Series synopsis
Cromartie High School, also known as 魁!! クロマティ高校 is a Japanese animation comedy television series that premiered on TV Tokyo on October 3, 2003. It ended on March 26, 2004. It was created by Eiji Nonaka. It stars Takahiro Sakurai, Mika Kanai, Norio Wakamoto and Akio Suyama.
Folks, meet Takashi Kamiyama. Enrolled at Cromartie High, where everybody is a delinquent, Kamiyama is apparently the only non-delinquent in the school. Logically, therefore, he must be the toughest in his class—by the rather twisted logic that only a really tough rabbit would lie down with lions. Thus begins a story that parodies every cliché of tough-guy anime that you've ever heard of, and some you haven't. Oh, and Freddie Mercury is in it, too.
Premise
Folks, meet Takashi Kamiyama. Enrolled at Cromartie High, where everybody is a delinquent, Kamiyama is apparently the only non-delinquent in the school. Logically, therefore, he must be the toughest in his class—by the rather twisted logic that only a really tough rabbit would lie down with lions. Thus begins a story that parodies every cliché of tough-guy anime that you've ever heard of, and some you haven't. Oh, and Freddie Mercury is in it, too.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Takahiro Sakurai as Takashi Kamiyama (voice)
- Mika Kanai as Beta Mechazawa (voice)
- Norio Wakamoto as Shinichi Mechazawa (voice)
- Akio Suyama as Hokuto no kobun (voice)
- Tetsu Inada as Akira Maeda (voice)
- Tomoyuki Shimura as Kiichi Fujimoto (voice)
- Norihisa Mori as Takeshi Hokuto (voice)
- Takuma Suzuki as Shinjiro Hayashida (voice)
Supporting cast
- Takaya Kuroda as Masked Takenouchi (voice)
- Youto Kazama as Noboru Yamaguchi (voice)
- Ayaka Saito as Gero-tan (voice)
- Daiki Nakamura as Pootan's partner (voice)
- Hiroshi Yanaka as Akio Takejo (voice)
- Kenichi Suzumura as Makio Tanaka (voice)
- Kiyoyuki Yanada as Jackson Setouchi (voice)
- Masami Kikuchi as Ken Hirai (voice)
- Takahiro Yoshimizu as Ichiro Yamamoto (voice)
- Yuji Ueda as Jun Ishikawa (voice)
Guest cast
- Megumi Hayashibara as Maeda's Mother (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 27 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | July 23, 2005 | July 23, 2005 |
| Season 1 | 26 | October 3, 2003 | March 26, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cromartie High – The Movie | July 23, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
I Used to be a Bad Boy Bragging Contest It’s Takashi Kamiyama’s first day at Cromartie High. The problem is that it’s a school for delinquents and Kamiyama doesn’t exactly fit in, Luckily, he has Shinjiro Hayashida to show him around. They go through the school meeting each of its wacky and hilarious students, including the three weirdest. When they come to the weirdest of three weirdest, Mechazawa, they instantly recognize that he’s a robot. But, no one else says anything. |
October 3, 2003 |
| 2 |
Blade Runners High Kamiyama and Hayashida are the only two who seem to realize that Mechazawa is actually a robot. They spy on him to see if anyone else notices that he’s a robot. After two close calls, the boys give up. After school they spot Mechazawa getting beat up by some bullies from a rival school. Kamiyama and Hayashida spy on him some more, but nobody seems to notice, not even when they stab Mechazawa with a knife that simply breaks on his hard body. |
October 10, 2003 |
| 3 |
Cromartie High (Co-Ed) Shinjiro Hayashida hears Shinichi Mechazawa humming a song in the bathroom. Later that day, he starts humming the same tune, but can’t remember the name or artist. He asks Kamiyama, but he can’t remember it either. Pretty soon, the whole school is humming the song thinking of what its called. At the end of the day, nobody figured it out. As Kamiyama heads out, he hears Mechazawa humming the song! He asks him about it, but accidentally says that he knows it. Now, he can’t ask the only person who knows the song’s name, or else he’ll look like a “tool”. |
October 17, 2003 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TV Tokyo |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 3, 2003 |
| Last aired | March 26, 2004 |
| Runtime | 12 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Friday |