This year's 10th issue of Shueisha 's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that voice actors Mamoru Miyano and Kenta Miyake are joining the cast of the Assassination Classroom anime. Miyano will play Gakushū Asano, while Miyake will play Akira Takaoka.

The magazine announces that the anime will be taking a break on April 3, with no new episode premiering. In addition, the time of broadcast for the series will change from 24:55 (effectively 12:55 a.m. the next day) to a time slot one hour later. The opening theme song will also change beginning in April, with the same voice actors from the first opening performing a new song.

Viz Media published the first volume of Yusei Matsui 's original 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 t o kill their new teacher – an alien octopus with bizarre powers and super strength! The teacher has just destroyed the moon and is threatening t o 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 plays Koro-sensei, Tomokazu Sugita plays Tadaomi Karasuma, Shizuka Itou plays Irina Jelavic.

The voice cast for Class 3-E includes:

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



Seiji Kishi ( Persona 4 The Animation , Danganronpa The Animation , Devil Survivor 2 The Animation ) is directing the 22-episode 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.