Cromartie High School

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Cromartie High School
Original title 魁 !! ク ロ マ テ ィ 高校
transcription Sakigake !! Kuromati Kōkō
genre Shōnen , comedy
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Eiji Nonaka
publishing company Kodansha
magazine Shōnen Magazine
First publication February 16, 2001 - May 31, 2006
expenditure 17th
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Studio Production IG
length 12 minutes
Episodes 26th
Director Hiroaki Sakurai
production Noriko Kobayashi
music Kunio Suma
First broadcast October 2, 2003 on TV Tokyo
synchronization

Cromartie High School ( Japanese 魁 !! ク ロ マ テ ィ 高校 , Sakigake !! Kuromati Kōkō ) is a manga by the Japanese illustrator Eiji Nonaka . He was also known as anime - television series and feature film adapted. The work can be assigned to the genre Shōnen and Comedy and is about the life of the student Takashi Kamiyama at Cromartie High School.

action

The student Takashi Kamiyama ( 神山 高志 ) changes from his old school to the Cromartie high school. This school is full of show-offs and troublemakers, each of whom wants to be the toughest at the school. Takashi brings the best academic performance and wants to change his classmates for their better. He also writes jokes for a radio show under the pseudonym Honey Boy . Later he also wants to do this professionally.

In his plan to change the students, he soon gets support from the stupid Shinjiro Hayashida ( 林 田 慎 二郎 ) and the strong Akira Maeda ( 前 田 彰 ). But he also meets with resistance. After a while, Takashi succeeds in securing the loyalty of most of the students and also defeating a legendary biker on a motorcycle.

Manga

The manga was published in Japan from February 2001 to December 2006 by the publisher Kōdansha weekly in Shōnen Magazine . The series was summarized in 17 tankōbon (anthologies). The series consists of short, humorous stories that are usually 6 pages long.

From December 2005 to September 2007 seven volumes in German were published by Tokyopop . The translation is by Renate Clasen. The publication was finally discontinued in 2009, as the Japanese publisher ended its cooperation with Tokyopop. ADV Manga publishes the manga in the USA , Tong Li publishes it in Taiwan.

Anime

In 2003 Studio Production IG produced a 26-part anime television series based on the manga. Directed by Hiroaki Sakurai , the character design is by Atsushi Takeuchi and Masayuki Onchi . The artistic director was Shunichirō Yoshihara .

The series with 26 episodes of 12 minutes each was first broadcast from October 2, 2003 to March 25, 2004 by TV Tokyo in Japan. The channels G4, Rockworld TV and The Anime Network broadcast the anime in English. It has also been translated into French, Dutch and Tagalog.

synchronization

role Japanese voice actor ( seiyū )
Takashi Kamiyama Takahiro Sakurai
Takeshi Hokuto Norihisa Mori
Noboru Takeuchi Ryo Naitō
Masked Takenōchi Takaya Kuroda
Shinjiro Hayashida Takuma Suzuki

music

The music in the series was composed by Kunio Suma . The opening credits Jun is by Takuro Yoshida , the credits song , Trust Me , was sung by Kunio Suma.

Real film

The manga was adapted as a live action film in 2005. The screenplay was written by Shoichiro Masumoto and directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi . The film was released in Japan on July 23rd under the title Sakigake !! Cromartie Kōkō in theaters.

Reception and analysis

The manga won the Kōdansha Manga Prize in the Shōnen category in 2002 and was nominated for the Eisner Award in the USA in 2006.

The manga parodies the genre of the films and mangas involved, which emerged after the emergence of the Yanki subculture, by exaggerating the clichés in the characters. In a naturalistic aesthetic corresponding to the genre, the usual topics of the gangs are not thematized, but nonsense is told. Jason Thompson therefore praises the manga for its satirical humor, which comes from classic clichés, but above all from the dry humor of the dialogues. The “postmodern humor” is conveyed with “deliberately clichéd” and “stiff” drawings that allude to Ryoichi Ikegami's high school series from the 1970s. The Anime Encyclopedia also highlights the exceptionally crazy humor of the parody. The theme of the series is similar to Alice Academy , but it takes a softer perspective.

After the film was released in 2005, its producers were sued by Warren Cromartie , a former Yomiuri Giants player , for unauthorized use of his name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , pp. 55, 61 .
  2. ↑ Anime no Tomodachi Newsletter No. 398, 01-09
  3. ^ Joel Hahn: Kodansha Manga Award. Retrieved September 19, 2013 (Joel Hahn on the Kodansha Manga Awards).
  4. ↑ Anime News Network on the 2006 Eisner Award nominations
  5. ↑ Tatsuya Seto, Paul Gravett (eds.) And Andreas C. Knigge (transl.): 1001 Comics You Should Read Before Life Is Over . Zurich 2012, Edition Olms. P. 745.
  6. ↑ a b Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 118 .

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