Cromartie High School

Synopsis:

Cromartie High School, well... uh... hm. Y'know, I'm kind of stumped here. How do you write a synopsis for an anime about nothing? I guess it goes a little something like this, Takashi Kamiyama has just enrolled himself into the famous school of delinquents, Cromartie High School. Instead of taking the high road and proving himself better than anyone at school, he attempts to better the student body through a series of stupid questions and idiotic situations that actually make the ruffians think before acting.


Reviewer: Endosanity
Number of episodes watched: 26 (each clocking in at roughly about 10 minutes)


Review:

It's crazy, it's random, and it's pretty damn funny, it's Cromartie High School. An anime that manages to present it's own style while being as stupid as it wants to be and it pulls this off quite well. Each episode usually contains 2 small skit episodes which usually consist of nothing more than a bunch of close ups of peoples faces saying something random that you would not expect from a delinquent. Thinking about things like car sickness, how to become a famous comedian, and who gets to use the bathroom next, you'll either be laughing or sighing at this shows constant shallow humor. There are also the running visual gags like having a robot, a gorilla, and some guy that looks like Freddie Mercury during the later years, as fellow students that appear in almost every episode which I found to be freakin' hilarious. Despite this anime's ridiculous comedy routine, with each episode only being 10 minutes the Japanese dialog tends to come at you rather fast which is fine if you're a seasoned subtitle reader but otherwise things might fly by too quickly to read. Well, (and I can't believe I'm going to say this but...) flip it on over to the English dubbed track as it's actually not bad and listening to a bunch of gruff sounding guys belting out "Americanized" punchlines helped the one-liners sink in alot easier because some of the anime, manga, and Japanese culture parodied references might fall on deaf ears if you're not a veteran anime viewer.

Cromartie High School is a stupid show that will make you laugh at it's lame-ass comedy one way or another and dammit, you gotta respect that. Not something I'd recommend to rush to see but if you got 10 minutes to spare then watch an episode, laugh, then move onto something else but don't forget to come back because everyone needs a little brainless humor. But, if you don't understand this anime's take on humility, then please... go pick up your sense of humor you left at the door and leave.

Cromartie High School (opening)

Recommendation: |Average|

Media Type: DVD
From: ADV/Section23
Spoken Languages: Japanese;English
Subtitles: English