Prison School

I don't really enjoy ecchi works. Not really. This series is super ecchi and yet I still love it anyway. Why? Because this manga is just outright ridiculous and I love it for it.


Prison School really does not take itself seriously. At first there is a vague sense of a plot, then it tumbles and tumbles out of control and with it, it just gets funnier and funnier. The plot in the current storyline has a group of four characters climbing up the back of one guy like a mountain, and if a girl has her hairbands removed, great tragedies happen. How? Why? Who knows. The thing is, I just don't care. It's that good.

There are four guys in an only girls school. Why? I can't remember the reason, but it was ridiculous. They get sent to prison in their school. How? The school president's father is the headmaster, so, he just lets them do it. Sure, OK. There are silly reasons for seeing ecchi moments, but its part of the charm. The characters are actually pretty decent, and I really enjoy the relationship between Hana and one of the main guys.

If you like ecchi, then great, you'll like this. Even if you don't like ecchi works though, who knows? You still may like it anyway. I know I do.

I'll try to make this quick because you have better things to possibly be reading.

First off, as a little bit of background, I absolutely adored the Prison School anime (I even gave it a 10 because it was just that enjoyable to me). The manga on the other hand, is a completely different story.

Its the same story as the anime for the most part. If you've seen the anime you don't need to reread the first 80 chapters or so, but rather just start where the OVA ends. From that point, the story was going somewhere, and then just for a second, it starts to go down horribly. It had the potential to be great, but the dragging out of the Calvary Arc to the not necessary side stories here and there were what really brought this thing down. From there on, it felt like it was going back up to greatness, and then the last few chapters happened. Its not even a spoiler, but the ending alone was the one thing that affected my view of the entire manga to the point where I not recommend you not read it. The ending isn't enough for you to sit through 200+ chapters.

Art: The art's really good. That's pretty much all I have to say about it. Definitely don't read it around others and certainly not around your parents.

Characters: Pretty much the same. Development for the most part does happen (more with two members of the USC and the ASC) than anything else. I feel as if no one really changed more than those two members of both clubs. The boys don't change and while I normally find the lack of some kind of character development annoying, it kinda works for something like this?

Overall Enjoyment: I enjoyed it very much as I was reading it in time with the updates, and I can very much remember when I stopped reading after the Calvary Arc took so long to finish and it simply wasn't worth sitting there and reading something like that every week while waiting for new chapters. I put it off until the end and then binge read it. If you're like me, who likes characters and likes good endgame and good outcomes etc, I really advise you not to read this. At the same time, a more troll side of myself is telling you to definitely read it because the ending is such a surprise that no one saw coming (and I live read this with a bunch of my friends)

Honestly, if you really want to read this, read until the Calvary Arc starts, and you won't miss anything if you don't finish.

Au tout début, j'étais très réticent à l'idée de continuer le manga étant donné que le délire masochiste du premier arc ne m'attirait pas plus que ça. Je ne suis pas de ce bord là, et même pour de la fiction humoristique, ça ne m'enjoue pas plus que ça.
Cependant, entre maintenant, et la dernière fois que j'ai lâché l'affaire, il s'en est passé du temps. Et étant donné que j'apprécie beaucoup les mangas "Tranche de vie" et "humoristique" à la manière de Grand Blue, Nisekoi, par exemple, je me suis dis pourquoi pas aller plus loin.
Le manga est finalement très drôle, les blagues sont parfois tellement absurdes qu'elles en font mourir de rire, et les situations honteuses le sont tellement qu'on le ressent à travers les personnages et l'investissement que nous avons vis à vis du manga.
Au niveau du dessin, l'exagération est parfois trop absurde, pas du tout nécessaire, et on se croirait parfois dans des hentais. C'est peut être pour pousser le côté extrême borderline du manga, mais j'aime personnellement pas ça. Cependant, la technique reste cool et les dessins mettent bien en évidence l'absurdité des situations et on rigole beaucoup.

Le problème, et faîtes attention, ça peut un petit peu "spoiler", à partir de maintenant, vient de la fin. En gros, tu lis 277 chapitres pour te dire que tout va recommencer. Et ça, c'est navrant. On a un point de vue quasiment omniscient, notamment au niveau du personnage principale, Kiyoshi. Ainsi, on s'attache à lui, malgré nous ou non, et on veut le voir réussir au moins pour la fin. Et finalement, non, et le seul personnage normal devient timbré à son tour à la fin. J'aime pas du tout les fins qui commencent quelque chose, le pire c'est quand c'est pour nous dire que la même chose que nous avons vu va recommencer.
C'est dommage, le manga aurait fini une "happy-end" plutôt que ça.

Dur de voir le temps que nous investissons dans la lecture être récompensé comme cela. Et donc, c'est encore plus dur de conseiller le manga. Mais malgré tout, il vous fera rire pendant 270 chapitres, ou presque.

