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Plot Synopsis

Tsukamoto Tenma has long been keeping her love to her schoolmate, Karasumaru, a secret until one day she heard that Karasumaru is going to move within a month. Feeling desperate Tenma tries any possible way to reveal her feelings to Karasumaru, aided by her little sister Yakumo, and fellow classmates.

On the other side, a young delinquent Harima Kenji falls in love to the seemingly innocent Tenma, but all his attempts have been failing at all times.

Would Tenma finally realize Kenji's hidden feelings? Would Tenma's burning love reach the cold and flat Karasumaru? School Rumble follows the funny adventures of Tenma and Kenji with their love confession trials, misunderstandings, and laugh-able desperate measures of teen romance.

Story & Characters

The series that is so funny, so refreshing, so cheerful, and so popular that it actually got a second season - that would be the anime School Rumble, which mixes comical love with...comedy.
Tsukamoto Tenma is a dumb girl. She is so dumb and clueless that one must be mentally challenged to be like her, yet she is madly in love with her classmate, the odd and random Karasuma. During the first season, she tries her hardest for him to notice her in comedic ways, with ridiculously entertaining results. Meanwhile, the class deliquent, Harima Kenji, is trying equally as hard for the oblivious Tenma to notice him, and the series goes on in a love triangle. The first semester focuses on these three, while introducing the other characters as well as their special traits. Yakumo, the popular and quiet younger sister of Tenma, who has the ability to read minds of the many men who lust after her; Eri, the half French girl who lives in a mansion and is friends with Tenma (and also has a bit of a crush on Harima); Akira, the quiet and eloquent tea-lover who is secretly a spy and also a friend of Tenma; Hanai, the class representative who is obsessed with Yakumo; and Miko, an athletic friend of Hanai and Tenma. These are only a few of the interesting characters that will make the series even more intriguing.
School Rumble is not only the series to cheer anyone up when they're down, but also a series that is able to create unique and enjoyable characters that will lead on the course of the story. It is true that they're not very realistic in terms of setting and characteristics of their age, but this anime is so lovable that it's able to be accepted for what it is.

Rating

8 (good)

Art

The art in School Rumble is just like it's genre and plot - colorful, bright, and cute. I found the art tecnique very clean, and overall, it was very likeable, just like the anime's other aspects. The setting and background fits in perfectly with the characters, and while all the characters have their special look and characteristics, they fit in with each other.
Sometimes, the artists will use different styles of art and lighting for certain scenes meant for parody, which is all the more fitting with the concept of the anime.

Rating

9 (very good)

Sound

The soundtrack is not spectacular, nor is it horrible. Because School Rumble is such a great anime in terms of its art and antics, the sound is unfortunately somewhat shadowed, so I didn't pay too much attention to it. Even the opening and endings are somewhat pleasing, but not a tune to be particularily admired.
The music does, however, manage to uplift the special scenes of the show, and helps in delivering many entertaining parody scenes.
As for the seiyuus, like every other point, they made the characters alive. Each and every voice worked to create individuals that came together in awesome scenes.

Rating

7 (above average)

Presentation

What I just loved about School Rumble was that the story was so vague (he likes her, she likes another guy) so that it allowed space for randomly funny events. The humor in School Rumble is, at times, very random, and the producers are able to make it work. Other than the comedy, the series are able to express teenage frustration at love that seems to go nowhere, and make it into exaggerated acts that start in comedy, and end in comedy.
The anime is also able to touch upon warm themes, of friendship and loyalty, as well as kindness and the willingness to help. School Rumble isn't the best anime I have seen, but certainly amongst my most favorite ones. Never will it let you be sad or down, and you will always find yourself loving the characters.

Rating

9 (very good)

Final Verdict

8.33 (good)

Reviewed by Rosegirl18, 2y 9wk ago