In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away?somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland among which their school stands like a lone fortress. As panic turns to terror, as the rules start to fall apart, a 6th-grade boy named Sho and his friends must try to survive in a hostile new world...
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Kazuo Umezu was born September 3, 1936 in Wakayama, Japan. Umezu, who started drawing professionally in the 1950s, is considered the most influential horror manga artist ever. His many horror and sci-fi/horror works include Nekome Kozo ("The Cat-Eyed Kid", 1967-1968), Orochi, The Drifting Classroom (1972-1974), Ultraman (a manga adaptation of the TV series), Senrei ("Baptism"), My Name is Shingo, The Left Hand of God/Right Hand of the Devil, and Fourteen. His popular gag series Makoto-Chan (1976) and Again prove that Umezu is also an accomplished humor cartoonist. (He is also a musician.) Umezu's weird style, incredible ideas and sometimes terrifying imagery have made him a fixture of Japanese pop culture, and his work has been adapted into movies, anime and collectibles.
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A Child's Nightmare,
This review is from: The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 3 (Paperback)
Sho and his schoolmates continue their terrifying oddisey in an alien world, finding that humans are as great a danger as the mysterious new world. And his only hope is his mom! But even her cannot help him all the time. It is Lord of the Flies with even less hope and greater madness. How long can over eight hundred little kids survive under those conditions? Not very long. Casualties continue to mount as the children struggle for survival...and for power.
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Better and Better,
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This review is from: The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 3 (Paperback)
In this third installation of Mr. Umezu's horrific The Drifting Classroom, the students discover that their situation is even more dire than they had first realized. Scarcely having had time to adapt to the subsequent insanity and deaths of their teachers, each of the children begin to see their new-found reality become even bleaker. Now, not only are students vying against each other for superiority in this hostile new environment, but other - more menacing - threats are uncovered.In volume 3, terror makes itself at home in the mind of the reader. Shinjuku Elementary School is revealed not to have exploded or sunk beneath the Earth's surface, but to have been transported across time to an apocalyptic future. However, in doing so, Mr. Umezu does not model his Manga from some grotesque low-budget horror film - no, this new development serves to explain the situation of the students so that the bizarre set of circumstances is made to be almost believable. And that's no mean feat, given the incredible nature of such subject matter. Indeed, this is a story best suited to the format in which is has been unveiled. It could not be adequately captured in any other medium. Stretching the limits of disbelief, yet never quite trampling them, The Drifting Classroom, vol. 3 not only sustains the terror, but develops it into something even stronger than before.
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kinda stupid,
This review is from: The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 3 (Paperback)
#3 is where this series went off track. some bug invades and its really lame. i didnt enjoy this one that much.... but since i already had the first two i was kinda invested already. keep reading
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