Assassination Classroom The Movie: 365 Days' Time

First of all, I must warn any newcomer to the anime that this is NOT a good substitute for the original TV series. I would advise that you go and watch the 2 seasons instead for a much, much more enjoyable and fun journey, and then come back and watch the movie if you still wish to do so. Now that that's out of the way let's go onto the review: There are three parts to the story: The sequel-ish focuses mainly on Karma and Nagisa visiting their old classroom, going down memory lane, and checking various places on the mountain where they spent their lastyear of middle school. While the first half of the story mainly focuses on the before-the-climax events of the TV series, which is given nowhere near enough time. I would've preferred if there was less narration and fast cuts from the past to the present day Nagisa and Karma, as it was quite off-putting and distracting. And the second half focuses on the climax, with which I have no qualms as it was as well done as in the TV version. There are no major improvements over the sound, art, or the animation. They are as good as they were in the original TV series, which is to say pretty damn good. Overall: Even though not that friendly to the newcomers, the movie is still a good watch for any fan of the series looking to satisfy their nostalgia, and although I believe converting 50 episodes into just a 90 minute run time was a bad decision overall, I'm still surprised at how enjoyable this movie turned out to be.

365 Days‘ Time is a movie that is listed as a recap for the Assassination Classroom anime. While this technically is correct the content that is actually "recapped" is pretty specific and many parts of the anime are completely ignored in the recap. The story revolves around Karma and Nagisa meeting at the old school building and talking about past events. Especially at the beginning and end of the movie there is new original animation about Karma and Nagisa. For the first half hour of the movie they talk about specific events that involved them during the first and second season. This is just thefirst half hour of the movie which means there's only a few scenes that can fit and most of the things that happen in the entire anime are left out. After this 30 minute "recap" the movie spends the rest of the time showing the last few episodes of the anime with some scenes left out. All in all that means this movie comes down to 30 minutes of random scenes followed by the ending of the anime with some original animation of Karma and Nagisa. The characters are the exact same as in the anime since this is a recap. The animation, sound and voice acting are also the same since the animation from the anime was re-used. The original animation of Nagisa and Karma and Nagisa's narration of some scenes is also of the same level. Overall you shouldn't watch this movie if you want a recap of assassination classroom. It only shows random scenes and then shows the ending. I think the main reason for watching this is seeing a bit more of Karma and Nagisa and the events they thought were important to them.

If there was anything most Anime shows are lacking, it's a solid recap to sell a rewatch out. In Ansatsu Kyoshitsu's case, that was exactly it, what you read in the title is what you get. A bittersweet heartwarming refresher that really takes you back. Removing all the meaty mush and exposing you to the highlights of the show, lighting up the part of the story you thought you still remember but have since forgotten about, it almost made it feel like a brand new experience, and in my case, it was far from it. I really like the fact that they actually put in somework into putting together this recap movie, an hour and a half of pure nostalgic gags and tears, I would say that a solid 85% of the movie was composed of reused shots from the two seasons of the franchise, with the rest being new animated scenes between Nagisa and Karma meeting up again at their old school to honor the memory of their late teacher, no our late teacher, Koro-sensei. As they exchanged greetings, they immediately lost track of time as they started retelling what probably was their best and worse year in retrospect. As a recap, it was, good, I would say that some scenes would have relatively been better if re-adapted, but it was an enjoyable watch empty of grind or boredom of any sort. Or at least, it was for me.