نقل قول: his year's 11th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump announced on Monday that the next chapter of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga, which Shueisha will publish on February 22, will feature the "final mission climax." (Note: In Japanese, the word "climax" written in the phonetic katakana alphabet often refers to the final chapter of a manga.) The magazine teases the "conclusion of the fated battle."

نقل قول: This year's 11th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that the 12th issue on February 22 will include a "super important announcement" for Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga.The issue also teased that the 12th issue on February 22 will feature the manga's "final mission climax" and the "conclusion of the fated battle."Assassination Classroom will be featured on on the 12th issue's front cover, and the new chapter have color opening pages.Matsui launched the manga in July 2012, and Shueisha plans to ship the 18th and 19th compiled volumes on March 4 and April 4, respectively. The series has more than 20 million copies in print.

نقل قول: This year's 12th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday that Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga will end in five more chapters. The issue states that the manga will end in Weekly Shonen Jump's 16th issue, which will ship in March. The manga's end is coinciding with the end of the academic year in Japan and Japan's graduation season. Weekly Shonen Jump is also starting a "graduation countdown" for the manga in the 12th issue.

The 12th issue will also feature a comment and an illustration by Matsui regarding the manga's ending.

The magazine's 11th issue had teased that the 12th issue would feature the manga's "final mission climax" and the "conclusion of the fated battle." The 11th issue had also teased that the 12th issue would include a "super important announcement" for Assassination Classroom.

نقل قول: Chapter 164 spoilers
Chaos Time

The Anti-Sensei Penetration Laser Satellite, AKA the "Heaven's Lance", is a giant laser whose energy is sourced from tortoise-based Antimatter Lifeforms, passing through a giant particle accelerator before firing.
This laser can pass through anything, causing damage to nothing but Tentacle Lifeforms. Nothing else is destroyed, not the mountain, not the building.

The commander in charge of the operation has confirmed that Korosensei managed to avoid death, but not without losing a few of his tentacles.
Nothing to worry about, Plan B is ready.

We learn about what's been building in the city for the last 5 months or so (since Ch 110): the Anti-Sensei Penetration Laser Barrier, AKA the "Earth's Shield".

Buildings located around town all fire towards the mountain, forming a laser dome that also penetrates underground. He has nowhere to run.
The Shield can be sustained for at least one week, and in that time, the Lance will charge to 100%, its blast radius wide enough to cover the whole mountain.

With his death certain, all that's left is to manage public opinion and deal with the uncertain elements out there. For this, the commander summons Houjou.

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On the ground, the army has blockaded the roads to the school, nearby homes have been evacuated, and no entry within 100m.
And since there's no hiding an operation of this scale, the government has opted to disclose that they are working on killing the culprit of the moon's destruction.
(And to be fair, Korosensei did put all the blame on himself at the very start.)

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Although Karasuma has ordered them to remain at home and on standby, the students gather, trying to get a grasp on what's happening.
All power and communication to the mountain have been cut off, and Mobile Ritsu cannot contact her main self in the classroom.

They were naive to think that things will end without anything happening.
And so, they all set off for the school. Whether their final mission is to save or kill Korosensei is unspecified.

The finishing laser is scheduled to fire on March 12th, one day before the Earth might be destroyed.
The deadline to assassinate Korosensei ... is in 7 days.


Let the 3-way race begin

نقل قول: Chapter 165 spoilers
Sound Argument Time

Wanting to see Korosensei, Class E runs towards the school and into the blockade, trying to push past the soldiers.
Karasuma, on duty, breaks the two parties up, and explains to the students that if they had known about this plan beforehand, then Korosensei might become suspicious too (ie fear of info leak).

Also, with that broadcasted proclamation being made, they better take precautions so that people won't senselessly inquire stuff from them. He advises them to start putting a story together.
And if they, the "hostages", do go to the school, people will see this as them getting captured, and the situation will worsen.

Case in point, nearby reporters are starting to overwhelm Class E for a scoop.
So Isogai orders the class to retreat.

Once they've gotten away, Isogai and Kataoka tell the class to split up, get a grasp of the current situation, investigate the barrier's surroundings and just gather intel in general. They'll meet up again at night.

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Meanwhile, Korosensei is feeling impressed after confirming that the barrier goes underground as well.
The students' defiance of their order has reached Operation Last Assassin's HQ, and Houjou has already prepared to deal with this scenario.

Night comes, and Class E share their intel. Ultimately, they think they can try to make a breathrough into the classroom.
But then, two cars came. In an instant, Houjou's team (from Ch 161) captures Class E and brings them to HQ.

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Until the assassination is over, they'll now be placed under their protection. Their parents have been informed of such.

