Prison School Manga Volume 1

The first thing I did was watch the anime. While I did enjoy it and found it great, I wanted to read the manga. After reading some online, I decided this was something I certainly wanted on my shelf. The manga itself is a 2 in 1 omnibus, covering quite a bit. The story itself is lewd, but if you can enjoy that sort of humor, than this is certainly something you should pick up.

Holy moly, I don't even know where to begin! There is so much going in this volume of Prison School and it's all so wonderfully absurd and ridiculous.
The shots of the boy’s detailed faces in certain scenes are downright hysterical. Whether it's one character expressing his commitment to seeing a girl's panties or the look of pure terror while masquerading in a girl's bath, these facial expressions combined with the seriousness of the art style is funny. Prison School is also rife with comical misunderstandings. Almost everything that happens is a comedy of errors taken to incredible extremes. The best moment happens during a forced, and awkward, exchange in a bathroom that has one of the best cutaway gags I've ever seen in print.
There's loads of fanservice but it’s somehow fitting for this bizarro universe. The Vice President of the Shadow Council is the biggest star, whose wardrobe choices consist of showing off as much flesh as possible. I can't wait to read the next volume!

I'm a huge fan of the anime so I decided to buy the manga. Great material and great timing on the shipment except that it came with a pretty decent sized bend on the cover. Iffy on buying the second omnibus :(

While for mature audiences, the scenarios that the author comes up with are ridiculous and well-positioned for a real laugh-out-loud moment while reading. The facial expressions add to the comedy, and it is the poor fates that these five boys suffer through that really gives this manga its humor.

I would highly recommend this manga for anyone who is not easily offended and who has their own crude sense of humor. I absolutely love this artist and series!

Okay, maybe this manga just wasn't meant for me, even though I do personally enjoy a lot of sexy scenes and bad innuedos. There was a few funny and interesting bits, like the ongoing confusion about the main character and the "thou art" guy being gay together while they were only just planning their escape.

However, I felt the many toilet jokes to just be annoying, uncreative, and generally unfunny and gross. I can appreciate a good fart joke, but they didn't even try to clever. I actually felt relieved when I finished this book, due to the fact that it just got grosser and grosser and more unfunny as it went on; it started off strong, but became more stupid and uninteresting as it went on.

Let me start this review by saying that prison school isn't for everyone(as is anything with a heavy comedic element). As such, I would recommend you read at least one volume online to form your own opinion. Personally I love this manga, it's absurd, raw, grotesque, and pointless, and that's what makes it great. The absurdness is the purpose. It's existent is solely a vehicle for ridiculous scenarios that are generated from the mind of the author. It truly is a manga with no meaning, no reason for it's existence aside from pleasing those who will be pleased by this story and style. And that's what makes it great. You either love it or you hate it, but if you love it you'll probably love it a lot, so go ahead and buy it. What do you have to lose aside from money?(and time I guess)

This manga was a weird ride. The first arc, covered by the anime, was great. The art style to the adult humor really made me a fan. But after that, it’s nice to see what happens next, but honestly, this is where it all starts going downhill. The raunchiness gets more over the top and the story’s pace slows down a lot in parts. There were also a bit of scenes or side plots that went nowhere or didn’t provide anything going forward. And then there’s the ending. I didn’t like the ending. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t the grand or satisfying ending I would’ve wanted. And there wasn’t enough closure to wrap everything up and not much of an epilogue. What happened to these characters and what happened next? Would I recommend this series? Yes and no. After that first arc, it slowly goes downhill, but was still an engaging read. If you’re fine with more adult comedy and an ending with plot holes, then pick up this series.

I've never read comedy manga like this, the way it uses fanservice to make it even funnier is genius. The artwork is amazing and the story is insane and hilarious. A great price on these normally expensive volumes, too.

I watched the anime before reading the series and it had me hooked from the get go with its dirty humor and awkward situations. I knew I had to read the manga afterwards and luckily this site was doing a sale so I bought all 14 volumes and binge read them over the weekend. Absolutely worth it and will be rereading down the road!