Assassination Classroom Episode 17 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Island Time

During the summer holidays, Nagisa and classmates hunt stag beetles in the school woods, where Okajima's porn-magazine trap lures Korosensei, disguised as a beetle, but fails when he spots a rare albino stag beetle that Kurahashi had been hoping to find. A week before the Okinawa resort trip, the class trains with Lovro, who reviews their blackmail-based plan and tells Nagisa about the Shinigami.

At the island resort, the students split up to prepare, Korosensei is sunburnt and weakened by an untimely skin shed, and the class lures him to a theatre hut surrounded by water to make their move.

• Bug hunt and Okajima's trap

  The class collects stag beetles for money, and Okajima's pit of anti-sensei BBs fails when Korosensei spots a rare albino beetle that Kurahashi claims.

• Lovro's training and the Shinigami lesson

  Lovro reviews the psychological plan, praises Hayami and Chiba's skills, and tells Nagisa that the best assassin is known only as the Shinigami.

• Resort preparations and the theatre hut

  Students split up to distract Korosensei while others scout, he is sunburnt and weakened by an untimely skin shed, and they lead him to a water-surrounded theatre hut.

Recent Timeline

• Pool dam trap ambush (Episode 14)

  Terasaka fired the signal gun Shiro had given him, setting off an explosion that destroyed the pool dam and swept the class toward a cliff until Korosensei saved them all. In Karma's counter-plan Terasaka took Itona's blow, and the smoke-tainted shirt and the class's splashing weakened Itona until Shiro admitted defeat. Terasaka became the class's ally.

• Library bet with Class A Big Five (Episode 15)

  At the main campus library, the Big Five picked on Isogai's study group of Nagisa, Kayano, Nakamura, Kanzaki and Okuda and made a hasty bet that the winner would order the losers around. When one of them said he would stake his life on it, Nagisa, Kanzaki and Nakamura pointed their pencils at the taunters' throats and eyes. Gakushu Asano turned the bet into a contract for both classes with 50 other clauses, including one requiring Class E to answer any question truthfully if Class A won.

• Final exam results: Class E wins the bet (Episode 16)

  Asano kept first place overall and Class A held the top six spots, but Class E took first in English, social studies and science, winning the bet three subjects to two, and Asano was rebuked by his father. Karma dropped from fourth to thirteenth due to laziness and arrogance, and Korosensei's rebuke drove him away in despair, which prompted Karasuma to question Korosensei's approach.

• Home Economics tentacle claim and semester end (Episode 16)

  Terasaka, Hazama, Yoshida and Muramatsu, tied for first in Home Economics, claimed one tentacle each, so Korosensei had to grant the right to destroy seven tentacles in all. At the closing ceremony Class E confronted Asano and the Big Five to collect the prize, a holiday resort on a tiny Okinawa island, where the class will use the tentacle right. The Chairman privately resolved to restore the old order over the summer, and Korosensei declared the first semester over.

• Island assassination set-up (Episode 17)

  After a beetle hunt foiled Okajima's trap and Lovro coached the class, the students reached the Okinawa island, scouted while keeping Korosensei busy, and watched him waste his monthly skin shed on a sunburn. After dinner they led him to a theatre hut surrounded by water and announced it was time to kill him.

Character Graph

Nagisa Shiota (Nagisa)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who keeps notes on Korosensei's weaknesses. After he beat Takaoka with a real knife, Lovro also sensed hidden talent in him, told him about the Shinigami and offered to teach him a surefire killing technique.

• Assassin

  Carried out the knife-and-grenade attack in episode 1 and accepts that he and his classmates are assassins whose target is their own teacher.

• Real-knife challenge

  Walked up to Takaoka as calmly as if walking to school, feinted at his neck from behind and pinned him with the knife at his throat.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

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

• Ryoma Terasaka (Colleague, Mixed)

  Classmate who saddled him with the plan and the grenade for the first assassination attempt in episode 1. During the pool incident Nagisa urged him to share his plan with the class and was turned down, but Terasaka is now part of the class.

