Assassination Classroom Episode 7 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

School Trip Time, First Period

The class's three-day Kyoto trip doubles as an assassination assignment. In Gion, high school delinquents from another school beat Nagisa's group and abduct Kanzaki and Kayano; their leader recognizes Kanzaki, who once played in disguise to escape her strict father's demands.

Using Korosensei's huge guidebook and his map of hideouts, Nagisa, Karma, Sugino and Okuda find them, and Korosensei, in a black hood, has already taken care of the reinforcements. His retort to the delinquents, that wherever a fish lives it grows beautiful if it swims forward, clears Kanzaki's doubts, and the group resumes the trip without attempting the assassination.

• Trip groups and plans

  The three-day Kyoto trip doubles as an assassination assignment with a government-hired sniper. Nagisa forms a group with Karma, Sugino, Kayano, Okuda and Kanzaki, and Korosensei hands everyone a dictionary-thick guidebook.

• Gion abduction

  On the quiet Gion route Kanzaki chose, high school delinquents from another school beat Karma, Nagisa and Sugino and drive off with Kanzaki and Kayano. In captivity, Kanzaki tells Kayano she once played in disguise to escape her strict father's demands.

• Rescue

  Following the guidebook's advice for abductions and Korosensei's map of hideouts, the group finds them. Korosensei, in a black hood, has already dealt with the reinforcements, and his retort to the delinquents, that a fish grows beautiful wherever it lives as long as it swims forward, clears Kanzaki's doubts.

Recent Timeline

• Storage shed trap and class apology (Episode 4)

  Irina lured Korosensei into a storage shed where her hidden henchmen opened fire, but he detected the unfamiliar adult men by their body odor, remained unharmed, and left them unconscious before punishing her in front of the class. After she insulted the class over exam focus and vowed to kill them, the students rioted; she then wrote an English sentence for them to recite, used her own example to show why language matters, and apologized. The class responded by nicknaming her Bitch-sensei.

• Poison attempt, mountain trip, and post-assembly clash (Episode 5)

  Okuda, skilled in chemistry but weak at surprise attacks, prepared a poison with Korosensei's guidance; he drank it, revealing it activated his cells, and explained that assassination requires language skills to deceive a target. Class E, isolated from the main building, hurried down the mountain past a bridge, snakes, falling rocks and bees to reach an assembly on time, where the principal mocked them and the presenter forgot their handouts until Korosensei supplied handwritten copies. Afterward other students confronted Nagisa and demanded Class E stay submissive; when one threatened to kill him, Nagisa noted they had never actually tried killing anyone, which Korosensei took as proof Class E would not yield.

• Chairman's visit and top-fifty ultimatum (Episode 6)

  Chairman Asano visited to insist that Class E stay at the bottom in both grades and treatment, since fear of falling into it motivates the other students, and ordered Korosensei to stop its bottom-ranked students from defying regular students. When some students argued that the assassination reward was more realistic than studying, Korosensei declared them unqualified as assassins. Warning that he would flatten the school and leave if they had no other source of confidence, he demanded that every student place in the top fifty of the next day's midterms.

• Midterm scope change and Karma's attack (Episode 6)

  Two days before the midterms the scope of every subject changed, and unexpected questions overwhelmed Class E. Karasuma challenged the tests' fairness, and a main-building teacher said the chairman had personally taught the changed material to the other classes. After the exams Karma Akabane attacked the dejected Korosensei and revealed he had still earned a perfect math score despite the changes. He chose to stay in Class E, and Korosensei denied running away and promised to strike back in the final exams.

• Gion abduction of Kanzaki and Kayano (Episode 7)

  On the Kyoto trip, high school delinquents from another school ambushed Nagisa's group on the quiet Gion route Kanzaki had chosen, beat Karma, Nagisa and Sugino, and drove off with Kanzaki and Kayano. Using Korosensei's guidebook and his map of likely hideouts, the group found them, and Korosensei, in a black hood, had already dealt with the reinforcements. The group resumed the trip without attempting the assassination.

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. On the Kyoto trip he wrote the class a huge guidebook and, in a black hood, took down the delinquents' reinforcements himself.

• 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.

• 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.

• Kanzaki (Mentor, Affinity)

  Student he rescued from the abduction; his retort to the delinquents, that a fish grows beautiful wherever it lives if it swims forward, cleared her doubts.

Nagisa Shiota (Nagisa)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who keeps notes on Korosensei's habits and weak points. On the Kyoto trip he was in a group with Karma, Sugino, Kayano, Okuda and Kanzaki, and used Korosensei's guidebook to track down where Kanzaki and Kayano had been taken.

• 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.

Kayano

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who often talks with Nagisa and came up with the nickname 'Korosensei' in episode 1. She was in Nagisa's Kyoto trip group with Kanzaki, whom Sugino had invited, and the two were abducted together in Gion.

• Kanzaki (Other, Affinity)

  Classmate in her trip group; while they were held captive together, Kanzaki told her about her past.

Kanzaki

Class 3-E student

Quiet, well-liked Class 3-E student, called the class madonna, who picked her group's quiet Gion route for the assassination. Abducted there by high school delinquents, she admitted she once changed her look and played where no one knew her to escape her strict father's demands.

• Change of self

  After the rescue, Korosensei's words about swimming forward wherever you are cleared her doubts, and she thanked him.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Affinity)

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

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 Gion he knocked down one of the delinquents before being beaten, then helped corner the gang using Korosensei's guidebook.

• 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.

