Dragon Head

A manga about high school teenager Teru Aoki, who awakens to find himself trapped in a tunnel with only two other survivors after an earthquake derails the bullet train he was riding.

We’ve discussed this on an old episode.

Dragon Head is a prime example of a series that starts strong but fizzles out afterwards. The situation of being buried alive drives the survivors of Teru, Ako, and especially Nobuo, into real madness. Minetaro Mochizuki creates fantastic tension with the first arc of this story. Unfortunately I feel the story dips after the first two volumes. The rest of the series is a decent post-apocalyptic survival story but it never lives up to the looming horror of the Nobuo losing his mind.

Available in English from Kodansha.

~dakazu