Drifting Classroom 9
April 13, 2008
I may have shed tears of pure joy while reading this volume. My favorite moment of the series came at the beginning of the volume. The spider-mutants begin attacking the school, which has been heavily fortified by the delivery guy. This means nothing to the spider-mutants, who spin webs and get into the grounds anyway. The delivery guy sends out his specially trained male army, who simply dive from an upper-story window and fall to their deaths, missing the spider-mutants or doing no damage each time. When this doesn’t work, he steals all the food and drives off in his van. There is a perfect panel of him leering back at the school while driving off.
Meanwhile, Sho and company have been stopped outside due to the fact they’ve been spun into webs. They figure out that they can escape by stripping naked, and Sho hops the barb wire fence (catching his naked leg in the process) to plead with the mutants to leave them alone. He passes out in the process.
That would have been fine with me, but Mr. Umezz wanted to really impress me. The second half of the volume blew that totally out of the water. SHO GETS APPENDICITIS AND THE CHILDREN PERFORM AN OPERATION.
THEY HOLD AN INCISION OPEN WITH THEIR HANDS AND PULL OUT HIS INTESTINES.
AT ONE POINT, THE DOCTOR GETS WOOZY AND THE NURSE SPITS IN HIS FACE TO BRING HIM BACK.
No anesthetic, as you can imagine. That just wouldn’t be very realistic. Gamo (who I thought had died at least twice) suggests boiling cigarettes from the faculty lounge and using the nicotine, but there just isn’t time. They simply cram a hanky in Sho’s mouth. Afterwards, they do blood transfusions with a syringe from every student with a compatible blood type.
In between those two awesome events, the children have divided themselves into two factions who begin to war. This is going on outside while Sho’s being operated on.
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