@@QueenOfFails spoilers The plot is about a famous actress who, at the peak of her career, suddenly starts to grow a huge mark on her face. Panicking that her beauty is deteriorating, the actress plans with her childhood doctor to have a child so they can perform an operation to swap brains and give the actress a new body, killing her child. but the twist was it's revealed that the surgery never happened and that it was just Sakura's hallucinations she was making to cope with everything, the kid was an actual kid and so much horrible stuff happened to her involving a teacher and her response tortured his wife and baby but the manga is vague what is true or not
The worst horror of this manga comes not from the fantastic elements, but the cruel acts of the characters, the madness of human mind. Is a very heartbreaking traumatic experience...
No shit ya is one of the channels that i sorely miss not being that commun anymore, good taste, an eye for detail and good humor,thanks for being around men
If you liked this, I strongly recommend Fourteen, also by Kazuo Umezu. It's an absolutely INSANE apocalyptic story, I can't even begin to describe how utterly weird it gets. It takes place between the two periods of time in Drifting Classroom, explaining what happened to the Earth. So it's technically a sequel. You definitely won't regret reading it. It's slightly longer than this, though. But seriously, read it and meet Doctor Chicken George.
This is a very disturbing manga. Although the premises are very different, the nearest thing it reminds me of is Stephen King's The Long Walk, about kids who are in a very stressful and ultimately hopeless situation, but you as the reader still root for their survival. I read this manga as an adult, and it still surprised me with how intense and disturbing it was. It's like a nightmare, but worth the read. Good review. I'd listen to a deeper analysis.
oh man, i've been waiting for you to make a video on this one!!! drifting classroom means a lot to me. it somehow brings up all the fears i had as a child, mixing them up in an absolutely bizarre way. being separated from a parent, being all alone with other kids, having no safe adult to rely on, being ostracized, going hungry, getting the plague, etc. in fact, no other piece of media has ever made me as shocked as when the kids realized they were dealing with the goddamn bubonic plague, LMAO! can't wait to watch this video. kazuo umezu is an absolute horror genius and his influence can still be felt to this day, even in non-horror manga!
I remember reading the manga in junior high, then it disappeared for some reason, but the story remained in my head for years later. When I rediscovered it, I felt like a child again hiding under my bed again. The psychological mark it left on me is insane. If you like stories with a bunch of people confined in an area, read "Cradle of Monsters". It's really good!
awesome manga. idk whats up with shitting on the art from time to time. It is comparable to and better than many of its contemporaries. Older manga artwork never looks "outdated" to me. It is fun to see how the character designs had a certain style back then but thats about it. It is highly impressive that it was done all by hand
Dude! I REMEMBER NOW THAT I READ HIS SCARY BOOK SERIES! the mirror is pretty awesome and I'm there like "why does that art style looks so familiar?" And boom that hit me. My library is hella old like 100+ year old. And the book they have is the scary book series. Of course they only have three books of the series but my god is it so good and scary
@@SilveryBlue1010 Dragon head Dead days (Webtoon) The horizon (Webtoon) Eden- it's an endless world Dr. Stone Hotel (Oneshot) Leviathan (Webtoon) Mother sarah The Nice House on the Lake (Graphic Novel)
This was the first Umezu comic I read. A real page turner. After this, I read Hell Baby and Cat Eyed Boy. All such well crafted stories. These are terrifying stories, but they contain humanity in them, something western horror stories these days really lack. That is, they are bleak tales, but they often contain some hope or emotional meaning to them.
I watched another one of your videos yesterday where you mentioned "Event Horizon" as a B-movie. It’s actually one of my favorite films, and I think it's because of its focus on isolation horror. Cube, The Thing, The Shining, Alien, [REC], and Triangle are all good examples. If you're into creepypasta, you might enjoy The Whistlers, which is another great example of isolation horror. Also, I really like Blame! and Knights of Sidonia for similar reasons. Both series create worlds that feel desolate and isolated.