It sucks - 9/10
This is a perfect review of the series.

Manga is pretty much on point until it passes roughly ~80% of work. Most of the read is extremely enjoyable, fun, exciting, intense, erotic, feel-good experience that I had pleasure of familiarizing myself with for (almost) three days, before the work started showing signs of injury on better part of last day. Crazy adventures, situations, troubles, laughs and disasters our cast goes through in their lives is pretty much the definition of youth everyone would like to experience, maybe, to their own risk. Then, sadly, two things happen.

1) Prolongation
2) Bad ending

First, it draws out, for a while, then, as many already said, worst ending happens, essentially enraging everyone and justly so. Why? Because it's not a proper ending, you can't even call it one. To be frank, it's so silly (in a bad way) I'm not even taking it as a genuine conclusion. It's just not believable whatsoever and it should be disregarded as such. That is not to say I'm attempting to delude myself into not accepting Akira Hiramoto's decision-making. It's there, yes, yet it can always be altered, buuuuuuuuuuut, that's the writer's duty, not mine.
Anyway, the ending itself is completely irrelevant in my eyes and I'd like to mention that if there was a reconstruction of aforementioned remaining 20% (to the better, of course), more precisely when the story started dragging, it would be 11/10 in a heart beat, that's how amazing the manga was. I shall mention several concise spoilers at the bottom of this text for few who wish to understand exactly why people dislike it so much without indulging into reading it all.

Now, I shall briefly display all volumes' ratings:

arc 1 - 10/10 - vol 1. - vol 9. <-- anime adaptation(ch. 1-88)

arc 2 - 10/10 - vol 10.- vol 17.<-- a 'would be' s2 (ch. 89-166)

arc 3 - 10/10 - vol 18.- vol.22.<-- best part of manga (ch. 167-218)
arc 3 - 6/10 - vol 23. & vol24.<-- starts dragging (ch. 219-238)
arc 3 - 7/10 - vol 25. <-- a false glimpse of hope (ch. 239-248)

arc 4 - 6/10 - vol 26. & vol27.<-- full standstill (ch. 249-268)
arc 4 - 1/10 - vol 28. <-- a complete catastrophe (ch. 269-277)

(22*10)+(6*2)+7+(6*2)+1/28=9.0 = 9/10

So, overall, we can conclude it's a great series, though, when ending is included, it ruins all work invested, and severely cripples established impression and rightly so.

Lastly, I shall now mention what I was dying to mention this whole time, and my overall perception on the whole thing. Those of you who do not wish to be spoiled and wish to read/continue reading the manga, which I still firmly believe it's worthy of such an action, please cease to feast your eyes on this god given gift of a content, and derail your attention elsewhere.

!CAUTION!WARNING! Spoilers ahead !CAUTION!WARNING!

Basically, while digesting from vol. 26 ahead there were so many errors it's not even worth hairsplitting every detail. I'll just mention 'no-no' moments which pop into my mind as I'm writing.
Mari vanishes without explanation and she's essentially never touched upon again, even though she's one of the main characters. Mari mentions she's dropping from school around end. No explanation. She was my favorite character and for some of you as well. Let that sink in.
None of the boys or girls are confirmed to end up together, it's simply left vague and unclear. Only pair that is successful out of all people is with Risa and that disgusting slob Andre.
No epic last scene wet t-shirt event or no full cast happily hanging around some sort of barbeque, beach or whatever.
Oh and the whole Chairman arc was unnecessary filler, if you just had him appear towards the climax of cavalry battle, it would take nothing from the experience.

Most importantly, who does Kiyoshi end up with? It's what everyone wonders, right? When it comes to Mari, it's just discontinued like it never existed. Kiyoshi rejects Hana at very end and successfully confesses love to and is accepted by Chiyo but in such a repulsive, rushed and forced fashion it feels crappy, like a punch to the gut. To be honest, it was clear whoever Kiyoshi ends up with wasn't gonna satisfy anyone because the writer himself couldn't decide, nor care. Obviously, he would end up with someone and whoever shipped one of the other two would be left, at least, pouting at the result, which is an okay, acceptable solution. Hell, I'd even be okay with harem ending. But even after that, KiyoshixChiyo also failed because he wore Hana's panties, and that was too much for Chiyo. And then Chiyo becomes man-hater - the end. This, this was just sacrilege. After delaying this finale for two volumes just to not deliver it properly at all, it's better to scrap the whole thing and wish for a better end. Manga felt like it needed two-three more volumes at the very least though preferably, say, five volumes and a better, not forced, but smooth and satisfying finish which it failed to deliver.

tl;dr
kiyoshi x mari - no ending
kiyoshi x hana - no, at last moment (awfully unveiled)
kiyoshi x chiyo - yes, at last moment (awfully unveiled), and then no, wtf
gakuto x mitsuko - no ending
shingo x anzu - no ending
joe x satou - no ending
andre x risa - yay, who cares

