Prison School

everything is great until that f***** last chapter
if only he didn't write it or altered the ending in a more happy way
i would have given it 8
but ooooooooooooooh boy he just had to burn the entire empire
why why why
omg i feel so mortified by the ending that i wish i hadn't seen the last chapter
everything was going perfect
i just want to know what possessed the author to do that
no matter how much i say i can't get rid of this feeling
just f**** it
it's like putting the perfect plan for heist
and executing it in the best way possible just to have the run-away-car run out of gas in front of the police department

i really can't think of a more stupid way to ruin a story this much
really the worst ending i ever seen to this day

After finishing the anime, I excitedly started reading the manga, and it was amazing! As I read the manga and witness the development of the relationships the main characters have built, I started to feel more involved in the characters. I was anxious to see how they got out of tricky situations brilliantly, and everytime they succeeded, I celebrated with them.

Then the ending.

Imagine cooking a big pot of ramen broth. You wake up early in the morning at 5am and start preparing the broth. Along the way you face many difficulties such as your flame dying out, but each time you managed to get through the difficulties. Your customers wait patiently in anticipation as night time arrives, and the soup has been simmering for an entire day. Then, 1 hour before the broth is done, you start adding more water for no reason. The customers are appalled. Why are you adding so much water, and extending the cooking time for no reason? However, the wait is over. The soup is about to be served. Then you dip your balls in the soup and shit all over it, and proceed to pour the shit and ball-stained soup down the drain.

Basically, what I'm saying is, the author decided to give an ending so horrible, the manga might as well have not been written at all. He took me through 277 chapters just to reverse all the character and relationship developments in the end. The greatest joke in the manga is the manga itself.

Ok so this is my first review and as well as my first Manga, however I watch a ton of amine so I am not a total idiot (I think).
First things first their will be spoilers sorry not sorry.

The Art in this Manga seems to be great, very consistent quality, a little unique, good fan service, however this is my first Manga experience so later on I could change my mind on the Art.

The Enjoyment of this series is based on a combination of fan service, comedy, and and just how ridiculous you can make some thing at the sometime, their is also a pretty likable romance portion too.

The Story starts out funny as hell, the combination of comedy, seriousness, ridiculousness, and fan service is great, but as the story progresses the jokes kinda flat-line, not to say that it was bad it just didn't ever reach the level it had to began with. Your left with the ridiculousness and fan service not to say its bad it was interesting and funny to see just how crazy it could go. Other than that you get a bit of romance but that's far and in between and is mostly put on hold until the end of the story. The story ends very badly like it is killed like a sacrifice to the Aztec sun god, ok ok its not that bad but at least 3 characters pull a complete 180 with their personality's

The Characters -Spoiler- section, I think the side characters are very 1 dimensional, side characters being the girls ( Anzu, Mitsuko, Cake-san) the guys (Shingo, Joe, and Gakuto) end up with, the main characters are pretty good, all the guys and some of the girls are 3 dimensional the girls being Risa, Chiyo, Mari, Hana, Meiko, and kate. The big problem is characters end up pulling 180 with their personalty's like Andrei who is a hard "M" but at the end becomes a normal guy because he loves Risa, or Mari who decides to move away with out telling anyone not Meiko, or kate, or Hana, or Chiyo her sister while this is on chiyo's brithday buy the way, and Chiyo's 180 who was a innocent, honest, naive, weird girl, to the new underground student Council President, just because she saw Kiyoshi wearing girls underwear even thought she was fine with kiyoshi doing other things far worst.

Overall I think this is a Good Manga, it is definitely a fun experience and would be a great Manga to animate however the ending should be changed so chararters don't go against their nature.

Of man, to the extent that he is chambers, of which, to the extent that he is proportions, that one side be as dreamy as a sullen lake in the clarity of a glade, and the other be a mangy den of thieves and hell-mouthed bandits, as such is the nature of the Soul in Man. And this pre-ponderance hath transfixed the philosophers, that some wish to quell the question, by attributing all to necessity of a higher confidence, and others, not wishing to believe in such tricksters, make it such that he is enfolded into his Will, and beneath the surface tremors infinite depravity and ooze. No one wishes to believe, in the shiny apparence of Civilization, that so dark an underbelly should exist, or, even, some Dark God hidden under the coverlets of day, and reigning in the dark night of the deepest crevice and heart-murmur.

