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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.

Fuck Prison school.

Don't waste your time on this manga unless you want to experience the most cruel and sadistic joke that an author can play on his fans.

Everything that makes this manga good relies on the suspense and hope that these shitty characters will eventually triumph. For the most part this works. I was invested in seeing things working out for the characters. Unfortunately none of that matters when you don't have any pay off because every relationship and plot thread that is being built up over the course of this manga is completely unresolved or ends terribly.

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.

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 finished the anime twice, and I got curious and read the manga. I read the manga all the way through to the end. I sat through that awful cavalry arc. I watied for the wet t-shirt which never came. I was so happy when Chiyo accepted Kiyoshi. Then, they freaking ruined it on the last page. There is no happy ending. It is one filled with anger. My anger, and those who were read along with me. It is not even a good sad ending. It is a half-assed ending. The bros never even got together in the end, they were just floating somewhere ... else in some river.

This used to be about bros being bros, but after chapter 85 it changed to bros getting along with girls. At that point it was already deteriorating. There is nothing wrong with putting girls into the mix, but the bros grow further apart with every chapter.

When I was reading this manga I didn't laugh, which speaks volumes for a comedy series. The jokes became redundant and stopped being funny, the chapters dragged on. In fact, I was feeling pretty stressed while reading this, because the misunderstandings keep piling on top of one another, and their problems are never solved. The characters never get to be happy, absolutely no one gets the last laugh since everyone is so stressed, neither the protagonists nor the antagonists. Do they accomplish anything? No, misunderstandings and problems just keep accumulating until the manga ENDED. So this is just a story without a conclusion. Well, there IS one, but no one is happy since the no one has tried to solve any of their problems. When they DO try, however, nothing changes in the end because they screw up because 1.JUST HURRY UP AND DO IT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE or 2.GODDAMMIT STOP BEING A SIMP. A prime example is when Gakuto was trying to apologize to Mitsuko but failed because he is a greedy simp.

However, there is one aspect I would like to praise this manga for, and that is Risa x Andre. The author has stuck with Andre's masochist setting till the end, and not only that, he broke this setting by introducing him to the kindness of Risa. This is not a bad thing, this shows that Andre is growing as a character, and they are heading towards a healthy relationship. On the other hand, they did a bad job with Joe and his ant-loving setting. After the OVA episode, which is around chapter 85-88 out of 278 chapters, there is not another mention of ants. While this does not bother me considering loving ants is quite restrictive and can stump the author, that is not an excuse to just forget that he had this setting and not even mention it let alone write up an excuse for it when the manga is not even half-way done. Everyone except for Risa x Andre just kinda stopped growing and developing after a while, in fact, they are regressing, and at the end, you feel like nothing has really improved since the beginning of the series, but instead everything got worse. There are some developments with Hana x Kiyoshi, but at the very end, they decided to make Hana a million times more bitchy, pretty much nuking the ship in order to let Chiyo x Kiyoshi set sail, only to nuke it with a shit eating grin, effectively nullifying all developments up until that point.

This is the first time saying this, but I wish I never started the manga. I should've stopped at the anime. Reading the manga just wasted my time with, I don't know, 50-100 chapters of shitty cavalry arc and not an ounce of the bro essence found during their prison days. There is so much I want to express but I can't write more, because I just finished this and I am absolutely livid with how it ended. I want my hours back, Prison School.

ONE OF THE MANGA EVER MADE
"Prison School", written by Akira Hiramoto for Young Magazine, is a curious manga: it has an absurd premise and the clear intention of fusing lewdness, eroticism, humor, and tension in an interesting wrapper capable of holding the reader's attention by the exponential absurdity of the story. While using a competent comic strip technique and an artistic approach close to realism, the author consciously extrapolates common sense and scientific knowledge of human anatomy to produce extravagant moments that sustain the work and motivate reading by successfully executing the central idea of the manga - that is, a set of misadventures grounded ... in humor and sexual perversion (that almost reach pornographic levels in the display), without taking itself too seriously.

