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Kazuo Umezu

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Premise labels used: school disappearance, transported school, survival ordeal, alien wasteland, lost children, adult breakdown, resource scarcity, mystery premise

Setting labels used: elementary school, wasteland, desert landscape, alien world, nightmarish reality, mysterious realm, isolated school

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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

Kazuo Umezz, Kazuo Umezu · 2019 · The Drifting Classroom

An elementary school is hurled into a hostile future wasteland, and the students must survive chaos, monsters, and collapse.

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Premise labels: school vanishes · survival horror · stranded class · hostile world · isolated group · children in peril · post-apocalyptic survival · forced leadership

Setting labels: Japanese elementary school · desert wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · far future · hostile world · unknown place · earth in ruins · time-slip setting

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Distance: 0.1598

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The Woods, Vol. 2: The Swarm

James Tynion IV · 2015 · The Woods

Stranded teens and staff keep surviving an alien wilderness while flashbacks reveal who they were before the disappearance.

Why this is here

Premise labels: stranded students · alien world · survival ordeal · school disappearance · mystery setup · survival group · teen cast · backstory reveal

Setting labels: alien moon · ancient wilderness · high school · suburban Milwaukee · unchartered world · otherworldly forest · primordial wilderness · school play setting · alternate dimension

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Distance: 0.1611

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The Woods, Vol. 1: The Arrow

James Tynion IV · 2014 · The Woods

A high school vanishes to an alien moon, forcing students and staff to survive monsters, chaos, and power struggles.

Why this is here

Premise labels: transported school · alien world · survival game · group stranded · mystery setup · power struggle · faction formation · monster threat · school-in-peril · unknown reason

Setting labels: high school · alien planet · moon · otherworldly wilderness · primordial wilderness · suburban Milwaukee · school building · forest · off-world · apocalyptic isolation

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Distance: 0.1626

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Behind the Gates

Eva Gray · 2011 · Tomorrow Girls

A girls' boarding school in a war-torn future hides secrets, forcing four friends to survive and trust each other.

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Premise labels: survival · boarding school · friendship · war setting · school conspiracy · hidden agenda · identity concealment · forced isolation

Setting labels: future world · dystopian future · war-torn society · boarding school · isolated school · wilderness setting · schoolcamp

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Distance: 0.1760

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Takopi's Original Sin

Taizan 5 · 2023 · タコピーの原罪 [Takopī no Genzai]

A naive alien uses time travel to try to save a bullied fourth grader, but each fix deepens a tragic spiral.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien visitor · happiness quest · time travel · bullying · child trauma · broken home · suicide · misguided help

Setting labels: Earth · school setting · home setting · elementary school · childhood world · alien world · dystopian atmosphere · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.1871

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The Boy Who Crashed to Earth

Judd Winick · 2015 · Hilo

A lonely kid and a crash-landed amnesiac alien team up to survive school, robots, and a mystery from space.

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Premise labels: alien visitor · amnesia mystery · ordinary kid · family of overachievers · school trouble · hidden mission · robot pursuit · friendship quest

Setting labels: modern-day Earth · school setting · small town · home life · science fictional reality · other dimension · alien world · portal travel

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Distance: 0.1882

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Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2

Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw · 2012 · Wolverine and the X-Men (2011)

Wolverine leads a mutant school through space-gambling schemes, alien-body battles, and nonstop crises to keep it alive.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mutant school · school funding crisis · space heist · body invasion · alien infestation · ensemble team-up · student-teacher dynamics · deadly school threat

Setting labels: mutant school · space casino · intergalactic setting · school campus · microscopic interior setting · outer space · Marvel Universe · alien environments · off-world

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Distance: 0.1910

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Quicksand House

Carlton Mellick III · 2013

Two sheltered children leave their nursery to search a vast, deadly house for parents they’ve never met.

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Premise labels: isolated children · missing parents · nursery confinement · house exploration · survival quest · coming of age · childhood fears

Setting labels: vast mansion · nursery · maze-like house · dark house · dystopian world · isolated domestic space · school setting · outside danger · uncanny reality

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Distance: 0.1956

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Parallel

Claudia Lefeve · 2011 · Travelers

An orphan with hidden powers is pulled into a parallel reality where family, identity, and time are all unsettled.

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Premise labels: orphan protagonist · foster care · alternate reality · hidden identity · powers awakening · wrong reality · family reunion · chosen one · parallel worlds · time travel

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel worlds · contemporary · high school · foster home · group home · private school

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Distance: 0.1960

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A Dark Inheritance

Chris d'Lacey · 2014 · Unicorne Files

A boy who can alter reality joins a secret agency to uncover a father’s disappearance and a strange school mystery.

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Premise labels: missing father · supernatural ability · reality manipulation · secret organization · paranormal investigation · detective mission · school mystery · child protagonist

Setting labels: modern-day · school setting · coastal setting · small-town setting · alternate realities · supernatural reality · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.1972

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The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell

Mira Grant · 2014 · Newsflesh

A first-grade teacher fights to protect her class when a post-Rising school safety system fails during a zombie outbreak.

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Premise labels: zombie outbreak · school lockdown · survival struggle · protect students · teacher hero · institutional failure · public school safety · post-apocalypse aftermath

Setting labels: elementary school · first grade classroom · kindergarten classroom · post-zombie apocalypse · post-Rising world · Seattle · Pacific Northwest · future dystopia · school lockdown

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Distance: 0.1984

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What's The Furthest Place From Here?, Vol. 1: Getting Lost at the End of the World

Tyler Boss, Matthew Rosenberg · 2022 · What's The Furthest Place From Here?

In a kid-run post-apocalyptic world, a gang searches for a missing member and uncovers a stranger, stranger society.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing person · group quest · coming of age · post-apocalyptic survival · gang conflict · world mystery · search mission · teen survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · wastelands · ruins · kid-run society · teen territories · factional enclaves · record store hideout · dystopian landscape · no adults · night danger · survivalist society

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Distance: 0.2036

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