But these old moralists are swift to forget this unity, for they draught themselves with the Opium haze of Logic and Systemized Axiomatization, and forget that fire rises in moods and cuts through the spick-and-span of a glassy sculpture, of Babel born from Mathematick and grave disillusion towards the bloody parts. For did the old poet of Ireland spake once:

“It seems that I must bid the Muse go pack,
Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend
Until imagination, ear and eye,
Can be content with argument and deal
In abstract things; or be derided by
A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”

As to sing in fear and tremor at the prospect of it, that things are wild and not rightly with the world, or that, as another philosopher of tongue would profess, that life at its very bottom be “Nasty, Brutish, and Short”.

As to what bears this brutality to itself, we must speak of Lust, or, as denoted within the representation by Bosch, Luxuria, the spiteful imp the rises within both genders, and engenders them to blackest ignominy and intoxication of the flesh, for do we not hear of so countless ‘crymes of passion’? Or of so hundreds more rapes and destructions of the tightest chastity, that occurs in periods of perilous stryfe? This blackest beast be heavy in the heart of all that is appearance innocent and pure, and maliciously bears its mark upon thee image of any loveliest maiden or soulful prince whose loins be wet with the sulfuric slime of the pit, and ignites into all who catch sight of this aspect of symmetry.

But let it be known that we are not like those stiff-up necked souls of the past, for we hast entered into good progress with ourselves, and made awareness of the fact that this unity of Angel and Beast could hardly be excised, in one percentage or the other, for fear of splitting apart the balance that should exist within a personality. For this enfabled concept of ‘repression’ has spread itself around, as butter to toast, that whoever has his bread and shalt not eat it, shall suffer from pangs of the gut and pains himself to be unproductive in his daily discourse. To prevent such discontent society, lesser has been said of man’s recourse to what was once prevailed as the ‘darkest of darknesses’, and generally we are free to mingle and co-mingle in the tawdry heat of our own desirous groping.

And what more a way to celebrate such an occasion, as never seen before in the entire history of Man, that such which was once begot lashes and chains, be brought to higher confirmation and acceptance, than to so sanctify it in the sphere of the highest Arts, and thus we have Akira Hiramoto, who, as Da-Vinci intersected with Egon Schiele, does draw fair image in representation, but mixed with the ignominy of the twisted neurosis. For he hath the very urge to ‘represent thee to Nature’, but mixed with resplendent horror is his expression, in that he bears Nature in a lascivious veil, and so makes agony of human fire. For here is Man, brought to bear in all his discomforts and fecality! The piss and the violation, that should’st exist, as so remarked: “Inter Faeces et Urinam Nascimur”. T’is, here, merely an honouration of the Saint’s words.

Who else can bear to represent such diversity of expression, in the midst of such shades of human impropriety! For surely this Hiramoto must be some laughing visage brought down from the age of Rabelais, who, with his wit and pen, so warned: “Good friends, my Readers, who peruse this Book, Be not offended, whilst on it you look: Denude yourselves of all depraved affection, For it contains no badness, nor infection: 'Tis true that it brings forth to you no birth Of any value, but in point of mirth; Thinking therefore how sorrow might your mind Consume, I could no apter subject find; One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span; Because to laugh is proper to the man.”

And, indeed, with pain and cruelty painted, does come laughter! Frivolous majestic laughter! Whence in the toil and trouble of daily persuasion comes such a titter of pure delight, as comes from the heart of he who is touched by such a tome, though tinged slightly with a menace. But t’is still a rightly menace, for it is menace done with the purpose of the curling of the jowls! Heavens forbade that this humble narrative of the struggles & collusions of five youths, as to their endeavor in the attainment of wet T-shirts and frilly panties should’st brings to bear the idea that the artist is a cur! Heaven less forbade that this market a sign of Caina upon the reader’s ecstatic brow! In laughter suspendeth the judgment, for the release of such wings causes no heaviness to be held within.

But should he, critic, be of stringy and flaccid acceptance, and like a Shibari-ed nurse, feel the some lengthy violation within his rectal crevasses! Shalt I only advise to assume the lubrication of a smile, such that, in Life, as well as other things, does the pain enter well and smoothly, and not cause any sufferance upon him, for stiffness in attitude begets a woeful susceptibility to the whims and bends of Nature, and like any good Stoic, should he learn to take it up rightly!

Warning: this may contain grammar errors.

To find "Prison School" to be at least tolerable, one must understand and enjoy for the genre that it is, an ecchi manga. Obviously, this shouldn't be seen as an excuse to exclude the manga from any type of criticism.

