Cromartie High School Volume 1: Cromartian Rhapsody - Anime News Network
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- 08/06/05
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"...Cromartie High is probably the smartest comedy to ever grace anime."
"If you love a good laugh, you need to see this."
The problem with comedy series is that they?ve all become so alike and so redundant that even the funniest of jokes have been driven into the ground. Maybe that?s what makes Cromartie High School so hilarious and so entertaining?its carefree pursuit of its own comedic path, the wealth of original jokes it pulls out of nowhere, and the fact that it?s unlike anything else out there. Kamiyama has just enrolled in
Cromartie High School, a school full of delinquents. Befriending a guy whose mohawk has a life of its own, he discovers that the school is filled with a barrage of quirky characters, including a gorilla, a robot... and a guy who looks like
Freddie Mercury. Despite all the grunting and talk of head-bashing, the show couldn?t be further away from action-oriented. All the characters are so amiable and multi-sided that by the end of it all, you kind of wish you could hang out with them. The episodes themselves are incredibly random. Clocking in at around 10 minutes each, they carry the same kind of punch-lines you?d see in the best deadpan comedians. Whether it?s a bunch of thugs trying to figure out the name of a song stuck in somebody?s head, or a rival delinquent on the noble pursuit of the perfect joke, the humor is as far away from slapstick one could get. Despite the goofy characters and the occasional gags, Cromartie High is probably the smartest comedy to ever grace anime. If you love a good laugh, you need to see this.
Posted on Saturday, August 06, 2005 (Archive on Tuesday, September 06, 2005)