Cromartie High School
魁!!クロマティ高校 (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kōkō)
Genre	Comedy, Parody
Manga
Author	Eiji Nonaka
Publisher	Kodansha ADV Manga
Other publishers: Tokyopop Tong Li Comics
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Shōnen Magazine
Original run	February 16, 2001 – May 24, 2006
Volumes	17[1]
TV anime
Director	Hiroaki Sakurai
Studio	Production I.G
Licensor	ADV Films
Network	TV Tokyo
Other networks: G4 The Anime Network Rockworld TV Hero TV
Original run	October 2, 2003 – March 25, 2004
Episodes	26
Animated film
Director	Yuudai Yamaguchi
Released	2005
Runtime	85 minutes [3]
Soundtracks
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Cromartie High School (魁!!クロマティ高校, Sakigake!! Kuromati Kōkō^?, fully titled "Charge!! Cromartie High School") by Eiji Nonaka, is a Japanese comedy manga, which was subsequently adapted into an anime and a live-action movie. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school for delinquents. Both the manga and anime have been released in North America by ADV Manga and ADV Films respectively. The manga won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen.^[4] This article is about the comics created in Japan. ... Animé redirects here. ... ADV Manga is the manga publishing division of A.D. Vision, Inc. ... ADV Films logo ADV Films is the home video publication arm of A.D. Vision based in Houston, Texas. ... The Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year. ... Bleach , a well-known example of Shōnen manga This article is about the shōnen style of anime and manga. ...

The series is a parody of Japanese "yankii" (juvenile delinquent) manga of the 70s and 80s. The style of art resembles Ryoichi Ikegami's works such as Crying Freeman or Sanctuary.^{[citation needed]} There are also many pop culture (especially music) parodies in the characters, chapter names, episode names, CD covers, and DVD covers of this series. Juvenile delinquency refers to antisocial or criminal acts performed by juveniles. ... Ryoichi Ikegami (池上 遼一 Ikegami Ryōichi, born 29 May 1944) is a manga artist. ... Crying Freeman ) is a manga and an anime (OVA) about an assassin who sheds tears after he kills his targets. ... Sanctuary is manga written by Yoshiyuki Okamura, and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. ...

In 2005, former baseball player Warren Cromartie sued the makers of a film based on the series in Japanese court. The series does not feature Cromartie himself, but does depict students who "smoke, fight with students from other schools and are depicted as ruffians", which he says defames his character as the school shares his name. ^[5] This article is about the sport. ... Warren Livingston Cromartie (born September 29, 1953, in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American baseball player. ...

Characters

Main characters

Takashi Kamiyama (神山高志, Kamiyama Takashi^?)

• Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Ben Pronsky (English)
• Japanese live-action movie actor: Takamasa Suga

The main character of the series, originally just another above-average student until he decided to enroll at Cromartie. Everyone else at Cromartie assumes that he's the toughest kid in school, since a rabbit would never go into a den of lions (unless it was a really badass rabbit). He has ambitions to change the school for the sake of bettering its student body. In secret, he is an amateur comedian who writes and sends jokes to be heard on special radio stations under the penname of "Honey Boy". In later episodes, he becomes the number one boss in Japan after winning the National Boss Championship, only winning after being the only one to answer the first question correctly. He later defeats the legendary biker Sadaharu in a race.

Shinjiro Hayashida (林田慎二郎, Hayashida Shinjirō^?)

• Voiced by: Takuma Suzuki (Japanese), Illich Guardiola (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Mitsuki Koga

Kamiyama's first friend at Cromartie, noted for his (fake) purple mohawk. Hayashida is the one delinquent that helps Kamiyama blend in to the bewildering environment of Cromartie High. Although streetwise, he is dumber than the gorilla and doesn't even understand basic math.

Akira Maeda (前田彰, Maeda Akira^?)

• Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese), Andy McAvin (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Hiroshi Yamamoto

A delinquent who claims he was always getting into fights and never lost a single one (he claims to have won a 5-against-1 fight), he is ignored and disrespected because he lacks a nickname. (In the manga, he chooses the nickname "Dragon of Razors" with the help of Hokuto's lackey, who himself decides on "The American Dream", though no one else seems to acknowledge those names.) Often the most conservative of Kamiyama's friends (and really, quite possibly the only one who actually possesses common sense), he is also frequently abducted by delinquents from Bass High School and is often the unwilling host of Cromartie High gatherings at his house. He bears a great resemblance to his mother, whose appearance normally horrifies everyone else. His name is a parody of a famous Japanese wrestler.

