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Prison School (Japanese: 監獄学園, Hepburn: Purizun Sukūru)[a] 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 licensed the manga for English release in North America. The story takes place in a renowned and very strict school previously reserved for girls. But the establishment changes its policy and educates five young men who, by their behavior, will very quickly find themselves in quarantine. They will have to face all kinds of pitfalls to get out of this critical situation and escape the clutches of the Student Union.
| Prison School | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kiyoshi Fujino | |
| 監獄学園 (Purizun Sukūru) | |
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| Genre | Sex comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Akira Hiramoto |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Young Magazine KC |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Magazine |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | February 7, 2011 – December 25, 2017 |
| Volumes | 28 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Michiko Yokote |
| Music by | Kōtarō Nakagawa |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, KBS, Sun TV, TV Aichi, BS11, AT-X |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 11, 2015 – September 26, 2015 |
| Episodes | 12 + OVA |
| Television drama | |
| Directed by | Noboru Iguchi |
| Produced by |
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| Written by |
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| Music by | Yasuhiko Fukuda |
| Studio | Robot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | JNN (MBS, TBS) |
| Original run | October 26, 2015 – December 21, 2015 |
| Episodes | 9 |
A 12-episode anime television series adaptation, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, aired from July to September 2015. A live-action drama television series aired from October to December 2015.
By March 2018, the manga had over 13 million copies in circulation. In 2013, Prison School won the 37th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category.
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 voyeurism in the school's bathing area with the lecherous 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.
Prison School, written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto, was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from February 7, 2011, to December 25, 2017.[6][7] Kodansha collected its chapters in twenty-eight tankōbon volumes, released from June 6, 2011, to April 6, 2018.[8][9]
In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Yen Press.[10] They published the series in fourteen omnibus volumes, containing two original tankōbon volumes each, from July 21, 2015, to October 29, 2019.[11][12]
An anime television series adaptation was announced in August 2014.[13] The series was produced by Genco, Egg Firm, Warner Bros. Japan, Kodansha, Showgate, Klockworx, Movic, and J.C. Staff. It was directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, with Michiko Yokote handling series composition and writing the scripts, Junichirō Taniguchi designing the characters and props and Kōtarō Nakagawa composing the music.[2] The anime aired on Tokyo MX, KBS, Sun TV, TV Aichi and BS11 from July to September 2015. The voice actors of the five male main characters performed the opening and ending theme songs under the group name Kangoku Danshi.[2]
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 story arc.[5] Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll.[14]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Original air date [15] | |
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| 1 | "The Peep Job" Transliteration: "Nozoki daisakusen" (Japanese: ノゾキ大作戦) | Tsutomu Mizushima | July 11, 2015 | |
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Five best friends, Kiyoshi Fujino, Takehito "Gakuto" Morokuzu, Shingo Wakamoto, Jouji "Joe" Nezu, and Reiji "Andre" Andou, are the only boys enrolled in the formerly all-girl Hachimitsu Academy. Kiyoshi becomes the first boy to talk to a girl when he encounters Chiyo Kurihara, an avid sumo fan, and they agree to attend a sumo tournament together. The boys formulate a plan to video girls in their bathhouse, but Kiyoshi drops his phone and has to climb in to retrieve it. Meanwhile, the Underground Student Council (USC) catches the other boys, and later Kiyoshi is caught by their President, Mari Kurihara. As punishment, they are sentenced to one month in the school's prison, where they suffer constant abuse by the Vice-President Meiko Shiraki. Meiko later enlists the help of Hana Midorikawa, the USC's Secretary, to oversee the boys. When Kiyoshi returns a baby crow to its nest, he falls from the branch and witnesses Hana urinating on the grass, much to her embarrassment. | ||||
| 2 | "The Man Who Viewed Too Much" Transliteration: "Shirisugiteita otoko" (Japanese: 尻すぎていた男) | Daisuke Takashima | July 18, 2015 | |
