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Although streetwise, he is dumber than the gorilla and does not even understand basic math. Hayashida is the one delinquent that helps Kamiyama blend into the bewildering environment of Cromartie High. Shinjiro Hayashida ( 林田慎二郎, Hayashida Shinjirō) Voiced by: Takuma Suzuki (Japanese) Illich Guardiola (English) Portrayed by: Mitsuki Koga Kamiyama's first friend at Cromartie, noted for his purple mohawk. He later defeats the legendary biker Sadaharu in a race. In later episodes, he becomes the number one boss in Japan after winning the National Boss Championship, only winning after being the only one to answer the first question correctly. In secret, he is an amateur comedian who writes and sends jokes to be heard on special radio stations under the penname of 'Honey Boy' ( ハチミツ, Hachimitsu). He has ambitions to change the school for the sake of bettering its student body. Everyone else at Cromartie assumes that he is the toughest kid in school, since a rabbit would never go into a den of lions. Takashi Kamiyama, is an honor student, but in order to go to the same high school as his best friend who helped him in high school, he took the entrance exam for Cromartie High School, so Kamiyama ended up entering the school alone.Ĭharacters Main characters Takashi Kamiyama ( 神山高志, Kamiyama Takashi ) Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese) Ben Pronsky (English) Portrayed by: Takamasa Suga Originally just another above-average student until he decided to enroll at Cromartie.

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Tokyo Metropolitan Cromartie High School is a highly feared high school and surprisingly full of idiots that has been dubbed 'the big league of bad guys' with a selection of delinquents. The manga won the 26th Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2002. It was followed by a spin-off sequel titled Cromartie Kōkō Shokuinshitsu in 2018, launched on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app.Ĭromartie High School has had over 4.5 million copies in circulation.

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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. Discotek Media has since licensed the anime, after ADV's closing in 2009.

However, the manga was not completely published in North America due to restructuring issues at ADV. The style of art resembles Ryoichi Ikegami's works such as Otoko-gumi and Otoko Ōzora.īoth the manga and anime have been released in North America by ADV Manga and ADV Films, respectively. The series is a parody of Japanese yankii manga of the 1970s and 1980s. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school for delinquents.

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. 'Forging Valiantly Ahead!! Cromartie High School') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiji Nonaka. Cromartie High School ( Japanese: 魁!!クロマティ高校, Hepburn: Sakigake!! Kuromati Kōkō, lit.