It was one of my favourite manga the first time in my life that I actually enjoyed it i finished it in two days straight i just wish if there was more like it
Anything by Kazuo Umezz/Umezu is just fantastic! I'm Soo glad they're coming out with new prints of the English editions that aren't a million dollars! The live action American version of drifting classroom with shia Labeouf is a trip isn't it 😂 drifting classroom is my personal favorite currently I'm reading orochi and I'm liking the short stories with a common link
I like the video, it's very informative and digestible. Makes me want to read this series! One criticism I have is that you tend to use the "Yeah, thats not gonna work" or "Yeah, maybe not" trope a bit too much, essentially just using "Yeah" too much. Everything else is wonderful! I'm going to watch more
Nice video! I love the drifting classroom, it's one of my favourie manga's. (The other is Bio Meat Nectar) Had no clue there was a movie tho, will be searching for that later xD
10:31 Below is such an underrated movie. One of my favorites. No one EVER talks about it. It’s from the director of Pitch Black and all the other Riddick movies and it’s pretty great. Anyone who hasn’t seen it, what are you waiting for? 🤷🏼♂️
In the story, do they ever explain how the kids managed to manufacture a fully functioning ballista, or even possibly more impressive; they learned how to 'flint knap' stone axes? Granted, the school would have a library, but would a Japanese elementary school library actually have books on ancient, mainly non-Japanese weapons? And flint knapping... I've tried it, and it is frustratingly difficult. Sure, they *could* learn to do it, but it would take a great deal of time and a lot of spare shape-able stone, as it is very easy to ruin your work with a single strike.
Humans are beings of curiosity even more when they are children or teens, so of course, he'd choose to go for a bigger audience. It may not have been the best idea, but he still has a very noticeable influence on horror in japan
I just finished it today and i have been surprised by the contents of the manga, especially based on my first impressions on it's artstyle and intro but instead i was very delighted and surprised by how the story progressed through each chapters. I thought this manga had a "terrible" ending though, it was very abrupt and didn't exactly continue on many interesting points that the manga has made throughout the story like the conflict between the sho and otomo and how exactly does Nishi 's power work and many more so i think the bitter sweet ending would be better if a lot more of the interesting points the story has made was explored upon a lot more
This sounds almost like a take on Peter Pan imo. Which, if you like this sort of horror/dark reimaginings, I suggest the book 'Lost Boys' by Christina Henry.
Corpse Party... a game... I am shuddering thinking about it. A class of Japanese students get transported to a mirror dilapidated version of their school in a ghost dimension. No windows, no way out, no food or water... They have to contend with spirits and previous transported students who are going insane before dying themselves from thirst and starvation. All while trying to solve a murder mystery that may be the secret of the place and a way back home. Horrific, brutal, but really interesting and well done.
I have no idea who could possibly have been bugging you to cover this for months.... Like the same person he would absolutely want you to do a deeper dive. And definitely not someone who for some strange reason enjoys reading material about kids tearing each other apart and desperate situations for some reason.. If you do want stories like that though "Final Winter" by Iain Rob Wright I believe is pretty good enables people being trapped in a bar and essentially it starts to snow one night and it doesn't stop... everywhere on Earth, and madness and terror ensue for those patrons. If you really want a wild ride I would suggest the "news flesh" series by Mira Grant. It's several different books some of them if I recall are your pretty standard narrative following instead of characters through a zombie apocalypse who are reporters hence the news flash, flesh heh. But in a twist I actually enjoy a lot more which is stranger me is the accompanying anthologies which I believe are called rise which are essentially just stories all over about various groups of people and how they handle it when the zombie apocalypse started or levels in the zombie horns or groups that were now beginning to function after everything had fully gone to fuckeroo and back. Either way they're incredibly creative and my grant is wickedly funny and that excellent way that makes it so it hits you like a gut punch that much harder when something horrible happens because you were just giggling like a moron and now everything is covered in blood and the characters you cared about are dead and everyone is looking at you like you're insane because you're laughing crying in your living room over your Kindle. Last it's not so much a last stand type of book but it is a better group of people stranded dealing with something beyond comprehension it's the troop by Nick cutter. And to say that Nick cutter can outdo Junji ito in body horror is not remotely an over exaggeration. It's about some boy scouts trapped on island there's a parasite and stuff gets weird not squick just weird, he also always says his homework very religiously when it comes to getting accurate scientific details right and when creating scientific forms and data to literally throughout his books is a way of giving more information to the reader which I always appreciate. He also wrote The deep which is again a small group of people stranded and that is very much a last stand against the end of the universe and what his wings again just excellent attention and body horror and amazing aspects of isolation and being cut off from the rest of the world. So there ya go Final Winter News Flesh/Rise The Troop The Deep Ty for covering DC! And how centipedes are absolutely evil they are in fact the devil, I can say that with authority, I'm a Satanist.
This is legitimately one of my biggest fears 😂 Everynight i think of it before bed and usually dream of waking on another planet,i usually die instantly, crushed by gravity, suffocated, dissolved by acid, flash frozen, endlessly falling through the clouds of Jupiter etc. Content warning! It might get you too so tread carefully: See in quantum physics its not uncommon for particles to change position with one another and they dont percieve space like we do so they could just swap places with another particle in the andromeda galaxy instantly. Even so it is incredibly unlikely two such particles in close proximity would do this simultaneously to the exact same place and even more so all the particles in your body would do this at the same time in the likelihood of GOOGILLIONS to one. Totally unfeasible... But NOT impossible. But now the kicker... In the US, a country filled with technology and surveillance out the wazoo - about three people every year completely vanish off the face of the Earth. Not even the slightest clue of what could have happened to them and are never ever found again. And Im not saying all of them disappeared forever, but even if it was just one a century - thats still too many for my comfort. After all, what if we got our math wrong? Or our universe rubs up against another where the laws of physics are a bit more chaotic?