DO NOT READ THIS MANGA!!!
I can't believe I'm telling you this since Prison School was one of my favorite manga series, and it was definitely the most hilarious manga I ever read. The quality of humor in Prison School is certainly outstanding compared to any other comedy manga. I can clearly remember cracking from laughing so hard each chapter, yet DON'T READ IT! The main reason is ending sucks. And it really sucks. I won't be telling you if its a good ending or bad ending, but I'm insisting on for you to give up on this manga. Once you get in the story of Prison School, you'll be amazed by its humor and stupid story. And it will give you the impression of a high quality manga. Well for the first arc of the manga I may say its sure a great manga. Funny characters, funny story, hilarious moments... But then the story gets prolonged for nothing and becomes full of pure nonsense. Then there is the ending, o that ending... I don't want you readers to be under the impression of a good story, because once you read that terrible ending, you will eventually realize that devastating flop of quality in Prison School. Now let's explain each elements of the story one by one.

Story:
A bunch of guys, getting in a high school where everyone else are all girls. Once they are excited for this situation, they decide peeping on girls' bathroom. And as you may think, they get caught. So as their punishment, (which is the most stupid and vital part of the story) they get in jail for a few weeks and will spend each day and night there, in prison. Yeah, it definitely has a dumb plot, but its called "Prison School, what else were you thinking? So anyway, in the stark contrast of the dumb story, Prison School was quite a great manga in the very beginning, REALLY. If you are looking for a manga that you wanna get into which makes you laugh a lot, this is the best choice for you. But as I said for many times before, the duality doesn't last that long. Once the first arc is over, we start a brand new one with high expectations.Wondering what the author has for the audience this time. Bet it's even a better story than before, right? WRONG! What awaited for us in the next arc was full mediocre. We get a few new characters, which were pretty bad. And this time we have another overlasting rivalry between the cast. So yeah that's how it is in general.

Art:
The artwork is highly sophisticated, and it was one of the few elements of the manga that drove me to keep reading it. If it had very cheap drawings, I would have probably gave up on finishing it way earlier. The drawings of this manga are pretty detailed and sometimes quite emotional. What I meant by emotional is that, the artist manages to catch the exact expressions of the figures for many times. Which makes the characters more realistic and kinda natural.

Cast:
The cast also sucks after some point. Kiyoshi is quite ordinary for a protagonist (but on the other hand, its not usual for such school manga series to have fascinating protagonists) I believe the character that made me laugh the most was the principal. Every school needs a principal exactly like him. I also liked Meiko a lot, also she was one of the main reasons for deciding to read the manga. I believe she is pretty charming unlike her dominant personality. I love women with dominant sides (im not some masochist or anything but) Yeah i really liked her and would be great to have a gf like her. I also liked B*tch-chan and Hana. The rest of the cast is pretty useless and unimportant. Especially Andre. If you were to remove Andre from the manga, I bet the quality of manga would have gotten even better. He is useless and annoying.

The ending(dont worry this is also a spoiler-free part):
The reason why I'm insisting on you to not read the Prison School is (as I said before) its ending. I won't tell what exactly happens in it , but once you complete reading the story, you will regret reading this great manga which turned itnto a dump. Your expectations will be smashed and won't forgive yourself for reading it.

-This is the most conflicted I have ever felt about a manga before. Let this be a warning to anyone who tries to binge read it like I did. 278 chapters in one week and man oh man does it start going downhill about halfway through.

-This manga is hilarious. It's as simple as that. It also has some of the best teasing couple shipping and fan service that I have ever read.

The panels are detailed and it will have you on the edge of your seat to see how the characters antics will play out chapter after chapter.

-Now for the conflicting part: after investing so much time into this story and its characters the ending feels incredibly rushed. I would compare it to the Bleach manga or Naruto for anyone who remembers how rushed those endings felt. This story has many characters and you really only find out the fate of a couple of them and are left to wonder about the rest. Also, about halfway through the manga during an extremely long sports arc (like 75 chapters I swear) the characters just repeat themselves and it is painstakingly slow. If I had to read this arc as it was coming out on a weekly basis I think I might have actually dropped it to be honest.

-There is a 12 episode anime that covers the first 82 chapters of the manga basically panel for panel and by the looks of it there are no plans for a second season sadly enough.

-So that being said this manga has a lot of positives and I was honestly engrossed in the characters fates and comedic shenanigans throughout it but its just so hard to overlook how far it started to fall in the second half........but who knows maybe you'll love the ending.

tl;dr: A manga with an incredibly solid start with a steady decline from there into a complete garbage ending.

