Surprise!
"Tell Us, Kunudon!"
Tell us, Kunudon!
Hi, everybody! It's me, Kunudon!
Sir, yes, sir!
We're coming up on finals--
"Final Exams" We're coming up on finals--
"Final Exams" and at Kunugigaoka Junior High,
"Final Exams" grades are everything!
A miserable future as a loser awaits the human garbage
who can't reach the bar!
They'll wind up in the gutter!
"The Garbage Class"
I wonder how the E Class, our very own garbage class, will do?
Terrible, of course! Yay!
You got the basics down cold in the first semester.
At this rate, I expect your finals scores to shoot right up.
Koro Sensei, do you want us all to make the top fifty this time, too?
No--I was too focused on your total scores for midterms.
I've come to believe that each student should have a goal
better suited to him or her.
And that's why I've come up with the perfect target
for our assassination classroom!
Don't worry, Terasaka! You've got a shot at reaching it, too!
Now, then... as Shiro said, when I lose a tentacle, I also lose speed.
One fewer tentacle and there's already a difference.
See? I can't keep up the quality of my clones,
and now there's a few child clones mixed in.
So that's how clones get reduced!
Lose one more...
--Yay! --and you get more child clones
with the parent clones fretting about how to make ends meet.
This has taken a tragic turn.
Lose yet another...
...and now the father clone has vanished,
leaving the mother clone to raise the children on her own.
Brutal!
Each tentacle lost is a ten percent reduction in my movement.
Here's the deal: The students who get the best overall score
and/or the best score in each subject
will each have the right to destroy one tentacle.
This is the final exam for our assassination classroom.
Can you get any closer to that ten-billion-yen prize?
That, students, is up to you.
This teacher...
...really knows how to get us motivated.
Stand up, bow, lock on!
Stand up, bow, lock on! Oh, yeah
Sensei! Target on
The more the potential, the bigger the hassle
Our dropout mentality goes beyond the extraordinary
We looked like we were nodding off, hidden knives in hand
Stand up, bow, lock on!
Let it go and someone's sure to take care of it
We thought it was someone else's problem... and yet
Mr. Teacher, tell us
Will we, still incomplete
Be able to shoot through
The invincible target that's you?
As long as we keep trying, the odds are 50/50
Mr. Teacher, look at us
Lost in so many ways
For you more than anyone else
Studying like a house on fire
Our bloodlust alone is our message to you
A self- (let's go) reliant (all out)
Revolution
Oh, yeah! Sensei! Target on
"Episode 15: End-of-Term Time"
"Kunugi"
I'd do anything to make the E Class's grades drop.
Is that what you think of me?
No... but this stiff here sure has his doubts.
Then let me reassure you:
Our school fosters autonomy among its students.
It is not the school that decides a student's grades, but the student.
I don't do a thing.
With that wording he chose... there must be more to it.
Student autonomy and all that.
Yes, well.
At least he won't resort to barely-legal petty tricks this time.
Well, since these scores are tied directly to assassination,
maybe I ought to give them a leg up.
Let me handle phys ed for a while!
What happened to English?!
One tentacle for each top score...
Yeah! We can do this!
When are you ever this fired up, Okuda?
Well, since science is my one strong suit,
I might finally be able to help everyone out!
We have our share of high-scoring students here.
Acing one subject each isn't that far-fetched!
Shindo?
Hello? Hey, what's up? Haven't seen you since the tournament.
Yeah--hell of a game.
I said I'd have my payback in high school,
but now I'm worried you won't make it there.
Still condescending as ever.
So listen...
Right now the entire accelerated A Class is in a conference room
for an independent study session.
Their leaders are the pride of Kunugigaoka,
geniuses known as the Big Five.
"Introducing the Big Five of the Accelerated A Class"
Coming in at second place on midterms!
The socially aware mass-media hopeful who crushes the competition:
"Teppei Araki" "Media Club President"
Media Club president Teppei Araki!
And in third place:
dominator of competitions in the humanities, the perspicacious poet
"Student Council Secretary" "Perspicacious Poet" and student council secretary Ren Sakakibara!
In fifth place:
the memorization monster burning with a grudge against Akabane,
"Biology Club President" "Memorization Monster" Biology Club president Natsuhiko Koyama!
And in sixth place:
the man whose sharp tongue and LA-honed language skills
are light-years beyond the rest,
"Student Council Meeting Leader" "LA Language"
meeting leader Tomoya Seo!
I-Is that you doing these introductions?
Yeah, uh...
I've always wanted to try my hand at announcing.
And reigning over all these from the very top...
We are the sun,
shining on all at the famed Kunugigaoka Junior High.
