Classroom of the Elite SHATTERED My Expectations 

I personally like the anime, but if you wanna see the authors genius writing I'd suggest you read the light novels. The characters are so well thought out and the attention to detail there is miles ahead of the anime, which cut many things out of the light novels, including many characters monologues and inner thoughts which I think is one of the best parts of the light novels.

The anime is good but the LN is a masterpiece

The funniest part is even a mere mention of the anime will have every COTE fan yelling at you to read the light novel.

We’re not ignoring 7:33 😭

I remember watching season 1 back when it first dropped. And I liked it. Season 2, I absolutely LOVED. Season 3 convinced me to read the Light Novels, and now that Im all caught up, I can safely say, it was THE BEST DECISION I'VE EVER MADE

Trust me. if you liked the anime, you will be OBSEESED with the light novel. I's just so much detailed and well written.

the anime is genuinely great but if you want the full experience, i suggest reading the light novels from the beginning, since it adds so much more depth into other characters and ayanokojis goals and motives

I began reading the LN when S3 was airing. it's so fucking good. Everyone says to go from the start and I reccomend that aswell but you can start from Volume 4 (when S2 starts) as season 1 is adapted decently enough but still lots of missing content but nothing compared from when Season 2 starts. (Don't forget about the .5 volumes)

I know everybody says this but , if you TRULY want to see how many amazing characters with detailed backstories and motives the show has go and read the LN. And even besides all those entertaining characters Ayanokoji is still the best , for god's sake this guy lies to himself in his own monolouges most of the time which are barely shown in the anime. If you really want to enjoy this masterpiece i would reccomend reading the LN as it is a 10/10

Just finished reading Year 2 today, there is definitely a lot going on with the characters and the whole dynamic of the school and classes. Even characters that didn't seem as fleshed out in the anime have their relevancy and are, piece by piece, shown to have more going on than meets the eye. Can't wait for Year 3, whenever that comes around!

0:51 Incredible delivery 👏🏻

Tbh I loved the first season. I didn't have any doubts about it being bad. I actually thought it was gonna be good but not my favorite. It broke expectations. Season 3 especially. Great wnimation, great battles, peak emotions, peak Ayanokoji always looking colder than the artic.

I’m sure that so many people are saying the same thing but if you liked the anime you will love the LNs. I used to like that anime but after reading the novels, I can’t even watch it anymore because I think it is just garbage in comparison. There is that much of a difference in the characterization and writing. I can’t recommend reading the LNs enough.

Currently reading Year 2, It's mind blowing

The "elite" concept is to graduate from class A, ensuring that students have their individual and collective skills worked on so that they can be well explored in the real world. And about entering the school... it is merely a formality, as there is a whole research process when students send in their applications.

When he mentioned Yukino I was so excited 😂

i need to start reading the LN. just finished s3 and I don't think I can wait anymore. I'm worried I'll fall in the LN rabbit hole and get addicted

Please, just please read the LN. If you loved the anime this much, LN will definitely become your favorite

1:56 everyone think that way, but the depth into it makes it so reasonable

The nerve of you to put picture of madara and Hasirama 5:01 😅😅

AK is cooking. ALWAYS.

Everyone is glazing the light novels, but where can i read it?

Shame that people dismiss this anime as a generic one with an Edgy antisocial MC who gets all the girls...Wait a minute....

The end of season 1-season 3 is when classroom of the elite got good to me, since i never got spoiled i was so close to dropping the anime in season 1 because it was fan servicey and very boring for me. After i finished season 1 and started season 2 i got hooked (especially the part when our goated mc 1v4ed ryuen and his followers💀)

the novel, if you think about it and read about it enough, will show that Koji wants to defeat his own mindset of seeing everybody as a tool by him losing. But I shall not leak it all, you should find it out.

who noticed he put neymar's picture when he said diving 💀💀

Ayanokiji is probably my 2nd favorite main character in anime, the only reason they don't surpass my no.1 (rimuru tempest) is because his design is honestly kinda boring (but that makes sense I guess lol)

It is definitely a glazefest of ayanokoji 😂

Ayanokoji might just be my favourite anime character ever, everything he does is just cold af

Hey just saw the LN its awesome but I find it difficult to only read without any pictures🤕

"LET HIM COOK"

Following a sociopath cook is always fun in anime

The nerve of you to do that 5:01

The school is actually an short picture of whole human in world ( world doesn't consist of just smart or leaders or strong person, it contains variety of them )

I'm rewatching season 1 in Japanese and the hint dropping is so much better in the OG. It doesn't even compare. Like the blind spot where Ryuen lapdogs tried to bait Sudo to beat them so they could put a complaint on his behind, and later Ayanokoji manipulated Suzune to install a fake camera and make the attackers withdraw the complaints. In JP it's so much clearer that Ryuen was doing it to test the school system and their type of answers to violence claims while eliminating and crippling a rival class. But in English it's like going so fast and there is so much emphasis on Ayanokoji hinting at the lack of cameras in that spot...in JP he drops it really naturally that it's not perseptible. The only way to realize it was really to have Chabashira tell Suzune that Ayanokoji is good at manipulation, which they are both the best characters to have that discussion because Chabashira is a good manipulator and Suzune really hates being used, so You can see that Chabashira was using Suzune more than she was helping her. In English it's more like a wake up call from Chabashira...

