Line #84 Characters/CromartieHighSchool


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4	!!Takashi Kamiyama
5	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takashikamiyama.jpg]]
6	-->'''Class''': 1-2\
7	'''Voiced by''': Creator/TakahiroSakurai (JP), Creator/BenPronsky (EN)\
8	''I'll bet you want to know why I'm here, right? READ THE MANGA.''
9
10	The main character. He starts off relatively normal, but as the manga attests 3 chapters in, he'd have to be just as crazy as the rest to stay there.
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12	* AllThereInTheManual: the reason he gives for being in Cromartie is only in the manga and the movie.
13	* BadassBiker: When he goes on adventures with Mechazawa's motorbike form. However, even Kamiyama admits that Mechazawa does most of the work and doesn't even need a rider to steer himself.
14	* BewareTheNiceOnes[=/=]BerserkButton: Although he will usually plead for the least violent way to solve situations, he won't hesitate to shoot at people harrassing innocents in the street with explosive missiles. [[TranquilFury And he does it completely stone-faced, at that]].
15	** Discussed the BewareTheNiceOnes trope to the other saying that when he said "I'll kill you" it sounds way more threatening than the loud delinquent.
16	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Does this quite a bit in the earlier stories, especially in the anime.
17	* DemotedToExtra: What happens to Kamiyama as the series progresses. It was most likely intentional on the part of the author -- perhaps intended as a parody of other stories where the protagonist recedes into the background due to the far more interesting and/or amusing supporting cast. Kamiyama explains ''why'' in the last episode.
18	* ExtremeDoormat: [[CharacterDevelopment At first]], and always at his old school.
19	* FelonyMisdemeanor: When asked whether he ever has done anything bad, he confesses to doing something so terrible that even his classmates are astonished. [[spoiler: Gluing the 37,042nd domino to the ground so it wouldn't fall over when his group was trying to top the record of 37,041 dominoes in a row.]]
20	* {{Flanderization}}: Kamiyama starts out as just sort of a strait-laced dork who then evolves into an uberdork whose moral fiber leads to incredibly questionable trains of thought. The author seems to suggest that Kamiyama has been this crazy since the beginning, and that it's starting to surface now that he has been among the Cromartie students for too long.
21	* KillerRabbit: Hayashida vouches for him based on this principle. If he goes around a school full of badasses looking like a nerdy loser, he ''must'' be the toughest one of all. Turns out he's wrong, but pretty much everyone believes it.
22	* TheLeader: Ends up being voted as the "Boss" of Japan due to being the only one able to answer a simple question. If nothing else, being somewhat more groudned than his companions they mostly listen to him.
23	* LoserProtagonist: He's a complete loser in pretty much every feasible way. There is absolutely ''nothing'' cool about this guy.
24	* MamasBoy: {{Implied}}. He regularly writes letters to his mother, suggesting that they may be close.
25	* MistakenForBadass: Somehow manages to regularly get mistaken for the biggest badass in the series.
26	* NeatFreak: Along with all of his other exaggerated moral traits, he's one of these.
27	* NonActionGuy: Not that anyone ever really does much fighting, but it's made very clear that he's a terrible fighter.
28	* OnlySaneMan: A parody of this in a way. He's not sane by any means, it's just that his form of insanity makes him a lot more coherent than most of the other guys.
29	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Sort of. In a school full of bizarre delinquents, he comes off as this, but in reality he's way too much of straight laced stick in the mud to be considered normal.
30	* StraightMan: Relatively speaking.
31	* TookALevelInBadass: Briefly, once Mechazawa is turned into a motorbike. See below.
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33
34	!!Shinjiro Hayashida
35	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shinjirohayashida.png]]
36	-->'''Class''': 1-2\
37	'''Voiced by''': Takuma Suzuki (JP), Creator/IllichGuardiola (EN)\
38	''Not to change the subject, but...''
39
40	Kamiyama's right hand man.
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42	* BlatantLies[=/=]IHaveToGoIronMyDog:
43	-->'''Hayashida''': I got club practice and stuff.
44	-->'''Kamiyama''': What club are you in?
45	-->'''Hayashida''': Oh, it's the... Uh, what was it? Oh, yeah, boxing! The boxing club!
46	-->'''Kamiyama''': [[LampshadeHanging If you have to lie, couldn't you at least come up with a more believable one?]]
47	** Though it is subverted by the end of the chapter.
48	* DelinquentHair: His mohawk. [[spoiler:It's a fake. He keeps a normal slick hairstyle under a sort of toupee on which his mohawk is placed, because his family wouldn't accept him trying to be different - so he doesn't show up at his home with his mohawk on]].
