#korosuu

[fumiko-matsubara]

What actually happened in korosuu chapter 2 y'all trust me 🤞🏼

[nagisasstunningpersonality]

Comprehensive Guide For Assassination Classroom Content

Because it's pretty hard to find a straight up list of it all. Please note that whilst I believe this is accurate, I was not involved in the fandom whilst the series was active and so could reasonably miss something.

Core Content

Assassination Classroom manga as serialised in Shounen Jump. If you buy the physical volumes, there's a bit of additional content between chapters, most notably introductory character profiles.

Assassination Classroom anime (some count seasons 1 and 2 as separate entities)

Assassination Classroom Meeting Time - an animated short featuring Korosensei and Karasuma's first meeting.

Assassination Classroom Extra Curricular Lessons - adaptations of a couple of manga chapters that weren't in the show itself. I'll just link a playlist here. Fun fact this is where Nagisa gets hit by a chair (lowkey he deserved it)

Additional Content

365 Days Movie. This isn't 'canon' as it's an anime original thing. There's no official English release that I know of. Honestly the movie is mostly a series recap, and only features Karma and Nagisa in new scenes. It's only really worth watching if you especially ship them as there's only maybe 10 minutes of actual content (and most of that is just montage, you can get the gist with this)

Roll Call Book - this was published mid manga run. It's mostly just a bunch of bonus content particularly character based. No official English translation exists, but snippets are easy enough to find online.

Graduation Album - as the name implies, it accompanies the end of the manga. About half of it is an art book, but there's extra character information especially about their post graduation lives. Crucially it includes a few manga shorts which extend past the actual canon ending.

Korotan A, B, C, and D plus Korosuu. They're mostly just Assassination Classroom themed text books (Seriously. My actual university book store sold them.) Korotans are for English vocabulary, Korosuu is for maths. Notably each book also contains a light novel (sometimes these are just referred to as 'the light novels'). It is debatable how canon these are as Matsui didn't write them, but he was involved through illustrating and overseeing the writing. Korotan D is especially debated because it's post canon content set when 3E are 18, but there's a small 'it was all a dream' implication right at the end of the book. Personally speaking I take them as full canon.

Official Spin Offs

The live action movies (part one and two). They change a lot of plot so I place them more in the spin off area. Easily skippable.

Korosensei Quest Manga (otherwise known as Koro Q) - a spin off gag manga set in a fantasy/video game inspired universe. This is not canon (unfortunately) and as far as I understand Matsui isn't involved in it. There's an implication of the idea it's Fuwa's own manga creation. Overall there are four volumes but there's no official English version (though fan scans aren't hard to find).

Korosensei Quest Anime - lightly based on the Koro Q manga. This is only a short 10 episode series though, and was complete long before the original, as such only the first few episodes are actual adaptations and it starts doing its own thing. All voice cast return so that's neat.

The OVA - basically an early adaptation of the Kyoto arc. Link here. It was released in 2013 so predates the actual anime, and a lot of the voice cast are different.

White day shorts featuring Karma, Maehara, and Nagisa - posted on official website as an otome game parody for promotion. Included because they're voice acted.

The 3DS games. They're region locked as far as I understand, and there's no translation of them. You can find it dumped if you know what you're doing with emulators, I've only played a few minutes of it myself.

The app game - no longer available. It was a gatcha tie in game featuring a variety of character illustrations.

Various merch lines and related illustrations. There are far too many to list and new ones still come out sometimes.

As I said, I hope I covered everything but there's a good possibility something slipped my mind.

[zanadux]

Assassination Classroom 10th year anniversary, some thoughts and speculation.