The best aspects of the manga is of course the heavy fanservice moments,and above all a humor constituted of sexual innuendos, jokes,misunderstandings, depraved character moments, and it's ability to integrate these elements in problem-solving situations, adding a serious tone which makes more ridiculously funny. To say the art is beautifull is an understatement. The visuals are tremendously appealing and realistic, with panels that leaves the reader breathless, making this manga a very hard read( got it?).
The first arcs are marvelous as it manages to maintain a constant thriller of the boys fighting, ridiculous failing and managing to be put in the most awkwards moments as they try to escape. There is betrayal, camaraderie and arguing between the boys that really makes them grown as a team and stay together against the underground council.

When taking these aspects out of the context, some problems become more visible:
In it's later stages, the story suffers from serious arc fatigue, due to the lack of innovating ideas,jokes and new ways for the author to build tension, only to have an anti-climatic ending. As a consequence, it becomes almost unbearable to keep up with each chapter as the plot never seems to move foward. Fanservice and erotic shots are awsome, but they alone can't extend the lenght of the plot, nor carry the story. It becomes disproportional the time that passes in story with the time it takes in the real world to publish these events that happens in a matter of hours. It helps sometimes that the author take advantage to give more relevance or development to a character.
The manga is also plagued by the romantic plot tumor, also in late arcs, where the plot is downright overshadowed by the "shipping wars" related to main character. By focusing in a romance that independently of the pairing will cause a discontent to loosing shipper's group, the author leaves some questions unresolved or he ends them abruptly(like the ending).
Last and a little more serious is how the author seems to exaggerate the "all mens are perverts" trope to justify some actions taken by the girls. Tough most of times it manages to be just annoying, other times the guys are submitted to a lot of abuses of power and humiliation. Regardless of the fact they are peverts, the girl's line of thinking of the underground council are extremely radical and prejudiced as they impose their view that man are thrash. Add the fact that most of them gets away without being reprimended this really gives the reader the impression that the story tries to give a positive view of abusive or obsessive relationships if the one who is abused is a boy and the abuser, a girl.

When taking characters in consideration, there is a lot to debate. Most of the characters, due to their...questionable behavior, are hated and/or loved by the fans. I will say this: altough unbalanced, the author does try to give relevance to every character in the story and also some development. Not all romance in the story is bad. A good feature of the story is accompanying the guy's tries to be more decent and the girl's being less stubborn, creating a growing and somewhat healthy relationship, tough it can't be said to everyone of them.
Most of the credits go for the guys, each one is a pervert, but the way they manifest it are different. They are flawed, but each complements the other. They have a unique weirdness: be it Gakuto's yaoi tendencies,Joe's fixation with ants and severe stomatitis,Andre's masochist tendencies,Shingo's unresolved sexual tension or Kiyoshi's refusal to accept his more depraved side. One cannot simply avoid the chairman whose comically serious character is responsable for many of the laughable moments.
The same can't be said for the girls, even if there are good character examples. Mari has one of the best character developments in the show, as she slowly changes her opnion about the boys. Hana's alterning behavior between cute,innocent and stubborn to crazy,obessive e even malicious makes her one the most interesting characters, but at the same this tends to highlight the problem I mentioned earlier.

Overall, does it have strong flaws? yes. But I would be damn lying if the first arcs weren't certainly enjoyable. It's a little hard to give a rating for this, since for me the most apropriate would be a 7.5, but I will stick the to 8 due to overall good content. There is also an epilogue to adress some unanswered questions, be it will come in april.

Prison School is the funniest manga I've ever read. It has great comedic buildup, serious characters getting into ridiculous situations, and stupid humor matched with realistic art. The characters are likable and the ships are good but I think its the art style that really set this series apart

It was quality entertainment up until around 200 chapters in when it got sidetracked and started to drag. It went downhill after that. The series just wasn't the same as the early chapters. They brought the romance up front and set the comedy aside.

The last half of the series have been nothing but a drag, I dont know, the author was probably milking it out for as long as he can. Binge-reading it helped, but the readers have been suffering for a long time, the ending came as a great relief.

Now, the ending, I thought it was a very fitting way to end the series. The last chapter really felt the most Prison School-like the series has ever been, but the buildup was just unnecessarily long. Even with the very satisfying twist, it still felt incomplete. The upcoming epilogue will probably help, but tbh I'm not expecting much.

