Suzuran is notorious for its delinquent students who are nicknamed 'Crows' because of their dark uniforms and inauspicious nature. The story begins when Harumichi Bōya transfers into the second year at Suzuran High School. Ī beat-em-up game for the Sega Saturn titled Crows: The Battle Action was released in 1997, which was developed and published by Athena.Īn action-adventure video game by Bandai Namco Games for PlayStation 4 titled Crows: Burning Edge was released on 27 October 2016, it sold 9,574 units in its first week of release. The second, Crows Gaiden: Housenka - The Beginning of Housen by Shūhei Saitō, about the beginning of Hōsen Academy, started on November 6. The manga will be finished on October 6, 2020. The first titled Crows: Explode, written by Kōsuke Mukai, Rikiya Mizushima and Takashi Hasegawa and illustrated by Tatsuya Kanda, began on October 6. Two manga spin-offs were released in 2017 in Monthly Shonen Champion. Ī tribute manga called Crows Respect written by various authors was published by Akita Shoten in 2018. Takahashi wrote a one volume side story called Crows Gaiden: Katagiri Ken Monogatari which was published in 2014. Several characters from the manga appear in the movies but not the main character Bōya. The films are not direct adaptations but take place before the events of the manga.

It inspired three live-action films: Crows Zero in 2007, Crows Zero 2 in 2009 (both directed by Takashi Miike), and Crows Explode (directed by Toshiaki Toyoda) in 2014. The series was adapted into a two episode OVA by Knack Productions in 1994 which covered the first three volumes of the manga. As of April 2009, it had sold more than 46 million copies worldwide. It has the same setting and also shares some characters with Takahashi's later manga QP and Worst. Crows Gaiden: Housenka - The Beginning of HousenĬrows ( Japanese: クローズ, Hepburn: Kurōzu) is a Japanese high school delinquent manga series by Hiroshi Takahashi.

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