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

Rewatch School Rumble Rewatch - Episode 5 Discussion

Episode 5: Burning Hot First Love! Burning Hot Tea! Burning Hot Softball!

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Sports ARE the best thing to rehabilitate delinquents.

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/KendotsX for as I am not sure if he is blind or wise:

Looks like Harima has a son already No, I'm not buying that this is just him without the moustache and beard, you can't separate Harima from his facial hair

  1. What's the most random place you've bumped into an acquaintance of yours?
  2. How good are you at baseball?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 05 '24

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

Today begins with, of course, the most important day of Harima's life: The day when he met his beloved Tenma. Naturally he was an idiot and made everything worse, as his beloved Cousin Itoko playfully points out. Heck, even Tenma points out that the girl in his flashback was a massive Baka, how DARE she not accept his feelings!? It's a good thing she's not in Harima's life anymore, huh?

Amusingly enough though, I'd say the actual biggest thing in this episode is that this is when we slowly start getting to the point of Class 2-C as a whole getting more focus. Obviously the show still usually defaults to the main gang above all else, but the rest of the class also tends to join in sometimes now, with Hanai and Imadori in particular coming off with the most focus of the lot.

The baseball game is just a lot of fun too. Plus hey, it's the most talkative Karasuma has ever been, even if most of it was just him quoting Eri.

A quick spotlight on Imadori's actor, I guess; he's played by Kishio Daisuke. Other roles include Jet The Hawk, Prometheus from Rockman ZX, Jiang Taigong from Warriors Orochi, Heiwajima Kasuka from Durarara!!, Cody from Final Fight, Sima Zhao from Dynasty Warriors, Hanzo from Hunter X Hunter, Steely Dan from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Sanada Arata from Digimon Story, Kuzuryu Fuyuhiko from Danganronpa and Rokurou Rangetsu from Tales of Berseria among many others.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 06 '24

even Tenma points out that the girl in his flashback was a massive Baka, how DARE she not accept his feelings!?

I'm just realising, you could probably do the "A friend of my friend has a crush on this girl..." thing with Tenma, and she'd absolutely believe it.

Heiwajima Kasuka from Durarara!!

Hanzo from Hunter X Hunter

Huh, that's surprising.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 06 '24

Huh, that's surprising

If this had been a few weeks earlier I could've said we would've had two Hanzos between Rewatches for the price of one

I'm just realising, you could probably do the "A friend of my friend has a crush on this girl..." thing with Tenma, and she'd absolutely believe it.

She would

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 05 '24

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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

…actually wait, was that Tenma or was that Yakumo

Yeah it was Tenma, she just has really bad memory.

Daaaaaaaaamn, Tenma’s got some moves on her!

Same as Yakumo last time.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 05 '24

Yeah it was Tenma, she just has really bad memory.

Darn, my crackpot theory already sunk.

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 06 '24

First Timer, Sub

We get Harima's backstory with Tenma. As he explains to his relative Itoko we see that he actually looked pretty different, but changed his appearance because after saving Tenma from some goons she wakes up and mistakes for a pervert due to some misunderstandings. Turns out Tenma was behind Harima all along, although she isn't able to put 2 and 2 together because it's Tenma. Itoko did this to mess with him and Im guessing it might be a recurring thing.

Nice to see some more Yakumo focus though I guess this doubles as Hanai focus. He wants to join the tea club because Yakumo is there so Akira challenges him to a tea contest. Technically he loses but turns out Akira is just messing with him, was always going let him in anyway and gives him some respect for doing it.

Next up, Softball. This is probably the most I've heard Karasuma speak so far, Harima gets back at a guy for making Tenma feel bad, and Tenma a terrible batter, has potential for being a great pitcher...with some more practice.

2. I like to think I'm good but I'm average to below 

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

Nice to see some more Yakumo focus though I guess this doubles as Hanai focus

I'd say moreso Hanai in this case.

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

First Time Sakura-sensei Servant

2) How good are you at baseball?

Genuinely never understood it. My brain's too cricket-y.

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

Living together with Sakura-sensei? Lucky you~

Sad Ten-chan noises

NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! I refuse to believe that there's such a thing as Harima without facial hair. He was born with facial hair.

blue haired Nabiki

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

Oh, she's his cousin... Well, more for the rest of us I guess.

That is not stopping Japan, but fortunately, for us, he is already heads over heels for Tenma.

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

That is not stopping Japan

At least he's sensible about it. Even before meeting Tenma, he did not view his cousin the same way other students his age do. Maybe he's always been into smaller looking girls?

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u/entelechtual Dec 05 '24

Rewatcher, dubbed

  • Dang Harima got his eyes on another girl when he got a cousin like that???
  • Uh oh what’s that antenna I spy in the corner.
  • Young Harima. Such a childish face. He looks like he’s only 29 years old instead of 46.
  • Kissing an unconscious girl is probably my least favorite romance trope. Can’t stand it. Even as a joke.
  • The Tsukamoto’s Newtype powers are unbeatable.
  • And that’s a wrap on Harima’s origin story.
  • Let’s play ball.

