Assassination Classroom

                    

Most people will look at this anime and go, "ew I don't want to watch two seasons of what seems to be the story of a smiley emoji with tentacles!". To be honest that's what put me off from watching this for a long time as well, but man was I mistaken. Assassination Classroom is like a Picasso painting: it seems odd at first glance and actually most definitely is. But as you keep looking, it turns into something beautiful and you find yourself unable to turn the other way. Once you get past and accept the existence of a yellow octopus like creature, you are guaranteed to enjoy every second of this mindless comedy and will somehow get attached to its characters despite the far fetched ideas being thrown at you.

The story, though ridiculous, is very straightforward. Koro-Sensei is a super being that can travel at the speed of mach 20 and has many superhuman powers making him virtually indestructible. He has decided to become the homeroom teacher for class E at a prestigious school which is full of social outcasts and delinquents. The government discloses just to class E students that he was artificially created and was responsible for the destruction of 70% of the moon (casual flex right?). If not assassinated, Koro-sensei will destroy Earth by next March. Seemingly out of hubris, he agrees to train this class into assassins with the aim of eliminating him but is overconfident that he can't be killed by any human. The government agrees to this opportunity and will give the students a bounty of 10 billion yen if they actually kill him. Wait you know what, none if this is actually straightforward...this anime is complicated as hell! I won't get into the intricate details of this premise, they explain everything well in the show. There's also focus on the student-teacher relationship between 25 students in class E and their new strange teacher who's actually pretty amazing and manages to understand them better that any other teacher they've had. On top of all this, the comic way in which the students balance their killing intent and their regular school lives is what really makes this anime stand out. 

Assassination Classroom does have its faults. The show can get too unrealistic even by its own standards and too often switches between intense comedy to heartfelt emotion without good transition. That being said, I do believe the good outweighs the bad and they've done a great job developing the complicated character that is Koro-sensei.  

My personal ratings are:

Story: 3/5
Character Development: 4/5 
Dialogue: 3/5 
Music: 2/5

Overall Recommendation: 10 Koro-Sensei Tentacles 

Assassination Classroom has be found on Netflix India and Crunchyroll.