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Assassination Classroom's Assassin File Videos Profile Nagisa, Kaede, Karma

Broadcaster Fuji TV began streaming three "Assassination File" videos promoting the Assassination Classroom TV anime on Friday. The videos profile characters Nagisa, Kaede, and Karma.

Karasuma: I'll be frank. I want you all to kill this monster. In other words, assassination!
Nagisa: Because we're failures, we can't do anything... Is that what you're trying to say!?
Nagisa: Before the world explodes, I will kill you, sensei.

Karasuma: I'll be frank. I want you all to kill this monster. In other words, assassination!
Kaede: I know it's a little late to be saying this, but what is your name, sensei?
Kaede: Can't kill (Japanese: Korosenai)... Kill... Oh! How about Koro-sensei?

Karasuma: I'll be frank. I want you all to kill this monster. In other words, assassination!
Karma: Don't run away, sensei... I'll teach you how nice it is to be killed...
Karma: Man, I've always wanted to kill something just like you, sensei...

Nagisa (as voiced by Mai Fuchigami), Kaede (Aya Suzaki), Karma (Nobuhiko Okamoto), Yuma (Ryota Ohsaka), and Hiroto (Shintaro Asanuma) sing the opening theme song, "Seishun Satsubatsu-ron" (Youth Savage Theory) as a group named 3-nen E-gumi Utatan (Class 3-E Song Representatives) in the video.

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 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 Karma 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.

Funimation will begin streaming the anime on January 9. The series will air on late Friday nights at 25:20 (effectively Saturday morning at 1:20 a.m.) on Fuji TV, and a live-action film will follow. A second event anime debuted in November.

Update: Spelling fixed. Thanks, MajinAkuma