The Worst manga has had over 46 million copies in circulation. Worst is the definitive tale about high school fighting which takes place in chaos-ridden Suzuran High School for Boys that has a notorious reputation of. It sold 9,574 units in its first week of release. 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 October 27, 2016. The second, Crows Gaiden: Housenka – The Beginning of Housen by Shūhei Saitō, about the beginning of Hōsen Academy, started on November 6. The first titled Crows: Explode, written by Kōsuke Mukai, Rikiya Mizushima and Takashi Hasegawa and illustrated by Tatsuya Kanda, began on October 6 it finished on October 6, 2020. 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. Crows also inspired a two-episode anime OVA adaptation, the 1994. Takahashi wrote a one volume side story called Crows Gaiden: Katagiri Ken Monogatari which was published in 2014. Takahashis Crows manga ran for 26 volumes, and Digital Manga Publishing partially published its sequel manga Worst in English. The series was adapted into a two episode OVA by Knack Productions in 1994 which covered the first three volumes of the manga. It has the same setting and also shares some characters with Takahashi's later manga QP and Worst. Several characters from the manga appear in the movies but not the main character Bōya. Crows ( Japanese:, Hepburn: Kurzu) is a Japanese high school delinquent manga series by Hiroshi Takahashi. 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. Crows Gaiden: Housenka – The Beginning of Housen

Crows Vol. 01 by Hiroshi Takahashi