Beginning release in 2013, [2] Dissolving Classroom is greatly different to many of Junji Ito's previous works, departing from Junji Ito's more frequent style of Lovecraftian horror. Started off good and I was interested in knowing what was happening BUT it just got so repetitive that it made it boring. Hamaoka/The devil: Hamaoka first appears as the news reporter investigating Yuuma and Chizumi working together with Keiko. Yuuma believes that she was possessed by the vengeful spirits of the animals that he killed as a child, though she may have actually simply been driven insane by seeing her brother murder their parents as sacrifices to the devil.

On the one hand, it is revealed that the devil did in fact have some kind of presence within both Yuuma and Chizumi. Why two stories about missing folks and the "weird" of finding them were included in this collection, I have no idea. The Azawa Parents: The Azawara parents are present mainly in chapter three but are also mentioned and shown as decapitated heads in other chapters. Having been faced with Yuuma's apologies, Tomohito's parents begin to melt and Tomohito runs for help, unfortunately running into first Chizumi and then Yuuma, who acts as if he will help Tomohito. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of how Yuuma and Chizumi interact with the world, featuring them in various settings including Yuuma's high school, Yuuma's dating life, an apartment complex, Chizumi's first experience with love, and on the run from reporters and police.When Keiko gets home, her parents are lethargic and confused, and have thick mucus dripping from their noses. These scary short stories will shock you with a literal interpretation of the ills that plague modern society. He brings up the recent trend of public apologies and invites the reader to start doing their own public apology for whatever reason they think of.

I liked the gory scenes because he does gory scenes to perfection, but the story just wasn't there for me. She goes to hospital where the doctors do their best to save her, but her parents have died and Keiko will die soon too.He may also feel this way about his victims, although it's a lot more ambiguous and complicated in that case. Real After All: Yuuma and Chizumi each claim that the Devil was involved in the other becoming "evil". Dissolving Classroom is a collection of stories about two siblings, Yuuma and Chizumi, who are both insane in their own ways and have a strange fixation.

Since her name is not given in the chapter, it is not certain that she appears in the fourth chapter as a bottle of ooze, although it is likely she is and has a conversation with Ogawara about helping Tomohito as a bottle of ooze. Chizumi Azawa: Chizumi is another main character in Dissolving Classroom and is Yuuma's younger sister. Dissolving Classroom is the sixth volume to translate Japanese mangaka Junji Ito’s probing visions of the horrifying and the weird into English.Through Dissolving Classroom, Junji Ito develops a commentary on public apologies as a feature of modern Japanese society which questions the purpose and intent of these public apologies.