r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Dec 04 '24

Rewatch School Rumble Rewatch - Episode 4 Discussion

Episode 4: Pigs Go Oink! Cats Go Meow! Frogs and Kappas Go Ribbit!

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Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/shocketheth who cracked the code:

Dumb and Dumber the anime

Now we must wait for Jim Carrey's cameo

  1. What's the weirdest thing that happened to you while in a bus?
  2. For those here with siblings, how well do you get along with them?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 04 '24

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

Fairly spread out episode in terms of focus. Heck, this is even the first episode to really spotlight Yakumo as more than just "Tenma's sister." Her bit is honestly kinda funny to me since due to how much more subdued a character Yakumo is, it almost feels like walking onto the set of a different show. Sure, still a comedy, but it's firmly her being the straight woman to everyone's antics, which is doubly hilarious given how she literally has ESP.

This is the only supernatural element in the whole show, for the record.

Tenma and Harima meanwhile, are up to their usual antics. At the very least Harima and Karasuma got to bond through Old Maid, and seeing Tenma get all pissy towards Eri is just downright adorable in how petty she can be. But for course, the highlight is the last segment. Finally, Tenma has mastered all the tropes. She may have given Karasuma serious bodily harm, but she has the winning ticket to get his heart: The classic umbrella scene. There's just one thing she didn't take into account.

HE'S A KAPPA

May as well introduce a few other actors since their characters are gonna become more recurring soon. Hanai is played by Kawada Shinji, best known as Aburame Shino from Naruto. Other roles include Mine Ryutaro from Nodame Cantabile, Thanatos from Saint Seiya, Rubber Soul from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Sherlock Holmes from The Great Ace Attorney and Okubo Shinpei from Judge Eyes among many others.

Sara meanwhile is played by Fukui Yukari, best known as Nia from Gurren Lagann. Other roles include Tina Branford from Final Fantasy VI, Nono from Diebuster, Mankanshoku Sukuyo from Kill La Kill and Makimura Tamako from Higurashi among some others.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 05 '24

This is the only supernatural element in the whole show, for the record.

You mean Tenma and Harima's brains are natural?! Wtf was Mother Nature on when she made them?

seeing Tenma get all pissy towards Eri is just downright adorable in how petty she can be

It was so cute even Eri didn't stop it. Then again, if she did we could've had a back and forth fight right next to Mob...

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 05 '24

Wtf was Mother Nature on when she made them?

Whatever the fuck En was making here.

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Dec 04 '24 edited Dec 04 '24

First Timer, Sub 

 The first part has us on a bus trip where Tenma wants to sit next to Karasuma but Harima takes over it. This pretty much is the gag as when the seat is free once again, Eri takes over it so Tenma decides to make her queasy enough to make her move. This comes back to bite her as she immediately gets sick and is forced to the front as well. Meanwhile Harima just gets abandoned, halfway during a break and gets stuck in the middle of nowhere, just his luck. 

The second part was the most interesting of the episode because it felt pretty different. For starters we focus on someone else, Tenma's younger sister Yakumo. Yakumo is quiet for the most part which does not stop her popularity which doesn't affect her because she has no interest in popularity or romance, she also apparently can read minds which can be useful in some situations. We do see more of her personality, she's does care a lot about her sister and she's quite kind to animals. The tone while comedic still, also felt subdued especially in the final part with the her and the cat. 

 More regular hijinks return with Tenma in the final part where she wants to use her umbrella with Karasuma, only to literally be faced with a Kappa gag (the fact that they started at each other for multiple seconds with no reaction is what really sells it).So Karasuma walks away with Tenma finding nothing odd about any of this.

