Assassination Classroom Episode 6 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Test Time

Ahead of the midterms Korosensei tutors every student one-on-one with high-speed clones, while Chairman Gakuho Asano visits to make clear that Class E must stay at the bottom so the other students work to avoid it. When the students say the assassination reward is more realistic than studying, Korosensei declares that unless every one of them reaches the top 50, he will flatten the school and leave.

But the scope of every subject is changed two days before the exams without Class E being told, and the chairman personally teaches the changes to the main-campus classes, so no one but Karma makes the top 50. As the dejected Korosensei blames himself, Karma attacks him and asks whether he is running away because he is scared of being killed, and Korosensei vows to strike back in the finals.

• Chairman's visit and challenge

  The chairman insists Class E remain at the bottom to motivate others, reports a threat by a Class E student, and challenges Korosensei to solve a problem within a second.

• Teacher's demands on the class

  Korosensei tells the students to aim for the top fifty of the 186 students, argues their reliance on assassination reflects inferiority, and threatens to leave unless they show another source of confidence.

• Midterm exams and scope change

  Class E takes the tests in the main building, Nagisa solves problems with Korosensei's method, but unexpected questions overwhelm the class after the scope was changed two days earlier.

• Karma's attack and Korosensei's vow

  Karma reveals a perfect math score and attempts an assassination, Korosensei denies fleeing, and promises to strike back through the final exams.

Recent Timeline

• Karma's return and the cliff dilemma (Episode 3)

  Back from suspension, Karma became the first to wound Korosensei with knife shards hidden on his palm, kept up his provocations, and finally leapt off a cliff with a gun, daring him to save him and be shot or let him fall and be finished as a teacher. Korosensei caught him in a web of tentacles and said abandoning a student was never an option, and Karma acknowledged him as a real teacher.

• Irina's shed trap and apology (Episode 4)

  Professional assassin Irina Jelavić, the new English teacher, lured Korosensei into the storage shed for her henchmen to gun down, but he smelled the strangers, knocked them out and humiliated her. After sneering at the students and provoking a revolt, Irina apologized while teaching them practical English, and the class accepted her as 'Bitch-sensei'.

• Okuda's poison and the school assembly (Episode 5)

  The 'poison' Okuda brewed with Korosensei turned out to be a drug that liquefied him, and he taught her that deceiving a target takes language skills too. Class E then hurried down the mountain to a school assembly, where it was ridiculed and the disguised Korosensei handed out the handouts it alone had not received. Afterwards Nagisa stood his ground against two main-campus students who threatened him.

• The chairman's visit and the top-50 ultimatum (Episode 6)

  Chairman Gakuho Asano visited to make clear that Class E must stay at the bottom in grades and treatment so the other students work to avoid it. When students argued that the reward was more realistic than studying, Korosensei called them unfit as assassins and declared that unless every one of them placed in the top 50 of the 186 third-years in the midterms, he would flatten the school and leave.

• The changed exam scope and Karma's taunt (Episode 6)

  Two days before the exams the scope of every subject was changed without Class E being told, and the chairman personally taught the changes to the main-campus classes. Stumped by unexpected questions, no one but Karma made the top 50. As the dejected Korosensei blamed himself, Karma attacked him and asked whether he was running away out of fear, and Korosensei vowed to strike back in the finals.

Character Graph

Korosensei

Class 3-E homeroom teacher · Super creature

Super creature who blew away 70 percent of the moon, vows to destroy Earth next March and flies at up to Mach 20; he asked to become Class 3-E's homeroom teacher himself. He tutors every student with clones and demands they all reach the top 50; when the chairman's scope change foils them, he blames himself and vows revenge in the finals.

• Assassination target

  The government reluctantly accepted his own offer to teach Class 3-E on condition he harms no students, and the class must kill him by next March for a 10 billion yen reward.

• Teaching style

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

• Tadaomi Karasuma (Pact, Colleague, Hostility)

  Ministry of Defense officer who relayed the government's reluctant acceptance of his offer to teach Class 3-E; he wants the creature dead and openly opposes him. He now teaches PE to train the class in assassination.

