Ratings32
Average rating4.1
The students in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High have a new teacher: an alien octopus with bizarre powers and unlimited strength, who's just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth - unless they can kill him first!
Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who's doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison...? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students' tattered self-esteem?
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One of my favorite animes! I'm so glad to live the story again through the manga.
PIcked this as a recommendation as one of the “Must read Mangas” from the 2010s
This was an interesting concept but this volume was overall extremely repetitive and formulaic. There is an underlying mystery to the story but its really not explored. Also, this story has not aged well at all reading this in 2020. At face value, it is very comedic in tone but when the school starts pulling in extremely disturbed students to assist in assasinating the alien teacher, it hits way to close to home given recent headlines with violence in schools.
4.5
I absolutely loved this first installment. I'm so excited to pick up the next one.
It was really funny and the whole premise is so intriguing.
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21 primary booksAssassination Classroom is a 21-book series with 21 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Yūsei Matsui and Tetsuichiro Miyaki.