CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL (Sakigake!! Kuromati Koko), by Eiji Nonoka. First published in 2000 and first published in North America in 2005.
PLOT:
Thanks to a promise to a friend that fell through, Takashi Kamiyama finds himself the newest student at Cromartie High School, a place notorious for having the toughest student body around. What he finds there are yankiis doing things like arguing over the importance of nicknames, a robot student that no one acknowledges is a robot, a rich boy caught up in his own ridiculous lies, a gorilla with a wristwatch and cell phone, and the mysterious man known only as Freddie.
