Comments on: Cromartie High School is not Slice-of-Life (Unfortunately)

By: My Life in Anime & Manga

My Life in Anime & Manga — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:26:08 +0000

[...] (How it kind of felt like: Cromartie High School) [...]

By: A nonee muss

A nonee muss — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:06:43 +0000

I fucking love Cromartie High School. There are anime that attempt to be all smart and everything by pulling off “Socrates for Kids” type of philosophy left and right, which just makes them sound incredibly pretentious above all else; then there are other anime that occasionally brandish a philosphy slip that one would find in a fortune cookie before slam dunking it into the nearest garbage bin and then quipping a highly amusing one-liner. Cromartie High School fits under that second category of anime, and even then it’s set apart from the others in that category because its understands the elements of comedy much better than do any others, despite any snobby commentary Yamaguchi might say. Though the jokes are pretty predicatble or not quite laugh-out-loud funny, it’s fully aware of when a joke has reached its punchline and can be dropped then, or if a joke needs to be elongated wherein which it stretches the joke to a favorable length, part of the reason why none of the episodes really reach over 10 minutes. It also keeps its references to a minimum – though most of them are references to western rock music – and those references are also done very subtley. Furthermore, in comparison to Lucky Star or some other similar ones, where the anime is apparently trying way too hard to be funny, i.e. inexplicably obvious references to other anime/gags that run too far or jokes that are overly verbose, and Cromartie High School’s comedic genius is only further shown.

It’s also super manly. And it has Freddie Mercury.

By: Wolfheinrich

Wolfheinrich — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:49:27 +0000

I must apologize for not visiting as often as I should.. (I’m still catching up on my blogroll as of late) as here is one of the very few places on the interweb where I can find true peace, and where the freedom to express my distaste against the moelification of the anime industry is not discriminated against.

There is only one true slice-of-life show that I remember watching as a kid is Doraemon. Doraemon is literally, a slice of Nobita Nobi’s life, why isn’t it labeled as such???? I remember spending my childhood looking forward to Doraemon, just what has gone wrong here?

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:41:30 +0000

I was a skeptic going in. Cromartie High School quickly won me over. Trust me, it’s is the real deal.

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:38:13 +0000

The phrase “slice-of-life elements” is nonsense. You can’t break a scene into elements, point to some elements as slice-of-life, and carry that over to the entire scene. You have to look at the scene in totality to determine if it’s slice-of-life. Nobody does this for action, drama, comedy, etc. Why do it for slice-of-life? Because they’re pulling shit out of their asses to pretend their favorite shows don’t suck.

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:17:52 +0000

It’s hard to imagine him not using all the flat-panels in his command center to watch all the anime available in 199X.

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:12:31 +0000

Going once, going twice, sold, to the man who appreciates hallway-strutting, mascot-punching, and pillow-swording.

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:08:01 +0000

One down, five to go?

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:07:46 +0000

Yes, it’s totally different, unless you’re a man.

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:06:16 +0000

Cromartie is Azumanga for Men.