{"rewrite":{"id":"r_4ee9a64ffceb7db7940e2ab5","clusterId":"c_fb02fe4d5f7a653eed9c4427","slug":"drifting-classroom-immersive-horror-event-set-for-kazuo-umezu-s-90th-birthday","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Drifting Classroom Immersive Horror Event Set for Kazuo Umezu's 90th Birthday","summary":"An experiential exhibition called \"UMEZZ HORROR HOUSE ~Drifting Classroom and Thought Experiment Exhibition~\" will run from July 17 to September 6 at Gallery Zenon in Kichijoji, Tokyo. The event commemorates manga artist Kazuo Umezu's 90th birthday and combines an immersive horror experience based on his manga \"Drifting Classroom\" with the \"Thought Experiment Exhibition\" that has drawn over 20,000 visitors in Tokyo and Osaka.","whyItMatters":"The event extends the \"Thought Experiment Exhibition\" format, which sold out in multiple locations, into a horror experience tied to one of Umezu's most famous works for his milestone birthday.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026#34;Thought Experiment Exhibition\u0026#34; is a \u0026#34;new experiential entertainment\u0026#34; that poses the question \u0026#34;If you could go to another world, how would you live?\u0026#34; and has drawn over 20,000 cumulative visitors in Tokyo and Osaka, with tickets selling out in various locations. The script is by Dism of Kyoten Dochi Club, who worked on the TRPG \u0026#34;Katashiro.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u0026#34;UMEZZ HORROR HOUSE,\u0026#34; visitors enter the world of Yamato Elementary School from \u0026#34;Drifting Classroom,\u0026#34; thrown into an isolated wasteland where a narrator confronts them with \u0026#34;life and death\u0026#34; and \u0026#34;naked ego.\u0026#34; The experience is described as \u0026#34;psychological horror entertainment for modern people living in unstable times.\u0026#34; Up to seven people can attend per group, with sessions lasting about 60 minutes. Tickets are available through TicketDive.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The Drifting Classroom immersive horror runs for seven weeks at Gallery Zenon, not at a horror-specific venue. Umezu's 90th birthday event uses the same thought exhibition format that already pulled 20,000 visitors in two cities.","twitterPost":"Drifting Classroom immersive horror runs seven weeks at an art gallery, not a horror venue. Same thought exhibition format that drew 20,000 visitors in two cities.","threadsPost":"Kazuo Umezu's 90th birthday event puts Drifting Classroom in an immersive horror format. The venue is Gallery Zenon, an art space, not a haunted house. The thought exhibition component has already drawn 20,000 visitors in Tokyo and Osaka. That track record is why the gallery is hosting horror.","newsletterBlurb":"An experiential exhibition commemorating Kazuo Umezu's 90th birthday will immerse visitors in the world of \"Drifting Classroom\" at Gallery Zenon in Kichijoji. 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