This post is not official info (as there isn't any more at the moment), this is just my thoughts + speculation. If anyone wants to speculate or theorize, now it's the time. For those who are wondering "Will X (my favourite character) show up?" the answer is yes. AssClass has never really "excluded" characters in any of their media. Sure, some have far more prominence (Nagisa, Karma, Kayano) than others, but that's just obvious given that they are the protagonist/narrator + the two deuteragonists. Your favourite character will certainly show up at some point. If the question is instead "Will X (my favorite character) be relevant?" then, the answer is very dependent on which character you're referring to. Karma, Nagisa, Kayano, Irina, Karasuma and of course, Korosensei (unless it's a time skip, then no Korosensei sans flashbacks) have a very high chance of being featured due to being crucial to large parts of the plot and overall (except Kayano, who while not unpopular and well liked, is nowhere near the other 5 in terms of popularity), are very popular characters and thus the audience really wants to see them. For the rest of the cast, it really depends on a lot of factors. Even back in merch runs and non-manga events during AssClass run (like the gacha game, light novels, etc.), characters that had popular ships or were part of one, such as Okuda or Hayami and Chiba, featured from time to time more prominently than their roles in-series would suggest. Both snipers got main roles in the Korosuu novel, and you're bound to see Okuda being relevant or mentioned in anything that features Karma post/non manga. The only exceptions to the norm were Isogai and Gakushuu , who have been featured in merch and were also relevant in the Korotan light-novels, being main characters in their respective ones, and Kurahashi, who popped up in some events (gacha game, novels, etc.) from time to time due to being an individually popular character during the early-middle run of the manga. The rest don't really feature much and it would be surprising if they did much. It's kind of inevitable, given that the series has 31 regular characters in its cast.

[lindygale]

Idk if this is just a gag, but there’s no way that these two - Chiba and Hayami - would be the type to reply to a text message one day later. Sure, they can be the sort who don’t use their phones for socializing and entertainment, but that that doesn’t mean that they would be negligent when it comes to receiving messages especially if it could be important. 

First of all, Chiba and Hayami are actually conscious of what other people think. They let others in their previous class to push them over to do homework and other tasks for them. Also, Chiba grew out his bangs just to hide his eyes that make other people uncomfortable. That means that they wouldn’t be too crude so as  to not reply quickly to anyone’s message particularly if it’s from their classmate or their PARTNER. 

I would understand if this is just part of a gag although, for me, it’s a poor set-up for this Korosuu comics. A different argument could’ve been used to counter Maehara’s assumption of them dating, while still retaining the comedic aspect of the story. 

[blazardragon]

The Mini-Comic at the End of Korosuu

I didn’t have enough time to start translating Korosuu over Winter Break, but I do have the book now, and I figured I’d at least translate the mini-comic on the back!

Please note that since this is a book for teaching English, you’re meant to read the pages from left to right, even though this is a manga! The reason is that Korosuu is related to the Korotan series of books, which were made to teach the reader English. Korosuu itself is meant to teach Mathematics, though.

Also, since the text may difficult to see depending on where you’re viewing this, I have the translation typed out below:

Page 1:

Korosensei: Congratulations on making it through the test!

Korosensei: Through Chiba-kun’s and Hayami-san’s sniping… do you now understand the value of mathematical and logical thinking??

[The label on Korosensei’s apple: Gravitational attraction]

Maehara: Speaking of logical thinking…

Hayami: This gives you a wider range of vision than a normal scope.

Chiba: Really? Show me.

Maehara:  Those two…

Maehara: Are definitely fishy!

Chiba: Woah~

Hayami: Right?

Megu: Again with your trashy suspicions

Maehara: But it’s true!!

Maehara: One - They’re always together at school!!

Page 2:

Maehara: Two – They do special firearms training together – just the two of them!!

Maehara: Three – No matter what they do, they have some kind of telepathy between them!!

Hayami: Rice.

Chiba: OK.

Hayami: Yum

Hayami: Side dish.

Chiba: OK.

Hayami: Yum.

Maehara: Four – If one is lacking in any way, the other makes up for it!  When a boy and a girl satisfy these conditions, they will…

Hayami: Teach me.

