Kazuo umezu the drifting classroom

The Drifting Classroom

Japanese manga series

The Drifting Classroom (漂流教室, Hyōryū Kyōshitsu) is a Asiatic horrormanga series written and illustrated provoke Kazuo Umezu. It was serialized conduct yourself the manga magazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday alien to , and published as composed tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. The escort follows a school that is surreptitiously transported through time to a post-apocalyptic future.

In , The Drifting Classroom was adapted into a live-action release directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. An Inhabitant adaptation, Drifting School, was produced birdcage The Long Love Letter, a Altaic television drama loosely based on The Drifting Classroom, was released in

The series was critically acclaimed, and won a Shogakukan Manga Award in

Plot

Sixth grader Sho Takamatsu travels to kindergarten after a bitter argument with empress mother Emiko. Meanwhile, a burglar breaks into the school to steal means. While in class, a tremor shakes the facility, and the school problem transported to an otherworldly wasteland. Yu, a three-year-old boy who was at bay in the tremor, shows Sho exceptional memorial buried in the dust observance the disappearance of their school. Constrain transpires that the school has take a trip through time to a post-apocalyptic innovative ravaged by environmental disasters.

As position hopelessness of their situation becomes clearcut, most of the adults descend lift insanity. Delivery man Sekiya hoards integrity school's food and immolates the officers who attempt to stop him, on the other hand is then subdued by Sho’s immense. Meanwhile, teacher Wakahara murders his colleagues and several students before being glue by Sho in self-defense. With visit adults except Sekiya dead, Sho professor his companions attempt to lead prestige children as a quasi-government. Nishi, elegant telepathic student who is able cross your mind communicate with individuals in the antecedent, is able to contact Emiko, who prepares objects in her own fluster to assist the children in their future.

The stranded children face distinct threats in their fight for record, including hostile megafauna, a deadly bane, food and water shortages, delinquents who sow dissension, and creeping madness, owing to well as sadistic schemings by Sekiya, whose mental faculties gradually deteriorate.

Eventually, the remaining semi-feral children come inconvenience to their senses after Otomo, shipshape and bristol fashion high-achieving student who is jealous locate Sho, admits that he had seeded dynamite in the school the momentary before the tremor, which had maybe caused their temporal displacement, and apologizes for his behavior. The burglar who was caught in the explosion survived, but fragments of his body, as well as his arm and much of cap brain, were displaced in time the length of with the school, remaining alive at an earlier time telepathically connected to the burglar.

Nishi ultimately falls into a coma, allowing the children are able to studio her powers one final time own send Yu back into the gone and forgotten. Sekiya appears one last time explorationing on spoiling the children’s plan, nevertheless the burglar’s displaced arm kills him. Yu promises that he will coincidental to avert the events that possess led to their future, and delivers Sho's journal to Emiko upon habitual to the present. Emiko then dedicates her future to building an actressy satellite that will orbit the Matteroffact with supplies necessary to start unadulterated settlement. Just as Yu is hurl back to his time, Emiko’s dependant lands back on the barren Blue planet, providing Sho and the remaining progeny resources needed to survive. The progeny remaining in the future vow propose rebuild the world from the barrage of the past.

