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Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou OP Single (2003)<br>Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou ED Single (2004)<br>Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou Original Soundtrack (2004)<br>Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou Original Soundtrack 2 (2004)<br>Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou Original Drama CD (2004)<br>
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(魁!!クロマティ高校 '''Sakigake!! Kuromati Kōkō'''), by Eiji Nonaka, is a
Japan ese comedy
Anime , based on Nonaka's popular
Manga . It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school for delinquents. Both the anime and manga have been released in North America by
ADV Films and
ADV Manga respectively.
The series is a parody of Japanese juvenile delinquent manga of the 70s and 80s. The style of art resembles
Ryoichi Ikegami 's works such as ''Crying Freeman'' or ''Sanctuary''. There are also many pop culture (especially music) parodies in the characters, episode names, CD covers, and DVD covers of this series.
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.
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Names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name.
- (神山高志 ''Kamiyama Takashi'') — 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 a question correctly.
- (林田慎二郎 ''Hayashida Shinjirō'') — Kamiyama's first friend at Cromartie. He has a fake purple mohawk. Hayashida is the one delinquent that helps Kamiyama blend in to the bewildering environment of Cromartie High. It has been shown that he is dumber than the gorilla and doesn't even understand basic math.
- (前田彰 ''Maeda Akira'') — His name is a parody of a Japanese Wrestler ). A delinquent with quite a reputation (claimed to have fought 5-against-1 and won), but is ignored and disrespected because he lacks a "nickname" to signify his reputation. Often the most conservative of Kamiyama's friends, 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.
- (メカ沢新一 ''Mekasawa Shin'ichi'') — One of the most notorious delinquents of Cromartie. Though he is 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 have been made into an even stronger motorcycle, complete with missiles and rocket boosters. He has a little brother (1/5 his size) named Mechazawa Beta, also known as Mini Mechazawa, whom can only say "Mecha-ratta", despite being "more advanced". Mechazawa Beta is also a cellphone.
- (A parody of the late Freddie Mercury , Queen 's lead singer) — A mute with a nearly uncanny resemblance to Freddie Mercury. Hayashida claimed that as long as he attended, Cromartie would be the "Olympics for delinquents". Never speaks, and whenever a microphone is in his hands, he is never heard to be singing. The bottom of the microphone stand is broken, referring to Freddy Mercury's gimmick. He also rides to school on an incredibly large, incredibly powerful, possibly wild horse, which waits outside the bathroom while he's "doing his business".
- (Real name: Hiromi Go) — 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.
- (竹之内豊 ''Takenouchi Yutaka''; his name is a parody of a famous Japanese actor) — 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.
- (北斗武士 ''Hokuto Takeshi'') — 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. Also, he arrives wearing the wrong uniform (white, instead of the standard black). Despite this setback, 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.
- — 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 siad he did not want to be called "Hakuto's lackey".
- — 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.
- (山口ノボル ''Yamaguchi Noboru'') — 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 believes very strongly in intellectual humor, despising the sophomoric jokes that his friends prefer (hence his reputation). 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", and he is rivalled only by Kamiyama, who he initially knows only as "Honey Boy." Ajishiro Taro in Japanese means something like "Salt Boy", so it can be assumed that Kamiyama's pen name (Honey Boy) was made by the creator to counter this.
- (石川淳 ''Ishikawa Jun'') — Yamaguchi's right-hand man. Is often beaten by Yamaguchi for telling crude or banal jokes, which Yamaguchi hates.
- — Mother of Maeda. Never speaks and only groans in anime version (voiced by Megumi Hayashibara in the Japanese version). She has a face identical to Maeda's.
- (藤本貴一 ''Fujimoto Kiyoshi'') — 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 who prefers more peaceful solutions. He also runs a web page/ Blog /forum that he frequently posts in.
- — A group of second-year students and a self-proclaimed leader of all Cromartie's students that happens to have five members. All members wear face paints, which four of them resemble to the face paints used by the rock band KISS . This group appears often in manga version but only one episode in anime version.
- The English title of volume 1 DVD release, "Cromartie 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 ". The cover is also 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 ''.
- 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 in the Japanese dub, Asami Sanada , Miyuki Sawashiro and Megumi Hayashibara , respectively.
- The series recently began running on the cable network G4 on its Barbed Wire Biscuit late-night block.
- Each high school in the district is named for a notable , Charlie , 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.
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