Assassination Classroom Anime Review

Imagine you're a middle school student middle school student in the worst class of the best school in Japan.  Now imagine that a twisted version of the Walmart mascot destroyed the moon and threatened to destroy the Earth if you couldn't kill him in a year.  Imagine further that this creature declares himself your teacher and tasks you with killing him.  Sounds like a confusing load of bunk, huh?  Welcome to Assassination Classroom.

As you've may have read above, Assassination Classroom is a crazy anime that's packed with humor.  That's right.  This isn't some gritty, post-apocalyptic series.  It's a comedy, one centered in a school, judging by the title.  As mentioned before, the main character (the Walmart mascot) destroy the moon and is giving anyone a year to kill him before he destroys the Earth.  This includes, but is not limited to, the students of the middle school class he's begun teaching.

Our...protagonist?

So, what makes him so hard to kill?  How about being able to travel at Mach 20, so fighter jets and missiles have no chance at hitting him?  Not good enough?  How about a body that melts metal when it pierces his skin, rendering conventional bullets and knives useless?

Aww, they're learning to kill.  How cute.

How is one expected to kill such a creature?  With BB guns and rubber knives.  Yep.  Those hurt the crap out of him.  Still, he moves at Mach 20, so hitting him could be a problem.  And when you have a teacher as good as him, would you really want to kill him?

Yes, that is an entire middle school class drawing guns on their teacher.

He may be intent on destroying the world, but he's got a good heart, which he shows to his students.  According to the kids themselves, he's a darned good teacher.  You see, these kids are outcasts, so much so that their classroom sits far away far the school.  This planet-planet destroying octopus is the first creature that's ever cared for these kids.  It's up to him to teacher these kids valuable life lessons and raise their grades.  He grows on them...but they still have to kill him.

Teaching a girl while avoiding death.  What a heartwarming scene.

So what kind of hardened middle school badasses are so rotten that only a planet-destroying octopus is the only one who wants to teach them.  There's a girly boy, a problem child, a couple of cute girls, and a man-sized cellphone with guns, along with one kids that don't look threatening (or even bad) in the slightest.  They don't seem to be retarded, so this isn't special ed, either.  With a few obvious exception, they seem like normal kids.  So basically, they are outcast because...who knows.

Believe it or not, this is a boy.

Now THIS is a cellphone. 

Also, as if being a target of your students isn't bad enough, there are a few well-trained killers, posing as teachers out to get him.  However, he knows who they are and they know he knows so...they aren't really posing.  In fact, one of them comes right out and says it.  That is the epitome of nonsense.

Co-workers include a badass heartthrob...

...and a hot, cackling bitch.

So, there you have Assassination Classroom.  It doesn't make sense...and it doesn't care.  Watch this and you will laugh a lot.  There's a lot of weird crap and BS going on here, but it's not a bad anime.  It's pretty addictive.  Check it out.