Spooktober #9
Better than it has any right to be. Removes some of the esoteric elements of the manga (no skyscraper ruins or telepathy here) while adding some truly ridiculous others (why is this sometimes a musical???). But distills some things I believe Kazuo Umezz was only cryptically hinting at. I took Drifting Classroom as some sort of fatalistic Hiroshima allegory. But the disconnect between parent and child, past and future here is more starkly insisted upon and more hopefully reimagined. Takes the ideas of Lee Edelman’s No Future — that we displace and even destroy the necessity for equality or justice in our time in place of the political cudgel of the featureless “child” — and gives them an after school special spin. I dig it.
Spooktober #9
Better than it has any right to be. Removes some of the esoteric elements of the manga (no skyscraper ruins or telepathy here) while adding some truly ridiculous others (why is this sometimes a musical???). But distills some things I believe Kazuo Umezz was only cryptically hinting at. I took Drifting Classroom as some sort of fatalistic Hiroshima allegory. But the disconnect between parent and child, past and future here is more starkly insisted upon and more hopefully reimagined. Takes the ideas of Lee Edelman’s No Future — that we displace and even destroy the necessity for equality or justice in our time in place of the political cudgel of the featureless “child” — and gives them an after school special spin. I dig it.
