Crows (Manga)

Crows
Original title	ク ロ ー ズ
transcription	Kurōzu
genre	Action, shons
Manga
country	Japan
author	Hiroshi Takahashi
publishing company	Akita Shoten
magazine	Shōnen Champion
First publication	1990-1998
expenditure	26th
Original video animation
title	Kōkō Butō Den Crows
Original title	高校 武 闘 伝 ク ロ ー ズ
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1994
Studio	Crack
length	45 minutes
Episodes	2
Director	Masamune Ochiai
music	Keiichi Gotō
synchronization

Crows ( Japanese ク ロ ー ズ , Kurōzu ) is a manga by the author and illustrator Hiroshi Takahashi , which appeared in Japan from 1990 to 1998. The work is assigned to the Shōnen category , has been adapted several times as a film and video series and continued in the form of further manga series. The 2007 film adaptation of Crows Zero was again adapted in the form of two mangas and films. The Worst series was also created as an offshoot of Crows .

content

The young student Bōya Harumichi ( 坊 屋 春 道 ) has registered at the Suzuran High School ( 鈴蘭 高校 , Suzuran Kōkō ), where there are many difficult-to-educate boys. The strong fighter has to fight his way through there first, but then finds many friends. Together with his friends from the Suzuran high school, he fights students from another school, the Hōsen school ( 鳳仙 学園 , Hōsen Gakuen ). In this school, many of the students are skinheads or members of the Busō Sensen ( 武装 戦 線 ) moped gang .

publication

Crows appeared in Japan between 1990 and 1998 in monthly chapters in the monthly magazine Shonen Champion published by Akita Shoten . The title of the manga refers to the raven, because the author compares a bad boy with this bird. The individual chapters have so far been summarized in 26 edited volumes. A Spanish translation was published by ECC Ediciones, and the manga was also translated into Italian.

1998 appeared as the first sequel to the band Zoku Crows Gaiden . 2001 was released as a sequel to the series Sono Go no Crows ( そ の 後 の ク ロ ー ズ ). The Worst series was created as an offshoot of this from 2002 . From May 2014 the miniseries Crows Gaiden: Katagiri Ken Monogatari ( ク ロ ー ズ 外 伝 片 桐 拳 物語 ) appeared in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Champion by Akita Shoten. It also appeared in an anthology. The series Kuzu !! has been published in Young Champion by the same publisher since 2012. - Another Crows: Kuzugami Tatsuo ( ク ズ ！！ ～ ア ナ ザ ー ク ロ ー ズ 九 頭 神 神 竜 男 ～ ) from Dai Suzuki - a spin-off from Crows .

Anime adaptations

An original video animation for the manga was published in 1994 under the title Kōkō Butō Den Crows . It was directed by Masamune Ochiai at Studio Knack . The scripts were written by Shoji Kawai and Shunsuke Nakamura . The character design comes from Koichi Kagawa and the artistic direction was by Hitoshi Nagao . The responsible producers were Hiroshi Iwakawa and Noriko Nishino . KSS released the anime in two episodes of 45 minutes each.

synchronization

role	Japanese voice
Harumichi Bōya	Hidenari Ugaki
Yasuo Yasuda	Kappei Yamaguchi
Megumi Hayashita	Akio Ōtsuka
Makoto Sugihara	Jūrōta Kosugi

music

The music of the anime was composed by Keiichi Gotō . The end credits were backed with the songs Totsuzen, Natsu no Arashi no Yōni and Outsider by The Street Beats. The band also wrote the song Bad , which is played during an episode.

reception

In the Anime Encyclopedia , the series, both manga and anime, is ascribed a serious approach to the subject of the school classes - in contrast to more humorous series on the same topic as Be-Bop-Highschool . According to the criticism, a bit of humor would have done this series good too. In addition, the series takes up the codes of honor known by the samurai and transfers them to the modern school world.

Web links

• Entry at Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 118 f .