Assassination Classroom Episode 12 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Ball Game Tournament Time

Left out of the ball game tournament, Class E's boys face the baseball club in an exhibition match, with Korosensei as coach. Bunts load the bases and Sugino's triple puts them ahead by three runs, until Chairman Asano forces the club's coach out, takes over, and shuts down the bunts with an all-infield shift.

In the last inning the club copies Class E's bunt to load the bases for Shindo. Karma and Isogai then field at zero distance in front of Shindo at the plate, rattling him until the club loses. Korosensei calls it one win each against the chairman and vows to settle it in the finals, and Sugino and Shindo reconcile.

• Exhibition match setup

  Class E is left out of the ball game tournament and must play exhibition matches in front of the whole school. Sugino wants to beat the baseball club led by Shindo, and Korosensei, acting as coach, drills the boys to bunt Shindo's fastballs.

• Chairman takes over

  Bunts load the bases and Sugino's triple gives Class E three runs, until Chairman Asano makes the club's coach feign illness, takes over, and stops the bunts with an all-infield shift. At Korosensei's suggestion Karma protests the shift, and the club scores two runs.

• Zero-distance defense

  In the last inning Hashimoto copies Class E's bunt and the bases fill for Shindo. Citing the umpire's earlier silence, Karma and Isogai field right in front of Shindo at the plate, he loses his nerve, and Class E wins. Sugino and Shindo part promising a rematch in high school.

Recent Timeline

• Ritsu joins the class (Episode 9)

  The AI 'Autonomously Thinking Fixed Artillery' enrolled as a transfer student, shot off one of Korosensei's tentacle fingers through a blind spot, and wrecked lessons until Terasaka taped her up. Korosensei gave her cooperation software and upgrades, and the class named her Ritsu. When her owners wiped the changes, she had already hidden the software in her memory, defied them, and became the class's ally.

• Irina's mock assassination contest (Episode 10)

  When Irina's master Lovro came to pull her out, Korosensei proposed a one-day contest: whichever of Irina and Lovro first 'killed' Karasuma with an anti-sensei knife would win. Karasuma saw through Irina's drugged drink and disarmed Lovro's frontal attack. At lunch Irina pinned him under a tree with a hidden wire; he blocked her knife but gave in to her pleading and let her land it, and Lovro let her stay.

• Itona vs Korosensei after-school duel (Episode 11)

  Itona Horibe, the second transfer student, arrived with his guardian Shiro, called Korosensei 'brother' and challenged him to a ring duel after school in which stepping out meant death. Tentacles burst from Itona's hair, and Shiro's pressure beam plus the cost of shedding and regrowing let Itona take the lead, but Korosensei tricked him into hitting anti-sensei knives on the floor and tossed him out of the ring wrapped in shed skin. When Itona raged, Shiro knocked him out and took him away; Korosensei's tentacle hand was destroyed on Shiro's anti-sensei robe.

• Class E asks for assassination training (Episode 11)

  After the duel, the students admitted they had been hoping someone else would do the job and asked Karasuma for more assassination training so they could kill their teacher with their own hands. He began tougher after-school drills for volunteers.

• Class E vs baseball club exhibition match (Episode 12)

  At the ball game tournament, Class E's boys played an exhibition match against the baseball club with Korosensei coaching. Bunts loaded the bases and Sugino's triple put them three runs ahead, until the chairman made the club's coach feign illness, took over, and shut down the bunts with an all-infield shift. In the last inning, with the bases loaded on the club's copied bunts, Karma and Isogai fielded at zero distance in front of Shindo, who lost his nerve, and Class E won.

Character Graph

Korosensei

Class 3-E teacher · Super creature

Tentacled super creature who blew away 70 percent of the moon, moves at Mach 20 and says he will destroy Earth next March. At his own offer he became homeroom teacher of Class 3-E, and the government accepted on condition that he never harms the students. As coach of the boys' exhibition baseball match, he outwitted the chairman and called it one win each, vowing to settle it in the finals.

• Assassination target

  A 10 billion yen bounty is on his head; the class attacks him with anti-sensei weapons that are harmless to humans.

