Assassination Classroom - Reviews

3S review no.23 (short, simple and salty/sweet/spicy)

So, I’m all up for weird premises and unique ideas, so the premise of this show, a classroom trying to kill the their teacher, was enough to hook me up to try it out, unfortunately a nice premise is not enough to make a nice show, and this one stands as prime example.

The story is boring beyond saving and 90% of it feel like it’s filler. Like you kind of like the 1st episode cause of the premise, then nothing happens until the last couple of episodes of the first season, then again nothing happens until the last episodes of the second season. The show really lets down your expectations and just proceeds with lame slice of life days in the school and half ass attempts at comedy, instead of thrilling and well thought out assassination attempts. Also everything just plays out so conveniently for the plot, even the teacher pulls out from his ass some plot armors at the perfect moment, even though we had no idea about the teacher’s powers, so everything falls flat. Pacing is terrible, like we could have learn about the teacher past little by little, but no, we just get slapped with his past all at at once, story telling is not good in this one and it doesn’t really know what the show is about. Is it comedy? Is it action? Is it slice of life? Well, it’s a little bit of everything with a major dose of boredom. For what it’s worth, there is a conclusion in the end of the second season, even though it is nonsensical mostly done for the sake drama, it is a solid end none the less.

Characters, well, Koro sensei is interesting I guess, he could have been way better but it is what it is I guess, just an overpowered caricature, still, he is the best part of the show and when he is not on the screen the show plummets. I guess the other main characters are Nagisa and Karma? Who are both stereotypical and uninteresting. Nagisa also happens to look like a girl for whatever reason, at one point his mother says that she wanted a daughter and not a son, so Nagisa turned out to have the proportions of a girl, ass and waist and everything, so that’s how it works huh… Anyway apart from those two the rest of the cast is even more unmemorable, like they could swap their faces and voices around every episode and you’d probably not even notice.

Animation is alright, it is well done but something is really bothering me and for the life of me I can’t pinpoint what exactly. Is it the hard outlines? Is it the camera that is always way too focused? Is it that everything is so bright and oversaturated like they they have a light pointing on top of every face? I am not sure exactly but something really annoys me.

Sound is probably the best aspect of the show, the tracks are nice, voice acting is nice, especially Koro sensei’s VA does a fine job so do some other recognizable and talented voice actors. The openings are great, fun and unique. But when sound is the best aspect of the show, that is not really something to be happy about huh?

So is it worth a watch? No, as much as it saddens me because I liked the premise, it is definitely not worth the watch. If it was way shorter, it might be worth just to find out how the story plays out, but as it is it is not worth to sit through 48 episodes that most of them are mind-numbingly boring just to get the end of the story and I definitely do not recommend it.

The two main things that bring this anime down is the plot and character development 

• Assassination Classroom is an excellent example of an interesting concept with terrible execution 
• They have so many characters and not enough episodes or logic to develop each one fully
• It seems like a new fucking classmate pops up every couple of episodes yet they were there from the beginning 
• Each person does not progress; their abilities are handed to them for the sake of plot
• The plotline is a plot hole lot of issues. 19 episodes in and I can barely remember anything from the first 18
• Just give the most screen time to the ”I'm different and better than everyone else” characters, that seems like a terrific idea said the producers
• Mo money, no problems
• In this show, you learn to better oneself with the mastery of montages and gladiator metaphors
• It says this is a parody, but I do not see any signs of it being a good one
• Take Assassination out of the title that is not what this is about

Lastly, for what this subpar series is worth, this should have only lasted 24 episodes (in total) or less.

I might never find out the ending to Classroom. Then again, I am glad I did not stick around to see this drag on for another 20 episodes 

At first I thought that the plot wasn't great in the first episode, but I still decided to watch through - and I don't regret it. It was one of my favourites having the characters and the different aspect of everyone.

it might seem not as good in the first few episodes but if you keep watching the plot gets more interesting and creative, I like its artwork- it's very expressive and is a good thing added to the series.

So the Story- It wasn't the best I've seen but it was good none the less, It had good moments and a bit of comedy to it, It was really good and I'd advice everyone to check it.

Characters- They were very likeable and has good aspects to all of them, each one of them are unique and different and they work very well as a team.

Overall: It was great, by far one of the greatest Ive seen and is one of my favourite, not only are the characters likeable but even the target is good. It's a very unique series and not like anyone I've ever seen, If you like something funny and exiting I highly recommend this one.