Tadaomi Karasuma

Ministry of Defense · PE teacher

Ministry of Defense officer overseeing the assassination who also teaches Class 3-E as assistant homeroom and PE teacher. He invited the veteran assassin Lovro to coach the class for the island assassination and worries whether the complex plan will hold.

• Government operative

  Explains that only world leaders know about the creature and that the class must kill him in secret.

• New PE teacher

  Meets the school chairman and takes on Class E as assistant homeroom and PE teacher, aiming to train the students in assassination.

• Stance toward the system

  Warned Korosensei that even he could not escape the chairman's system; suspected the chairman changed the scope to preserve that system and worried Korosensei would leave.

• Mock assassination duel

  Sees through Irina's drugged drink and tripping ruse and disarms Lovro; when Irina wires him to a tree, he stops her knife by strength, but finally gives in to her pleading and lets her win.

• Korosensei (Pact, Colleague, Neutral)

  The target he must see killed; the creature offered to teach Class 3-E himself and the government reluctantly accepted. He works beside him as a teacher while trying to kill him, and once worried he would leave after the failed exams.

• Irina Jelavić (Colleague, Mixed)

  Fellow teacher who targeted him in the mock assassination; he puts up with her antics but never lowers his guard, and on the island he tossed her into the sea for pestering him.

• Lovro Brovski (Colleague, Neutral)

  Invited Lovro as a special instructor to give a professional view on the class's island plan.

Irina Jelavić

English teacher · Assassin

Twenty-year-old professional assassin hired to kill Korosensei who now teaches Class 3-E English. She feigns affection for him after he 'rescues' her and uses her charm to set traps, though it is Korosensei who is smitten. On the island she plans to seize any chance if the students' plan goes off course.

• Assassination plan

  Sets traps for Korosensei with her henchmen, which he sees through; he punishes her, leaving her humiliated and vowing revenge.

• Change of heart

  After seeing how happy the students are under Korosensei's methods, she begins to second-guess leaving and later apologises to the class.

• Advice to the girls

  Urged the girls to appreciate living in a country removed from the dangers she had known and to develop their appeal.

• Mock assassination

  Attempts to kill Karasuma with a drugged drink and a tripping ruse, then with hidden wires and a knife, and wins by coy pleading.

• Korosensei (Other, Mixed)

  Her assassination target; she feigns affection to get close, but he sees through her traps.

• Tadaomi Karasuma (Colleague, Other, Mixed)

  Her supervisor and fellow teacher, whom she complains to about teaching; she won the mock assassination only because he finally let her.

• Nagisa Shiota (Other, Mixed)

  Student she kissed to demand the notes he keeps on Korosensei's weaknesses.

• Lovro Brovski (Mentor, Mixed)

  Her master, who berated her for growing too close to Class E and let her stay after the mock assassination.

Lovro Brovski

Retired assassin · Special instructor

Veteran hitman and Irina's master who arranged her posting at the school, then returned to test her in a mock assassination and allowed her to stay. Invited by Karasuma as a special instructor, he reviews the class's island plan, praises Chiba and Hayami, and tells Nagisa about the Shinigami.

• Mock assassination test

  Ambushes Irina, berates her for becoming too familiar with Class E, and watches her in the mock assassination against Karasuma.

• Special instructor

  Reviews the class's plan to destroy the seven promised tentacles and then strike all at once, and calls its blackmail opening brutal.

• Irina Jelavić (Mentor, Mixed)

  His pupil, whom he allowed to stay at the school after the mock assassination; before the island trip he had her help with the training.

• Nagisa Shiota (Mentor, Neutral)

  Sensed hidden talent in Nagisa, told him about the Shinigami and offered to teach him a surefire killing technique.

• Rinka Hayami (Mentor, Affinity)

  Student he praised for hitting moving targets and said he would have loved to train himself.

• Chiba (Mentor, Affinity)

  Student he rated unmatched at long-range sniping and said he would have loved to train himself.