Prison School deserves a read, despite the quality drop, there is still nothing like it. Just expect a much slower pace starting the cavalry battle arc

In some way, Prison School is a unique manga. Since the very first chapters it can be noticed that this story is pretty different from most of the typical japanese stories about sexually obsessed teenagers.

The school, where everything is happening, has more than a thousand female and only FIVE male students. Nevertheless, the story almost lacks any references to harem or any stereotypes that are often present in such kind of stories. After facing some plot twists, it's most likely that you want to keep on reading it with interest. And after facing some awkward situations, it's most likely that you laugh your head off.

Though fanservice is more than 50% percent of the whole manga, the relationship between characters is described rather seriously. You will face the themes of friendship, love, betrayal and humiliation. You will see the characters from different sides and start feeling with them, even if you were ready to punch them recently.

Finally, the brightest pearl of the manga is its outstanding art. It expresses the characters' emotions as perfectly as it is possible. And it is so impressive that you can even disconnect from the reality sometimes.

While being very entertaining, this manga will kill your bad mood as brutally as you can imagine. If you are not an ardent fanservice hater, you are sure to love it!

Three years.

It took me three years to return and finish reading this series.

I remember how worn out I was throughout the whole Sports Festival Saga, it had the worst pacing possible, it felt like one of those manga when the editor ask the mangaka to stretch it because the manga is selling like water in the desert, however that saga is far from good, actually, before that saga I remember this series having a score of over 8 here on MAL, so yes, that saga alone was able to flunk this whole series.

I stopped weekly reading it at chapter 250, so I basically put it on hold 6 months before the series ended, but I just couldn't read it any longer. The Sports Festival Saga ends on chapter 241, afterwards the issues aren't bad, I was even about to comment on my review that, despite the huge failure said saga was, by reading the chapters after 242 I had the impression that maybe Prison School could redeem themselves - despite some moments poorly solved like with Gakuto and Andre. However, when I got to the epilogue, it is simply inexplicable, you can't tell at all that is the last issue, you end reading, scratch your head and say "is that it?"

Prison School was never a manga to take seriously, but early arcs were more fun than anything, you can read other reviews how people praised this manga early arcs, they were good, somewhere along the way it lost control, the story wasn't an acceptable ridiculous it was plain absurd, nothing made sense anymore. And yet, somehow I felt like after giving this series a rest something could have changed, but no, the same thing as I finished, after three years.

This mangaka art is phenomenal, it is one of the best I have ever seen, but storywise he isn't consistent, if he worked on that I am sure he will have great mangas, but with his current state, everything he writes will be failures.

Waiting three years for that ending, wow...

The score is a 6 mostly because early arcs are great, the Sports Festival Saga flunks the whole series. If possible stop reading at chapter 165, the good bits afterwards aren't worth the terrible.

It is 4:19 am as I write this review. It's been three hours and I've completed about 100+ chapters and this is some mature funny shit.

This manga is extremely mature as in lots of pantsu, big breasts and ero angles.

If you like funny jokes about hurting (s&m) people this is the manga you're looking for.

The story is about five males entering the prison as punishment for opeeping at the girls change room. The manga shows their struggle and their bond with each other as males.

I think it is important to remember that we are talking about a manga that is supposed to make people laugh and not to think it could be something that could actually happen.

This said, i think the story is amazing. I liked particularly the amazing skills Akira has to create embarrassing situations. And I can't say a thing about the art, it is just perfect! All characters have personality and it is coherent along with the story. Also, you have physical appearances for all tastes, not just the classic ecchi with big breasts only (you have plenty of that though haha).

Anyways, I say is totally worth it, it will make you laugh - guaranteed!

Prison school, a downhill chronicle.

This manga is the perfect example of what happens when the author runs out of ideas and begins experimenting with useless plot twists, destroying the character development and the whole story in the process. I am disappointed, the ending rambles and feels forced. Also, it will give you the impression it was incorrectly planned and misplaced. Perhaps Prison School lost the main essence in the middle of the manga, and the editor wanted to conclude it as quickly as possible. A shame because the story in the first arc is marvelous, creative, exciting, and amusing. The mangaka created a diamond, and we finished with a piece of coal burning in the sunset.

When I started reading this manga, I was amazed by the characters and the plot idea. The story setting is perfect. Furthermore, the author combined many smart concepts such as school life, girls, boys, jokes, mixed them in jail and make a hilarious and fantastic ecchi comedy with adult content that isn’t repulsive for the average mature readers. Immediately, I found myself identified with Meiko, yes Meiko (I am a bit like her in several ways). The other characters such as the boys are great. Seeing these poor guys falling into a deeper hole after every chapter without exit was enjoyable. Each new situation/plan added a new climax with lots of humoristic turns, unexpected developments, and original theme. Prison School was unique doing that.

