TY - BOOK AU - Yusei Matsui AU - Tetsuichiro Miyaki AU - Bryant Turnage TI - Assassination classroom. 1, Time for assassination T2 - Shonen Jump manga edition SN - 9781421576077 U1 - F M42 KW - Assassination Comic books, strips, etc KW - Comics (Graphic works.) KW - Extraterrestrial beings KW - Junior high school students KW - Japan KW - Science fiction comics KW - Teacher-student relationships N1 - Reads from right to left in manga format Originally published in Japan in 2012 by Shueisha Inc N2 - The students in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High have a new teacher: an alien octopus with bizarre powers and unlimited strength, who's just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth--unless they can kill him first! Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who's doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison ...? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students' tattered self-esteem? ER -