6.4/10545 votesLoading...#1 - Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/23/2017
Even during summer vacation, lone wolf Horikita would rather remain locked in her room studying than interacting with others. One day, Ayanokouji invites her to visit the pool with some of the others.
Director: Yoshinari Suzuki
Writer: Aoi Akashiro
6.9/10533 votesLoading...#2 - There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/11/2022
With Day 1 of the "thinking" test over, Ayanokoji is talking to Hirata and the others about a way to break out of the stalemate when he receives a message on his phone from an irritated Horikita. Meanwhile, noticing something strange about Karuizawa's behavior, he seeks information from Horikita, but...
Director: Kentaro Iino
Writer: Hayato Kazano
7.0/10522 votesLoading...#3 - We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/3/2017
Classrooms analyze their and others test results. Points distribution is late. Three students from 1-C reported Sudo for attacking them.
Director: Yohei Fukui
Writer: Aoi Akashiro
7.1/10506 votesLoading...#4 - Every man has in himself the most dangerous traitor of all.
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/2017
Class D has achieved a degree of unity in facing the special test, so Ayanokouji and Horikita head out to see how the other classes are getting along. Class B is working together to make a comfortable life for themselves, while Class A remains secretive.
Director: Yohei Fukui
Writer: Ohine Ezaki
7.1/10548 votesLoading...#5 - Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times.
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/4/2022
With the island test over, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and the others are enjoying their summer vacation on a luxury liner. Suddenly, they're interrupted by a new special test. Ayanokoji is called into the same room as Karuizawa Kei and others, where they learn that this test isn't strictly along class lines...
Director: Masaru Kanamori, Song Hyeon-dae
Writer: Hayato Kazano
7.2/10507 votesLoading...#6 - Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/30/2017
All students go to the cruise. Chabashira informs Kiyotaka that somebody requested his expulsion. If he don't help others to promote to A class she will use first opportunity to expel him.
Director: Yusuke Kamata
Writer: Ohine Ezaki
7.2/10488 votesLoading...#7 - The material has to be created.
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/25/2022
At the start of the second term, preparations for the sports festival begin. The students are nervous about the fact that performance in the events will affect their written tests, and even more pressure is added by the unique team breakdowns and freedom given to the students to decide who takes part in what event.
Director: Yusuke Kamata
Writer: Hayato Kazano
7.2/10495 votesLoading...#8 - Every failure is a step to success.
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/1/2022
Ayanokoji brings Kushida, whom he suspects of being a traitor, to observe the other classes alongside Horikita. When the day of the festival arrives, Team Red pulls into the lead with great performances by Horikita and Sudo, but Ayanokoji merely watches with disinterest...
Director: Taro Kubo, Hideki Takayama
Writer: Kou Shigenobu
7.3/10629 votesLoading...#9 - What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness.
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/12/2017
Melancholy, unmotivated Kiyotaka Ayanokouji attends his first day at Tokyo Metropoiltan Advanced Nurturing High School, a government-established institution for training a generation of Japan's best and brightest. In this school, it is said, everything is decided based on merit, which includes the generous monthly "point" allowance students can spend at local shops. As Ayanokouji begins navigating this system, he also nurtures curious relationships with aloof fellow outsider Suzune Horikita and the terminally gregarious Kikyou Kushida.
Director: Yuu Kinome
Writer: Aoi Akashiro
7.3/10555 votesLoading...#10 - It takes a great talent and skill to conceal one's talent and skill.
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2017
1-D learn more about point system. They need to change their habits if they want to score some. But few students don't want to change even if they are facing expulsion.
Director: Yoshinari Suzuki
Writer: Hayato Kazano
7.3/10518 votesLoading...#11 - Hell is other people.
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/9/2017
Kiyotaka and Kushida go with Sakura to he mall where Sakura will try to repair her camera. After that Kiyotaka talk to Sakura about Sado's situation and should she talk about what she saw.
Director: Yoshifumi Sasahara
Writer: Hayato Kazano
7.3/10500 votesLoading...#12 - Man is condemned to be free.
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/7/2017
As part of a special test, the school has brought the students to an uninhabited tropical island where they must now live for a week. Their performance on the test can have an enormous impact on the point standings of the four classes.
Director: Yoshihide Yuuzumi
Writer: Hayato Kazano
7.4/10453 votesLoading...#13 - The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2024
Ayanokoji's class embarks on their first trial as the ascended Class C, the mixed training camp.
