History YMMV / PrisonSchool

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** ManlyTears are shed as against all odds the boys [[spoiler:succeed in their last desperate plan and bring down the USC!]]
** The Chairman rescuing a puppy from a raging waterway.
*** Which he follows up by rescuing "Honey" from her kidnappers. From a speeding car. While on a bicycle.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** Gakuto triumphantly destroying [[spoiler:the figurine he considers to be worth three years of his life]] on sheer principle.
** After [[spoiler:the USC carry out plan OBE]], all seems lost. Feeling guilty, Shingo asks the others to [[HitMeDammit hit him if they wish]], since he benefited from the USC's manipulation while the others suffered. Kiyoshi lifts his fist... and lightly punches him in the shoulder, before saying they're now even. The group then agrees that they've all done their share of mistakes, and that apologizing is enough.
*** This veers into comedy once Shingo reveals he got close to Anzu while he was outside, and even got to see her nipple (at which [[MyFistForgivesYou the group beats him up for real]] and calls it even), but after dozens of chapters of distrust and in-fighting, there is something very genuine in everyone accepting one another's mistakes, and their newfound determination to find a way out of their situation together.
** The flashback chapters that show how Mari helped a meek and bullied Meiko find confidence and self esteem.
** Kiyoshi being AboveTheInfluence towards Chiyo when she was [[BeAWhoreToGetYourMan blatantly offering herself to him]] out of insecurity and feelings of inferiority towards Mari.
** For a time, Risa is uncertain that anyone she knows would count her as a "friend" exactly, but Keito assures her that she does.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Anzu's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Shingo [[http://mangafox.me/manga/kangoku_gakuen/v10/c101/12.html when he tries to replicate the scenario that led to Kiyoshi's first kiss.]]
** Gakuto's reaction to [[spoiler:discovering Mitsuko's hand drawn boy's love manga based off him and Jo!]]
** Hana and mushrooms. That is all.
*** The anime really takes the scene where Hana's memories return to another level, building up the most dramatic music only to cut out with an anticlimactic *pop!*.
** The Micky Mouse-esque ArtShift in Gakuto's [[ImagineSpot mental image]] of a conversation between him and Kiyoshi [[http://mangafox.me/manga/kangoku_gakuen/v08/c077/3.html here.]]
*** Other amusing [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] include Andre's fantasies of [[http://mangafox.me/manga/kangoku_gakuen/v10/c094/14.html Andreconomics]] on [[SeriousBusiness masochist wall street]] and subsequent HBSD when his stocks crash.
*** [[http://mangafox.me/manga/kangoku_gakuen/v10/c110/9.html Hana with a moustache!]]
*** And now Chiyo gets in on the action with [[http://mangafox.me/manga/kangoku_gakuen/v14/c135/19.html the craziest mental image yet!]]
** After [[spoiler:Mari]] manages to smuggle a cellphone into the prison [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her cleavage]], [[spoiler:Kiyoshi]] shoves it back in after making their call. The next time we see them [[spoiler:Kiyoshi's]] sitting on the ground with [[MegatonPunch a heavily bleeding face.]]
** There's something that's just so hilariously endearing about Hana's [[http://mangafox.me/manga/kangoku_gakuen/v10/c114/5.html utter determination to get her revenge despite everything that's happened to her.]]
** The easily miss-able translators note when Mitsuko [[InterruptedIntimacy interrupts]] FanPreferredCouple Kiyoshi and Hana [[http://mangafox.me/manga/kangoku_gakuen/v10/c116/17.html right when they were about to give in to their urges.]]
** In the flashback to the girl's childhood, Keito has quite the delayed reaction to Mari calling her 'a base woman' because she doesn't know what the term means, having had to look it up in the dictionary. Fast forward back to the present day and a furious Keito has to do it again with the dictionary now ''filled'' with post-it bookmarks, implying that this is a regular thing.
** Due to MemeticMutation, "It's her nipple! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Her...fucking....NIPPLE!]]"
** Risa quite literally putting Andre out to pasture before the cavalry competition.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gakuto is generally regarded as the breakout star due to his {{Determinator}} characteristics and staunch belief in TrueCompanions making him come off as an amazing friend.
** The Chairman is also universally liked by the fanbase due to his ability to be an extremely helpful ReasonableAuthorityFigure while also maintaining his beautiful dedication to booty

