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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: MemeticMutation: The manga's art style is notable for how it depicts shocked expressions in an over-the-top way, to the point that they've been parodied in other anime and manga.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: With the prevalence ofAnyoneCanDie, especially AnyoneCanDie (especially with regards to the kids, kids), and the bleak situation driving many characters to violence, this can make this a difficult read.
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** To be fair, though, her being an evil bitch is the main reason he objects to her leadership. He added her femininity more as an afterthought than anything else. Also, Japan is traditionally a very patriarchal society and Gamo's opinion no doubt reflects this.
*** Although, later on, Gamo ''does'' say that women in general (not just Princess) cannot be leaders because they are too emotional and sensitive to keep a clear head. None of the other boys object to this and all of the important "ministry" jobs are taken by boys. Again, this mirrors Japan's patriarchal values (not to mention that this manga was written during TheSeventies, itself very prone to ValuesDissonance).
*** Although, later on, Gamo ''does'' say that women in general (not just Princess) cannot be leaders because they are too emotional and sensitive to keep a clear head. None of the other boys object to this and all of the important "ministry" jobs are taken by boys. Again, this mirrors Japan's patriarchal values (not to mention that this manga was written during TheSeventies, itself very prone to ValuesDissonance).
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*** In some fairness to that, ''Drifting Classroom'', much like the movie ''Film/SoylentGreen'', which had very similar themes, came out in 1972, a time when birth control wasn't as widely available (or as reliable) as it is nowadays, abortion was only just legalized, and people were only just starting to realize the necessity of environmental protection. Both works had valid concerns, that overpopulation and pollution are huge problems, but neither issue quite went in the direction they predicted.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Al Gore could quote the manga. [[spoiler:After MeanwhileInTheFuture is pointed out, we knew it was only a matter of time.]]
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** [[WouldHurtAChild Kyusaku Sekiya]] was originally a friendly deliveryman who is revealed to have a penchant for harming children. After he is brought to the future, Sekiya threatens anyone who comes close to the kitchen, even burning alive the teachers who tried to reason with him. After a boy attempts to save a girl who was taken as a hostage, Sekiya fatally stabs him, and after killing the boy, Sekiya travels through several classroom while beating innocent students and stealing their lunches while demanding that they cry, informing them that he is perfectly fine with allowing them to simply starve to death. Seemingly defeated by the hero Sho Takamatsu, Sekiya threatens to stab a three-year-old if the students didn't obey him. Fighting against a giant centipede, Sekiya throws a boy at it and leaves him to be EatenAlive. Traumatized by the experience which caused him to have a harmless child-like personality, Sekiya comes back to his senses after a boy pushes him down the stairs and forces him to swallow a strange mushroom, which ends up converting him and other children into spider-like mutants. Taking control of the school and turning it into a military-like dictatorship, Sekiya trains the boys to be his own ChildSoldiers and sends them to their deaths when the mutants attack the school, while [[DirtyCoward escaping with the food supply]].
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** [[WouldHurtAChild Kyusaku Sekiya]] was originally a friendly deliveryman who is revealed to have a penchant for harming children. After he is brought to the future, Sekiya threatens anyone who comes close to the kitchen, even burning alive the teachers who tried to reason with him. After a boy attempts to save a girl who was taken as a hostage, Sekiya fatally stabs him, and after killing the boy, Sekiya travels through several classroom classrooms while beating innocent students and stealing their lunches while demanding that they cry, informing them that he is perfectly fine with allowing them to simply starve to death. Seemingly defeated by the hero Sho Takamatsu, Sekiya threatens to stab a three-year-old if the students didn't obey him. Fighting against a giant centipede, Sekiya throws a boy at it and leaves him to be EatenAlive. Traumatized by the experience which caused him to have a harmless child-like personality, Sekiya comes back to his senses after a boy pushes him down the stairs and forces him to swallow a strange mushroom, which ends up converting him and other children into spider-like mutants. Taking control of the school and turning it into a military-like dictatorship, Sekiya trains the boys to be his own ChildSoldiers and sends them to their deaths when the mutants attack the school, while [[DirtyCoward escaping with the food supply]].
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* CompleteMonster: In this story taking place AfterTheEnd, some people are driven to violence out of despair or survival, but two characters proved themselves to be evil for the sake of evil:
** [[WouldHurtAChild Kyusaku Sekiya]] was originally a friendly deliveryman who is revealed to have a penchant for harming children. After he is brought to the future, Sekiya threatens anyone who comes close to the kitchen, even burning alive the teachers who tried to reason with him. After a boy attempts to save a girl who was taken as a hostage, Sekiya fatally stabs him, and after killing the boy, Sekiya travels through several classroom while beating innocent students and stealing their lunches while demanding that they cry, informing them that he is perfectly fine with allowing them to simply starve to death. Seemingly defeated by the hero Sho Takamatsu, Sekiya threatens to stab a three-year-old if the students didn't obey him. Fighting against a giant centipede, Sekiya throws a boy at it and leaves him to be EatenAlive. Traumatized by the experience which caused him to have a harmless child-like personality, Sekiya comes back to his senses after a boy pushes him down the stairs and forces him to swallow a strange mushroom, which ends up converting him and other children into spider-like mutants. Taking control of the school and turning it into a military-like dictatorship, Sekiya trains the boys to be his own ChildSoldiers and sends them to their deaths when the mutants attack the school, while [[DirtyCoward escaping with the food supply]].
