Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Shinobu_sama
Nichijou for bad boys.
Story isn't really unique.
Art style is fitting for the story.
Characters were all unusually strong, stupid, or just plain weirdos.
Characters rarely react to anything in a realistic way (good thing).
You will like it if you like absurdity and gag humor. Worth trying out.
Again, Nichijou for bad boys.
Hey MAL, not everyone needs 500 words to say what they think about something.
I made a succinct and honest review so take the damn thing and post it. Okay I'm just adding random words now. Boobies, video games, music, weed, water, weight, kitty cat, blanket, pillow, beer, cigarette, gotta piss.
Read at the sourceCleansedSpace
I think some parts were pretty funny, but some episodes are fillers straight retarded. If a few words, this anime had too many extra episodes. Now, if the director would've cut some episodes you would've had a fine comedy.
I voted 7 because some parts were hilarious but I firmly believe this anime is average and just for the boiss.
There's a robot in the anime and everyone thinks the robot is like a human and some episodes were specifically about the robot in action scenes and some other boring asf stuff where nothing really happens and you are supposed to laugh for any ridiculous reaction of a character...
This anime is for you if you already watched all other anime comedies and you have a lot of extra time.
Read at the sourceXaskisX
Long story short it is a great comedy, but terrible anime.
For ones who are interested in more details... I propose to think what makes a good comedy anime, good? Your innate answer would be
jokes, and essentially you are absolutely right in your thoughts, but aside from that the comedy ANIME just like all other genres needs to fit in strict time limitations, provide good visuals, have a good sound work etc. Which were the breaking point of this show in my opinion.
So let's go through all of them step by step:
Story - 1:
Whereas story in purely comedy show is not essential, i think that this is the right section to explain why time limitation is such a severe problem for comedy shows. Fitting anime into the frames of episode is not an easy job, but while in the most shows you can creat…
Read at the sourceSeaOfRed
This one's a bit of a hit or miss.
You'll either really love it and think its the greatest comedy ever, or it'll kinda just make you smile sometimes. My experience falls into the latter. That being said I have developed a fondness for this show through a sort of self imposed Stockholm syndrome. I finished this because someone I respect really likes this show and I wanted to like it too.
Overall you'll know if you like it after 3 episodes.
Most people like it. But from what I've heard if you like it you will LOVE it.
Its worth checking out.
I'd give it a 6. (which is a better than average score)
REDUNDANT SHIT:
Animation is garbage but only for the sake of enhancing the comedy
Characters are jokes
Story is episodic
Sound is the same as the animation
(its worth mentioning the OP and E…
Read at the sourceLIQfilms
Manly men doing manly things has been a staple in the medium since the early 80s and 70s with shows such as Fist of the North Star, Dragon Ball and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure easily being the most popular examples. These shows would typically feature a man with huge muscles with some kind of special technique, going around and beating the everlasting shit out of everyone on their journey while shedding the utmost manliest of manly tears at the sight of their fallen friends. Enter the slice of life and the cute girls doing cute things genre that was ushered in at the beginning of the early 2000s at the wings of the moe boom where visual novels were becoming more and more mainstream. These shows were typically focused on a group of cute girls going about their everyday lives while attending hi…
Read at the sourcethemegamancave
Every once in awhile with anime you need to change genres up a bit to help reset and refresh your tastes. That's exactly what I did with Cromartie High School, adapted by Production I.G (Attack on Titan, FLCL) in 2003. Its aimless, campy nature is hilarious and juxtaposes well with its classroom setting. Cleverly placed jokes, eccentric bad ass characters and an ironic setting makes it one of anime’s best comedies of all time.
As expected, Cromartie opens up with a bang. The opening sequence features our main protagonist, Kamiyama swimming in a sea of hopeless degenerates, only fixated on how tough or bad ass they are. Kamiyama joined the school seemingly by mistake, and he starts many episodes out with a “dearest mother” monologue. A perfect Gary Stu of the series. In the first episode h…
Read at the sourceRyuuguu_Azaka
I have to admit. When I discovered this anime not long ago I didn't expect anything amazing. I turned it on and I get this warning about characters being delinquents. Starts nice. Next I get awesome opening. I love it! But the very first scene is what made me felt for this anime. Seriously I didn't expect some random guy eating dropped pencil. It sounds stupid, it is stupid but it made me laugh so hard. And from now on most the time I enjoyed this title sooooo hard!
