Assassination Classroom
Assassination Classroom is certainly a peculiar anime. The medium has never really strayed away from badass children with homicidal tendencies, nor has it ever had any qualms with weird beings sitting front and center in the narrative. Assassination Classroom, however, takes both and mixes in tons of humor while still keeping the core very serious.
The plot pits Koro Sensei, a powerful being who promises to destroy the world in one year, against a class of junior high students. Why is he against them? He’s taken it upon himself to teach them how to become master assassins so that they can kill him and save the world. The reasons why he’s training his own killers is a confusing one wrought with emotional flashbacks and hilarious bonding.
The ongoing second season seems to be focusing a lot more on the students’ personal lives than the first season. This means that while action isn’t as prevalent as it was before, the story has received some much needed bolstering and a lot of answered questions.