* [[MemeticBadass Memetic Bad-Ass Man]]: The Chairman gets this reputation after [[spoiler:enduring a devastating car crash]] without injury. Combined with his reveal of surprisingly good wilderness survival skills, jokes quickly sprang up in the fandom about him having learned them from battling through the South American jungle in his search for the perfect ass.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Kate. While she is the main antagonist of the second arc, and shows tendencies of being an AlphaBitch, it is also equally arguable that her actions are all justified and Mari and the Underground Student Council really did deserve all the crap she imposes onto them because of their numerous human rights violations e.g. illegal imprisonment, torture, forced labour, etc. just for peeping, while Kate never acted all that viciously to anybody else who committed minor felonies, even to the boys, unless they help Mari in some way. Besides, the only reason the [[EnemyMine boys decided to forge an alliance with Mari]] in the first place was because Kate's administration [[SillyReasonForWar replaced the USC's previous Wet T-shirt contest with a clamming event.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Kate. While she is the main antagonist of the second arc, and shows tendencies of being an AlphaBitch, it is also equally arguable that her actions are all justified and Mari and the Underground Student Council really did deserve all the crap she imposes onto them because of their numerous human rights violations e.g. illegal imprisonment, torture, forced labour, etc. just for peeping, while Kate never acted all that viciously to anybody else who committed minor felonies, even to the boys, unless they help Mari escape in some way. Besides, the only reason the [[EnemyMine boys decided to forge an alliance with Mari]] in the first place was because Kate's administration [[SillyReasonForWar replaced the USC's previous Wet T-shirt contest with a clamming event.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Kate. While she is the main antagonist of the second arc, and shows tendencies of being an AlphaBitch, it is also equally arguable that Mari and the Underground Student Council really did deserve all the crap Kate imposes onto them because of their numerous human rights violations e.g. illegal imprisonment, torture, forced labour, etc. just for peeping, while Kate never acted all that viciously to anybody else who committed minor felonies, even to the boys, unless they help Mari escape in some way. Besides, the only reason the [[EnemyMine boys decided to forge an alliance with Mari]] in the first place was because Kate's administration [[SillyReasonForWar replaced the USC's previous Wet T-shirt contest with a clamming event.]]

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Meiko under Kate's abusive leadership. At first she appears as one of the manga's most vicious antagonists, obeying Mari's every word and being the executive agent for the Academy's totalitarian and punishing system. However, it is soon revealed that she was in fact, a ShrinkingViolet who was hated and constantly bullied all her life, and only the friendship with Mari gave her a reason to live and stand up for herself to become the confident and shameless woman she was known to be. Meiko's attitude was less due out of an inherent hatred of men but more of the result of pleasing [[StrawFeminist Mari]] as her only meaning in life (to the point of begging for punishment if she failed her in any way and volunteering to take all of the harshest labour from her), and when Kate framed her for starting a fire that apparently killed Mari's most valued baby crows, she was broken so much by her failure that she reverted to her submissive and timid personality, providing Kate and her cronies more imperatives to abuse her.]]

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Meiko. At first she appears as one of the manga's most vicious antagonists, obeying Mari's every word and being the executive agent for the Academy's totalitarian and punishing system. However, it is soon revealed that she was in fact, a ShrinkingViolet who was hated and constantly bullied all her life, and only the friendship with Mari gave her a reason to live and stand up for herself to become the confident and shameless woman she was known to be. Meiko's attitude was less due out of an inherent hatred of men but more of the result of pleasing [[StrawFeminist Mari]] as her only meaning in life (to the point of begging for punishment if she failed her in any way), and when Kate framed her for starting a fire that apparently killed Mari's baby crows, she was broken so much that she reverted to her submissive personality, providing Kate and her cronies more imperatives to abuse her.]]

