Assassination Classroom is a Japanese science fiction comedy manga series written and illustrated by Yusei Matsui. The series follows the daily life of an extremely powerful octopus-like being working as a junior high homeroom teacher, and his students dedicate ...

'' is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

Yūsei Matsui is a Japanese manga artist. He was an assistant of Yoshio Sawai, the manga artist of ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo''. Three of his manga '' Neuro: Supernatural Detective'', ''Assassination Classroom'', and ''The Elusive Samurai'' were serialized in ''Wee ...

. It follows the daily lives of an extremely powerful octopus-like teacher and his students dedicated to the task of assassinating him to prevent Earth from being destroyed. Individual chapters have been serialized in ''

Weekly Shōnen Jump is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that run ...

'' since July 2012, and are collected into

tankōbon is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or cultur ...

volumes published by

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. As of June 2016, twenty volumes have been released in Japan with a circulation of ten million copies. The manga has been licensed by

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for an English language North American release, who released the first volume in December 2014 in both digital and print formats.

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