Itona Horibe (Itona)

Transfer student

Second transfer student, brought by his guardian Shiro, whose hair is made of tentacles; he calls Korosensei his brother. He returned with Shiro to ambush Korosensei at the pool but withdrew after the class soaked his tentacles.

• Fighting style

  Prefers to fight only those stronger than himself; his hair wriggles with tentacles like Korosensei's.

• Shiro (Guardian, Mixed)

  Guardian who brought him to school, set up the duel, and joined him in the pool ambush on Korosensei.

• Korosensei (Other, Hostility)

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

Korosensei

Class 3-E teacher · Super creature

Super creature who destroyed 70 percent of the moon, moves at Mach 20 and teaches Class 3-E as its homeroom teacher, vowing to destroy Earth next March. On the island he wasted his monthly skin shed on a sunburn, weakening himself before the class's planned attack.

• Assassination target

  He offered to teach Class 3-E himself, and the government reluctantly accepted on condition that he never harms the students; whoever kills him by March earns ten billion yen.

• Teaching style

  Teaches the class with unusual methods, praising effort and creativity while chastising weak tactics.

• Sibling claim

  Itona and Shiro claim he is Itona's brother, but he insists he was raised an only child; the claim remains unexplained.

• Nagisa Shiota (Mentor, Mixed)

  Student who carried out the grenade attack in episode 1; Korosensei values his attempts and saw his talent against Takaoka, while Nagisa respects him as a teacher.

• Itona Horibe (Other, Mixed)

  Transfer student who calls him 'brother' and challenged him to a duel to the death; even after the pool ambush he invited Itona to join the class, but Itona left.

Shiro

Itona's guardian

A man dressed entirely in white who introduces himself as Itona's guardian and arranges his fights with Korosensei. He used Terasaka to blow the pool dam and weaken Korosensei with treated water, but withdrew when the class turned the fight around.

• Robe

  His white robe is made of anti-sensei material.

• Itona Horibe (Guardian, Mixed)

  Boy in his care whom he calls Korosensei's brother; when the pool ambush failed he admitted defeat and withdrew with him.

• Korosensei (Other, Hostility)

  Target he insists is Itona's brother and pits Itona against; at the pool he used Terasaka to weaken him.

Karma Akabane

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student back from a school suspension who is sharp and fearless; he was the first to wound Korosensei and chose to stay in Class E because assassination is more fun. Overconfident, he fell from 4th to 13th in the finals, and Korosensei deliberately let him taste defeat.

• Government briefing

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

• Stance toward Class E

  Chose to stay in Class E because assassination is more enjoyable than returning to his former class; scored a perfect mathematics score despite the changed questions.

• Challenge to teacher

  Challenged Korosensei to admit that leaving over the failed top-fifty goal was an escape from assassination.

• Korosensei (Other, Mentor, Mixed)

  His assassination target, whose genuine care has begun to change Karma's feelings; after the finals Korosensei deliberately made him face a crushing loss so he would stop relying on easy wins.

Ryoma Terasaka

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who felt left out as his classmates warmed to Korosensei and was used by Shiro in the pool plan. After taking Itona's blow in Karma's counterattack, he found his place in the class. In the finals he and three friends tied for first in Home Economics and used it to claim four more tentacles.

• Manipulated plan

  Accepted cash from Shiro to carry out the pool plan, then realized he had been used as a pawn.

• Shiro (Other, Hostility)

  Man who claimed to understand his frustration, promised to return Class E to how it was before Korosensei came, and gave him cash and a signal gun; realizing he had been used as a pawn, Terasaka turned against him.

• Itona Horibe (Other, Hostility)

  Transfer student who told him he has no vision and will always be weaker than Karma; at the pool Terasaka took his tentacle blow head-on.

• Karma Akabane (Colleague, Mixed)

  Karma goaded him to kill Korosensei himself if he disliked him; in the pool fight Terasaka took Itona's blow as Karma planned, then called Karma out for doing nothing and taking the credit, and the class dragged Karma into the water.

