Episode 46

Graduation Time is the twenty-fourth episode of Season 2 and the forty-sixth episode of the Assassination Classroom anime. It premiered in Japan on June 23, 2016.

Plot summary
After Kayano is revived, Korosensei falls on his back exhausted. He acknowledges that they are running out the clock and his time is spent. At his urging, and despite their reluctance, the students pin Korosensei's tentacles and render him unable to move. Nagisa volunteers to perform the actual killing. After saying his final goodbyes to Irina and Karasuma, Korosensei calls attendance one last time, with all 28 students of Class 3-E responding, some tearfully. At the same time he privately thinks to himself how grateful he is to nurture the students and in turn be nurtured by them throughout the year.

Nagisa begins to shake uncontrollably just as he is about to plunge his knife down on his teacher's heart, but Korosensei calms him down, telling him to smile. After some effort, Nagisa does so. Saying his final goodbyes he kills Korosensei with all the emotions he has felt. Korosensei begins to fade in a bright light, until all that remains of their teacher is his clothes. The class begin to cry uncontrollably as they finally graduate from their assassination classroom. On the morning of their junior high school graduation, the students wake up in their classroom, having slept while reading through the enormous books of advice given to each of them by their late teacher.

Anime and Manga differences

 * In the anime it was noted that Korosensei would be immobilized as weakness #33 while in the manga it was on #37.
 * Before Korosensei's execution, a series of flashbacks between him and class occur, while in the manga it was just Nagisa's own memories.

Trivia

 * This episodes does not feature Bye Bye YESTERDAY as an opening.
 * Korosensei is dead, when the Class 3-E students begin crying, including:
 * Nagisa Shiota
 * Meg Kataoka and Yuma Isogai
 * Yukiko Kanzaki, Manami Okuda and Tomohito Sugino
 * Rinka Hayami, Ryunosuke Chiba, Toka Yada, Hinano Kurahashi and Masayoshi Kimura
 * Hinata Okano, Taiga Okajima, Hiroto Maehara (especially), Yuzuki Fuwa, Kotaro Takebayashi and Rio Nakamura
 * Ritsu
 * Sumire Hara, Sosuke Sugaya and Koki Mimura
 * Taisei Yoshida, Takuya Muramatsu, Ryoma Terasaka, Kirara Hazama and Itona Horibe
 * Kaede Kayano
 * Karma Akabane
 * Nagisa Shiota, again