But now dark and threatening clouds are forming,
trying to cover up and steal away our brilliance.
They say the E Class was aiming to get in the top fifty on the midterms.
If so, we must monopolize the top spots,
and drive out the gathering clouds.
Let us correct their insolent ideas, and protect the light of our school--
by our own hand!
...in first place, coming in first on the national mock exams
and with perfect scores in all subjects,
the man with leadership in his genes:
"Student Council President" "Genetic General" student council president Gakushu Asano!
The principal's only son!
About question number 3, Asano...
Oh, that's a hard one. Try again, but complete the square first.
The axis equation is x equals a, so...
Oh, I see!
They've got high hopes and top scores!
The combined charisma of the proud A Class go-getters,
along with their leadership qualities...
How much better to travel a mile with you
than to travel a thousand miles in a day!
Come, let us study until your very vessels are filled with lovely words.
Back in LA, where I lived, that grammar'd make you a laughingstock!
What counts is the size of the change that event brought about.
If you can't see that, you'll wind up on the outskirts of society.
Jam 'em in there! Do it!
In junior high and high school chemistry, memorization does the trick!
Asano with perfect scores in every subject
and the others with their specializations
make up the Big Five.
They're looking to keep you from returning to the main campus.
If this keeps up...
Thanks for looking out for us, Shindo.
But it's all right. Right now our goal isn't to get out of the E Class.
Still, to meet the goal we do have, we will need to beat the A Class on points.
Watch us, okay? We'll put up a real fight!
Knock yourself out. The E Class's fight isn't my problem.
"Old Campus"
First in every subject, huh?
Nagisa! Kayano!
Isogai?
Want to study in the main-campus library after class tomorrow?
I reserved it way in advance with finals in mind.
They always shunt the E Class aside till later,
so this is practically a platinum ticket for us!
Let's do it!
I'm in!
"Pop Ocks"
So earnest!
It seems it was worth putting my tentacles on the line.
Sir,
I have begun raising the standards for the A Class's scores,
just as you had intended.
Are you satisfied?
Asano, what we need are results.
Reporting without results is meaningless.
I know: If the A Class occupies the top fifty ranks
and the top spot in all five subjects,
they will pass.
The E Class cannot do better than any other class.
I understand this principle of yours,
but not why you're so insistent upon it.
Yes, their grades are improving.
But they can only go so far.
I sincerely doubt they can be any match for us.
That's exactly what I want to teach you, Asano.
Sometimes the strong and weak can switch sides, just like that.
But staying in the strong camp...
That is the hardest thing to do.
Understood, sir. I shall see to it that your conditions are fulfilled.
And... may I ask you something, sir?
Not as a student, but as your son?
What's this? Looking to lean on your father?
No, no--I'm just curious.
About the E Class...
Are you hiding something?
I just can't shake my suspicions.
You've had many more dealings with the E Class this school year.
As hard as it is to believe...
you're not involved in anything but education, right? Nothing sketchy?
There've been rumors of a suspicious person.
People seeing a giant yellow octopus flying through the sky,
or a black-cloaked man buying up all the snacks at the corner store,
or a mysterious voice snickering behind a well-endowed coed.
I'm sure these are baseless rumors, totally without merit, but...
Why do you want to know? So you can use that information to control me?
Of course! After all, you're the one who taught me to control everything.
Spoken like the student I've taught the longest.
I'll put a collar on you and own you for life.
What a coincidence!
I was just thinking of keeping you as a corporate slave until the day you die.
Well, if it isn't the E Class crew!
This library is wasted on the likes of you.
Pearls before swine, am I right?
Don't tell me...
...the Big Five?
Move it, scrubs. Those are our seats. Get lost!
Hey! Don't interrupt our studying!
Kayano... your book.
These seats are ours! We reserved them!
Yeah! And being able to study in air conditioning like this
is simply heavenly!
Have you forgotten? The bad-grade E Class can't defy the A Class--
not at this school.
W-We can, too!
What?
We're aiming for the top finals scores in every subject!
Let's see you try to boss us around then!
Okuda...
Don't talk back to me, you cheeky bitch!
And those glasses make you look like a hick!
Right, Araki?
Oh, uh-huh.
In all your criticism, you've overlooked something.
See? Here we have a pearl among the swine.
What a pity. You and I would make a magnificent pair...
if you only had the academic chops.
Perhaps you could be our servant.
Uh, er... no.
She has the worst luck in men.
Hang on...
Aren't these the same ones from midterms?
--Yukiko Kanzaki, ranked 23rd in Japanese. --We have an opening for a maid.
--Rio Nakamura, ranked 11th in English. --But...
--Yuma Isogai, ranked 14th in social studies. --Hey! Cut it out already!
