Drifting Classroom GN (2006-2008 Viz Digest) comic books 2005-2007

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves somewhere far away... somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland in which their school stands like a lone fortress. As panic turns to terror, as the rules start to fall apart, a sixth-grade boy named Sho and his friends must fight to survive in an alien world... Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves somewhere far away... somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland in which their school stands like a lone fortress. As panic turns to terror, as the rules start to fall apart, a sixth-grade boy named Sho and his friends must fight to survive in an alien world... Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. Madness takes hold as the teachers and students realize they are stranded in a lifeless world. Sekiya, the cafeteria worker, takes control of the school's food supplies, enforcing his authority with a gun. As the adults start to kill one another, sixth-grader Sho makes a startling discovery - the truth of where they are and what has happened to them. Soon, Sho and his classmate Nishi venture into the wasteland beyond the school gates, and are forced to choose between a slow death from hunger, or a quick death at a killer's hands. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. As sixth-grader Sho fights for his life in the buried city, his cries for help travel across time and reach the ears of his mother in the distant past. Back at the school, as their resources dwindle, the students revert to savagery and despair. Suddenly, a dying student staggers in from the wasteland, bearing signs that life may exist somewhere in their new world. Together with the last surviving adult, the children march into the desert. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. When a despotic student attempts to take control of the school, Sho tries to bring his classmates to their senses. But while the students squabble over power, something horrible comes closer and closer - something that followed them out of the wasteland - something that can't be stopped. As the school is besieged, the students fight back desperately, weak with hunger. But this time, running out of food is the least of their worries. This time, they are food! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 6 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. As a plague spreads through the school, the students continue to fight one another with their last dregs of strength! Will they choose a slow death from disease, or a violent death at the hands of their own classmates? Then, the students run out of water, and Sho and his friends must venture once more into the wasteland, where rusted ships lie beached forever in the desert that used to be the sea! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. A flash flood turns the desert into a drowned world, and the students struggle to protect the school - and their precious vegetable garden - from the deluge. But just as the first vegetables are ready to harvest, the crop is infested with a strange fungus. Was all their work for nothing? Lonely for home and their parents, the students make a surrogate mother out of a statue... only to find it replaced one day by a new, terrifying idol! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 9 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kazuo Umezu. Pursued by grotesque mutants, Sho and his friends flee back to the school, where more horrors await! Barricaded against the nightmares outside, the students must perform an emergency medical operation under the most primitive of conditions. As the survivors' resources dwindle, the countdown draws closer and closer to the end! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.