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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 5 by Kazuo Umezu

ostrava's review

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5.0

Wow, it just got real! This plague arc is really good, the chapter with the "I'm home" moment was incredibly moving and the pacing is great! The best volume so far.

thebookmouse's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

standardman's review

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4.0

The balance of this book seems to be horror caused by external factors (that weird bug) and internal factors (scared out of their mind people in the school).

This volume shifts to the internal and an infectious disease causes panic and suspicion in the school and everything gets murdery.

Enjoying this series so far, the characters are drawn a little simplistically but I think that was a stylistic choice which helps the horror-against-school-children premises.

_remi__'s review

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adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

count_chocula's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

lsmith36's review

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4.0

What a wild ride this series is turning out to be.

quinnster's review

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4.0

It's unbelievable! One thing after the other. I'm not sure that these kids have even slept or how many days have gone by! The death toll has risen over 50 students and adults and food and water are becoming scarce with no relief in sight.

Umezu knows how to keep the ball rolling and as the reader you are constantly on your toes just like the kids are. There is little time for contemplation, it's just all about survival.

fatalamelia's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense

3.0

emkoshka's review

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3.0

I can just imagine Kazuo Umezu's storyboarding for this increasingly sadistic story: disappearance; death by desert; collective teacher breakdown; murderous cafeteria man; death by desert (redux); scorpion-spider-centipede creature; flesh-eating babies of scorpion-spider-centipede creature; impaling and goring by school chums. And if all that isn't enough, now these kids are spreading the Plague amongst themselves. I don't know how much further this story can go!
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