The Drifting Classroom
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The definitive edition, featuring an all-new translation and deluxe hardcover design that reestablish Kazuo Umezz’s The Drifting Classroom as a timeless horror classic. In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, a Japanese elementary school is transported into a hostile world where the students and teachers are besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness. A group of students stranded out of time face an internal power coup, a wasteland monster with a voracious appetite and a plague. As tensions mount, the kidsface a harsh truth: they must venture out into the bleak world beyond the school walls in order to survive.
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9 primary booksThe Drifting Classroom
The Drifting Classroom is a 9-book series with 9 primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by Kazuo Umezu.
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An earthquake happens in Tokyo, and as a result, an elementary school is swallowed up by the ground, and reappears in this odd, limbo-esque place. A good idea, but the actual book seems to be little more than set-up for the following parts of the series, and gore for the sake of shocking gore. Don't think I'll be continuing with this series.
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📖Genres: horror, sci-fi, manga, graphic novels, comics
📚Page Count: 190
🎧Audiobook Length: N/A
👩🏾🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5/5
The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezu is a horror manga from the 70's about an entire elementary school (with the students, staff, and teachers included) disappearing. When parents and the police come to investigate a giant explosion at the elementary school, all they find is a giant gaping hole in the ground where the school used to be. Meanwhile, the students, staff, teachers, and school are all transported somewhere, but where? The main character Sho, a 6th grader, must fight to survive alongside his friends. All hell starts to break lose, will Sho and his friends survive? Will he ever make his way back to his family?
This manga had so much going on and most of it was unpredictable. I don't want to say too much because spoiling it would ruin part of the story. I will say that all hell starts to break lose by the time the end of the first volume comes along. I'm so excited about future reveals.
The Drifting Classroom is delightfully creepy and I would suggest volume 1 to all my horror comic/manga friends. I did take issue with how long the "story" took to start, other than that I liked everything else about this manga. I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️4.5/5
I read this manga for free on [Libbyapp.com]