• Nagisa Shiota (Mentor, Mixed)

  Student who carried out the grenade attack in episode 1; Korosensei praised how naturally he approached but scolded him for not protecting himself.

Nagisa Shiota (Nagisa)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who keeps notes on Korosensei's habits and weak points. In the midterms he solves problems the way Korosensei taught but is stopped by the changed scope, yet he still feels proud to be in Class E.

• 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.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

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

• Karma Akabane (Friend, Affinity)

  Classmate from first and second year; Nagisa knows how sharp and dangerous he is.

Tadaomi Karasuma (Karasuma)

Japanese Ministry of Defense · PE teacher

Ministry of Defense officer serving as Class E's assistant homeroom and PE teacher. He warns Korosensei that no one, not even he, can escape the chairman's system, and protests the last-minute change to the exam scope.

• 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 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 Class E.

• Korosensei (Pact, Colleague, Hostility)

  The creature who offered to teach Class 3-E himself; Karasuma relayed the government's reluctant acceptance and wants him dead. He warns him that not even he can escape the chairman's system, and after the exam setback fears he will leave Class E.

Karma Akabane (Karma)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student and the first person to wound Korosensei. He scores 100 in math despite the changed scope, chooses to stay in Class E because assassination is more fun, and goads a dejected Korosensei into staying.

• Why he was sent to Class E

  He hurt a top student while defending a bullied Class E senior; his homeroom teacher, who had promised to always side with him, blamed him and had him moved to Class E.

• Stance toward Class E

  Chose to stay in Class E because assassination is more fun than returning to his old class; scored 100 in math despite the changed scope.

• Challenge to Korosensei

  Asked Korosensei whether leaving over the missed top-50 goal was just running away because he was scared of being killed.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

  Target he still means to kill; after being caught off the cliff he accepts him as a real teacher, and his killing intent turns 'healthy'. In episode 6 he credits Korosensei's extra lessons for his math score and teases him over the failed goal.

Kayano (Kaede Kayano)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who sits near Nagisa and came up with the nickname 'Korosensei'. When Irina looks down on the class, she joins the protest against her.

• Naming Korosensei

  Asked Korosensei his name, and when he told the class to pick one, came up with 'Korosensei'.

• Nagisa Shiota (Friend, Affinity)

  Classmate she often talks with about Korosensei and the assassination.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

  Homeroom teacher and target, whom she nicknamed Korosensei.

Ryoma Terasaka (Terasaka)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who runs with Yoshida and Muramatsu. He planned the grenade attack in episode 1, and in episode 6 he grumbles that Korosensei's clone tutoring is nonsense.

• Grenade plan

  Gave Nagisa a toy grenade packed with gunpowder and anti-sensei BBs and set it off by remote, insisting it could not kill anyone.

• Nagisa Shiota (Other, Mixed)

  Classmate he pressed into carrying the grenade, promising to cover any medical bills with the reward.

• Korosensei (Other, Hostility)

  Assassination target who scolded him after the grenade attack; Terasaka shot back that he was not afraid of him.

Tomohito Sugino (Sugino)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who was on the baseball team before being dropped to Class E. After his baseball assassination failed, Korosensei's advice to use his flexible elbows and wrists led him to develop his own breaking ball.

• Pitching style

  Tried to copy a major-league pitcher's form, then developed his own breaking ball after Korosensei told him his flexible elbows and wrists were his real talent.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Affinity)

  Teacher who went to New York to check with the pitcher himself and coached Sugino toward his own style.

Irina Jelavić (Bitch-sensei)

English teacher · Assassin

Professional assassin working as Class 3-E's temporary English teacher, called 'Bitch-sensei' by the class. When Korosensei asks, she explains that a pro always prepares backup plans, which he uses to teach the class about having a 'second blade'.

• Assassination plan

  Rigged the storage shed with her henchmen and real machine guns; Korosensei smelled the strangers, was unharmed by lead bullets, and 'cared for' her as punishment.

• Change of heart

  After Karasuma shows her how Korosensei writes separate tests for each student, she apologizes to the class and offers to teach practical conversation.

• Korosensei (Other, Mixed)

  Her assassination target; she feigns affection to get close, and though he looks smitten he sees through her traps.