And just to be clear since they don't percieve space like we do that automatically means they also don't percieve time like we do and can teleport anywhere at anywhen.
I really enjoy this series and I would like to see this series become an anime in the near future we need more good horror anime because most of them are terrible I hope this series gets an anime adaptation adaptation
Yes! I recently picked up Vol 1 of the hard copy and MAN! It’s super dope and chaotic, mind you these are elementary kids except for the main protagonist and his classmates who are 6th graders.
I don't want to shit on this manga or anything and I get it's a classic, but for me it was more hilarious and sometimes completely random than scary story. I get extreme violence against and by children is disturbing and it's probably because this is my first really old horror manga, but for me it didn't hit at all. I don't regret reading it, but it's not the best manga for me
I think this gets explained in the manga. They do have enough, but not forever and eventually they run out - there's also an incident with a teacher that takes over the food for a bit.
So when someone tells me not to do something, its like a challenge, makes me want to do it. So I found baptism and i read it, and honestly it was disappointing. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but maybe I am used to really messed up horror after watching all the Saw movies or reading other horror works, but it was a little underwhelming. It was certainly off putting and a little weird, but wouldn't be what I would necessarily call horror. I think its more a thriller. Also I felt betrayed by the endings explanation of what took place in the manga. It was a good read, I recommend.
I'll never understand the "its not gory" complaint. To me, people that want gory stuff so much can go work in a butcher shop. Or in medicine. And are probably a bit of psychos themselves. Other than that - pretty good review and baring what I said - Ill watch other reviews by you. Great editing as well, and video making. Thanks!
You are a gem, and I’m glad to explore such works through you, and have been going through your videos since discovering them, but I could hardly stand to finish this video let alone actually read some of the work. If anyone else had been covering it, I’d have given up. I am all for far out ideas, that’s why I’m here, and this one had tremendous promise that it does not fulfill. I was very disappointed. I’m going to say it, this work is crap! It’s meaningless suffering, with bad plot, unrealistic characterizations, and shock and schlock in place of genuine horror. Worst of all, it’s not fun!! It doesn’t become good because a so-called genius produced it. And him attempting to tack on some last minute trendy subtext, about naturally occurring disasters, doesn’t fix or redeem the comic, as the author attempted to do (especially considering how real Japanese citizens actually acted in such situations). This a few similar works seem to fall into this vein of hopelessness about life that males are particularly prone to. The what-the-fuckery also prevents me from being able to at least compliment any originality and instead feel I’m being forced to read through someone’s drug induced hazes. Yuck. Now, some of what I like is also crap. So, I’m not faulting your taste, or anyone’s in that regard, but I’d qualify those interests as fetish or niche - I would not easily recommend to others, or like Viz spend a ton of time releasing in English (where it likely sits in public libraries with easy access to minors at this point). But. Sometimes, frustration can be funneled into new and better ideas for by audience. As well as a reminder, that even a so-called genius, or ESPECIALLY a genius, needs a good editor in order to stay on track and really foment what they’re trying to say instead of potentially wasting a great deal of the audience’s time. This isn’t a zine. It isn’t a bunch of scrawlings in a high school notebook - it’s supposed to be professional work.
The first time I heard about this manga was when I was watching anime called Sonny Boy, and someone said that the first ep was a homage to The Drifting Classroom. Has anyone else seen Sonny Boy? I thought it was underwhelming and devoid of clear logic.
I was shocked by this series and couldn’t believe the shit these kids had to go thru it was bat shit insane!! Still not sure how I feel about the ending tho..
Just finished reading it. It sucked. So many random supernatural elements that are never explained/used again. The children flip flop against the main character ever 3 seconds for no reason.
You know when you ask your grandpa something and he tells you his whole life with useless details and pointing out the obvious on top of wondering “what ever happened to that” every time he doesn’t have extra information on something that came up on his rant but can’t expand on it? That’s what it felt like to listening to this narration
@ new to the channel and the intro was like 5 minutes introduction of the author plus description but if you say so I will try a newer video in short my biggest criticism is the “as you can see” I feel there is no need to point out what we just saw thanks for the reply I would check out your other stuff (keep in mind this kind of videos are for people that don’t have the time to read them and want something close to an audiobook)
@@Verycoolname11 I'm not that sort of channel. I'm more 'here's the manga, but I also want to talk about the cultural references and narrative strengths/weaknesses of this as a piece of media' analysis. If you want pure summaries, TrpyCris or someone might be more your speed. My intros are still long, but my content is also far longer and more in depth.