Right now I am on season 2 Brah this anime Is sooo goood

wait till this guy reads the LN lol

when they announced a season 2 and 3 with the same team behind season 1. a lot of people where kinda shocked, since season changed a lot from the light novel, and if i remember corectly the author was not happy with the changes (same thing happend with High School DxD season 3, that is why season 4 of that show was at a new studio and a new team)

Maybe the elites were the classroom we made along the way.

and the bad thing is that i watched the anime before reading the light novel!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

The thing that I thought was crazy was that you have to remember that these are school kids 😂

I really like the anime. I tried reading the novel because everyone said it was so much better, and honestly, I could not get behind it. I'm not trying to say it was bad or anything. But I kind of really like how the mc is portrayed in the anime, so reading him as much more emotive, and also appearing a bit less cunning/psycho, It just didn't seem like the same story. And again, the novel might be better, I tried reading it because I wanted more of anime-Ayanokoji, so I didn't give it an honest chance when I didn't instantly enjoy the novel-Ayanokoji.

ONE of the most Misunderstood character :; KIYOTAKA AYANOKOJ😢

The LN is so good

"The moment Ichinose goes down, I will be there... to deliver the final blow." - Goattaka Ayanokoji.

If u like the anime you would LOVE the light novel the anime skipped alot so if i were u start at volume 4 start of season 1 of year 1

I really liked anime and because of it i started reading LN, and damn, this was actually one of the best expiriences in my life, i was obessed with it. But after i readed it all, i look at COTE anime and its just so bad compared to the LN, but im still grateful for introduction to this masterpiece LN.

4:07 nahhhh

wait till bro reads the ln

I can't tell if you don't know what waterboarding is or if there was waterboarding in another adaptation and I'm not catching that because you're talking about the anime

Bro actually in the light novel he is not that wood plank man instead he shows emotions and much detailed than the anime ı think you must read the light novel and see the real thing.

i love this anime this is a question for the comment section what is the most wtf moment in this anime for you . (for me its the spread your legs moment in season 2)

New subs. Nice review

I'm surprised that the anime is considered "good" by many people even though the studio butchered the plot.

Intresting. Most of the comments I see from LN readers are how bad the anime is in comparison. I haven't read them tho, so idk.

Ayanakoji the goatI do prefer Arisu sakayanagi though good channel mate Ill subscribe to keep up to date

If you don't want the fan service and the mystery, please try out the LN it is FAR more superior.

The Anime is kinda MID if not just bad compared to the Light Novel. The light novel is genuinely one of the best LN I have read ever

What episode does it start getting better

Please read the novels lmao

I am just like Ayanokouji fr 🔥

I am ignorant but excuse me, PLEASE TELL ME WHERE CAN I READ THE COTE NOVELS ? (T_T) I aint tryna buy them. I tried so many websites. One of em was a 'What-if' type manga and then the others were just smthn else idk. I wanna continue reading from the anime so yea help me if you can

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did anyone else understood the vip test or i was the only one who didnt?

Ayo my dude I love the ayanokoji glaze but emotional intelligence is kinda the one thing he lacks imo. He's cunning and Machiavellian but the dude has yet to experience proper affection, the centerpoint of EQ.

Bro did you complete light novel??? .

I liked COTE but since Takuya was expelled it wasn't as good as before(in my opinion). I hope it will change. And for those who think to read manga instead of LN. Do not do it. Manga is terrible.

Its so good

man i will tell you one thing if the anime shattered the expectations for you, the LN is just gonna blew your expectations through the roofs

THE LN IS PEAK x100 better

I liked the show and the novels but the concept of Kyotaka's up bringing is a bit hard to accept when you know this kind of stuff has been tried and the kids are completely fked up and have zero emotional intelligence.

This hot take is bouta be unpopular. Also quick note this is a really long comment so figured i would quickly summarize it. Light novel struggles with pacing, ayanokoji in the anine is sometimes better in my opinion, and its animated. For more detailed explanations read the whole comment. The anime is better than the light novel. For starters pacing in my opinion can be an issue in the light novel. Detail is a good thing but sometime the light novel can go a little too far with it. Say what you want about how you camt have too much detail but it can be boring to read the 3rd page of just blabbering on about something people are gonna forget about immediately. An example of this is when they are explaining the rules of the uninhabited island exam in year 2. They put too much detail into how the game works. I understand that in story it makes sense but for the readers it ended up just being countless pages of boring and forgettable information. I think it would have been better if it was simply explained that one day they were told the rules and the key rules were highlighted while the other minor details just came naturally. Another argument i hear a lot is that the light novel is better because the anime doesnt correctly capture how ayanokoji acts. I personally disagree with this. In the light novel, manga, and anime ayanokoji acts different. Its simply just a different approach to the character. Other characters are still protrayed about the same in all of them however ayanokoji changes a lot. This isnt neccesarily a bad thing. I actually personally like the anime's way of capturing ayanokoji a bit more. This is because ayanokoji is much more emotional in the light novel. This wouldnt be a bad thing if it wasnt for the fact that ayanokoji comes from the white room. On the island in year 2 ayanokoji loses to sudo in an anime quiz. Thats because he wasnt exactly doing education on anime in the white room. You could also apply that idea to his emotions. He was never taught to feel emotion or what it should be like so instead it comes off unnatural for ayanokoji as he was never taught it. Because of this ayanokoji comes off more cold hearted as he doesnt really have the same emotions. Or atleast in the anime that happens. In the light novel he acts very similarly to a regular person when it comes to emotion and conversation. He also tends to say he would lose to people which just doesnt feel right. Hes supposed to be the perfect human being. But instead he just feels like the average ivy league student. Sure hes really good but hes nowhere near the best. Last but not least theres the obvious reason of its animated. Some scenes are just better animated like fight scenes. Because of this no matter how hard the light novel tries to make for example fight scenes better they just fall short compared to the anime counterpart.