• Teaching style

  Praises creative attempts, points out weak tactics, and tutors each student with afterimage clones.

• Brother claim

  Itona calls him 'brother' and Shiro insists they are brothers, but he denies it and the claim is unproven.

• Tadaomi Karasuma (Colleague, Hostility)

  Ministry of Defense officer overseeing his assassination; a fellow teacher who openly wants him dead.

• Nagisa Shiota (Mentor, Mixed)

  His student, who carried out Terasaka's grenade plan in episode 1; he praised Nagisa's natural approach but scolded him for not valuing his own safety.

• Chairman (Hierarchy, Hostility)

  His employer and rival coach in the exhibition match; Karasuma sees them as similar yet very different educators.

• Itona Horibe (Other, Hostility)

  Transfer student who calls him 'brother' and challenged him to a duel to the death; after winning, he wanted to keep teaching Itona until graduation.

Nagisa Shiota (Nagisa)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who keeps notes on Korosensei's habits and weak points. He helped Sugino practice his breaking balls for the exhibition match and noted that the crowd missed the battle of strategy between the two coaches.

• Assassin

  In episode 1 he carried out Terasaka's knife-and-grenade attack and accepted that the class are assassins whose target is their own teacher.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

  His homeroom teacher and assassination target; Nagisa respects him as a good teacher while aiming to kill him.

Tomohito Sugino (Sugino)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who was kicked off the baseball club after falling into Class E. Pitching against his old team in the exhibition match, he also cleared the bases with a triple, and afterward told Shindo he just wanted to show off his new teammates.

• Pitching style

  After Korosensei's advice in episode 2, he works on a flexible style of his own instead of copying a famous pitcher.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Affinity)

  Coach who trained the boys for the match by pitching at 300 km/h.

• Shindo (Friend, Affinity)

  Former teammate and baseball club captain; they reconciled after the game and promised a rematch in high school.

Shindo

Baseball club

Captain and ace pitcher of the baseball club, whose 140 km/h fastball has top high schools watching. He told Sugino that only the chosen should thrive, but after losing the exhibition match he promised to face Sugino again in high school.

• Under the chairman

  Coached by the chairman to overpower and trample the weak, he lost his nerve when Karma and Isogai fielded right in front of him.

• Tomohito Sugino (Friend, Affinity)

  Former teammate; they reconciled after the game and promised a rematch in high school.

• Chairman (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  Took over as the club's coach and drilled into him that he must crush Class E.

Karma Akabane

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student back from a school suspension who was the first to wound Korosensei, and who chose to stay in Class E because assassination is more fun than returning to the main building. In the exhibition match he protested the club's unfair infield shift at Korosensei's suggestion, then fielded at zero distance from Shindo with Isogai to break his nerve.

• Ministry briefing

  While suspended, he was briefed on the assassination by a Ministry of Defense official and warned his memory would be wiped if he leaked it.

• Korosensei (Other, Mixed)

  Assassination target he has accepted as a teacher since episode 3, though he still means to kill him.

Isogai

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E's male class representative. In the exhibition match he and Karma fielded at zero distance in front of Shindo at the plate, dodging his swings without flinching.

• Karma Akabane (Other, Affinity)

  Classmate he joined in the zero-distance fielding; Korosensei said both have the best nerve and reflexes in Class E.

Kataoka

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E's female class representative. In the ball game tournament she played in the girls' exhibition match against the basketball club, which they narrowly lost.

Kanzaki

Class 3-E student

Quiet, well-liked Class 3-E student, called the class madonna, who was abducted by delinquents on the Kyoto trip. At the inn she revealed the gaming skill she had hidden because her family frowns on play, saying Korosensei made her realize what matters is facing forward.

• Change of self

  Realized through Korosensei's words that facing forward matters more than the clothes, hobbies and labels she had picked up to escape others' eyes.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Affinity)

  Teacher whose words after the abduction helped her stop worrying about where she belongs.

Tadaomi Karasuma

Ministry of Defense · PE teacher

Ministry of Defense officer who oversees the class's assassination of the creature and trains them as assistant homeroom and PE teacher. He watched the exhibition match as a contest between Korosensei and the chairman, two similar yet very different educators.