@@frightranker my bad it just occurred to me that most channels do you what you do but they usually keep it on the end I guess I’m used to having the conversation after we both have the context of the story giving a chance to agree or disagree with the narrator you just do it through the video as it goes but will definitely check some of your videos again thanks for the reply
@@frightranker I use your videos to wind down before bed and I love your voice and the speed 🙏 LOL please just keep doing what you're doing haha (I have been talking to my sister about your videos that I watched the night before and call you "the owl", you are now a character in my life)
After reading this for myself, i came to the conclusin that the school was transported in the near future instead, before a global tragedy took place. The sign memorial still existing, the hotel still being intact and, and the baseball celebrety still being in the morgue of the hospital.
Very, very good one. I'd actually love to do a deep dive on it at a later date - there's *so* much to talk about in terms of the Japanese education system.
"Do not read baptism"
*Me reading it and instantly traumatized*
"I don't know what I expected."
What's the conteversy?
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spoilers
The plot is about a famous actress who, at the peak of her career, suddenly starts to grow a huge mark on her face. Panicking that her beauty is deteriorating, the actress plans with her childhood doctor to have a child so they can perform an operation to swap brains and give the actress a new body, killing her child. but the twist was it's revealed that the surgery never happened and that it was just Sakura's hallucinations she was making to cope with everything, the kid was an actual kid and so much horrible stuff happened to her involving a teacher and her response tortured his wife and baby but the manga is vague what is true or not
Literally me
It was scarring but the ending just felt idk... weird? And slightly unsatisfying
*reads baptism
Well that was disappointing
Desolation/isolation is a more effective horror element than I think most people realise.
The worst horror of this manga comes not from the fantastic elements, but the cruel acts of the characters, the madness of human mind. Is a very heartbreaking traumatic experience...
No shit ya is one of the channels that i sorely miss not being that commun anymore, good taste, an eye for detail and good humor,thanks for being around men
Glad to hear it. Going all out for December, to see if I can give this channel the last push it needs for me to declare 'this is viable'.
If you liked this, I strongly recommend Fourteen, also by Kazuo Umezu. It's an absolutely INSANE apocalyptic story, I can't even begin to describe how utterly weird it gets. It takes place between the two periods of time in Drifting Classroom, explaining what happened to the Earth. So it's technically a sequel.
You definitely won't regret reading it. It's slightly longer than this, though. But seriously, read it and meet Doctor Chicken George.
Whoa! Okay, I'll find that one.
Where can I read it?
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This is a very disturbing manga. Although the premises are very different, the nearest thing it reminds me of is Stephen King's The Long Walk, about kids who are in a very stressful and ultimately hopeless situation, but you as the reader still root for their survival.
I read this manga as an adult, and it still surprised me with how intense and disturbing it was. It's like a nightmare, but worth the read. Good review. I'd listen to a deeper analysis.
Weirdly, I was thinking about The Long Walk yesterday. One of his greats.
It's not just supernatural, but also he puts realistic horror into his art.
oh man, i've been waiting for you to make a video on this one!!!
drifting classroom means a lot to me. it somehow brings up all the fears i had as a child, mixing them up in an absolutely bizarre way. being separated from a parent, being all alone with other kids, having no safe adult to rely on, being ostracized, going hungry, getting the plague, etc. in fact, no other piece of media has ever made me as shocked as when the kids realized they were dealing with the goddamn bubonic plague, LMAO!
can't wait to watch this video. kazuo umezu is an absolute horror genius and his influence can still be felt to this day, even in non-horror manga!
I remember reading the manga in junior high, then it disappeared for some reason, but the story remained in my head for years later. When I rediscovered it, I felt like a child again hiding under my bed again. The psychological mark it left on me is insane. If you like stories with a bunch of people confined in an area, read "Cradle of Monsters". It's really good!
To many people yapping about Junji ito but this guy started the whole horror manga craze.
Yes. I had the whole collection of this series of drifting classroom when I was at 5th grade in Japan. Classic!
I am 56 years old...
awesome manga. idk whats up with shitting on the art from time to time. It is comparable to and better than many of its contemporaries. Older manga artwork never looks "outdated" to me. It is fun to see how the character designs had a certain style back then but thats about it. It is highly impressive that it was done all by hand
I'm not a huge fan of the art from that era in manga, but I do enjoy it in anime strangely enough.
