Re: Assassination Classroom (2015)
Episode 1
Yeah, the OP is bad. It might match the tone at later points in the series, but
not at the start here.
They should have held it off until the second episode.
The obvious problem with the episode: The exposition.
Mostly because of the pace and direction, I think. Much of the same exposition is there in the manga, but some of it seems worded differently, and the manga seemed to do it...
simpler.
Like, Karasuma swinging the knife at Korosensei should have been done from a "locked" camera view, getting across both Korosensei's speed and the inherent silliness of the situation much better.
Like so:
Kinda
Gintama-esque, no? Very simplistic presentation.
There wasn't really any reason for the anime to do it differently, and the
jumping around (and that music)that the anime does is just kind of
distracting from what should come off as a silly scene.
And the rest of the exposition seems to kinda suffer similarly.
HOWEVER
there doesn't really seem to be any
death flags for the anime just yet.
There's some more exposition to be had, and I fear those will be the weakest parts, but I still think it can pull through on the rest. The next episode will probably be covering chapter 2 and 3, and should be considerably more light-hearted.
Then episode 3 will probably introduce Karma, and the show
will improve simply because Karma, with the voice of Nobuhiko Okamoto, will make his entry.
So in summary, kinda underwhelming and a shitty OP, but it doesn't seem to be doomed just yet.