• New PE teacher

  In episode 2 he met the school chairman and became assistant homeroom and PE teacher to train the students in assassination.

• Stance toward the system

  Warned Korosensei that even he could not escape the chairman's system, and suspected the chairman changed the midterm scope to preserve it.

• Mock assassination

  Can stab five times in a second; he dismissed Irina's drink as the oldest trick in the book but gave in to her persistence under the tree.

• Korosensei (Colleague, Hostility)

  Target he is assigned to kill; they work side by side as teachers while he openly wants him dead.

Itona Horibe (Itona)

Transfer student

Second transfer student assassin, who broke in through the classroom wall and only wants to kill those who might be stronger than him. He calls Korosensei 'brother' and fought him in a ring duel with tentacles growing from his hair, but lost, and when he raged at being lectured, Shiro knocked him out and took him away.

• Tentacles

  His tentacle hair kept him dry in the rain and cut off one of Korosensei's tentacles at the start of the duel.

• Shiro (Guardian, Mixed)

  Guardian who brought him to school, set up the duel, and took him away after knocking him out.

• Korosensei (Other, Hostility)

  Calls him 'brother' and wants to kill him to prove he is the stronger.

Shiro

Itona's guardian

Man dressed all in white who calls himself Itona's guardian and gave his name only as Shiro. He insists that Itona and Korosensei are brothers despite different parents and upbringings, set the duel's rules, and fired a pressure beam that briefly stiffens Korosensei's body.

• Robe

  His white robe is made of anti-sensei fiber, so Korosensei's tentacle hand was destroyed when he tried to stop him.

• Itona Horibe (Guardian, Mixed)

  Boy in his care whom he calls Korosensei's brother; he took Itona away after the defeat, saying he would tutor him before sending him back.

• Korosensei (Other, Hostility)

  Target whose every weakness he claims to know; he refused to say where Itona's tentacles came from.

Chairman (Gakuho Asano)

School chairman

Gakuho Asano, chairman of Kunugigaoka, who keeps Class E at the bottom in grades and treatment and changed the midterm scope at the last minute. At the ball game tournament he made the baseball club's coach feign illness, took over, and turned the game with an all-infield shift and copied bunts, but still lost to Class E.

• Stance toward Class E

  Told Korosensei that Class E may glare like assassins, but bottom-ranked students must never defy regular students, and ordered him to put a stop to it.

• Club takeover

  Told the players they were not playing baseball but trampling ten or so people among thousands.

• Korosensei (Hierarchy, Hostility)

  Teacher he employs; they faced off as rival coaches in the exhibition match, and Korosensei called it one win each.

World Memo

• Crescent moon and the destruction of Earth

  At the start of the students' third year the moon suddenly exploded into a permanent crescent. The creature responsible has declared that he will destroy Earth next March in the same way, a standing threat that frames the assassination.

• Government-sanctioned assassination and reward

  The government reluctantly accepted the creature's own offer to teach Class 3-E on condition that he harms no students, and secretly tasked the class with killing him, since public knowledge would cause global panic. A successful assassination is rewarded with 10 billion yen.

• Anti-sensei weapons

  The government developed anti-sensei BBs and knives that are harmless to humans but break down the creature's cells, and supplies them to the students. The same material can be made into clothing: Shiro's white anti-sensei robe destroys Korosensei's tentacles on contact.

• Isolated Class E and its nickname

  Kunugigaoka's Class E is sent every day to an isolated mountaintop campus and discriminated against as the lowest-ranked class, nicknamed the E-as-in-End Class. For school assemblies its students must give up their lunch break to hurry down the mountain and line up before the other classes.

• Class E's place in the school system

  Being in Class 3-E marks students for discrimination even after graduation, and the chairman deliberately keeps the class at the bottom in grades and treatment so that fear of falling into it drives the other students. To escape, a student must rank in the top 50 of the 186 third-years and get permission from their former homeroom teacher.

• Assassins enrolled as transfer students

  The special assassins sent by world leaders join Class E as transfer students. The first, the AI fixed artillery Ritsu, is registered as a student so Korosensei cannot harm her, and she has defied her masters to become the class's ally. The second, Itona Horibe, was meant to arrive with Ritsu and handle close combat but needed more time to be readied; he comes with a guardian named Shiro.

