IN A SINGLE INSTANT, A SCHOOL OF 862 STUDENTS AND STAFF VANISHED FROM THE EARTH. THIS IS THEIR STORY. Out of nowhere, a Japanese elementary school is transported into a hostile world. Soon, the students and teachers must struggle to survive in impossible conditions, besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness. Part horror, part science fiction, The Drifting Classroom is a classic can't-put-down manga series from horror manga master 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 are forced to venture into the wasteland beyond the school gates.

and choose between a slow death from hunger or a quick death at a killer's hands.