** Kate making Meiko think she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows. It destroys her self-confidence completely.
** Mari [[spoiler: [[QuestionableConsent tricking Keito into sex under false pretence.]]]]
* TheScrappy: Chiyo Kurihara is seen as a generic NiceGirl with little fleshing out of her character. It doesn't help that her rival for Kiyoshi, Hana, is a huge EnsembleDarkhorse.

** While the Official Student Council are seen as the "villains" of the second arc, due to their harsh treatment of the Underground Student Council, Keito does point that their treatment of the USC members is honestly NotSoDifferent from how the USC members would punish the boys. Both groups are psychically abusive to their prisoners and aren't above using blackmail. Even Keito's apparent MoralEventHorizon of tricking Meiko into thinking she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows is almost identical to the time Mari made it look like her crows were eating Joe's ants in order to provoke a violent reaction from him. In both cases, the animals turned out to be perfectly safe. After everything the USC did to the boys, it [[LaserGuidedKarma only seem fair that their punishment should be the same]]. However, this does end when they [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog imprison the clearly innocent Kiyoshi and Chiyo]]]], and when Keito admits that [[spoiler:[[EvilIsPetty the whole punishment is only her plan to get back at Mari due to being humiliated in middle school by her]]]].

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Meiko. At first she appears as one of the manga's most vicious antagonists, obeying Mari's every word and being the executive agent for the Academy's totalitarian and punishing system. However, it is soon revealed that she was in fact, a ShrinkingViolet who was hated and constantly bullied all her life, and only the friendship with Mari gave her a reason to live and stand up for herself to become the confident and shameless woman she was known to be. Meiko's attitude was less due out of an inherent hatred of men but more of the result of pleasing [[StrawFeminist Mari]] as her only meaning in life, and when Kate framed her for starting a fire that apparently killed Mari's baby crows, she was broken so much that she reverted to her submissive personality, providing Kate and her cronies more imperatives to abuse her.]]

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Meiko. At first she appears as one of the manga's most vicious antagonists, obeying Mari's every word and being the executive agent for the Academy's totalitarian and punishing system. However, it is soon revealed that she was in fact, a ShrinkingViolet who was hated and constantly bullied all her life, and only the friendship with Mari gave her a reason to live and stand up for herself to become the confident and shameless woman she was known to be. Meiko's attitude was less due out of an inherent hatred of men but more of the result of pleasing Mari as her only meaning in life, and when Kate framed her for starting a fire that apparently killed Mari's baby crows, she was broken so much that she reverted to her submissive personality, providing Kate and her cronies more imperatives to abuse her.]]

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Meiko. At first she appears as one of the manga's most vicious antagonists, obeying Mari's every word and being the executive agent for the Academy's totalitarian and punishing system. However, it is soon revealed that she was in fact, a ShrinkingViolet who was hated and constantly bullied all her life, and only the friendship with Mari gave her a reason to live and stand up for herself to become the confident and shameless woman she was known to be. Meiko's totalitarian attitude was not due out of an inherent hatred of men but more of the result of pleasing Mari as her only meaning in life, and when Kate framed her for starting a fire that apparently killed Mari's baby crows, she was broken so much that she reverted to her submissive personality, providing Kate and her cronies more imperatives to abuse her.]]

* FandomRivalry: Do '''not''' mention Manga/SchoolLive with Prison School fans, just don't.

* FoeYay:
** Kiyoshi and Hana. YMMV on whether it even counts as YMMV at this point.
** [[spoiler:Keito and Mari as well. (See LesYay.)]]

* LesYay:
** Between the Vice-President Meiko, and the Prez. Mostly from the Vice-President's side.
** [[spoiler:It's revealed that Keito actually [[LovingBully has the hots for Mari something bad]], which Mari is comfortable enough returning to the point of actual sex! (At least [[HoneyTrap for blackmail]], which is why it's not outright lesbianism.)]]

* {{Squick}}: '''A lot.''' Though a great deal of it provides the main source of comedy.

