Ishikawa Takuya is your average high school student and he doesnt stand out in any particular way. So he is surprised when his principal asks him to take care of some transfer students. He is even more surprised to find that the transfer students are actually 30 female students who came from a boarding school that was destroyed in fire. At first it seemed like a dream come true but he soon comes to find that the girls have knives guns and deadly training making him curious as to what kind of school these girls came from. There really isnt much to say about this manga. The first two volumes are the standard generic fare for an ecchi romance manga that relies heavily on a gimmick. A boy stumbles into relationship with a girl the girls behavior ranges from a bit weird to completely out there and boy has to deal with the consequences of her antics. The moment that I was finished reading it i forgot about it immediately almost completely. The comedy also leaves much to be desired. I cant think of a single joke that lands. Other comedy series Kill Me Baby involves guns and its jokes land much better than any joke in Mission School. But thats probably because its a gag comic that has more than one joke. Uppote also has girls with military training and guns and the girls themselves are actually guns but thats for another time and also does a better job than Mission School. The only good thing that this manga has going for it is that its short and when one of the compliments for something is that it doesnt overstay its welcome thats a clear sign that something has gone wrong. The one compliment that I can give it is that its art is decent and appropriate a lighthearted comedy manga and looking at the authors other work he does a pretty good job at the art. But then the third volume shifts gears switching from your typical comedy ecchi manga about girls with guns and military training to becoming a selfaware meta comedy manga about how the manga that these characters are in is being cancelled due to low numbers and the characters are doing everything they can to not get cancelled when the amount of pages gets to zero. Things that range from the female characters showing more skin to titillate readers to rearranging volumes of the manga on store shelves to make it more noticeable to customers in hopes that more people pick it up. It just makes me feel bad for the author who was clearly passionate about their work but ultimately ended up having their cancelled. Maybe this manga could have led somewhere interesting but well never know so the only thing that were left with is are the three volumes that are presented to us and what we got just wasnt very good. Unfortunately this shift in focus doesnt help the manga as its comedy characters and overall style largely remain the same. I cant recommend Mission School.
35 /100
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