Chiba: Me, too.

[Label on Hayami’s book: Mathematics]

[Label on Chiba’s book: Contemporary Writings]

Ritsu: Counterpoints:

Ritsu: One – Their way to school is completely different.

Ritsu: Two – Their talks on the phone are almost always about assassination or studying.

Ritsu: Three – Their response time to each other’s text messages is one day later.

Ritsu: Four – There are no measurable changes in their heartbeat and body temperature when they are alone together.

Maehara: I don’t get it… the answer between boys and girls can’t be solved with logic.

Chiba: See you tomorrow.

Hayami: Yeah.

 ----

I like how Hayami is asking Chiba to teach her Math, which is Chiba’s favorite subject, and how Chiba is asking her to teach him Contemporary Writing, which is Hayami’s favorite subject ^__^

All I can say when I see the top-right panel on the second page is “Why?”. I need context for why they are doing this.

I’d hate to have a crush on anyone with Ritsu around… The ability to read body temperature is too OP. At least she’d probably keep it to herself.

[fumiko-matsubara]

Speaking of Hinatsu,

Here's a picture from last year of the very first time I drew her and decided on her colour palette 🧡💜

[fumiko-matsubara]

ok this is gonna sound crazy but do you have the panel/chapter/anything of hinatsu kaiga because me and my friends are going insane over who she is right now and im getting desperate... :(

Uhh...

She appreared in chapter 2 of the Korosuu novel, which makes her canon since the novel took place in between canon events of the main series.

She had speaking lines, mentioned a couple times, and you could see her in the background with Maehara in the official art.

...she didn't have a name though. She's a background character 😩 I gave her a name (Hinatsu Kaiga) because I was invested at the idea of her possibly knowing Kanzaki 👀

Especially since I remembered this bit!

That last summer in Tokyo, she apparently always goes out with a woman that Ryuki (the high school delinquent) knew.

Hinatsu lives in Shibuya, got Maehara to take her out on a date at a game center/arcade, and expressed disappointment when Kanzaki had to turn down her invitation to play games together at her home building (to a point that she was still looking at her while walking away).

At that realization, my brain was telling me nothing else but "That HAS to be her, right? Hinatsu has got to be the woman that Kanzaki always goes out with all throughout summer last year, RIGHT??"

Kanzaki has most definitely had gone to Shibuya during her rebellion because she is not stupid enough to let loose at an arcade in Kunugigaoka town where people there could put two and two together if they saw her, when her main point was to completely get away from a tightly controlled life forced onto her.

Hinatsu's from a yakuza family. Her father was the boss who was recently assassinated by the hired sniper assassin who later made an appearance in the novel (and by 'recently assassinated', the novel pertains to the previous year). Hinatsu might have gone astray in the midst of her grief within that period, and likely had met a lot of people along the way, good and bad.

Maybe that's how she met Kanzaki. Maybe that's how she knew Ryuki.

Anyways, I'm very invested in the idea of two girls finding each other during the lowest points of their lives 🩷🧡

[fumiko-matsubara]

"In every timeline, in every possibility..." ー 🧡🩷

"...my heart will always find its way to you."

[zanadux]

Assassination Classroom 10th year anniversary, current info + some thoughts.

