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Cromartie High School vol. 1 | |
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Review Cromartie High is something apart from most anime. The humor is extremely blunt which can have you laughing out loud or just not interested one bit. When I first heard about this show, I thought no way would I enjoy an all male delinquint school show, well after the opening theme I was already laughing without noticing it. The episodes are about twelve and a half minutes long, with eight on this volume. This is a very good thing however, because each episode offers a new setting of humor. So if you find episode one funny, but not two, then you have plently more variety left to explore. Takahashi Kamiyama was sent to Cromartie High, the highschool for the baddest delinquints. If you wanna find out why he got sent there, you have to read the manga (you will be brain-washed to do so in episode one as they continually force the main character to sporadically mention this). Class begins in the first episode with Kamiyama trying to act cool and fit in with the other guys. He meets various freaks that eat pencils and have pink mohawks along with a gorilla and man that has a mustache who resembles a 35 year old pro-wrestler. Oddly enough, those guys aren't the weirdest of the bunch as you meet a three foot tall student, a robot named Mechazwa. Kamiyama and crew obsess over this as different students confront Mechazawa with something they wanted to tell him, and each time he's expecting it to be something about him being a robot but nobody else seems to notice. There was one episode I didn't find all that great. The whole thing consists of the students humming a song and trying to remember what it was called. The gang forms a meeting and decides they'll ask around school and try to find out what it is. Next you meet the leader of Cromartie High's class year one school Yutaka Nakaguchi, and his rival Noboru Yamaguchi, the leader of Destrade High. This new badass secretly has a love for comedy, but he can't break his serious complexion because he's afraid he'll lose respect. His crew assumes that he's always pissed off and planning how to take over Cromartie, but he's actually trying to think up jokes to send in to a radio station. In another episode he secretly gets frustrated with a comedy show on tv that seems to be very popular. He forces himself to watch all 768 plus episodes to try and understand why it's so funny and therefore become a better comedian. He fails. Then we have Yutaka Takanuchi, the strongest of Cromartie's class year one. However being as badass as he appears, he fears riding in cars because he gets extremely motion sick but he can't let the other delinquints find out. Throughout the episode he's forced to endure hiding his motion sickness as they ride around for hours in a bus and cab. Next up is Takeshi Akudo, who uses his fathers power and personal army to control highschools. He transfers to Cromartie in attempt to gain control then realizes he made a mistake when he's confronted by the gorilla student and other various freaks. He starts making up lies to tell the students and digs himself into a pretty deep hole, ending up as their captain in attempt to stop his own father, a ruthless tyrant secretly controlling the government. The final episode begins with the students getting a physical check. As you can assume the doctor runs into a problem when he confronts Mechazawa. After freaking out, he sends him to a "hospital" AKA local electronics store. Kamiyama goes with him and reassures that the electronics store can help him. Well, Mechazawa comes out acting like an actual robot, instead of his old delinquint self. Personally I loved this show, but I can easily see how someone wouldn't be interested. The wackiness takes it pretty far. The only way I can recommend this to you is if you enjoy odd situations and blunt humor.
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Publisher: ADV Films Run Time: 100 Minutes Type: TV Series Genre: Comedy Reviewed by: Balthier Date reviewed: 03/16/05 
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