The definitive edition, featuring an all-new translation and deluxe hardcover design that reestablish Kazuo Umezz’s The Drifting Classroom as a timeless horror classic.. In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, a Japanese elementary school is transported into a hostile world where the students and teachers are besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness.. A group of students stranded out of time face an internal power coup, a wasteland monster with a voracious appetite and a plague. As tensions mount, the kidsface a harsh truth: they must venture out into the bleak world beyond the school walls in order to survive.