Announced last summer as getting approval for production and set for a summer 2015 debut, the anime adaptation of Akira Hiramoto’s manga series Kangoku Gakuen, aka Prison School now has some new material. The debut of the first teaser plays more to the manga than the anime, but it highlights the property well while also showcasing that it’s got sixteen volumes of material to work from, which definitely helps. There’s also been the release of a new key visual for the anime itself, which is certainly going to get a lot of attention and we can see it being used as a home video cover as well.
The manga was recently licensed in North America by Yen Press.
Originally starting in 2011, Akira Hiramoto’s Kangoku Gakuen had announced with its fourteenth volume last August. The series is doing fairly well in Japan with over four million copies in print so far and the authors previous works, Ago Nashi Gen to Ore Monogatari and Yarisugi Companion to Atashi Monogatari have had adaptations in the last few years in the realm of mobile animation and live action film.
Plot concept: Hachimitsu Academy, known for its strict academic standards and even stricter school code, is making a giant change this year. In the first time in school history, they are allowing boys to be admitted. As Fujino Kiyoshi starts his first day at Hachimitsu Academy he is shocked to find out that there are only 4 other guys in the entire school, making the ratio of girls to boys 200:1. And to their dismay, not one of the thousand girls will talk to them or even acknowledge them. But Kiyoshi and the guys are about to find out about the shadow student council that has been threatening the female students about interacting with male students.
[Source: ANN]