Story: each episode covers different story, sometimes episodes are vaguely connected but that is strength of this anime. You never know what will happen next. Sometimes I felt some longer story would be nice but then Sakigake made ma laugh so hard I instantly forgot about that stupid wish.
'Adventures' of Kamiyama and his frie…
Read at the sourcePomegranateBoy
I take comedy seriously. Many anime shows in the comedy genre or with comedic elements are not very original, get lost in translation or simply swing and miss. Cromartie High School blasts through each of these tests astride a gigantic, manly horse. There are things you will laugh at in this show that you have never seen before and will never see again. The maturity of storytelling in these twelve-minute tidbits is refreshing and allows the series to jump from simple "hey! look at this crazy thing!" type gags to meta reflections on life and its absurdity at a rather joyous pace. "Absurd" is really the best description for this show. Delightfully absurd.
Read at the sourceNervin
School comedies are commonplace in the anime scene, where the usual is a boy-girl relationship in which romantic/comedic events take place, with sufficient side characters (female or male), in conjunction of maybe some dramatic, mysterious or fantastic elements. Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou defies all of these by making a parody of it, and gives the audience a very generic delinquent high school setting, with very diverse and fantastic characters. Instead of beautiful girls and shōnen protagonists, here, have a gorilla, a robot with a godlike voice and friggin' Freddie Mercury!
There is not much story to Sakigake!! Cromartie Kokou, as its main purpose is to make a parody of the genre. The setting is very cliché: Kamiyama enrolls at Cromartie High, where everyone is a delinquent. Because of…
Read at the sourceEzekiel_01
Anime Review No.9
Cromartie High school a 10-11 minute long School Comedy series featuring a school full of delinquent badass and it also filled with cool weird stuff that will spice up the comedy. Not your typical school comedy which always use the same formula all over again which is becoming dull and not memorable but in “Cromartie High school you will have difficult time to forget it for it so weird you can’t even compare it with other high school comedies meaning Cromartie gained its identity and more importantly it’s originality.
Warning the entire overview might contain spoilers
Plot (6/10)
Anyways in Cromartie there is no plot at all. The premise is just composed of extremely random story that can be both enjoyable and sometimes dull at times. Cromartie High school is a school co…
Read at the sourceRealhumanbean
Comedy is an art. Throughout human existence comedy has existed. It is a way to bring humans together in fun and merriment. It can also be used to make light of serious issues. There have been many historical landmarks in comedy.
1900 BC: The first joke is told in Sumeria
446 BC: The first comedic playwright, Aristophanes, is born.
1475 AD: Geoffrey Chaucer begins his epic quest for universal comedy with The Canterbury Tales but ultimately never finishes.
1605 AD: Miguel de Cervantes releases the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, a piece of literature still hailed to this day as one of the funniest things ever written.
1895 AD: L'Arroseur arrosé, the first comedy film, is released.
1926 AD: Buster Keaton releases the film The General, and slapstick comedy is created.
1974 AD: Blaz…
Read at the sourceliteraturenerd
Overview
Cromartie is a very silly anime about a school for juvenile delinquents. To say the humor in this show is random would be the understatement of the century. Despite the show's whimsical nature, this is actually the only anime that all of my friends universally like. This isn't Eva or Elfen Lied where people will argue until they are blue in the face that "THIS RULES" or "THIS SUCKS!" Pretty much everyone likes Cromartie.
Plot: 5/10
There really isn't much of a plot in this one. Each episode is an independent event about the wild shenanigans at Cromartie. There are a few running gags that carry from episode to episode, but that is really it. You don't watch Cromartie High School for the plot anymore than you would Family Guy.
Characters:10/10
The characters in this anime are…
Read at the sourceTreekicker
Call me easy to impress, but this anime had me laugh pretty much constantly. I love the nonsensical humor, and the general random events that take place. Nothing makes sense, and nothing has to. There is a lot I love about this anime. But above all else, I especially enjoyed the art style it was made in. It really helps bring out that they are supposed to be tough badass delinquents. There isn't really that much of a plot, but for a anime like this, that's to be expected. The characters are all very unique, and entertaining. As for the type of humor, I don't really know what it would be called. I guess it would be called unexpected humor? Pretty much everything that happens you would never think of. It's totally random, and completely unpredictable. Overall, I thought it was pretty damn fu…
Read at the sourceanimefreak0007
Cromartie High... The School I would go to if I had the balls
Story 8: No storyline, but nice material and delivery of high school and some other stuff.
Art 8: Different but in comic way.
Sound 8: Background music and theme music matched the anime. Splendid voice acting
Character 8: Colorful cast of characters like few other anime. None that I have seen so far though.