• Class E at the ball game tournament

  At Kunugigaoka's ball game tournament, Class E is left out of the brackets and must instead play exhibition matches in front of the whole school at the end: the boys against the baseball club and the girls against the girls' basketball club.

Clue Board

• Unknown motive for the deal (Episode 1)

  The creature himself proposed becoming Class 3-E's homeroom teacher, and the government reluctantly agreed without knowing what he is after. Why he wants to teach them remains unexplained.

• Real name unknown (Episode 1)

  Korosensei says he has no name worth giving and lets the class pick one; Kayano comes up with 'Korosensei'. His real name remains unknown.

• Woman in the ruins (Episode 1)

  In a brief flashback Korosensei holds a bleeding woman in a ruined building; she tells him that with those tentacles he would surely become a wonderful teacher. Who she is remains unknown.

• A promise to someone (Episode 2)

  Korosensei tells Nagisa he became their teacher to keep a promise he made to someone. He does not say who.

• Vague answer on the punishment (Episode 4)

  Nagisa grows suspicious after Korosensei's punishment of Irina, and Korosensei gives only a vague answer when asked for clarification, leaving the reason open.

• The chairman's words (Episode 6)

  The chairman, briefed by the Ministry of Defense, calls Korosensei a sad being who meant to become the world's savior but ended up a great evil that will destroy it. What else he knows is not shown.

• Korosensei's past romances (Episode 8)

  Karasuma started to ask whether Korosensei's romances dated from a time when he had two arms and two legs, then let it drop. What Korosensei used to look like is still unexplained.

• Shiro and Itona's score over the moon (Episode 10)

  The night before Itona's arrival, Shiro told him they would go settle the score over the moon. Now that the two have shown themselves, what they hold against Korosensei over the moon is still unexplained.

• Claimed brotherhood with Itona (Episode 11)

  Shiro insists Itona and Korosensei are brothers despite different parents and upbringings, and the fight is presented as proof. Korosensei says he was raised as an only child and does not know what Itona means. The relation is unresolved.

• Source of Itona's tentacles (Episode 11)

  Itona has tentacles like Korosensei's growing from his hair. Korosensei demands to know where they came from, but Shiro refuses to answer, so the origin stays unexplained.

• Reason for current form and teaching Class E (Episode 11)

  Students ask why Korosensei takes his current form and why he teaches Class E. He answers seriously that they must earn these answers by trying to kill him, so the reason remains hidden.

Deduction Board

Facts

• Match setup

  Class E is placed in an exhibition match against the baseball club after a ball game tournament announcement; Korosensei coaches them with a bunting plan aimed at Shindo's fastballs.

• Chairman takeover

  Chairman Asano intimidates the club coach into feigning sickness and takes over the club team.

• Result

  Class E wins; the club loses after Karma and Isogai stand at point-blank range and Shindo misses Sugino's pitches.

Evidence

• Karma's protest

  At Korosensei's suggestion, Karma protested the club's all-infield shift. It got nowhere at the time, but because the umpire had allowed that shift, Class E later had grounds for its own zero-distance fielding.

• Bunting tactic works

  Class E's bunting strategy catches Shindo and the club off guard, giving Class E three easy runs in the first inning.

• Club counter-tactic

  After the Chairman's words, the club defends heavily and copies the bunting strategy in its own turn at bat.

Inferences

• Two educators compared

  Karasuma saw the match as a contest between Korosensei and the chairman, two similar yet very different educators.

• Shared origin of tentacles

  Itona's tentacles resembling Korosensei's point to a possible common source

• Behind-the-scenes contest

  Nagisa observes that the audience missed the battle of strategy between Korosensei and the Chairman.

Suspicions

• Source of the tentacles

  Korosensei demands to know where Itona got his tentacles, and Shiro refuses to answer

• How Shiro knows

  Shiro says he knows every one of Korosensei's weaknesses, but how he learned them is not explained.

• Decided in the finals

  Korosensei counts the midterms and the ball game as one win each against the chairman and says the final exams will settle it; how the chairman will answer is open.

