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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 3
As a general impression, I'm surprised by how quickly the situation has worsened to critical levels. You could have expected this degree of mayhem and implosion of the local population near the ending of the second act, but not by the third volume of eleven. The author doesn't give his characters a break.
By the end of the previous volume (or the beginning of this one, I can't be sure about anything anymore), our kids, led by the protagonist (who is clear-headed and strong-minded beyond his years), have found buried shallowly in the sand near the school's entrance the missing plaque with the school's name, along with, most importantly, a memorial to the more than 860 children and teachers who perished. The plaque has crumbled after a long, long time under the sun. Turns out the school was teletransported to the distant future. Curiously this improves the kids' mood: their parents haven't been killed by whatever nuclear disaster turned everything into a sandy wasteland; instead they just died due to the passage of so many years that their bones probably disintegrated. This means that their parents are still alive, in the past. Which is true of everyone who ever existed.
In any case, the remaining adult teachers, once they learn that nobody is going to save them, lose their shit. One of them, the most intelligent seeming, slices his own throat in front of his horrified colleagues. Our protagonist's homeroom teacher, who had seemed decent enough (for a schoolteacher), begs for someone to restrain him before he does something horrible. They refuse to do so, and instead they attempt to drag him somewhere to calm him. He proceeds to strangle an old colleague of his (probably the headmaster). After that, the headroom teacher murders offscreen every single other teacher. By the early beginning of the third volume, the only adults that remain alive are this sudden mass murderer and the form
Unit 731
Japanese biological, chemical warfare unit (1936–1945)
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| Location | Pingfang, Harbin, Heilongjiang, Manchukuo (now China) |
| Coordinates | 45°36′31″N126°37′55″E / 45.60861°N 126.63194°E / 45.60861; 126.63194 |
| Date | 1936–1945 |
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| Deaths | Estimated 23,000 to 300,000
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Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfareresearch and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. Estimates vary as to how many were killed. Between 1936 and 1945, roughly 14,000 victims were murdered in Unit 731. It is estimated that at least 300,000 individuals have died due to infectious illnesses caused by the activities of Unit 731 and its affiliated research facilities. It was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China) and had active branch offices throughout China and Southeast Asia.
Established in 1936, Unit 731 was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces. It routinely conducted tests on people who were dehumanized and internally referred to as "logs". Victims were further dehumanized by being confined in facilities refe HOME > BOOKSTORE > REVIEWS The Crimson Labyrinth Yusuke Kishi English $15.95 Some horror gets their scares by making you forget you are reading horror, then sneak up behind you with the big scare. Movies like “Ringu” and “Audition” are good examples. A book like The Prestige is another. Other times we are dropped into the horror right from the get-go. For example, “Tomie” and “Ju-on” don’t give the viewers much time to get settled before the scares begin. The Crimson Labyrinth succeeds in employing both these techniques. From the opening page we know unemployed businessman turned, Fujiki, has been transported to a faraway strange and unfriendly place as he awakes from a heavy sleep. “He felt something hard against his spine and shoulder blades, and realized he was lying on the bare ground… We soon learn that Fujiki, along with a woman he meets, Ai, are two of nine participants in an evil and deadly game. These nine Japanese participants, seemingly selected randomly, are trapped in a maze of red rock valleys. Initially they only have handheld game devices that give them instructions on how to proceed. Initially the idea is for everyone to work together, but this is a game and in a game there can be only one winner. The evil individual or group that put this game together did not have cooperation in mind… The Crimson Labyrinth has been compared to a host of other stories – Battle Royale meets “The Running Man” meets “Lost” meets Lord of the Flies – and all of them do have factors recognizable. Like most of the stories it is compared to, the author seems to be making a statement about the state of society today. Within the manageable group of nine (easier to keep track of than Battle Royale’s forty combatants) we see different parts of society, and how decisions and promises are made and broken makes the reader think of what h Junji Ito really has an eye for Body Horror. Unlike cartoons in the west, a great deal of anime is intended for mature audiences; it might be because of the occasional swear or gratuitousblood and/or suggestive ecchi content, but quite a few people think it's because of any of these soul-destroyingly terrifying scenes. Plus, anime meant for kids can be intentionally freaky in its own right, since Japan has different standards for what's appropriate for fiction aimed at children than in North America. Manga is often filled with just as much (or more) Nightmare Fuel that is not in the least diluted by not being animated. In fact, in many ways, it can be worse. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy.You Have Been Warned. open/close all folders # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T
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It was a reasonable question, but no answer came to mind.” (p5) Nightmare Fuel
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