Assassination Classroom Episode 8 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

School Trip Time, Second Period

On the second day in Kyoto, the government's hired sniper Red Eye, briefed by Karasuma that the target is not human, keeps failing: a yatsuhashi sweet stops his first bullet, Korosensei slips into a staged sword fight, and mucus on oil-blotting paper catches the second. When Korosensei leaves to help Nagisa's group, Red Eye calls off the attempt, and after Korosensei thanks him over a souvenir, he quits to see the city.

At the inn the students share crushes, gossip with Irina and chase the eavesdropping Korosensei. Nagisa realizes their class will end next March, and world leaders decide to send two special assassins to Class 3-E.

• Red Eye's sniping

  Briefed by Karasuma that the target is not human, the government's sniper Red Eye fires at Korosensei at the Hozugawa Bridge, where a yatsuhashi sweet stops the bullet, and from the Yasaka pagoda, where mucus on oil-blotting paper catches it; at a staged sword show he cannot even aim.

• Red Eye quits

  When Korosensei leaves to help Nagisa's group, Red Eye calls off the day's attempt. Korosensei brings him a souvenir and thanks him for making the trip a richer lesson, and Red Eye quits the job to see the city.

• Night at the inn

  Kanzaki shows off her hidden gaming skill, the class learns the bath foam is Korosensei's mucus, the boys rank the girls they like while the girls trade crush talk with Irina, and the eavesdropping Korosensei is chased through the inn.

• End of the trip

  Nagisa tells Kayano this class will surely end next March, and she answers that she wants to leave nothing undone; meanwhile world leaders decide to send two special assassins to Class 3-E.

Recent Timeline

• Okuda's poison attempt and mountain assembly (Episode 5)

  Okuda, skilled in chemistry but weak at surprise attacks, prepared a poison under Korosensei's guidance, and he drank it to show it activated his cells. He explained that assassination needs language skills to deceive a target. Class E then hurried down the mountain through a bridge, a snake, falling rocks and bees to reach the school assembly on time, where the principal ridiculed them. Afterward other students confronted Nagisa, and when one threatened to kill him he replied they had never 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.

• Red Eye's failed sniping (Episode 8)

  The government's hired sniper Red Eye, briefed by Karasuma that the target was not human, shot at Korosensei during the Kyoto tour. A yatsuhashi sweet stopped his first bullet at the Hozugawa Bridge, he could not aim when Korosensei joined a staged sword fight, and his second bullet from the Yasaka pagoda stuck in mucus on oil-blotting paper. When Korosensei left to help Nagisa's group, Red Eye called off the day's attempt, and he quit the job after Korosensei thanked him.

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 stopped every bullet from a hired sniper, then thanked the sniper for making the trip a richer lesson.

• 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.

• Red Eye (Other, Mixed)

  Sniper whose bullets he stopped; he brought him a souvenir and thanked him for enriching the trip.

Nagisa Shiota (Nagisa)

Class 3-E student

Class 3-E student who keeps notes on Korosensei's habits and weak points. As the Kyoto trip ended, he told Kayano that whether or not Earth survives, their class will surely end next March, and she answered that she wants to leave nothing undone.

• 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. After being abducted with Kanzaki in Gion, she enjoyed seeing new sides of everyone on the trip and told Nagisa she would like to go on another one.

• Nagisa Shiota (Other, Affinity)

  Classmate she talked with at the end of the trip about their class ending next March.

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. On the Kyoto trip she was in Nagisa's group, and at the inn Karma named her as the girl he likes.

• Korosensei (Mentor, Mixed)

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

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. At the inn he named Okuda as the girl he likes, because she could probably make strange drugs like chloroform to widen the range of his pranks.

• 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.

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 briefed the sniper Red Eye that the target was not human, and after Red Eye quit he judged the Kyoto plan had reached its limit and let the students enjoy the rest of the trip.

• 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.

Irina Jelavić (Irina)

English teacher · Assassin

Professional assassin hired by the government who came to Class 3-E as its English teacher; she feigned affection for Korosensei to get close, but he saw through her trap and humiliated her. After apologizing to the class she stayed on as the teacher the students call Bitch-sensei, and on the Kyoto trip she told the girls she is only 20.

• Assassination plan

  Pretended to fall for Korosensei, who was the one actually smitten, then lured him into the storage shed where her henchmen opened fire; he saw through the trap.

• Advice to the girls

  Told the girls to be grateful they were born in a country far from danger and to work on their charm.

• Korosensei (Other, Mixed)

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

• Tadaomi Karasuma (Colleague, Neutral)

  Colleague who introduced her to the class and to whom she complains about having to teach.

• Nagisa Shiota (Other, Mixed)

  She kissed him to get the weak-point notes he keeps on Korosensei.

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.

Red Eye

Assassin · Sniper

Professional sniper the government hired for the Kyoto trip; Karasuma briefed him that the target was not human. All his shots were foiled, and after Korosensei thanked him over a souvenir he quit the job to see the city.

• Withdrawal

  Admitting he had been immature as an assassin, he decided to stop fixating on one color and go see many others.

• Korosensei (Other, Mixed)

  Target he never managed to hit; he came to see that the creature truly acts as a teacher.

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.

• 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.

• Two special assassins on the way (Episode 8)

  As the Kyoto trip ends, world leaders decide to send two special assassins to Class 3-E. Who they are and how they will strike is not yet known.

Deduction Board

Facts

• First bullet stopped by yatsuhashi

  Korosensei stopped the first bullet Red Eye fired at the Hozugawa Bridge with a yatsuhashi sweet.

• Second bullet caught in mucus

  The second bullet, fired from the Yasaka pagoda, seemed to hit his temple but was caught in his mucus on oil-blotting paper.

• Red Eye quits

  After Korosensei thanked him, Red Eye quit the job and decided to see the city.

Evidence

• A target that is not human

  Karasuma had briefed Red Eye in advance that the target was not human.

• Lost in the sword-fight show

  At a staged period sword fight, Korosensei slipped in among the actors and Red Eye could not even aim.

• Target with a souvenir

  That evening, Korosensei came to Red Eye in person, bringing a souvenir.

Inferences

• Spotted from the start

  When Korosensei came to him in person, Red Eye concluded that Korosensei had known about him all along.

• Sniping turned into a lesson

  Korosensei thanked Red Eye because his sniping made the students study Kyoto more deeply, turning even an assassination attempt into a lesson.

• Practiced abductors

  Karma suspected the delinquents who attacked in Gion were experienced at this kind of crime.

Suspicions

• Perfect speed and defenses

  Red Eye felt his target's speed and defenses were perfect and was already thinking of quitting when he called off the day's attempt.

• 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.

Battle Record

The government's sniper Red Eye failed to shoot Korosensei on the Kyoto trip and quit the job.

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

Kyoto sniper assassination attempts

Hozugawa Bridge and Yasaka pagoda · Episode 8

Location: Kyoto: Hozugawa Bridge on the Sagano line, a sword-fight show, and the Yasaka five-story pagoda

Trigger: The government hired the professional sniper Red Eye to shoot Korosensei during the Kyoto trip; Karasuma briefed him that the target was not human.

Assassin vs target

• Assassin — sniper: Red Eye / lure: Isogai's group, other student groups
• Target — target: Korosensei

Outcome: A yatsuhashi sweet stopped the first bullet and mucus on oil-blotting paper the second; Red Eye called off the day's attempt when Korosensei left to help Nagisa's group.

Aftermath

• Korosensei thanked Red Eye over a souvenir
• Red Eye quit the job to see the city

Ability Table

Season Summary

Season 1 — Season 1

Episodes 1–8

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.

Music Releases

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