The Roku Channel has added another title to their selection that will definitely be worth checking out for viewers that may not have seen it before with Cromartie High School. The series has been around for quite some time and was out of print for awhile but has had a minor resurgence through streaming distribution with its very amusing and quirky style of humor. The streaming service has it in just the dubbed form right now but hopefully, they’ll add the subtitled experience at some point.
Based on the seventeen-volume manga run that ended in 2006, the anime series aired in 2003 and ran for twenty-six episodes. Animated by Production I.G., it was directed by Hiroaki Sakurai and was previously licensed, dubbed, and released by ADV Films.
Check out our review of the series.
Plot concept: Folks, meet Takashi Kamiyama. Enrolled at Cromartie High, where everybody is a delinquent, Kamiyama is apparently the only non-delinquent in the school. Logically, therefore, he must be the toughest in his class—by the rather twisted logic that only a really tough rabbit would lie down with lions. Thus begins a story that parodies every cliché of tough-guy anime that you’ve ever heard of, and some you haven’t. Oh, and Freddie Mercury is in it, too.