49	* TheDitz: He can't even manage a simple word problem that amounts to five minus two.
50	* ExpressiveHair: again, the mohawk.
51	* TheLancer: He's Kamiyama's right hand man.
52	* OnlySaneMan: Another one of the more coherent guys, though he's probably the least coherent of the group.
53	* WrongGenreSavvy: Assumes Kamiyama is absurdly tough despite looking and acting like a weakling based on the KillerRabbit principle. In reality, Kamiyama really ''is'' a weakling.
54
55	!!Akira Maeda
56	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akiramaeda.jpg]]
57	-->'''Class''': 1-2\
58	'''Voiced by''': Creator/TetsuInada (JP), Creator/AndyMcAvin (EN)\
59	''You guys are real assholes, you know that?''
60
61	One of the saner ones. Gets no credit.
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63	* ButtMonkey: No character is safe, but Maeda gets absolutely no respect.
64	* DistressedDude: The most likely character to be kidnapped. No one rescues him.
65	* {{Expy}}: A parody of real life wrestler Wrestling/AkiraMaeda.
66	* HiddenDepths: One multi part story in the manga is about students loving to read Maeda's story he made for a class project to the point he gets a movie deal. He is not to sure how that happpened
67	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: One of the main reason he hangs out with the students is that they're the closest thing he has that passes as friends. Pointing out that his points are mean for a friend to say makes him temporarily forget the validity of his complains.
68	* InformedAbility: The only delinquent of the main cast to avert this in the manga. Maeda is shown on-screen effortlessly countering a Yakuza and would have likely won had it been one on one.
69	* NoRespectGuy: Despite being one of the most respectable characters. And all because he doesn't have a [[RedBaron badass nickname]].
70	* TheSmartGuy: Certainly comes off as the most intelligent character, even compared to Kamiyama.
71	* OnlySaneMan: Another one of the more rational students and thus one of Kamiyama's closest friends. Maeda is the only character that realizes Kamiyama is kind being crazy or going off tangent.
72
73	!!"Freddie"
74	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freddie.jpg]]
75	-->'''Class''': ?\
76	''"..."''
77
78	A mute student who looks shockingly like late Music/{{Queen\|Band}} frontman Music/FreddieMercury. No one knows for certain if he ''is'' Freddie Mercury or not, but the resemblance is uncanny enough for everyone to refer to him as Freddie.
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80	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Freddie is sometimes referred to by the others as something inhuman, and sometimes acts strange even by the show's standards.
81	** When he gives gives directions to a lost cab driver, the students say he might be using his animal instincts.
82	** When Maeda has an image in his mind of a group of animals, Freddie is among them.
83	* CoolHorse: He travels exclusively on [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Koku-Oh]].
84	* {{Leitmotif}}: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_skhTIY_Ik rock riff]] based on Music/{{Queen\|Band}}'s "Procession" plays whenever Freddie shows up.
85	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Freddie is clearly (''somehow'') Music/FreddieMercury, the plainly deceased frontman of the band Queen.
86	* NoNameGiven: Nope, not even on the school's roster.
87	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Since he never speaks, and no one can figure out his real name, the main characters nicknamed him "Freddie" after his resemblance to [[Music/FreddieMercury the late singer]], and it stuck ever since.
88	* ShoutOut: To Music/{{Queen\|Band}}'s frontman, Music/FreddieMercury.
89	%%* {{Stripperiffic}}: Bass High seems to think ???? is Summer Uniform. (context needed)
90	* TheVoiceless: Hayashida points out that makes him less advanced than the seal since the seal can growl and yelp to communicate.
91	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Always shown without a shirt.
92
93	!!Gorilla
94	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gorilla_6408.jpg]]
95	-->'''Class''': 1-1?
96
97	A gorilla.
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99	* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Gorilla's crazy antics.
100	* NoNameGiven: WordOfGod stated that the Gorilla's name is "[[spoiler: Hiromi Goo]]". But otherwise, we never hear anything.
101
102	!!Yutaka Takenouchi
103	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yutakatakenouchi.jpg]]
104	-->'''Class''': 1-2
105	'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyoNaitou (JP), Creator/JohnGremillion (EN)
106
107	"My name is Yutaka Takenouchi, and I have only one weakness... I am VERY susceptible to motion sickness!"
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109	* TheBigGuy: The toughest of the guys. He's huge and burly and [[InformedAbility is apparently a great fighter]].
110	* BornUnlucky: He can't get away from being in some kind of vehicle. Even his birthday party was on a houseboat.
