thing for Nakisa .
And then I love how , when the series ends where he winds up becoming a teacher and the students are like I don't care nothing about you , you're just a weak little frat , you're like whatever , and it shows it's one of the things that kind of sucks , because , seeing that , I kind of kind of understood what Frieza was going for when he wished for them dragon
balls and said , maybe just a little bit taller , cause Nagisa was a teacher and an adult at the end of the show still had no facial hair , looked the exact same and was the same height that he was and I was like that really sucks .
So all of that was against him and the students was literally like we ain't gonna respect you , we ain't gonna do nothing like that . But he pulled out that technique Like he's like . I just want you to understand , I can kill you . I just choose not to Remember that life is a privilege , you're allowed to have it and you're like he didn't lose a thing .
But I just I love Nagisa's change in character , especially for him and karma I think that's what you might be mentioning , so I'll let you go ahead . I'll go ahead and give it back to you .
I just want to give you a be mentioning , so I'll go ahead and give it back to you . I just want to give you a call back . When you said that , when you was talking about the characters and how they just was envisioning killing people , I just had a call back that made you pain . You sure ain't nobody need no more killing .
Honestly , yeah , the fact that Kuro said to tell Nagisa Nagisa was like I want to be professional . He says I want you to think about that again . I just I don't think that's the life that you're going to want to have . It was funny .
Yeah , and I also mentioned with nagisa how it just seems like his mother wanted to live precariously through him to a point to where , man , I wish you were born a girl , and that's pretty much explains why he wears his hair like that . That's where he pretty much wants his mother's approval .
But let's just be honest , she's just straight up abusive man and the father's not even in the picture . So I'm like fuck , but I just feel for him honestly . But that's pretty much all I had to say , because I hope you guys have pretty much said most of it . Uh , let's talk about the other boy that I like , karma boy .
This boy is cool , like , for starters , karma .
Uh come from a background to where he was destined to be , like he's one of those gifted students , but the only thing was that he was trying to stick up for this other student that was getting bullied by a third year uh , and he ended up beating up the third year student and that one teacher was like don't worry , I got your back .
But then the teacher um double crossed him and whatnot , and then he beat up the teacher and that's how karma ended up getting into the in class . This kid is kind of cold like um the way . First of all , that one scene with nagisa and karma by the train to where , oh , I finally get to kill a teacher for real and I'm like you know the way .
It was so cool where the train was going by and it just made the whole scene even more chilling . And , by the way , can I also talk about , um , the fucking , the fucking , um board chairman , the uh kakuo , uh , uh kakushu's uh asano's father ? Uh , essentially , he and his son have this uh competitive relationship with each other and all that .
And these guys , they're trying to make sure that these kids in class do not succeed , because the thing is , they want to have an academy that's so elite to where the best of the best attend this school , and we want the best of the best to be graduates from this school . So they want to do that . Hold on , am I getting them mixed up ?
Because I swear uh , yeah , no , I got it . Uh , it was uh cool , uh , but essentially he wasn't even all that bad . Like , he was all that bad at first . The thing was between uh , things like , like sacrificing his own personal well-being for the sake of studying , and all the other shit . He just became cold and just an asshole in a way .
I'm sorry , I'm just lost for words for how to describe this guy , but I do like the chilling aura that he has when he talks to people like Karma and others , to where it just seems like , yeah , he's definitely built like a villain , anything you add on to this guy .
Karma or the other guy . Well , let's start with karma only thing I got for karma is I like how his character doesn't really change too much . Um , because he's pretty much who he is as you meet . Him is pretty much who he is towards the end , and the best part about it is that I I like him because he's bad boy , done right .
He's one of those ones that he's like . He's not like just an out there type person . Oh , I'm just a bad bad boy , done right . He's one of those ones that he's like . He's not like just an out there type person . Oh , I'm just a bad boy . I pick fights with everyone and stuff like that . He shows that he can pick fights with everyone .
