TV anime to debut in January after 2nd event anime, before live-action film

This year's 47th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday the cast for the entirety of Class 3-E in the television anime of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga:

Nobuhiko Okamoto as Karuma Akabane

Ryota Ohsaka as Yūma Isogai

Ryo Naitou as Taiga Okajima

Minami Tanaka as Hinata Okano

Sayuri Yahagi as Manami Okuda

Chie Matsuura as Megu Kataoka

Aya Suzaki as Kaede Kayano

Satomi Satou as Yukiko Kanzaki

Shunsuke Kawabe as Masayoshi Kimura

Hisako Kanemoto as Hinano Kurahashi

Mai Fuchigami as Nagisa Shiota

Eiji Miyashita as Sōsuke Sugaya

Yoshitaka Yamaya as Tomohito Sugino

Takahiro Mizushima as Kōtarō Takebayashi

Junji Majima as Ryūnosuke Chiba

Subaru Kimura as Ryōma Terasaka

Manami Numakura as Rio Nakamura

Fuko Saito as Kirara Hazama

Shiho Kawaragi as Rinka Hayami

Miho Hino as Sumire Hara

Kana Ueda as Yuzuki Fuwa

Shintarō Asanuma as Hiroto Maehara

Shinya Takahashi as Kōki Mimura

Kouki Harasawa as Takuya Muramatsu

Ayaka Suwa as Tōka Yada

Yoshiyuki Shimozuma as Taisei Yoshida



The magazine announced in September that 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.

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!

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.

[Via Kazu]