111	* CatchPhrase / OnceAnEpisode: His stock introduction. At one point, he screws up his intro and blurts out "My name is motion sickness."
112	* TheLeader: He's the leader of the Cromartie first years.
113	* OneManArmy: Offscreen but he beats a group of bikers in the manga all by himself after trying to overcome his motion sickness with a bicycle.
114	* UnstoppableRage: Beat the hell out of everyone in a train including yakuzas when his motion sickness comes back.
115	* WeaksauceWeakness: Motion Sickness gets to him very easily. He tries to keep this secret, under the impression that it could be exploited or he would risk lose his badass reputation.
116	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Most plots involving him just ''happen'' to be school trips. He even lampshades how the school takes many more, longer trips than it should ever be able to afford.
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118	!!Takeshi Hokuto
119	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takeshihokuto.jpg]]
120	-->'''Class''': 1-1
121	'''Voiced by''': Norihisa Mori (JP), Creator/JasonDouglas (EN)
122
123	An upper-class individual with aspirations of world domination, Hokuto starts at an appropriate level, taking over one high school at a time. Unfortunately, he then transfers to Cromartie, a municipal school, which doesn't have a structure he can easily take over.
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125	* CatchPhrase: "All people are ''PIGS!''"
126	* ConsummateLiar: He tries covering up for his transfer error by coming up with ridiculous lies about him fighting his father who leads a dark regime.
127	* CustomUniform: He has a white uniform to show off his wealth. Also because he went to the wrong school and thought white was the uniform.
128	* DefrostingIceQueen: He comes to genuinely care for his classmates, but you'd never get him to outright admit it.
129	* DreamSequence / ImagineSpot: Many. Sometimes, those dreams are the one detail of a story to actually get into the anime.
130	* SanitySlippage: Starts out as a BigBadWannabe (albeit a snobby one) but quickly begins losing his cool after seeing how insane Cromartie is.
131	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Since his father is chairman of a school board of directors, he believes he has the right to threaten expulsion to anyone who crosses him. Unfortunately, Cromartie has no such thing, rendering his threat, and the trope, moot.
132	* ShelteredAristocrat: He has problems socializing with the commoners.
133	* SnowballLie: When he realizes he transferred to the wrong school, he lies about rebelling against his "corrupt" father. It spirals out of control and the Cromatie students believe every word of it.
134
135	!!"Hokuto's Lackey"
136	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hokutoslackey.jpg]]
137	-->'''Class''': 1-1
138	'''Voiced by''': Akio Suyama (JP), Creator/GregAyres (EN)
139	''You mean, you're really interested in ''me''? Okay. My name is-''
140
141	ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Followed Hokuto to Cromartie.
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143	* AllTakeAndNoGive: Played for laugh from Hokuto's perspective during a dinner, Hokuto realizes he is the only one aside his rival to put meat on the plate while everyone only talks while taking a bite. The lackey is especially greedy with the meat which annoys Hokuto to no ends.
144	-->'''Hokuto:''' I like what he is saying, but the way he holds his meat makes me want to kill him.
145	* ButtMonkey: Every time he tries saying his name.
146	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: To the point they refuse that he stops being a lackey to Hokuto.
147	* HeyYou: Because no one's interested enough to know Hokuto's lackey's name.
148	* SatelliteCharacter: Originally, though he gets more appearances and screentime than Hokuto himself in the manga. The author implied that the reason for this is how Lackey is easier to fit into any given story.
149	* TheUnreveal: Hokuto's henchman tries to reveal his name to the others. "Listen and listen good! My name is..." [[spoiler:"Look! A meteorite just crashed into the school!]] "THIS ISN'T POSSIBLE!" [[spoiler:Even when he was out on a date with a girl in volume 11 of the manga and had the chance to introduce himself to his date's friend's boyfriend, he STILL gets interrupted.]]
150	* WithholdingTheirName: {{Inverted\|Trope}} and PlayedForLaughs because Hokuto's lackey [[RunningGag frequently gets cut off]] before he can say his name. The background and author notes in the manga finally does reveal his name to the reader, but the whole cast of the series admits that it's better that he just continues to go by "Hokuto's Lackey" because they've built up their friendships and familiarities with him around it. Learning his name would be a rather jarring change to that relationship.
151
152	!!"Masked Takenouchi"
153	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maskedtakenouchi.png]]
154	-->'''Class''': 1-2
155	'''Voiced by''': Creator/TakayaKuroda (JP), Creator/GeorgeManley (EN)
156
157	A former hijacker who was mistaken for Takenouchi. Stayed at the school to teach the rest proper behavior, so they don't end up like him.