The thing about this is that he only messes with people who mess with him . As long as you leave him alone , he's cool .
He's just one .
What Kanye says like leave this motherfucker alone yeah , leave him alone he's like Kendrick , but it's literally just like , as long as you leave him alone , he's chill . If you leave him alone , he passes all his classes . He has one of the highest scores in the school . He is an elite student , absolutely , it's without question .
He literally went a whole time when they had to go through that time , when they couldn't study , he still was the only one that passed . He was the only one . He was like , oh yeah , this still wasn't that difficult . He was like , oh , this is easy , I can do this . And then he was even able . One of the other elite students .
One of the other elite students was struggling on , like that math question and I love how they did the season with the um season .
Whenever they would take the test , they were , they would like pretend like they would be in the um , in the forest , in the jungle , and they were hunting each other down and stuff when they were taking the test , not like when that really happened , but just like when it was doing the test , like when they were in the arena .
Sometimes , too , it was hilarious , um , but it's one of those ones where it's like , good lord man , you are like , he's intelligent . This math question that one of the other elite students couldn't do . He was like , oh , I'm confused , I can't figure out a formula . Karma looked at and he's like , oh , that's easy .
The beginning part is the one you need to figure out the formula for the second part .
You really don't yeah and oh yeah . Can I also say how he had this one plan ? I like this one part to where this is pretty much solidify how this dude will go to links that some of the other students won't to , where he was willing to jump off a ledge and kill himself if it means that Koro-sensei gets blamed for the incident .
He was unhinged . He was very unhinged , but no , that's . What I like about Karma is that he doesn't really change , he's just chill , Even all the way to the very end when they have the final paintball contest , in order to figure things out . He's a master strategist . He figured out that nagisa was like disappeared throughout the whole fight .
He was like this whole battle royale . This dude has never shown up . You ever noticed that ? You notice that nobody has reported him ? Like he just disappears . He's just gone . And he was like he's just that one that catches all of that stuff Anytime a villain showed up .
He's the one who always caught on to a lot of different things First time they met the other , one of the first other tentacle people , that boy I forgot his name . Hold on , hold on , I think he's Tona . Yeah , he's Tona . So first time , Karma was the first one to be able to figure stuff out with him . He's like so , he's got tentacles too , but he's not .
He doesn't look like a tentacle monster and he was a me that was like oh yeah , but he's like uh , hey , Kuro sensei , she used to be human . You know , something seems a little different . Like he's able to piece this stuff together so easily .
He's that one that like , if you have someone who watches movies and they piece all the little facts together before we get to the big reveal and they're like , see this and this happens , that means that this happened . Like that person that pieces everything together , that's karma . That's literally who he is .
But yeah , no , no , he's just , like I said , bad boy done right , Like this is one of those ones like this is the bad boy that you character that you really want to write Like . He can back up everything he says . He still is super intelligent . He's not dumb , he's just . He's just tired of people messing with him . Leave that man alone . He chill .
That's why I like Alpha Karma .
Tuck , you got anything you want to add on karma , karma , karma . Arrested .
I don't know , ever since I've watched season two of Invincible , I just really like that song now .
And going over the oh yeah about the chairman , how essentially he I guess you could say he got his comeuppance at the end where during the whole graduation he , uh he resigned his position and as soon as he was about to leave , uh , two of his first students showed up and they just caught up over a bottle of wine and that was just pretty much it .
I'm like okay , oh well . Well , at the very least , now that on the graduation was over the whole thing with class . He was over , uh , while his father was like , yeah , you know what I'm done ? Um , clearly . But the son reignited his rivalry with Karma and was like , I'm gonna find out what the hell happened with you in-class motherfuckers .
And I was like , yeah , what up ? Motherfucker , the anime's over Some more characters
¶ Assassination Classroom Character Analysis
. You have Kaede . She's like the I guess you'd say , the closest thing to like , because , once again , a whole bunch of students .
