A comedy anime soundtrack that has absolutely no business going this hard. Cromartie High School's OST takes a show about delinquents, a gorilla, and a robot named Mechazawa and scores it like a serious drama. "Freddie's Theme" channels its obvious namesake with this strutting, confident groove, and "Extreme Peer Gynt" takes Grieg's classical piece and cranks it into something ridiculous and intense.
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"Mechazawa Minimal" strips everything down to these sparse electronic pulses that somehow make a robot student feel profound. The three "Trust Me" parts building across the whole album like there's actual stakes. If you've watched Cromartie and know the deadpan humor hits harder because the music plays it completely straight, this is why.