• Korosensei (Pact, Hostility)

  His teacher and target; exploiting the fact that nobody had said which five subjects counted, he won the right to shoot one of his tentacles by tying for first in Home Economics.

Chiba

Class 3-E student · Sniper

Class 3-E student praised by Karasuma and Lovro as an unrivaled long-range sniper with excellent spatial calculation.

• Specialty

  Long-range sniping

Kurahashi

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student and bug lover. Hunting a rare, pricey stag beetle over the summer, she claimed the albino beetle Korosensei caught.

• Bug hunt

  Looks for a rare bug that sells far above standard types; when Korosensei spots and catches an albino stag beetle, she leaps out of hiding to claim it.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Affinity)

  Teacher who caught the rare albino stag beetle she had been hunting; the two jumped for joy together.

Okajima

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who spent a month studying Korosensei's reactions to porn magazines to set a trap for the reward.

• Bounty trap

  Set a trap under a pile of porn magazines with anti-sensei BBs, triggered by a cut rope.

• Korosensei (Other, Hostility)

  Targets Korosensei for the ten-billion-yen reward with a porn-magazine trap.

Rinka Hayami

Class 3-E student · Sniper

Class 3-E student praised for precise hands and sharp dynamic vision, excelling at hitting moving targets.

• Specialty

  Shooting moving targets

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.

• Class E's place in the school system

  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. The chairman deliberately keeps it 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.

• Seven-tentacle right

  Class E won the right to destroy seven of Korosensei's tentacles in the finals and will use it in the island assassination. Each lost tentacle cuts his speed by 10%.

• Okinawa island resort

  The holiday resort on a tiny Okinawa island that Class E won from Class A. The class reserved the whole hotel, so even the last guest has left, and the island is the stage for the assassination.

• Shinigami, the world's best assassin

  According to Lovro, the best assassin in the world is known only as the Shinigami (God of Death), and targets who cannot be assassinated eventually encounter him.

Clue Board

• 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.

• Unknown motive for the deal (Episode 1)

  Korosensei himself offered to teach Class 3-E, and the government reluctantly agreed on condition that he never harms the students, but no one knows why he wants to teach. His motive remains unexplained.

• 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 that Korosensei is his brother and will be his teacher from tomorrow, then said they would go settle the score over the moon. What the two 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.

• Another critical weakness of Korosensei (Episode 14)

  A further weakness of Korosensei surfaced during the pool assault, described as far more important than his inability to swim. The class did not realize it at the time, and its nature is not revealed.

• Three unreachable assassins (Episode 17)

  Lovro tells Karasuma that three promising assassins he had lined up can no longer be reached. He guesses they may have lost their nerve after hearing that the pros keep failing, but the real reason is unknown.

• Shinigami, the world's best assassin (Episode 17)

  Lovro says the best assassin in the world is known only as the Shinigami (God of Death), and that targets who cannot be assassinated eventually encounter him; his identity is not revealed.

• Lovro's surefire killing technique (Episode 17)

  Lovro begins to tell Nagisa of a surefire killing technique, but the explanation is cut off, leaving the technique unrevealed.

Deduction Board

Facts

• Trains Class 3-E for the assassination

  Lovro is invited by Karasuma to train the students while Korosensei is away escaping the summer heat on Mount Everest; he reviews the class plan and assesses their marksmanship.

• Split scouting groups

  Half the class splits into smaller groups to distract Korosensei while the rest scout the island and prepare for the night's attempt.

• Final gathering in the theatre hut

  After dinner the students take Korosensei to a small theatre hut surrounded by water and announce the time has come to kill him.

Evidence

• Lovro spots Nagisa

  Lovro recognizes Nagisa's hidden skill and tells him of the Shinigami, the best assassin in the world, and offers a surefire killing technique.

• Target expectation

  Korosensei is looking forward to the attempt, as the students announce it.

• Korosensei weakened

  Korosensei is sunburnt, then sheds his skin, and unwittingly weakens himself by forgetting that the skin shedding is a once-a-month measure.

Inferences

• Blackmail as the opening move

  The class plans to rattle Korosensei with the beetle costume and the porn-magazine incident before striking, an opening Lovro calls quite brutal.

