What should be a raucous action-comedy can quickly become an obnoxious headache that constantly smirks at its reliance on stock tropes
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Classroom for Heroes Anime Review
Classroom for Heroes takes its time fleshing out the magical hero school cast but the plot seems to suffer as a result.
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Everything about it is undermined by how poorly it treats its female lead.
Classroom For Heroes #08 — Judgement Day
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Classroom of Heroes #04 — Speed Dieting
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Shouldn't they have, like, addressed the original's 'dark resentments' or whatever? FYI, Zom 100 was very late in announcing that it's off this week, after announcing some production…
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