Midterms, Midterms, Midterms. Tests are hell no matter where you go to school, what your ranking is or who your teacher is. It’s really hard when the entire school system is stacked against you, you’re in a remote campus way up in the middle of nowhere and you’re constantly trying to murder your teacher. Speaking of the odds being stacked against them, let’s check out the Principal of this fine place of education.
Well he just looks like a giant bag of d*cks. No, seriously, I paused the episode right here and those were the first words out of my mouth. I don’t think I saw him for more than five seconds before coming to this conclusion and OH look, who was right? I was right. He tells Koro-sensei to keep his school the way he wants it with the numbers he wants it to have, the E class needs to stay the way that it is now.
On the bottom, being feared by the other students who work harder just to not end up there. So instead of having 20% hard working students, 20% lazy students and 60% average students. He ends up with 5% in the E class and 95% working hard and makes himself look good on paper.
Jerkoff….
So anyway, Koro-sensei won’t stand for this. Koro-sensei will see his students succeed because Koro-sensei is best sensei. In this episode, we see him make various doubles of himself so he can tutor everyone individually in their weakest subjects. Math, Science, Languages, Naruto….wait a second….
WHY IS HE WEARING A NARUTO HEADBAND? WHAT SUBJECT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE? NINJA TRAINING?!? Or maybe how to make ramen, because naruto tastes really good in ramen. [running through a clip of the clones in slow-motion shows Ichigo, the guy from Toriko, Neuro.]
So he tells the students this, he wants them to all be in the top 50 on the Midterms or he’s leaving the E class. Well um, that’s a problem. His desire to teach this class is the only thing keeping him to a place where the defense force can keep an eye on him. There is this huge dramatic moment where he gets mad at them for their lack of confidence and tells them that they can’t focus on their assassinations alone. That someone with only one blade isn’t a proper assassin.
It’s all rather sweet in a he creates a giant scary tornado and fixes up the entire track and soccer field just because he’s angry kind of way.
So the students go down to the main school buildings for their midterms and it’s actually animated in a really cool way. Each test question taking on the shape of a different monster for them to beat. Koro-sensei talks down the questions and makes them things that are manageable like a fish. Then comes question 11, monstrous number 11.
It seems like the principal the giant A$$hole he is changed out a bunch of the questions right before the exam. He told everyone at the MAIN campus about it. There just must of been some kind of communication issue between the main campus and the E class.
As we cut to Koro-sensei looking down, dejected and sad that his students hadn’t made it. That he would have to leave the E class. He’s so down in fact that Karma smacks him in the back of the head with a knife. A non-fatal blow, but still. Karma walks up and shows him that he did in fact get all good grades despite the changes. Koro-sensei had taught him ahead because he was already so good at it.
He could go back to the main campus if he wanted too but he opts to stay because assassination is more fun than going back to his old class. They all begin teasing Koro-sensei that he was only trying to escape because he was scared of them killing him.
This episode was great and once again you get a view of how messed up this school system is and how much of a @$$ the principal is. I have a lot of other choice words I could call him but i’ll opt out of it. Koro-sensei, you keep teaching these kids to be the best and then when finals come around. They’ll show the school system that you should never underestimate people.
Also, the principal said something interesting about Koro going from being the world’s savior to it’s destroyer. I wonder what that meant, that’s a plot point I can get behind.
Go E class, row row, fight the power!
~Midnight
That was fast. Did not expect an episode 6 post so soon after episodes 4 and 5. And btw, it’s episode 6, not 7.
The naruto joke was explained in the manga…It’s because the bully guy is just like Naruto was in the beginning of his own story, really bad at all school subjects.
You’ll see more of the principal and the unfairness of the school. Beyond all the tentacles and jokes, this is just a show about Japanese society, which is exactly why the manga is so popular in the first place. Sure, an exaggerated image of said society, but still something most japanese can relate too (and some westerners too).
-shifts eyes and kicks the 7 away and writes in 6 with a black marker- you saw nothing….. but seriously though, thanks for the explanation of the Naruto joke. Without an explanation panel it kinda flew above my head.