Shinichi Mechazawa (メカ沢新一, Mekazawa Shin'ichi^?)

• Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Shinji Takeda (voice)

One of the most notorious delinquents of Cromartie. Though it is suspected that he is actually a robot, no one but the main characters (Kamiyama, Hayashida, Maeda, etc.) seems to notice, including himself. At one point he ends up in a motorcycle accident and is repaired, only to end up combined with his motorcycle into an even stronger motorcycle, complete with missiles and rocket boosters. He has a little brother, identical but one-fifth his size, named Mechazawa Beta, also known as Mini Mechazawa. Mechazawa Beta, who can only say "Meka-ratta" despite being "more advanced", is also a cellphone. Meka-ratta is parody of character from Obake no Q-tarō, a ghost is unable to speak human language and hence can only say "Bake-ratta".

Freddie (フレディ, Furedi^?)

• Japanese movie actor: Hiroyuki Watanabe

A mute with a nearly uncanny resemblance to Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the band Queen. Hayashida claimed that as long as he attended, Cromartie would be the "Olympics for delinquents". Although he never speaks and people assume he is a mute, Freddie actually has a good singing voice and the only occasion people can hear his voice is when he sings, (as seen in manga episode of Mechazawa's birthday.) The bottom of the microphone stand is broken, referring to Freddie Mercury's gimmick. He also rides to school on an incredibly large, incredibly powerful, possibly wild horse named Kokuryu (a reference to Raoh's horse in Fist of the North Star), which waits outside the bathroom while he's "doing his business".

Gorilla (ゴリラ, Gorira^?, Hiromi Go (豪ヒロミ, Gō Hiromi^?))

A gorilla who appears often at Cromartie High. He sometimes wears a watch and is considered smarter than most of the main characters. It has been revealed that his superior is a monkey. He is also an extremely talented sushi chef. His real name is a parody of a famous Japanese singer. He has also a sister who looks just like him but has prettier eyes and red/pink flower on her left ear.

Yutaka Takenouchi (竹之内豊, Takenōchi Yutaka^?)

• Voiced by: Ryō Naitō (Japanese), John Gremillion (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Yoshihiro Takayama

The leader of Cromartie High's first-year students. Known to be an incredible fighter and a reliable person. His weakness (unknown to everyone else) is motion sickness. Though he loves field trips and excursions in general, he hates having to travel, because he gets sick very easily, and struggles with all of his might not to vomit. His name is a parody of a famous Japanese actor.

Takeshi Hokuto (北斗武士, Hokuto Takeshi^?)

• Voiced by: Norihisa Mori (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Noboru Kaneko

A son of a chairman for a major zaibatsu, who is also the chairman of the board for several high schools throughout Japan. He used his father's influence to rule every school he goes to, until he came to Cromartie, not knowing that the school is municipal. He also arrives wearing the wrong uniform (white, instead of the standard black). Despite his setbacks, he continues to plot how to rule this school, if not all of Japan or even the world. As a result of his luxurious, extravagant life, he thinks all people below him are pigs.

Hokuto's lackey (北斗の子分, Hokuto no kobun^?)

• Voiced by: Akio Suyama (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Sadayoshi Shimane

Nameless in the series. While he does have a name, no one seems to be interested in knowing it (including Hokuto himself), and they simply refer to him as "you", "other guy", or just "Hokuto's lackey". There was actually a controversy among the students, when he said he did not want to be called "Hokuto's lackey". Every time he tries to say his name though, something generally absurd happens and cuts the event short. In the manga, he helps Maeda come up with the nickname "Dragon of Razors", and Maeda suggests for Hokuto's lackey the nickname "The American Dream". They are both satisfied with their new nicknames, but no one else acknowledges them.

Masked Takenouchi (マスクド竹之内, Masukudo Takenōchi^?)

• Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (Japanese), George Manley (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Itsuji Itao

Before coming to Cromartie, he was a hijacker who tried to commandeer the plane that students of Cromartie High School were taking to go on a field trip to Kyushu. Being agoraphobic, he feels quite uneasy among strangers. When talking with Takenouchi about this problem, he ends up in a situation where he succeeds in the hijacking, but ends up staying in Japan. In the meantime, Takenouchi ends up in the Nevada desert in America. To maintain anonymity, he constantly wears a white wrestling mask, with the kanji character for bamboo, 竹 ( The first character in "Takenouchi"), which leaves everyone in Cromartie High with the impression that he is Takenouchi, although no one questions his presence even after being seen alongside the real Takenouchi. He frequently imparts elderly knowledge (being presumedly in his 30s) to the other students when they face contentious issues. In the manga, he becomes the successor of pillow-jutsu, the fictional technique of softening pillows with a sharp blow with a long stick, but this is given only very brief mention in the opening animation of the anime.

Noboru Yamaguchi (山口ノボル, Yamaguchi Noboru^?)

• Voiced by: Yuuto Kazama (Japanese), James Reed Faulkner (English)
• Japanese movie actor: Shoichiro Matsumoto

The leader of Destrade High School's first-year students. He has the nickname of "The Unsinkable Battleship", which is coincidentally the nickname of professional wrestler Stan Hansen who is extremely popular in Japan, and is mentioned to be a member of a bike gang called "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water" in his spare time. ("Ash, Wind, Fire" in Japan; both are parodies of an American Funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.) His cronies believe that he hates jokes, since he's always so serious. In truth, he is a connoisseur of sophisticated humor, despising the sophomoric jokes that his friends prefer. He is also a postcard comedian (someone who sends jokes in the mail to be heard on the radio). His pen name is "Ajishio Taro" (roughly, "Salt Boy"), and he is rivalled only by Kamiyama, who he initially knows only as "Honey Boy." He is easily recognized by his large afro hairstyle and his ever-constant sunglasses.

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Other characters

Jun Ishikawa (石川淳, Ishikawa Jun^?)

• Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese), Jacob A. Gragard (English)

Yamaguchi's right-hand man, often beaten by Yamaguchi for telling crude or banal jokes, which Yamaguchi hates.

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• Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Mike MacRae (English)

One half of a comedy duo and the main character of a variety show, which is very popular among delinquents and others, but is scorned by Yamaguchi for being (in his eyes) painfully stupid. The duo wears fuzzy animal suits.

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• Voiced by: Daiki Nakamura (Japanese), Rob Mungle (English)

Glasses-wearing partner of Pootan. He is employed in the show, but he isn't allowed to talk about it.

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• Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara
• Japanese movie actor: Hiroshi Yamamoto

Mother of Maeda. Never speaks in the English dub, grunting only in the Japanese version (voiced by Megumi Hayashibara). Her face is identical to Maeda's.

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• Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (Japanese), Ernie Manouse (English)

The leader of Bass High School's first-year students.

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• Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka

Setouchi's right-hand man.

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• Voiced by: Hideyuki Umezu

An expert ventriloquist whose puppet named Mick is newly promoted as the right-hand man by Yamaguchi.

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• Voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura

The leader of Manuel High School's first-year students. At school, he is a ruthless brawler who likes to use aggressive ways to solve problems. But at home, he is a very generous Internet user with a deep concern for netiquette. He also runs a web page/blog/forum that he frequently posts in. His polite behavior on the net, and his answering to "The Troll" (Cromartie High student Tanaka), eventually leads to the humiliating branding of Fujimoto as a shut-in (hikkikomori in Japanese).

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• Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura

A student from Cromartie High who disses Fujimoto on the internet by assuming him to be a hikkikomori. He is also known as the errand boy.

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• Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi

A delinquent that got left back. He is 17 years old and older that the regular students at Cro High. He is often referred to as "Mr." (Parody of popular Japanese artist Hirai Ken)

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• Voiced by: Miyu Irino

A big fan of Pootan. He is 10 years old and probably the youngest character.

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A legendary biker. He soon retires after being defeated in a race on the highway by Kamiyama and Mechazawa.

Jeeves

Hokuto's butler. He seems to bear a striking resemblance to Hayashida. They might be related, though neither of them realize it.

Yo-Chan

A friend of Shinichi Mechazawa (when they were in 6th Garde). He goes to Bass High School.

Mr. Imai

A man that Freddie switches places with.

Restaurant Owner

• Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese), Ernie Manouse (English)

The owner of a small sushi restaurant where the gorilla works. His shop's business is going down so his son is trying to get him to sell the shop. The two of them fight until "Gori" shows them how stubborn they are with "banana sushi".