season 1 was good, 2 was good but 3 was kinda slow and uninteresting tho imo. LN is peak

Where do you read the LN sorry if I sound stupid lol

Hands down one of the best highschool light novel, COTE is a masterpeice in a genre that's saturated with dumb, cringe, way too basic and too much self insert works. The light novel is easy Deathnote level if not better.

It wouldnt be so horse shit is they didnt cut a ton of content and change shit to fix the plot holes they created by removing content

But the real question is... are you a Kei fan..?

the anime is definitely good but it does skip alot of stuff like character development from the LN

anime is meh imo, but it got me intrigued and helped me enter the world of cote light novels… haven’t once regretted picking up the LN, a few boring volumes for sure but over 90% of the LN are fantastically made.

Read the novel. The anime is an extremely waterd down version of the story and characters, believe me.

I'm surprised season 1 might be your least fav because it has better animation than the 3, season 2 has a lot of cuts (because they're the weakest in the LN too) while season 3 should be the best arc of year 1 yet season 3 did a lot of cuts as well and def has worse animation than season 1 too. I hope they up the budget for year 2 (season 4 onwards) because it's definitely a loottt better than everything in year 1, Kiyotaka finally started revealing his cards and from time to time is working not just in the shadows anymore.

top 3 worst adaptations of potential for a LN

bruh... what am I even watching???

The Light Novel shits on the anime so hard it literally feels like a completely different show because they skipped 80% lmao

I must admit, being up to date with the ln I'm not the biggest fan of the direction it's going, I think it has become too much of a generic harem/rimance story

The version of this you watched was an extremely watered down version of what the author created. I recommend you read the LN and make a video then

It’s fucking mid, light novel included. Wtf is the hype behind ayanokoji bro 😭😭😭😭😭😭

why are u speaking in 1.5x

tomodachi game >>>> classroom of the elites

READ THE NOVELS! Once that happens the anime looks like complete garbage😂

I didn't like the ln much

Season 2 and 3 are shid, the animee is shid compared to the LN

Anime is nothing compared to light novel

“Must protect” 💀 *spoiler* If you only knew wait till their second year

Midddd 😪

this anime cring ngl

That episode where these "elite" students try to peep like the boys from prison school ruined it for me. That was some next level stupidity. Main guy is only intelligent in comparison. Worse still he's so strong he can even take a bunch of them at once. No competition, no stakes, the best at everything. It's Gary Sue garbage.

I watched all three seasons in the past few weeks and it genuinely surprised me how intelligent the writing is. Even with limited runtime in the anime, it gets across that all these students are deeper than they seem, and the sheer amount of students that are actual characters because of it instead of being blank background filler. This series thrives on the way it develops characters through hardship and adversity, and it shows with how every hurdle is another person's time to grow past their problems. Ayanokoji is involved with it pretty much all the way through, and it showcases just how brilliant he is, as well as how he outmaneuvers his competition. As you said, it wouldn't be particularly interesting if he was just doing it because he's better, but his background and how his hand is constantly being forced when he just wants to have some time in a "normal" life. The author also avoids hitting the harem genre with this one, as it's pretty damn clear there's at least 3 or 4 girls that have their eyes on him for a relationship, and the way this is skirted is just how Ayanokoji is genuinely a heartless person that builds connections and bonds for the sole purpose of exploiting them to push his agenda and get what he wants or needs. He doesn't really know what "love" feels like (relatable) and doesn't really have the desire to know. And that's as far as I've gathered in the 3 aired seasons. I know this is one that people suggest reading the LN for (I'm sure it's amazing, I read LNs myself) but I feel like anime only is probably a more than acceptable way of consuming this work. Missing out on the thoughts of other characters and extended pasts is certainly not something to dismiss, but the way the show characterizes the cast and the expressions and body language shown off almost always portray what kind of things are going through everyone's heads (except Ayanokoji, Mr. stone face himself). I probably won't be reading it anytime soon, but that's mostly because I have a long backlog right now for LNs...

2:48 unimportant…

I like the anime when S2 was airing enough to go ahead with the LN. I now do not like anime but I'll still watch future seasons (if there will be a continuation).