Wow, I totally didn't know what to expect when I started this, I thought it was going to be gorey and weird like Battle Royale, but it's a far cry from that. The premise is certainly strange: an alien takes over a classroom at a high school and tasks its students with trying to kill it before it destroys the world. But the alien is actually really goofy and teaches the kids valuable life lessons?? It's not heavy in action and a lot of the story is devoted to character development. It's weird, funny, and entertaining, and I look forward to reading volume 2. ( )

Weird. Super speed alien squid will destroy the earth in a year but gives the loser class of 8th graders the chance to kill it - and even the weapons to do so. Meanwhile trying to nurture their better selves. ( )

A strange octopus-like thing has destroyed a big chunk of the moon and is now threatening to do the same thing to the Earth in a year's time. In the meantime it wants to teach a classroom full of the lowest-achieving students in the school, and the government agrees as long as they can at the same time train those high school students to assassinate their teacher. And so every day the kids go to school, are taught by a weirdly-kind monster while they try over and over to kill him/it.

A weird but cool story. I'll definitely keep going with this one. ( )

Really exciting and funny! Koro is such an interesting character. I'm definitely going to keep reading ( )

DNF @ 25%

2.5 stars

Rounding up because potential for fun is pretty high.
Not interested enough to keep reading.
Need more plot. ( )