Manami Okuda, ranked 17th in science...
I get it. So you're not entirely without academic skill--
in one subject, anyway.
Then how about this?
Whichever of our two classes
snags the most top spots over all five subjects
gets to make the loser do anything they want.
What's wrong? Chicken? You're all bark and no bite!
We're perfectly willing to put our lives on the line.
You probably shouldn't be so quick to bet your lives.
All right, then! We have ourselves a deal!
We'll make you do something worse than death!
You can't run!
You'll regret this!
"Quiet, Please"
Word of this commotion spread throughout the school before long.
S-Sorry, Asano...
I thought it was just a dumb bet,
but those smartasses had to go and take us up on it.
It's not all bad. Maybe this way we can turn up the heat on the A Class.
But let's clarify the rules so we won't have any trouble later:
The winner can hand down only one command,
the details of which will be announced after finals.
Only one? That doesn't seem like enough.
So what's ours going to be?
To consent to this agreement. Only that.
Fifty clauses of the E Class pledging subordination to the A Class.
In return, the A Class will lead the E Class as model students.
It's a status of forces agreement--a win-win.
One command encompassing fifty line items of codified servitude?
And that's a win-win, is it?
Did you just now come up with all this?
You're one scary guy.
Scary? Perish the thought.
This is just a little game among autonomous students.
I've got a good grasp of civil law.
I could whip up a contract that would break a man.
What I'm trying to convey here, my fellow students,
is that if we play this game, we play for keeps.
We must meet any and all opponents head-on and in all seriousness!
That is the duty of the A Class that illuminates all!
He knows just what to say to rally the troops.
We all know that, but we jump at the chance to tag along after him,
believing in the victory beyond his hypocrisy.
He's the absolute ace of the A-for-Ace Class, Gakushu Asano.
There's not a student here who can surpass him.
Come on, Karma--shape up and study right!
You know you have a good chance of getting the overall best score!
I would anyway. Your teaching methods are top-notch.
"In-Depth Reading" "For Finals" "Slay 'Em!" "Special Enhanced Lesson"
But you know, Koro Sensei...
the way you've been going on about top this, top that--
you're sounding like a regular teacher: crappy and boring.
Anyway, what's the plan?
You know those A Class goons have something up their sleeve.
Don't sweat it, Karma. What more does the E Class even have to lose?
If we win, we can make them do anything!
I'd like them to let us use the cafeteria!
I have an idea about that.
What if we make them hand this over?
The school pamphlet?
You've already been at the bottom of the heap.
That's why I'd like you to experience a lively battle for the top.
An assassin must aim for the top--and take it down.
Asano's whipped up a confrontational frenzy against the E Class.
We can only use it to improve the standard deviation at our school.
Don't worry!
Even the A Class will have the devil's own time finding the answer
to these concentrated nuggets of knowledge!
These are no longer mere exam problems!
Oh, no: why, these have become...
conundrums!
Very good. I look forward to seeing how it all turns out.
Hidden among all these radical provisions is one nondescript item:
The E Class is forbidden from keeping secrets.
This is what I'm really after.
Whatever the E Class's big secret is that you're trying to conceal,
I can use this to shake them up, and then...
Then I'll have found your weakness, and you'll in be my thrall.
After all, Father... the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
"Finals Day"
Well, Nagisa?
You ready for this?
If what I studied is on there.
Stand up straight and be a man!
You're aiming for the top in English!
This'll be rich!
So you made a reckless bet with the A Class, eh?
Wonder what they'll make you do?
--Well! Looks like we're the first ones here! --Tanaka!
Who's that?!
Ritsu's proxy.
We couldn't get the principal to allow an AI to take part,
so we settled on a stand-in, someone Ritsu had taught.
Do you have any idea what it feels like
to have the principal give you a pity-filled
you've-sure-got-it-rough look during those negotiations?
We're not worthy!
Ritsu has a message for you, and so do I:
Good luck.
Yes, sir!
I won't lose. I'll keep on beating them all.
These are exams each of us takes separately,
yet we still feel like we're in the same boat with all these others.
Those we fight beside,
those we fight against,
the cheers and jeers from the onlookers.
This is almost like...
We are assassins.
And right now we're gladiators, too.
Another day...
...another fight bell rings!
The sun shines, leaving a red afterimage
On the backs of closed eyelids
With notebook and pen in my leather bag
C'mon, let's go walking
I draw and I draw
But they don't get any neater
There's nothing wrong with the paint I've chosen
I still remember the shooting star
I saw last night--I was waiting for...
Hello, shooting star
Hello, shooting star again
She's been waiting
That dreaming girl has been here
All this time, ah ah
Just like she was that day, ah ah
Shine again