Prison School


Prison School is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from February 2011 to December 2017. Yen Press has licensed the manga in North America. A 12-episode anime adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired between July and September 2015, while a live-action drama television series aired from October to December 2015.

Plot

Hachimitsu Academy, one of the strictest girls' academies in Tokyo, has decided to admit boys into their system. Kiyoshi Fujino is one of these new boys, but he discovers to his shock that he and his four friends—Takehito "Gakuto" Morokuzu, Shingo Wakamoto, Jouji "Joe" Nezu, and Reiji "Andre" Andou—are the only male students among 1,000 girls. The draconian laws that are still in place make the school even worse, which punishes even the most minor infractions with a stay in the school's prison. The five boys all commit to voyeurism in the school's bathing area with the perverted philosophy of "all for one, one for all". Their capture and "arrest" by the Underground Student Council causes the five boys to receive an ultimatum: either stay a month in the school's Prison Block or be expelled. The boys are incarcerated in the Prison Block together and Kiyoshi is overwhelmed by the discovery that all the other boys are masochists that revel in the punishments handed to them by their attractive but vicious supervisors.

Characters

Main characters

;Kiyoshi Fujino
;Takehito Morokuzu
;Shingo Wakamoto
;Jōji Nezu
;Reiji Andō

Underground student council

;Mari Kurihara
;Meiko Shiraki
;Hana Midorikawa

Aboveground student council

;Kate Takenomiya
;Risa Bettō
;Mitsuko Yokoyama

Other characters

;Chairman Kurihara
;Chiyo Kurihara
;Anzu Yokoyama
;Satō
;Mayumi Tanaka

Media

Manga

Prison School is a manga written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto. It began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine on February 7, 2011, and it concluded on December 25, 2017. Yen Press licensed the series in North America, and published it in omnibus volumes containing two volumes each.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation is directed by Tsutomu Mizushima at J.C. Staff with Michiko Yokote as the series scriptwriter and Junichiro Taniguchi as the character designer and chief animation director. The anime was broadcast on Tokyo MX, KBS, Sun TV, TV Aichi and BS11 between July and September 2015. The voice actors of the five male main characters performed the opening and ending theme songs under the group name Kangoku Danshi. An original animation DVD was bundled with the limited edition 20th volume of the manga that was released on March 4, 2016. The OAD adapted the manga's Mad Wax arc.
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TV drama

A live-action television drama adaptation was announced in August 2015, directed by Noboru Iguchi at production studio Robot. The series premiered on October 26, 2015, and aired on MBS and TBS. The opening theme song is "Shōdō" performed by HaKU.

Reception

Over 13 million copies of the manga have been sold as of March 2018. Prison School was one of two winners of the Best General Manga award alongside Gurazeni at the 37th Kodansha Manga Award. The broadcast dub version of the anime was criticized for altering the original meaning of a line while referencing the Gamergate controversy, written by Tyson Rinehart.