• Tadaomi Karasuma (Colleague, Neutral)

  Her supervisor who introduced her to the class; she complains to him about having to teach, and he tells her not to look down on the students.

• Nagisa Shiota (Other, Mixed)

  She kisses him to get the notes he keeps on Korosensei's weaknesses.

Isogai (Yuma Isogai)

Class 3-E class representative

One of Class 3-E's class representatives. In episode 5 he and Kataoka help Korosensei carry lab equipment, joking that having such a strange creature as homeroom teacher is just a matter of getting used to.

• Knife training

  Paired with Maehara against Karasuma in PE; Karasuma easily fended off both of them.

• Tadaomi Karasuma (Mentor, Neutral)

  PE teacher who challenged him to land a knife hit.

Maehara (Hiroto Maehara)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who questioned Karasuma's training and failed to land a knife hit on him. In episode 5 he tries to stab Korosensei with Okajima and Mimura while Korosensei sets up the lab, and fails.

• Knife training

  Paired with Isogai against Karasuma in PE; Karasuma easily fended off both of them.

• Tadaomi Karasuma (Mentor, Neutral)

  PE teacher who challenged him to land a knife hit.

Kataoka (Megu Kataoka)

Class 3-E class representative

One of Class 3-E's class representatives, alongside Isogai. In episode 5 she helps Korosensei carry lab equipment and says he just about passes as a homeroom teacher because he teaches properly.

• Class representative

  Speaks up for the class, as when she tells Karasuma the students cannot warm to Irina.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Neutral)

  Homeroom teacher she helps out, while remembering he is still their target.

Okuda (Manami Okuda)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who excels at chemistry but struggles with Japanese class. She handed Korosensei three poisons outright, then brewed a 'poison' with him that turned out to liquefy him, and learned that deceiving a target takes language skills.

• Poison research

  Researched a poison with Korosensei after he warned her that making poison alone was unsafe; he tells her to train her language skills so she can explain her science to others.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

  Teacher and target who drank her poisons, tricked her with the 'poison' she brewed, and told her to train her language skills.

Gakuho Asano (Chairman)

Kunugigaoka chairman

Chairman of Kunugigaoka Academy who built it into one of the country's top schools in ten years. He keeps Class E at the bottom in grades and treatment so the other 95 percent will work to avoid it, and before the midterms he changed the scope and taught the main-campus classes himself.

• Stance toward Class E

  Says he will not touch the assassination, but Class E must stay weak and miserable; tells Korosensei to stop low-ranked students from defying regular students.

• Changed exam scope

  Changed the scope of every subject two days before the midterms and personally taught the changes to the main-campus classes.

• Korosensei (Hierarchy, Hostility)

  As his employer he visits to greet him, has him try to solve a puzzle in one second, and tells him some problems cannot be solved with speed.

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.

• 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.

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.

• What happened in the shed (Episode 4)

  When Nagisa asks what Korosensei did to Irina in the shed, he only gives a vague answer. What actually happened in there is never shown.

• A plan behind Irina's change (Episode 4)

  Karasuma thinks Irina's fitting into the class may have been Korosensei's plan all along. Whether Korosensei really intended it is not confirmed.

• Chairman's motive for the changed exams (Episode 6)

  Karasuma suspects the chairman changed the exam scope in every subject just two days before the tests to preserve the system that keeps Class E at the bottom. The motive is not confirmed.

• 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.

Deduction Board

Facts

• Class E kept at the bottom

  The chairman says Class E must stay at the bottom in grades and treatment so the other students work hard to avoid it, and that low-ranked students must not defy regular students.

• Scope changed two days before

  The scope of every subject was changed substantially two days before the exams, and Class E sat the tests without knowing.

• Only Karma made the top 50

  Karma, who scored 100 in math despite the changed scope, was the only one to make the top 50; the rest of Class E fell short of the goal.

Evidence

• Motivation through contempt

  The chairman argued that having people to look down on motivated students to succeed.

• Main-building teacher's account

  A main-building teacher said the chairman had personally taught the changed material to the other classes, while claiming that notice of the change had already been sent.

• Problems speed can't solve

  The chairman had Korosensei try to solve a puzzle in one second and told him some problems cannot be solved with speed.

