Prison School

Robert Murphy


Any number of anime out there are guilty of putting in a little bit of kink when it comes to their characters, maybe there are some very short skirts or a ditsy girl who uses crude innuendos in everything she says but then you have shows like Prison School who throw out the rule book entirely and go as lewd as possible. The story follows five teenage boys; Kiyoshi, Shingo, Jouji, Takehito and Reiji, who are the first boys to ever be enrolled in an exclusively all girl school. While this would normally be any teenage boys dreams all the girls in the school appear to be ignoring them and so they end up going on a peeping spree for some sign of female contact. This leads them to being caught and incarcerated on an on-sight prison camp within the school that is run by the Underground Student Council and the three insanely frightening girls in charge of it. 

Now while I'll admit that a bit of peeping deserves some punishment, being locked up in a prison for an entire week, made to wear actual black and white uniforms and perform manual labor governed by some evil female wardens is taking things a bit too far. When you get down to it Prison Schools story is non-existent and ends up being a grouping of disgusting escapades that were meant to be cheaky but turned out horribly wrong. Kiyoshi and his friends start out simply wanting some interaction with the girls around school but then end being the most hated pariahs the school has ever seen. The peeping itself should have been gotten over within a few months but the boys end up in a series of other gross situations that end up garnering more hate and more prison time as the show goes on, and when I say gross I mean really gross! 

There are multiple times where Prison School decides to include bodily functions into it's story of misguided sexual encounters. Some were as simple as accidentally pooping your pants to being aroused by being urinated on in a public restroom. The whole time I was watching the series it felt as if I was watching some S&M show that just would not end and while I know that there are people who subscribe to this genre I feel as though it was all done here for shock and humor that does not deliver. Also in the department of S&M the boys are repeatedly punished physically by their female captures numerous times. While you would think the boys would all stand up in protest of this, it turns out they actually like this.

Meiko Shiraki is the balloon breasted vice president of the Underground Student Council and is charged with watching over the boys manual labor and sentencing. Her character wears outfits that are far too tight and too short for her body and walks around with a riding crop to punish all the boys when they do something slightly to her disliking. Kiyoshi and his friends rather enjoy Meiko's outward appearance but they enjoy it even more when she is wailing on them for the slightest of reasons and it is something I just couldn't wrap my head around. Meiko also has an interesting relationship with the Underground President Mari Kurihara where she sweats profusely at any slight compliment she gives to Meiko. Then you have the final member of the council Hana who has a rather chipper demeanor till you tick her off and she kicks you bloody. Her and Kiyoshi's relationship delves into some of the urination arousal I mentioned earlier which ruined her for me as she was quite possible one of the few redeemable characters starting out.

The boys themselves are nothing to write home about either, Kiyoshi is technically the stories main focus and follows his attempts to make contact with the one girl that actually talked to him before he was sentenced to the prison. The romance is nothing interesting though and is repeated latter in similar fashion with Shingo and a girl who has interest in him as well. The only real winner of the group is probably Takehito or Gakuto as he is nicknamed and he portrays himself as a masterful genius the group while also performing unspeakable acts in order to help the other boys out. His rants about being a genius and military tactics were a welcomed chuckle to a story with so little to offer especially since Jouji and Reiji simply fade into the background with only minor character attributes introduced about them. Jouji being a sickly boy who loves his pet ants and Reiji is a large and portly fellow.

By the end of watching Prison School I could not think of any conceivable reason why anyone would make this into a series. Besides the total absence of an engaging story or characters the show fills large portions of it's run time by parading scenes of body excrement and fluids in your face. I have watched a few Ecchi anime in my day and never has one been as bad as this one and frankly the show belongs in an M-Rated bin somewhere and bought as a gag gift for your buddy but never actually watched in earnest. 

Good:

- One or two chuckle worthy characters such as Gakuto

Bad:

- Total absence of an engaging story

- Most characters have little appeal to them

- Disgusting grouping of scenes featuring urination, bodily excretions and more

Scully Rating: 1.0 out of 10