I'm not gonna remember all of them , but I remember kaede is the one where she always felt some type of way about women with big boobs showing up , because you know , she's part of the itty bitty titty committee , and , speaking of which , let's go ahead and talk about professor bitch .
Uh see , the funny thing is like , yes , on design wise , I see it , but then again , personality wise well , that's why she's called Professor Bitch . But the funniest part about her whole character is how she is known as one of the most , one of the top assassins out there , but when it comes down to killing Korra Sensei , it's almost like she's .
She reminds me of those boss characters that you play against in video games and you unlock them later , but when you get them they're like nerd . That's what she feels like to me . She's like a nerd version of herself now that she's part of the main ensemble .
Oh yeah , the number one assassin in the world , the Reaper , turns out , was Koro-sensei's former apprentice , who turned on Koro-sensei and pretty much Koro-sensei almost had a origin story that was like similar to Wolverine or , you could say , deadpool , to where , oh , he got betrayed and then next thing , you know , they got him in this facility where they're doing
some experiments on him to make him stronger and all that other shit , but he ended up mutating into this octopus like creature that we see today , so believe it or not Kuro-sensei was human before . It's just , he's more of a mutant rather than an alien . You already mentioned Itona to , where essentially it was another clone of Well .
In actuality it's more like Kuro-sensei's brother Well , they say they're his brother because they implanted the same tentacles in him . To like show you like a sequel , you know . It's like , oh , you're just a T-fucking knockoff . Like no , no , no , no , no , I'm the upgrade . You go at Mach 20 . 20 no , I go at Mach 40 . There was Karasuma .
Like he's the PE teacher . He's solid , not a whole lot to say on him , but I'm going to say he's a solid character . And then you got a whole bunch of characters , a whole bunch of students that's like have like this one thing going on .
Like you have the womanizer , the artist , the gamer girl , the fastest runner of class e , the pervert , I guess you could say the big guy , ryoma , who's like the leader of his own clique of rebels in there , the class president , yeah , like a whole bunch of characters , but honestly , like they don't necessarily . It's almost like damn .
This is why I would say it's kind of dangerous working with a whole bunch of characters at once , like a whole ensemble , you know , like with , uh , my hero academia .
Yes , there's a whole bunch of kids in that class , but at the same time , each student stood out in a way to where , okay , unless they just didn't get a whole lot of spotlight , they do stand out in a sense , but that's his whole thing .
Like , oh , at least in my hero most of the kids like yeah , they're noticeable , and this one is like half of them are easily forgettable . I'm sorry , but it's almost like that trope where the main character always have like the wildest head of hair and that's what it feels like to wear .
If they don't have this distinct art style for them , this distinct character design , then I'm probably just going to forget about them . They probably weren't meant to stand out that much . Anyways , like I said , you can tell that there's a main character or they're going to matter just by the character design .
So yeah , y'all got anything you want to add to all that .
I'll see if Tuck has anything first . Yeah , unless that man passed out because he's so drunk a lot of drinks , unless that man passed out because he's so drunk a lot of drinks . Big party , yeah , I think . But hey , um , let me just real quick onto the characters . Kuro sensei's backstory yeah , like honestly , you could compare a lot to Wolverine Deadpool .
You can even compare it to Shadow the Hedgehog as well , too , considering the fact that , like you know , they had a female interest that was killed and they just kind of set out their ways onto it . But it's , you know , kuro-sensei wants to be more comedic , more funny . He's trying to look at the positives of life .
After everything he dealt with , his whole story was very interesting . Looking at positives of life , after everything he dealt with , his whole story was very interesting , and especially in the point of how he looks like the monster that he is . Because we are introduced to at least two other characters .
You know itoma , and then we found out that one of the classmates , also in the classroom , also had tentacles in her as well too , but the thing about it is that she had been hiding it this whole time and it was a whole thing , but it's also because that she was actually related to the original teacher who wound up being the lady love interest .
