My apologies, but I have been neglecting this blog recently. I've somehow kept forgetting, no matter how many new manga/anime I've started. I think I've even finished the entirety of the Viz translated Bleach since my last post!
And now, without further ado, my review of what is apparently the hot new anime this season: "Prison School".
When I initially read the summary on Wikipedia, it didn't seem all that bad. I was picturing a combination Deadman Wonderland/every pervy manga series ever, but what I got was something...slightly different.
In a school with over 1000 female students, the rules have recently changed to make it coed. We follow these five new male students: Kiyoshi the normal guy, Gackt the Three Kingdoms geek, Joe the shadowy guy, Shingo the bleach blonde and Andre the fat guy with the freaky little face.
A peeping incident goes horribly wrong one night (and just after Kiyoshi finally got a date with one of the girls!) and the hot student disciplinary council throws all five of them into the "school prison". There they are abused and forced into hard labor.
Therein lies the difficulty: Kiyoshi escaping in time to meet the girl on the appointed date. A date, of course, on which he still happens to be in prison.
The setup sounds pretty basic, but there are some serious problems here. I have no problem with nudity fanservice (from the girls), but there's a lot of really gross stuff in there too.
One part of the plan involves faking a trip to the bathroom and then sneaking out through an air duct. This requires the use of an MP3 player to provide the sounds of someone making a bowel movement. And, if that weren't gross enough, in order to get the sounds just right, Gackt actually shits himself in class and records the sounds.
There is also a scene of a girl peeing, the other boys' desires to be dominated and humiliated by the hot glasses-wearing girl pictured above, and an unfortunate shower scene that winds up insinuating that Kiyoshi and Gackt are gay. Plus Andre's tiny face on his giant body is really freaky, especially with his English Funimation voice.
A big part of the puzzle is that there is some supernatural element that seems to be there, but not quite. The girls are not allowed by the rules to fraternize with the boys, or else they'll be thrown in the prison as well. And they are especially wary of talking to them in front of the school's crows.
This is because one of the council girls is rumored to be some sort of "crow user" and does indeed find out about the peeping incident through them somehow, but, at least in the first volume, this is never brought up again.
The only strange thing seems to be the prison setting.
I almost don't want to continue reading it, because of all the gross parts and the fact that it can really only end one of two ways. But stuff with logistics like this isn't all bad now and again. And I'm a little intrigued as to exactly which way the series will end.
You can read it if you want; just don't expect a lot of really good hot chick fanservice.
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