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Cromartie High School #7
魁!! クロマティ高校 7
メカ沢爆弾犯はいったい誰だ？ そして高橋さんのアレは？ さまざまな大問題を抱えながら、時間は無常に過ぎていく――。メインキャラたちとは関係なく繰り広げられる、クロ高四天王（でも５人）の会議。そして大河ロマン「ゴリラの寿司」!! 熱すぎる男たちのムダな青春の１ページ。
167 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 17, 2003
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November 26, 2022
The story about the gorilla at the sushi place was more profound than I expected
November 28, 2009
"The new guy they've got working over at Sakura Sushi, he's really got his act together," admits a seafood merchant to his associate. "He's got his eccentricities but he takes his job seriously and he's only gonna get better. I can't wait to see what kind of guy he matures into."
The "new guy" of whom he speaks is a full-blooded gorilla.
The centerpiece of Cromartie High School, Vol. 7 deals with the abstraction of a duo of teenagers discovering the world's best sushi right in Tokyo - but it was skillfully crafted by the hands of a large simian. How did a gorilla get to work at a sushi shop, and how did it get so talented as to surpass all other sushi venues? Those questions - and others - are investigated and speculated upon. And, in true Cromartie fashion, they are never answered.
Piecemeal logic and patchwork deduction take the seat at the head of the class here. This volume is book-ended, in fact, by a series of meetings of the five "Four Great Ones," the school's most respected quintet of students who (for some inexplicable reason) attend classes in KISS-style makeup. The Four Great Ones discuss the elements of delinquency, human nature, and the "no-loss-no-gain" form of happiness that hits a person at quite unexpected times (like finding cash you didn't realize you had all along, for instance). The Four Great Ones take the time to discuss and argue these points, through analogy and hypothetical question, never truly arriving at an agreed-upon conclusion... but getting there in the most nonsensical way possible.
The students at Cromartie never take their studies seriously, but the same cannot be said about the trivialities of daily life. Everything, it seems, remains a puzzle for them - and for the reader - to crack. And no one ever does. In fact, the pursuit of answers raises more (bizarre) questions than solutions. And, with no resolution in sight, the students eventually drop their line of inquisition, and march right into another situation rife with nonsequitur.
(The gorilla eventually abandons his employ at Sakura Sushi in a relatively simple manner, which raises more questions than answers.)
The "new guy" of whom he speaks is a full-blooded gorilla.
The centerpiece of Cromartie High School, Vol. 7 deals with the abstraction of a duo of teenagers discovering the world's best sushi right in Tokyo - but it was skillfully crafted by the hands of a large simian. How did a gorilla get to work at a sushi shop, and how did it get so talented as to surpass all other sushi venues? Those questions - and others - are investigated and speculated upon. And, in true Cromartie fashion, they are never answered.
Piecemeal logic and patchwork deduction take the seat at the head of the class here. This volume is book-ended, in fact, by a series of meetings of the five "Four Great Ones," the school's most respected quintet of students who (for some inexplicable reason) attend classes in KISS-style makeup. The Four Great Ones discuss the elements of delinquency, human nature, and the "no-loss-no-gain" form of happiness that hits a person at quite unexpected times (like finding cash you didn't realize you had all along, for instance). The Four Great Ones take the time to discuss and argue these points, through analogy and hypothetical question, never truly arriving at an agreed-upon conclusion... but getting there in the most nonsensical way possible.
The students at Cromartie never take their studies seriously, but the same cannot be said about the trivialities of daily life. Everything, it seems, remains a puzzle for them - and for the reader - to crack. And no one ever does. In fact, the pursuit of answers raises more (bizarre) questions than solutions. And, with no resolution in sight, the students eventually drop their line of inquisition, and march right into another situation rife with nonsequitur.
(The gorilla eventually abandons his employ at Sakura Sushi in a relatively simple manner, which raises more questions than answers.)
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