The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 5

kazuo umezu

The students flee from man-eating insects, but they can't run from a deadly plague. As the situation becomes more desperate, the children arm themselves, and the school erupts into an orgy of violence. Can Sho end the savagery, or is it all he can do just to survive? Meanwhile, out in the wasteland, the shifting sands uncover a buried secret from the past...

Genres mangahorrorcomicsscience fictiongraphic novelsjapanfictionshonencomics mangafantasy

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 17,2007

Series

The Drifting Classroom

This edition

Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Published: April 17, 2007 by VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421509570
ASIN: 1421509571
Language: English

About the author

kazuo umezu

Kazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz was a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. Starting his career in the 1950s, he is among the most famous artists of horror manga and has been vital for its development, considered the "god of horror manga". In 1960s shōjo manga like Reptilia, he broke the industry's conventions by combining the aesthetics of the commercial manga industry with gruesome visual imagery inspired by Japanese folktales, which created a boom of horror manga and influenced manga artists of following generations. He created successful manga series such as The Drifting Classroom, Makoto-chan and My Name Is Shingo, until he retired from drawing manga in the mid 1990s. He was a public figure in Japan, known for wearing red-and-white-striped shirts and doing his signature "Gwash" hand gesture.