However, as the manga advances (middle of the manga), the characters went down the cliff from heaven to hell and died in the process. This disjuncture destroyed Kyoshi personality, and all his background is flushed out. What is left is a story without a sense that starts being repulsive and incoherent if we compare Kyoshi’s reasons from the first chapters. Sadly, the writer builds a weird plot repeatedly. In the end, we are tired of the same events that begin in the half of the story. In addition, the manga introduces some useless threads such as Mari’s dad or the science fiction ending of the cavalry arch to name some.

For some readers and I can include myself, the manga has some disgusting parts but after all Prison School is an ecchi manga. However, the writing level of the first half cannot be compared to the stupid concept of the other half. Thus, leads me to question if the author decided to follow a different perspective where the background of all the characters was burned in the magazine’s annual BBQ without any explanation. The manga should be balanced and focus on the boys, but in some chapter, you will feel they became puppets and stopped being the main characters. One example, the part where you cannot figure where Shingo is because he disappears for some chapters and better not to talk about Andre and Joh. The other characters such as Hana lost their shine. Furthermore, Hana’s incoherent behavior at the end is unexplained. Please, do not come to say that it is implicit (jealous) and it is a psychological mind game because it is not. It is the perfect example of how all the unnecessary plot additions destroyed a character, and it leads to nonsense where you cannot appreciate her traits anymore (check: frog chapter). About Meiko, although I liked her story, I am biased because I feel very related to her. All the mess exaggerated the character’s personality to the point that we cannot understand them anymore and their decisions are very awkward and do not fit with their attributes or the main plot itself.

On the other hand, the biggest mistake was saturating the story with additional events and not following the basic “jail idea” of the first half. Leaving the boys as secondary characters is disastrous, and at the end, we will feel some of their actions forced and silly. Lucky for us, they just animated the first chapters and those are the best ones. The manga in some point broke from being an interesting ecchi comedy to a yayoi experiment then turned to porn and ended as trash. Hey, I know it is ecchi. However, there is a difference between ecchi and porn. The author forces the boundary several times.

Lastly, the ending. It is vulgar, unacceptable. It is idiotic and lacks imagination; it is not coherent. Maybe the storyteller wanted to test something untypical, but a mangaka shouldn’t be mocking the readers with an absurd finale. I don’t need spoiling anyone so I will save all the comments about it.

The art and the dynamics of each panel are excellent. You can feel the story in all the panels, and it leads you to keep reading. The first volumes will hook the reader because the art is very detailed and the structure of the page. Sadly, the main plot died in the mid part of the manga, and the art became irrelevant in the end. Honestly, I read it because I wanted to know the ending but I feel empty and angry after finishing the manga a masterpiece ended as a piece of trash because the manga imploded with a story that lost the real Prison School meaning.

Prison School is a masterful entrapment of the run-of-the-mill generic rom-com readership. Most reviews of this manga criticize its ending; I think this is the ultimate proof of the absolute genius behind how it ends.

I say this without a hint of irony: If you read Prison School and are upset by the ending, you have been successfully trapped and summarily punished for your base thinking. Your preconceptions have been preyed upon. You have been played.

I think to really appreciate, to really ENJOY the deranged ending of this manga you might benefit by reading and having an understand of common rom-com manga and their tropes. I believe it's something that is difficult to understand without the proper context, and I can see why on the surface people are generally quick to disparage the ending. But I promise you, just because it is difficult to understand does not make it bad.

I have thought about this deeply for months and months now. 10/10, best ending to any piece of media I've ever read.

This review WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. It will be discussing the very big drop-off of humor and story that happened towards the end, as well as the horrendous ending that the readers received. I will, even with that being said, try and not spoil much. Just don't read the overall score, but honestly, I think I'd save your time if you do read it.

So I was going to just talk about the story, but I wrote too much about it. I'll use the format the reviewer gives me and try and make it as compact as possible.

Art: Really good. I mean, duh. That's kind of the appeal of the entire story. Just lots of nudity; well drawn nudity. I'll be giving that a 9. Not only that, but it manages to always capture the scenes perfectly, which in this absurd manga, you have to give credit where it's due; it does the job, and it does it right.