The FujiAni 2025 broadcast is/was to be reuploaded to FujiAni's Youtube channel today. Assassination Classroom was the second to last series to be announced on-stage (the last one was the preview to the remake of Rose of Versailles). Fukujama Jun (Korosensei's VA) and a man in-character as Korosensei's represented the series. They thanked the audience (past and present) for these 10 years, stated (on-stage and on X) that the cast that worked in the anime is rather tight-knit, some of them reunite from time to time to reminisce about the series and asked the audience to look forward to updates about the 10th year anniversary project. The project has a foreword from Matsui. WSJ, Shueisha, FujiAni and Matsui are in the project. Many past VA's that worked in the anime (Karma, Nagisa, Kayano, Fuwa, Ritsu and Megu's, to name a few) have publicly expressed their delight with the project. As of December 11th in Japan, no new info has been released. The closest event in part 1 of the project is the reopening of the Korosensei shrine in Odaiba, at FujiTV's HQ, which opens in December 28th for a limited time. The anime (the full 2 seasons) starts rebroadcasting in April 2025, and will last for all of 2025. The project is meant to be a long one. The old Assassination Classroom official anime website, last updated in 2017, has been archived, and FujiAni has made a brand new website, where updates and information are posted (in Japanese). The X account for the series, which remained active long after the last piece of media from the series (Korosuu) was released in 2016, is actively posting information as well, although, all social media and websites of the series posts the same information. Reception in Japan has been great. The series is well liked, and Matsui is a popular mangaka, as his 3 series (Neuro, AssClass and Elusive Samurai) so far have been hits, so his track record is good. As to what parts 2 and 3 of the project might be, nobody knows, and there's no real way of knowing. Some things are more far likely (a stageplay, some light novel format-type work) than others (anime or an OVA), and all are dependent on how long the project intends to run. All parties seem very invested in it.

[fumiko-matsubara]

Hi hi out of curiosity who exactly is puey? I’d never heard of him before seeing your art despite engaging with a ton of assclass content over the years and I think (?) he’s not an oc based off some of the panels you’ve posted. Am I just like. Forgetting his existence or smth? Sorry if this is a weird question shdhdhhdhd

So AssClass has this series of school textbooks called Korotan and like you'd expect from textbooks, they're meant for educational purposes and in this case, it is to teach English.

There are four Korotan books (from A to D) and each book contains a spin-off novel set in between canon events. Each novel always had something to do with learning the English language or simply becoming more proficient at it. The novels weren't written by Matsui but he did give them the green light and even drew the accompanying illustrations himself.

Puey is from the Korotan B novel, which took place just after Leader time and before the parkour incident. He's a young southeast asian assassin who was sent to kill Koro-sensei, and temporarily became a 3-E student when he failed his first attempt. His story is all about learning to communicate better with others, trusting his companions and combining strengths with everyone when he finds himself struggling. Isogai and Chiba practically adopted him lol.

And speaking of those two, there was a moment in korotan B that severely convinced me that Chiba had a crush on Isogai.

He's very much a canon character since he came and went, that his story didn't leave any weird shifts in the actual pacing of the series.

Puey... had a lot of racist undertones in the way he was portrayed in the original korotan b novel, even if you add the headcanon that he's part of a tribe.

And as a southeast asian myself, I simply went crazy with the headcanons and the pinoy-coding just to be comfortable in making fan content of him, since it's not everyday you'd find a SEA character in the series you adore.

Aside from the Korotan books, there's also the Korosuu, which is the sole math textbook. Same format and everything.

Scroll down to the bottom of this masterlist I made a while back to see all the translated novels if you're curious 💕

[fumiko-matsubara]

I liked to think that Kanzaki and the yakuza daughter from Korosuu chapter 2 already knew each other.

They probably met when Kanzaki was at her peak rebellious phase since she definitely had gone for arcades outside Kunugigaoka.

(I'm naming her Hinatsu btw.)

Hinatsu looked really disappointed when Kanzaki turned down her offer to play arcade games at her place, even though there was Maehara who she literally just spent the whole day with on an arcade date 😭

Also the fact that she first mentioned that she has her own DDR machine at home? Kanzaki really loves her DDR games - like girl was killing it WHILE WEARING HEELS.

...Yes, they are arcade besties 🙂💕

[fumiko-matsubara]

Basically what happened in Korosuu 😭

[nagisasstunningpersonality]

Korosuu Translation - Chapter Five

More parts here

Shopping District Time

At any rate, why the shopping district? It wasn’t a bad place to target Korosensei. Korosensei’s five senses were all terrifyingly sharp, but his sense of sight and smell were especially outstanding. Inside, his sense of sight was largely obscured thanks to the crowds of people, and with regards to his sense of smell, he would likely be dazzled by the scent of food that flooded the shopping district in the evening.