Hara pleads for Korosensei's assassination to be reconsidered, given that the risk of explosions is less than 1%.

The Commander argues whether it's 1% or 100%, the public will still demand his death.
For the masses, even just a little panic will spark a fire, and reason will have no use. If it's not 0%, the uproar will continue.

Moreover, 1% is simply too great a gamble for the Earth.

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Also, Korosensei's previous life was a terrifyingly cruel hitman. Have they considered what could happen if they allow him to live?

Spare a thought for all the people he had killed. Simply put, his death is something he brought on himself.

When Terasaka demands the Commander for a sounder argument, Houjou deems the kids to have been completely brainwashed by the monster, and orders his men to take them away.

Houjou shall be standing watch around the perimeters of the barrier. People such as the kids will not be getting into the school.

نقل قول: Chapter 166 spoilers by Gamria
Troubled Feelings Time

Karasuma rushes to the Operation's HQ after learning about Class E's incarceration. On the way, he meets Houjou for the first time as his team departs to the school.

At a press conference, Board Chairman Asano is bombarded with questions from reporters, all wanting some dirt on the affair.
It would be easy for Asano to shift the blame on someone else, but he decided to put in a word for Korosensei and said that he hired him because he's a plus for his students' education.

When the reporters are flabbergasted that he's saying the same thing as the kids and renounces his horribleness, he invites the reporters into another room and brainwashes them.
"Kunugigaoka is the best the Board Chairman is the best Kunugigaoka is the best Class E is the best..."

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Over at Class E, they've been changed into prisoner's clothing (to safeguard against any concealed items in their casual clothes) and locked together.
On TV, they see what's happening outside, with people on TV heaping "sympathy" on them, speculation of Stockholm Syndrome, etc.

Karasuma comes in, and is allowed 5 minutes talk with the kids.
The simple version is, there's nothing he can do for them, to Class E's dismay. He reprimands the kids that they were imprisoned because they had been reckless.
 

• Security (at the mountain?) is tight and no one will be negligent. They won't be able to break through it for 5 days (ie until the Lance is due to fire again)
• Even if they do break in, Houjou's elite team will be there on the mountain. They are in fact a group of mercenaries called Wolf Pack (name subject to Furigana), experts in guerilla warfare, and well-suited to mountain defence.
• Their leader, Craig Houjou, is a legendary mercenary who is said to be able to kill a lion with his bare hands. Karasuma estimates he's 3 times stronger than him.
  

Nagisa protests. He still has so much that haven't been said to Korosensei, and so many things he wants to do with him.
But Karasuma cannot do anything.

"Don't cause trouble for me. Do you understand!?"
After telling them to take 3 days or so to cool their heads, he leaves.

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Realising that Karasuma was referring back to a previous conversation they had, Nagisa explains that there's a hidden meaning in his words: he has entrusted Class E with what happens next.

Reflecting on the conversation, Nagisa believes Karasuma was deliberately giving them intelligence. What they want to do is up to them.

Nagisa wants everyone to organise their thoughts.

• What do they want to do?
• What can they do?
• What would Korosensei want?
  

Long story short, it's time for Class E to plot.
An epic plot to jail break, make it to the mountain, past Houjou and the mercenaries and to Korosensei. Most likely in 5 days time.

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At the classroom, Korosensei continues to work on the Graduation Album.
He's certain that the whole world is thinking that there's nothing he can do, but as a creature with Mach 20 speed, he shall happily continue to do whatever he can.

نقل قول: Chapter 167 spoilers by Gamria
Time for Trust

As Nagisa sums for the class:

Point #1: No one in Class E really wishes for Korosensei to die
Ponit #2: Even so, they're still hitmen who've created a lot of deadly but wholehearted memories over this past year. They absolutely do not want complete strangers to just trample on them.

And there's one thing both them and Korosensei want to do: they want to see each other, one last time.

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Trusting Karasuma to get them out of here in 3 days time (when the laser is due to fire again), the students spend their time planning on what to do once they've escaped.

On the 3rd day, they have a visitor: Irina.
She's so worried about them~ So she decided to give several of them a kiss, boys and girls included. Kayano cries (apparently jealously so) after Nagisa received a kiss.
After she leaves and the door shuts, everyone who got kissed vomits something: Takebayashi's explosives.

When night came, they use it to blast their way out.

Irina is waiting for them outside. She had gotten in thanks to Karasuma, on the excuse that she's one of Class E's teachers.
On his part, Karasuma kept track of the comings, the goings and the habits of the guards at the break room, so that they can guarantee some kind of escape route for them.