That was the girl sensei , and so they didn't know . So getting that breakdown , because she was like you killed my , you killed her , and you said you killed her , and so she wound up stealing some of the tentacle serum in order to try to get revenge .
And that's when we finally get a full breakdown of what the whole story was , where it's like , yeah , no , kuro sensei used to be the original grim reaper , his apprentice , like you had said . But also the thing is is that after um , the original teacher , after his love interest had died , he didn't want to be who he was anymore .
So , crazy enough , I mentioned how professor bitch is more like a nerfed version onto it and kuro sensei says he nerfed himself . That's the thing enough that he actually made himself weaker I mean , that's the thing it's like .
That's almost Like saying I mean , shaving your head Ball is a power move , losing your hair isn't . So it's Like , in a way , koro sensei did it on Purpose because you know he wanted to give them at least a Sliver of a chance . But with Professor Fitch it's not like , oh , she nerfed herself on purpose .
It's just More like she's more of a gag character , you know , like she's like eye candy for the screen but she's not supposed to actually be competent enough to do to kill Koro Sente , because that was the purpose of the plot . Like the kids are supposed to kill him , not you .
It's true . I mean , the thing is , yeah , she was effective .
It's almost like what I'm saying is Koro Sensei nerfed himself . So what I'm saying is Koro Sensei nerfed himself because of the plot . But , professor Bitch , you could say the same thing , except it wasn't my choice . It's more like yeah , you're going to have to take the back seat from now on .
Yeah . So she's nervous because of the fact of what her speciality is . She's a great assassin at using her body , using her charms , to be able to get over on someone , and that we've seen after her , even the . You know the guy before as well too , because he's a fantastic assassin . Also , when you're dedicated to your job , you know how to stay focused , bro .
You hear all those memes now . Stay focused , bro , stay focused . A true assassin can't stay focused . They don't care , they're cute and all that , but I got a job to do , so I don't care , I gotta move . They're cute and all that , but I got a job to do , so I don't care , I gotta move on .
The other bad part is , too , that she's known among their assassins . Well , they know , and they kind of know who she is . So the minute they find out who she is , there's just like oh , you know exactly who you are and your woman charms . It's like her power just becomes useless .
She's great at being able to take on world leaders and being able to take on other stuff , because you know , let's be honest , she can fall for a woman's charm very easily , but when faced against other assassins who we see a lot in the show , yeah , she's pointless .
Like she was great against kuro sensei , because , of course , he still has to grow per every opportunity could throughout the series anyway . Like that's who he is a pervert . The thing about it is that as far as every so it's like okay , but the thing about it is is so you know , not as far as when .
I'm I'm not making a whole big comparison for nerfing into it , I just mean mentioning , as far as Kuro Sensei's backstory is the fact that he changed himself . He even changed his body as well , too . Like he wound up changing that because of his depression .
He was so upset that he wished that his body would completely change , that he would be different , and his tentacles took over his body and completely remorphed him , and that's why he looked like this . He actually did not do that . He would still look like and the other girl as well too .
He would still look like a human with tentacles , but instead he let the tentacles fully take over . That's where it becomes a whole thing in itself . So it's one of those . You get a chance to see that backstory all the way up until his , where he . I've been up pretty much like long enough . I've taught you all enough .
You guys graduated , I fulfilled what it is that my promise was , and we can move forward .
But it's also one of those ones , too , is that he does explain that these tentacles are immensely dangerous , and before he left , he tried to make sure he ridded the world of this cynical experiment as much as possible , because the craziest thing is the fact that what happened to the moon , when you find out the real story , what happened to the moon was the
fault of a rat , Just one small rat that had this tentacle experiment done to it . It went out of control and that caused the moon to completely explode like that . So imagine what a full sized being with tentacles could do when just a small rat was able to cause that much damage .
So one of the things was like Cora was like yeah , no , we need to get rid of this , we need to get this needs to stop and we need to make this doesn't come back Now like how he tried to be as thorough as he could until before he wanted to leave it . I did cry when he died from the galactic . That was one of those kids like .