Unfortunately, and as I will outline below, the narrative and textual structures gradually decay throughout the chapters, turning a great work into an expendable manga that frustrates the reader's interest. In order to avoid spoilers, this review is focused on describing and analyzing the general foundations of the manga, without further descriptions of events.

By the way, even if there is no mention of the rumors surrounding the author's supposed dissatisfaction with his manga and the publisher's pressure to maintain the serialization, these are factors that may justify the course adopted throughout the run.

English isn't my native language, so forgive me for my mistakes and weak grammatical constructions.


A STRANGE FIRST STEP, BUT NOT IN A "PRISON SCHOOL" WAY
Preliminarily, and in order to guide first-time readers, it is important to highlight the composition and structure of the first chapter: it is a very insufficient chapter that does not do justice to the rest of the manga. As the first introductory section, with the ability to retain the audience the most, the introduction presents great difficulties in establishing and concretely defining the elements of the proposal: given the focus on Kiyoshi and his mental notes about the new environment (an orientation tool for the reader himself), the initial stage distances the other boys and does not even introduce the antagonists.

It is clear that the author's intention is not the build-up of a rivalry through characterization, but rather the presentation of attention-grabbing moments, and this conscious choice will lead to big problems in the following arcs. In case you don't know the anime version or don't hold with the promise of a romantic development between Kiyoshi and Chiyo, the first chapter, even if with an interesting visual composition (good frames and angles, complemented with an artistic style with plenty of details) and good overall structures, may drive away those interested in what "Prison School" really proposes: an absurd and graphic comedy with no commitment to common sense throughout 278 chapters.


WAIT... A SOLID START?
After a somewhat lukewarm and dysfunctional beginning, the manga starts to deliver its true nature and values already in the second chapter, and here it is valid to reinforce the general comment of this review: the manga "Prison School" does not take itself too seriously. The lack of seriousness is not only extracted from the "comedy" genre, which presupposes a good humor of the story (after all, a comedy work can present and deal with serious themes), but also from the gradual absurdity of the situations that distances the verisimilitude of the work and stretches the reader's suspension of disbelief. In other words, given the textual and visual presentation of the manga, there is no reason to treat the events and, on a general level, the manga itself with seriousness or depth.

That said, the first major arc of the manga is exceptionally great in almost everything: from the contrast between a more realistic artistic approach, with creative framing, and the physical absurdity of situations, you get a set of 81 chapters that are shocking and fun to follow. There are minor details that persist at this stage of the manga, such as the excessive repetition of scenes with Meiko, absence of Jouji, Reiji and Shingo for most of the arc, and the lack of closeness with the antagonists (with the exception of Hana, who is responsible for starring in an excellent sequence of 6 chapters).

In general, and even with these small signs of wear (hyper focus on the protagonist, distancing from the other characters, and a certain repetition of similar occurences), the manga manages to develop its creative events at a great pace and sense of progression, with very few tedious moments and no major commentary or thematic approaches.


THE DEFINITIVE JUSNATURALIST CRITIQUE OF THE JAPANESE PRISON SYSTEM?? NO? OKAY
After a consistently good first arc, the author tries to introduce, through transitional chapters, new environments and relationships that serve as a "reward" to all the stressful, exhausting, and physically and mentally violent scenarios that the main group have been through. These chapters are more episodic and lighter in narrative, giving a calming atmosphere to the manga and being very satisfying. In the background, a new problem to the plot is being set up: the role reversal with the antagonists - and it is at this point that the work begins to wear thin. The author spends the transition chapters and the overwhelming part of the second arc on an artificial empathy building that doesn't work immediately: because he didn't develop these characters in the first arc, the narrative feeling of reading it is that the work starts again from scratch, with new focus and circumstances, and not that there is a sense of continuity.

At this stage, the choices made by the author are questionable, to say the least: early in the arc, the reader is distanced from the more charismatic characters introduced in the first arc in favor of establishing interactions with the new characters. However, this distancing is not well justified or leveraged to the extent that the new experiences are predictable within that "empathy" context (such as the behaviors of Takehito and Reiji in the first third of the chapters). No event actually arouses the same level of interest as in the first arc.

