Cromartie High School
Cromartie High School (Japanese魁!クロマティ 高校, Sakigake! Kuromati Koko ) is a manga by the Japanese illustrator Eiji Nonaka. He has also been adapted as an anime television series and feature film.
The work can be the shōnen genre and comedy assign and deals with the life of the student Takashi Kamiyama of Cromartie High School on.
Action
The student Takashi Kamiyama (神山 高志) changes from his old school on the Cromartie High School. This school is full of informers and troublemakers, each of which wants to be the hardest in the school. Takashi brings the best performance in school and wants to change his classmates to her better. Besides, he writes under the pseudonym Honey Boy jokes for a radio show. Later he will also do this professionally.
In its aim to change the students, he soon gets support from stupid Shinjiro Hayashida (林 田 慎 二郎) and the strong Akira Maeda (前 田 彰). But he also encounters resistance. After some time, it is possible Takashi, to secure the loyalty of most of the students and used to defeat a legendary biker on a motorcycle.
Manga
The manga was released in Japan from February 2001 to December 2006 from the publisher Kodansha in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The series has been summarized into 17 tankōbon ( collected volumes ).
ADV Manga released the manga in the U.S., in Tong Li Comics in Taiwan it appears.
In German published from December 2005 to September 2007 in seven volumes Tokyopop. The translation is by Renate Clasen. The publication was finally discontinued in 2009, as the Japanese publisher has finished working with Tokyopop.
Anime
2003 produced the studio Production IG, a 26- episode anime television series to manga. It was directed by Hiroaki Sakurai, the character design is by Atsushi Takeuchi and Masayuki Onchi. Artistic Director was Shunichiro Yoshihara. The series was first broadcast on 2 October 2003 to 25 March 2004 the broadcaster TV Tokyo in Japan.
The transmitter G4, Rock World TV and The Anime Network radiated from the anime in English. In addition, it has been translated into French, Dutch and Tagalog.
Synchronization
Music
The music of the series was composed by Kunio Suma. The header title is from June Takuro Yoshida, the song for the credits, Trust Me, sung by Kunio Suma.
Real movie
The manga was adapted into a 2005 live-action film. The film was released in Japan on 23 July under the title Sakigake! Cromartie Koko in the cinemas.
Awards
The manga won the Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2002 and was nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award in the USA.