This manga is one that I became interested in after watching the anime adaptation, which I thought was excellent. Unfortunately, the anime being so good is heavily due to how the beginning portion that the anime adapts being the best part of the manga by far and how the anime ends at the best possible place to. It's pretty much all downhill from there, though because it's falling from being so good even while declining it manages to remain pretty decent for a good amount of time following where the anime leaves off.

The first arc that the anime adapted similarly manages to do a great job of combining the genres of ecchi, romance, comedy, and a psychological thriller in such a way that they all felt like they played well off of each other to create a story that was ridiculous but amazing. There were interesting tricks used by both the prisoners and the guards with all sorts of crazy things happening, and both groups end out coming out looking like pretty interesting characters worth getting invested in. There's also decent character development and some decent relationship development, with some of it being romantic, but the highlight being the bonds between the five prisoners.

After where the anime ends, things change considerably. Characters roles and relationships change significantly with a number of new characters being added to the web. This starts off pretty great, with things feeling like they're progressing in an interesting direction. However, as it goes it becomes clear that there's a major decline in quality going on. The various tricks being used get dumber and dumber. The plot itself starts going in completely random directions. The pacing becomes horrible, heavily in part due to how it has a weird story telling style where it just abruptly changes back and forth between a bunch of different plot threads, one of the largest of which has absolutely nothing to do with everything else going on, but also because it just in general it becomes really slow to the point that a certain arc feels like started dragging on less than half way through it. The comedy which was pretty much all hits during the beginning becomes way more hit and miss.

But the biggest issue by far is in regards to character and relationship development. The issue isn't that there isn't any of it, rather there's a lot of great scenes and moments. The issue is that none of it sticks. Lots of major events happen and are enough to get you really invested in what's going on, but almost none of them have a lasting impact. Everything about characters and relationships feels like it's just arbitrary as the manga is constantly breaking apart everything it builds up. It just makes everything feel pointless.

This is incredibly prominent with the ending, which is pretty much composed of just a long string of things left unresolved, with the only plot threads it does properly close being ones that it shouldn't have because it closes them in the most bitter way possible, with there being a single exception to that in a solid end to a plot thread which just feels like it highlights how awful the ending to everything else was. Unsatisfying is an understatement in describing just how awful of an ending it is. It's the type of ending that it's hard to fathom how an author, editor, and all the various others involved in the process could have arrived at an ending so horrible unless they were trying to create the worst ending they possibly could. It's the type of ending where it feels like if they rushed it more and left things even more ambiguous it would be a decent improvement, and if they rushed it less and expanded on it more it would also be a solid improvement, but the ending was perfectly optimized for maximum awfulness. The ending was actually a really amazing and impactful scene, it just doesn't work well as an ending at all. If it kept going with it and wrapped up just that plot thread properly it would actually be a decent ending but it simply didn't.

The one praise I can give to the manga all the way through though, is that the art is absolutely excellent from beginning to end with great character designs, incredibly high quality, great style, and perfect framing.

After watching the anime, i was so excited to read the manga and i must say, i was not disappointed until the last chapter.

Art: very good, probably ones of the best i've seen.

Characters: I heavily dislike some of them (Hana especially). She's like that one friend who will always ruined your enjoyment cuz of jealousy. I aslo admire the bond between the boys. They will always come to aid each other despite the misunderstanding. Then we have the headmaster, whose apprerance and word make me laugh all the times.

Enjoyment: I've fun, i truly have. Then I've been spoiled about how bad the ending is, i thought it was just about Mari's departure but damn it's worse than i thought.

Reading the last chapter really angered me. The author just like "Yeah fuck you, have this shitty ending". Man wtf. We don't know what happen to all of them instead of Chiyo, who was inocent and kind then become exactly her sister.

This manga is very entertaining, I think anyone who is a looking for a good laugh should pick it up. It contains extremely ecchi situations, but most of it is intended to add to the humorous, over-the-top atmosphere of it.

Another big plus of this manga is the artwork, the artist's talent is apparent from chapter 1. There is great attention to detail, and the characters are all very distinguishable from one another.

Speaking of characters, this is another area where this manga shines. The characters are all very unique with their various quirks. Although some of their habits and fetishes are somewhat strange, it almost makes them more realistic because let's be honest, human beings are very strange creatures.

The story would probably be the weakest part of this manga, there's a lot that needs to be explained. The idea is interesting, but you really have to just accept some of the things going on because its hard to make sense of it realistically.

I highly recommend this to any guy, although I suppose girls could enjoy it if they want a view into how teenage guys think.

For me this mangá is like Brazilian funk of mangás, is heavy sexual have too much fan service which spoils the story. But this is bearable compare to the stupidity of the male characters.

Story - 7
I like the story, is solid is some aspects and even uses the famous Stanford Prision Experiment as a sort of base for the hole anime, focusing on comedy instead in true human nature.

