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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

School Rumble starts off as a traditional shoujo style affair, where a cute high school girl (Tsukamoto Tenma) is in love with a distant, and totally clueless, classmate (Kurasuma Ooji). Of course through in another man (Harima Kenji), determined to claim the girl's heart. The series immediately digresses from the usual pattern of events with some hilarious antics from all parties... Tenma is ridiculously girly when dealing with Kurasuma-kun, while Harima, the infamous motorcycle-riding school deliquent, is overwhelmingly stupid (and innocent) in his attempts to get closer to Tenma-chan.

Theres great character development, with even side characters getting constantly developed through many interactions with the main characters... Strangely enough, Kurasuma-kun has very few real parts in the anime, but when he does, its usually major.

It may not sound like much, but the day-to-day trials of these characters, and their nosy friends, is well worth the time and effort of getting and watching this series.

Rating

7 (above average)

Art

The art style is typical, large (but not huge) eyes on the girls, and everyone in cute school uniforms. Occasionally, on overemphasized scenes, a whole different art style is used to depict the characters, giving them a more "life-like" look, adding to the "drama". Its used quite well to give the viewer a laugh as Tenma gives a serious face, or Harima runs into the horizon crying with mixed grief.
The animation is crisp and never lack in detail, while the background is always busy or well rendered, making it quite a well done show.

Rating

9 (very good)

Sound

The intro and ending songs are hilarious on their own, their lyrics give me a laugh whenever I hear them being played! The OST and background music is average, not standing out much, but its not something you could listen to apart from the show. And finally, the speech and dialogue is very well done, the voices match the characters almost perfectly!! The seiyuus give a believable presentation of the characters, no matter how ridiculous or strange the situation.
Probably the seiyuu choiches and intro/ending songs are the audio highlights of this show. But the OST does nothing to drag it down ^^;

Rating

8 (good)

Presentation

Many parts of School Rumble are zany and hilarious, with a couple of scenes poking fun at other animes... (any Initial D fan out there will be treated to a good laugh). Overall, its very original, and whenever the anime borrows from others, its to get a laugh or develop it into a comic situation. There are always 3 parts to a show, but sometimes they flow seamlessly into each other, or occasionally, one part will take up half the show, and the other 2 parts manage to squeeze their story into a brief 10 minutes.

The anime also takes some parts directly from the manga, literally! With exactly the same image, only coloured. Of course, there are many different stories to keep the experienced manga reader interested!

Pretty much every episode is watchable, and even if it's not, they'll have plenty of scenes of attractive characters throughout! But don't worry, the series has very few ecchi parts, (so far) and even then its restrcited to very, very short intervals... like a 5 second bath scene, lol.

Both guys and girls can enjoy this series to the fullest, with its comedy, romance, and drama leaving you craving for more.

Rating

8 (good)

Final Verdict

7.83 (good)

Reviewed by hikago, 3y 40wk ago