Slightly Biased Manga

The volume starts off right away with an impressively sexist remark from Gamo.  Things slow down a bit as a government system is established at the school and defense systems against the monster are put into place.  It was like the story was taking a breather.  It wasn’t boring or out-of-place, and I was actually quite thankful for the break in between crazy, nonsensical violence.  I wouldn’t have believed Drifting Classroom capable of such level of sanity and pause, but there it is.

To make up for it, the students are immediately attacked by the crab-monster.  They try to fight the monster off with axes, but the monster wasn’t having any of that.  They also try to keep the monster out with their school’s emergency shutters on each floor (and dude, I didn’t go to any school K-12 that was less than 80 years old and none of them had emergency shutters… fallout shelters yes, emergency shutters no, I’m very jealous).  The monster fought his way through.  Death looked imminent, until Sho realized he could knock all the little kids out with choloform and then pretend to be a chair, and the monster would leave everyone alone.

IT WORKED.

That alone would have been enough for me for one volume, but it just doesn’t stop.  Later, they find out the true nature of the monster, which makes less sense than anything that’s happened so far… and yet the kids called it out by logic, saying that the monster and the grass just couldn’t exist since there wasn’t any food or water anyplace else in the desert.  And, you know, you would think that the series had run out of disturbing imagery, but it just keeps cranking out more.  When the monster disappears, it leaves behind the bodies of the kids it ate.

Haven’t had enough crab-monsters yet?  Don’t worry, there’s micro monster babies to deal with next time.

I think I’ve finally seen enough that I can divorce what’s going on with reality and not feel bad about the kids anymore.  It’s just too insane to feel any pity or remorse… or guilt, really, which was my biggest problem.  Now I can read completely guilt-free!  Bring on the flesh-eating monsters!