There were many obstacles in the narrow shopping arcade, so it was the ideal environment to make use of ricochets.

When they rushed out of breath into the shopping district, they saw an unusually large crowd. Many vans with food stalls were parked in the already narrow pedestrian zone, and the scent of crepes and coffee filled the air.

“Hey, what’s that strong smell?” Hayami muttered like a groan whilst pinching her nose. An intense stench was wafting from somewhere.

“Pork belly ramen. It’s said the authentic ones are simmered, so it can be tough if you don’t get used to it.” Chiba answered with a frown. “I guess there’s a stall somewhere. It’s the first time I’ve smelled something like this in the shopping street.”

Chiba surveyed their surroundings. And, at the same time, he heard a familiar voice.

“Oh, how exciting!”

Hearing that slimy mucus-filed voice, the two reflexively hid themselves in a nearby alleyway.

Just a few metres away, Korosensei was standing in disguise. The product exhibition was booming, and a small line near the entrance was being formed. Korosensei was lined up at the very back.

“Certainly, I never thought I’d be able to enjoy these manju buns right here in Kunugigaoka. They’re good no matter how many I eat!” There was a two metre radius left around the suspicious person who stood two heads taller than the other customers and didn’t even attempt to hide the grin on his face as he narrated to himself. “…I’m grateful for the pork belly ramen. They definitely would have found me without that stench.”

The two students quickly left their hiding place and started to walk down the street pretending to be shopping.

So that they could assassinate Korosensei anywhere, the students of 3E had secretly researched the areas surrounding the school. The shops are naturally also one of them, and so checks of buildings that have been vacant for a long time and general floor plans had been converted digitally with the help of Ritsu.

Chiba and Hayami pulled up the blueprints on his smartphone and compared it with their surroundings. They’d kept the data up to date, but it wasn’t perfect. Since the events within the shopping district change day by day, in such cases, they were unable to do an advance check.

“Hey, where’s that sniper? He’s already lurking somewhere.”

“Probably. Karasuma Sensei said that, so I’m sure the preparations are already complete. But, maybe it’s still okay.”

Hayami tilted her head at Chiba’s words. “How come?”

“If you’re aiming at Korosensei, the best time is right now he’s standing in line, right? Yet, nothing has happened yet.”

“I see.”

“Is this a place even the legendary sniper can’t aim at, or maybe there’s some other reason…? Either way, we still need time to prepare. Let’s hurry.”

Right then, Chiba noticed the wall of the old wooden building slightly ahead of them had a dreamy sheen.

“What’s this?”

When he tried touching it, the surface was hard and flat. It seemed like an acrylic board, but rather than affixing something like that, it stuck firmly to the wall more like it was smeared with some sort of liquid substance that solidified. They found these walls all around the building. This kind of measure had been routinely applied to the uneven walls and areas that seemed weak.

“Come to think of it, there are less billboards, right?” Hayami murmured whilst comparing the phone with their surroundings.

Many of the billboards and small decorations attached to the walls and streetlamps were missing from the area. There were not even screw holes left from where the billboard was originally attached, and it looked like the surface had been smoothed and repainted.

“It looks like they’re trying to make the wall as flat as possible. They’re certainly here, close by.”

That evidence was concentrated in the centre of the arcade street. In other words, the legendary sniper had chosen the place for his assassination.

“If that’s the case, it’s definitely difficult to aim for Korosensei in his current position. The Korosensei BB bullets are light, so they won’t reach very far.”

The line for the exhibition was more than 30 metres away from the ricochet location. It would be sufficient if shooting normally, but it was better to think of the distance as being more than double that if you wanted a ricochet shot to reach it.