Character: The characters are great... except they're not, really. They're odd. Kiyoshi, for example; he's a good kid, but he's also extremely contradictory in the actions he takes. I get that everything is exaggerated, but it doesn't work sometimes. The exaggerations are taken too far occasionally, and it ends up messing up with the character and what they REALLY would've done in specific situations. I'll be giving it a 7.

Story: Bad. Oh man it's bad. Well, it's good til about halfway through. We have the comedy we wanted and the jokes aren't used over and over again at this point. Hana's pissing thing was funny until the whole "under-the-infirmary-bed" thing, then it started running dry, no pun intended. It was bland, dull humor; the jokes were all re-used by the end of the story, and the only "haha, what comedy!" moments we had was the ending. It wasn't even funny, either. I'm all for shock humor but that ending was actually just a punch in the gut. It's as if the author didn't give a singular shit about the story they spent 4 years writing and drawing. Why Hiramoto? Just why? That ending was the equivalent of being dragged through shit for a month, waiting in agony to see what doomed future Chiyo and Kiyoshi will have, and then you just pull that stupid shit? Not only that, but you get rid of literally every character in the meanwhile as well. You should've just killed everyone, that would've actually been somewhat funny. I'm giving it a 4. If I had to rate only half the story, I would give it an 8. It was actually hilarious until the half-way point.

Enjoyment: 8. Yes, as much as I hated the ending to the story, I can't deny that the story itself was full of comedy, for at least most of it. Did I wish I never even read this cursed story? Yeah, kinda, honestly. Did I anyways? Yep. Did I laugh my ass off, for at LEAST the majority of the time I spent reading it? Guilty as charged. Therefor I can't bring it in me to give this anything lower than an 8.

Overall: 6. The story is the main shit-factor of this manga. "Oh, but it's a comedy ecchi/basically hentai story! How can you expect there to be actual story?"

Here's a tip, Hiramoto. I'm just a starting writer so maybe I'm being real cocky, or maybe I'm just plain wrong, but the number one thing you DON'T do in a story is lie to the reader. Don't make us think that there's a reward at the end if you're just going to leave some image of you laughing in the face of every single idiot who read the book til the end.

That ending was an insult, honestly. It's like the readers-enjoyment equivalent of being blue-balled, then subsequently punched in the balls, then being mocked for not being able to take the hit. And I hate that I can't give the story a lower score, because it was actually REALLY GOOD for the first half; in the end, however, it just turned into a story that ran completely out of steam and had to be "ended" because... well, who the hell knows. Maybe Hiramoto got sick of what he was writing? Maybe he hates all men, and wanted to prove some type of point in the sick world he made? Man, who the actual hell knows.

This is becoming too ranty, so I'm going to stop it here. Overall rating 6. Be careful with your expectations of the ending. Maybe April 2018 will give us something.

This is one of the funniest thing i've ever seen, read or even experienced. Period.

First of all the art is stunning, it's actually what lead me to read this. It doesn't matter if you're a boy or a girl, the manga is just visually appealing from beginning to end (of course if you happen to like women this is, well some sort of pervy heaven xD); every single detail, every single action, everything is perfect. Then the characters: oh the characters. There's no such thing as a dull character here, they all have their thing that makes them unique and great in their own way, you won't forget anyone, and you'll miss them if they're not around. And last but not least is the story, the plot is let's say "simple" but that doesn't mean is boring, or bad, actually everything that happens is completely unexpected and unpredictable. They manage to disguise serious issues like bullying, betrayal, jealousy and many others with such hilarity and cleaverness that you will overlook the fact that actually pretty ugly stuff happens in this series main storyline. God this is just so fun and so refreshing to read, the kind of humor presented in this series is so so so basic yet so so so damn good... I sincerely hope this ends as good as it started, or at least as silly. Ah I sound like a teenage girl in love, do i?. I really really really love this manga and I hope everybody else does too.

Well, first of all I'd say, just ignore people talking about the ending. This manga is one hell of a rollercoaster ride. And it's fucking hilarious. The story is great, the art style is great, the attention given to the characters amd their individual character development is great.
And now let's talk about the minor flaws about the manga. First the last one-two arcs are a bit streched. I think those could be a bit shorter. Besides that the ending. In reality it's not a bad ending, considering the overall theme of the story. But it's a hit or a miss, sadly I am of the miss party. But I wasn't crazy enough to rate this manga harshly a bad rating just for that.
Lastly the only thing that I can say about this manga is, even if you hate or love the ending, regardless it'll be one hell of a joy ride, so trust me on this and just give it a go 😁

First of all, this analysis/review is spoiler free.
Second: English is not my native languaje. You have been warned.