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Mari's father, the school's Chairman, suggests the girls are being unfair and so Mari allows the boys to have up to three hours of free time on the weekends, inspiring them to become model prisoners. Later, as Mari drops off the new USC guidebook at the Chairman's office, she sees a pornographic image on his computer and decides to punish the boys by removing their free time. Kiyoshi formulates a plan to break out by making a hole in a wall behind a refuse shed. When Hana insists that Kiyoshi pees in front of her in return for him seeing her pee, he is rescued by Gakuto. Gakuto catches on to Kiyoshi's plan and offers to help him break out in return for him buying the Three Kingdoms figures, Guan Yu and Red Hare, which available only once every four years. The next day, Gakuto and Kiyoshi fake a fight to trick Hana into kicking down the shed which hides the hole. Gakuto tries to distract Hana so Kiyoshi can use the bathroom alone, but Hana corners him inside a stall and again insists that he pee in front of her. However, he accidentally pees over her and then Meiko sees Hana's embarrassing condition. | ||||
| 3 | "Effusion Plan" Transliteration: "Daifunshutsu" (Japanese: 大噴出) | Hideaki Kurakawa | July 25, 2015 | |
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Following the urination incident, Hana is removed from her position, leaving Meiko to monitor the boys. Kiyoshi tries a test run through the hole, and on his way back he sees the Chairman burying his nude picture collection. In preparation for a school track meet, Kiyoshi, Gakuto, and Shingo are assigned to watch student belongings, but Shingo goes off with Andre and Joe. Shingo has becomes suspicious of Kiyoshi and Gakuto spending so much time together and when he witnesses them taking a shower together he jumps to the wrong conclusion. Another test run of the escape route results in Meiko stepping on Kiyoshi's butt, causing it to bleed which Shingo mistakenly exclaims is due to hemorrhoids. During an IT class, Gakuto plans to download defecation noises onto his audio player to replay when Kiyoshi is off site to pretend he is using the bathroom. However, when he cannot find any sounds online, he decides to record his own by defecating in the classroom. Unfortunately, they later find out the hole has been patched up – done by the Chairman re-burying his photos with cement on top. Kiyoshi devises another plan to sneak out by dressing as a female student and Gakuto aids him once more by intentionally stripping down Mari's skirt to incur punishment. | ||||
| 4 | "Take Me Out to the Sumoland" Transliteration: "Watashi o sumō ni tsuretette" (Japanese: 私をスモーに連れてって) | Atsushi Kobayashi | August 1, 2015 | |
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As punishment for pulling down Mari's skirt, Meiko shaves off Gakuto's hair. However, Gakuto's real intention of having his head shaved was to provide hair for Kiyoshi to use as a makeshift wig to sneak out of school. Kiyoshi manages to steal a uniform from the school's laundry room while Gakuto distracts the laundry man. On the day of the track meet, Kiyoshi places speakers with the pooping audio inside the bathroom and sneaks out though the drainage pipe, narrowly avoiding Meiko and Mari. However, Kiyoshi's date is cut short when Chiyo leaves in disgust after she sees Gakuto's hair and the uniform with her name on its label inside his bag. Back at school, Meiko becomes fed up with Kiyoshi's prolonged bathroom trip and she decides to confront him personally. Gakuto watches nervously as Meiko kicks down the stall door. | ||||
| 5 | "The School's Number One Most Treacherous Man" Transliteration: "Gakuen ichi no uragiri otoko" (Japanese: 学園一の裏切り男) | Naoki Murata | August 8, 2015 | |
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When Meiko kicks down the stall door, she finds Kiyoshi weeping on the toilet although he had managed to obtain the figures and return in time, much to Gakuto's delight. However as they leave the bathroom, Mari appears and when Meiko examines Kiyoshi's bag she finds Gakuto's hair and Chiyo's uniform. Mari's suspicions of a breakout are confirmed and Kiyoshi is thrown into solitary confinement. Kiyoshi claims he acted alone, so his friends are punished with a one-month extension of their sentence and he is set to be expelled. Meiko says they do not have the authorization to carry out that punishment so Mari pressures Kiyoshi to sign a school withdrawal request form. Chiyo arrives and threatens to sign a form as well if Mari forces Kiyoshi signed a form, so he refuses to sign. Returned to prison, Kiyoshi finds that Shingo is encouraging Joe, Andre and a reluctant Gakuto to distance themselves from him. Meanwhile, Mari figures that if the boys attempt three breakouts they will be expelled so she plans to implements a Danshi Taigaku Operation [b], or DTO. Hana meets with Mari and Meiko to put DTO into effect and promises Kiyoshi that she will take her revenge on him. | ||||
| 6 | "Vengeance Is Hana's" Transliteration: "Fukushūsuru wa Hana ni Ari" (Japanese: 復讐するは花にあり) | Daisuke Takashima | August 15, 2015 | |