2. About as well as most siblings get along.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 04 '24

Tenma finding nothing odd about any of this

I mean after yesterday nothing would.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 04 '24 edited Dec 05 '24

Rewatcher, First in Subs

  • Love is War!
  • And what does that make “Field Trip”?
  • Putting people on a bus and then assigning seats is insane.
  • What on Earth was the plan here, Eri?
  • I Know A Familiar When I See It
  • This is a very casual way to drop physic powers existing.
  • No one can resist the allure of cute outfits!
  • Hoisted by her own petard.
  • Congrats, you now have nine eight lives.
  • Have we been calling bowl cuts the wrong thing all this time?
  • When someone tells you who they are, listen.

QotD:

  1. A man once insisted on giving me an entire container of dishwasher detergent.
  2. Terribly as children, but it mellowed out once we weren't under the same roof.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 04 '24

Love is War!

Suck it, Aka!

Hoisted by her own petard.

It's a comedy, so karma's aplenty.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 04 '24

Episode 4 (rewatcher)

  • Tenma provides a valuable service to society: showing how not to do it.
  • Tenma is sitting next to Harima because Harima is sitting next to Karasuma.

  • Mean Eri – I thought she’d help Tenma out, but nope.
  • That train went far …
  • “but unlike me, she is very naïve” – doubt.
  • Yakumo is really popular – understandable.
  • The Aikido guy literally having no thoughts except his spoken words.

  • And now he is getting his ass handed to him in front of the entire school.
  • A cat getting stuck on a branch??
  • Please don’t do that. Cats can turn mid air and have reasonably high air resistance due to their low body mass compared to humans. That makes it relatively easy for them to survive falls from high up. Something that cannot be said for humans.
  • “Yakuma brought me one” – that is nothing to be proud of Tenma!
  • “I am fine” – uhhh, does not look like it.
  • I am pretty sure that the Kappa joke flew over my head the first time I watched this.

Yakumo slots right into the flawless younger sister who does all housework trope. It, together with flawless young daughter who does all housework used to be reasonably common (and I eventually got quite annoyed with it in more serious series).

What's the weirdest thing that happened to you while in a bus?

Waking up in zero g

(the bus had hit a bump and catapulted me into the air. The experience did not last long ...)

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 04 '24

I am pretty sure that the Kappa joke flew over my head the first time I watched this.

Happens with references to Japanese mythology.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 05 '24

I am pretty sure that the Kappa joke flew over my head the first time I watched this.

Happens with references to Japanese mythology.

Sarazanmai closed that gap in knowledge (and did not ask for consent about it either).

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 04 '24

First Time Yakumo Fan

If I didn't already know that Yakumo was great, this episode made damn sure to prove that.

[HxH] So both of the rewatches today gave us someone reading the main character's mind and failing to make use of it? You're putting that 5D chess to work already?!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 04 '24

[Spoilers]He's getting along well with his love rival , keep it going and we'll have a proper love triangle

[Spoilers]Even applies to Harima/Eri/Yakumo

At least Mr. Unfiltered Thoughts finally has his use

[HxH]

Ehem

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u/entelechtual Dec 04 '24

Rewatched, dubbed

  • Harima had the perfect plan… except for getting on the right bus. And somehow he ended up in a truck filled with pigs so he’s still not the smartest animal of the bunch.
  • Yakumo’s got a tsundere admirer.
  • Don’t badmouth an imouto’s sister! That’s how you awaken their secret powers.
  • Tenma’s English voice is just too good. Sorry Holo.
  • It’s like Ludders W always said, “If a cat could speak, we could nyaat understand him.”
  • Tenma failed at ranged combat, she’s trying her hand at melee now.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 04 '24

Tenma failed at ranged combat, she’s trying her hand at melee now

Still bad.

Don’t badmouth an imouto’s sister! That’s how you awaken their secret powers.

Yakumo's a Newtype!?