[illustration] Kunugigaoka shopping street in the evening. Even though it’s a weekday, there are many people and many stalls are open.

“But with such meticulous preparation, why would they choose a place where Korosensei’s so far away?”

Chiba replied after thinking for a moment. “They didn’t expect the monster who exploded the moon into a cresent to be waiting in line at an exhibition?” After he said it, Chiba’s mind turned back to what Karasuma had said during the lunch break. “Is it highly unlikely that someone who doesn’t know Korosensei well enough would be able to assassinate him?”

Hayami nodded. “Right.”

Not long after, the two of them took up their positions on the second floor of the ruined dining hall. The building was facing across from where the legendary sniper had chosen for their assassination. Korosensei couldn’t be shot from there as he lined up for the exhibition. They could see him, but it was too far away.

Despite that, the two of them chose that place because there was no building that could be used for sniping within range of Korosensei, and they based it on their judgment that the place set up for ricocheting was more reliable. It still wasn’t an easy task to fire bullets as they desired downtown. Unlike in the classroom, there were an overwhelming amount of walls that would cause the bullet to bounce against their calculations in the wind.  The legendary sniper who had many successes in these conditions was certainly not a normal person.

As soon as Chiba entered the room facing the street, he spread his graph paper out on the table and made a sketch using his drafting tools. It was supposed to be a very precise drawing, but Chiba finished it in a few minutes, including the mirrored copy.

[Illustration] The store across from the abandoned dining hall where Chiba and Hayami are. There are several walls with different depths like this in the store. In reality, it’s necessary to use an elevated floorplan which actually fits the depths of the walls.

[Ground view] A view of the building from above. Multiple lines indicate the depth of each wall. Although it is actually more detailed, irregularities such as window frames are ignored.

[Elevated view] A view of the building from the side. Similar to the floor plan, multiple lines are drawn according to the depth of the wall.

In the meantime, Hayami got the air rifle she’d brought into position, and installed the rangefinder to measure the position of the target.

[Illustration] Using the floor plan of the building and actually aiming. In this way, the position of the limit of the reflection changes depending on which wall is used, so it is necessary to draw multiple target positions.

“What about Korosensei?”

Hayami, who was peering into the rangefinder, looked back at Chiba who had finished drawing. “Right now, he’s coming out of the exhibition. But it doesn’t look like he’s coming straight this way.”

When Chiba took the place of Hayami and looked into the scope, Korosensei was staggering down the street, and he couldn’t determine his direction.

“Nyuyaa… I want to eat that, and that too, but there’s not enough in my wallet… I have to choose carefully… No, but I can’t leave it out…”

Apparently the smells coming from the food stalls lining the street had drawn him in, and he’d lost control of his direction.

“The legendary sniper must be pretty irritated,” Chiba muttered with a wry smile.

Bang.

Sensing a strong impact nearby, Chiba jumped up.

“What?” Hayami, who was away from the window, called out.

“There was a shot… I think.”

At Chiba’s words, Hayami handed over a small mirror meant for makeup. Chiba took it and looked out of the window whilst hiding his body. He could see a thin layer of smoke around the window frame. It was probably a live bullet that was shot.

 At the same time, Chiba’s phone started to vibrate. The display showed ‘withheld number incoming’.

When he answered, a monotonous voice reverberated. “I told the person in charge that I should not be disturbed. Didn’t he tell you?”

Chiba pulled the phone away from his ear and turned the speaker on.

Hayami signalled a nod.

“I had no intention of interfering with you at all, so it’s no problem for you to shoot first. However, it’s normal for us in class 3E to aim whenever there’s a chance.”

“Okay.” There was a clear hint of frustration in his voice when he answered. “Get out of there and go straight home. You students are just a hinderance. Harming children isn’t a hobby, but excuse the warning if you stay here."

The call hung up.

[fumiko-matsubara]

Hinatsu doodle 💕