If you consider manga endings a gift, Kodansha’s Young Magazine has a big one coming this Christmas. According to the latest issue, Akira Hiramoto’s Prison School manga is officially set to end in the next one, which hits stores in Japan on December 25. Prison …Read more »
Fans of Prison School’s Meiko Shiraki will be happy to learn a spinoff manga about the Underground Student Council Vice-President is out in Japan. The manga, titled Fukukaichou Ganbaru (Go, Vice-President) is about Shiraki’s everyday life. A “silent” (meaning, ostensibly, there’s no dialogue) comedy, it …Read more »
Armed Girl’s Machiavellism , a popular action manga that runs in Monthly Shonen Ace, is set to become an anime series, it was announced today. The manga, which began running in Ace in 2014, takes place in a school where sword-wielding girls exert total control …Read more »
Prison School is pure id, the sort of utterly shameless concept whose unprecedented levels gives self-styled “art connoisseurs” the necessary levels of disdain they need to continue functioning. Early in the career of manga author Akira Himamoto, his editors tasked him with creating Me and …Read more »
If we had to choose one anime last season that lent itself particularly well to cosplay, we’d have to go with Prison School . The series, which has now gone from manga to anime to live-action, continues to inspire cosplayers, who use Prison School ’s …Read more »
FUNimation is fully embracing the debauchery of Akira Hiramoto's Prison School . The company already streams the J.C. Staff anime adaptation, and now the live-action Prison School drama is on the way. Directed by schlock filmmaker Noboru Iguchi ( Machine Girl , Robogeisha , Zombie …Read more »
Now that the fall 2015 anime season is underway (man, is The Perfect Insider kind of interesting or what?), anime news site Anime Anime asked their readers to take a look back at the crispy days of summer and rate their favorite summer 2015 series. …Read more »
Polls, polls, polls. The Japanese internet can’t get enough of them, and truth be told, nor can we. It’s just so fun to see what those folks in Japan are thinking about, y’know? This week Charapedia asked its readers to pick the top 10 anime …Read more »
FUNimation is getting ready to begin another season of its Broadcast Dubs program, which has English-dubbed versions of current-season series running relatively close to their original debuts. First up is Prison School , starting tonight at 8:30pm Eastern Time on the DubbleTalk Block . With …Read more »
Akira Hiramoto's Prison School manga continues its successful run with the announcement of another adaptation. This time it's a live-action TV series, which is being directed by filmmaker Noboru Iguchi, known for fun, violent fare like The Machine Girl and RoboGeisha , as well as …Read more »
Character promos recently started rolling out for the upcoming Prison School anime, which kicks off its adaptation of Akira Hiramoto's manga on July 10. First up, check out the latest, which introduces underground student council secretary Hana Midorikawa (voiced by Kana Hanazawa), below. Other promos …Read more »
The Prison School anime is scheduled to kick off next month, and after that we can look forward to the release of the opening and ending theme singles. Warner Bros. has the OP, "Ai no Prison" ("The Prison of Love"), and ED, "Tsumibukaki Oretachi no …Read more »
An anime adaptation of popular manga Prison School ( Kangoku Gakuen ) is on the way. The anime was announced via the release of the 14th volume of the manga, which was released in Japan last Wednesday. Prison School is an over-the-top, definitely-not-kids'-stuff manga about …Read more »
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