** [[KidsAreCruel Scar Kid]], the ArcVillain for Volume 5, is a budding psychopath and a fearmonger who leads a rebellion against Sho Takamatsu in the midst of a bubonic plague outbreak, igniting a war between the students. Starting his reign of terror by burning patient zero alive and trapping all of those who were close or merely affiliated with Sho inside a building, Scar Kid wants to burn them alive to reduce the school population by half, with his soldiers not above executing their own. Realizing that he himself is infected, Scar Kid touches Sho to spread the plague further, declaring that if he is infected, then [[TakingYouWithMe everyone should also die a slow and painful death]]. Even after discovering his infection, Scar Kid still burns the building and orders his boys to throw spears and rocks at the windows to stop the students from escaping alive. Not warning his army about his infection [[BadBoss on purpose]], they also die from the plague before Scar Kid himself succumbs to TheBlackDeath.
** [[WouldHurtAChild Kyusaku Sekiya]] was originally a friendly deliveryman who is revealed to have a penchant for harming children. After he is brought to the future, Sekiya threatens anyone who comes close to the kitchen, even burning alive the teachers who tried to reason with him. After a boy attempts to save a girl who was taken as a hostage, Sekiya fatally stabs him, and after killing the boy, Sekiya travels through several classroom while beating innocent students and stealing their lunches while demanding that they cry, informing them that he is perfectly fine with allowing them to simply starve to death. Seemingly defeated by the hero Sho Takamatsu, Sekiya threatens to stab a three-year-old if the students didn't obey him. Fighting against a giant centipede, Sekiya throws a boy at it and leaves him to be EatenAlive. Traumatized by the experience which caused him to have a harmless child-like personality, Sekiya comes back to his senses after a boy pushes him down the stairs and forces him to swallow a strange mushroom, which ends up converting him and other children into spider-like mutants. Taking control of the school and turning it into a military-like dictatorship, Sekiya trains the boys to be his own ChildSoldiers and sends them to their deaths when the mutants attack the school, while [[DirtyCoward escaping with the food supply]].
** [[KidsAreCruel Scar Kid]], the ArcVillain for Volume 5, is a budding psychopath and a fearmonger who leads a rebellion against Sho Takamatsu in the midst of a bubonic plague outbreak, igniting a war between the students. Starting his reign of terror by burning patient zero alive and trapping all of those who were close or merely affiliated with Sho inside a building, Scar Kid wants to burn them alive to reduce the school population by half, with his soldiers not above executing their own. Realizing that he himself is infected, Scar Kid touches Sho to spread the plague further, declaring that if he is infected, then [[TakingYouWithMe everyone should also die a slow and painful death]]. Even after discovering his infection, Scar Kid still burns the building and orders his boys to throw spears and rocks at the windows to stop the students from escaping alive. Not warning his army about his infection [[BadBoss on purpose]], they also die from the plague before Scar Kid himself succumbs to TheBlackDeath.
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*** In some fairness to that, ''Drifting Classroom'', much like the movie ''Film/SoylentGreen'', which had very similar themes, came out in 1972, a time when birth control wasn't as widely available (or as reliable) as it is nowadays, abortion was only just legalized, and people were only just starting to realize the necessity of environmental protection. Both works had valid concerns, that overpopulation and pollution are huge problems, but neither issue quite went in the direction they predicted.
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** When Princess asks to become the leader of the kids, Gamo objects. Why? Because she is an evil bitch? No. Because she is a ''woman''. And that women are apparently too sensitive to make serious decisions.
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** How about the eugenics argument in the mutant leader's speech about how part of what caused the end of the world was how modern medicine prevented the weak from being "weeded out"? You could chalk it up to him just spouting the mutants' obsession about the strong surviving like they do to themselves, but since its used as part of the GreenAesop, it kinda seems like the moral is supposed to be taken at face value.
** How about the eugenics argument in the mutant leader's speech about how part of what caused the end of the world was how modern medicine prevented the weak from being "weeded out"? You could chalk it up to him just spouting the mutants' obsession about the strong surviving like they do to themselves, but since its used as part of the GreenAesop, it kinda seems like the moral is supposed to be taken at face value.
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*** In some fairness to that, ''Drifting Classroom'', much like the movie ''Film/SoylentGreen'', which had very similar themes, came out in 1972, a time when birth control wasn't as widely available (or as reliable) as it is nowadays, abortion was only just legalized, and people were only just starting to realize the necessity of environmental protection. Both works had valid concerns, that overpopulation and pollution are huge problems, but neither issue quite went in the direction they predicted.
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** How about the eugenics argument in the mutant leaders leader's speech about how part of what caused the end of the world was how modern medicine prevented the weak from being "weeded out"? You could chalk it up to him just spouting the mutants mutants' obsession about the strong surviving like they do to themselves, but since its used as part of the GreenAesop, it kinda seems like the moral is supposed to be taken at face value.
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** How about the eugenics argument in the mutant leaders speech about how part of what caused the end of the world was how modern medicine prevented the weak from being "weeded out"? You could chalk it up to him just spouting the mutants obsession about the strong surviving like they do to themselves, but since its used as part of the GreenAesop, it kinda seems like the moral is supposed to be taken at face value.
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** Although, later on, Gamo ''does'' say that women in general (not just Princess) cannot be leaders because they are too emotional and sensitive to keep a clear head. None of the other boys object to this and all of the important "ministry" jobs are taken by boys. Again, this mirrors Japan's patriarchal values (not to mention that this manga was written during TheSeventies, itself very prone to ValuesDissonance).
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* CompleteMonster: Sekiya. Also Scar Kid, and to a lesser extent Princess.
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