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Meiko convinces Shingo to becomes an informant for the USC in exchange for above-average food. For example, after Andre knocks down Joe's ant farm by accident, Shingo relays this information to Meiko. During lunch break, Shingo lures Joe away from his ants, and Mari's crows apparently attacks them. When Joe sees this, he attempts to stab Mari with a sharp stick but Kiyoshi intercepts him, resulting in being impaled in the butt. When Joe is thrown in solitary confinement, Kiyoshi goes to the nurse's office. Hana appears and hands him a male urine bottle to urinate inside, but when he resists, she prepares to urinate on him. Chiyo walks in, so Hana and Kiyoshi hide under the bed, but with their lower halves exposed, Kiyoshi develops an erection causing Hana to faint. Later, Hana seems to have no recollection of the events under the bed. After a work break, Kiyoshi and Joe make amends. Meanwhile, Meiko tells Shingo that she will allow him free time outside the school. | ||||
| 7 | "Meikotouille" Transliteration: "Meiko no oishī resutoran" (Japanese: 芽衣子のおいしいレストラン) | Toshikazu Hashimoto | August 22, 2015 | |
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On a day out, Shingo visits a local arcade and meets Anzu, another student from Hachimitsu. On returning to the prison, Shingo notices a tiny toy sword in the bathroom and gives it to Meiko, not knowing it is a part of the Gakuto's Guan Yu figure. Later, Meiko discovers Gakuto's figure in the bathroom and threatens to crush it before his eyes unless he confesses to aiding Kiyoshi's escape or she will have everyone's sentences extended again. Much to everyone's surprise Gakuto throws the figure on the ground and breaks it. Gakuto confesses their breakout plan to the other boys and Shingo is shocked at the other boys' forgiveness. Later, Meiko reveals the sword to Mari in a serve of peanuts, but when Mari learns that it came from a bathroom floor, she forces Meiko to wear a uniform that is too small and she becomes faint. Concerned for Meiko's wellbeing, Chiyo takes her to Mari's office, where she discovers the existence of the DTO plot. Eavesdropping outside the door, Chiyo hears Mari announces the final phase of DTO is to take advantage of Andre's masochistic urges. | ||||
| 8 | "The Diary of Andre" Transliteration: "Andore no Nikki" (Japanese: アンドレの日記) | Masahiro Shinohara Shinano Suzuki | August 29, 2015 | |
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Exploiting Andre's desire for punishment revealed in his "slave diary", Meiko ignores him for days. Meanwhile, Meiko gives Shingo more free time outside, warning that his failure to return by 6:30 pm would result in declaration of a breakout. The other boys are assigned to fixing the school gate, and while on their way Chiyo indicates to Kiyoshi via a go move that the USC plan to kick them out. Later, Meiko's voice calls out "punishment time" to Andre, leading him to find his diary in the Corrections Office. In a desperate bid to receive punishment, he breaks through the fence and is subdued by Hana who declares it a prison break. On their date, Anzu is impressed by Shingo’s loyalty and reveals that her meetings with him were part of the DTO plan. Shingo arrives back before 6:30 but cannot open the locked gate which the other boys had repaired, meaning that three breakouts have now been committed. The boys are called before the Chairman who announces their expulsion in two weeks time even with Chiyo's intervention on their behalf. While the boys are discussing the need to find a copy of the DTO to expose the USC's hidden agenda, Shingo mentions he saw a copy somewhere. | ||||
| 9 | "Blazing Fluids" Transliteration: "Taieki ga ippai" (Japanese: 体液がいっぱい) | Hodaka Kuramoto | September 5, 2015 | |
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Shingo recalls seeing an email labeled "DTO" in the Corrections Office and Gakuto suggests that the email may still be recovered through a data restoration software. In a plan to take Meiko's keys so they can access the Corrections Office, the boys goad her into an arm wrestling match. Gakuto loses first, grabs her keys and manages to sneak into the office, estimating that he needs at least ten minutes to download the software and find the email. Kiyoshi, Shingo, and Joe's matches barely last a minute each, but Andre holds out the longest, losing his match with a minute to go. Gakuto just manages to return before Meiko discovers her keys are missing. While the others praise him, Gakuto is frustrated at only having had enough time to downloaded the software. Facing imminent expulsion, Kiyoshi and the others console each other before heading off to sleep. | ||||
| 10 | "It's a Bum-derful Life!" Transliteration: "Subarashiki shiri kana, jinsei!" (Japanese: 素晴らしき尻哉人生！) | Daisuke Takashima | September 12, 2015 | |
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Kiyoshi and the others have lost hope, except for Gakuto who begins acting irrationally. Meiko allows the boys to choose their last meal, and Chiyo manages to slip in a note to Kiyoshi in the food. Gakuto's fried grasshoppers and rice dish proves so disgusting that he breaks free of his irregular state. Kiyoshi suggests they write an appeal to the Chairman for leniency, but after Meiko sees that Gakuto did not eat the grasshoppers she spent so much time catching, she rips up the appeal. However, the appeal was a decoy because Kiyoshi wrote on his form that he knows of the Chairman's buried nude photos. Consequently, the Chairman offers to postpone the expulsion date only if the boys' preference for "boobs or butts" align with his. Meanwhile, Hana's repressed memories of Kiyoshi's erection touching her under the hospital bed surface. She goes berserk, wanting to kill Kiyoshi but Meiko manages to subdue her. Kiyoshi's convincing reply to the Chairman's question gives the boys a one-day reprieve. As the USC plans their next move, Hana eagerly offers to watch over the boys on their final day. | ||||
