The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition (2019)

An entire school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground, and the children inside find themselves stranded in a wasteland where the adults cannot be trusted. Kazuo Umezu's 1970s epic is shrill, frantic and cruel in a way modern horror rarely dares: hunger, disease, monsters and the kids turning on each other. The drawing looks old-fashioned, all wide eyes and screaming mouths, but the cumulative effect is harrowing. Read Viz's three-volume hardcover Perfect Edition, which has a new translation, added pages and some reorganized panels.