Tomohito Sugino (Sugino)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student and former baseball club pitcher who once threw a BB-studded ball at Korosensei. On the Kyoto trip he was in Nagisa's group and was beaten with Nagisa and Karma when the delinquents struck.

• 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)

  Teacher who coached him toward his own pitching style.

Okuda

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who is good at chemistry but poor with words; Korosensei urged her to build the language skills to deceive a target. In Gion she hid during the attack, then joined Nagisa's group in finding the captives.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

  Teacher who drank the poisons she made for him and coached her on reading people and choosing words.

Abductor leader

High school delinquent

Leader of a gang of high school delinquents from another school who were also on a school trip to Kyoto. After getting hold of Kanzaki's itinerary, his gang abducted Kanzaki and Kayano in Gion, but Korosensei and Nagisa's group took them down.

• Earlier sighting

  Recognized Kanzaki from a Tokyo arcade the previous summer and said he had planned to snatch her then but lost track of her.

• Kanzaki (Other, Hostility)

  Girl he recognized and abducted, threatening to drag her down to his level.

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 told the class the Kyoto trip doubles as an assassination assignment and that the government had already arranged a professional sniper.

• 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.

• Korosensei (Colleague, Hostility)

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

Chairman (Gakuho Asano)

School chairman

Gakuho Asano, chairman of Kunugigaoka, who keeps Class E at the bottom in grades and treatment so that other students work hard out of fear of falling into it. He changed the midterm scope at the last minute and reportedly taught the new material to the other classes himself, leaving only Karma in the top 50.

• 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.

• Korosensei (Hierarchy, Hostility)

  Teacher he employs, whom he tested with a one-second puzzle to show that some problems cannot be solved with speed.

Isogai

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E's male class representative, who once teamed up with Maehara in PE to try to land a knife on Karasuma. Before the Kyoto trip he and Kataoka collected everyone's trip groups.

• Kataoka (Colleague, Neutral)

  Fellow class representative who handles class matters with him.

Kataoka

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E's female class representative, who once helped Korosensei carry equipment with Isogai. Before the Kyoto trip she asked each student to report their trip group to her or Isogai.

• Isogai (Colleague, Neutral)

  Fellow class representative who handles class matters with her.

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.

• Kyoto trip doubling as an assassination

  The three-day school trip to Kyoto doubles as an assassination assignment. The students move around in groups and choose sightseeing routes that give a government-hired sniper chances to shoot Korosensei, who has handed out a dictionary-thick guidebook he wrote himself.

• Kyoto history of assassinations

  Kyoto is a city where many influential figures were assassinated in the past, which makes it a fitting destination for a class whose assignment is assassination.

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.

Deduction Board

Facts

• Kanzaki and Kayano abducted

  High school delinquents from another school beat the boys of Nagisa's group on a Gion back street and drove off with Kanzaki and Kayano.

• Hideout found with the guidebook

  Following the abduction advice in Korosensei's guidebook, Nagisa's group searched the secluded spots nearby and found where the two were being held.

• Korosensei got there first

  Wearing a black hood, Korosensei had already dealt with the delinquents' reinforcements before the students arrived.

Evidence

• Quiet Gion back street

  The Gion back street Kanzaki picked was nearly deserted, which made the abduction easy.

• Leader who recognized Kanzaki

  The abductor leader said he recognized Kanzaki from a Tokyo arcade the previous summer and that an earlier abduction plan failed when his friends lost track of her.

• Korosensei's hideout map

  A map of likely hideouts that Korosensei drew up while scouting helped Nagisa's group narrow the search.

Inferences

• Weak points or character flaws

  The weak points found so far are closer to flaws in Korosensei's character than weaknesses an assassin could exploit.

• Defiance, not glares

  The chairman tolerates Class E glaring like assassins but will not allow bottom-ranked students to defy regular students.

• Practiced abductors

  Karma suspected the attackers were experienced at this kind of crime.

Suspicions

• Wrong targets

  Only after being knocked down with the thick guidebooks did the delinquents wonder whether they had picked the wrong people.

• Chairman protecting his system

  Karasuma suspected the chairman changed the scope of every subject just before the midterms to protect his system.

• Karma's changed killing intent

  Karma still means to kill Korosensei with his own hands, but since being caught off the cliff his killing intent has turned 'healthy' and he treats him as a real teacher.

Battle Record

High school delinquents from another school abducted Kanzaki and Kayano in Gion during the Kyoto trip; Nagisa's group and Korosensei rescued them.

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

Karma's ambush after the failed exams

Assassination attempt on the dejected teacher · Episode 6

Location: Class 3-E classroom

Trigger: Teacher's dejection after Class E's failed top-fifty goal on the exams

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
• Students joined in teasing Korosensei about leaving over the failed goal
• Teacher promised to strike back through the final exams

Gion abduction

Kyoto school trip · Episode 7

Location: Gion, Kyoto

Trigger: High school delinquents on their own school trip ambushed Nagisa's group on a quiet Gion back street, targeting Kanzaki, whom their leader recognized.

Sides

• Nagisa's group — rescuers: Nagisa Shiota, Karma Akabane, Tomohito Sugino, Okuda / backup: Korosensei
• Hostages — hostages: Kanzaki, Kayano
• Abductors — attackers: Abductor leader, his gang, reinforcements

Outcome: Korosensei had already dealt with the reinforcements, the students knocked out the gang, and Kanzaki and Kayano were freed.

Aftermath

• Kanzaki thanked Korosensei, whose words cleared her doubts
• The group resumed its trip without carrying out the assassination

Ability Table

Season Summary

Season 1 — Season 1

Episodes 1–7

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.

Music Releases

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