I guess I relate because I had a teacher and he was actually Before we .
Before we all do this , let me just take the roll call one more time .
You're right .
I'm like , really You're going to slow cook this man .
My bad , my bad , you're right . You're right , you're right , because I'm supposed to stick on just the characters . I'm sorry , you're right . You're right , you're right , because I'm supposed to stick on just the characters . I'm sorry , you're right . No , no , no , I'm only going to stick on the characters .
No , no , no , no , no , no , you were fine . I was just pointing that out before I forget . I'm like that was what I was alluding to in the beginning to where I just love the way they did it , though , to where I'm like uh , nagisa , uh , have koro sensei pinned to the ground and all that . Well , pretty much koro sensei is accepting it .
Uh , because you know he wants the kids to like , grow up , to be the best that they can be , and also , you know , a big fuck you to the systems where it's kind of fucked up how you have the in class in the first place , and it was like , yeah , let me just take roll call one more time , and then you get to hear everybody say I'm here , I'm here , and
then , once that's done , I was like alright , do what you gotta do stop bringing tears to my eyes .
Stop bringing tears . I just said no , I'm supposed to stick with the characters . I'm not supposed to be going through this again . It was hard
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enough . When it was , I had a teacher that I really I . He was a really awesome teacher . Like he was an awesome fucking teacher and one of my favorite teachers throughout the entire time I was in school elementary , middle school , high school , even college he was literally my favorite teacher because he was just . I had a mental breakdown .
I was dealing with bullying , all types of stuff , and he sat and made sure he had a chance to talk . He sacrificed lunchtime , like we took during lunchtime all the kids in class . He told the other teacher .
He said , hey , you need to talk to this student and can you watch them for lunch , and he put one to the side and we had a whole like 15 minute conversation of everything that I was dealing with and he was able to sit there , listen , talk to me . Like then I'm gonna say every teacher should do this .
It would be nice , but and it's not necessarily a job , it's the things that . That's why counselors exist . But the counselors at this , my middle school that I went to was absolute bullshit , but anyway , um , it was just still cruel , since they did that for all of them .
What you had mentioned like you say , each of the characters can be forgettable , but that's actually the point as well , too is the fact that it's like each of these characters are forgettable in the school .
Each of them are forgettable to everybody , but the thing about it is Kuro-sensei said , I'm not going to forget any one of you , because each of you have something special , like for one . For example , almost every episode , every character gets a highlight .
All the other minor characters yes , we mostly still focus on Agusa and Karma throughout the rest of the , but we get a chance to actually highlight every stupid thing , and I think one of my most favorite one was the girl who was good at making poison . She sucks at everything , just like Nagisa . She sucks at everything else .
For some reason , when it comes down to making poison , she's good at that , but she's not good at sneaking . She's not good at sneaking into the other side , nothing like that but she's good at sneaking . She's not good at sneaking . None of the others , nothing that she's like I'm just all I'm good is at making poison .
I'm trying to do anything else , so she just walked up to kuro sensei and was like can you please eat this poison cookies that I made you ? It's like like wait , what this is ? I'm not good at sneaking up and all that stuff . We're supposed to assassinate you and this is the best I'm good at . That's all I can do .
And Kuro-sensei literally was like I got you and ate it and suffered all the nonsense that happened to his body , His whole body going through different color changes and stuff . But one of the things that he's like it's okay . He says you don't have to do other stuff . Good at what you are , you can do so much more with this .
Yeah , you can make poison , but then you can also make medicine . He took that time with each person . You had another guy who he was in a class C and he was good at baseball and that was it , but his grades sucked so he couldn't be on the baseball team .
Corolla Sensei said we're going to make sure education back up , but we're still going to hone baseball skills and we will episode dedicate to baseball . And Kuro Sensei did this with every single student , every single one . So every little one of those may have part of a continual storyline .
