50 Fun Facts About Assassination Classroom

In Assassination Classroom, a blast destroys most of the Moon, leaving it permanently in which shape?

A crescent is all that remains after 70 percent of the Moon is obliterated. The tentacled creature later named Koro-sensei claims responsibility and promises that Earth is next.

What maximum speed lets Assassination Classroom's Koro-sensei circle the globe and dodge almost any attack?

Mach 20 is his limit, fast enough that the world's governments failed to kill him before a class of students was handed the job.

What bounty does the Japanese government put on Koro-sensei's head in Assassination Classroom?

¥10 billion is the opening offer. By the time Class 3-E is paid, the sum has grown to ¥30 billion: they keep enough for school and living costs, buy their old campus and hand the rest back.

Koro-sensei, the yellow tentacled teacher of Assassination Classroom, is most often likened to which sea creature?

An octopus is the usual comparison, though he started out human: laboratory experiments mutated his body into its tentacled form.

Koro-sensei's name, coined by an Assassination Classroom student, puns on a Japanese word meaning what?

Unkillable is the meaning of korosenai, which the class blends with sensei, the word for teacher. The name is coined right after their first big attempt on his life fails.

Which Assassination Classroom student, freshly back from a suspension, becomes the first to wound Koro-sensei?

Karma Akabane manages it with a handshake, having taped shards of an anti-sensei knife to his palm. He is also the one Class 3-E student whose grades rival the school's very best.

In Assassination Classroom, what about Koro-sensei's body changes to give away his mood?

His skin color shifts with his feelings, so the class can read their teacher like a mood ring. Nagisa keeps a running notebook of quirks like this in the hunt for a weak point.

Where is the run-down Class 3-E building of Assassination Classroom set, far from the main school campus?

On a mountain, well away from the main campus, the outcast class studies in a dilapidated old building. The chairman keeps them there, at their poorest, to spur on every other student.

Which Assassination Classroom student is exposed as an actress who joined Class 3-E to avenge her sister?

Kaede Kayano is an assumed identity: she implanted tentacles in the back of her neck, believing Koro-sensei had killed her sister. She is also the student who gave him his name.

Which theme got the Assassination Classroom manga pulled from some Florida and Wisconsin school libraries?

Gun violence, above all violence aimed at a teacher, was the objection raised by the schools that removed it. In the story itself, Koro-sensei scolds his class for any plan that puts other people in danger.

Contact with which everyday substance makes the tentacles of Assassination Classroom's Koro-sensei swell up?

Water bloats his tentacles, a weakness the class discovers at a swimming pool he built for them himself. Their big summer ambush starts by slowly flooding the chapel he is sitting in.

In Assassination Classroom, what do Class 3-E's weapons fire, specially made to work against Koro-sensei's body?

BB pellets made of a special material are standard issue, alongside rubber knives of the same stuff. Class 3-E packs them into a grenade and even embeds them in a baseball.

Which Japanese city hosts the Assassination Classroom school trip on which delinquents kidnap two Class 3-E girls?

Kyoto is the destination, and the rescue succeeds thanks to a huge guidebook Koro-sensei wrote that even covers what to do when a classmate is taken hostage.

Which manga artist, also behind Neuro: Supernatural Detective and The Elusive Samurai, created Assassination Classroom?

Yusei Matsui wrote and drew every chapter, having learned the trade as an assistant to the creator of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

Which manga magazine, the home of One Piece and Naruto, first serialized Assassination Classroom?

Weekly Shōnen Jump ran the series from July 2012 to March 2016. Shueisha's flagship is the best-selling manga magazine of all time.

In Assassination Classroom, what nickname does Class 3-E give its artificial-intelligence transfer student?

Ritsu is clipped from her Japanese title, Jiritsu Shikō Kotei Hōdai, the Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery. She earns the nickname once Koro-sensei's upgrades give her a personality.

Which Assassination Classroom transfer student arrives claiming to be Koro-sensei's brother, with tentacles in his hair?

Itona Horibe got his tentacles from a cloaked scientist, not from family, and they nearly kill him. Once they are removed he joins the class for real and becomes its electronics expert.

