Series to premiere on January 9

Funimation Entertainment announced on Thursday that it will stream the anime of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga as it airs in Japan. The first episode will premiere on Friday, January 9 at 1:00 p.m. EST and subsequent episodes will premiere on Fridays at 12:20 EST.

Funimation began streaming a subtitled announcement video:

Viz Media published the first volume of Yusei Matsui's original manga in North America this month. 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.

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 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.