Disgruntlement Time · 1:45am Nov 22nd, 2018
I just watched episodes 36-38 of Assassination Classroom.
I need to vent. There will be unmarked major spoilers beyond this point. You have been warned.
So yeah fuck the author, this is bullshit.
Up until "Secret Identity Time", I was really enjoying this show.
Then the series of rampant asspulls happened. One asspull right after another.
Oh, Kayano has been hiding who she is and a set of killer tentacles all along? ASSPULL!
Oh, it turns out she's out for revenge for her sister's death? ASSPULL!
Oh, Koro-sensei was the original Reaper, and the Reaper we met earlier sold him out? ASSPULL!*
Oh, Kayano's sister worked for this crazy abusive bastard who was also her fiance? ASSPULL!
Oh, Kayano's sister was the original homeroom teacher of 3-E? ASSPULL!
Oh, this guy who turned the Reaper into Koro-sensei is also Shiro? ASSPULL!
Oh, the moon actually blew up because a lab rat stuffed full of antimatter went splat? ASSPULL!*
Oh, the same thing would happen to the Reaper in a year's time and destroy the Earth? ASSPULL!*
Oh, the Reaper fell in love with Kayano's sister and dedicated what was left of his life to fulfilling her wishes and hopes? ASSPULL!
* These three things are the only parts of the backstory that actually make sense; it's the context in which they're presented that I object to.
I swear to fucking god it's like the author went into writing this series with absolutely no plan in place for the ending, the backstory, or the explanation for what Koro-sensei is, then got to the point where they actually had to start writing an ending, fucking freaked out, and just started grabbing at cliches left, right, and sideways until they'd stapled together an absolute mess of a backstory to tie everything together and bring the thing around to an endgame.
After 38 episodes of this show over a 2-week binge, when I've absolutely fallen in love with the premise, setting, and characters, and have been enjoying it immensely? This out of nowhere hacked together mess of bullshit and ass meat that's supposed to be the whole backstory feels like a fucking slap across the face and now I'm going to be slogging through the final stretch of episodes with the fetid SHIT STINK of all this hanging overhead like a shroud.
The only thing worse than a shitty backstory in the ninth inning is an AMBUSH shitty backstory in the ninth inning.
I never watched anime but I personally think the manga is pretty good. The back story did not sound too over-the-top to me. Just a series of unfortunate incidents that led to his origin and a couple of coincidences that led to his motives. Not the best I seen but still made sense to me.
Plus I’v seen worse.
...you okay there buddy?
I didn't like that part either, though it seems like I didn't mind it nearly as much as you did. Keep watching, the end is worth that one lazy asspull.
I admit, it went from 0 to 90 in a weird way for me. However, it didn't detract my enjoyment of the story. I thought it managed to keep an 'ok' level until the end.
I agree it goes from 0-100 pretty fast but I never saw it as bad writing or an asspull just poor pacing. It certainly didn't ruin the show for me.
My only question is how does a classroom assassinate someone? Does it sneak up on someone and slit their throat? Bury them in homework until the suffocate? Dark rituals? Eager minds want to know.
i've watched the anime
Really enjoyed it, still have some specials an such to get to.
And yeah some of things at those episodes where a bit wtf moments.
But in the end its still a really good show.
Oh I went in to it not expecting anything great so i was not disappointed. Still fun to watch in my opinion.
This.
This right here is why I only watch completed series.
I got into anime through Death Note, then i googled "best anime" and grabbed all the ones that were done and looked interesting.
BTW Nanoha's a damn good show.
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.....OK, I'm sorry, but that is some seriously cross-circuited logic. Let me explain the problem with your logic in brief:
By definition, every story, book, comic, or TV series that's completed in the present was, at some prior point, incomplete. Not yet completed. Do you think being "completed" somehow magically fixes all the problems with it?
Because no.
Assassination Classroom is a completed series. Ended years ago. The problem with what I mentioned above is that it seems like the writer didn't plan out certain things far enough in advance and then realized they were stuck for some major reveals and plot points at the last minute and went off the rails with it.
On the other side of the coin, some writers know YEARS in advance of the ending where things will ultimately stand once the final words are on the page.
If you want to avoid series that are still in progress in favor of series that are complete, that's your prerogative of course, but the logic behind your choices is...a bit confused.
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With weapons grade BB guns apparently.
I can't say that I saw any of these things as "asspulls" because they seemed reasonably probable from what had already been seen and/or made sense of stuff that seemed odd/off before.
4971453
Nonono, it's about a classroom where junior high kids are taught to be assassins. And their class project is to assassinate their teacher by the end of the school year.
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Well, that's less stupid than what I came up with, but is it less entertaining? I guess we'll never know unless someone greenlights an anime about a killer sapient classroom.
That's a hell of a severance package.
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Really, it would boil down to excising the nest of contrivances in re: Kayano, her sister, and Shiro. That whole mess is the underlying problem. It's too contrived.
swear to fucking god it's like the author went into writing this series with absolutely no plan in place for the ending
Well that's pretty much how all manga go.
I'm not going to try and defend any of that shit, but honestly -- I was just glad enough that Assassination Classroom ended in a timely manner instead of dragging on for hundreds and hundreds of chapters like some manga I could name.
It would have been embarrassing if it kept escalating the kids' assassination attempts and having Koro-sensei continually reveal new abilities just to keep up with them or something.