Assassination Classroom, Vol. 5

In the fifth volume of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom, the rivalry between the outcast Class 3-E and the school's authorities heats up. Principal Asano, who runs Kunugigaoka Junior High on fear and rank, wants to see 3-E's baseball team crushed, while their tentacled homeroom teacher, Koro Sensei, has not forgotten how Asano sabotaged the class's midterms.

Meanwhile the government sends in a new Special Forces operative, a ruthless father-figure type whose arrival puts Karasuma's work as the students' combat instructor to the test. One student turns out to be a surprising source of pride for him. In a lighter stretch, Koro Sensei digs a swimming pool so the class can cool off in the summer heat, and the students discover a new weakness of his along the way.

The volume collects chapters 35 to 43 of the serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump, in the Viz Media English edition (Shonen Jump Advanced). It mixes school-comedy episodes with the series' running question of whether a class of misfits can kill the teacher who is also the best they have ever had.