Prison School (監獄学園 Kangoku Gakuen) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by HIRAMOTO Akira. It began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine on February 7, 2011. The first tankōbon volume was published on June 6, 2011; 16 volumes have been published as of March 6, 2015. Yen Press has licensed the series in North America. In August 2014, on the wrap of volume 14, an anime adaptation was announced for July 2015.
Plot
Hachimitsu Academy, known for its strict academic standards and even stricter school code, is making a giant change this year. In the first time in school history, they are allowing boys to be admitted. As Fujino Kiyoshi starts his first day at Hachimitsu Academy he is shocked to find out that there are only 4 other guys in the entire school, making the ratio of girls to boys 200:1. And to their dismay, not one of the thousand girls will talk to them or even acknowledge them. But Kiyoshi and the guys are about to find out about the shadow student council that has been threatening the female students about interacting with male students.
Kiyoshi soon discovers to his shock that he and his four new friends—Takehito Morokuzu (codenamed "Gakuto"), Shingo Wakamoto, Jouji Nezu (codenamed "Joe"), and Reiji Andou (codenamed Andrei) - are the only male students among 1,000 girls. Even worse are the draconian laws that are still in place, which punishes even the most minor infractions with a stay in the school's Prison Block, manned by the school's Underground Student Council. And to their dismay, not one of the thousand girls will talk to them or even acknowledge them, because of the USC's threats about interaction with the boys. A series of perverted accidents causes the five boys to be "arrested" and receive an ultimatum: either stay a month in the prison or be expelled. They are also warned that three breakouts will result in permanent expulsion.
As they continue their struggle to stay enrolled despite resistance from the student body and the USC, the boys begin to get to know some girls better, establishing love interests in their stay at the school. They soon become embroiled in the engagements of the Underground Social Council and the official Student Council, instigated by their Presidents (USC President Mari Kurihara and SC President Kate Takenomiya), in which they aid the USC to prevent the cancellation of the school's Wet T-Shirt Contest. When the boys are freed and their imminent expulsions are overturned, the Underground School Council is reduced to delinquent status after they are placed in the Prison Block, until they face the School Council in the School Festival's All-Student-Council Cavalry Battle.
External Links
Official
- Anime site - Prison School official anime site.
- Young Magazine - Prison School Young Magazine manga site.
- Twitter - Prison School official anime Twitter.
- Kodansha - Prison School Kodansha manga site.
- Yen Press - Prison School english manga publisher page.