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complesso molto bello, nonostante qualche ingenuità di troppo che mette la sospensione della credulità a dura prova, Interessante anche la “metafora” dellopera, se di metafora si può parlare, A surprisingly existential and ambivalently hopeful ending to a masterful collection in this volume, timeslips abound as the boundaries of spacetime become even more permeable.
The kids, having previously faced the immediate horror of human villains, hunger, and mutiny, unite with their longing relatives in a more existential kind of fear: will the air, the land, and the water ever forgiveth century humanity for the chaos pollution and militarism brought Is remorse enough to redeem a person, a relationship, a species or will the innocent perish due to the sins of their forebears

In Vol. The Drifting Classroom completes a quiet genre shift from clearcut horror to a more philosophical, contemplative mode, There are scary moments, gory moments, and moments that will have you biting your nails, Yet mostly, what I felt when reading this collection was wistfulness, This series has really put me through my emotional paces and I'm grateful to have read it, When I read volumeI kept thinking “this needs way more monsters” and my call was ANSWERED! Two kind of bug monsters, a mummy, a disembodied hand that gouges a guys eyes out, and even a small handful of robots delightful, brutal, endlessly entertaining, the ending is of course a little iffy but how do you endpages of deranged postapocalyptic childonchild murder and mayhem!Fun! An alltimer horror comic, Im sad to be done with them.
"It is so possible! Things aren't automatically impossible just because you don't understand them!"

For how old this book is I give it some leeway, but the story is terrible, all of the characters are incredibly naive, bratty and reactionary yet somehow supposed to appeal to older readers and the dialogue is godawful.


There's a scene with robot Marilyn Monroe in a spaceship at postapocalyptic Mount Fuji, grabbing her own boob in welcome and greeting the students.
A boy student goes to grab the same boob despite a fellow female student's protests and the boob erodes off of the body to reveal machinery underneath which short circuits causing Monroe bot to chase after them and crush some heads to death because I guess the author thought it would be cool or whatever.
If Kazuo Umezz's art and the Drifting Classroom weren't considered important horror distinctions which inspired countless manga artists I likely wouldn't have finished this series.
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I was really surprised by Drifting Classroom, On the surface it's a pretty standard horror manga, A classroom of kids needs to fight for their survival, But the gift of Drifting Classroom lies in its characters, that's where it really deviates from the norm,

The classroom in question is spontaneously drifted to a strange new land that no one recognizes, The children and teachers have no idea what has happened and must learn how to survive if they have any hope of returning.


Turns out the very young children, think elementary school aged, are much better at this than the adults, The teachers erupt immediately into a violent panic, there are many casualties, A lot of the shock of The Drifting Classroom comes from the author's willingness to kill off young children,

The protagonist is Sho, ath grader and natural born leader, He takes the role of helping everyone work together to find solutions, I really enjoyed watching him find his place in this new society, He handles all sorts of conflicts with a grace most adults could never hope for,

But my favorite character is Yu, He's a tinyyear old who happened to be riding his tricycle just too close to the school when it drifted, He's the cutest thing! The way he's drawn, the way he speaks, the way he acts, It's all just so danged adorable! Every time he showed up on the page I was overwhelmed with a motherly urge to protect him and fight for his survival.


I can't do justice to how cute Yu is with words alone, But I did find myself nearly crying from joy at one point in the book, soley because of his absolute purehearted nature.
We don't deserve Yu, he's too good for this world,

I cared for several of the characters in this book, This is the key to great horror, The consequences have to be high! I actually did care if they lived or died, a surprisingly rare feature for horror of any medium.


In addition to the characters the art is great, Several full page layouts could easily be framed and hung in any room of your house,

It also has a levity that balances well with the horror aspects, Enjoy many many scenes of kids falling flat on their faces,

Seriously, it happens A LOT in this book,

I fully understand now why The Drifting Classroom is considered a classic, It's absolutely ridiculous and has a lot of stretches of reason but you'll have to see how it ends, You'll have to see if the kids get a happy ending, and you won't put it down until you kow, En la relectura de esta cuidadísima e incómoda edición he vuelto a pensar lo mismo que la primera vez que me topé con "Aula a la deriva" hace ya años en unos scanlations guarrísimos como me jode no haber leído este manga con doce años.


Y es que a pesar de la brutal, crudísima y gráfica violencia no exenta de humor, ejercida sobre y por los niños, que recuerda a una versión de "Los pequeños macabros" de Gorey pero en cafre, y que tanto nos choca a los occidentales por ser un tema tabú, lo más interesante de la propuesta de Umezz es cómo te presenta una apocalíptica historia de violencia y terror sobre niños, contada desde el punto de vista de los niños y dirigida a niños, en la que reina la lógica infantil, como si en realidad fuesen unos críos los que le estuvieran contando la historia a Umezz, inventándosela sobre la marcha.


Pero no sólo sorprende la brutal violencia que siempre aparece en primerísimo plano, sino la negrísima y pesimista visión de Umezz.
Ya en los dos primeros tomos presenta unos adultos que bordean lo psicopático y que se entregan a la violencia contra los chavales, traicionando un contrato vital básico, el de los adultos que se responsabilizan y cuidan de los niños, figuras que deberían ofrecer seguridad y orden en el caos, destruyendo en unas pocas páginas esa ilusión de la que no eres consciente hasta que te conviertes tú también en un adulto.
Pero además, a lo largo del manga, Umezz destruye sin piedad una y otra vez las pequeñas esperanzas de sobrevivir que tienen los niños, en una espiral descendente de locura y degradación, creando un ambiente de emociones desbocadas y rostros arrasados por las lágrimas.
A ratos me recordaba la emocionalmente tremebunda película "La tumba de las luciérnagas", y no dejaba de pensar que quizá Umezz también evocaba vivencias propias del final de laGM, sobreviviendo a los bombardeos y el hambre en ciudades convertidas en paisajes lunares, arrasadas por las bombas incendiarias.


Por supuesto, al manga no le sobran problemas, Primero, debido al carácter de serial, cada veintitantas páginas les está pasando una movida tremenda, a la que le sigue otra y otra y otra, sin respiro ni apenas descanso, hay algunos tramos en que se hace bastante repetitivo ver niños corriendo de un lado para otro por lo general, en los tebeos de Umezz los personajes corren muchísimo enfrentándose a monstruos de todo pelaje, o amenazas cada vez más demenciales tras el típico grito de alarma fuera de cámara.
En otros casos se trata de las típicas "umezadas", como la loquísima historia del jugador de béisbol convertido en momia, el guiño a "Westworld" la peli delo esa especie de deus ex machina tan ingenioso y loquérrimo de la conclusión.
Y por supuesto es un manga en el que la sutileza se queda en la puerta, con sus diálogos explicativos siempre a voces, sus subrayados a brochazos, sus emociones hiperbólicamente expresadas y su dibujo que ahora puede resultar tosco aunque me hace gracia que Umezz dibuje exactamente igual en elque en elpero que genera una extraña y atractiva tensión entre el aire inocentísimo de los niños, lo ominoso del ambiente y lo brutal de la violencia o las escenas terroríficas.


Pero a pesar de estos defectos, "Aula a la deriva" es un tebeo único, que me ha merecido mucho la pena simplemente porque nunca he leído nada igual, porque te hace recoger la mandíbula del suelo como veinte veces a base de loquísimos giros de guión y porque

atesora momentos todavía deslumbrantes y terroríficos, entre los mejores del tebeo de terror japonés y mundial.
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