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159	* TheAtoner: He let go of his terrorist past.
160	* ClarkKenting: To the point that when his mask is removed, no one knows what he looks like.
161	* CoolOldGuy: And only 30 years old. After being a hijacker, he spends the rest of the series either dealing with fitting in with a bunch of high school delinquents and (trying) to teach them important life lessons.
162	* DarkAndTroubledPast: He once did time in Mexico and according to him if he is caught by the cop on criminal record alone he'll get 20 years straight.
163	* FarEastAsianTerrorists: Was a terrorist at one point in his life before he met the Cromartie students.
164	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: They end up just calling him "Mask" when they realized he isn't Takenouchi.
165	* MartialArtsAndCrafts: Masked Takenouchi becomes the successor of pillow-jutsu.
166
167	!!Shin'ichi Mechazawa
168	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shinichimechazawa.png]]
169	-->'''Class''': 1-5\
170	'''Voiced by''': Creator/NorioWakamoto (JP), Creator/JayHickman (EN)\
171	''I'm afraid I don't know a ''thing'' about technology...''
172
173	Leader of a different class. No one but Kamiyama and Hayashida recognizes that he's a machine. And if they do, they don't recognize that he's a ''robot''.
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175	* ChewToy: After a while all of his appearances have him getting destroyed either physically or having his memories deleted again.
176	* CoolBike: Midway thru the series he's changed into this.
177	* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: His being, well, a robot.
178	* [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal Half-Dressed Cartoon Robot]]: Usually wears a school uniform-jacket and T-shirt but no pants.
179	* HopelessWithTech: In spite of being a robot. Doesn't stop his classmates from asking him to fix their appliances.
180	* [[RobotBuddy Ro... ro... Roly Poly Buddy!]]
181	* TinCanRobot: A near-classic example of the form factors. He's a gray cylinder with limbs and a face.
182	* TransformingMecha / MidSeasonUpgrade / WeCanRebuildHim: Can transform into a motorcycle mid-season.
183
184	!!Ken Hirai ("The Flunker")
185	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kenhirai.jpg]]
186	-->'''Class''': 1-2
187	'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasamiKikuchi (JP)
188
189	A student who was held back one year, and is [[{{Pun}} unfailingly]] referred to as "Mr. Hirai" or "Hirai-san".
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191	* ExpositionBreak: tells long-winded stories in an attempt to teach the others. They usually miss the point completely and bore everyone else.
192	* OlderAndWiser: Despite being held back, the class looks up to him for advice.
193
194	!!Makio Tanaka
195	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/makiotanaka.jpg]]
196	-->'''Class''': 1-2
197	'''Voiced by''': ?
198
199	The class' errand boy until Kamiyama took his position.
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201	* ExtremeDoormat: In contrast to Kiyoshi Fujimoto, he's meek in person and only a jackass online.
202	* LaserGuidedKarma: Fujimoto punches him down for walking into him the day after his trolling, despite not knowing it's him.
203	* {{Troll}}: He's the one who's revealed to be behind the trolling on Fujimoto's forum.
204
205	!!Noburo Yamaguchi
206	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noburoyamaguchi.jpg]]
207	-->'''School''': Destrade High
208	'''Voiced by''': Creator/YuutoKazama (JP), James Faulkner (EN)
209
210	Leader of Destrade High School's first years, and an aspiring comedian.
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212	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: "Honey Boy" is this to him.
213	%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: Besides the hair and the skin color, and the ''voice'' in the anime, he has an African or Middle Eastern style beard.
214	* BerserkButton: Crude jokes or anything that drags down comedy standard, also breaking the gag either by not making jokes or pointing out how the ventriloquism act works.
215	* TheComicallySerious: And seriously comical.
216	* ExpressiveHair: His afro pulses and grows when he thinks.
217	* FunnyAfro: He is an aspiring comedian and has an afro that pulsates when he thinks. Unlike most examples, he's TheComicallySerious.
218	* TheRival: Kamiyama's main rival. Being the GagSeries that it is, he's his rival in ''comedy''.
219	* SeriousBusiness: Yamaguchi takes comedy '''extremely seriously'''.
220	* StrawCritic: He claims to have [[WrongGenreSavvy great taste in comedy]].
221	* UnknownRival: To Kamiyama's comedy pen name, "Honey Boy". He does recognize Kamiyama's skill through his overanalysis.
222	* WrongGenreSavvy: Yamaguchi would generally be right about things and have more success, if he wasn't in a GagSeries.