Dude! I REMEMBER NOW THAT I READ HIS SCARY BOOK SERIES! the mirror is pretty awesome and I'm there like "why does that art style looks so familiar?" And boom that hit me. My library is hella old like 100+ year old. And the book they have is the scary book series. Of course they only have three books of the series but my god is it so good and scary
Dude, that's awesome!
This was intense but incredibly compelling and moving
Just found your channel, as a die hard junji ito fan and I am obsessed with your videos!!
Thanks!
Really like 'post-apocalyptic' setting, especially when it caused by human themselves.
I've a whole list of post-apocalyptic, apocalyptic, zombie, sci-fi, survival mangas
Ouh! Any good recommendation? Especially the apocalyptic one? :)
@@SilveryBlue1010
Dragon head
Dead days (Webtoon)
The horizon (Webtoon)
Eden- it's an endless world
Dr. Stone
Hotel (Oneshot)
Leviathan (Webtoon)
Mother sarah
The Nice House on the Lake (Graphic Novel)
@@anontaku1 Thank you! I'll check the webtoon one first :)
@@SilveryBlue1010 you're welcome🐸✌🏻
This was the first Umezu comic I read. A real page turner. After this, I read Hell Baby and Cat Eyed Boy. All such well crafted stories.
These are terrifying stories, but they contain humanity in them, something western horror stories these days really lack. That is, they are bleak tales, but they often contain some hope or emotional meaning to them.
I'll be doing Rusted Scissors in June.
I actually read this based off of your recommendation from an earlier video. I think it was in a Top 5 vid. Man, it was bananas!
Back for more old school frights🎉
Time to add this to my reading list! Thanks for the minimal spoilers 😎
I watched another one of your videos yesterday where you mentioned "Event Horizon" as a B-movie. It’s actually one of my favorite films, and I think it's because of its focus on isolation horror.
Cube, The Thing, The Shining, Alien, [REC], and Triangle are all good examples. If you're into creepypasta, you might enjoy The Whistlers, which is another great example of isolation horror.
Also, I really like Blame! and Knights of Sidonia for similar reasons. Both series create worlds that feel desolate and isolated.
I'll add Monkey Peak and The Terror to that list. Also a lot of Found Footage movies.
It was one of my favourite manga the first time in my life that I actually enjoyed it i finished it in two days straight i just wish if there was more like it
Like Rick and morty episode when their house gets transported to an alien dimension with monster hitler hybrid. And alien creatures attacking them.
Anything by Kazuo Umezz/Umezu is just fantastic! I'm Soo glad they're coming out with new prints of the English editions that aren't a million dollars!
The live action American version of drifting classroom with shia Labeouf is a trip isn't it 😂 drifting classroom is my personal favorite currently I'm reading orochi and I'm liking the short stories with a common link
I like the "Umezu logic" as it really feels like a nightmare or dream
Sonny boy is based on this, I felt that series was so profound i wanted to investigate this series
It's...odd. Starts weird and goes absolutely bananas by the end.
I would LOVE a deep dive of this! I love Kazuo Umezu!! He inspired Naoki Urasawa, who created Monster.
I'll be doing something else by Umezu in August, but yeah - we'll see. It would be an awesome deep dive to tackle.
Found this on sale at my local comics shop, and I can't wait to read it!
2000 pages in two years. That's 2 3/4 pages a day! I can't imagine doing that even with my best stick figure drawings. The man is relentless!
I like the video, it's very informative and digestible. Makes me want to read this series!
One criticism I have is that you tend to use the "Yeah, thats not gonna work" or "Yeah, maybe not" trope a bit too much, essentially just using "Yeah" too much. Everything else is wonderful! I'm going to watch more
Thanks. Yes, this was an older video of mine.
Nice video! I love the drifting classroom, it's one of my favourie manga's. (The other is Bio Meat Nectar) Had no clue there was a movie tho, will be searching for that later xD
Im gonna Comment and like every video for support
Because i would absolutely love more content from this channel
There is only one eternal and transcended law in a horror situation:
Don't Get Bonkers !!
Yes! I'm currently reading this as it inspired Sonny Boy, one of my all time fave animes!
10:31 Below is such an underrated movie. One of my favorites. No one EVER talks about it. It’s from the director of Pitch Black and all the other Riddick movies and it’s pretty great. Anyone who hasn’t seen it, what are you waiting for? 🤷🏼♂️
In the story, do they ever explain how the kids managed to manufacture a fully functioning ballista, or even possibly more impressive; they learned how to 'flint knap' stone axes?
Granted, the school would have a library, but would a Japanese elementary school library actually have books on ancient, mainly non-Japanese weapons? And flint knapping... I've tried it, and it is frustratingly difficult. Sure, they *could* learn to do it, but it would take a great deal of time and a lot of spare shape-able stone, as it is very easy to ruin your work with a single strike.
