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Assassination Classroom Promo Video With Animation Streamed

Fuji TV began streaming a "3-nen E-gumi! Koro-sensei!" promotional video for the Assassination Classroom television anime on Sunday. The video announces that the anime will premiere on January 9. The video premiered at the Jump Anime Festa 2014 event at the Makuhari Messe venue in Chiba, Japan.

Koro-sensei: 3rd year, Class E!
Students: Koro-sensei!
Koro-sensei: First!
Girl: He's kind of wiggly!
Students: He's wiggly!
Koro-sensei: Second!
Boy: He can go at mach speed!
Students: Mach speed!
Girl: He's pretty good at looking after people!
Students: Good at looking after people!
Koro-sensei: It'd be great if you could kill me by graduation...
Nagisa: This is our Assassination Classroom! The bell that marks the start of the day rings again today!

Viz Media will publish 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 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.

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 on Sunday.