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Well then, the laser is going to fire just before midnight. She has no idea what's going to happen, but since tomorrow is going to be Graduation Day, they better enjoy this final lesson of theirs to their heart's content.

Isogai tells everyone to return home and prepare themselves, and be careful too.
Before they leave, Kataoka tells Irina to make sure to come with Karasuma too. They are their important teachers after all.

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"So is this what you meant? About how "I'm fighting with everything I have"?"

At home, Nagisa encounters his mum. He pleads her to let him go to his teacher's side, alongside everyone.

...well, he did consider her feelings and actually chose (and gotten) into the school that she wanted. The way he is now, she's sure that the paths he chooses are bound to be correct.

"Take care, don't do anything reckless."
"...I'm off!!"

Although they can't convey how they feel (about this year) to most people, just having Class E's teacher and his mum look at him properly and give him their trust is enough to lighten up Nagisa's body and mind.

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The students gather on a rooftop somewhere. Ritsu welcomes them back, she has been performing some recon while they were absent.
From the sky. In a drone.

Itona had planned for this to have been his final weapon against Korosensei, and Ritsu would've brought out its maximum potential. But it looks like they'll be using it on someone else.

Without further ado, Class E begins to infiltrate the mountain. Their final mission, ensuring everyone arrives at school unharmed, has begun.
Sensing something's amiss, Houjou's team readies for combat.

The deadline to assassinate Korosensei ... is only 3 hours!!

نقل قول: Chapter 168 spoilers by gamria
Blooming Time

One year they've spent in the Assassination Classroom. One year they've spent on the mountain, hunting, learning and playing with a superbeing.

As a result, the mountain has essentially become Class E's homeground, having much more familiarity with the territory than any opponent that crosses it.
Karasuma deems that as long as the students are within the bounds of the school, they are the world's most terrifying group of assassins.

Other favouring factors include Karma's leadership, Ritsu's aerial surveillance and under-appraisal of the kids' strength from Karasuma (ie false intel)

At the end of the chapter Houjou makes an appearance, and one of the students has been knocked out. Excusing himself for underestimating them this much, he offers to teach them a lesson seriously.
Karasuma hopes that the kids will recall the basics of assassination. As warned before, if Houjou gets serious, the situation can turn around in an instant.

نقل قول: Chapter 169 spoilers by Gamria (Mach 20)

School Commuting Time

Against an opponent who is 3 times stronger than Karasuma, if they run away, they'll be caught for sure. If they get dragged into a battle, they'll lose for sure.

So Class E's tactic against Houjou: rush him, don't give him any breathing space. Don't let him have a chance to turn the situation into a battle.
They're sticking with the basics of assassination: kill him before he can fight back.

Don't let him use his gun, close range assault him using a variety of weapons and style. Retreat immediately after attacking, don't stay close.

Ultimately, after preventing him from getting off a single attack, Class E succeeded in restraining him.

Inside the barrier, the students greet Korosensei with guns and knives. He stops their attempt with a relieved smile.
The Operation's HQ's camera feed have picked up Class E's entry into the barrier. Accordingly, Karasuma and Irina head for the school.

The deadline to assassinate Korosensei is only ... 90 minutes away.
And Yanagisawa's team are now inside the barrier

نقل قول: Chapter 171 spoilers
Final Boss Time

The Operation's HQ's camera feed have caught Yanagisawa and the Second's intrusion, and they're going to observe the battle for combat data.

At the moment, Korosensei stands no chance.
What we learn about the Second:
 

• Has undergone the same modifications as Korosensei, but fully willingly
• His tentacles have an initial velocity of Mach 2, and a maximum instantaneous velocity of Mach 40 (but there's no point in getting that fast inside the confining barrier)
• Can create destructive sonic booms
• Unlike with the ordinary Itona and Kayano, and similar to his master, his superhuman kinetic vision and intuition lets him adapt to the speed of sound easily.
  

And there's one more big difference too: the tentacles this time aren't going to be used continually.
The Second is not going to require any maintenance, he's going to be fully disposable. In exchange for shortening his lifespan to less than 3 months, he's been tuned so that he can draw out a tremendous amount of energy.
Of course, there's no danger of exploding when he dies. He's a safe, but perfect weapon.

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What's more Yanagisawa is joining the battle ... by injecting himself with a tentacle seed.
By embedding the tentacle(s?) across his body, he can become superhuman while still retaining his human functions.
He doesn't care about his own life, as long as he can kill the one who took everything away from him.

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By principle, hitmen are supposed to avoid direct combat using any method there is. But there are moments in life when one has to fight with everything they have.
For Korosensei, the time is now.

