Hear January show's voice cast as entire class plays a word association game

The official website for the television anime of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga began streaming a "Rensō Kiyōshitsu" (Association Classroom) promotional video on Monday. To introduce the voice cast for the students in Class 3-E, Koro-sensei starts a word association game to have each student speak up in turn:

Koro-sensei: Now, everyone, let's start Koro-sensei's Association Classroom. Well, let's begin with my name, Koro-sensei.

Karuma Akabane: When you say Koro-sensei, I say tako [octopus].

Sumire Hara: When you say tako, I say takoyaki [octopus snack].

The game continues through the entire class roster:

Nobuhiko Okamoto as Karuma Akabane

Miho Hino as Sumire Hara

Subaru Kimura as Ryōma Terasaka

Ryota Ohsaka as Yūma Isogai

Eiji Miyashita as Sōsuke Sugaya

Ayaka Suwa as Tōka Yada

Shintarō Asanuma as Hiroto Maehara

Ryo Naitou as Taiga Okajima

Manami Numakura as Rio Nakamura

Kana Ueda as Yuzuki Fuwa

Fuko Saito as Kirara Hazama

Satomi Satou as Yukiko Kanzaki

Chie Matsuura as Megu Kataoka

Takahiro Mizushima as Kōtarō Takebayashi

Shinya Takahashi as Kōki Mimura

Sayuri Yahagi as Manami Okuda

Kouki Harasawa as Takuya Muramatsu

Aya Suzaki as Kaede Kayano

Shunsuke Kawabe as Masayoshi Kimura

Yoshitaka Yamaya as Tomohito Sugino

Yoshiyuki Shimozuma as Taisei Yoshida

Hisako Kanemoto as Hinano Kurahashi

Minami Tanaka as Hinata Okano

Junji Majima as Ryūnosuke Chiba

Shiho Kawaragi as Rinka Hayami

Mai Fuchigami as Nagisa Shiota



Viz Media will publish the first volume of the manga in North America in December. 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!

Jun Fukuyama will play Koro-sensei, Tomokazu Sugita will play Tadaomi Karasuma and Shizuka Itou will play Irina Jelavic. Tomokazu Seki, Junichi Suwabe, and Yui Horie played the same characters, respectively, in the earlier event anime special.

Seiji Kishi (Persona 4 The Animation, Danganronpa The Animation, Devil Survivor 2 The Animation) is directing the anime at the studio Lerche. Kazuaki Morita (Persona 4 The Animation, Danganronpa The Animation, Arpeggio of Blue Steel) is designing the characters, and Makoto Uezu (Danganronpa The Animation, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Is This a Zombie?, School Days) is writing the scripts.

The series will premiere in January and air late Friday nights on Fuji TV, and a live-action film will follow. A second event anime will debut in November.