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.