Inferences

• A teacher who never abandons students

  In the cliff dilemma Korosensei saved Karma without hesitation and said abandoning a student was never an option; when a student's life is at stake, he will always come to the rescue.

• Nagisa no longer cowers

  Nagisa calmly faced down two main-campus students who threatened him, showing that his time in Class E has changed how he handles intimidation.

• System before assassination

  The chairman says he will not touch the assassination, but he will not let anyone, even Korosensei, upset the system that keeps Class E weak. Karasuma also reads the scope change as a move to protect that system.

Suspicions

• Motive for the deal

  Even the government does not know why the creature asked to become Class 3-E's homeroom teacher.

• Karma's lingering intent to kill

  Karma still means to kill Korosensei himself and attacked him again after the exams, but he now treats him as a real teacher and chose to stay in Class E because assassination is more fun.

• What the chairman knows

  Saying the Ministry of Defense briefed him, the chairman calls Korosensei a sad being who meant to become a savior but became a great evil. How much he really knows has not been shown.

Battle Record

After the changed exam scope wrecked the top-fifty goal, Karma attacked the dejected Korosensei and goaded him, and Korosensei vowed to strike back in the finals.

Storage shed ambush

Irina's trap against Korosensei · Episode 4

Location: Storage shed

Trigger: Irina's assassination attempt

Sides

• Irina Jelavić — attacker: Irina Jelavić, her henchmen
• Korosensei — target: Korosensei

Outcome: Trap failed; Korosensei unharmed; henchmen unconscious

Aftermath

• Korosensei punishes Irina by dressing her in a gym outfit

Okuda's poison attempt

Three poisons and a homework 'poison' · Episode 5

Location: Class E

Trigger: Chemistry-minded Okuda went after Korosensei with poisons she made herself

Sides

• Okuda — attacker: Okuda
• Korosensei — target: Korosensei

Outcome: Korosensei drank all three poisons and only his face changed, and the 'poison' they brewed together turned out to be a drug that turned him liquid

Aftermath

• Korosensei taught her that getting a target to take poison takes the language skills to deceive them

Karma's ambush after the failed exams

Assassination attempt on the dejected teacher · Episode 6

Location: Class 3-E classroom

Trigger: Korosensei blamed himself and lost heart after the top-fifty goal collapsed in the midterms

Attacker vs target

• Karma Akabane — attacker: Karma Akabane
• Korosensei — target: Korosensei

Outcome: Attempt ended in conversation; Karma stated he would stay in Class E and Korosensei denied fleeing

Aftermath

• Karma stated he would remain in Class E because assassination was more enjoyable than returning to his former class
• The class joined in teasing Korosensei about running away over the failed goal
• Korosensei promised to strike back through the final exams

Ability Table

Season Summary

Season 1 — Season 1

Episodes 1–6

Class 3-E must assassinate their Mach 20 homeroom teacher, who blew away 70 percent of the moon and vows to destroy Earth next March, for a 10 billion yen reward, yet every attempt fails while he teaches them to believe in themselves. Sugino finds his own pitching style through Korosensei's advice, and Karasuma of the Ministry of Defense takes over PE to drill them in assassination basics. Karma Akabane returns from suspension, becomes the first to wound Korosensei, and after leaping off a cliff to force a dilemma and being caught by his tentacles, accepts him as a real teacher. The professional assassin Irina Jelavić arrives as a temporary English teacher and feigns affection to get close, but Korosensei sees through her shed trap; after she apologizes to the class, she is accepted as 'Bitch-sensei'.

Okuda brews a 'poison' with Korosensei's help, only to find it is a drug that liquefies him, and learns that deceiving a target takes language skills too. At a school assembly Class E is ridiculed by the main campus, but Nagisa no longer backs down from the students who threaten him.

Before the midterms, Chairman Gakuho Asano makes clear that Class E must stay at the bottom so the rest of the school works hard. Korosensei demands that everyone reach the top 50, but a last-minute change to the exam scope defeats them and only Karma makes it; goaded by Karma, Korosensei vows to strike back in the finals.

Music Releases

• Seishun Satsubatsuron (OP)
• Hello, shooting-star (ED)