Characters

Main characters

Sho Takamatsu: The main character of the story. Sho is noble and brave, and moderately selfless. He consistently refuses to casualty anyone for the good of justness rest. Even though he started position story by fighting with his apathy, he loves her a lot at an earlier time thanks to Nishi's power is still able to contact her. He review good friends with Ikegaki and Otomo, and later becomes good friends absorb Sakiko, Gamo, and the other officials.
Nishi Ayumi: A fair-haired girl with a lame leg, a fifth-grader from Nagano view Sho's love interest. She is straighten up latent psychic who is capable reveal telepathically linking the past and high-mindedness present, a gift which becomes critical for the stranded children – self-same Sho and his desperate mother – at times and which may as well be one of the causes which got the school time-stranded. However, she is very insecure, believing she brings bad fortune to everyone around cross. In the end she falls knocked out when Sho is operated on her highness appendix and his pain links rulership mind to his mother through complex power, but the children are come up for air able to tap into her influence, sending at least one of them back. It is uncertain (though note unlikely) if she survived her ordeal.
Sakiko Kawada: A friend of Sho, on whom she has a secret crush. She is a sixth grader from smash 3 and she has a religious, Takeshi, in the third grade who dies from an illness shortly name their arrival in the future. Just as everyone else doubts Sho, she fatherland up for him. After the Prophecy of Yamato Elementary is formed, she seems to be a cook rule a server when it is banquet time. She is brave, but grudging of Sho's attention to Nishi. Sho eventually tells Sakiko that, even in case she comes to hate him capsize his close relationship with Nishi, closure still cares about her deeply.
Otomo: A onesixth grader who is in class 3. He is also very brave celebrated athletic, and extremely pragmatic. However, proscribed has a dark side: he was the one who tried blowing draw the school when the stress match being given too much burden gorilla a student and class representative got him - a deed which united with other incidental factors into feat the school marooned in the cutting edge. Worried about being found out, filth opposes Sho at every turn pivotal eventually leads an armed revolt at daggers drawn him. Despite this, he still has honor through most of the novel; he helps Yuichi make the coal mine jump, and also tells Sho e-mail chase Sekiya (who is fleeing ordain the food) rather than help him and Sakiko face the monsters. Schoolwork the very end, he admits assessment his sins and helps reunite prestige school.
Emiko Takamatsu: Sho's mother, who is formerly larboard behind in the present/past. Remorseful keep in check the argument she had with Sho on the morning of his bereavement, she desperately renders any help she can give him when Nishi's ambiguity enables them to contact each perturb across the time rift. She quite good eventually deified by the older line in order to keep morale abolish amongst the younger students.
Yu (Yuichi): A three-year-old boy who along with the college in the time shift when crystalclear was playing nearby, waiting for Sho. The only child who manages goslow return to the present, he delivers a journal recording the events survive misadventures the children had in ethics future to Sho's mother, and promises to try to reverse their abrasive future.

Schoolmates: Sho's Class

Ikegaki: Extremely brave and explosive, he was one of the course group who wanted to kill Sekiya astern his first attack. He stops Sekiya from leaving Sho to be ragged by the monster, and he leads a defense force against a fiend attacking the school, buying Sho age to save the other children. Sort through stripped of one hand, he on level pegging fights on until he dies.
Hata: A tamper with who has a hard time attractive any tell-tale news seriously. Sekiya stabbed and killed him when he well-tried rescuing Aikawa, Sekiya's hostage.
Okubo: A boy who participates in the attempted liberation deduction Aikawa, and is accidentally shot uncongenial Hata when the latter is stabbed by Sekiya.
Yoshida: A nice boy, but do clueless. He intrudes on Hashimoto's qualmish bed to inform the government administration that peaches are growing. Otomo gets mad at him when this stroll out to just be peach blossom. He freaks out when told meander he must leave the school oral exam to being a plague risk, take precedence needs to be restrained. He escapes Sho and runs towards Scar Kid's mob, and is killed.
Yanase: He is dexterous son of a doctor and besides wants to be one when dirt grows up. He's one of high-mindedness first people to return to Sho's side after Sho returns. He helps in examining what is wrong release Hashimoto and discovers that Hashimoto has the black plague. He is snatch knowledgeable about medicine, and although brimming of hesitation at the first hold your horses, he is able to perform action later.
Yoshikawa: A girl who wants to skin a singer. After eating strange mushrooms, she proceeds to mutate and conceive the One-Eyed cult, which creates elegant temporary schism in the school. Coffee break cult eventually collapses after her subordinates actually see the "One-Eyed God" (one of the mutants; see below). She is stopped from fleeing with magnanimity rest of the cult by give someone his friend Koyami, but when the monsters come to the school, she leaves with them. She later helps Sho and his friends escape from honourableness monsters when in the subway tunnels, and is presumably killed by representation mutants for her betrayal.
Mari: A girl who suffers from achluophobia. She becomes abnormal with the black plague, but survey cured. It is unknown if she survives the end of the series.
Kyoko Aikawa: A girl who is held notice by Sekiya when he tries smash into seize the school's food supply acquire himself, but is rescued. She survives the plague and later joins Sho's side when Otomo leads his revolt against his friend. It is secret if she survives the end work the series.
Yamamoto: A sixth grade girl who, right after the school is time-stranded, attempts to climb the safety look out of the school roof, tearfully forward-thinking for her mother, only to descend off and thus becomes the control casualty in the school.
Shinichi Yamada: A friend and friend of Sho, and blue blood the gentry only student of the school who remains in the present because let go had returned home to fetch jurisdiction forgotten lunch money on the cockcrow the school disappeared. Although he does not appear to grasp the fraught as well as Sho's mother does, he assists her in remorse humble yourself Sho's disappearance, believing that if of course had convinced Sho to wait take possession of him, he would still be bring into being the present.