| 11 | "Eringy Brockovich" Transliteration: "Eringi Burokobicchi" (Japanese: エリンギ・ブロコビッチ) | Katsushi Sakurabi | September 19, 2015 | |
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Gakuto's plan to distract Meiko falls apart when Hana arrives instead with their lunch, including phallic eryngii mushrooms for Kiyoshi. Kiyoshi exploits Hana's grudge against him and offers to sneak inside the Corrections Office. As Chiyo intercepts another of Kiyoshi's message inside his lunch tray, she gets caught by Anzu, who also wishes to help the boys. Later, Gakuto and Kiyoshi deliberately stage a fight so Gakuto is injured and Hana takes him along with to Kiyoshi be bandaged in the Corrections Office. Hana gets Kiyoshi alone and gives him a plastic bottle so she can watch him pee into it. Full of confidence, Kiyoshi strips down, but he drops to the ground after being kneed in the groin by Hana. As she prepares to pee on him, she is interrupted by Meiko who has apprehended Anzu outside. This is a relief to the boys because it means that Chiyo is still free. Suddenly, Hana kisses Kiyoshi, stating that stealing his first kiss from Chiyo is her revenge against him. | ||||
| 12 | "Good Morning, Prison!" Transliteration: "Guddo mōningu purizun!" (Japanese: グッドモーニング プリズン!) | Tsutomu Mizushima | September 26, 2015 | |
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Chiyo waits for Kiyoshi to unlock the back door of the Corrections Office where he and Hana's confrontation is taking place. As Hana goes in for another kiss, Kiyoshi counterattacks by sticking his tongue inside Hana's mouth, completely shocking the inexperienced Hana and giving her a profuse nosebleed. Distracted, Hana returns Kiyoshi to the prison, locks the boys in and heads off to bed. The next day, Meiko takes the boys to the Chairman's office and but they are interrupted by news that Gakuto has run amok inside the school and the girls are beating him up. Meiko then discovers that Joe is dressed as Gakuto and Chiyo is disguised as Joe under his hoodie. The boys explain that while Hana returned Kiyoshi to prison, Chiyo sneaked in the back door of the Corrections Office and performed a three-way clothing exchange with Gakuto and Joe. She spent the night in prison with the boys while Gakuto retrieved the DTO email. As Gakuto passes a USB flash drive to the Chairman with the DTO information, Hana discovers Kiyoshi's manipulation and proceeds to punch him, only to punch Mari instead who confesses to the DTO plan. After the Chairman sees the data, he declares that the boys have served their time and are now free. In a post-credits scene, the boys are quite content with their school lives while the USC are stripped of their uniforms by the Aboveground Student Council (ASC) and led past the other students into the school prison. | ||||
| OVA | "Mad Wax" Transliteration: "Maddo wakkusu" (Japanese: マッドワックス) | Shinano Suzuki | March 4, 2016 | |
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Mari, Meiko and Hana of the USC are led to their cells by the ASC. President Kate Takenomiya orders them to strip and put on their prison uniforms which results in a defiant but a brief scuffle with ASC Vice-President Risa Betto. The boys adjust to life at a school full of girls and initially find it difficult to adjust, each finding their own way of coping and interacting with girls. However, Joe is uncomfortable with girls and life outside the prison. He laments to Andre about his failure to find a girl and how life in prison seemed better. When Andre finds his bondage rope is missing he realizes that Joe has used it to bind himself and plans on exposing his bound naked body to the girls in an attempt to be returned to prison. Andre rushes towards the pool locker room to stop Joe from exposing himself. Meanwhile, Joe is offered a cupcake by Sato, Joe's first girl interaction and he hesitates. Just then, after a series of mishaps, Andre slides past Joe into the locker room, naked and tied up with bondage rope. Kiyoshi and the others rush to the scene and watch as Andre receives a severe beating from the locker room girls, but with a smile on his face. | ||||
A live-action television drama adaptation was announced in August 2015, directed by Noboru Iguchi at production studio Robot.[16] The series premiered on October 26, 2015;[c] and aired on MBS and TBS.[17] The opening theme song is "Shōdō" (衝動, "Urge") performed by HaKU.[18]
By March 2018, the manga had over 13 million copies in circulation.[19]
Prison School was one of two winners of the Best General Manga award, alongside Gurazeni at the 37th Kodansha Manga Award in 2013.[20] 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.[21]
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