Cromartie High SChool Review

Wow, two posts so close to one another? It must be the end of the world! Or boredom!Or.. something else! I don;t know, just read the review.

Cromartie High School

In life, I have a few rules. One is that you should always take time to relax, no matter how busy are. Another is you should always have a flash drive on you, just in case. And my biggest rule? No matter what it is, nothing that has Queen’s Freddie Mercury in it is bad, and is usually something amazing. This show sees that rule, and proves it 100 fold. But I might be getting a head of myself. This is Cromartie High School.

What is Freddie Mercury doing here?

 Cromartie High School is about a school for delinquents, all bad-asses who smoke, fight at the drop of a hat, and have no concept of simple mathematics. They have more teeth then brain cells, as it were. All except for the main character that is. The main is a “normal” guy, by the name of Takashi Kamiyama. I put quotation marks because even though he might be one of the smarter members of the school, he is still dumber then a brick, and twice as gullible. Also in the cast is Hayashida, a pink mohawk individual with a strange leader streak, who is dumber then the rest of the school. Then there is Maeda, a strong punk, who isn’t completely dumb as he has to play the straight man to the others funny man. He has little presence and is captured a lot by other delinquents schools. Then there is Mechazawa. He is a robot, no one but the main cast seems to notice, and no one in the whole show cares. There is a gorilla, who is just there, and Hokuto and his lacky, who are trying to take over Cromartie High School. And finally, there is Freddie. Freddie Mercury. There is not much to say other the that an anime has FREDDIE MERCURY in it. It creates win all around itself.

Bad-ass line up. Except they are all idiots.

 The show itself is animated very limitedly, with many still images and reused images over the course of the series. But the cheap quality works with the show. The images look like they were taken right out of the manga, but again, this works. The ascetic makes it look individual and easily recognizable. The show is pure comedy, no real over driving plot, no dramatic moment, no real character development, just pure comedy. It does reuse many skits though, so if you didn’t like, say, the joke that Yutaka Takenouchi, the strongest guy at Cromartie High School, is incredibly susceptible to motion sickness, well then you are out of luck, because that will show up again at least 20 more times. But the show has no specific order to it, so you never know what you are getting next. If you don’t like the skit, wait 2-3 minutes, its going to change.

As I was watching the show, I got a distinct feeling I had seen this before. It was a scene where the characters were having a discussion about the mundanely of everyday life, and how it was the norm around the world, intercut with random scenes where Freddie is riding a horse dramatically and awesomely. And then it struck me. This was a Calvin and Hobbes comic. Not literally, but the comparison was just, right there. And the whole show feels like that.  It has the whimsical world that only a child could imagine, except real, the at times deep conversations that might even seem unimportant to the outsider, and the characters all thinking that this is normal, instead of fracking weird. And I like that part of Cromartie. It is funny, enjoyable, but just plain weird.  It is a show I fully recommend if you want a good laugh. If you don’t like lolrandom humor, or you want something with more of a plot, then this is not for you. But for everyone else, enjoy. Also it has Freddie Mercury in it. You are obligated to watch for his awesomeness alone.

Happy Freddie is Happy

Oh, by the way, there is alive action movie of Cromartie. It is even more insane then the anime, if you can believe it. but it is just an average day for the students at that school

Until next time, have fun watching.