School Rumble

School Rumble
Publisher: Studio Comet
Type of Anime: TV
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Schoolkids
Watched Subbed/Dubbed: Subbed

Overall Rating:

School Rumble is a classic romantic comedy that certainly isn't breaking new ground with its main unrequited love triangle premise. But it does have moments where it is quite funny, so who cares about plot, right?

Tenma Tsukamoto, a second year high school student, learns that her crush, Karasuma, is in her class this year. Why this girl has fallen for Karasuma is beyond me, since he seems to have zero personality and is completely oblivious to any of her advances. Rounding out the love triangle is Harima Kenji, a school delinquent whom half the class is frightened of. He credits his love for Tenma for saving him from his dark path.

So far, all episodes have focused on how Tenma might confess her love to Karasuma, and how Harima might confess his love to Tenma, whom he doesn't realize loves another man. The episodes border on stupid/silly to blatantly hysterical.

Episode 3, for instance, had me cracking up the entire episode - especially when Tenma decides to declare her love to Karasuma using a message delivery technique she saw from her favorite samurai tv show. She'll send it by bow and arrow, and spends most of the day chasing Karasuma around with a bow and arrow, shooting at him. Completely oblivious, Karasuma dodges all arrows and continues on his way, while Harima finds himself a seeming target and does some matrix-style arrow dodging complete with camera spin to narrowly escape. The episode then culminates with Tenma and her friends discussing various (absurd) techniques for confessing their love!

Each episode tends towards 3 seemingly unrelated vignettes (similar to Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu style) revolving around some trial Tenma or Harima faces in their quest to confess their love.

The animation isn't anything all that special, with the occassional 3D special effects and video clips thrown in. It almost has a His and Her Circumstance feel, though not as manga-like.

The music is fun! The opening theme is a jazzy, ska number that captures the ridiculousness of the anime.

There's not a lot of character development yet, and I'm not expecting much, but the characters are at least interesting in their ridiculousness. Tenma drives the story with her obsessive love for Karasuma, who is pretty dull, if you ask me. Harima may have some potential, given he seems just as obsessed as Tenma is.

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