Now that's the very essence of horror.moreĬrazier and crazier. Takamatsu, the cafeteria man, who has gone from a threat to a retarded man child, and now back to an incredible danger, looks like a deranged, overweight Desi Arnaz. When Yoshikawa, formerly one of the good kids, eats mushrooms and goes down on all fours to scurry out of the schoolyard to her new god, it is genuinely creepy. His action sequences, consisting almost entirely of dark pages with kids grappling, shattering wood, raised weapons, and close-ups of kids shout "aaaargh" and "gyaaah" are genuinely exciting in their own ridiculous way. Umezu's drawings are the most storyboard-like of any of the manga artists I've read. Meanwhile the mushroom eaters make a one-eyed idol of mud who proves to be the more receptive deity and manifests itself as a tentacled monster. The kids decide they should pray for help, and in one of the most non-American moments so far, one child asks, "Who should we pray to?" They settle on a bust our hero, Sho, made of his mother in art class. Are they edible? Those who eat them experience strange feelings of power followed by dementia. In this installment, the rain that allowed their garden to grow brought with it a proliferation of mushrooms. Pre-adolescent power struggles - and those can get nasty. A giant bug that laid eggs that created little bugs. Are they edible? Those w So far these kids have endured the following: The transportation of their elementary school to some future wasteland. So far these kids have endured the following: The transportation of their elementary school to some future wasteland.
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