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Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - The Drifting Classroom


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Spinal Cord Fluid-kun



Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:42 pm Reply with quote
My first Umezu manga, I went expecting some sort of WSJified version lord of the flies, thank god I was wrong.
This is one of my favorite manga.
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driverstart



Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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Location: America
PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:05 pm Reply with quote
belvadeer wrote:
Wow, this sounds like one gruesome story. How scarce is its availability?


This series isn't really hard to come by actually. I still believe you can get new copies of it on Amazon and Viz's website. Also still available from Barnes and Noble as well last time I checked.
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ptolemy18
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Joined: 07 May 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:35 pm Reply with quote
gartholamundi wrote:
doc-watson42 wrote:
Jason Thompson wrote:
Kazuo Umezu, a mangaka born in 1936 [...]

Umezu was born in 1934

Was it 1934 or 1936? Anime smallmouth + sweatdrop


Ha, yea, I was wondering that too ... I say average the two together to get 1935.


Urk! I meant 1936! -_-
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ptolemy18
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:35 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, the live-action film version is.... ridiculous. It has almost none of the events of the manga, isn't nearly as brutal, and features a musical number, which is actually one of its strong points.
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Monumension



Joined: 03 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:57 pm Reply with quote
Excellent manga, although there were certain parts in it that probably were meant to be scary or disturbing that I personally thought were hilarious. At its best it's genuinely creepy though - especially when we meet the future "evolution" of mankind. It's very well rounded also - it ended before the madness started to get tiresome.
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