School festival episodes never turn out well. Impressions: This is a good microcosm of the issues I have with a lot of romance shows, but especially this one. Rather than actual give some substance [...]
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Back to the Vaults: School Rumble (Manga Review) スクールランブル Although I only recently actually finished reading the School Rumble manga, it is an old manga series, having run in Japan from 2002 to 2009 [...]
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School Rumble “Hello Again” The forth and final of the School Rumble extra chapters is “Hello Again”, which was published November 8, 2017. Other than Kobayashi-sensei briefly doing some additional [...]
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School Rumble “Give It Away” The third of the four School Rumble extra chapters is “Give It Away”, which was published March 15, 2017. This was published alongside the extra Negima! chapter. SPOILER [...]
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School Rumble “Diamonds on the Inside” The second of the four School Rumble extra chapters is “Diamonds on the Inside”, which was published November 30, 2016. SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: The adult Eri, [...]
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School Rumble “What’s Up Doc” While working on reviewing the final volumes of School Rumble, I was checking on some hideous rewrites that Kodansha did. While doing this, I discovered that [...]
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School Rumble Volume 22 Manga Review –> Click the link to buy School Rumble Volume 22 from Amazon.com! Summary/Synopsis (Main Story): With Tenma gone, Yakumo is adjusting to living alone. Sarah comes [...]
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School Rumble Volume 21 Manga Review –> Click the link to buy School Rumble Volume 21 from Amazon.com! Summary/Synopsis (Main Story): Eri arranges Yakumo and Harima to find Tenma. They find her, but [...]
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School Rumble Volume 20 Manga Review –> Click the link to buy School Rumble Volume 20 from Amazon.com! Summary/Synopsis (Main Story): The school walking festival kicks off with guys and girls passing [...]
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School Rumble Volume 19 Manga Review –> Click the link to buy School Rumble Volume 19 from Amazon.com! Summary/Synopsis: Imadori pays Karen a visit at her job and discovers her male, college coworker [...]
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School Rumble  Volume 18 Manga Review Summary/Synopsis: Harima learns that Eri is in love with him from Yakumo. Harima summons Eri to the roof to turn her down, where she tells him she’s not in love [...]
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School Rumble  Volume 17 Manga Review Summary/Synopsis: Eri sees Harima giving Tenma a lot of attention despite Tenma being a ditz, so she tries that approach to attract Harima. Tenma invites Eri and [...]
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Remember the shows where you saw the incredibly human side to every character past their cold hardened exterior? When you empathize with nearly everyone because the reality of this crazy world we live [...]
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In this Christmas episode, Harima’s quest for Tenma’s heart, the central theme of the majority of the School Rumble series, continues on. He starts off the holidays with his own personal style, [...]
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Neuro 5 ties with Harlem Beat 4 for top DO WANT while the last Sukuram splits the first runner-up honor with Q.E.D. 45 and the penultimate Silent Sinner in Blue 2. Third place actually goes to Raiders [...]
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One of the things I've found is that I learn more about my tastes from the anime that I strongly dislike than from the anime that I like. It can be hard to figure out why I like something, whereas [...]
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As I was spending a lazy swing shift reading witty humor sites and cursing Mibbit’s shittiness I ran across this article. Yeah, it’s Cracked, what you gonna do? Just hop over to #1 so we can get started. Except that nine out of the ten of you won’t, so here’s the whole thing summarized: [...] [...]
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By Jin Kobayashi. Released in Japan by Kodansha, serialized in the magazine Weekly Shonen Magazine. Released in North America originally by Del Rey, now released digitally by JManga. Way back ages ago, I reviewed Del Rey’s omnibus release of Vols. 14 through 16, and noted it left off on a nasty cliffhanger. And there it [...]
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Well paint my butt blue and call be a baboon! I actually enjoyed this series. I normally find these style of anime too random, cute, or feminine for my taste. School Rumble is most definitely random, cute, and feminine, but … Continue reading →
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Day 2/366 School Rumble is a romantic comedy set in high school. We pretty much only see these characters in their uniform unless they are on an outing that doesn't involve the school. Or swimming! That doesn't happen too often. Red skirts with a simple white top, short sleeved or long, followed by a sand [...] Related posts:366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 1/366 Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica 365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 28/365 Makoto Ito 365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 246/365 The Black Swordsman
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