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91. Cromartie High School
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@TexWolf_1729

This was actually one of the earliest anime I watched, since everyone raved about it as the funniest comedy ever. Obviously, I disagree, though at least the opening scene is really good. Pencil eating is hilarious. I dunno, something about it just didnt really click with me. The timing is off or something. The jokes are delivered a lot more slowly than they should be, so they dont live up to their potential comedy-wise. What I learned after is that the jokes actually are funny in their manga incarnation, at least. The manga version of Cromartie is way better than the anime. Theres a lot of good stuff that was left out, and the delivery of the jokes is much better. I had to take breaks when I read it because I was laughing too hard. It does have some stuff thats pretty weird (theres a ten chapter arc when theyre stuck in the sewers fighting aliens), but theres just so much greatness. I feel like a lot of comedy manga are hurt by the animes slower pacing. Sometimes they can take advantage of the format quite well (Kyoanis pretty good at changing things up from the manga) but often they arent. The Cromartie did do one great thing at least Mechazawas voice. Usually when they talk about someones voice being amazing in a manga the anime cant really live up to it, but Wakamoto goes way beyond anything you couldve hoped for after reading the manga.
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