The facts
Created by
Yusei Matsui
Publisher
Shueisha
English publisher
Viz Media
Serialised in
Weekly Shōnen Jump
Run
2012–2016
Volumes
21 (complete; as of 2026)
Demographic
Shōnen
Genres
Action, science fiction comedy
Anime adaptation
Lerche anime TV series (2015–2016)
About Assassination Classroom
Assassination Classroom follows Class 3-E, a group of students treated as misfits and taught in a separate building. Their homeroom teacher is an extremely powerful octopus-like being, and the class is tasked with assassinating him to stop the destruction of Earth.
Yusei Matsui wrote and drew it for Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2012 to March 2016. It is complete in 21 volumes, and Viz Media publishes it in English.
Brain's Base made an OVA in 2013, and Lerche's anime TV series aired from January 2015 to June 2016.
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