Assassination Classroom Season 2 Episode 10: School Festival Time

I can’t count how many school festival episodes I’ve seen in anime, it’s pretty much a given that if you’re going to watch an anime set in a school, there’s going to be a school festival episode. They can be good or not, depends what you think. In Assassination Classroom’s case, it was a good one. I’ve just always been curious about school festivals because they look a lot of fun and the students seem to really work hard at it. I wish schools in the United States would do fun stuff like that, but whenever we do it’s just a couple of stands and usually the teachers do the most work. Well, at least that’s what I remember from my days in high school. Though the haunted house during Halloween was pretty decent.

This episode is another chance for the E-class to kick the A-class’ asses. The school festival in Kunigigaoka is actually famous nationwide, where potential employers go there to check the work habits of the students. So hurray for jobs! The A-class is taking this opportunity to blow E-class in the dust, and Asano actually met up with some dudes to sponsor with them. So now the E-class is worrying about what they should do to not lose to him, and Koro-sensei gives them a little hint. Their classroom is located in the mountains, so they should use their resources around them to their advantage. And with that, the E-class opened up a unique little cafe, a mountain-side cafe selling foods made with fresh ingredients found around them. The star of the cafe, the acorn noodles.

On the first day the cafe is doing decently. Some people arrive, even those punk high schoolers from last season that kidnapped Kanzaki and the other girls, and they like the food. The kids made a great menu, posters, and a website, and they’re hoping that will bring in more people because the A-class is beating them bad. Asano’s crazy ass has the auditorium and has pop idols and comedians performing every hour, and he charges 500 yen for each entrance, which includes free food and drinks. But the thing is one performance in on one side of the auditorium, and then the next hour the other side of the auditorium has a different performance, but people still need to pay the entrance. Which is crazy, this asshole is crazy. Also apparently he can play the guitar because he performed. I thought he was going to sing, and that would cement in my mind that any character Mamoru Miyano plays sings. Such as Prince of Stride, and even though Ajin isn’t the type of anime where people sings he sings the ending theme song. Amazing.

We get a lot of past characters arriving at the cafe, and one of them is Yuji, the boy from the hotel resort back in the beach trip episodes. He found out Nagisa is in the school, and so Nakamura continues the charade of Nagisa being a girl and making him have Yuji buy as much food to help grow their profits. Yuji is really enjoying his meal with Nagisa but then he notices shady people arrive and Nagisa tried making excuses for all of them but Yuji knows he’s lying to him. Nagisa then confesses everything, that he’s actually a guy, and that he’s learned that some things such as even your weaknesses can come in handy and help for once, this case Nagisa’s thing with the whole looking like a girl thing. Yuji looks upset, says he feels dumb, then leaves, Nagisa feeling bad.

But the next day, the students are shocked to see a TV crew run up the stairs to their class (RIP to the cameramen that had to carry full camera gear up those stairs) as well as a long line of people. It’s packed! We find out that the reason why there are so many people is because of a positive review left by someone…Yuji! After quitting partying and smoking drugs, Yuji put himself to be a food critic, and because he’s so rich and tasted the best foods in the world, he has a trustworthy food palette. In his review, he wrote that a friend of his is running a cafe and that the food is delicious, and he admires them for the fact that all the students worked hard scavenging for fresh ingredients in the mountain while also being able to cook delicious fresh food. Yuji writes that he felt dumb and guilty for being so spoiled, and he wants to use his weakness as a strength, as Nagisa told him, and use his spoiled butt’s money and status to help others, such as E-class’ cafe. And it was a success, as so many people came that they ran out of ingredients and had to shut down early, not wanting to ruin the ecosystem.

Unfortunately, E-class did not beat A-class, but they made it into the top three best earners in the area, just behind a high school, A-class beating the high school. A-class made the most profit…but it can’t really be said that they won. As the students looked at the results, they were all surprised E-class did so well. They talked amongst themselves that even some of them went to the cafe because it had been shown on TV and they were impressed the ingredients were fresh from the mountains. The principal walked by these students and overheard their conversation, a creepy smirk on his face.

So even though the E-class didn’t beat the A-class in making more money, they still garnered a lot of positive attention, so in a way, they did win. The principal hearing all of that probably means another bad talk with his son, which could turn ugly quickly. This episode also highlighted connections with people, as there were past characters making appearances again like those thug highschoolers, Sakura and the rest of the preschool and principal, and even Nagisa making amends with his mother. Koro-sensei looked pleased, and again we got a little snippet of a girl that he knew in a flashback…WHO WAS THAT?

CAN I PLEASE GET AN EPISODE WHERE WE LEARN MORE ABOUT KORO-SENSEI?!