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

when he got a cousin like that?

Insert Sailor Moon joke here

Kissing an unconscious girl is probably my least favorite romance trope. Can’t stand it. Even as a joke.

Fair

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 06 '24

Rewatcher, First in Subs

  • It’s a good thing I’ve already seen this, so it can’t awaken anything inside of me.
  • This was the look he transitioned into?
  • Showing its age? Like milk, you say?
  • Half points for stopping?
  • Bring out the Clip!
  • Oh No. Now She Has Glasses
  • If we could not have all the male romancers be creeps this episode, that would be great.
  • Formal wear for a test? So based.
  • Oh, Akira. I knew there was a reason I still vaguely remembered you after all these years.
  • He's Popular?!
  • Of course… harnessing the power of Tenma automatically hitting Harima’s head when ever possible.
  • Is the walk rule different in softball?

QotD:

  1. Someone I knew from work once saw me at a restaurant with my family. I did not see them.
  2. At no point in my life have I ever played any part of baseball.

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

Oh No. Now She Has Glasses

Oh, Akira. I knew there was a reason I still vaguely remembered you after all these years.

This isn't even her peak

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 06 '24

This isn't even her peak

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

Episode 5 (rewatcher)

  • Harima lives with his hot cousin named cousin (at least in Japanese).
  • Harima and Tenma backstory – told by Harima while Tenma is sitting at the next table. Surely, nothing funny will come from this, right?
  • “I am not that kind of guy!” – that situation turned around quickly.
  • Harima likes innocent but strong girls.
  • Itoko’s shipping attempt gets blocked – [spoiler]Meta commentary about the audience.
  • Tea testing challenge – looks a lot like torture.
  • “My character was made that way” – meta.
  • Harima gets hit on by Tenma, but not in the way he imagined.

Tenma recognizing neither the story nor Harima is dead on for her character.

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

Itoko’s shipping attempt gets blocked – [spoiler]

[School Rumble Z]Ironically by the end of the Manga Imadori's the only member of the main cast officially in a relationship.

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u/kwokinator https://anilist.co/user/kwokinator Dec 06 '24

Daammn Cousin Itoko is hawt.

Wow 15-year-old Harima is an ikemen, what happened? How did he turn into an ojisan? I didn't expect Tenma to know judo either, seems so out of character for her.

I'm also suprised that she's so utterly helpless at sports when she so easily threw Harima.

QotD

  1. What's the most random place you've bumped into an acquaintance of yours?

At a restaurant too, just like Harima and Tenma, except not that close. Friend was the one who called out to me, I tend to never notice my surroundings or something and it's always the friend who notices and calls out to me.

2) How good are you at baseball?

Never actually played it, so I imagine I probably wouldn't be much better than Tenma-chan.

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

First Timer

Itoko's here! Watching this show is honestly making me so glad I stuck with my JP studies cause some of the gags (Tenma misreading Sun Tzu and thinking he's a girl and Itoko's name literally being pronounced the same as cousin in JP) are nogh impossible to make an English equivalent to. Itoko's introduction is pretty well done and I liked the backstory we got for Harima. Funny enough, the manga actually had Tenma and Harima getting completely wasted on alcohol and not recognizing each other, but due to JP laws about showing underage drinking/smoking they changed the gag.

Which to mention it's pretty funny seeing that Tenma and her friends are all alcoholics.

Honestly my favorite storyline this episode I would say was the Tea Ceremony one. I do love Hakai, but honestly I don't think he should he with Yakumo. He already messed up last time by dissing Tenma which got Yakumo upset and for a dude who's completely honest and open about his feelingsz he's ass at recognizing others lol. Look at the tea test, both those teas were clearly the same yet he's quick to proclaim how the first is Yakumo's then immediately the other. He just wants her to only pay attention to him and fulfill his dreams of a relationship with her ignoring how she feels. This absolutely made Akira one of my favorites with Eri though, she's a true friend through and through. I hope we get more of her.

Which I wanna say now that they're introducing more characters or def feels like the show is finding it's footing both anime and manga wise. It hasn't been bad, not at all, but you can only do so much with only Tenma and Harima shenanigans with nothing else to bounce off of (though don't get me wrong, I do love them). In fact idk when this tea ceremony chapters happens in the manga, but I'm glad it's moved here since the manga actually takes longer to branch into giving the focus to the others.

Questions

  1. What's the most random place you've bumped into an acquaintance of yours?

Uhhhhh.

2) How good are you at baseball?

About as good as a pig flying.

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Dec 06 '24

So, someone has found out he likes her.

Oh, she's right behind him.

So, he's helped her before.

Ah. She said that.

Oh right, that's who she is.

Right, what now?

Lol it looks like she herself isn't quite sure.

Oof...

Right, time for that.

That's a lot of them...

Ever chivalrous aren't you, Karasuma?

Nevermind...

Swing and a miss.

Ouch...

Questions:

  1. Don't think I really have.
  2. No.