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.

Guided by the words of a dying student, the survivors leave the school and travel across the desert in search of "paradise," only to find something stranger than they could ever imagine. Maddened by hunger, the students turn to a horrifying, final solution...!