As with most of his stuff, the only answer is 'Umezu logic'. It happens because it needs to happen.
Humans are beings of curiosity even more when they are children or teens, so of course, he'd choose to go for a bigger audience. It may not have been the best idea, but he still has a very noticeable influence on horror in japan
I'm at the part where most of the teachers perish. It makes me wonder if this story is going to end up similar to Lord of the Flies.
Yes and no. Way crazier.
whenever i see legendary mangaka for some reason like this i always wonder what would happen if they co-produced fnaf
I just finished it today and i have been surprised by the contents of the manga, especially based on my first impressions on it's artstyle and intro but instead i was very delighted and surprised by how the story progressed through each chapters. I thought this manga had a "terrible" ending though, it was very abrupt and didn't exactly continue on many interesting points that the manga has made throughout the story like the conflict between the sho and otomo and how exactly does Nishi 's power work and many more so i think the bitter sweet ending would be better if a lot more of the interesting points the story has made was explored upon a lot more
Thank you for introducing me to this jewel
This sounds almost like a take on Peter Pan imo. Which, if you like this sort of horror/dark reimaginings, I suggest the book 'Lost Boys' by Christina Henry.
Suicide Island- a bunch of people that have attempted suicide multiple times are dropped on an island together and forced to survive
Corpse Party... a game... I am shuddering thinking about it. A class of Japanese students get transported to a mirror dilapidated version of their school in a ghost dimension. No windows, no way out, no food or water... They have to contend with spirits and previous transported students who are going insane before dying themselves from thirst and starvation. All while trying to solve a murder mystery that may be the secret of the place and a way back home. Horrific, brutal, but really interesting and well done.
So you’re telling me “the woods” by tynion is a ripoff? I love that series so I’m getting this.
I have all the books (big & hardcovered) 1-4 but I have yet to read them all.
@frightranker whats title of the 8 bit music that starts at the very beginning of the video
It's a version of Iron Maiden's Lord of the Flies. I have no idea where I found it, probably on some copyright free channel.
I have no idea who could possibly have been bugging you to cover this for months.... Like the same person he would absolutely want you to do a deeper dive. And definitely not someone who for some strange reason enjoys reading material about kids tearing each other apart and desperate situations for some reason..
If you do want stories like that though "Final Winter" by Iain Rob Wright I believe is pretty good enables people being trapped in a bar and essentially it starts to snow one night and it doesn't stop... everywhere on Earth, and madness and terror ensue for those patrons. If you really want a wild ride I would suggest the "news flesh" series by Mira Grant. It's several different books some of them if I recall are your pretty standard narrative following instead of characters through a zombie apocalypse who are reporters hence the news flash, flesh heh. But in a twist I actually enjoy a lot more which is stranger me is the accompanying anthologies which I believe are called rise which are essentially just stories all over about various groups of people and how they handle it when the zombie apocalypse started or levels in the zombie horns or groups that were now beginning to function after everything had fully gone to fuckeroo and back. Either way they're incredibly creative and my grant is wickedly funny and that excellent way that makes it so it hits you like a gut punch that much harder when something horrible happens because you were just giggling like a moron and now everything is covered in blood and the characters you cared about are dead and everyone is looking at you like you're insane because you're laughing crying in your living room over your Kindle. Last it's not so much a last stand type of book but it is a better group of people stranded dealing with something beyond comprehension it's the troop by Nick cutter. And to say that Nick cutter can outdo Junji ito in body horror is not remotely an over exaggeration. It's about some boy scouts trapped on island there's a parasite and stuff gets weird not squick just weird, he also always says his homework very religiously when it comes to getting accurate scientific details right and when creating scientific forms and data to literally throughout his books is a way of giving more information to the reader which I always appreciate. He also wrote The deep which is again a small group of people stranded and that is very much a last stand against the end of the universe and what his wings again just excellent attention and body horror and amazing aspects of isolation and being cut off from the rest of the world. So there ya go
Final Winter
News Flesh/Rise
The Troop
The Deep
Ty for covering DC! And how centipedes are absolutely evil they are in fact the devil, I can say that with authority, I'm a Satanist.
Holy shizz! The man is 87 years old! 🙃
SMT if, drifting home come to mind
It was one of the most disturbing manga I've read with a heartbreaking ending. Too bad the live action movie didn't live up to the manga.
Literally had a nightmare about this mangas oh gosh! Wat have i done to myself
This is legitimately one of my biggest fears 😂
Everynight i think of it before bed and usually dream of waking on another planet,i usually die instantly, crushed by gravity, suffocated, dissolved by acid, flash frozen, endlessly falling through the clouds of Jupiter etc.
