The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 3

In this third installation of Mr. Umezu's horrific The Drifting Classroom, the students discover that their situation is even more dire than they had first realized. Scarcely having had time to adapt to the subsequent insanity and deaths of their teachers, each of the children begin to see their new-found reality become even bleaker. Now, not only are students vying against each other for superiority in this hostile new environment, but other - more menacing - threats are uncovered. In volume 3, terror makes itself at home in the mind of the reader. Shinjuku Elementary School is revealed not to have exploded or sunk beneath the Earth's surface, but to have been transported across time to an apocalyptic future. However, in doing so, Mr. Umezu does not model his Manga from some grotesque low-budget horror film - no, this new development serves to explain the situation of the students so that the bizarre set of circumstances is made to be almost believable. And that's no mean feat, given the incredible nature of such subject matter. Indeed, this is a story best suited to the format in which is has been unveiled. It could not be adequately captured in any other medium. Stretching the limits of disbelief, yet never quite trampling them, The Drifting Classroom, vol. 3 not only sustains the terror, but develops it into something even stronger than before.

Sho and his schoolmates continue their terrifying oddisey in an alien world, finding that humans are as great a danger as the mysterious new world. And his only hope is his mom! But even her cannot help him all the time. It is Lord of the Flies with even less hope and greater madness. How long can over eight hundred little kids survive under those conditions? Not very long. Casualties continue to mount as the children struggle for survival...and for power.