Boobs On Broadway
Prison School was a special kind of anime. It took the ecchi genre and somehow managed to both subvert its tropes while also embracing its lewder aspects. By the time the final episode had run its course, we have been exposed to the hilarity of seeing our heroes receive multiple concussions, witness a voluptuous student battle to free her bra from a door, and learn a valuable lesson about bromance conquering all hardships.
Yeah, it was definitely an acquired taste. That being said, the decision to turn this ludicrously erotic series into a stage production might just be the most baffling thing we’ve heard. We know its a tradition and all…but Prison School?! The series that has scenes like this?
According to an article on Anime News Network –
A stage musical adaptation of Akira Hiramoto‘s Prison School manga has been green-lit. The musical will run from from January 31 to February 4 in The Pocket theater in Tokyo’s Nakano ward. Fumi Hatamasa is directing the play and penning the script.
North American publisher Yen Press publishes the Prison School manga for North America, and it describes the series:
Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls’ boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo…once upon a time. But with the new school year comes a revision to school policy: Boys are to be admitted into the student body for the first time ever. But on his first day at Hachimitsu, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers that he’s one of only five boys enrolled at the school. Their numbers overwhelmed by the thousand girls in the student body, is it heaven or hell that awaits these five (un)fortunates?
The 12-episode television anime adaptation premiered in July 2015, and Funimation streamed the anime with English subtitles as it aired in Japan, and also streamed the series with an English broadcast dub. A live-action television series adaptation premiered in Japan in October 2015.
While we can’t imagine it will be as revealing as the original manga and anime, who knows what the final result will look like. It’s going to be interesting to see Hana obliterating the guys in song form.