This is the main problem: it would not be a problem if "empathy" served only as a plot tool to facilitate the reader's acceptance of the characters on screen. Instead of this, the author stretches the dramatic contexts of each character over several chapters, establishing an exaggerated dramaticity in a work that treated these episodes in a clear tragicomic tenor, with almost no seriousness. In some cases, the comicalness is maintained to a certain degree (Risa), in others it just doesn't work well (Meiko and Kate).

It is definitely a dragged out arc that fails to hold the interest until its 2/3, at which time there is the return of Kiyoshi to the spotlight, ensuring hilarious events between him, Mari and Chiyo, as well as the presence of more cooperative situations between the cores of characters (mainly in the final stages of the arc), a late fruit of the aforementioned "empathy". This slowness of pace becomes so structural that a schizoid phenomenon occurs: the "true conclusion" of the events is spread over a very long set of transitional chapters and another arc, commented in the following topic. The only element that can keep the reader interested is the interaction between the characters, fruit of the "empathy" planted in the first and second arcs.

Before moving on to the next topic, it is worth highlighting the final chapters of the transition involving the character Hana. They are possibly the best chapters of the entire work, with their monumental apex being chapter 178: the greatness of "Prison School" is condensed in this genius chapter. And again, the character Hana establishes her protagonism in the best sequences of the entire work.


IT WAS ALL A METAPHOR - WE, THE READERS, WHO ARE IN A PRISON
Finally, the arc that would conclude the problems and conflicts presented in the previous chapters begins. And, also, the decadence of "Prison School" begins. The infamous "school tournament arc" is one of the greatest atrocities ever written by modern man: there are 41 chapters in which absolutely nothing happens. Zero progression. Zero development. Zero involvement. There is no way to describe the fatigue while reading these chapters, with hours spent in endless repetition: the manga version of haruhi's endless eight. Even genuinely comical circumstances (chapter 209, for example) are spoiled due to the length and repetition of ideals.

This arc condenses all the pacing and plot problems that were growing in the previous chapters, but does not present any counterpart sufficient to remedy these defects, unlike the first arc (a gripping plot) and the second arc (good interactions). Even the sexualization scenes don't work, and the entire comic aspect is diluted in one big tedious sequence, which still has a weak conclusion without much future effect.


CONCLUSION: FREEDOM IS NOT WORTH IT - TOP 10 REASONS TO GO TO JAIL
At last the final arc, the conclusion of everything. But what is left to be solved? In reality, there is nothing left. Even the minor effects of the last arc are quickly resolved at the beginning of this final stage, which still maintains a comical content to the events. However, as the arc progresses, the lack of motivation becomes clear.

Gradually, the immense creativity that marked the first arc of the manga, the good interactions in the second arc, or the humor in the other chapters, is all lost. What is left are lengthy scenes and dialogues that lead nowhere. The erotic scenes themselves have no more creativity and no internal elements of the work have a function other than to extend the duration of a plot that should have ended 100 chapters ago. About the final events of the last chapters, there are not enough words to describe the frustration and the feeling of "well, I wasted my time".

Sadly, "Prison School" is a manga not worth the read. If you want to take a chance, I strongly recommend sticking to the anime alone: it's a great adaptation of the only arc worth following. In the end, all that was left of an initially great work was a great feeling of dissatisfaction.

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 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

A manga that is a true example on my "WTF did I just see" list. I know most of you will mark this as a hate review and write it off but hey, everybody has a right to their own opinion.

First of all, this isn't an in depth review. I am aware that I haven't read much of the manga itself but by sheer curiosity, I've read up on what happens further in character and story summaries in the wikia of the series.

Where should I start:

Art - 9 - Despite the unending barage of cringe moments that are dialed up to 11, the art is ... extremely detailed. I can give the manga at least this.