Art - 10
Art is where the mangá excedes, it's extremely well, sometimes makes me remember of Bleach a little in some face shoots. The only character that I didn't like the visual was the Fat Masochist (Andou Reiji), well, I find him completely ridiculous. Even in a comedy like MM! we have a better M.

Character - 2
All male characters are ridiculous and make stupid decisions, you will find it funny or annoying, for me was annoying, the only characters that I like was the female ones because they at least makes some sense while the males are totally consume with the power of boners to care for anything.

Enjoyment and Overall - 5
It's like I said it before, you'll find it funny and like a lot with this manga or you will not like at all and find it annoying.

After finishing the anime I was beyond excited to see what the manga had in store, the anime ended in such a way that was satisfying but left things open enough for a second season, I loved it, but the manga quickly began to crush my hope for a continuation of one of my favorite storys in recent years. It felt like there was so much potential but the author decided to take things in the one of worst possible directions with the story, terrible cliches and forced pairing, it felt completely different from the first 80 or so chapters which were what we saw in the anime. I don't mean to say that the manga is bad but I do not think the story was handled well after the end of the boy's prison arc, reverting one of the main characters their child-self and leaving them in that state for what felt like over a hundred chapters, and so many problems would have been solved if that person had come back to their senses sooner. The Calvary battle/School festival arc went on for way too long but at least the school directors arc was great during that time. The manga was still very funny and had great artwork but I just was not satisfied with the story and I don't want to talk about the ending, I can probably find a more satisfying ending in a doujin than what we got with the official manga and hopefully I will.

Overall it was 100% a very enjoyable read but the ending sours it a lot for me, however I still am going to give a decent rating because I had tons of fun reading it, and in the end I think this manga was really about the journey and not the destination.
HanaXKiyoshi for life

I'm finally going to do a review of this manga now that it has ended,This manga started off amazing with great refreshing humor not to talk about the awesome ecchi shots from time to time,the middle of the manga had somewhat decent comedy but had a very long dragged out arc which i was not very fond of even though it started off funny, while the conclusion seemed rushed it had better comedy than the middle.All in all i would give this manga a solid 8 for the comedy and characterization, prison school has great characters who each in his own right is very funny and refreshing.To describe this manga in the shortest way possible i'd say funny and refreshing, prison school really is the epitome of a good sex jokes manga you wont find any manga who did it better.

General: Kangoku Gakuen takes the perspective from 5 male's point of view's in which they attend an all girls private high school. The mangaka does a well enough job of trying to immerse you into this world of the characters by showing how much emotion and pain is shown from being in prison. As well as how cruel and unusual this school really is and is all captured by how detailed the artwork is. The artwork is most likely the defining part of the manga because it is not only done in great detail but also great style, giving off that somewhat realistic approach to manga. The story itself could be in a better place, I mean it all takes place in a prison punishment because the boys peeped. That's about it really. I mean they try to escape and come up with elaborate plans and show intense emotions which also gives off a certain authenticity which is greatly appreciated but the whole background story of it all isn't all that interesting or atleast appealing. The characters are given large background stories or to say the least large rolls into showing character development between their interactions with each other which is a good thing for those who like deep character interaction. The appealing level for humor and such for enjoyment varies between viewers as it depends on the viewer's outlook on things, but it shows a lot of ecchi moments that show how the male character's are appealed by the female characters which gives a bit of realism but more perversion than anything. But I'll admit the humor did get me once or twice.

How I Felt: For me the story seems a bit lackluster, I mean there are plenty of stories that involve a male character being in an all girls school but by putting 5 it made it slightly more interesting but the fact that the story is more or less about their imprisonment for the first 70-80 chapters because they peeped just made it a bit disappointing. It's still interesting and definitely portrays the story in a good way, but just to me it wasn't super intriguing. -The Artwork is definitely the best part about this manga because it has great detail and shows how much the creator put his/her heart into it. The only thing I disliked about it though is that I felt that some of the characters were underdone or just not cared for example Andou, he's fat but unrealistically fat with a giant head a small face and giant ear lobes, he felt the most underdone character just for comedy sake. Also Shingo was alright but can we seriously not get anymore characters that look like their from Grease with their hair slicked back with the one hair going down the middle? -As said before the manga goes deeply into how the character's interact with each other but for me I honestly didn't give a Rat Tooth about most of them. All of the other male character's didn't really matter to me no matter how hard I wanted to try and care for them, they just seemed uninteresting to me and were there to support Kiyoshi even though the story constantly tries to show their own side stories as well to make you care for them but it just didn't do the trick for me. -As for how interesting or joyful this manga is, it was very low for me personally. Mostly because the majority of the story took place in the prison and how badly the guys were being treated by a woman who kinda isn't a woman. The most interesting part of this entire story for me was the kiss encounter between Kiyoshi and Hana, that was interesting and definitely got me intrigued.

