I finished the anime twice, and I got curious and read the manga. I read the manga all the way through to the end. I sat through that awful cavalry arc. I watied for the wet t-shirt which never came. I was so happy when Chiyo accepted Kiyoshi. Then, they freaking ruined it on the last page. There is no happy ending. It is one filled with anger. My anger, and those who were read along with me. It is not even a good sad ending. It is a half-assed ending. The bros never even got together in the end, they were just floating somewhere else in some river.

This used to be about bros being bros, but after chapter 85 it changed to bros getting along with girls. At that point it was already deteriorating. There is nothing wrong with putting girls into the mix, but the bros grow further apart with every chapter.

When I was reading this manga I didn't laugh, which speaks volumes for a comedy series. The jokes became redundant and stopped being funny, the chapters dragged on. In fact, I was feeling pretty stressed while reading this, because the misunderstandings keep piling on top of one another, and their problems are never solved. The characters never get to be happy, absolutely no one gets the last laugh since everyone is so stressed, neither the protagonists nor the antagonists. Do they accomplish anything? No, misunderstandings and problems just keep accumulating until the manga ENDED. So this is just a story without a conclusion. Well, there IS one, but no one is happy since the no one has tried to solve any of their problems. When they DO try, however, nothing changes in the end because they screw up because 1.JUST HURRY UP AND DO IT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE or 2.GODDAMMIT STOP BEING A SIMP. A prime example is when Gakuto was trying to apologize to Mitsuko but failed because he is a greedy simp.

However, there is one aspect I would like to praise this manga for, and that is Risa x Andre. The author has stuck with Andre's masochist setting till the end, and not only that, he broke this setting by introducing him to the kindness of Risa. This is not a bad thing, this shows that Andre is growing as a character, and they are heading towards a healthy relationship. On the other hand, they did a bad job with Joe and his ant-loving setting. After the OVA episode, which is around chapter 85-88 out of 278 chapters, there is not another mention of ants. While this does not bother me considering loving ants is quite restrictive and can stump the author, that is not an excuse to just forget that he had this setting and not even mention it let alone write up an excuse for it when the manga is not even half-way done. Everyone except for Risa x Andre just kinda stopped growing and developing after a while, in fact, they are regressing, and at the end, you feel like nothing has really improved since the beginning of the series, but instead everything got worse. There are some developments with Hana x Kiyoshi, but at the very end, they decided to make Hana a million times more bitchy, pretty much nuking the ship in order to let Chiyo x Kiyoshi set sail, only to nuke it with a shit eating grin, effectively nullifying all developments up until that point.

This is the first time saying this, but I wish I never started the manga. I should've stopped at the anime. Reading the manga just wasted my time with, I don't know, 50-100 chapters of shitty cavalry arc and not an ounce of the bro essence found during their prison days. There is so much I want to express but I can't write more, because I just finished this and I am absolutely livid with how it ended. I want my hours back, Prison School.