Class 1-E (Huo Ren)

"*So my job is to babysit a bunch of students who are all killing a tentacle monster? I wish I could sigh but... Sounds like the gods must've really run out of ideas.*"
—Yoshinaka Watanabe

**Class 1-E** (一師団E組. *Ichi-shidan E-gumi*) is among the lowest ranked class aside from Class 2-E, Class 3-E, and Class 4-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Infamous for having students that have either broken the school's rules by choice (i.e. Musashi Inagawa, Korechika Hōjō, Tomoe Akechi), failed to keep their grades up (i.e. Hajime Oda, Haruna Takenaka, Satsuki Sakakibara), or had failed to comply with the school regulations indirectly (i.e. Ranmaru Majima, Gorō Yamaguchi, Akane Mōri).

The current year of students, along with the other branches of Class E, were given the task by the Japanese Government, to assassinate an entity named Korosensei. Although due to his speed of Mach 20, this task would be proven to be more difficult with the increasingly number of students showing different goals at hand.

## Background

Originally, the building used for Class 1-E was formerly a mansion for the Shinmen family, with Shinmen Yukimoto being the head of the household. The family would meet their end somewhere between 1600 to 1601, when Tokugawa Ieyasu, after being victorious with the Battle of Sekigahara, sent his general Chiba Toshiuchi to secure a victory against the Shinmen for siding with the western army. Because of Shinmen Yukimoto and his stubbornness to surrender, Chiba Toshiuchi decided that end it all by ordering his soldiers to slaughter many of the Shinmen family members and retainers. After that the mansion would be granted to Chiba Toshiuchi as a "reward", and held it until the Meiji Restoration, when it was would given to Tatsuo Banno, until to would be given to Gakuhō Asano, who used this former mansion as a class building to house the ridiculous number of students that have been transferred to Class E.

## Location & Appearance

Befitting for a mansion, the school building is wooden from a glance, but in the inside, there seemed to be a modernized version of a classroom. At the outside, there is a mirror that has different colors.

In the interior, the building consisted a simple classroom, with over thirty-five desks, and a small faculty lounge. With over thirty-five desks, it can make sense, given that amount of students being forced to join Class 1-E. Because of the terrible conditions of the building, the students are forced to endure no air conditioning, and heavy heat, especially when there's a heatwave.

## Students & Staff

### Staff

* Tomoko Aihara (Homeroom teacher)
* Natsumi Honda (Langauge teacher)
* Yoshinaka Watanabe (P.E. teacher)
* Akeno Sakata (History teacher)

### Students

**Listed by order of seat number**
1. Nagamasa Chōsokabe
2. Yoshiko Maeda
3. Yukari Itakura
4. Musashi Inagawa
5. Hidemitsu Kuroha
6. Asako Sakamoto
7. Mikiko Hijikata
8. Taiga Uesugi
9. Kentarō Ishizaka
10. Shun Aoyama
11. Naosuke Katsurada
12. Minato Sasaki
13. Tomoe Akechi
14. Rensuke Takeda
15. Haruna Takenaka
16. Gorō Yamaguchi
17. Akira Kazama
18. Hayate Hoshina
19. Hibiki Kazama
20. Kanade Saitō
21. Hajime Oda
22. Izumi Tachibana
23. Suzuka Kuroda
24. Korechika Hōjō
25. Ranmaru Majima
26. Satsuki Sakakibara
27. Masashige Azuma
28. Akane Mōri
29. Shinako Kobayakawa

## Plot

With the destruction of the moon and the appearance of a tentacle monster that would act as the homeroom teacher of Class E, Class 1-E's reaction can be summarized along with the other students of Class E with an absolute feeling that it's all wrong. And because they have a mission to neutralize the monster, now dubbed as "Korosensei", with Korosensei's speed of Mach 20, it makes any form of assassination more difficult than it needs to be. But surprisingly, despite being the one "thing" that destroyed the moon in the process, Korosensei turned out to be a benevolent teacher, as students found out that his teaching style is compatible, and compared to the other teaching styles of the other classes, his was calming, albeit one in which everyone feared for the moment when they see Korosensei's more dangerous side. And because of the fact that many students in Class 1-E have their own reasons to kill Korosensei, there bound to be tension within the class.

Due to the number of students, Korosensei would have four teachers to teach them in different subjects, whilst Korosensei himself would help those students that are dealing with external and internal problems. One such problem is about the exams, to which while Korosensei tried his best to make the exam easier for the classes involved, turns out that the system would make sure that those lowest students would be in the bottom.

## Trivia

* The story features Class 1-E as well as the other branches of Class E before it's closure due to have criticism.
* Because of the hidden injustices from the Kunugigaoka Junior High School, those unaware believed that Class 1-E are still considered to be highly honored (which isn't true).
* It was commonly joked amongst the students not in Class 1-E (or Class E in general) are considered to be delinquents, which again, isn't true (aside from a few occasions).
* Of all the students sent here by the headmaster, the most common cause was usually due to the stress and overall lack of motivation that caused some students to be in Class 1-E.
* A common trait that seemed to be prevalent in the students of Class 1-E is that most of them have some connection to a yakuza organization, which aside from Gorō Yamaguchi, most of them don't.

## Behind the Scenes

* Whilst making this article, I tried by best to create an infobox showcasing the information of Class 1-E. I gave up half-away.
* Some of the students are named after either Japanese clans or families from the Yakuza franchise.
* During the time I was making this, I had a lot of trouble with trying to sort every single student with their seat order. Bloody hell...