نقل قول: Chapter 173 spoilers
My Students Time

By continuously targetting the students, Korosensei cannot escape #2's attacks

"Korosensei's biggest weakness ... is us"

But Korosensei refutes that. They are not his weakness, they are all his proud students. And it's simply in his duty as a teacher to protect them.

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Having had enough, one student steps forward: Kayano, aiming to buy time for Korosensei to hide and recover.
In fact, she actually managed to damage one of #2's tentacles.

"...I've always regretted. Because of me, everyone learnt the truth, and the class' happy times were taken away... that's why, at the very least... let me protect you, as one of Sensei's students."

With Yanagisawa's next order ... #2 pierces Kayano in the torso. In the same manner as her sister.
From spoiler text that are out so far, result AMBIGUOUS.

Korosensei turns completely black. Nothing more needs to be said.


P.S. Mach 20 is still active, but due to real life commitments, the works are bottlenecked at certain stages.

نقل قول: Chapter 174 spoilers
Colour Time

Satisfied that Korosensei has turned black, and therefore showing his true nature as the creature of destruction that he is (so to speak), Yanagisawa injects Number Two with one final stimulant for one final attack.

As the two creatures stand still and prepare to strike, the students take the chance to flee the scene, with Nagisa carrying Kayano.

Number Two makes his charge, but Korosensei catches him, and by outputting all his emotions, "past" and life (face changing colours in the process), he glows pure white as he unleashes one final Antimatter Energy Beam.

Number Two receives a direct hit. We don't see what happens to him or Korosensei.
But we do know this: Yanagisawa was blasted into the sky by the force, all the way to the barrier. He can only scream as he dies humiliatingly like a small fry.

نقل قول: Chapter 175 spoilers
Irrecoverable Time (As in "Times that Cannot Be Recovered")

After blasting Number Two, Korosensei lunges towards him, Anti-sensei knife in hand, and finishes him off with a stab to the chest.
(Remember, a blow to the heart is still fatal for them)

In his dying moments, we learn what his wish to the Tentacles was: he wanted to be recognised by him; he wanted to be like him.

Korosensei now understands how he feels. He hopes that, should they meet again 'there', then they should study together again, without making the same mistakes.

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Though the past that has been lost cannot be recovered, the lessons of the past can ensure that certain things will not be repeated again.

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I once noted in this post why there were suspiciously no blood falling downwards from Kayano's wound on the back. We now have an answer.

It's because as soon as she was attacked, Korosensei retrieved all the blood and somatic cells that he could retrieve before they fell on the ground.
Even when he was fighting, he kept all of it airtight and decontaminated.

Thus begins Korosensei's medical redemption: cellular surgery on Kayano, super fast and super precise. He shall not let the same tragedy happen again. (ie When he couldn't do the same thing for Aguri).

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"... You've ... saved me again."
"I can do this however many times. Your sister would've done the same thing."
(Issue 11 is supposed to be out on Feb 15. Perhaps we can consider this Matsui's Valentine's gift, in a sense?)

The important thing is that ... errors should not be repeated.
Aguri ... have I been a successful teacher?
Within this one year ... this treasure-like year that you gave me?

Chapter 176 will have Cover and Lead Colour

نقل قول: Chapter 176 spoilers
The Time Has Come

Tired from the battle and the surgery, Korosensei collapses from exhaustion, satisfied.

"Everyone, as assassins, are you going to let your target run away while he's on the verge of death?"

Do you understand? It's time to kill.
Fun times are things that are bound to end. That's ... just what a classroom is.

The time is now 23:31
The assassination deadline will expire in 30 minutes.
If they don't kill Korosensei now, soon the laser will fire and destroy him completely.
Will they settle things themselves, or will they leave it to the heavens?

Isogai asks how many don't want to kill him? Everybody raises their hand.
Next, he asks how many want to kill him? Everyone raises their hand, with their heads down.
Korosensei smiles.

We are hitmen. Our target is Sensei.
For the sake of graduation, and to protect our bond,
we understood what we should do to/for our beloved teacher,
to the point that it hurts all of us.

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The students apply Weakness #37 - everyone holds down his Tentacles so that Korosensei can't move.

Kataoka asks who will do the last deed.
Nagisa volunteers.


Well, it's finally time. Regrettably, even if he had 24 hours, it still wouldn't be enough for Korosensei to give parting words to each and every one of them.
For the minor details, he's left them in an advice book inside the classroom. (Might be a book for "dealing with grief")

He doesn't need long conversations.
Instead ... he would like to take attendance ... one last time.

"Will each and every one of you please look Sensei in the eye and answer loudly?"

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Ch 177 will have Center Colour and 29 pages in total