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Funimation Lists Live-Action As the Gods Will, Prison School Home Video Releases

Prison School series on June 26.

Funimation was previously Fantasia International Film Festival.

Funimation describes the story:

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. The last thing he expects is for the gods to answer. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat. Who will survive the gods' games?

As the Gods Will Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen) as Shun's violence-loving classmate Takeru Amaya.

Funimation simulcast for the Prison School series in 2015. Funimation describes the story:

When the prestigious all-girls Hachimitsu Private Academy becomes co-ed, five young men are the first males to attend. But the girls aren't so accepting of their new classmates. After the boys get caught peeping, The Underground Student Council enforces an absurd punishment. For a month, the boys must live within the school's very own penal system while enduring long, hard, and humiliating tasks.

Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl, Nuigurumaa Z) directed the late-night series at the production studio ROBOT.

The manga also inspired a 12-episode television Yen Press is releasing the manga.

[Via WTK]