Even though I rated this pretty low when it came to story, the story is actually what drew me in...at first. It was a fairly unique and truly absurd which is right up my ally.

They have a plethora of characters with a broad range of personalities. There's also an unknown dynamic with the school itself which they elude to several times throughout the anime. This plot twist helped me to limp along with this turd.

Character growth is all over the place and obnoxiously spelled out. Characters are quick to push their own ideas on how a person should live which makes it difficult stay immersed with such unnatural dialogue.

The theme is repeated a gazillion times. "Even though we're in E class we can still do crap well". Now I liked this element a few times... but that's the only card this anime has in its deck. It just repeats, over and over, like a broken record..... Forever. Pretty soon the viewer blacks out and wakes up a couple of hours later ,covered in sweat. The viewer has no idea what hell just happend but he knows that he wants to watch something similar to Assisnation Classroom, like "Dora the Explorer" or "Blues Clues".

Right, it's confession time for me. If you have been reading my reviews than you may have noticed that I tend to rip the anime a new one. There is a reason for this though and it has to do with the fact that I can't turn my brain off when watching anime. I can't ignore the stupid shown in the anime and this is a problem as most anime are very stupid indeed.

In this case I'm not talking about a 90 pound girl catching a multi-ton cruise missile and throwing it back. Yes, it is stupid but it is a stupid that I'll allow. It's anime. Things like this are normal here and I'm pretty much fine with it. It annoys me to be sure but I will not rant about it.

So, having explained this lets rip into this anime shall we? Just a heads up: There will most probably be spoilers. The more I hate an anime the more spoilers there will be.

ART: The art is pretty good and I didn't notice the use of CGI. Character sesign was fine as I was never lost about who was who.

SOUND: Again no complaints from me. I can no longer remember any of the music used but this is how I prefer it. Voice acting was decent to good.

CHARACTERS: Main character is Koro-Sensei. He may look like some weird octopus but he is an all powerful being capable of destroying the Earth. He is very serious and passionate about being a teacher although his students are all out to kill him.

Nagisa is a quiet young boy who sort of fades in the background. He is known for studying Koro-Sensei and has compiled a vast amount of weaknesses to exploid.

Karma is highly intelligent but also has a habit of being uncontrollable in class and has a sadistic streak. Being able to do anything to kill Koro-Sensei pleases him greatly.

Gakuho is the chairman of the academy and the closest thing to a villain that the show has. All he cares about is the reputation of the Academy and that means that Class E must remain at the bottom of the Acedemy's social structure. Provided it remains within the rules he will use any means to reach that end.

Karasuma/Irina are teachers assisting Koro-Sensei. Karasuma is the best special forces soldier Japan has and spends his days intructing the students on how to kill Koro-Sensei. Irina is only in her early twenties but already a feared assassin who speaks many languages.

STORY:  One day the world is shocked to find 70% of the moon vaporized. The one responsible is Koro-Sensei and he has vowed that he will do the same to the Earth in one year. The only thing that will stop him from doing so will be his death. The only catch is that he is extremely hard to kill and so far nobody has been able to get close to him. It is then that Koro gives them an offer they can't refuse: He will teach one specific class and the students get free reign to try to kill him.

RANT: If you had asked me how the series was halfway through I would have said that it sucked. The first part of the series is horribly slow and boring. It basically comes down do this: A student gets introduced and (s)he tries to kill Koro-Sensei. They fail and Koro-Sensei whips them in line so that they become good students. Rince and repeat.

While great for character development it is pretty boring as nothing much of note happens. They could have put 2 such plots in each episode and it still would have been boring but it would have been faster paced boring. Having a full episode for each plot sucks out any pacing it had.

Foryunately once the character stuff is out of the way the show picks up pace and the series becomes pretty damn good. Outside sources make a move and the students need to use the skills they learned to get out of it. I just wish that the entire series was like that. From the little I have seen the second season is more of this but as I haven't seen it I can't be sure.

What I also hope is that Koro-Sensei gets more background. From the little you get in the series it looks to be very interesting and the scraps you get make you want more. Just what happened to him to make him what he is now? Why did he choose this particular class and is he really intending to destroy the Earth?

If you are willing to sit through the boring first halve of the show the reward is a pretty good story arc but the question is if you are willing to sit through it?