Ansatsu Kyoushitsu AKA Assassination Classroom has the sort of fun and silly premise that anime tends to become known for. It features on a classroom full of academically backwards students who are trying to kill their teacherwho is also a yellow smiley face with the body of a tentacle monsterbefore he destroys the earth at the end of the year. He can do it too. Hes already proved that by blowing a hole in the moon. Assassination Classroom certainly has some fun moments mostly related to Korosenseis personality and how his body functions. But these moments tend to get repetitive fairly quickly and the flaws of the series threaten to outweigh them. The rest of the cast is fairly lackluster. This is likely a side effect of its TooManyCharacters Syndrome. There is an entire classroom worth of students all of them introduced in the OP but only one or two are memorable. I can think of four off the top of my head: Nagisa Karma Ritsu and that one dude who has something close to a character arc but not a good enough one that I can actually remember his name. The rest are just a blur of faces and names that have pretty much no real relevance. Whats more the story doesnt often go anywhere. It is as most shounen deliberately drawn out so that the franchise can be milked for all its worth. The result is that the plot largely becomes filler. Over the course of twentytwo episodes we spend a bit of time learning how Korosensei functions and what his strengths and weaknesses are. The rest of the show is filled with Korosensei doing teacher things and the class combating other villains. These diversions would almost be welcome were they not a distraction from the real story. Sure its good that were getting character development for these professors and students but there are more pressing concerns. Namely why would such a cheerful creature threaten to destroy the Earth? and why does this creature want to teach a high school class? I can ignore that the moon getting a big hole blown through it doesnt mess with gravity or tides. I can ignore that Korosensei can fly at mach 20 and is basically a giant emoji. But I cant ignore that the entire premise of the series is built on unanswered questions. The longer it continues the more it seems like its simply an excuse to create this specific situation. But instead of addressing these questions we get a vague comment about Korosensei being a manmade biological weapon then shrug off any other answers in favor of adding new villains so that we dont have to kill of Korosensei until sales start declining. Assassination Classroom is a funny joke that drags on for about 15 episodes too long. Sure the concept is fun but a concept cant carry a show. There are too many characters for them to get fleshed out and the plot refuses to progress. What were left with is a series with glaring questions that only become more frustrating the longer they go unanswered. And the worst part is that the show gives no indication that theyre considering addressing them anywhere in the near future. Three stars.