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
On the outskirts of Tokyo stands Hachimitsu Academy, a private all-girls boarding school for elite young women full of potential and good breeding. But on April 2011, as the new school year rolls around, one tradition is going out the window: one of the strictest girls academies in Tokyo has decided to admit boys into their school system. Kiyoshi Fujino, one of the lucky few, is thrilled by this discovery, but little does he know of the shocking fate that awaits him when only five boys enter the cohort, with a 1 in 200 boy-to-girl ratio on the first day of school. Thus, the student cohort becomes 1021 students, of which 1016 are female students. Kiyoshi soon discovers to his shock that he and his four new friends— Takehito Morokuzu (codenamed "Gakuto"), Shingo Wakamoto, Jouji Nezu (codenamed "Jo"), and Reiji Andou (codenamed" Andre") - 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 senior members of the school's Underground Student Council and managed by the USC President Mari Kurihara. 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.
The boys are forced to complete harsh labour in the Prison Block of the school after school hours by the USC, secluded away from the girls and guarded by its Vice-President Meiko Shiraki and its Secretary Hana Midorikawa. When the boys lose their weekend leave, Kiyoshi decides to break out from the school to attend a Sumo Festival on a date with classmate Chiyo. As Gakuto wants to buy limited edition figures at a convention and intercepts Chiyo's written message about the date, he enlists Gakuto as a strategist and aide throughout the plot. They manage to dig a large escape hole, which is filled in by the Chairman days before the breakout. Kiyoshi resolves to steal a girls uniform to crossdress as a female student instead, but the uniform is discovered by Chiyo and turns out to be Chiyo's one resulting in disaster. When Chiyo discovers her stolen uniform, she reports him for leaving the prison and he soon discovers that Chiyo is actually Chiyo Kurihara, the daughter of the school's chairman. In tears, he returns to the prison with Gakuto's collector figurine, which is destroyed by Gakuto to prove that he did not aid the breakout to the USC. The breakout leads to the boys having their prison stay extended by a month and the USC attempting to expel Kiyoshi, and the USC only fail when Chiyo threatens the council with her own expulsion.
The USC begin to plot Operation Boys Expulsion to permanently get rid of the boys by inducing two more breakouts so that they can be expelled. The USC manages to manipulate Andre's latent masochism through withdrawal and then dress the Vice-President Meiko in tight clothes so that Andre forces himself through the weakened wall to reach the Vice President when the clothes burst, resulting in the second breakout. The operation becomes a success when Meiko gives Shingo prison leave with good food after he betrays the boys to the USC, then having a planted Anzu Yokoyama change his watch so that he arrives after his curfew, resulting in the last and third breakout. When the boys set up a wrestling contest as a decoy, Gakuto sneaks away for ten minutes to recover email data evidence of OBE. To gain more time to upload the evidence and show it to the Chairman, the boys successfully appeal to the Chairman when Kiyoshi successfully solves his "Tits VS. Asses" riddle. Chiyo starts sending messages through the boys' meals and intercepting the messages tagged to the food binbags in the disposal area. Using their food messaging system, Gakuto plans to have Chiyo rendezvous with the boys and performs a triple switch with Jouji, enabling him to gather evidence of their being framed in the USC's plots (via Operation Boys Expulsion). He presents the evidence on a USB stick to the Chairman, who orders their release and overturns the boys' imminent expulsions. 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.
Mari promptly accepts responsibility for the USC's actions and prevents Hana from beating Kiyoshi up. This evidence results in Student Council President Kate Takenomiya and the school's official Student Council placing the senior active USC members in prison, including Mari, due to their abuse and mistreatment of the prisoners and attempts to frame them all violating the School Code. Chiyo takes up responsibility for the crow's nest in the absence of her sister. The boys soon become embroiled in the engagements of the Underground Student Council and the official Student Council, instigated by their Presidents, 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 Great 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.
- Prison School live-action TV drama official site]
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