Karma Akabane

Karma Akabane is one of the main characters from the Assassination Classroom anime and manga.

Karma is a student in Korosensei's Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School who had been suspended from school due to his violent behavior. He is also one of Nagisa's closest friends.

Appearance
Karma has pale skin, short red hair, and pale sharp eyes that appear as either mercury or goldish in color. Behind his usual innocent-looking, smiling face hides a torturous and rather sadistic personality. He has a slender build and has also been shown to have exceptionally sharp canine teeth.

Among all the Class 3-E students, Karma is the only one to wear a black blazer as opposed to the standard school-issued uniform. In the anime, Karma is considered to be the most physically attractive out of all the boys in Class E by the girls.

Seven years after graduation, Karma has grown considerably taller and has swept-back hair. His eyes also appear moderately less threatening.

Personality
Karma is well-known throughout the school for his violent behavior and troublesome attitude. He is quite cunning, mischievous, and somewhat sadistic, usually playing foul, tricking, and at times manipulating, humiliating and fighting others. He has been described by Karasuma as "at first glance, he comes across as being a lazy sort, but there's a strong sense of mischief in his eyes", and Itona has described him to have "certain vision" to Terasaka.

Karma is quite relaxed most of the time as he occasionally skips out on things he finds boring, such as the school assembly. However, he has become considerably more hard working at studying after the embarrassing exam arc although he hides it by making it look like he was playing video games. Unexpectedly, Karma is a fan of superhero movies, like Sonic Ninja.

Despite his somewhat sadistic nature, Karma actually has good values behind his motives, and can be quite empathic. The reason he was placed in Class E was that he had rescued a senior from Class E being bullied by students from the main building. He is, unlike his former classmates, unprejudiced against the Class E and still considered the senior a 'senpai', and believe each and every one of them has their own special talents and will defend them, especially against the A class.

When he was in the main building, due to the betrayal of his most-trusted homeroom teacher, Karma began to hate all people who called themselves 'teachers' and as a result, he had almost zero respect for any adults. However, Karma has become more objective after meeting Korosensei, now respecting more of his opponents' and teachers' strengths and weaknesses.

Karma has shown to be more than capable of respecting and caring for other people, as he greatly cares for Nagisa who seems to be his friend, and has grown attached to his classmates and others: he gets along with Okuda and Nakamura, often teases Terasaka, and respects Asano Gakushu and sees him as his intellectual rival. He also forms a bond with Korosensei, breaking down crying when he died. However, Karma also tends to be quite impulsive, to the point of becoming truly brutal and cruel when fighting with people who threaten him or any of his friends from Class E.

Abilities
Leadership: Karma is capable of utilizing and leading his classmates, making use of their abilities in the most suitable way to the corresponding situation. He demonstrates this ability in bits and pieces throughout the series, such as when he planned to subdue Itona at the natural pool, but only fully begin to demonstrate this in Chapter 145, where he guided each of his teammates to positions best befitting them.

Intelligence: Karma is one of the smartest characters in the series, being capable of maintaining top grades with little effort. He assets his cunning, mischief yet considerable objective nature to assassinations attemps, as well as other scenarios that may require it, such as saving his classmates or others. He also is often the first person to notice any oddities that may occur around and within Class E.

Combat Skills: Besides his intelligence, Karma a knack for battle and enjoys it. He has good fighting skills such as having a high mobility and reflexes, and also has a mind suited for pranks, and foul play. He is also the physically strongest student in Class E as he has no trouble subduing Terasaka who has the most muscular build in the class, and it took both Maehara and Isogai struggling to physically restrain him before he could have injured Nagisa. Karma is also stated by Kimura that no one could compare to Karma at direct hand to hand combat, to the point of fighting toe-to-toe with a full-fledged assassin like Grip, and his reflexes allow him to pinch down an enemy's attacks, though he isn't so stealthy as Nagisa.

Marksmanship: Karma is ranked 3rd for marksmanship, boys' side, being the fourth among all the class.

Trivia

 * Karma says that his parents are "crazy about India" (Chapter 37), implying that his parents named him after the spiritual belief in Hinduism, Karma.
 * His first name only appears in kanji during his formal introduction. The other students, and eventually Korosensei too, refer to him with the katakana version of his name.
 * Karma is one of the few people in the entire manga who is referred to by his first name. Another example would be Nagisa.
 * Karma was called "Semi-Senoritis", during Class 3-E training using code names. The one who gave him the code name was Hazama.
 * Karma depicts himself as a evil.
 * In the popularity poll of Volume 12, Karma was the highest ranked character, achieving 1st place.
 * His favorite subject is Math while his least favorite is Japanese.
 * He didn't belong to any club before joining Class E.
 * Karma wants to become a bureaucrat in the future, appreciating their actions behind national crisis.
 * His hobbies/specialty are mischief, provocation, and harassment.
 * His most treasured item is a collection of spices from around the world.
 * His favorite food are drinks from the "Simmered au lait series".
 * Karma is the first student that managed to inflict damage on Korosensei.
 * Despite having one of the highest grades in the school, Karma doesn't want to return to the main building, stating that he finds assassination much more interesting.
 * Despite he is quite lazy, Itona has stated that Karma was probably the strongest within the class despite him not excelling in any particular are such as knifework or shooting. Most likely this means that Karma prefers to stick to tricks and pranks for assassinations rather than going into full-out combat.
 * He is able to speak English in an unknown 'standard American' dialect, as noted by an American foreigner during the Sports Festival. In the dub, this was rewritten so Karma spoke with a southern accent instead.
 * As of Chapter 123, Karma is the top ranked student in Kunugigaoka, placed first with a perfect score of 500. His previous rankings were: 4th, 13th, and 2nd.
 * At the end of the class Civil War, Karma surrendered to Nagisa in their one-on-one fight, thus giving the blue team the victory.
 * In the summary of the autumn-winter events at the end of Chapter 154, Karma admitted that Kayano's tentacles and Korosensei's past scared him. However, his highlight was the kiss.
 * Karma shares both his Japanese and English voice actors with Accelerator from the Toaru Series. Another coincidence is that both characters are originally thought to be the strongest within their faction, until the main protagonist of their series surpassed them in terms of strengths.
 * His voice actor in the VOMIC release of Assassination Classroom, Nobunaga Shimazaki, would later voice the God of Death in the second season of the anime release.
 * The first and only time that Karma shed tears, was during Koro Sensei's death.
 * Karma, Nagisa and Kayano spent their money on purchasing the E Class building, while the rest of the class spent their money on buying the mountain.
 * In the tankobon extras, his statistics were listed as:
 * Physical strength: 4
 * Mobility: 4
 * Close-range assassination: 4.5
 * Long-range assassination: 4.5
 * Academic ability: 5
 * Characteristic skill: 5 (Fighting)
 * Karma's bug in Koro Q is that whenever he lookes down on others (to be condescending), his luck rate drops to the point of getting hit by various traps, mostly a metal water bowl.