Cromartie High School is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiji Nonaka and published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2000 to May 2006. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school for delinquents. The series is a parody of Japanese "yankii" manga of the 1970s and 1980s. The style of art resembles Ryoichi Ikegami's works such as Otoko-gumi and Otoko Ōzora. Both the manga and anime have been released in North America by ADV Manga and ADV Films respectively. However, the manga was not completely published in North America due to restructuring issues at ADV. Discotek Media has since licensed the anime, after ADV's closing in 2009. The series aired in the United States on the cable networkG4 on its Barbed Wire Biscuit late-night block and on the UKsatellite channelRockworld TV. The manga won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. It was followed by a spin-off sequel titled Cromartie Kōkō Shokuinshitsu in 2018, which launched on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app.
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Media
Manga
Cromartie High School is written and illustrated by Eiji Nonaka. The series was published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2, 2000 to May 24, 2006. The series is a parody of Japanese "yankii" manga of the 1970s and 1980s, and the style of art resembles Ryoichi Ikegami's works such as Otoko-gumi and Otoko Ōzora. Kodansha collected its individual chapters into seventeen tankōbon volumes released from February 14, 2001 to July 14, 2006. In North America, ADV Manga announced the acquisition of the manga in December 2004. The first volume was published on March 7, 2005. ADV released twelve of the original seventeen volumes, and the last volume was published on November 6, 2007. A spin-off sequel titled Cromartie Kōkō Shokuinshitsu debuted on October 27, 2018 on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app. Nonaka authored the manga while the art was drawn by Ino Ichiban.
Anime
Cromartie High School was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series produced by Production I.G. and aired on TV Tokyo from October 2, 2003 to March 25, 2004. The series was collected into five DVDs released from February 25 to June 25, 2004. The opening theme is "Jun" performed by Takuro Yoshida and the ending theme is "Trust Me" performed by Bi Kyo Ran. The series was licensed by ADV Films in 2004. ADV released the series on four DVDs between March 15 and August 16, 2005. The series aired on G4's Barbed Wire Biscuit block in 2005. In the UK, ADV Film UK released the series on DVD from April 17 to October 16, 2006, and the series also aired on Rockworld TV in 2007. ADV Films ceased operations in 2009 and the series was re-licensed by Discotek Media in January 2016, and released on DVD on April 26 of the same year.
Reception
Cromartie High School won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. John Oppliger of AnimeNation considered it as one of the best anime comedies of the past 20 years in 2005.