This manga couldn't be harder for me to calificate. If i think of it as an absurd comedy with no more intention than pure entretainment, then it serves it's purpose.
But Prison School takes itself seriously. If you ignore the absurdity of the situations, you realice that this manga obsessively tries to be more than a comedy. It really wants to break the standarts of it's genre, and to become a pioneer. I value that, this medium is full of outdated and boring tropes, and we need innovation. Prison School gets a point for doing so.
But at the same time, it fails and gets sink in the cliches that it parodies.

Prision School as a comedy:
Yes, Kangoku Gakuen is funny. I personally love absurd humour, and this manga has plenty of it. But man, you don't need 278 chapters for that. The jokes get repetitive over time. The hyperbolic use of trivial situations that the manga marvelously mannaged in the first chapters becomes overused. The quality goes downhill, leading to borring arcs, unlikable characters, and plain plotwists.
It's still a funny manga, anyway. And I must remark how well the parody works, at least until the cliches are overused and become as borring as inthe parodied work.

Prison School as a "deconstruction" of Ecchi:
I always avoid fanservice and ecchi in general. I gave this manga a chance because I heard It was different.
Indeed, Prison School had some interesting elements to work with, the most important one being a total lack of shame to picture brutal and sexual situations. It's a powerful tool, and it's fairly well used. Most of the adult scenes in the manga are extremely explicit, but only a few require a censorship, thanks to the brilliant art, that always knows what to show and how to do it. But it is a double edged sword. It's determination to be darker and more explicit than regular ecchi causes it to recreate disgusting scenes and to use themes that don't combine with comedy.
That said, Prision School is infinitely better than any ecchi I've seen before.

Now, the rating.

-Story: Let's put it simple. The premise is terrible. "Some boys get abused because their school rules make no sense".
The manga uses absurd situations to laugh at them, and it's funny, yes. But if your plot is based in stupid situations, your story is, by definition, stupid. I wouldn't give the plot more than a 2-3, but some side stories and specific scenes are just genious, so i'll give a 4 to the story in general.

-Art: The best part from the manga without a doubt. Extremely detailed drawings, great backgrounds and impressive expressions. And a big point for the author's skill to aboid censorship.
However, the designs are not particulary special, they just fill diferent stereotypes. And some breasts are an insult to both the laws of physics and biology. Let's give it a 9.

-Characters. There's not much to say. They are funny, generic, and stereotypical. They fill a rol, but they are both plain and inconsistent at the same time. Most of them do a fair good job in this manga thanks to the comic tone, but they have absolute no value as characters. The most "complex" character is built thanks to an incoherent and generic flashback. None of them is remarkable, except for the remarkably bad ones. I'll give this section a 3 thank to the chairman.

-Enjoyment: This manga wasn't written for me. I prefer well written characters and plots over gratuite fanservice. Despite this, I found some parts really funny and quite enjoyable. I totally understand why so much people love this. The comedy is mostly brilliant, specially at the beginning, and well, the art is outstanding. This is a 7 for me.

-Overall:
This manga fights against some of the worst cliches present in modern manga-anime. It has terrible characters and plot, but it's deliberate. The art is really good, and the humor is mostly great. The weak points are in a struggle with the strong ones, creating a weird and maybe unique manga.
Overall i would say that it's not specially good, but not bad either. If you don't care about nudity and strong themes, and you like absurd comedy, i would recomend it.

5/10. The bastard son between Bobobo and a random hentai.

This is a manga with a high peak (first arc) and a very, very low trough for the rest of it, topped off with an unsatisfying, confusing and utterly disappointing ending.

The first 80 chapters, which is the first arc (Boys in Prison) is phenomenal. I laughed my ass off at some of the scenes, and its clear the mangaka knew exactly what he was doing, as there was a tight, cohesive storyline at this point. It was really really good, and I highly recommend it. Everything, from the art, to the depth of characters is of a very high quality, and it is something I would even consider re-reading.

However, it all goes downhill from there. While there are certain aspects in other arcs, such as moments from the cavalry fight, or some scenes with the boys and PBR sama, and Kiyoshi and Hana which are quite funny, for the most part it feels extremely disoriented. Especially towards the latter half of the cavalry arc onwards, it really feels like the author was unsure how to end the manga, and the rushed, pathetic ending only confirms this. There are puzzling and weird conclusions that absolutely make no sense, and there is no sense of closure in any of the arcs, except maybe Risa and Andre.