Content warning! It might get you too so tread carefully:
See in quantum physics its not uncommon for particles to change position with one another and they dont percieve space like we do so they could just swap places with another particle in the andromeda galaxy instantly.
Even so it is incredibly unlikely two such particles in close proximity would do this simultaneously to the exact same place and even more so all the particles in your body would do this at the same time in the likelihood of GOOGILLIONS to one.
Totally unfeasible... But NOT impossible.
But now the kicker... In the US, a country filled with technology and surveillance out the wazoo - about three people every year completely vanish off the face of the Earth. Not even the slightest clue of what could have happened to them and are never ever found again.
And Im not saying all of them disappeared forever, but even if it was just one a century - thats still too many for my comfort. After all, what if we got our math wrong? Or our universe rubs up against another where the laws of physics are a bit more chaotic?
And just to be clear since they don't percieve space like we do that automatically means they also don't percieve time like we do and can teleport anywhere at anywhen.
I really enjoy this series and I would like to see this series become an anime in the near future we need more good horror anime because most of them are terrible I hope this series gets an anime adaptation adaptation
I have heard of this manga years ago, but I NEVER got a chance to read it because I was a child back then. Is it any good?🤔
Yes! I recently picked up Vol 1 of the hard copy and MAN! It’s super dope and chaotic, mind you these are elementary kids except for the main protagonist and his classmates who are 6th graders.
I don't want to shit on this manga or anything and I get it's a classic, but for me it was more hilarious and sometimes completely random than scary story. I get extreme violence against and by children is disturbing and it's probably because this is my first really old horror manga, but for me it didn't hit at all. I don't regret reading it, but it's not the best manga for me
Yay, one of the mangas I can say I DID read haha. Really really good and I gotta say... those 5th graders were way smarter than I was at 5th grade.
I just don't get how food would be a problem in a SCHOOL. Does it not have a cafeteria?
I think this gets explained in the manga. They do have enough, but not forever and eventually they run out - there's also an incident with a teacher that takes over the food for a bit.
drifting classroom is solid. The deluxe edition is great.
So when someone tells me not to do something, its like a challenge, makes me want to do it. So I found baptism and i read it, and honestly it was disappointing. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but maybe I am used to really messed up horror after watching all the Saw movies or reading other horror works, but it was a little underwhelming. It was certainly off putting and a little weird, but wouldn't be what I would necessarily call horror. I think its more a thriller. Also I felt betrayed by the endings explanation of what took place in the manga. It was a good read, I recommend.
The stuff in Baptism that I was referring to is the icky scenes with her and the teacher.
@@frightranker omg yes, this. I didn't want to say too much because I know you didn't say much either. That gave me massive ick.
Yayyyy!!!! First view Again!!! Now my life is truly complete! Seriously this time!! 😁
I have to Apologize
I have read drifting classroom, HA!
ive finnished it last day and it was great. what a joyride and this manga is from 1972.
An oldie but a goodie nontheless!
What is the name of the music at 15:12?
Not sure, it's off the Silent Hill 2 OST.
It’s like Lord Of The Flies mixed with The Mist.
Reading it now, very nice manga
10:34
Similar manga: 4000 - Deep.Sea of Madness
My favorite horror manga
Interesting. I enjoy it but wouldn't call it a favorite.
I'll never understand the "its not gory" complaint. To me, people that want gory stuff so much can go work in a butcher shop. Or in medicine. And are probably a bit of psychos themselves. Other than that - pretty good review and baring what I said - Ill watch other reviews by you. Great editing as well, and video making. Thanks!
I should have listened to you- why did I read Baptism? 💀💀
Mm. When I say 'don't read something', I'm not doing it for effect :).
You are a gem, and I’m glad to explore such works through you, and have been going through your videos since discovering them, but I could hardly stand to finish this video let alone actually read some of the work. If anyone else had been covering it, I’d have given up. I am all for far out ideas, that’s why I’m here, and this one had tremendous promise that it does not fulfill. I was very disappointed.
I’m going to say it, this work is crap!
It’s meaningless suffering, with bad plot, unrealistic characterizations, and shock and schlock in place of genuine horror. Worst of all, it’s not fun!! It doesn’t become good because a so-called genius produced it. And him attempting to tack on some last minute trendy subtext, about naturally occurring disasters, doesn’t fix or redeem the comic, as the author attempted to do (especially considering how real Japanese citizens actually acted in such situations).
This a few similar works seem to fall into this vein of hopelessness about life that males are particularly prone to. The what-the-fuckery also prevents me from being able to at least compliment any originality and instead feel I’m being forced to read through someone’s drug induced hazes. Yuck.
Now, some of what I like is also crap. So, I’m not faulting your taste, or anyone’s in that regard, but I’d qualify those interests as fetish or niche - I would not easily recommend to others, or like Viz spend a ton of time releasing in English (where it likely sits in public libraries with easy access to minors at this point).
