The Drifting Classroom: The Perfect Edition | 
pick📕 This is a beautiful collection in a stunning hardcover with a good paper weight.
Sho has a regretful fight with his mom shortly before he & his school disappear. Poof! Gone. He‘s a MC.
But the school & its inhabitants are only transported into the future to a dystopianesque Dune-like environment.
Comparisons to Lord of the Flies are tangential. Fear, hysteria take hold immediately. Murder, death, kill follows!
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The Drifting Classroom won one of Japan‘s major literary awards, The 20th Shogakukan Manga Award, in 1975. It‘s mix of psychological horror and splatter horror with a pinch of giant monsters is such a delicious blend. *chefs kiss*
The Drifting Classroom ran in Japan from 1972 - 1974. Kazuo Umezz is considered a pioneer of Japans horror manga genre.
Last June, Viz Media released the final volume of The Drifting Classroom: a mammoth collection by famous horror creator, Kazuo Umezz. These are gorgeous hardcovers, each containing over 700 glossy, gorgeous pages.
pickI loved this. I read Cat Eyed Boy years ago and don‘t know why I didn‘t pick up more from him. It‘s so wild what happens to all these kids and I will need to order the second volume ASAP.
I bought this in January and wanted to wait until my library list shortened. Looks like the time to start it is now! Kinda mad I didn‘t buy the second book while I had the chance!
I just got back from B&N. This is the last weekend of their ‘buy 2 manga, get 1 free‘ deals, which tempted me into buying this beautiful hardcover Vol. 1 edition of Drifting Classroom. I love Viz Media‘s Signature editions. The Junji Ito collections are gorgeous! Of course that means I got to pick out 2 additional manga and then threw on 1 more for good measure. I added 2 more books to the pile and called it a successful trip to the bookstore. 📚
Need books 2 & 3 to see where it goes! 4y