The art stays good throughout, classic ecchi stuff, the girls were all drawn quite well, and certain scenes were captured quite vividly. It's a shame the same attention to detail wasn't shown to character development or the plot though.

Prison School is a masterpiece.

That may be a hasty thing to say considering that it is not completed yet. It could turn mediocre at one point in time, or the already high levels of fan-service could skyrocket to the point of no plot... It won't though.

Prison school is ecchi manga with a awesome plot on the side.

Our plot starts with Kiyoshi, a fun loving guy who wants to have a sweet girlfriend, and four other boys (with similar interests) going to an all-girls school that just recently became co-ed. During the opening ceremony they realize that they are the only boys in a school which has over a thousand female students.

This situation causes to boys to naturally form a strong bond with each other as men.

One night they decide to go peeping on the girls bath.
After a great deal of shenanigans, which includes Kiyoshi going directly into the bath, they are caught by the student council and are sentenced to stay in an old prison on school grounds for a month.

Stuck behind bars, and being subjected to all kinds of "'inhumane" treatment, these boys must stick together in order to withstand their hellish school life.

the story never disappoints with its twists and turns as you watch these boys grow into men.
And by men I mean perverted masochistic bastards who do nothing but piss off all the women around them.

The author is always throwing new, interesting, and downright hardcore things for the characters to do. There is never a dull moment.

Speaking of characters, There are five male protagonists:

Kiyoshi, the star of the series who never ceases to shine. He is nice guy who just wants to have a normal romance filled school life. Out of all the guys he is the most "normal."

Morokuzu, the glasses wearing otaku who is willing to anything to help out his friends. He is the backbone of the group. Even while being subjected to all forms of abuse he still keeps a cool head and takes the hits for his friends.

Shingo, the slick ladies man, who keeps his hair slicked back and resolve in his pocket. His only wish is freedom. He will do anything to be on the outside world.

Andou, the big man with a small face. He is quiet, unless he is talking of his darkest desires. Strong, silent, and enjoys a good beating. He is the brawn of the crew.

Jouji Nezo, The mysterious hooded man of few words. He is cursed with a disease that causes him to cough blood involuntarily. Because of the pain, he uses expletives in nearly every sentence, whether he needs them or not. He is caring, forgiving, intelligent, and can handle himself in a fight. He is the jack of all trades.

Jouji is my favorite character. He grows as a person much faster than all the other characters.
His lines while short, are hilarious.
His constant suffering is reflected in his personality, but he never dicks around like the rest of the crew.
His high pain tolerance, caused by years of grief, make him the most mentally strong character in the cast
I never fail to have a good time if Jouji is on the page.

The art is amazing.

The author draws quality art quickly. The scenery, designs, and expressions are some of the best on the market.

I am really enjoying Prison School.
The typical twenty page chapters never disappoint.

I cannot wait to see the direction which this story goes and the paths the characters take.

Best wishes for the future,
Fortisimuss.

Before reading this manga, I saw the anime and it really make me laught, the jokes were decent, and the whole plot was good. I wanted to read the manga to see if that crazy humour improved in some way. It does for some time, but then gets worse.

The ammount of Ecchi it's overwhelming, of course, this is an ECCHI manga, but exaggerates its use, sometimes up to entire chapters like, the circunstances doesn't matter anymore "lets just put some ecchi here". It gets really anoying and give me the feel that the manga got stucked. On the last volumes the story got really slow and with a lot of unnecesary talking.

The characters are as idiot and ridiculous as in the anime, most of the time i dont mind that because this is comedy, that's the point. But sometimes the stupidity it's just too much, making the characters unlikable.

The ending i guess must be taken as a joke but instead i got really mad and got an incredible unsatisfaction feeling. This is probably one of the most mediocre ending in manga.

I wanted to read it for quite some time, and as it finished serialization i was really hyped going in. Prison School is an example of a genuine fun time full of hilarious and outrageous moments, that unfortunately turned into a drag to read.
Simply, everything past chapter 178 goes downhill; the pacing, the development of some characters are just put to a stand, and the problem with this, is that you slowly start to lose any kind of concern or care you had with them. But you must remember the nature of the manga, story telling through over the top situations.

And in the end it just turned into a romance in a higschool setting with no payoff. That ending... with 277 chapters invested...its just not worth it. I wished it kept the pacing of the early chapters or actually having a decent closure.