Cromartie High School
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Cover of Cromartie High School DVD box set
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魁!! クロマティ高校 (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kōkō) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Parody |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Eiji Nonaka |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | February 16, 2001 – May 24, 2006 |
| Volumes | 17 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroaki Sakurai |
| Studio | Production I.G |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 2, 2003 – March 25, 2004 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Soundtracks | |
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Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou OP Single (2003) |
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Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou OP Single (2003)
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou ED Single (2004)
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou Original Soundtrack (2004)
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou Original Soundtrack 2 (2004)
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou Original Drama CD (2004)
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou Movie Soundtrack (2005)
Cromartie High School (魁!!クロマティ高校 Sakigake!! Kuromati Kōkō?, fully titled "Forging Valiantly Ahead!! Cromartie High School") by Eiji Nonaka, is a Japanese comedy manga, which was adapted into an anime and a 2005 live-action movie titled Cromartie High – The Movie directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school for delinquents. Both the manga and anime have been released in North America by ADV Manga and ADV Films respectively. However, the manga is not yet completely published in North America due to restructuring issues at ADV. Discotek Media has since licensed the anime, after ADV's closing in 2009. The manga won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. The series aired in the United States on the cable network G4 on its Barbed Wire Biscuit late-night block and on the UK satellite channel Rockworld TV.
The series is a parody of Japanese "yankii" (juvenile delinquent) manga of the 1970s and 1980s. 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, chapter names, episode names, CD covers, and DVD covers of this series.
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