Battle Record

Class E beat the baseball club in the ball game tournament's exhibition match after Karma and Isogai's zero-distance fielding rattled Shindo.

Irina vs Karasuma mock assassination contest

Irina vs Karasuma · Episode 10

Location: Class E school grounds, the staff room, and under a tree at lunch

Trigger: Lovro ordered Irina to withdraw, so Korosensei proposed a one-day contest: whichever of them first struck Karasuma with an anti-sensei knife would win.

Challengers vs target

• Challengers — assassins: Irina Jelavić, Lovro Brovski
• Target — target: Tadaomi Karasuma

Outcome: Karasuma saw through Irina's drugged drink and disarmed Lovro, but under the tree he blocked Irina's knife and then let her land it, so Irina won.

Aftermath

• Lovro allowed Irina to stay at Class E
• Korosensei had a suit of armour ready in case Karasuma won his secret one-second chance

Itona vs Korosensei after-school duel

After-school fight in the classroom · Episode 11

Location: Class E classroom

Trigger: Itona, calling Korosensei 'brother', challenged him to a fight to the death after school, and Shiro set a ring of desks where stepping out meant death.

Participants

• Itona and Shiro — fighter: Itona Horibe / support: Shiro
• Korosensei — fighter: Korosensei

Outcome: Korosensei made Itona's tentacles hit anti-sensei knives on the floor and tossed him out of the ring wrapped in his shed skin; Shiro then knocked Itona out and took him away.

Aftermath

• Korosensei lost a tentacle at the start, and Shiro's pressure beam stiffened him
• Korosensei's tentacle hand was destroyed when he touched Shiro's anti-sensei robe
• The class asked Karasuma for more assassination training

Class E vs baseball club exhibition match

Ball game tournament exhibition · Episode 12

Location: School baseball field

Trigger: Class E, left out of the ball game tournament, had to play an exhibition match against the baseball club in front of the whole school.

Teams

• Class E — players: Tomohito Sugino, Karma Akabane, Isogai, Nagisa Shiota / coach: Korosensei
• Baseball club — players: Shindo, Hashimoto / acting coach: Chairman

Outcome: Class E won after Karma and Isogai's zero-distance fielding rattled Shindo in the last inning.

Aftermath

• The crowd was stunned that the elite baseball club lost to Class E
• Nagisa noted that the audience missed the strategic battle between the two coaches
• Korosensei called it one win each against the chairman and set the finals as the decider
• Sugino and Shindo reconciled and promised a rematch in high school

Ability Table

Season Summary

Season 1 — Season 1

Episodes 1–12

A tentacled creature that blew away 70 percent of the moon vows to destroy Earth next March and, at his own offer, becomes homeroom teacher of Kunugigaoka's outcast Class 3-E. The government agrees on condition he never harms the students and offers 10 billion yen for his death, so the students attack him with anti-sensei weapons while he teaches them. Karma returns from suspension and wounds him, Karasuma becomes their PE teacher, and the assassin Irina stays on as English teacher after her failed trap. Chairman Gakuho Asano keeps Class E at the bottom and changes the midterm scope at the last minute, leaving only Karma in the top 50, and Korosensei vows to strike back in the finals.

On the Kyoto school trip, which doubles as an assassination assignment, high school delinquents abduct Kanzaki and Kayano, and Nagisa's group rescues them with Korosensei's guidebook. The government's sniper Red Eye fails to hit Korosensei and quits, and world leaders decide to send two special assassins to the class.

The first, the AI fixed artillery Ritsu, shoots off a tentacle finger, then, after Korosensei's upgrades, defies her masters to become the class's ally. When Irina's master Lovro tries to pull her out, she wins the mock assassination of Karasuma that Korosensei proposes and stays. The second, Itona, arrives with his guardian Shiro, calls Korosensei 'brother' and fights him with tentacles of his own but loses, and the shaken class asks Karasuma for more training so they can kill Korosensei themselves. At the ball game tournament, the boys beat the baseball club in an exhibition match even after the chairman takes over as its coach.

Music Releases

• Jiriki Hongan Revolution (OP)
• Hello, shooting-star (ED)