The characters are the same as in Assassination classroom but adjusted to fit in this alternative universe. Overall the story is mostly lighthearted and is completely about comedy. Watching season 1 and 2 of Assassination Classroom is necessary to follow the story but the ONA isn't required. The order in which events happen is reminiscent of Assassination classroom but some events are switched around, some are left out and some didn't appear in the main anime but appeared in an ONA instead. The story in Koro-sensei quest is mostly the same as in Assassination Classroom but instead of a normal school it's a magic school and Koro-sensei is a demon lord. The anime is very self-aware and makes sure not to let things get too serious or get stuck on one trope for too long which makes it enjoyable to watch. Many have become attached to the series’ characters, and to see them go without so much as a whimper is a sorry sight.Koro-sensei Quest is a pretty good parody which retells the story of assassination classroom in a different and less serious setting. Assassination Classroom is one of the best shonen series ever made, and even Weekly Shonen Jump editor-in-chief Hiroyuki Nakano admitted its strengths. I am surely not the only one alone in my melancholic sentiments. The Assassination Classroom live-action movie was pretty bad, but at least it was something With it now coming to an end and no more projects on the horizon, the Assassination Classroom franchise as a whole is now ostensibly dead and buried. 2015 saw a flurry of activity as both a live-action movie and TV anime premiered, but after the premiere of the anime’s second season and a recap movie in 2016, only Koro Sensei Q! remained.īefore it came to an end, Koro Sensei Q! was powerful enough to inspire a web anime adaptation, but its fortunes have clearly soured since. It became doubly tragic as the Assassination Classroom franchise as a whole began to wind down around it. This idea formed the basis for Koro Sensei Q!, which gave the silly spinoff series a tragic air, as it fulfilled some of Koro-sensei’s dying words. The November issue of Saikyo Jump, containing the last chapter of Koro Sensei Q!Īlthough Koro Sensei Q! was, at its heart, a silly spinoff manga that took the characters of Assassination Classroom and placed them in a fantasy RPG setting, it took on a more symbolic role when Yusei Matsui’s original manga came to an end.ĭuring the main story of Assassination Classroom, there’s one moment where the titular Koro-sensei, both the protagonist and antagonist of the story, attempts to motivate his class 3-E in their assassination attempts by encouraging them to think of him as a ‘Demon King’ and themselves as brave warriors in a fantasy RPG. It produced enough manga to fill five collected volumes, but Saikyo Jump announced that Koro Sensei Q! would end in this week’s November issue. The Koro Sensei Q! ( Koro-sensei Quest!) spinoff manga launched in Saikyo Jump in 2015, not long before the main series itself concluded in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2016. In any case, it was a strange yet sad sight to see Yusei Matsui’s Assassination Classroom bow out this week with the end of Koro Sensei Q!. Perhaps it’s due to manga’s long-form serialized nature, which allows the reader to literally grow up alongside a series. Any fan of Silent Hill or Half-Life will know what I’m talking about, but when it comes to the world of manga, that feeling is multiplied twofold. Witnessing the rise and fall of a media franchise is a strange thing.
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