Director: Masaru Kanamori
Writer: Kou Shigenobu
7.4/10353 votesLoading...#14 - Man never forgets what he wants to forget.
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/2024
While Class C are discussing Karuizawa and Hirata's break up Yamauchi is approached by Sakayanagi from Class A. Horikita warns that it's a trap, but Yamauchi pays it no heed. Meanwhile, Horikita tells Ayanokoji that rumors are swirling around Ichinose.
Director: Yuki Nagasawa
Writer: Ukyo Kodachi
7.5/10375 votesLoading...#15 - Man is wolf to man.
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2024
Yukimura injures his leg while the group is training for the upcoming tests. He later devises a plan for how the group should handle the marathon and then the day of the four tests arrives.
Director: Tatsu Yamamoto
Writer: Kou Shigenobu
7.5/10315 votesLoading...#16 - To work you have the right, but not to the fruits thereof.
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/2024
It's Valentine's Day and the boys of Class C are excited about whether or not they will receive chocolates. Meanwhile, Karuizawa seems uneasy over Ayanokoji's request to meet up and while doing so an unexpected person appears...
Director: Hideki Tonokatsu
Writer: Kyōko Katsuya
7.5/10313 votesLoading...#17 - It is better to receive an injury than to inflict one.
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/2024
Everyone in Class C has passed their year-end exam. While relief flows through the classroom, Chabashira announces a special exam. It will be a class vote to choose three people worthy of praise and three worthy of censure.
Director: Takuma Suzuki
Writer: Kyōko Katsuya
7.6/10481 votesLoading...#18 - To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/15/2022
Class D prepares to face their next major challenge, a test called "Paper Shuffle" where the price of failure is expulsion.
Director: Yasunori Goto
Writer: Kou Shigenobu
7.7/10529 votesLoading...#19 - There are two kinds of lies; one concerns an accomplished fact, the other concerns a future duty.
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/16/2017
Sakura received some weird messages on her portal, than some pictures of herself. Kiyotaka and Suzune are trying to find evidence that would set Sudo free.
Director: Fumio Itou
Writer: Ohine Ezaki
7.7/10537 votesLoading...#20 - What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/20/2017
With the panty thief incident already eroding Class D's trust, Horikita finds her leader key card stolen. While they try to figure out who did it, the base camp is thrown into chaos with a new incident of arson.
Director: Takahiro Majima
Writer: Hayato Kazano
7.7/10305 votesLoading...#21 - Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/2024
The class vote has seen the first student expelled from Class C. Sakayanagi meets up with Ayanokoji and they're approached by a man named Tsukishiro sent by Ayanokoji's father. Afterward Ayanokoji challenges Sakayanagi to compete on their next exam.
Director: Haruki Nekun
Writer: Ukyo Kodachi
7.8/10579 votesLoading...#22 - Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/27/2017
Kiyotaka explains to Suzune what he did last three days before test. And why everybody get such good scores on tests. But Sudo failed tests anyway and is going to be expelled.
Director: Yusuke Kamata
Writer: Ohine Ezaki
7.8/10283 votesLoading...#23 - Change your desires rather than the order of the world.
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/2024
The class narrowly lost to Class A in the final exam, and were demoted back to Class D. However, the students showed growth throughout the year. Horikita, in particular, having grown as leader requests to dissolve the alliance with Class B.
Director: Masaru Kanamori, Yuki Nagasawa
Writer: Kyōko Katsuya
8.0/10580 votesLoading...#24 - The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/18/2022
Karuizawa is pushed to her breaking point by the girls of Class C. Ayanokoji watches impassively, but Yukimura flies to her aid, unable to bear it. Noticing Karuizawa's abnormal levels of fear, Ayanokoji seems to get an idea...
Director: Takahiro Tanaka
Writer: Kou Shigenobu
8.0/10514 votesLoading...#25 - The wound is at her heart.
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/22/2022
Horikita decides to use Paper Shuffle to settle matters with Kushida, and Ayanokoji finds himself caught in the middle.
Director: Masaru Kanamori
Writer: Hayato Kazano
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred." is the worst rated episode of "Classroom of the Elite". It scored 6.4/10 based on 545 votes. Directed by Yoshinari Suzuki and written by Aoi Akashiro, it aired on 8/23/2017. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.".