Kazuo Umezu

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2002
  • Latest Book:
    October 2019
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Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Orochi: Blood

    Orochi, a strange girl who wakes up for ten years at a time once every century, observes two sisters growing up in the mansion of their wealthy family. The older girl can do no wrong and the younger girl is constantly criticised and berated for not l...

  • Scary Book, Volume 2: Insects

    Kazuo Umezu, "the Stephen King of manga," returns with the second frightening volume of his Scary Book anthology series. In "Butterfly Grave," a book-length feature story, ever since the mysterious and untimely death of her mother when she was still ...

  • Scary Book, Volume 3: Faces

    Kazuo Umezu, the grandmaster of horror manga, returns with the third chilling volume of his Scary Book anthology series. In "Fear," Aiko is always ignored and neglected when compared to her beautiful older sister, Momoko. But when Momoko is horribly ...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 2

    In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away¿somewhere cold...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 3

    In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away¿somewhere cold...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 4

    In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away¿somewhere cold...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 5

    In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away¿somewhere cold...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 6

    "Computer engineer Otaku (the Japanese term for ""geek"") is an average young man, dressed in unstylish clothes and dorky glasses. But as luck would have it, he encounters a pretty young woman on a commuter train and saves her from a lecherous molest...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 7

    A flash flood turns the desert into a drowned world, and the students struggle to protect the school--and their precious vegetable garden--from the deluge. But just as the first vegetables are ready to harvest, the crop is infested with a strange fun...



  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 8

    Returned to his original evil personality, Sekiya forces the students to be his slaves! Escaping into the Tokyo subway, Sho and his friends explore an underground world of horror. And there, in an ancient filmstrip, they discover the terrifying story...

  • Reptilia

    • In Reptilia, a hunter sets out into a legendary swamp and dies three days later. Today, Yoko knows little about what happened to the hunter -- her grandfather -- but when terror strikes her village on the anniversary of her grandfather's...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 9

    Pursued by grotesque mutants, Sho and his friends flee back to the school, where more horrors await! Barricaded against the nightmares outside, the students must perform an emergency medical operation under the most primitive of conditions. As the su...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Volume 10

    Guided by the words of a dying student, the survivors leave the school and travel across the desert in search of "paradise"...only to find something stranger than they could ever imagine. Maddened by hunger, the students turn to a horrifying, final s...

  • Cat Eyed Boy, Volume 1

    • The live action film released in Japan in 2006.• Kazuo Umezu, who started drawing professionally in the 1950s, is considered the most influential horror manga artist ever.• Umezu's weird style, incredible ideas and sometimes terrifying imager...

  • Cat Eyed Boy, Volume 2

    • The live action film released in Japan in 2006.• Kazuo Umezu, who started drawing professionally in the 1950s, is considered the most influential horror manga artist ever.• Umezu's weird style, incredible ideas and sometimes terrifying imager...

  • Cat Eyed Boy , Vol. 1

    A chilling concoction of dark vignettes dripping with the macabre, the grotesque and the absurd. Hated by humans and demons alike, Cat Eyed Boy dwells in the shadows of the human world. No matter where he goes, terrifying situations involoving hum...

  • Cat Eyed Boy , Vol. 2

    Cat Eyed Boy continues his battle with the Band of One Hundred Monsters, a group seeking revenge upon the corrupt humans who have made them outcasts....

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

    In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves somewhere far away. somewhere cold a...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 2

    Madness takes hold as the teachers and students realize they are stranded in a lifeless world! Sekiya, the cafeteria worker, takes control of the school's food supplies, enforcing his authority with a gun. As the adults start to kill one another, six...



  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 3

    As sixth-grader Sho fights for his life in the buried city that once was Tokyo, his cries for help travel across time and reach the ears of his mother in the distant past. But how can she save her son now? Back at the school, as their resources dwind...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 4

    When a despotic student attempts to take control of the school, Sho tries to bring his classmates to their senses. But while the students squabble over power, something horrible comes closer and closer. something that followed them out of the wastel...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 5

    The students flee from man-eating insects, but they can't run from a deadly plague. As the situation becomes more desperate, the children arm themselves, and the school erupts into an orgy of violence. Can Sho end the savagery, or is it all he can...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 6

    As a plague spreads through the school, the students fight one another with their last dregs of strength! Will they choose a slow death from disease, or a violent death at the hands of their own classmates? Then, Sho and his friends must venture once...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 7

    A flash flood turns the desert into a drowned world, and the students struggle to protect the school--and their precious vegetable garden--from the deluge. But just as the first vegetables are ready to harvest, a strange fungus invades... Lonely for ...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 10

    Guided by the words of a dying student, the survivors leave the school and travel across the desert in search of "paradise," only to find something stranger than they could ever imagine. Maddened by hunger, the students turn to a horrifying, final so...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 11

    Final Volume! As the survivors turn on one another, Sho fights for his life against his own classmates! Can the students of Yamato Elementary School actually return to their own time. and who will make the journey? The epic story of...

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 8

  • The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 9

    Pursued by grotesque mutants, Sho and his friends flee back to the school, where more horrors await! Barricaded against the nightmares outside, the students must perform an emergency medical operation under the most primitive of conditions. As the su...

  • The Drifting Classroom: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1

    Out of nowhere, an entire school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves not dead but stranded in a terrifying wasteland where they must fight to s...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kazuo Umezu has published 29 books.

Kazuo Umezu does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Drifting Classroom: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1, was published in October 2019.

The first book by Kazuo Umezu, Orochi: Blood, was published in September 2002.

No. Kazuo Umezu does not write books in series.
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