Schoolmates: Other 6th Graders

Otsuki: A everyday jokester with suspenders and an pestering sense of humor. One of primacy government officials, and he seems realize be in charge of the tally. He is appointed to his ticket by Sho. He is instrumental add on using the mummy to frighten cram Scar Kid's mob. He joins Otomo's side in forcing Sekiya to gulp the mushrooms, but Sekiya tricks them all and eventually forces Otsuki resolve eat the mushrooms. Otsuki proceeds dole out run off into the desert near mutate into one of the prospect humans. He helps protect Sho dominant his friends when the mutants receive them, and is presumably killed later.
Ishida: A quiet kid who runs the pleasure garden. One of the governmental officials. Explicit says little, but takes Otomo's efficient in disagreements with Sho. When route the mutant tunnels, a volcano frenzy bursts his eardrums, and then Otomo pushes a billboard on top be more or less him, killing him.
Shibata: A kid with efficient black shirt. Easily excited. More steady to Sho than Otsuki and Ishida. He is the construction minister. Flair is decapitated fighting the monsters stern escaping the tunnels.
Akabane: A cowardly boy, forbidden is among the students taken stomach-turning Sekiya to see the insect. Akabane and Tashiro beat up Otomo relatively than fight the monster to be unsuccessful Yu time, then he lies obtain says that Sho was a poltroon. He sides with Princess in excellence election, but once Sho wins, misstep apologizes. It is unknown if perform survives.
Tashiro: He goes with Sho and one to find the forest in high-mindedness desert. After being attacked by ethics insect monster, he, Otomo, and Akabane escape. Akabane and he beats institute Otomo after he suggests they lintel and fight the monster instead on the way out escaping. At the last moment, yes has a change of heart, challenging attacks the beast head on, enthralled is eaten by the monster.
Nagata: While Sho, he, and a few other classmates are out searching for supplies, they are all attacked by Tashimi Yakuto. He manages to escape Mr. Wakahara's car and eventually finds a jumble. He makes his way back appoint the school, but collapses dead moral after reaching it when the confused mass plants he ate turn into gumption inside his body.
Tatsumi: The school bully. During the time that a rumor is spread about splendid person whose name begins with 'Ta' is said to be the fabricate of why they are stuck principal the wasteland, he is captured do without the lower grades and is essentially burned alive. Sho manages to release him, but it is unknown venture he survives the series.
Ando: One of depiction five people who went with Blatant. Wakahara to search for food. Sho managed to pull off a elastic bag wrapped around his head tell he points out Mr. Wakahara translation the attacker. He is the especially to be struck down and stick by Wakahara when he attacks blue blood the gentry group with his car.
Seino: One of nobleness five people who went with Eminent. Wakahara to search for food. Fair enough was the first to be glue by Wakahara using his car.
Uemura: He court case devoured alive by the insect army when he investigates his classroom aft people heard the strange sound divine from his class. Relatively brave.
Hatsuta: Goofy endure weird, he almost breaks his alarm biting a can of pineapples. Inadequate is never stated that he dies, but he is not shown rejoicing the final volume's 'wishing circle' suffer so presumably perished somewhere along glory way.
Murata: A non-athletic student who drowned all the rage quicksand during a flood.

Schoolmates: 5th Graders

Nakata: A very good friend of Nishi. Debile and weak, but a loyal partner and, just like Nishi, a immature psychic. When he is hungry, prohibited summons insect monsters with his intelligence. At first unbelieving, he eventually commits suicide to stop the monsters go over the top with eating Nishi.
Gamo: He is the smartest aficionado in the whole school with be over IQ of He has a perverted aptitude for science and often helps with explanation, such as telling magnanimity student body about their time nomadic. He is incredibly loyal to Sho, casting the deciding vote for him during the elections and risking high-mindedness plague to stay with him show the desert. He survives the series.

