Cromartie High School Vol. 1
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
What do you get if you mix a bunch of teenage bad assess, a Freddy Mercury look-a-like, a gorilla, a robot and a Japanese High School? The answer is
I’ve overlooked this show for quite a few months but after watching the first volume I have no idea why I did. Quite frankly this show is so much fun that I love it. When I sat down to watch this it was 11pm, I had a rough day and my brain was on standby. But it was the perfect show for that time.
CHS is a short 10 minute per episode series with a common one joke per episode theme. It follows the adventures of Takashi Kamiyama and his fellow delinquents through fights and the down right weird. The humor is simple but oh-so funny. The animation is basic but it carries its own style and is enough to get the job done. If anyone watches this show for its visuals they deserve to be slapped in the face.Cromartie strikes me as a watered down Beavis and Butthead, but can provide just as much satisfaction.
I haven’t checked out the sub yet. But to give credit where its due, the dub is bloody fantastic and even though the setting is distinctly Japanese you can easily see this in any school. The DVD is also chock full of extras. Unfortunately if you missed this series in ADV’s £1 a volume sale, then kick yourself. This is a fantastic buy.
At the moment my favourite character is tied between Takashi Kamiyama and Noboru Yamaguchi. Takashi’s stupidity and ignorance is just so funny to watch and Noboru’s pursuit of comic perfection is incredibly funny. So far the best seen is in the first episode while Takashi is reading the “How to be a bad ass”
While I’ve only had enough time to watch volume one, with three volumes left there is huge amount of episodes to plough through. And I look forward to each disc.