223
224	!!Kiyoshi Fujimoto
225	%%Character Image here
226	-->'''School''': Manuel High
227
228	Leader of Manuel High's first years. Exceedingly violent in real life, Fujimoto runs a message board and is generally patient and polite in private.
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230	* {{Hypocrite}}: Just about the entire point of his character is how he says one thing in real life, and has a completely opposite reaction and opinion about the same subject while on the net.
231	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Introduced doing as such.
232	-->'''Fujimoto:''' Listen up. You got to beat your enemy until they've stopped moving. There is no mercy in a fight.
233	* MoodWhiplash: Because of his attitude in real life and on the internet conflict so much he can beat member of his gang over a disagreement related to his computer experience.
234	* NiceGuy: On the internet, in real life he is a brutal delinquent.
235	* SituationalSociability: Online he's the most polite person you could ever find, even when dealing with a persistent troll. In real life, he's a delinquent with a short temper, and unwittingly beats up that persistent troll.
236
237	!!Jackson Setouchi
238	%%Character Image here
239	-->'''School''': Bass High\
240	'''Voiced by''': Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (JP), Ernie Manouse (EN)
241
242	Leader of Bass High's first years.
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244	* BenevolentBoss: usually takes his second in command's opinion equal to or above his own.
245	* ButtMonkey: The author reused him only once in the manga because he needed someone to get hurt.
246	[[/folder]]
247
248	[[folder:Minor characters]]
249
250	!!Mechazawa Beta
251	%%Character Image here
252	-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MikaKanai (JP)
253
254	Mechazawa's little brother.
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256	* ChewToy: Takes after his brother in that you would be hard pressed to find one appearance where he doesn't get smashed.
257	* FunSize: He is the size of a tin can.
258	* VerbalTic / PokemonSpeak: "Mecha Ratta!" is the only thing he can say.
259
260	!!''Girl Gorilla''
261	%%Character Image here
262
263	A random gorilla, unrelated to the male, that shows up every now and then.
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265	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: the only difference is the bow in her hair.
266	** Actually, the girl gorilla has even less hair on her head, and has a mustache and beard on closer inspection of her face. If anything, she looks even more like a male than the male gorilla.
267
268	!!The Aliens
269	%%Character Image here
270
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272	* {{OneShotCharacter}}s: Appeared merely to keep Hokuto's lackey from saying his name, and were never mentioned again.
273	** Though their space ship does show up in the background at least OncePerEpisode.
274	** Lampshaded by fake Takenouchi when his terrorist friend come back. He warns him that he better find a good quirk if he wants to stay at this school because aliens lasted four pages before being gone and forgotten.
275
276	!!Pootan
277	%%Character Image here
278	-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (JP), Mike [=MacRae=] (EN)
279
280	The star of a popular GagSeries, Pootan is a regular man wearing a fuzzy white bear costume that exposes his face.
281	-----
282	* {{Jerkass}}: Pootan is an asshole, both on and off the set.
283	* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDSY9AGTvP8 Pootan's theme]] is just as bizarre as his show.
284	* TheStoic: Pootan always answers Buddy in a stern, serious voice.
285	* VerbalTic: Sometimes adds "Poo" to the ends of his sentences.
286
287	!!Buddy
288	%%Character Image Here
289	-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/DaikiNakamura (JP), Creator/RobMungle (EN)
290
291	Pootan's co-star, who wears a fuzzy pink bunny costume that also exposes his face.
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293	* HairTriggerTemper: He tends to become very angry if Pootan doesn't do what he asks.
294	-->'''Buddy:''' Come on, Pootan, let's play.
295	-->'''Pootan:''' No, poo. Pootan is filing his tax returns.
296	-->'''Buddy:''' GODDAMMIT, I HATE YOU, POOTAN!
297	* NoNameGiven: He's referred to as "buddy," but that isn't his actual name.
298
299	!!Maeda's Mom
300	%%Character Image here
301	-->'''Voiced by''': Music/MegumiHayashibara (JP)
302
303	Maeda's mom, who looks exactly like him, except with different hair.
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305	* NoNameGiven
306	* {{Gonk}}: It's maeda in a dress and fuzzy hair. Everyone except Maeda are horrified by it.
307	-->'''Student:''' You miss the big picture here, sure it's embarassing having your porn found by your mom but imagine your porn being found by Maeda's mom.
308	* StrongFamilyResemblance: that's likely going to happen when [[spoiler: you marry someone ''else'' you look just like.]]
309	* TheVoiceless: In the English dub of the show and in the comic. In the original Japanese, her annoyed moan was performed by [[RuleOfFunny Megumi Hayashibara]].

Context Characters / CromartieHighSchool