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Cromartie High School #2
魁!! クロマティ高校 2
Sakigake Cromartie High School Vol. 2 (Sakigake Kuromatii Koukou) (in Japanese)
155 pages, Comic
First published July 1, 2001
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March 8, 2009
Volume 2 was not as entertaining as Volume 1. The author seems to have thrown together a bunch of different ideas he came up with that really didn’t have any common plot and as a result it’s kind of all over the place and doesn’t really cohere. There are some amusing moments, but it’s not as funny as the first.
January 25, 2011
Not as enjoyable as the first one. I felt like this one was trying too hard; the jokes didn't come naturally.
December 7, 2018
Not quite as good as the first. There's more reliance on callback humor, and the push to develop 2 rival schools leaves the cast thinner. Further, Mechazawa is completely mistreated in this volume, and not given the respect he deserves! More bizarre, not macho enough!
October 29, 2018
Yeah, it's not for me.
January 3, 2021
Even the author’s character profiles are hilarious. “I hope you’re looking forward to finding out more about this character—even though I probably won’t say anything else about him.”
May 13, 2008
Overall Rating: Manga - B? / Anime - A-
Synopsis: Cromartie High School by Eiji Nonaka, is a comedy manga centered around High School first year Kamiyama who begins attending Cromartie High to stay with his delinquent friend after junior high. Unfortunately, his friend isn't even able to make it into Cromartie, despite frequent references to how easy it is to get in. The school is populated almost entirely with delinquents, including a robot named Mechazawa (though most students treat him like he's human), a gorilla, and Freddie, a mute (who looks uncannily similar to Freddie Mercury.
This manga, and the anime based on it, is insane. Most of the time, that makes it fucking brilliant, and makes me laugh my ass off, but sometimes it's too bizarre. Part of the problem is that there is no real plot to the series, which makes some of the scenes disorienting and hard to follow.
That being said, both versions of the series are hilarious. Cromartie High is the school that the dumbest and toughest youths in the area go to, and they spend most of their days worrying about status, and who has the coolest nickname. Along with the thugs and gang members, Cromartie is also home to some stranger students. This includes a technophobic robot named Mechazawa, who most students are too dumb to figure out is a robot, a gorilla that's smarter than the rest of the students combined, and a mute that has an uncanny resembelence to Freddie Mercury that rides around on a giant horse named Kokuryu.
If you're looking for plot, skip this one, but if you just want a good laugh, Cromartie High School kicks ass.
For more manga and anime reviews, please check out Hobotaku.
Synopsis: Cromartie High School by Eiji Nonaka, is a comedy manga centered around High School first year Kamiyama who begins attending Cromartie High to stay with his delinquent friend after junior high. Unfortunately, his friend isn't even able to make it into Cromartie, despite frequent references to how easy it is to get in. The school is populated almost entirely with delinquents, including a robot named Mechazawa (though most students treat him like he's human), a gorilla, and Freddie, a mute (who looks uncannily similar to Freddie Mercury.
This manga, and the anime based on it, is insane. Most of the time, that makes it fucking brilliant, and makes me laugh my ass off, but sometimes it's too bizarre. Part of the problem is that there is no real plot to the series, which makes some of the scenes disorienting and hard to follow.
That being said, both versions of the series are hilarious. Cromartie High is the school that the dumbest and toughest youths in the area go to, and they spend most of their days worrying about status, and who has the coolest nickname. Along with the thugs and gang members, Cromartie is also home to some stranger students. This includes a technophobic robot named Mechazawa, who most students are too dumb to figure out is a robot, a gorilla that's smarter than the rest of the students combined, and a mute that has an uncanny resembelence to Freddie Mercury that rides around on a giant horse named Kokuryu.
If you're looking for plot, skip this one, but if you just want a good laugh, Cromartie High School kicks ass.
For more manga and anime reviews, please check out Hobotaku.
March 27, 2008
LOL - I'm laughing aloud all the time following the silly antics of the boys from Cromartie High School. This manga series continually surprises me, I'm really enjoying it. I thought it would be really stupid and dumb, but instead the subtle (and not so subtle) humor is consistently funny. I am always chuckling when I read these books.
Volume 2 continues to feature mechanical student Mechazawa, who doesn't realize he's not human. And the boys get hijacked during a class trip, which turns out to have major consequences for motion-sickness prone Takenouchi. And Freddie gets a horse. A big horse.
Just start reading these, it's hard to explain what's so funny about all of this until you read and then you'll get it!
Volume 2 continues to feature mechanical student Mechazawa, who doesn't realize he's not human. And the boys get hijacked during a class trip, which turns out to have major consequences for motion-sickness prone Takenouchi. And Freddie gets a horse. A big horse.
Just start reading these, it's hard to explain what's so funny about all of this until you read and then you'll get it!
September 17, 2015
Silly. Just silly. This is the only manga series I've ever read, and it was a little strange at first reading it backwards. But this was definitely one of the funniest series I've ever read. It's the sort of comedy that's just random. I can see if people thought it tried too hard but for me, I loved it. :) I feel the same way about all three books so I'm copy and pasting my review. It's one of those rare series where all three are great.
August 5, 2011
hahaha This series is off-the-wall hilarious!
January 27, 2009
More randomness! And the guy on the over is a student robot, but only a few people realize this.
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