Which professional hitwoman, hired as Class 3-E's language teacher in Assassination Classroom, later marries Karasuma?

Irina Jelavić arrives planning to seduce and kill Koro-sensei, fails in front of the whole class, and stays on to teach. By the epilogue she is a government spy working under her husband.

In Assassination Classroom, the letter E in Class 3-E is mockingly said to stand for which word?

End is the word: pupils call it the End Class, a dumping ground for anyone whose grades or behavior fall short. The rest of the school is encouraged to look down on it.

In Assassination Classroom, Class 3-E hides a bomb inside which giant dessert, inspired by an egg surplus?

A caramel pudding is the bait, built on a giant scale by the whole class working together. Koro-sensei sees through the plan, disables the bomb and shares the dessert with his students.

Which Class 3-E bully makes Nagisa wear a grenade for the first big attack on Koro-sensei in Assassination Classroom?

Ryōma Terasaka sets off the blast himself, but Koro-sensei shields Nagisa from it. Years later, Terasaka's tenacity lands him an apprenticeship with a leading politician.

Who taught Class 3-E before Koro-sensei in Assassination Classroom and, dying, asked him to watch over it?

Aguri Yukimura was assigned to observe him while he was still human and held in a laboratory, and she taught him compassion. She was fatally wounded by a trap meant for him as he broke out.

Which sadistic instructor in Assassination Classroom loses a knife duel to Nagisa and later poisons much of the class?

Akira Takaoka is fired on the spot after the duel, then returns for revenge at an island hotel. His hired killers quietly swap his deadly virus for a harmless one.

Which Assassination Classroom student, dropped from the baseball club, pitches a doctored ball at Koro-sensei?

Tomohito Sugino loses his spot in the club when he is sent down to Class 3-E. After Koro-sensei tells him to play to his own strengths, he goes on to turn professional.

Which chemistry-loving Assassination Classroom student hands Koro-sensei poison and asks him outright to drink it?

Manami Okuda is too honest to lie about what is in the bottles, so Koro-sensei teaches her that a good poisoner also needs a way with words. She grows up to be a medical researcher.

Which Class 3-E president in Assassination Classroom was demoted for taking a part-time job to support his family?

Yūma Isogai waits tables to help his sick mother and two younger siblings, which the school's rules forbid. Classmates see him as the class heartthrob, even though he dresses in bargain clothes.

Karasuma, the stern PE teacher of Assassination Classroom, is really an agent of which arm of Japan's government?

Ministry of Defense is his employer: he arrives to announce the government's deal with Koro-sensei and stays to train the class in assassination. By the epilogue he is a senior figure in Japanese intelligence.

In Assassination Classroom, how does Nagisa stun a tentacle-crazed classmate so Koro-sensei can remove her implants?

With a kiss, borrowing a technique from his language teacher's lessons. The shock holds her still just long enough for Koro-sensei to remove the tentacles before they can kill her.

Which school chairman in Assassination Classroom built the Class 3-E system and later teaches Class 3-A himself?

Gakuhō Asano began as a kind cram-school tutor and turned ruthless after bullies drove one of his first three pupils to his death. Koro-sensei admits his own teaching is modelled on the chairman's early style.

In Assassination Classroom, Class 3-E wins a resort trip to which island prefecture by beating Class 3-A in exams?

Okinawa is the prize, taken from the elite class in a bet on the exam results. Class 3-E turns the holiday into its most elaborate attempt on Koro-sensei's life.

The Reaper of Assassination Classroom first approaches Class 3-E in disguise as a harmless member of which trade?

A florist is his cover: the class buys a bouquet from him without knowing he is the world's deadliest assassin. He then uses their missing language teacher as bait to lure them into a trap.

Koro-sensei's last-resort form in Assassination Classroom seals him inside what for a day, untouchable but helpless?

A crystal sphere, indestructible but barely mobile, is his answer when the class shoots off seven tentacles and corners him. A blackmailer then demands the helpless teacher as ransom.

In Assassination Classroom, what must a student do in the exams to shoot off one of Koro-sensei's tentacles?

Come top in one subject and you earn one tentacle, each loss slowing Koro-sensei down. Class 3-E wins seven that way, four of them for top marks in home economics.