Major Grips: I'll just say it now but the unrealism is unbelievable in some cases. I know its a manga and its not supposed to be realistic but considering the art and how they grasp the concept I can't help but feel a bit annoyed. 1. The whole prison school thing is probably the most unrealistic thing I ever heard, I know some private schools make you sign a waiver saying you allow them to punish you but being put into a prison is Illegal. Unless its Juvy. Just saying. 2. Is there seriously not a single piece of fabric that confines Meiko's body? I know shes really there for sex appeal and all but she just shows it off too much to the point where I feel more annoyed than anything. Plus it bugs me that she gets all hot around the president... 3. The whole relationship thing between Kiyoshi and Chiyo is about as interesting as a rice cake. I can honestly say I don't feel it between them, it just feels stale because her character just doesn't go out there. Chiyo just seems average to me so the whole thing between the two is just boring. So the love factor in this manga really doesn't get me intrigued. If there is possibly more stuff between Kiyoshi and Hana than that would would definitely make things a lot more interesting. Just Saying.

Overall this is a good manga for those who want to get into it, just be warned that there isn't a whole lot of romance even though it says there is. But I'm sure a lot of people can get into it because of the humor and attention to detail. In fact there already are. But just note that this is just how I felt about the manga, but in general its good. General: 7-8/10 Personal: 5/10

This manga was wild, i read it as soon as i finished the anime at the year it aired but it was still being published so i forgot about it...until everyone started to say the end was shit so i knew i had to read the rest.

I know why people might hate this show and yes you're right, this series makes 0 sense and is very slow in scenes that don't need to be that slow, but the magnificent art, anatomy knowledge and the nonsensical humor makes it very funnny for me, it was an enjoyement until the very last arc.

The last arc is that point when the author just started to put anything without caring as much as before, they spend useless amount of episodes doing stupid stuff and when you think the story is gonna end in a very happy tone....it doesn't on the very last episode everything goes to shit, nothing matters anymore and it was so out of nowhere that i laughed just because i was so confused, it honestly felt like i was being trolled and i have NO doubt it was maybe that, which is genius and insulting at the same time, i guess you could just watch the episode before that one and just call it a day, that's the ending, there's nothing else besides that, i just think is some sort of AU.

Besides that? yes is very funny, like i said i love the artstyle , its very impressive when they trick you to think you're watching something else and how they go from a simple story plot to some of the most insane bullshit i've seen

In general i think is fine, is not my favorite comedy series anymore but it still holds up, besides that ending

Review contains SPOILERS. (This is more an analysis and an argument for the manga than a review, per se.)

I read all this shit in 3 days, so maybe my judgment is different, somehow, from the people who stuck with the series for all 6 years. Maybe I, too, would've been bitterly disappointed by the ending, had I been reading the whole time. But I was emotionally invested by the end regardless, so I'm going to offer my opinion: anyone who truly dislikes this work for the ending should probably work on their reading comprehension skills, because the ending really contained the soul of this work, boiled it down to its central elements. Prison School was never a feel-good manga. From the very beginning, it was horrible, it treated its characters like shit, exploited them, embarrassed them, broke their spirits, made them slaves to the ever-inching-forward raunchy comedy that was central to the story. If the manga really gave its characters absolution, what was all the rest for?

Put simply, Prison School is a series of four stories that each come together at a single point in time, where all the narrative threads that have been building previously are swiftly and decisively tied up at a single, triumphant point. Three of these stories "work." All of the narrative trickery before comes together in a single, glorious point of narrative revelation. In my opinion, the first of these works well, the second of these works masterfully, and the third one works somewhat well, but the third story arc is clearly the worst, and it gets pretty old and stale over its 40 chapters of focus on a singular story. But to read most of these reviews, they'd like to focus on the one that doesn't work. I'm sure all of these people were hoping that the manga was headed to that point where maybe Chiyo's confession works, or maybe Kiyoshi realizes that there was something more to the feeling of having "gotten used" to Hana's panties, or maybe Kate's feelings for Mari finally sublimate, or maybe the same happens to Meiko. Instead, Akira Hiramoto - no, Akira Hiramoto-SENSEI - spits in our face. If you have a problem with that, you weren't paying attention.

Prison School is all about sadism and masochism, and nowhere is the relationship between sadism and masochism more evident than in the relationship between an author and their characters. In fact, it's the entire point of storytelling for an author in more traditional modes of storytelling to torture their characters, to put their characters in losing circumstances, so that they are forced to act. In fact, that's the starting premise of Prison School. It's all about narrative mechanics, and about people being trapped by those mechanics. The first story arc introduces two conflicting scenarios: imprisonment, and a romance narrative between Kiyoshi and Chiyo; or, in other words, the protagonist is caught in a dialectical net between sexual hedonism and puritanism. He wants to be with Chiyo in a pure sense; AND he wants to look at Chiyo's boobs.

