Drifting Classroom 10
April 13, 2008
I liked this volume for the shades of other things that showed up. A more concrete connection to “Lord of the Flies” was made when the two warring groups of kids went up against each other for real. The functioning amusement park the children went to was very much like “Westworld” or “Futureworld”, and they were chased by dinosaurs like in Jurassic Park. The latter references are all irrelevant since that all came out long after Drifting Classroom, but the fact that it’s all here is very awesome.
So yes. This volume is all about the kids fighting against one another. The food runs out and things get desperate, and when the girl bully comes back and tells them there is a paradise at Mt Fuji, both groups set out together as a poison gas cloud descends on the school. A ravine they are forced to jump thins their numbers some more, but they eventually wind up at Mt. Fuji.
They find a spaceship there, which really worried me until I found out it was just the amusement park. I was even more worried when there was a robot version of what appeared to be Marilyn Monroe, and one of the students groped it, then it began chasing them (Westworld style, like I mentioned), and activated all the robot dinosaurs.
Yeah, yeah, robot dinosaurs, cavemen, etc. Lots of stuff happens, cannibalism is involved, and… Sho admits to dynamiting the school. Something like that. A computer tells them to go back to the school if they want to get home. Of course they listen to this malfunctioning computer from the future, or at least Sho does.
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