The Assassination Classroom: Minna no Jikan anime film will begin screening in Malaysia and Singapore on April 9 (GMT+8) with the title Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time.
It’ll be shown exclusively at GSC Cinemas in Malaysia.
Image source: GSC Facebook
Distributor Muse Asia says that the dates for India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam will be announced later.
GSC’s synopsis for the movie reads:
It was one day in late February, with the entrance exams over and graduation just around the corner. Amid the government’s increasingly strict surveillance, the students of Class 3-E looked back on their year with Korosensei. Memories resurfaced — the fading doodles they drew on Professor Bitch, the special swimming lessons, the clashes with the students of Class A, and Valentine’s chocolates. The classroom bustled with nostalgic conversations.
Meanwhile, during winter break, Korosensei was targeted by a group of four assassins, but as always, he easily dodged their attacks. Later, when he visited the izakaya they frequented to tease them, he ended up saving the blind owner, Azusa, who was burdened with debt, and her daughter Hotaru, from a certain incident.
Through this encounter, Korosensei once again strengthened his resolve: to accept his fate, yet fulfill his duty as a teacher with all his might until the very end. Another day began as usual. The students of Class 3-E continued their attempts to assassinate Korosensei before the school year ended, while Korosensei, with a smile, deflected their attacks and praised their growth. And in the ending, the “graduation album” —Korosensei’s final task— reveals a glimpse of their future, leading into the series finale.
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time debuted in Japanese screens on March 20 (GMT+8). It’s the third and last of the 10th anniversary projects for the Assassination Classroom anime, which began in 2015 with a 22-episode first season and concluded in 2016 with a 25-episode second season.
The anime adapts the manga by Yusei Matsui. Viz Media describes the manga’s synopsis as such:
Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who’s doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison…? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students’ tattered self-esteem?
The Assassination Classroom manga ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2016. It has also inspired a live-action film.
Staff
• Director: Masaki Kitamura (Gundam Evolve Episode 10, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 co-assistant director)
• Scriptwriter: Makoto Uezu (Assassination Classroom TV anime series composer and scriptwriter)
• Character designer: Aya Higami (After-school Hanako-kun co-character designer)
• Animation production: Lerche
Cast
• Mai Fuchigami as Nagisa Shiota
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Karma Akabane
• Aya Suzaki as Kaede Kayano
Sources: GSC Facebook, Muse Asia Facebook