We can skip through most of the rest of the manga. I don't need to explain this; what Hiramoto is doing here is pretty masterful at times, though it can get old. I enjoy the constant revivification of previously dormant running gags, but at times, it can get a bit blech. I enjoy how shamelessly Hiramoto manipulates the mechanics of voyeurism, even bringing the mechanics of voyeurism by the reader directly into the story as Mari and Kate's sexual unification is literally put on tape. (In fact, I'd love to go back and analyze this section as well, and maybe I'll do it in an edit later).

We get to the end. Everything has gone awry. The characters are spread halfway across the city, each of them having been entirely robbed of their direction. This is the point where we expect everything to come together. The main story - the dialectical romance between Chiyo and Kiyoshi - is rapidly barreling towards a conclusion. Chiyo has said she will accept all of Kiyoshi. What does she mean by that? She means that underlying Kiyoshi's sexual urges, there must be a purity, the superego must be doing its job, Kiyoshi MUST not be a degenerate; that even though the machinery of his sexuality has gotten him into trouble, it is just machinery, it is not what Kiyoshi IS. The ending is a simultaneous revelation, spurred on by Hana's unrelenting insistence, that Kiyoshi is a degenerate. And as Kiyoshi realizes, she is right. The male psyche as embodied by Kiyoshi is dominated by sexuality. His relationship was Chiyo was "built upon a lie," a fantasy, a pure Chiyo constructed by Kiyoshi as a defensive mechanism against his sexual self (do we want to get Freudian? but it's unavoidable that we will). Perhaps the symbolism of Hana's panties isn't the clearest way to represent his desire, but we're practically beyond symbolism at this point. As Hana finally gets her wish and sees Kiyoshi peeing, Chiyo is scarred by her final confrontation with the world of the flesh, and Kiyoshi realizes that it was never about Chiyo, it was always about the wet T-shirt party. After seeing only the exterior, Chiyo is finally granted a peek under Kiyoshi's clothes to realize that he was always the pervert that only he, Chiyo, and the rest of the boys refused to perceive. (Interestingly, the only relationship that truly blossoms was the one that was the most overtly sexual. Right, only Andre, who has actually embraced his sexuality, finds actual romance.)

If you're upset by the ending, it might be a useful exercise to confront what you're really upset by. Despite the constant, real voyeurism, the disgusting objectification, the fanservice ramped up to above an 11 - really the endpoint of fanservice - I think the readers who are now upset really wanted to view this manga the same way Chiyo really wanted to view Kiyoshi. I think they wanted to see that beyond the perversion and beyond the sadism, Hiramoto really did have a "heart of gold," really did understand romance, that the fantasy romantic comedy formulation would eventually come together and we would see the conflicted Kiyoshi, the self-insert, the one we all hope to succeed, overcome his baseness and ascend into a purer, more celibate dimension. And like Chiyo, we're scarred to find that such an absolution is impossible. To read some of these reviews is to confront real, pure rage, the same kind of rage that Chiyo seems to feel in her final onscreen moments. "At the last moment, resistance is futile." It really is. It's time that you stop pinning your hopes for a pure romance on ecchi manga and grow the fuck up.

This manga is not good, yet it is not bad enough to deserve a one yet.
I suggest that you dont waste your fking time reading this manga. There is basically no plot. PLease, dont read this:

RECOMMENDATIONS: Better shit than this

If u want to look at harem, look at fking hayate no gotuko instead

If u want psychological, there are so many good ones, and more bad ones. It is hard to differ a good one from a bad one. Dont trust the scores. I would start at liars game, or one outs, as these are fairly decent

If u wont comedy x romance, then look at fking one sided love GTO

This manga is like a shoujo trying to be a seinen, and the only bad part of it is its echii parts



Spoilers Beyond this point

This manga is too overated. WTF who would give a ten to this shiet. Nine, eight? Something wrong with these reviewers. Everything is bad about manga, and so it does not really matter how good the art is. Turns out to be a fking HAREM manga which makes this fairly bad. All the boys have their own fking harem, especially that glasses guy.

Story: 2
Story actually starts off good, as there is fking feminism everywhere, and so the females have taken over the school. It seems that it is a co ed school scenario. These unknowing pervert comes into this school, and then he immediatly does some perveted things. Random shit happens, the council, with the principal with ass fetish aproving them being locke up, then the mc just talks with principal about there love of butts. The mc is lying, he actually has a thing for bobs. They talk about how the first fking thing a man sees is a bumm. THen the council gets kicked into the jail, reversing roles with boys, then the boys team up to fight the new tudent council. Alot of werid stuff happens in the process. The funny thing is that we do not even know what they are fighting for. Andrea the fat dck kid is a masochist, so he does not care about fking freedom. No point in this story, and there is no comedy element. THe genres include: Adult, memes, echii, psychological. Thats about it. Nothing good about plot, badly developed.

