The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition

· The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition Vol 1 · VIZ Media LLC
4.3
12 reviews
Ebook
749
Pages
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Out of nowhere, an entire school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves not dead but stranded in a terrifying wasteland where they must fight to survive.

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4.3
12 reviews
Niall Black
11 April 2023
I read the first chapter. It was available as a free sample. It was excellent. Given it seems like a little time capsule of past Japan it feels like it typifies the era it is from because it's portraying children fairly accurately in a school environment. And the interpersonal relationships between the main character and his mother and with his friend and the one girl in his class all show wonderful little authentic feeling glimpses of what's going on deeper down with the main character. Yes, be is just a young kid. But this doesn't feel like some shonen adventure manga protagonist. He's just a regular kid who messes around doing regular kid stuff. And obviously that means that many readers will identify with at least some small part of his experience. Haven't we all had a day like that? The Art style is one you don't see much anymore in manga. Slightly more 'American' looking, which dates it to perhaps the early 1980s as its typical of that time. Love the action & visual composition.
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Wîłłøĥ Ø'Řɛƴɛş
13 October 2025
I read the physical copy, love the artwork and attention to detail,and the way it exhibits the feelings of fear and panic, the paranoia in the adults, and the storyline flows without error.
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Thakrad
24 February 2024
Horror excellence. very unsettling.
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About the author

Kazuo Umezz started drawing professionally in the 1950s and is considered the most influential horror manga artist ever. His many horror and sci-fi/horror works include Cat Eyed Boy (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 Umezz is also an accomplished humor cartoonist. Umezz'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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