• Tentacle loss weakens Korosensei

  Losing tentacles reduces Korosensei's strength, so the tentacle-destruction rights won in the exams give the class a real advantage.

• Plan likely to be sprung in the hut

  The waterside theatre hut setting suggests the planned strike location for the night's attempt.

Suspicions

• Another unnamed weakness

  Nagisa's narration says another weakness of Korosensei came up that day, more important than his inability to swim, but what it is has not been revealed yet.

• Interest in recruiting Nagisa

  Lovro admits he would have loved to train Hayami and Chiba himself, asks Nagisa whether he is interested in assassination as a career and, though Nagisa politely declines, wants to nurture him further.

• Irina's opening

  Irina expects the students' plan could backfire and intends to strike herself when it does.

Battle Record

During the Okinawa resort trip the class lures Korosensei to a theatre hut surrounded by water and announces the time to kill him; the strike is not shown in this episode.

Home economics tie-break tentacle destruction

Seven-tentacle right secured · Episode 16

Location: Kunugigaoka school

Trigger: Four students tied for first in Home Economics and argued that nobody had specified which five subjects counted

Sides

• Class E — claimants: Ryoma Terasaka, Hazama, Yoshida, Muramatsu / instigators: Karma Akabane, Chiba
• Korosensei — target: Korosensei

Outcome: Korosensei had to grant the right to destroy seven tentacles, to be used on the island

Aftermath

• Korosensei said he was glad Home Economics teachers can set their own exams, which pushed students to their limits

Okajima's porn magazine bug trap

Bug hunt ambush · Episode 17

Location: School bushes

Trigger: Okajima aims for the 10-billion-yen reward on Korosensei

Ambush

• Okajima and the bug hunters — trap setter: Okajima / watching from hiding: Sugino, Maehara, Kurahashi, Nagisa Shiota
• Korosensei — target: Korosensei

Outcome: Trap foiled: Korosensei spots and grabs an albino stag beetle before the trap is sprung, and Kurahashi's excitement gives away the group's hiding place

Aftermath

• Kurahashi claims the albino stag beetle, worth hundreds of thousands of yen

Island theatre hut assassination attempt

Okinawa island resort · Episode 17– (Ongoing)

Location: Small theatre hut surrounded by water on the island

Trigger: Class 3-E's plan to assassinate Korosensei during the island trip

Assassination attempt

• Class 3-E — attackers: Class 3-E students
• Korosensei — target: Korosensei

Outcome: Pending; the students announce that the time to kill their teacher has come

Ability Table

Season Summary

Season 1 — Season 1

Episodes 1–17

Korosensei, a tentacled creature that blew away 70 percent of the moon and vows to destroy Earth next March, becomes homeroom teacher of Class 3-E, the looked-down-upon 'End Class' of Kunugigaoka Junior High. The government offers a 10 billion yen bounty for the students to kill him by March, and Karasuma of the Ministry of Defense comes in as PE teacher to train them. Karma back from suspension, the assassin English teacher Irina, the AI transfer student Ritsu and the tentacled Itona brought by Shiro all take their shots at him, and through it all, including the Kyoto school trip, the students slowly regain their confidence. Chairman Gakuho Asano, who keeps Class E at the bottom, changes the midterm scope at the last minute, and at the ball game tournament the baseball club he coaches himself loses to Class E's boys; Korosensei leaves the deciding round with the chairman to the finals.

Nagisa reveals a talent for assassination by beating the brutal instructor Takaoka, and Terasaka, once used by Shiro in a pool trap, becomes part of the class. Class E then wins the end-of-term bet against Class A's Big Five and, through a Home Economics loophole, the right to destroy seven of Korosensei's tentacles, to be used on the Okinawa resort island it won as a prize.

After training with the veteran assassin Lovro, the class reaches the island, keeps a sunburnt Korosensei busy until he wastes his monthly skin shed, and leads him to a theatre hut surrounded by water to begin the assassination.

Music Releases

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