But. Sometimes, frustration can be funneled into new and better ideas for by audience. As well as a reminder, that even a so-called genius, or ESPECIALLY a genius, needs a good editor in order to stay on track and really foment what they’re trying to say instead of potentially wasting a great deal of the audience’s time. This isn’t a zine. It isn’t a bunch of scrawlings in a high school notebook - it’s supposed to be professional work.
I liked it but Umezu is very much his own thing and not for everyone.
Art still better then mine bruh💀
The first time I heard about this manga was when I was watching anime called Sonny Boy, and someone said that the first ep was a homage to The Drifting Classroom. Has anyone else seen Sonny Boy? I thought it was underwhelming and devoid of clear logic.
No, but a few people have mentioned it in regards to this video.
I was shocked by this series and couldn’t believe the shit these kids had to go thru it was bat shit insane!! Still not sure how I feel about the ending tho..
The psychic part kinda ruined it for me
OH wow really
Hmmm?
@@frightranker its That good
Was baptism published in a shonen magazine?
I don't know - but wherever it was published, it shouldn't be.
@@frightranker I was just thinking.
It's so bad that you dont wanna cover it so imagining it in a shonen magazine is kinda funny
Isn't 2000 pages just 100 chapters in a weekly magazine?
It's more like 2,400.
I finished Floating Classroom and 14... Baptism... maybe no...
Just finished reading it. It sucked. So many random supernatural elements that are never explained/used again. The children flip flop against the main character ever 3 seconds for no reason.
You know when you ask your grandpa something and he tells you his whole life with useless details and pointing out the obvious on top of wondering “what ever happened to that” every time he doesn’t have extra information on something that came up on his rant but can’t expand on it?
That’s what it felt like to listening to this narration
Eh. I quite like my tangents and asides, but I've been trying to keep them a bit more on topic - this is a rather old video.
@ new to the channel and the intro was like 5 minutes introduction of the author plus description but if you say so I will try a newer video in short my biggest criticism is the “as you can see” I feel there is no need to point out what we just saw thanks for the reply I would check out your other stuff (keep in mind this kind of videos are for people that don’t have the time to read them and want something close to an audiobook)
@@Verycoolname11 I'm not that sort of channel. I'm more 'here's the manga, but I also want to talk about the cultural references and narrative strengths/weaknesses of this as a piece of media' analysis. If you want pure summaries, TrpyCris or someone might be more your speed.
My intros are still long, but my content is also far longer and more in depth.
@@Verycoolname11 Also - my two most recent (Fuan no Tane Asterisk and Higurashi) or maybe Gantz would be my recommendations.
@@frightranker my bad it just occurred to me that most channels do you what you do but they usually keep it on the end I guess I’m used to having the conversation after we both have the context of the story giving a chance to agree or disagree with the narrator you just do it through the video as it goes but will definitely check some of your videos again thanks for the reply
this is nothing compared to crossed they show and do every messed thing imaginable.
I'm not sure if you watched my video on Vitiators - but that's about on the same level as Crossed.
Baptism is worse though.
Good video but I might suggest speaking a little faster. It's hard to stay interested when there are huge pauses between some words. Kindly meant.
Thanks! Give some of my recent videos a watch, I've been working on this a lot.
@frightranker I genuinely hate it when TH-camrs talk too fast; I like your style
@@frightranker I use your videos to wind down before bed and I love your voice and the speed 🙏 LOL please just keep doing what you're doing haha
(I have been talking to my sister about your videos that I watched the night before and call you "the owl", you are now a character in my life)
After reading this for myself, i came to the conclusin that the school was transported in the near future instead, before a global tragedy took place. The sign memorial still existing, the hotel still being intact and, and the baseball celebrety still being in the morgue of the hospital.
Can't be. How could the creatures evolve so quickly?
🤘🏻😎
❤❤❤❤ man I hope you tell us the ending
Wait I'm first? Didn't expect that
Nice intro... but Get to The Point!
You can skip it.
I love it when youtube titles are nothing but lies.
How so?
This story is just simply put "mid", and I'm sad that I wasted a day from my life reading it
Also... you talk so damn SLOW!!! Get on with it. This isn't abtract math or physics or computer scinece
It's how I talk.
Wow, what a whiny little baby 😂
Can you get into more specifics, maybe spending a little less time telling us over and over how much you appreciate it. You've established that fact.
Watch my more recent videos.
I read this series last year, truly an interesting and profound story. It made me read a book from the 1900s! Thats how much i loved this manga!
Very, very good one. I'd actually love to do a deep dive on it at a later date - there's *so* much to talk about in terms of the Japanese education system.