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I completed both seasons of Assassination Classroom last week.
My initial impression of season 1 was just “meh”. But the more I watched it, the more I enjoyed it. The humor was hitting for me, plus I liked the cast of 3E. It was nothing groundbreaking and has all the usual shonen tropes, but in terms of entertaining value it was fantastic.
The second season though…
It’s obvious that they were building up towards the climax all throughout season 1 and the early parts of season 2, which means my expectation was built up, setting a higher bar for it to clear.
And yet it exceeded my expectations anyway.
In hindsight, it did everything right for me. The comedy and soundtracks suit my taste, the main cast of characters were sufficiently developed for me to care about them, and are actually sufficiently smart, etc.
There are a few things that I could nitpick here and there, but if there’s one thing that I must call out, it’s that some of cast weren’t given enough screen time, and thus weren’t sufficiently fleshed out. However, I do acknowledge that it is tough to balance the writing of such a big group of characters versus pacing and duration. So really the anime did as best as it could in this regard too.
A more meta complaint is: I picked this up because I wanted something lighthearted after catching up on all seasons of Made in Abyss. But it ended up being a gut punch.
But it’s well worth it; definitely going into my Peak Shonen list