Characters: 1

Andrea, the fat masochist, appears in all the dcks that appear in this. They all have a smiling face of his. THis guys is legit disgusting weird unreadable. Fking shit character, one of the worst.

Four eyes: This guy is the third best out of this foursome/ fivesome. Likes fking romance of three kingdoms. He self scrafices alot, yet the bad thing about his character is that is like a typical harem mc, whose blushes around all the fking ugly girls

Ant god: THis guy is the second best, nothing wrong with him, follows the self sacrifice trend, this guys has magical powers

Weird blonde dude: This guy is a cnt

MC: Dude has around two people liking him, as far as I can see, plz dont roast me if someone likes him. Its the pee girl and the fking student council prezi's sister. Shit guy, something wrong with this fking pervert. U would see, he also self sacrifices, but for a greater good/extent. Pretty lame character, also likes blushing.

Water bottle god: WOW, the best character is a fking inanimate object guys, yes, the characters are that shit. This guy is a sythetic god made out of water bottles. I suppose he is the guy they worship so they would get to do shit with girls.

All the characters are autistic, even the ant god who wanted to suicide.

Enjoyment: 1
Dude, this manga is so good, that it deserves a solid one. Well deserved man, I thouroughly DID not enjoy this manga, I want to kill my self after this.

At least there is no fking hontai, so

Overall:2

Dont waste your time on this one, dont know why all the other people gave it such a good rating, most likely because they are perverted like these cnts. Badly developed, has no definite genre except for adult, as it is too dense in exploring these areas, the genres.

After reading this, I want to look at some jake paul, and drink bleach and die yay

6/10

First arc started so well I read it all so fast but it just started getting worse and worse and more boring as it went on until the fateful ending happened though I can say I still laughed at a good amount of the jokes and the art is really good. I do think if you're interested in it then you should try it but don't have your hopes up for anything past the first arc. To be honest I really think the manga started going majorly downhill at the cavalry arc it just felt so long and could've ended so much sooner and it also felt like a decent place to wrap up the manga around there but sadly it continued for another 30-ish chapters and at first I thought it wasn't awful but slowly over time I got so bored of it and sick of it I just wanted it to end nor did I care about risa and Andreis sub plots or the student councils stuff I really liked all of the boys' interactions in the first arc and how perfect everything blended together but then some of the characters started splitting up and it just lost that charm it had.

TL;DR
It was good at the beginning and got worse and worse as it continued but great art and a few good jokes.

ok ill try my best. simply gonna say DONT READ THIS. why? well its not bad honestly, for the first 70% of the manga was really good and planned out, im sure most of you are here after seeing the more popular anime version. well just stop right there. dont start the manga, just keep thinking prison school as a nice cliche fan service series. the manga has almost 300 chapters where near mid-end has a huge long and incredibly boring Calvary battle arc type deal. the ending was a huge disappointment and will make you feel like you just lost a bunch of time. it was literally a troll ending. however if you dont mind huge disappointments, and you can handle that long boring battle arc, this manga does have pretty decent art, some good humor, and a LOT of nipples! sometimes more towards the end area it tries way to hard with things. so please, if you still intend to read, take it with a grain of salt.

So to start this manga can get fairly ecchi and so if that kind of thing bothers you then don't read this. If you can look past that then this manga can be very enjoyable. It is incredibly funny and when I was reading through it I found myself laughing so much that it hurt. The characters, the scenes, the stupidity its all funny. However another great thing about this manga is the character development and how each character develops into a better, or weirder, person. It's quite a good tale of brotherhood and humor.

Prison School is a nonsensical, lewd, fever dream-esque comedy. Its unique sense of humor and Machiavellian plot twists keep you wondering what will happen next.

The writing is sublime. The intricate plot dovetails beautifully with the downright ludicrous, self-aware comedy. The characters are lovingly written and you'll find yourself surprisingly invested in their (admittedly nonsensical) arcs.

The illustrations are wonderful. I love the over-the-top expressions the characters have. It's lovingly drawn and all of it is pleasant on the eyes.

My one gripe is that the story kind of awkwardly ends.

(spoiler)

The superintendent ends up in jail, Mari ends up just leaving everyone without so much as a goodbye, and Kiyoshi's romantic arc ends ambiguously. Perhaps Kiyoshi and the superintendent could be ignored, but it bothered me to see Mari, one of the pivotal characters in this story, have such a weak finale.

It would have only taken 1 or 2 more chapters to finish the story properly... Kind of bummed me out that it ended like that.

All in all, despite my complaint about the finale, I think this is still a fantastic manga with cunning writing, ludicrously funny comedy, beautiful illustration and a certain charm that makes you want more and more. I tip my hat to Hiramoto, only his deranged mind could come up with something this genius. I give it a solid 9 out of 10.