Introduction
A decade ago, mankind witnessed the deadly potential of weapons caused by the Great War. To avoid another catastrophe, governments worldwide have resorted to espionage to fulfill their agendas.
In the Din Republic, Lily is an enthusiastic young girl who aspires to become a spy and serve her nation. However, she begins to doubt her abilities, as she struggles to perform well academically. Lily's passion is reignited when she is offered provisional graduation by joining the spy team Lamplight, which she eagerly accepts despite the enigmatic nature of the opportunity.
Upon arriving at her destination, Lily is surprised to find six other girls waiting there, all of whom have faced their own academic difficulties as well. A mysterious man named Klaus soon appears and reveals they must complete an "Impossible Mission": to infiltrate the Galgad Empire after just one month of training. Although skeptical, the girls eventually agree to work together under Klaus' guidance—as this might be their only chance to prove their worth as spies.
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Audience reviews
11 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Psi18c
Anime is a mix of to many things that nothing stands out how it's intented. Feels rushed at time but the more you watch the more you realise the timing of everything is messed up. If this anime was a Gag humour anime, everything would make sense.... Like how shotting directly at them with guns, they evade like it's nothing happening (aka the impossible element from gag humour)
Main atraction are the girls. But since there are to many, of course you only see stereotipical stuff. Like them being the worse of thier class yet somehow they are talented in everything they do, making you wonder how good the other in thier class are, or if this girls are very talented and it's just a personality issue. But like I said, regadless of the tag used, this is more a Gag anime, so of course such stuff h…
Read at the sourceLatooq
This is the first anime I have such complicated relationship with. My impression of this show had been changing even before I started watching it. First off, I fell in love with the character design. Then I saw a clip on Reddit, which made me believe this would be an ecchi. My opinion changed during the show as well. But having watched few episodes I abandoned the anime for a week. When I picked it up my opinion changed again, and I can definitely say that the 3 episode rule doesn't work here.
The first 3 episodes represent the first 3 episodes, not the whole show. Here we have the post war world where, for some reason, the most efficient weapon is spies. This is quite the world building you can get as an anime only. No further explanations, no depiction of culture differences between tho…
Read at the sourceEDOSHINRATENSEI
When this anime is introduced, I thought it’s gonna be like Assassination classroom, where a teacher teaches his students by having the students attack him. This is mostly true with one major difference: Spy Classroom showed the end-result and then showed the process leading up to it. This just didn’t work because the anime felt like a filler. Each girl was mostly boring except for Grete.
The teacher character was actually pretty cool and had potential, but he wasn’t dived into much, only when he’s with Grete.
Overall, each episode alone was pretty decent, but as a whole it didn’t build up to anything like what the anime set out to do at the beginning. 5-5.5/10
Read at the sourceRobbyRob
This show is pretty frustrating IMO. Spy Classroom is about how warfare was exchanged for espionage in a fictional war. There exists a type of assignment known as an "impossible mission" which can often be seen as potentially life-threatening.
We follow the spy Klaus who was previously a member of a spy group called Inferno. But things did not go well. He is tasked with taking seven flunkies and one of their first tasks is trying to capture him.
The show is structured weirdly. The first half of the anime is the girls preparing to embark on their "impossible mission" with the other half being the building up to them entering enemy territory. In some ways, it makes sense because the show actually introduces a character who was behind the scenes from the beginning. But by doing so, the show…
Read at the sourcejus7aguy
I feel the dislike people show for this is from being thrown off by the episode format. The first arc is resolved super-fast then there is flashback character development to flesh out interactions for awhile before moving on to the next arc. If you're watching week by week this is probably a bad format. HOWEVER if you are watching back to back this works fine.
If you need character personalities to hit you over the head with a tonne of bricks you'll miss a lot in this series, while some stuff IS spelled out in capital letters, other parts are more on the implied front. The only thing I will say is I think the term "agent" rather than spy might have been more applicable.
I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did given all the negative reviews and mixed feelings people seem to ha…
Read at the sourceMoehiza
maybe you could say this anime is too boring for me, the conflict presented does not give any impression. they have 9 heroines but only a few are highlighted, makes me wonder why you put in so many women but only a few are highlighted. plus the back and forth storyline made me a little annoyed, I was expecting an exciting conflict, but because the plot goes back and forth so I didn't feel anything exciting. this anime often focuses on the daily life of a spy rather than the conflict of a spy agent. but I still give appreciation for this anime because well I enjoy it a bit in my spare time.
Read at the sourceAliceNick
In my opinion,there are two types of storytelling that can truly irritate audiences: Either the authors(or anime production teams) have no clue what they are doing, or they try to tell the story in the way they aren't capable of and, predictably, it fail miserably. In the case of spy classroom, It reach both of the "irritation standards" in one single work. Which is kind of impressive (but in the wrong way).
From the beginning of the story, you can already see that the production team have lost their direction. First they try to convince you that this is a serious story about spy girls saving the world. But on the second half of first episode where the plot twist comes out , the story suddenly changes its tone and turns into a goofy comedy(Maybe it's because even the crew understood all t…
Read at the sourceLuisSV23
Lots of plot twists xd
Personally I don't think the anime is bad, it just may not be able to make the leap in quality that it could have to be remarkable, but that doesn't mean it can't be entertaining to watch.
As for the plot, it is interesting, a good dynamic but its narrative is (in my opinion) a bit abrupt, there are many flashbacks that can really add little or nothing to the plot, it could be a bit desperate.
Continuing with the beginning, it is because of this exaggerated amount of flashbacks that many plot twists are included so that the plot has a convenient ending, I'm not saying it's wrong, maybe doing it a couple of times and that's it, but it's literally the same in every episode ._.
I like the dynamics of the characters, it's good, each one has an ability and is explored…
Read at the sourceverbinflection
'Spy Classroom' is a simple, competent, consistently enjoyable light action comedy about cute girls learning how to be spies. The high-stakes first arc is particularly engrossing, but the fun cast of characters makes even the mid-season filler episodes quite watchable.
The show feels solid from start to finish because it never overreaches: we were promised cute girls learning how to be spies, and we got exactly that. It's spy fiction as light action comedy rather than military thriller, but it still delivers reasonably clever spy-like twists: gadgets, disguises, shadowy figures, double- and triple-crosses, assorted brinkmanship.
The tone is well balanced because, again, it doesn't overreach. The girls are cute and silly, and the deadpan teacher complements them perfectly; the spy mission…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
Spyroom is sadly yet another example of a really good Light Novel series that gets a subpar anime adaptation intended to push sales of the source material, rather than actually doing the story justice.
Given it was studio Feel, I was always apprehensive about the Spyroom adaptation and had my doubts, but I tried to be as optimistic as possible. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The pacing and direction of this show were just awful.
Even if you take out the adaptation aspect, it’s painfully obvious that the show breezes over important details and omits content. On top of that, the studio made the decision to adapt side story volumes which feel like filler in the middle of the show instead of adapting the main story properly. They feel out of place as they take place prior to the events of the…
Read at the sourceMcsuper
This show had the potential to be decent, but ended up being the massive disappointment of the season. The first three episodes basically doomed it, and even though the second half was comparatively better, my interest had already waned too much. It had the makings for a decent series, but the adaptation of the first volume of the light novel (first seven episodes) was just baffling, because they showed all their cards in Episode 3, and they did flashbacks for character development after the supposed climax, which felt so out of place. Without this poor structure in the first arc, I would definitely have enjoyed it more, but here we are.
The show revolves around a spy group called Team Lamplight, a group of seven (?) girls, and their teacher, Klaus. At first, they seemed like a disoriente…
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