Shit hit the fan, fast. This show took a turn for the serious for all of the episode, with a side of Koro-sensei we haven’t seen. He was furious, and was actually close to death. Assassination Classroom has always been a chill show for me, it’s always been funny and entertaining, but in the back of my mind I was always wondering what kind of direction this show would take. Especially regarding just who Koro-sensei is. We didn’t really get that information this episode, but at least they teased at it.
The episode starts out with Karasuma getting an email about the new transfer student arriving. Ritsu tells the class a little about the student, while a man in white, covered head to toe, barges into the class and terrifies everyone, including Koro-sensei. He’s pretty intimidating looking, but he poses no harm. He’s there to introduce the new student, since he has a strange personality. Well, not too long after, the back of the classroom walls gets busted, and a white haired boy comes in and sits in an empty desk. His name is Itano Horibe, aka Killua Zoldyck because let’s be honest here he looks practically identical to him. Coincidence that they’re both assassins too. Ah…anyway, Itano makes quite an impression on everyone, noting Karma the strongest in the class, but not wanting to kill him. Itano goes up to Koro-sensei and says they’re brothers, which shocks EVERYONE. Um…okay? Brothers? They look nothing alike, but it doesn’t look like the kid’s joking. They’re brothers (insert DBZ reference). Itano says he’ll prove they’re brothers after school, in a fight. The rest of the day, the class finds similarities between the two, such as their sweet tooth and love for reading dirty magazines.
The man in white also assures Irina and Karasuma that they are indeed brothers, and they’ll see soon enough. After school, the class arranges their desks in the form of a ring. Rules of the fight are that 1. they have to stay inside the ring and, 2. no harming the others. The fight begins, and in a second, one of Koro-sensei’s tentacles gets sliced off.
HOLY CRAP. HIS HAIR HAS TENTACLES. Well that’s certainly enough proof that they must have a connection somehow.
Koro-sensei immediately asks where he got those tentacles, and we get those same flashbacks with that woman. The man in white says they’ll answer his questions if he wins. And so they fight. They know all of Koro-sensei’s weaknesses, and for pretty much most of the fight Itona has the upper hand. Though the man in white helped a little bit, and I thought that was cheating since he’s not part of the fight? So Itona is beating him up and slicing him up, making sensei regenerate and shed his skin, which takes a lot of stamina out of him. In the course of the fight he got tired, so he was getting slower and making it easier for Itona to land blows on him. But Koro-sensei thinks quickly, and using his speed grabs the students’ knives and makes Itona’s tentacles touch them, which makes his fall out. They have the same tentacles, so the anti-Koro weapons should affect him too. Wrapping him up in his shed skin (ew), he tosses him out of the class, winning the fight. Itona loses his cool and grows black tentacles, about to attack again when the man in white shoots him down and carries him off. Not ready to be in class, he takes him away but assures he’ll be back again.
Koro-sensei never gets to talk with them, and so he’s left disappointed. But also embarrassed of not keeping his comic-relief character in tact. The students asks what’s up, they wanna know things too. Koro-sensei tells them, he’s an artificial being. To which, duh, since he’s not an alien, they already guessed he was an artificial being because that’s the next plausible thing.
Koro-sensei doesn’t explain further, and says they’ll only get answers when they kill him. At the end, the class asks Karasuma for extra assassination lessons. They want answers, and they want to get it their way, by killing him. So they want to kill him, they don’t want anyone else to.
This episode opened a lot of things. We still don’t really know anything about Koro-sensei. Since the beginning he’s always said he was an earthling, so an artificial being was the only thing I could guess. But Itona is as well, and he’s pretty much like Koro-sensei except a human kid. But just who created these two, and for what purpose? Why does Koro-sensei want to destroy Earth? Who is that woman in the flashback, and what happened in that lab? This was the first time we saw Koro-sensei in such a pinch, so it was a pretty tense thing to watch. Ritsu mentioned that she was supposed to be transferred in with Itona, where they were supposed to attempt at assassinating sensei at the same time. If they really had, I’m sure they actually would have killed him.
That Shiro and his damn hints about the class. All the foreshadowing. They’re confident they’ll get a second season, eh?
After last week’s episode short-charging the actiony moments, I was worried the animation quality won’t keep up, but they did well.
I also like the dark atmosphere effect they used during the fight. Hope to see more of that.