Assassination Classroom: Profiles of Class 3-E Students
Kunugigaoka Junior High School's Class 3-E is notorious. It houses the bottom 5% of ninth-graders, serving as a target for discrimination to motivate the rest of the student body. Students are banned from the main campus and relegated to a rundown mountaintop Cram School. This isolation becomes the ideal setting for a top-secret mission: assassinating their alien-like teacher threatening to destroy the world in one year. Despite being the school's "worst," each student possesses a defining characteristic that becomes their primary weapon, improving in assassination, P.E., and academics as the series progresses.
General Characteristics of Class 3-E
- Action Girl: All the girls are competent in various disciplines of battle.
- All Men Are Perverts: Okajima is the most blatant example, with the other boys not being any better.
- A Lighter Shade of Gray: The teachers are the harbinger of an Apocalypse How, and the students are being trained as assassins to kill their teacher to save the world.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Class 3-E is a byproduct of Kunugigaoka's system, which keeps the lowest 5% together as an Anti-Role Model for the other 95%.
- Assassins Are Always Betrayed: Shiro blowing up a pool that most of the students were swimming in is an example of this.
- Badass Adorable: Most of the students are assassins in training that can scare their A-class bullies with merely a stare.
- Badass Bookworm: The students are pretty good at studying, just not good enough to stay out of the bottom 5%.
- Badass Crew: All of the students are being trained to assassinate Koro-sensei.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: If you're attractive, then you're likely a member of Class-E.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Most of the class will play the straight man to Koro-sensei's crazy antics.
- Book Dumb: All of Class 3-E are fairly intelligent by normal middle-school standards but are the bottom 5% of an extremely competitive, prestigious school.
- Break the Cutie: At the end, all the students broke down crying after they were forced to kill Koro-sensei.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Their training eventually includes lessons on Le Parkour.
- Child Soldiers: They're training to be assassins rather than traditional soldiers but can have a normal life in addition to their training.
- Code Name: Chapter 89 deals with all students and teachers having to refer to each other by embarrassing code names for the entire day.
- Combat Pragmatist: Chapter 169 shows just how far the entire class has come in this regard.
- A Day in the Limelight: Individual students do get focus chapters every now and then.
- Demoted to Extra: Happens a lot during the Assassination Island arc.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: The kids find themselves offended at being pitied by people who have no idea what they had gone through and are making assumptions.
- Downplayed Trope: Generally speaking, the students of Class 3-E tend to have more subtle characterization than that is typical of shounen leads.
- Everybody Cries: After Koro-sensei is killed.
- Everybody Hates Math: Math is the most common weak subject in the class.
- Fantastically Indifferent: After you've been drafted to assassinate a Mach 20-moving, super-teaching eldritch smiley, your surprise may become somewhat miscalibrated.
- Heroic BSoD: After Class-E learned of Koro-sensei's origins, they became afraid of killing the one person who helped them with their intellectual and emotional development.
- Home Field Advantage: In Chapter 168, Class 3-E goes up against a squad of highly-trained and experienced elite soldiers/assassins who captured them effortlessly only a couple of chapters earlier.
- Hostage Situation: The entire class is taken hostage in the middle of the Reaper arc.
- A House Divided: In Chapter 142, after learning about Koro-sensei's past, the class was divided as to how to deal with him.
- Informed Flaw: Class 3-E is supposedly composed of Kunugigaoka's worst students, but plenty of them seem reasonably intelligent.
- Keep the Reward: Played with. After they finally assassinate Koro-sensei, the government gives them reward money as promised.
- Kill the Ones You Love: At the end, the students finally kill Koro-sensei at his behest.
Individual Student Profiles
Fuwa Yuzuki: The Manga Enthusiast
Fuwa Yuzuki is known for her love of manga. She's an expert when it comes to manga, arguably the queen of 4th wall breaks. She has disagreements with classmates on the subject and seems more of a 'purist' since she doesn't like anime adaptations as much. Her dad owns a bookstore, so she's always had access to the material she wants to read.
She seems to hyperfocus on a certain series for short periods before moving onto the next one, and perhaps she can be a bit like this in her general life, too. She also has a creative side and is great at making manga on top of just appreciating it.
She's super enthusiastic about things, which is a great quality, and she's super perceptive. She has a really useful skillset due to general analysis and reading a lot of detective manga. Irina seems to think that she purposely dresses a little boyish since she doesn't want to display any feminine charms. She apparently gets a little fangirly over shoujo manga, so she does have that side to her.
Since she sits close to Kayano, they end up talking a lot. Thankfully Kayano is super happy to listen to her rants about manga, making her a valuable friend. Nagisa is also somewhat involved in these conversations, so perhaps they could discuss a few shounen series together. She internally calls Karma out on being a chuuni.
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It's unclear whether she actually gets along with Sugaya or not. It seems like he has a more fine art approach to life, however she did lend him copies of her jump magazines. They can talk about art together. Since Kurahashi reads manga too (though not often the same genres), the two can really hang out and talk about the things they like together. It's hard to dislike Kurahashi.
She is very adaptable but perhaps gets too obsessed with things, given that manga is the reason her grades slipped in the first place. She and Hayami are often paired up to work together, and this goes well for them. They have a good combination skill set. Hara can kind of be her rock, bringing her back to the earth when she goes off too far on her tangents. She seems weirdly introverted when it comes to real human friendships for someone quite outgoing.
In summary, Fuwa is pretty much manga-obsessed. Although this does allow for some unique humor, aka fourth-wall breaks, and makes her a pretty useful character to have around.
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