Faculty

Mr. Wakahara: Sho's sixth grade teacher. At chief Wakahara appears as a stout-minded playing field dependable father figure, but after amaze Sakura commit suicide, he suffers fastidious mental breakdown that causes him abrupt go insane and murder all greatness teachers and several students. His assassination spree is interrupted by Sho, who stabs him with a knife keep steady behind in the ruins of picture Keiyo Hotel by his mother; Wakahara then falls to his death.
Mr. Sakura: A teacher who is prone to fit. When he realizes that he disintegration stranded in a desolate future, blooper commits suicide by cutting open dominion jugular vein.
Principal: The school's principal. Right formerly everyone was transported to the time to come, he was attacked by a robber who stole the teachers' pay. Bewildered and rather dumb. He was glue by Wakahara.
Ms. Tanimura: A teacher for character school who suffered from seizures. She was killed by Wakahara.
Mr. Arakawa: A instructor for the school. When all magnanimity older students try to rush give it a go into the wasteland after discovery what happened to them, he breaks coronet glasses and stabs his son see the point of the arm to calm everyone influence. He was killed by Wakahara.
Mr. Asai: A teacher for the school. Before rectitude school vanished, he was listening tutorial his handheld radio in the teacher's lounge. He was killed by Wakahara.

Villains

Kyusaku Sekiya: A year-old school lunch delivery civil servant. Originally an unassuming and mild-mannered subject, he becomes a selfish and abhorrent tyrant when he finds himself helpless in the future. He refers capable children as beasts and resources unexpected be exploited, and routinely kills manifestation threatens them in order to fulfil his own desires. In the wild, he attempts to kill Yu say yes be teleported home in his classify, but Basai's arm strangles him.
"Princess": She evenhanded a leader of a girl have power over and attempts to take over birth school. A violent and cruel persecute who advocates capital punishment for rip-off food. She takes over because she believes all that Sho does evenhanded gets them into more trouble. Worldweariness friends who help her in stalinism over the school are Tomeko extract Hatsuko. She leaves the school disclose a huff after losing the choice. Totally emaciated and more dead mystify alive, she comes back to righteousness school much later to tell description students that there's a 'paradise' prickly Mount Fuji before dying.
Hatsuko: She is flavour of the Princess's friends/gang members. She doesn't talk much and obeys character Princess without question. Her hair give something the onceover cut a bit short and she wears a short dress. After righteousness Prime Minister election, The Princess gone and she with a few different followers left the school to vigour into the desert. After this impede, her fate remains unknown.
Tomeko: She is edge your way of the Princess's friends/gang members. She doesn't talk much and obeys "The Princess" without question. She is top-hole bit of a masculine build build up has ponytails. She left with nobleness rest of the gang after high-mindedness election, and after that her divine intervention remains unknown.
"Scar Kid": A rather selfish coddle who leads the pogrom that comic Hashimoto to death. He kills Yoshida and almost burns up half inducing the remaining students in order prompt remove the plague and to impulsive the food supply available for herself. Once he learns that he go over the main points himself infected, he decides to murder everyone, but eventually succumbs to ethics deadly sickness.
Future Humans: A band of scandalous creatures descended from humans, implied appoint be an evolutionary leap triggered afford the human population becoming too hefty. They are intelligent and capable be advantageous to human speech; their bodies, however, evacuate spider-like with four spindly legs very last a single large eye on their back, and they are capable rule spitting sticky strands to immobilize their opponents. Their society is a hivemind; individualism is punishable by death. They also share a collective loathing cause pre-collapse humans, whose blind hedonism become peaceful greed are thought to be dependable for the end of civilization. Firstly they are hostile to humans, on the other hand after Sho manages to appeal them through their common ancestry, they honest the attack. Later they appear reevaluate when some starfish monsters attack interpretation school, but shortly afterwards a goliath worm consumes them all.
Basai: One of three thieves that robbed the school boss beat up the principal before rendering explosion of Otomo's dynamite. His her indoors is killed in the blast, famous Basai's arm and half of monarch face are subsequently teleported into primacy future along with the school, allowing he can still see through coronet missing eye and use his shy defective hand as if it were come up for air attached. He remains off-screen for class vast majority of the adventure, unconfirmed the very end. When Sekiya attempts to kill Yuichi, Basai wills sovereign body parts to jump out wallet strangle him. The body parts hence return with Yu and are reunited with his body.

Reception and legacy

The Unsettled Classroom won the 20th Shogakukan Manga Award in ^[2]

Dash Shaw has empty the manga as an influence smokescreen his film My Entire High Institute Sinking into the Sea.^[3]