User:FanOfAniManga

Last Updated: April 22, 2013

Hey Wikians. My username is FanOfAniManga, or FOAM for short. As you can tell by my username, I'm a fan of anime and manga series.

I mainly like to work on anime and manga-related Wikis on smaller series that I personally like and think have the potential to become extremely popular. With a renowned author starting what'll definitely be a sure-fire hit, I knew right away I'd be hooked with Assassination Classroom.

My Thoughts on Assassination Classroom
Since I formally began Wiki editing in August 2010, I've also began on a quest to search for the next big manga in the magazine. For many months, it's been a depressing run, with no major hit having been produced from May 2009 with Medaka Box until November 2011 with Nisekoi. Still, I wanted to settle on something I liked, not a romantic comedy or sports manga, but an action manga, so I had to wait a little longer. When the first new action manga of 2012 came across the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, I became very hyped with all its special preparations, but it turned out to be just a mediocre false start. Little did I know that the very next manga to be released on the magazine would be what I was looking for (the short story Koganeiro in between doesn't count, but I enjoyed it too).

Right when I heard that Yūsei Matsui would be creating this new manga, I had to check it out. I already stumbled across his previous work, Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro, and I loved it. At that point, I wouldn't have cared about the name of the manga, but it too caught my attention: Assassination Classroom. The juxtaposition of two completely unrelated words was an eye catcher. It made me wonder: What could a story about an assassination classroom be like? After reading the first few chapters, I felt attracted to the manga not just from its action and comedy, but especially from how relatable its story and characters are to real life.

The main challenges of the story and the setting is one that's too imaginative for real life, but everything else, including the morals of the story, the smaller challenges, and the characters' personalities are very realistic. The students of class 3-E seem like very normal people who come from all walks of life and have come across different misfortunes or have different imperfections placed on them to emerge. By placing them in a social environment of so-called world elites where they're condemned for not being elites already, it brings to us a recurringly fresh perspective on how people can change when they face certain obstacles in life. Thus, I anticipate the story and characters will undergo significant development and create a guaranteed success.

After seeing Assassination Classroom's outstanding performance in terms of volume sales and magazine rankings, I think it's finally safe for me to call off my search for the next big manga... for now.

As I couldn't find a Wiki for the series prior, I started this dedicated Wiki. I am very excited to contribute to this Wiki, giving you the latest information in a concise and organized manner. I'm confident the series will stay alive for awhile and I can't wait to see it develop further. I also hope to develop and clean up the smaller Wikis to the same standard as those of well-established Wikis on manga/anime series, such as the Bleach Wiki and Narutopedia.

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Edit count milestones
100 edits - August 7, 2012

500 edits - December 11, 2012

1000 edits - April 21, 2013

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