the drifting classroom, vols. 3-11

the drifting classroom, vol. 3
the drifting classroom, vol. 4
the drifting classroom, vol. 5
the drifting classroom, vol. 6
the drifting classroom, vol. 7
the drifting classroom, vol. 8
the drifting classroom, vol. 9
the drifting classroom, vol. 10
the drifting classroom, vol. 11
kazuo umezu
graphics/manga/horror/scifi
viz media
1974

Out of nowhere, a Japanese elementary school is transported into a hostile world.  Soon, the students and teachers must struggle to survive in impossible conditions, besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness.

It took me two days but I finished the series.  After finishing the second one I couldn't stop thinking about what happened to the kids and had to find the rest of the series so I could read it all.  This is a series that I would recommend getting each volume so you can start the next one after you finish a volume.  Every volume ends on a cliffhanger and you will need to know what happens immediately!

Sho & Sakiko are excellent heroes.  They never gave up and most of all, never gave in.  They weren't out to just take care of themselves, or even just take care of their friends, but they were trying their hardest to try to keep all the children alive.  And even when the adults were losing their shit and trying to kill them Sho did his best to not kill if he had an option.

It is one disaster after the other and every moment of hope is dashed almost right away, but it is gripping and horrifying.  I could not stop reading until I reached the end!