Cromartie is a shounen comedy that is like no other. Mainly for the fact that it relies mainly on the aspect it should, pure comedy. No excessive fan service. No good looking dudes. No perverted jokes. No creepy sensei, I don't think there was teachers in this. Pure comedy and a little weirdness.
Kamiyama is attending Cromarite High, a place rampant with delinquents, as the only good kid. That's it. Nothing else major really…
Read at the sourceZephyrat
I wasn't all too sure what to expect from Cromartie High School, but following School Rumble I had high hopes for some academia-bound mayhem.
There is an anime stereotype of hard-cases going to a new school, in order to rule the roost through sheer toughness alone. The delinquent is a character that thrives in these school anime. But what happens when there is no one else in the school but delinquents? Cromartie High School is one such institution, which takes the dregs of society and throws them together. The tone of the show becomes apparent when it becomes clear that such delinquents will accept the least delinquent as the strongest among them, as the rabbit daring to live among the lions. Yes, it's one of those shows that turns all convention on its head, and throws in all that is un…
Read at the sourceSton3_FreeN7
I have not read the manga, so know that that will in no way influence this review.
Cromartie High School is a very funny show, I just want to get that out there from the get go. I'm sure someone reading this review will automatically look at the 7 as my overall rating and think, "I guess he didn't find it all that funny, humor is subjective." Well, in fact, I did enjoy this show a great deal.
So, yes, Cromartie High School works very well as a comedy. But, it is lacking in other areas and thus isn't a great anime. For one, the characters are very flat and usually run on one mode only: Stupid. I mean, yes, this works very well for comedy purposes but I believe anything and everything should have well developed characters and/or plot even if the works sole objective is to make the viewer l…
Read at the sourceUriel1988
Usually the words 'Comedy anime' invoke in me images of immensely overdone slapstick, cheesy running gags repeated ad nauseum, annoying catchprases and all kinds of accidental groping of voluptuous teenage girls. Given how frequently said tropes appear in a lot of comedy anime and the rather disturbing amount of them it comes as no surprise that I don't consider them one of my favorite genres.
'Cromartie High School' (which will be referred to as 'CHS' for the rest of the review) can be faulted a lot of things; but it's certainly a whole different beast from the things I described earlier on. Cromartie isn't about fluffy cute girls and awkward young men; but about manly high schoolers who assert themselves as proudly as possible.
The series is mostly set in and around a rather special hi…
Read at the sourceyanmzry
If you are looking for a serious shounen anime about a boy's hardships through high school and him gaining experiences that make him a better individual in life then you may have to keep on looking because Cromartie has none of this except the boy and high school.
Cromartie High School is one of the funniest crack humor animes I've had the pleasure of surviving. It is definitely a delightful distraction if you're having a bad day as the humor is just simply put, hilarious.
A warning to those who consider humor as a side dish to their animes, Cromartie has no running story. There is no grand plot to the whole story. This however, is also one of its good points as it is like I said something to distract you. It's sorta like a bag of chips it's definitely yummy but it's bad for your health…
Read at the sourceBlackfred
I always find it hard to actually LIKE a comedy. Sure, it's fun and all that, but that doesn't mean it's good. So what's a good comedy like? Well, I've never been a real fan of slapstick humor because it's just too easy. When I was introduced to Cromartie High school (thumbs up for Danny), I gave it a shot right away. After several episodes, I put it away as it didn't seem interesting. When I gave it another shot weeks later, I was proven wrong.
The anime starts off with the main character's - Takashi Kamiyama - first day at the Cromartie High school for delinquents. From there on the story spirals down a maze of odd events and insane situations. Though he's the only non-delinquent person on the school, Takashi claims the title of class boss - and later the 'boss of japan' title. And that…
Read at the sourcelowell
In a word? HILARIOUS.
Each episode is only, like, 12 minutes long... and the whole series is incredibly worth it... if you've ever seen anything that has a "delinquent" in it (i.e. anyone with a hairstyle like John Travolta in Grease ;) ) or even if you haven't... this was just so surprisingly funny that it became almost an instant favorite.
...Am I hyping it up too much?
The first episode, I kind of chuckled/smiled a few times... and then as the series goes on, I found myself just dying of laughter. It's incredibly clever and witty...
The show follows a bunch of hoodlums in their and their ...non-traditional concerns. One badass boss has severe problems with motion sickness, another is a comedy snob, and well... one's a robot. It's wacky in the best way -- a little light on plot but…
Read at the source