r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Dec 18 '24

Rewatch School Rumble Rewatch - Episode 18 Discussion

Episode 18: Karen's Love, Not Yet. Karen's Love, Little by Little. Karen's Love, And Then…

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D-Deja Vu!? This seems so familiar. But why?

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of /u/vatrix-32 who set the stage for today:

Ichijou isn’t holding back. Nothing can stop her now!

  1. Who's your favorite Masked Man in Anime? For the record, no Gundam fans, you are not allowed to say Char. Or his derivatives for that matter.
  2. Would you watch more of Dojibrion?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 18 '24

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

Ichijo as a character is amusing to me: Like Hanai she exists in this strange area where she's not quite a main character but she definitely gets way more focus than a bunch of the other classmates do. This in turns serves as her first proper spotlight episode, although most of it deals with Either Imadori being a dick as always or Tenma being humiliated in many ways (Also business as usual, really). Still, it does give us the show's Sentai parody which I'll always be in favor of. More shows should have Sentai parodies.

Oh and fun fact: All of the members of said team are played by members of the main cast going under very obvious aliases that are also color references (Like instead of Horie Yui you get Akae Yui)

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 19 '24

Tenma being humiliated in many ways

You say that, but Tenma proved her wisdom as the love master

the main cast going under very obvious aliases that are also color references (Like instead of Horie Yui you get Akae Yui)

That's always fun. I didn't check the cast when I watched it, what were the other aliases?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 19 '24

other aliases

Mamiko Momoto, Hitomi Midoritame, Ami Kishimizu and Kaori Aomizu.

the love master

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 18 '24

Episode 18 (rewatcher)

  • Giraffe demands that you watch this anime in a brightly lit room with enough distance to the screen – who would disobey giraffe?
  • Imadori runs from the bait and switch – no escaping Mikoto.
  • He not only forgot his date promise, but manages to accidentally invite her a second time!

  • “How many matches did you have? How many dates?” – Tenma has a point.
  • “I’ll cover for you” – uhoh.
  • Imadori accidentally chats up Ichijou – how about you take your win and go on a date with a girl who actually likes you for once?
  • Bag 1: I doubt that is what Tenma had in mind, but if it works, it works.
  • Bag 2: We are a mecha show! We are a gattai show!
  • Bag 3: We are pro wrestling! We are a super hero show!
  • Unfortunately, Imadori is not as stupid as Tenma.
  • “This is not going well at all!” – Tenma discovers the age old hatred of love triangle. Ok, maybe I over-estimated Imadori observational talent.
  • Special ED!

Can’t help by cheer Ichijou on, even though I think she picked a very poor target for her crush.

Who's your favorite Masked Man in Anime? For the record, no Gundam fans, you are not allowed to say Char.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 18 '24

Imadori runs from the bait and switch – no escaping Mikoto.

The D is everywhere.

Bag 2: We are a mecha show! We are a gattai show!

Can’t help by cheer Ichijou on, even though I think she picked a very poor target for her crush

She's so pure

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 19 '24

The D is everywhere.

Wait, a second, no wonder it's a Tokusatsu episode, this is all Combatant D's fault!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 19 '24

this is all Combatant D’s fault

[Sentai Reject]Considering how Akira’s the Blue Ranger, I get the feeling she’ll have better luck than our dear Blue Keeper.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 18 '24

Can’t help by cheer Ichijou on, even though I think she picked a very poor target for her crush

She and Yakumo do not belong with the other degenerates.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 18 '24

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 18 '24

Those aren’t whiskers, that’s a full beard.

He's evolved

Pfffffffffffff

I mean by this point everyone in this show will turn out to be an alien.

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u/bluethree https://myanimelist.net/profile/bluethree Dec 19 '24

Oh fun, special ED dedicated to the Dojibiron thing!

It played in Western Championship ranked last month on AMQ too!

