

VAGUE SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE AND THE SERIES (specific spoilers tagged)
I was in the mood for some good ole assclass recently but didn’t have a lot of time to read or watch it, so naturally I turned to the recap movie. I would call this a bad choice, but given the fact this stone-cold heart cried multiple times during it, I don’t think I can. Still, there were a few things lacking in the movie that made it less enjoyable than it could have been.
The movie is framed as an epilogue to the series, in which adult Nagisa and Karma visit the old Class 3-E classroom up on the mountain the day before the rest of their class comes to help clean it up for use as a classroom once again. They find the yearbook Koro-sensei made and begin reminiscing about their time in his classroom, and the movie switches between present-day and their flashbacks. While I enjoyed seeing their adult forms, the flashbacks—or rather, the flashes back to the present—were cheesy and cliche, and they weren’t my favorite.
I also wasn’t a huge fan of what the movie chose to use in its recap. Some moments were highlighted that I think didn’t need to be as prominent, while scenes I thought would have been included were left out, such as
All this having been said, I still cried during the movie. They included
There’s not much to say about some of the more technical aspects of the movie, like animation and music. They’re pretty much the same as in the show. Lerche did a decent job with the animation, nothing incredibly noteworthy but also nothing awful either. ~~I still like Karma’s appearance more in the manga but maybe that’s just me.~~ I also forgot about the insert song Class 3-E sings during the second to last episode. I think it’s really cool that the characters’ voice actors also sing for the show, not just the openings but the insert songs too. There’s just so many little details like that, and like
As for the anime-only epilogue scenes, while they were cheesy, I did enjoy seeing the characters grown. Seeing what they did and where they went—and the details brought up in the series were brought up again in the epilogue—were all very nice elements they certainly could have left out, but I’m glad they didn’t. It really gave a nice ending to the show, with a nice sense of completion and satisfaction.
Overall, I finished the movie feeling like it wasn’t quite a waste of time, but that it wasn’t quite a good use of it either. If you’ve got some time to spare and an urge to dip your toe back into Assassination Classroom, then this movie is worth it. But, if you’ve got better things to do (and let’s face it, you probably do), then you’re not missing out on much. This is not a movie I’m chomping at the bit to recommend, but since the original Assassination Classroom material was so good to begin with, then it’s not something I’d try to talk you out of watching either.
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I think you get the idea.
So, despite numerous flaws, I’m giving it a 72 out of 100. For me, it was enjoyable, and the material is from an above-average story. However, due to the choppy nature of it and the lack of a fuller picture, I can’t give it anything much higher. Did I need to watch it? Absolutely not. Did I still enjoy myself? Yes. And in the end, that’s all I’m looking for in an anime.
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