Cromartie High School

Cromartie High School (Japanese: 魁!!クロマティ高校, Hepburn: Sakigake!! Kuromati Kōkō, lit. "Forging Valiantly Ahead!! Cromartie High School") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiji Nonaka. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2000 to May 2006, with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school for delinquents. The series is a parody of Japanese yankii manga of the 1970s and 1980s. The style of art resembles Ryoichi Ikegami's works such as Otoko-gumi and Otoko Ōzora.

Both the manga and anime have been released in North America by ADV Manga and ADV Films, respectively. However, the manga was not 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 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. It was followed by a spin-off sequel titled Cromartie Kōkō Shokuinshitsu in 2018, launched on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app.

Cromartie High School has had over 4.5 million copies in circulation. The manga won the 26th Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2002.

Cast

 * Takashi Kamiyama (神山 高志, Kamiyama Takashi)
 * Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese); Ben Pronsky (English)


 * Shinjiro Hayashida (林田 慎二郎, Hayashida Shinjirō)
 * Voiced by: Takuma Suzuki (Japanese); Illich Guardiola (English)


 * Akira Maeda (前田 彰, Maeda Akira)
 * Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese); Andy McAvin (English)


 * Shinichi Mechazawa (メカ沢 新一, Mekazawa Shin'ichi)
 * Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese); Jay Hickman (English)


 * Yutaka Takenouchi (竹之内 豊, Takenouchi Yutaka)
 * Voiced by: Ryō Naitō (Japanese); John Gremillion (English)


 * Takeshi Hokuto (北斗 武士, Hokuto Takeshi)
 * Voiced by: Norihisa Mori (Japanese); Jason Douglas (English)


 * Hokuto's lackey (北斗の子分, Hokuto no kobun)
 * Voiced by: Akio Suyama (Japanese); Greg Ayres (English)


 * Masked Takenouchi (マスクド竹之内, Masukudo Takenouchi)
 * Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (Japanese); George Manley (English)


 * Noboru Yamaguchi (山口 ノボル, Yamaguchi Noboru)
 * Voiced by: Yuuto Kazama (Japanese); James Faulkner (English)


 * Jun Ishikawa (石川 淳, Ishikawa Jun)
 * Voiced by: Yūji Ueda (Japanese); Jacob A. Gragard (English)


 * Pootan (プータン, Pūtan)
 * Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese); Mike MacRae (English)


 * Friend of Pootan (プータンの相棒, Pūtan no Aibō)
 * Voiced by: Daiki Nakamura (Japanese); Rob Mungle (English)


 * Jackson Setouchi (瀬戸内 ジャクソン, Setouchi Jakuson)
 * Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (Japanese); Ernie Manouse (English)


 * Akio Takejo (竹城 秋夫, Takejō Akio)
 * Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese); Ty Mahany (English)


 * Restaurant Owner
 * Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese); Ernie Manouse (English)