Assassination Classroom (Episodes: s1eps.1,5,16. s2ep. 11)
I've been dying to watch this show since I was a kid but never got around to watching it, so I'm glad that I was able to get a taste of it in these 4 episodes. I'm taking a film analysis class as well on top of this class, and both of these classes have taught me how to analyze works of media better. If I were to have watched, for this case Assassination Classroom, before I took these two classes, I would have never thought about the different types of topics we learned and how it applies to the show or movie. I would've probably watched the show and enjoyed it at face value, a fun action packed show of kids trying to kill their teacher. Usually, anime is seen as a "fun/childish cartoon" that people watch for entertainment but a lot of the shows and films that encompass anime include many analyzable topics that relate to society. I think this show was a pretty good pick to end off with because it has multiple topics that were covered in class.
The show shows the ideas of a social class. The principal is very adamant about classes within classes. The school already has what is called classes (obviously), but he also instills social classes in the structure. Class E is the lowest of all and is treated extremely bad by others in the school. An example is that they canât be on campus or be a part of school activities. At one point the principal states, "Assassination can wait, my priority is status quo", after seeing that Nagisa stood up to higher-class boys. This furthers the idea of trying to protect the social class in place and puts more importance on social classes than killing the impending danger of society (the teacher creature). The principal sees lower-class people as more âdangerâ to society than a creature that will kill and destroy society.
Also we can see the importance of money and capitalism in the show. In the very beginning it's established that if the teacher is killed, they get 10 billion. âIt's only fair. Kill him, save the Earth. If that doesnât deserve a life on easy street, what are we fighting for?â From this statement, it is inquired that the character who stated this thinks that these kids should fight and kill to get the life on "easy street". He is targeting the fact that these kids are so low level in society and manipulating them with money as throughout the show there is a message that money kind of just fixes every problem. Relating to this message, its shown that 3 boys in class E would kill Nagisa to kill the teacher by exploiting his low self-esteem to get the money. He goes even further to say that heâll pitch in on his medical bills after looking at his seemingly damaged/dead body. The boys looked at money as a source of fixing everything. They put money over another human, specifically, their classmate's life. This shows how humans will go to the extreme when money is involved and shows the total control money has over our society. Also, some other money-related parts of the show were in epsiode 5, "My questionâs why a super organism has to live on a teacher's salary in the first place?" This line was added for comedic effect but it is a genuine question when thinking about it logically. But the show itself is all fiction so you can't really think of it in that way. Also, I believe in the same episode it is stated, âCanât be helped it's how things are hereâ in regards to no funding for AC. This also emphasizes the vitality of money and when no money is possessed, then things that should be a necessity become unattainable and is forced to not be a necessity anymore.
Overall the show itself is pretty interesting but I'll have to watch the whole show to form an opinion. This class was really engaging and eye-opening to things my mind would never even think of or correlate to certain things and I'm glad I was able to get a chance to watch some of the shows I've been wanting to for a while. A little bittersweet but happy bc I need a good break from school and anime đ. Also, this page is probably going to be dead after I post this bc I don't use Tumblr lmao.
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