The anime adaptation of Akira Hiramoto’s manga series Prison School is inching closer and Warner Bros Japan has now let loose with a look at the opening and closing songs, though without showing any animation other than panning over the key visual. The opening and closing songs are performed by the five main male voice actors and are titled Ai no Prison and Tsumibukaki Oretachi no Sanka.
The series is scheduled to debut on July 10th, 2015 on Toky MX and then roll out over the next few days to other regional broadcasters, satellite services and online through multiple services. The series is being directed by Tsutomu Mizushima based on the scripts from Michiko Yokote and character designs by Junichiro Taniguchi, who is also serving as the chief animation director. The series is being animated by JC Staff.
The cast for the series has been revealed with Hiroshi Kamiya as Kyosh, Katsuyuki Konishi as Gakuto, Kenichi Suzumura as Shingo, Daisuke Namikawa as Joe, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Reiji “Andre” Andō, Sayaka Ohara as Mari, Shizuka Itou as Meiko and Kana Hanazawa as Hana.
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.
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