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Funimation to Stream Assassination Classroom Anime
posted on by Karen Ressler
Series to premiere on January 9
Assassination Classroom manga as it airs in Japan. The first episode will premiere on Friday, January 9 at 1:00 p.m. EST and subsequent episodes will premiere on Fridays at 12:20 EST.
Funimation began streaming a subtitled announcement video:
Viz Media published the first volume of Yūsei Matsui's original manga in North America this month. Viz Media describes the story:
A humorous and action-packed story about a class of misfits who are trying to kill their new teacher – an alien octopus with bizarre powers and super strength! The teacher has just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth – unless his students can destroy him first. What makes things more complicated is that he's the best teacher they've ever had!
played the same characters, respectively, in the earlier event anime special.
The voice cast for Class 3-E includes:
Mai Fuchigami as Nagisa Shiota
School Days) is writing the scripts.