Product Details

• Actors: Akitarô Daichi, Megumi Hayashibara, Unshô Ishizuka, Shinji Nakae, Akimasa Omori
• Directors: Hiroaki Sakurai, Steven Foster
• Writers: Andrew Kent, Eiji Nonaka, Kathleen Moynihan
• Producers: Steven Foster, John Ledford, Mark Williams
• Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
• Run Time: 12 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007D4MBS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,392 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Cromartie High School (Vol. 1)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL VOL 1:CROMARTIA - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not hentai (last review is wrong), pure comedy, March 4, 2005

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TS - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cromartie High School (Vol. 1) + Series Box and Manga (DVD)

The last reviewer has no idea what he is talking about. If you look at his reviews they are all over the place.

This anime is hilarious. If you want to see one of the best parodies of "tough guy" manga, this is it! Great characters, hilarious situations, cool soundtrack. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard reading a manga. It's pretty weird and sometimes non-sequitor (Freddy mercury, gorilla, and mechazawa are really bizarre). Check out the clip (I prefer the subtitled version, but this dub is not bad) and be prepared to laugh! If you dig the clip you should definitely check out the manga.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anime comedy taken to a new level!!, April 21, 2006

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FizzWiz (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cromartie High School (Vol. 1) + Series Box and Manga (DVD)

Sarcastic, witty, but sensible humor. It's hard to come up with one word to describe this anime. The anime follows the manga very closely. The manga has a few things in it which are funny that are not on the DVD version, but the video is just as funny because you really feel that the English dubbing is really these characters themselves. Unusually, the English dub is much better than the Japanese version, and at least 95% of the people who watch that would agree with that. So many unexpected characters, thoughts, and reactions come into play, and the combination consistently flows. This anime even makes fun of anime itself it's so funny! Even the intro. with a record playing before you begin an episode is cool the way it's setup.

In the first or second episode, there's a surprise of a quick flash of about 5 other characters Kamiyama can look like, and when you see it, you can't stop laughing. There's another episode where we meet one of Kamiyama's friends, Kokaku, but the difference in animation is so great that you can't help but notice and easily understand why they are so different. We are also introduced to people's love for the show Geroten and Pooten.

You may be surprised to see the rights that the anime creators obtained to portray those episodes. And of course everyone loves the robot, Mechazawa, who everyone likes to assume can fix electronics. Or the 400 pound gorilla and Freddie who never say a word, but are placed at all the right moments. There's also Yutaka Takenouchi who is really strong, but is prone to motion sickness. You see how the characters' strengths and weaknesses play throughout the series.

This comedy is so good I'd even recommend it to non-comedy fans it is that funny. And I don't normally say that, plus I'm usually not big on too much comedy. A breakthrough that you can't miss and is worth every millipenny!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insane!, May 8, 2005

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Henrik "da laffin tlhIngan" (in the Anime aisle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cromartie High School (Vol. 1) + Series Box and Manga (DVD)

Cromartie High School is just insane. Whether it borrows from American pop culture (Freddie Mercury, Queen, etc) or Japanese culture, it's probably closer to a higher-class version of South Park than anything else. Yes, the animation is crude (the "16 year olds" look much older to me, almost like Yakuza), but the real strength is in the writing, and the timing is just great.

My favorite character so far is Mechazawa, a "tin can" style robot who admits that he isn't good with machines, but others keep asking him to program their VCRs, fix their CD players, etc., but most of them see him as just another student.

Highly recommended.