** While the Official Student Council are seen as the "villains" of the second arc, due to their harsh treatment of the Underground Student Council, Keito does point that their treatment of the USC members is honestly NotSoDifferent from how the USC members would punish the boys. Both groups are psychically abusive to their prisoners and aren't above using blackmail. Even Keito's apparent MoralEventHorizon of tricking Meiko into thinking she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows is almost identical to the time Mari made it look like her crows were eating Joe's ants in order to provoke a violent reaction from him. In both cases, the animals turned out to be perfectly safe. After everything the USC did to the boys, it [[LaserGuidedKarma only seem fair that their punishment should be the same]]. However, this does end when they [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog imprison the clearly innocent Kiyoshi and Chiyo]]]], and when Keito admits that [[spoiler:[[EvilIsPetty the whole punishment is only her plan to get back at Mari due to being humiliated in middle school by her]]]].

** While the Official Student Council are seen as the "villains" of the second arc, due to their harsh treatment of the Underground Student Council, Keito does point that their treatment of the USC members is honestly NotSoDifferent from how the USC members would punish the boys. Both groups are psychically abusive to their prisoners and aren't above using blackmail. Even Keito's apparent MoralEventHorizon of tricking Meiko into thinking she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows is almost identical to the time Mari made it look like her crows were eating Joe's ants in order to provoke a violent reaction from him. In both cases, the animals turned out to be perfectly safe. After everything the USC did to the boys, it [[LaserGuidedKarma only seem fair that their punishment should be the same]].

** While the Official Student Council are seen as the "villains" of the second arc, due to their harsh treatment of the Underground Student Council, Keito does point that their treatment of the USC members is honestly NotSoDifferent from how the USC members would punish the boys. Both groups are psychically abusive to their prisoners and aren't above using blackmail. Even Keito's apparent MoralEventHorizon of tricking Meiko into thinking she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows is almost identical to the time Mari made it look like her crows were eating Joe's ants in order to provoke a violent reaction from him. In both cases, the animals turned out to be perfectly safe. After everything the USC did to the boys, it [[LaserGuidedKarma only seem fair that the OSC's punishment should be same as the USC's]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gakuto is generally regarded as the breakout star due to his {{Determinator}} characteristics and staunch belief in TrueCompanions.

** Similarly, dispute the cruelty of their punishment at the hands of the USC, the boys ''were'' guilty of their charge of voyeurism on any number of unconsenting girls.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: While the Official Student Council are seen as the "villains" of the second arc, due to their harsh treatment of the Underground Student Council, Keito does point that their treatment of the USC members is honestly NotSoDifferent from how the USC members would punish the boys. Both groups are psychically abuse to their prisoners and aren't above using blackmail. Even Keito's apparent MoralEventHorizon of tricking Meiko into thinking she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows, is almost identical to the time Mari made it look like her crows were eating Joe's ants in order to provoke a violent reaction from him. In both cases, the animals turned out to be perfectly safe. After everything the USC did to the boys, it [[LaserGuidedKarma only seem fair that the OSC's punishment should be same as the USC's]].

* StrawmanHasAPoint: While the Official Student Council are seen as the "villains" of the second arc, due to their harsh treatment of the Underground Student Council, Keito does point that their treatment of the USC members is honestly NotSoDifferent from from how the USC members would punish the boys. Both groups are psychically abuse to their prisoners and aren't above using blackmail. Even Keito's apparent MoralEventHorizon of tricking Meiko into thinking she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows, is almost identical to the time Mari made it look like her crows were eating Joe's ants in order to provoke a violent reaction from him. In both cases, the animals turned out to be perfectly safe. After everything the USC did to the boys, it [[LaserGuidedKarma only seem fair that the OSC's punishment should be same as the USC's]].

* StrawmanHasAPoint: While the Official Student Council are seen as the "villains" of the second arc, due to their harsh treatment of the Underground Student Council, Keito does point that their treatment of the USC members is honestly NotSoDifferent from from how the USC members would punish the boys. Both groups are psychically abuse to their prisoners and aren't above using blackmail. Even Keito's apparent MoralEventHorizon of tricking Meiko into thinking she'd burned alive a nest of baby crows, is almost identical to the time Mari made it look like her crows were eating Joe's ants in order to provoke a violent reaction from him. In both cases, the animals turned out to be perfectly safe. After everything the USC done to the boys, it [[LaserGuidedKarma only seem fair that OSC's punishment should be same the USC's]].