Assassination Classroom

Assassination Classroom (暗殺教室, Ansatsu Kyōshitsu) is an ongoing Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yūsei Matsui that has appeared in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine since July 2012.

A live-action film has been announced for March 2015 and an anime series based on the manga is scheduled to premiere on Fuji TV in January 2015. The manga has also been adapted into a VOMIC and an OVA.

Plot


A strange new teacher is introduced to class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. The teacher is a round-headed, tentacled alien capable of moving at speeds of up to Mach 20 whose color changes depending on his mood. Prior to introducing himself to his new class, he managed to carve out a large chunk of the moon to become a permanent crescent moon. In a year, he plots to destroy the earth, but decides to teach a junior high school class in the meantime for an unknown reason. With this strange creature having effectively taken over the world, the government reluctantly complies with his request on the condition that he does not harm his students.

Affectionately, the students of class 3-E call him Korosensei, the unkillable sensei. These same students greet him everyday with an assassination attempt in their journey to save the world by eventually murdering their own teacher, and to earn 10 billion yen from the government.

Setting
The story takes place at Kunugigaoka Junior High School's Class 3-E. A discriminated class filled by trouble students who were expelled from the School's Main Building.

Reception
The manga placed second in male-oriented comics category on the list of "Book of the Year" by Media Factory and manga news magazine Da Vinci. It was number one on the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey. It's the only manga that managed to enter Japan's Top 10 Best-selling 2013 and 2014 that not yet adapted into an anime.

Trivia

 * The manga is Yusei Matsui's second series in Weekly Shonen Jump, after Demon Detective Neuro Nougami.