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• Takako Kamiyama
• Shinjirobee Hayashida
• Akiko Maeda
• Freddie
• Shinichihime Mechazawa
• Toyoko Takenouchi
• Bushiko Hokuto
• Hokuto's Lackey

Four Kings of Cromartie

A group of second-year students and self-proclaimed leaders of all Cromartie's students, who happen to have five members. All five wear face paints, with four of them resembling members of the rock band KISS. (The final member styles his face paint after professional wrestler The Great Muta.) This group appears often in manga version, but in only one episode of the anime version.

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A delinquent who was said to be so bad that no one could control him.

Hospitalizer of Junior No. 3

A delinquent who was said to be so bad that whenever he lost his cool he would beat his opponents until they were a bloody mess.

Masa (Victory by default)

The delinquent who ate all of Kamiyama's pencils on the first day. He is said to be so bad that he never had to fight anyone.This is because he looked so tough that anyone he might have fought got scared and tried to get on his good side.

Gerotan

The main character of a surreal show that comes on when Pootan doesn't come on. He is known to throw up easily.

Episode list

Main article: List of Cromartie High School episodes

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Trivia

• The English title of volume 1 DVD release, "Cromartian Rhapsody", is a parody of the 1975 Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody". The cover is also a parody of Queen's 1974 album Queen II.
• The English title of volume 2 DVD release, "Hey Dude", is a parody of the 1968 Beatles song "Hey Jude". (Hey Dude is also a parody song on a Beatallica album.) The cover is a parody of The Beatles album Please Please Me.
• The English title and cover of the volume 3 DVD release, "Sailin' Fools", is a parody of the 1972 Little Feat album Sailin' Shoes.
  • However, the English volume 3 title was advertised as "Dumb as You Are" on the volume 2 DVD. The name is a parody of Nirvana's 1991 single Come as You Are.
• The English cover of the volume 4 DVD release, "Mount Rockmore", is a parody of the 1970 Deep Purple album Deep Purple in Rock.
• The Japanese original soundtrack album's CD cover is a parody of the 1991 Nirvana album Nevermind.
• A reference to a Warren Cromartie Secondary School appears in the cover art for Rush's album Signals.
• Dejiko, Puchiko and Piyoko from the anime Di Gi Charat make several cameos in the anime. They are voiced by their original voice actors, Asami Sanada, Miyuki Sawashiro and Megumi Hayashibara, respectively.
• The series began running in the United States on the cable network G4 on its Barbed Wire Biscuit late-night block and on the UK satellite channel Rockworld TV.
• Each high school in the district is named for a notable Gaijin (non-Japanese) player who became famous in Japanese professional baseball: Randy Bass, Charlie Manuel, Orestes Destrade, and, of course, Warren Cromartie.
• The mystery song being hummed in episode 3 is "Ningen Nante" by Takuro Yoshida, who also performed the opening theme.
• The last episode of the show is a parody of Maria-sama ga Miteru. This is due to the opening title of the show, the type of uniforms worn by the students and the look of the campus itself. Kamiyama and Hayashida's hairstyle look like Yoshino Shimazu and Yumi Fukuzawa from said show respectively. Despite the look of the parody, Hokuto once again wears the wrong uniform; a standard blue and white sailor-school uniform, where he wears a white skirt instead.
• There is also a live-action movie of Cromartie High School which has many events loosely based on the anime.
• In the manga, each chapter title is usually a song title, a song lyric, or even a parody of a title or lyric.
• Various characters from Di Gi Charat make cameos in the series, including Dejiko, Puchiko, and Piyoko.

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Theme songs

Opening:

• "Jun" by Takuro Yoshida

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• "Trust Me" by Kunio Suma Bi Kyo Ran

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See also

• Sakigake!! Otokojuku
• Osu!! Karate Bu

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Tagline

• Takashi Kamiyama (at the opening of every show, English version): "The guys that appear in this anime are delinquents. Please do not under any circumstances imitate anything they do. Don't do it, man! I'm serious, it's a bad idea!"

References

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External links

• Official Cromartie Site
• TV Tokyo Cromartie Site
• Production I.G Cromartie Site
• ADV Films Cromartie Site
• Cromartie High School at TV.com