Characters - 1 - No matter how much character development and depth the mangaka might've tried to insert it all comes crashing down when he turns this into a festival of fetishes! Most of the notable characters seem to have deep psychological problems and an obsessions tied to a sexual nature.
The boys at first seem to be your run of the mill perverts in the beginning then they actually do the smart thing when the psychos from the underground student council imprison them by claiming that this breaches their civil rights. Yet instead of taking that phone and owing up to their mistake to their parents, the plot makes them refrain from doing the right thing and making a few calls. This is where it all goes downhill for the way they are shaped as people - they keep taking the abuse and actually even enjoy it as it brings them sexual satisfaction. It's ironic that eventually they have to take the side of their abusers (the USC) because the ASC are so twisted themselves.
The USC - One word: Bi%$hes I don't care much that they later on get abused by the actual student council, they seem to find pleasure and/or sexual satisfaction in punishing the boys for little to no reason. They seem to think themselves Champions of women's rights but they completely demolish human rights with the prison school system and their poor to perverse attitudes towards the guys. Why? Because they peeped? This should warrant a Teacher/Parents meeting but for the sake of this manga's perverted plot, the writer must turn these ladies into bitter misandrists. Not to mention their hypocricy. Meiko is a prime example of that. She claims she is against perverted acts like the rest but blatantly keeps tormenting the boys in erotic ways, like in the beginning where she sat on one of the boys face and whipping the other. The artist knows it's done on purpose.

Enjoyment - 1 - Honestly with so much fetish fuel, it's just too gross to me. The characters and plot is too messed up. I am aware from fans that I've conversed with that this is done for parodic purposes but for me there is a line between a parody a pure debauchery.

Overall - 1 - I don't think I need to write much more. This pretty much represents the viewpoint of why some particual otakus might have reasons to drop the manga (and therefore the anime). It's not for everyone and the actual fans can enjoy it as much as they want. This review has been on an absolute individual basis though I do hope that there might be some other people who feel like me.

Either way, I feel good for skipping most of this manga. It's just a non-fan, casual observer review.

It was such a terrible finale that nothing was properly explained. It continued to deteriorate after the first 160 episodes. We read a 40 episode competition, how much worse could it be? I see this part as you asked. They still see all men as scumbags. There's no character development in any of them, I've never seen such a poorly written ending. They even lowered the quality of the character named Gakuto. Kiyoshi's constant efforts to bring his character to the fore were appalling. Besides, it's really ridiculous that those who were imprisoned were our men. You've heard so much that you're just stuck in ... your underwear? What a contradiction is this. I don't know if the mangaka wrote the story alone, but writing the story, no matter how artistically good, is a huge disappointment. I started the Prison School manga by liking the anime, but I never expected it to end with such a bad ending.

Of all the manga I've read, this might be the worst ending series ever. Akira Hiramoto had many scenes that made me laugh, no matter how silly the last episode was. (Before 160) For me, the first season of the anime will always be much better than the manga.

OVERALL : 4

**SUGGESTIVE SPOILERS**

For anyone who watched the anime and wants to continue, I suggest not even bothering. Just look up spoilers to avoid wasting hours of your time.

First of all, the art is really good. Some panels are insanely detailed, and unfortunately, the well-drawn nudity is what fueled my horniness to keep reading.

The story, however... dear god. I need to give my respects to the author, because he stringed me along like a dog as I was PATIENTLY waiting for a somewhat decent ending. There are great writing elements, and the story progresses here and there, so that glimmer of hope is what helped me ... continue reading, but it doesn't matter in the end.

Ch1-Ch88 (season 1) was great.

Ch89-166 (season 2 basically) was also pretty decent.

Ch167-Ch248 was painfully boring. There is one good moment in here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), but it was a drag reading through it all, because it's surrounded by filler. Also some panels are funny I guess.

Ch249-Ch278 is the finale. This is where the build up starts happening, where relationships should be made clear, where we see the final reveal. AND... its a tragedy.

I was anxious reading those final chapters, because it was a very critical period for a certain character. The ending is a kick in the balls for anybody reading this. Everything that you're most likely hoping for will not happen. One of the main characters gets a proper ending. The rest bite the dust. Its probably much worse than what you expect. It's a disappointment.

Again, great elements here and there that kept me hooked (+ horny), but it wasn't consistent at all. And again, the ending is a joke. It's a nightmare. It's repulsive. It will make you want to slam your desk. Why did you do this to us...

Hiramoto... why...

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.