The Drifting Classroom

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The Drifting Classroom

漂流教室 (Hyōryū Kyōshitsu)
Genre	Horror
Manga
Authored by	Kazuo Umezu
Publisher	Shogakukan Viz Media Glenat
Serialized in	Shonen Sunday
Original run	1972 – 1974
No. of volumes	11

The Drifting Classroom (漂流教室, Hyōryū Kyōshitsu^?) is a horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu.

1 Summary
2 Plot (By Volume)
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Summary

After an earthquake, a city mourns the loss of an entire elementary school. A hole in the ground is the only proof that it ever existed. But the students and teachers aren’t dead… they are trapped in a cold, dark alien wasteland. Can they learn to survive before panic turns to terror?

[edit] Plot (By Volume)

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Volume 1: 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 find themselves somewhere far away…somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland in which their school stands like a lone fortress. As panic turns to terror, as the rules start to fall apart, a sixth-grade boy named Sho and his friends must fight to survive in an alien world...

Volume 2: Madness takes hold as the teachers and students realize they are stranded in a lifeless world! Sekiya, the cafeteria worker, takes control of the school's food supplies, enforcing his authority with a gun. As the adults start to kill one another, sixth-grader Sho makes a startling discovery--the truth of where they are and what has happened to them. Soon, Sho and his classmate Nishi are forced to venture into the wasteland beyond the school gates...and choose between a slow death from hunger or a quick death at a killer's hands...