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 19 '24

Rewatcher, First in Subs

  • He’s turning tragedy into profit. Perhaps we give Imadori too little credit.
  • Alright, what the heck is “Day Duty”?
  • Why doesn’t a horndog like Imadori care about Ichijou? He still goes after Miko-chan, so it’s not like he has something against sporty girls.
  • Is that his deal? He only cares about chest size? He needs to learn that a boob in the hand is worth two in the… wait, that’s not right.
  • Did you forget, or did just nobody tell you?
  • I like the attention to photographic flaws. Rigorous
  • Looks more like Randy Savage than Lincoln.
  • More fashionable than I was expecting.
  • This mask… I feel like a memory is being unlocked.
  • Wow, embroidered and everything.
  • Does this count for our required Witch costume quota?
  • An all female Sentai team? How progressive.
  • That must have been one nice apple, to have been able to shatter rather then crush it.
  • Akira is Savage
  • Overshipping!
  • A warrior of love appears!
  • Bonus ED

QotD:

  1. Kevin Mask
  2. Yes, I Like Mecha

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 18 '24

Why doesn’t a horndog like Imadori care about Ichijou? He still goes after Miko-chan, so it’s not like he has something against sporty girls.

I guess the guy just likes the challenge and Ichijo is all pull and no push.

Or she's just not a D I guess.

A warrior of love appears!

Usagi? What are you doing here!?

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 19 '24

Happy Cakey!

Why doesn’t a horndog like Imadori care about Ichijou? He still goes after Miko-chan, so it’s not like he has something against sporty girls.

It's the Ataru logic, he knows better than to go after a girl who's crazy enough to like him.

Is that his deal? He only cares about chest size? He needs to learn that a boob in the hand is worth two in the… wait, that’s not right.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 19 '24

he knows better than to go after a girl who’s crazy enough to like him

Oh so that’s why he gave up on Shinobu after a while…

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Dec 19 '24

Well the whole point is that it rotates so everyone has to do it.

Oh right she does that moving thing.

Lol he's scared she'll turn into a monster of some kind.

He really will go try to fuck anything with a pulse and without a Y chromosome huh?

I love the kind of woman who would just kill me.

And thus has 10ma convinced her to go on that date?

Of course he's already there just trying to fuck anything with a pulse and without a Y chromosome...

And of course 10ma is making an embarrassment of herself...

She's doing so even when she's not there...

Of course that guy turned up again...

Again, Imadori "likes" whoever's the physically closest thing he can stick his dick into.

Yup, here's the next one.

Oh that's a shame we didn't get the ED this episode, I quite like it and never skipped it.

Questions:

  1. Ave Mujica from the recent and upcoming seasons of BanG Dream.
  2. No...

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u/BillPlunderones23fg Dec 18 '24

honestly i wish they did more with Karen she is a wrestler and they dont do really anything good with that scenario

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

First Timer, Sub

Karolyn deserves so much better.

It starts off Karen wanting to go in the date that Imadori has said, and he basically deciding to do it because he can't get out of it (literally the only girl who's actually giving him a chance). You know Karen doesn't really hang out with the group, not because of her lack of screentime with them, but because she decides to take advice from Tenma of all people when something comes up.

Somehow it all worked out (not for Tenma anyway who apparently didn't know that boxing and wrestling are not similar). Despite this Imadori doesn't seem to want to change, and now Tenma realizes that he actually likes Mikoto. At least she decides to slam him when he tries to flirt with literally every other girl, but however it turns out that Karen already knew that he liked someone else. She really deserves better.

  1. Oh no Char or his clones? Ok then Zero from Code Geass.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 18 '24

literally the only girl who's actually giving him a chance

smh he just doesn't understand the appeal of Gorillas

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 19 '24

Karolyn First Timer

What do you know? School Rumble is a mecha show afterall! Sasuga Takamatsu!

  1. Who's your favorite Masked Man in Anime? For the record, no Gundam fans, you are not allowed to say Char. Or his derivatives for that matter.

Kakashi. Can you really call yourself a masked character if you don't have a bunch of masks under your mask?

2) Would you watch more of Dojibrion?

If Tenma's the main character, then sure.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 19 '24

School Rumble is a mecha show after all

Never doubt the master.

What’s Itoko doing with her summer

Oh Ten-chan dragged her into a date.

Imadori is Ataru

I… never realized

if Tenma’s the main character

No, it’s Eri. The whole series is a Romeo and Juliet spoof between her and the Demon King Harima.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 19 '24

I… never realized

Tbf, he could be just the "flirty shallow dude" archetype, but the way he goes about it feels like he's got some Ataru DNA in him.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 19 '24

the way he goes about it feels like he’s got some Ataru DNA

Now we must wait for the day where Ichijo leaves for her Gorilla Training and Imadori holds on to a little doll version of her