He dedicated something to every single student throughout the entire series and , yeah , you're going to forget about it because you're , because all these little one-off episodes , but to be to those people who's one of the ones that give a shout-out to the writer on to this , like the people who's watching or reading , you got your highlight .
Everybody has something they can highlight on to , like you saw right from here in the assassin thing . The only other thing he was good at was paying attention to .
If you can listen , if you respond to this , this one character in the anime in my Hero Academia that does that did the same thing , and him taking notes wound up being his absolute best characteristic for this character .
I think he's definitely I don't know , but still , but I know you know JB , you know who I'm talking about , and it's like he highlighted everyone's chance of importance and even the one going back .
One last thing I'm going to go ahead and turn it back over , because it's not I can't remember every single character , but I know like each character got a highlight um , including the um Itomo as well too .
When they finally removed his tentacles , abandoned , and then he wanted to get him brought back into one , getting accepted into class e , and he wound up being able to the top science he was building like vices and stuff . Even for him the story was tragic , you find out , his parents abandoned him and they ran an electronic store .
So he went ballistic and started destroying electronic stores because he was pissed off at his parents . Understand , they abandoned him . Even , professor Bitch , she went through so many different shit . She became a damsel in distress , she became all this other stuff . But it even had a whole highlight for her her birthday . She was so in love with the her birthday .
She was so in love with the other teacher .
She was so in love with him .
He is not the . For her , the mission is important . That's important . That's just how he is . And so she kept getting so upset .
She stormed off and the students did all good to try to make up for her birthday , to try to make them have a moment together , and then find out at the end , once cruel sensei is gone , he finally finished the mission and once he finished the mission he was able to dedicate time to being with her and they wound up getting married together .
So it was like you know , everybody got all around throughout the whole season . I like how each character does get some development . You know we have some that we may focus on , because it's kind of ranted Tuck .
do you have anything you want to add on to all that ? I'm just asking Maybe , um , no , okay , uh , honestly , I don't have too much to say . Like , if it was me , this review probably would have been Ended in like 15 , 20 minutes , so it might end up being that long anyway , yeah , I don't have a whole lot to say on it At this point .
I think I'm pretty much good no no , that's pretty much . It Like it's a great show just to watch . You have those moments of being able to enjoy everything , kind of moving forward . But other than that , no , it's a great show . The only other thing I will mention this is not necessarily about the show , but if you decide to , there is a live action show .
I have not seen the live action series . It's not on Netflix . You do have to go online . It's all in Japanese , something you can find on Crunchyroll and some other anime websites as well too . If you want to watch Kuro Sensei Quest , if you want to watch that , it's pretty much the same story , but it's all in one season .
They're all short , like 10 minute episodes . They're all like chibis as well too . Instead of it taking place in like modern day , it's in a fantasy world . So all of them have met during magical school with magical powers and stuff like that , and they're all still pretty much the same storyline .
Kuro sensei is that he's the teacher and they're all trying to assassinate him , but he still like has like little funny moments with the kids and stuff , um , so it's actually there's more comedy . It's not as much . In serious notes they took out the b storyline of the whole . You know moon being destroyed and the reasoning and that whole deep incense and stuff .
So this one is just pure comedy and just kids and magical nonsense .
¶ Kuro Sensei Quest and Assassination Classroom
So I , if you want to watch that , um , most people do say that it would be better to watch Assassination Classroom first , then watch Kuro Sensei Quest . It's entirely up to you , but they don't dive into the character stories in Kuro Sensei Quest .
So that's why they say it'd be better to watch that one first , so that way you at least have an understanding of the characters . Otherwise it's just good fun , alright .
With that being said , um , thank you , kookagatsu and professor , for the time that you were on . Um , tanara will be joining me , um , in just a moment to conclude the whole review out , so we'll just go ahead and run it over to her and gentlemen . Once again , thank you for being on . We will be right back .