Assassination Classroom Season 2 Episode 9: Deciding Your Own Future

This episode made me sick because of how abusive Nagisa’s mother is. I am not surprised at all that his father divorced his mother, but I wish he was able to take Nagisa with him because there’s no way in hell I would ever leave a child in that kind of environment. So now that kind of makes me pissed with his dad.

Nagisa’s mother is abusive, emotionally, physically, all of that. She’s manipulative, she uses guilt making herself out to be the victim in all of this, saying things like Oh you have no idea what I do for you, I make food for you everyday even when I’m tired (even though you’re his mother like what?), I’m just trying to make you not fail like I did, I’m just trying to help you, why don’t you understand me, why don’t you love me? Things like that. She lashes out at him, grabs him by the hair and violently shakes him. She does everything an abusive person does, right down to the T. She says Nagisa is only a child, that he doesn’t know what he wants in his life, this conversation starting after his mother got the results of his midterm exams. He was just a little short from passing to go back to the main school, and with a “donation” she wants to get Nagisa into the D Class. But when Nagisa shows opposition, that’s when she gets into this ugly fit. She’s deciding his whole life for him. Basically, she’s an awful horrible person and I can’t believe Nagisa has to constantly live through this.

And the whole gender thing with Nagisa is basically explained here. His mother, when growing up, always had to focus more on studying and school work, leaving being girly and cute second. Her parents made her cut her hair short, which she didn’t like. She always wanted a daughter, but instead ended up with a son. She made Nagisa grow out his hair long like a girl’s, and sometimes she would even dress him up in dresses and other girl’s clothes because she’s making Nagisa out to be the girl she never got to be when she was younger. And it’s awful. Nagisa absolutely hates this, he ties his hair up to what we know now, which his mother hates, but he doesn’t tell his mother any of this because she’ll just lash out again. His mother is trying to make him what she’s always wanted to be but failed in doing in her life. She’s trying to get him into the university that she wasn’t accepted in, and trying to get him to work in a company that she wasn’t able to work in, all while making him into a girl.

It’s all very abusive behavior. And oohhhhh man I was happy as hell when Koro-sensei (disguising himself as a weird-looking Karasuma) told her off, saying that a child isn’t something to hide your own complexes in. It’s Nagisa’s life, and he has a say whether he wants to leave the E Class or not. And of course that put Nagisa’s mother into a rage. She later put something in his food to make him pass out (honestly, this woman is getting worse) and drives him to the school at night. And…as if this woman couldn’t get any worse, she holds a lit torch and commands him to burn down the school so he couldn’t come back. And then goes off into a tangent that she’s done so much for him and that he should be grateful and….ugh. She’s awful, just the worst. Then some things happen with Koro-sensei and Nagisa and all that. In the end, Nagisa’s mother let’s him do what he wants, Nagisa staying in the E Class.

Nagisa was also trying to figure out what career he wanted as the rest of the class got the career forms. While other students wanted to be bureaucrats and diplomats, Nagisa didn’t know what. When ripping off the size sticker from Irina’s sweater without being detected, Nagisa ponders becoming an assassin because he doesn’t think he can be anything else. Koro-sensei doesn’t talk him out of it but makes him really think about his decision. But in the end after all the drama that happened, he decided against it and said he’d use his assassination skills to instead help people than to kill.

I’m so glad we got a close up look to Nagisa’s character. I guess Nagisa is kind of the main character since he usually does the narrating, but we’ve never got a deep look into this kid. We also know why he’s such a good assassin. He really has to pay attention when his mother is in a bad mood and prepare for her fits, so he’s really observant and he uses this skill of his in his assassinations. His upbringing is what makes him into such a promising assassin, sadly. Nagisa has to go through a lot, but at least he has fun at the E Class with everyone else.