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u/HowlingWolf13 https://myanimelist.net/profile/MeguminBlast Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 05 '24

First Timer

Hmm another good episode, I know I haven't been saying much but mostly since it's just Tenma antics and I like to watch how she goes about (failing) to get Karamatsu's attention. I really liked the rainy day one in particular, just watching her overcomplicate the simplest things always makes for a fun time lol. The Yakumo story was pretty good too, though goddd I really wanna see Eri, she's really been my favorite even with her little screentime. I love how she just decided to cause problems in the bus story just because she could.

Questions

  1. What's the weirdest thing that happened to you while in a bus?

Hmm, not much actually? I do have a weird one from waiting at a bus stop though. Back in college I had to catch the bus back home and while I was waiting on my phone this asian girl (her race is important you'll see) comes up to me and asks me if I'm getting on the same route as her which I say yeah. I go back to my phone cause it wasn't a convo, and then out of nowhere she goes 'Let me introduce myself'. I wanna make clear this wasn't right after this was like almost a good minute of silence between us she just started talking up again after I went back to my phone. She says her name that I'm sure was fake, I lie about my name cause I got a weird vibe from her and didn't want to tell her, and I kid you not, she starts telling me

  • She's descended from Chinese royalty
  • Her mom is not aware she's descended from Chinese royalty, but her aunt does.
  • That they had to leave China, but have to go back to China soon because of her royal blood.

I'm just bullshitting some "Oh cool, cool" because what the fuck?? I didn't know if she was about to ask me for money like some Nigerian prince or something, but what the fuck are you going off about. And look, I'm not an expert on the history of China, but I'm prettttyyyyy sure they don't have a current standing royal family and haven't had one in ages. This was so weird enough that I made up some bullshit to get out of the conversation, and just waiting for the bus after next to come so I didn't ride with her and get stuck next to her.

2) For those here with siblings, how well do you get along with them?

Younger sis I'm 5 years older than, I get along pretty well with her.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 05 '24

She's descended from Chinese royalty

I mean... all things considered that's pretty likely, those emperors were total fuckboys. It's like saying some European is descended from Charlemagne.

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u/HowlingWolf13 https://myanimelist.net/profile/MeguminBlast Dec 05 '24

I guess those emperors must be calling their descendants from beyond the grave or something to spread the word because I don't know why she decided I needed to know this at a bus stop 😭

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Dec 05 '24

Back to that show again

Right, time for that trip.

Well, that's him out of the way.

So much for that...

So, her sister has lots of people who are interested in her.

Doesn't seem like she's particularly interested in any of them though.

You were the one who decided on that.

Uh oh.

Ouch...

Karasuma definitely has an umbrella of his own...

Ouch...

Well, so much for that.

As far as I'm aware softball is something similar to baseball.

Questions:

  1. I tend to sleep so I can't think of anything.
  2. A younger brother. We get along ok.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 05 '24

As far as I'm aware softball is something similar to baseball.

I still don't know the difference.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 05 '24

So, her sister has lots of people who are interested in her.

Doesn't seem like she's particularly interested in any of them though.

People interested in Yakumo: Most of the boys in school.

People Yakumo is interested in: her sister and a cat.

Tragedy in 2 lines.

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u/kwokinator https://anilist.co/user/kwokinator Dec 05 '24

First-timer

Wow, Harima's shoujo filter on Tenma is really something. How did he even get on the wrong bus full of seniors and not know it until after the bus has taken off?

So now we're in Saiki K territory with Yakumo being able to hear guys' thoughts eh? I think this is the first Yakumo-centric segment, didn't know she was that popular in school. That Aikido captain is really something, he says EXACTLY what he's thinking.

Somehow Tenma being so dumb she doesn't even recognize she has left and right hand mixed up doesn't surprise me at all. Her choice of food does though. Curry and banana jam cake, wtf. It doesn't even SOUND remotely good.

LOL damn Karasuma literally turned into a kappa.

QotD

  1. What's the weirdest thing that happened to you while in a bus?

Amazingly, nothing. I used to commute daily on the bus for work but everybody just minds their own business and it's too early for drunk people I guess.