Which simple trick, taught to Nagisa by the retired hitman Lovro, stuns enemies in Assassination Classroom?

A sudden hand clap, sprung on an enemy who is watching your knife, buys an instant to strike. Nagisa debuts it on a hotel rooftop, dropping his blade to free his hands.

In Assassination Classroom, how does Class 3-E settle its split over whether to kill or save Koro-sensei?

A paintball battle decides it, with one team for killing him and one for saving him. It comes down to a one-on-one duel between Nagisa and the kill team's strategist.

In Assassination Classroom, where does a rocket carry two stowaway students seeking data to save Koro-sensei?

The International Space Station holds the data they need, so two students ride up in seats meant for crash-test dummies. It shows a drug could cut his chance of exploding below one percent.

Which Japanese voice actor, known as Lelouch in Code Geass, plays Koro-sensei in the Assassination Classroom TV anime?

Jun Fukuyama voices the teacher in both seasons and is also credited as the Reaper, his character's former self.

Which animation studio, also behind Danganronpa: The Animation, produced the Assassination Classroom TV series?

Lerche made both seasons under director Seiji Kishi. An earlier one-off special for a 2013 festival tour was made by a different studio, Brain's Base.

Which sniper stalks Koro-sensei on the Assassination Classroom school trip, then quits after sharing a hot pot with him?

Red Eye misses every shot he takes on the trip, then finds his target sitting down beside him with dinner. He gives up the job to go and see the world instead.

In Assassination Classroom, the Moon blast blamed on Koro-sensei was really caused by an experiment on which animal?

A mouse implanted with his cells was sent to the Moon as a test and blew up there, taking most of it along. The same fate awaits Koro-sensei himself when the school year runs out.

Takebayashi, the only Assassination Classroom student to leave Class 3-E by choice, comes from a family of what?

Doctors for generations, with older brothers studying medicine at Tokyo University, which makes him the family outcast. He returns to Class 3-E after a bold speech and wrecking one of the chairman's prized possessions.

Class 3-E's fastest runner in Assassination Classroom hides his real first name, which is which English word?

Justice was the choice of his parents, both devoted police workers. He goes by Masayoshi, another reading of the same kanji, until Koro-sensei helps him make peace with the name.

Where does Class 3-E's food stall finish in the school festival sales contest of Assassination Classroom season two?

Third place, behind only Class 3-A and the high school, even though the stall shut early. Koro-sensei had the students close up rather than strip the local ecosystem of wild ingredients.

Class 3-E stages an unsettling version of which Japanese folk tale at the drama festival in Assassination Classroom?

Momotaro, the tale of a boy born from a peach, is rewritten by the class's gloomiest bookworm on purpose to ruin the other classes' moods and appetites.

Which member of the pop group Arashi voices Koro-sensei in the live-action Assassination Classroom films?

Kazunari Ninomiya voices the tentacled teacher in both live-action films. The first of the two opened at number one at the Japanese box office.

Which country built the Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery that joins Class 3-E in Assassination Classroom?

Norway developed her to learn Koro-sensei's movements and sharpen her aim with every volley. Her makers later try to wipe the friendly personality he gave her, but she hides it from them.

Where on his body has the Reaper of Assassination Classroom hidden the small firearm he turns on Karasuma?

His index finger conceals a small-caliber weapon, one of many changes he made to his own body. He also remade his own face so that he could disguise himself as anyone.

Which crossover fighting game for PlayStation 3 and Vita makes Assassination Classroom's Koro-sensei playable?

J-Stars Victory VS came out in Japan in 2014, with a Western edition a year later. Its producer said the hardest part was agreeing moves for characters who never fight in their own series.

Which American company, later folded into Crunchyroll, simulcast and dubbed the Assassination Classroom anime?

Funimation streamed each episode as it aired and had an English dub running within six weeks of the premiere. Its version later reached American television on a late-night anime block.

The hitwoman hired as Class 3-E's foreign-language teacher in Assassination Classroom comes from which country?

Serbia is her homeland, and she was raised as a killer by a retired Russian assassin after her parents died in a civil war.