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Cromartie High School #6
魁!! クロマティ高校 6
人気お笑い番組のぬいぐるみキャラ・プータンが、クロ高の生徒に乗っ取られた!? でもそんなことはどうでもよくって、先輩高橋さん登場。すんごくいい人なんだけど、頭についてるアレが気になる……。そしてメカ沢に爆弾が仕掛けられたー！ 相変わらず賑やかなクロ高は、まったりと学園生活を満喫中!!
161 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 17, 2003
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May 27, 2019
I never know which way this series is going to go! My only complaint is that Mechazawa has been reduced to a shell of himself, never getting any significant lines. Who was Mechazawa in love with anyways? Lost love...
November 17, 2009
In ancient times, Plato's The Republic was one of the first works representing Socratic logic. Arguments were formulated, analyzed, and eventually resolved through a tiered series of observations and insights. The purpose? In part, to establish man's role in creating the ideal community.
Philosophy is not on the roster of Japan's Cromartie High School, but the students wing it anyway.
Eiji Nonaka presents a comedy of culture and civics in Cromartie High School, vol. 6. Though the characters portrayed in this manga are delinquents, they feel bound by the same societal rules that gave the world both the Yakuza and tea ceremonies. The students are lawless, and yet they have their own unspoken code. And it is this code which presents the bulk of Cromartie's conflict.
Take, for instance, Takehashi-san. Takehashi is the "underground kingpin" of the second-year students at Cromartie High. This is a throne he takes with all seriousness, and represents himself as a defender, going "toe-to-toe with the strong" in the face of adversity. He is respected, and remains so throughout the book - regardless of his penchant for wearing "deely boppers." Placed prominently upon his immaculately-coiffed head (in the style of the classic bōsōzoku hairstyle), the absurdist "alien antennae" are the source of much internal discussion amongst the students. Their presence is never acknowledged outside the relative "safety" of the students' own ring - especially not to Takehashi himself - though many attempts to discern a purpose through broken logic are made.
Eiji Nonaka actually takes the time to classify "those things" as a character within the Cromartie High School series, long with the gorillas, the Freddie-Mercury-esque student (who may not technically be a student), and the robotic Mechazawa.
There are no real-world sensibilities to Cromartie, but the students treat their life at the infamous school for yankii as if it were the most logical place on Earth.
Volume 6 presents the question of "those things" as well as the campy fan-following of the bizarro television program "Pootan" (two men dressed in puffy costumes who do such things as prepare tea and fill out income tax forms), discover a famous seal outside the school gates and discuss how best to deal (to which the most obvious solutions to the reader cannot be taken, for reasons which sound clear when explained by protagonist Takashi Kamiyama), and dismantle a bomb inexplicably wired to Mechazawa. And every step of the way, the students abide by their own sense of twisted, roundabout logic which all seems to make sense.
At least, at the time.
Cromartie High School is a series best taken in short doses. Fortunately, each chapter is only a few pages long. Though not entirely self-sustaining, the chapters are written in such a way as to support an extended reading period: one can read one on a daily basis and not really feel "left behind" due to forgotten details. Each chapter contains just enough reflection to remind the reader of what has gone on before. Perhaps such writing is necessary in a world where nothing quite makes sense, and (slight) repetition is the norm.
A manga which does not take itself terribly seriously, and yet refuses to allow itself to become "thrown away" in the interim, Cromarite is something any manga reader should experience in some capacity.
Philosophy is not on the roster of Japan's Cromartie High School, but the students wing it anyway.
Eiji Nonaka presents a comedy of culture and civics in Cromartie High School, vol. 6. Though the characters portrayed in this manga are delinquents, they feel bound by the same societal rules that gave the world both the Yakuza and tea ceremonies. The students are lawless, and yet they have their own unspoken code. And it is this code which presents the bulk of Cromartie's conflict.
Take, for instance, Takehashi-san. Takehashi is the "underground kingpin" of the second-year students at Cromartie High. This is a throne he takes with all seriousness, and represents himself as a defender, going "toe-to-toe with the strong" in the face of adversity. He is respected, and remains so throughout the book - regardless of his penchant for wearing "deely boppers." Placed prominently upon his immaculately-coiffed head (in the style of the classic bōsōzoku hairstyle), the absurdist "alien antennae" are the source of much internal discussion amongst the students. Their presence is never acknowledged outside the relative "safety" of the students' own ring - especially not to Takehashi himself - though many attempts to discern a purpose through broken logic are made.
Eiji Nonaka actually takes the time to classify "those things" as a character within the Cromartie High School series, long with the gorillas, the Freddie-Mercury-esque student (who may not technically be a student), and the robotic Mechazawa.
There are no real-world sensibilities to Cromartie, but the students treat their life at the infamous school for yankii as if it were the most logical place on Earth.
Volume 6 presents the question of "those things" as well as the campy fan-following of the bizarro television program "Pootan" (two men dressed in puffy costumes who do such things as prepare tea and fill out income tax forms), discover a famous seal outside the school gates and discuss how best to deal (to which the most obvious solutions to the reader cannot be taken, for reasons which sound clear when explained by protagonist Takashi Kamiyama), and dismantle a bomb inexplicably wired to Mechazawa. And every step of the way, the students abide by their own sense of twisted, roundabout logic which all seems to make sense.
At least, at the time.
Cromartie High School is a series best taken in short doses. Fortunately, each chapter is only a few pages long. Though not entirely self-sustaining, the chapters are written in such a way as to support an extended reading period: one can read one on a daily basis and not really feel "left behind" due to forgotten details. Each chapter contains just enough reflection to remind the reader of what has gone on before. Perhaps such writing is necessary in a world where nothing quite makes sense, and (slight) repetition is the norm.
A manga which does not take itself terribly seriously, and yet refuses to allow itself to become "thrown away" in the interim, Cromarite is something any manga reader should experience in some capacity.
March 27, 2008
More fun with the funny delinquent high schoolers of Cromartie. This time around, Freddie becomes Pootan, Takahashi and his antennae are introduced, Mechazawa becomes re-formatted, then taken apart after a bomb scare, and an orphen seal becomes the newest honorary student at campus. Yes, you never can tell what's going to happen next.
These stories are full of grins and giggles, a guilty comedy pleasure. Volume 6 continues with fun plotting and humorous author side-notes. If you are a fan of this series (and I am), this doesn't disappoint. I'll definitely be looking into Volume 7.
These stories are full of grins and giggles, a guilty comedy pleasure. Volume 6 continues with fun plotting and humorous author side-notes. If you are a fan of this series (and I am), this doesn't disappoint. I'll definitely be looking into Volume 7.
October 11, 2008
Short stories about a gang of bumbling teenagers who treat every dire situation with either indifference or naivete. Jokes sometimes take a while to develop, but always funny.
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