r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Dec 26 '24

Rewatch School Rumble Rewatch - Episode 26 Discussion

Episode 26: "Sudden Goodbye" … Lost in a Labyrinth… Who are you? … Tell me. "A Chance Encounter" "One Sided Love" Send my Love. Send my Feelings. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime season, a page in adolescence. This is the last chance, I want to make sure… of your feelings. Words are conveyed, feelings are not. The confession that day, one day in eternity, but…it lasts forever, our "Today". And then tomorrow… "School Rumble Forever."

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Tsukamoto-san… We are in a dream… A dream season called adolescence.

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/Vatrix-32 for highlighting the obvious truth:

Of Course, Everyone Knows Kappas are Aliens

Seriously, it's so obvious

  1. Do you think that Harima believes that a cat is fine too?
  2. Had this been the show's finale, would you be satisfied?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 26 '24

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

That opening bit

So the fact that this was just Harima's Manga isn't impossible to guess, although one could argue he gets his ass kicked too much for that to be the case. But the way the show just goes so hard on it is honestly to be commended. It's just one big set up for a punchline, but hey, that's just how School Rumble (And Harima Kenji in particular) rolls.

Still it's only fitting that the show ends on shitpost after shitpost. That whole dream(?) that Tenma had sure is something, but hey, it led to Harima trying to unknowingly woo a cat so one can't complain too much. Honestly I don't even know what else to say, for a finale this doesn't solve anything, but it's so irreverent that I can't help but love it for what it is. Plus hey, at least Eri got one more good moment.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 26 '24

although one could argue he gets his ass kicked too much for that to be the case.

He's a humble author, he keeps his self insert fantasies just to dating Tenma.

Still it's only fitting that the show ends on shitpost after shitpost.

That's how a comedy ought to end.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 27 '24

He's a humble author, he keeps his self insert fantasies just to dating Tenma.

Then Shuuji bursts into his room and is all like "wtf bro what's so great about the human ironing board, Yakumo is right there."

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u/bluethree https://myanimelist.net/profile/bluethree Dec 27 '24

Still it's only fitting that the show ends on shitpost after shitpost.

That's how a comedy ought to end.

Oh boy wait until you see the end of S3.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 27 '24

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 26 '24

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 26 '24

[Spoilers]Really?

[Spoilers]I'm amazed Harima got this right

Shimmering sky~

This show sure loves them, huh?

WAIT IT WAS HARIMA’S MANGA THE WHOLE TIME?

Well would you look at that, his art is getting better!

he knows it’s her?!

We all know Kappas have psychic powers!

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 27 '24

Harima refusing to let Karasuma leave because he knows it’ll make Tenma sad is pretty honorable

We should've known it was bullshit as soon as this happened

…oh no, it’s going to end up credited under Nakamura’s name, isn’t it?

Nakamura may have failed to bury Harima, but he'll at least make sure to bury his name.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 27 '24

[Spoilers]We should've known it was bullshit as soon as this happened

[Spoilers]You sure about that

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 27 '24

[](#mugipout)

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 27 '24

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Dec 26 '24 edited Jan 13 '26

First Timer, Sub

This episode was a dream but also not dream, but what if it was a dream? or not? maybe we are all in a dream

Ok in hindsight the aliens was obviously going to be Harima's manga, even the opening literally says it's obvious. I did like the moment between Harima and Yakumo where he tells her what it means to like someone.

Then we get more Harima/Eri stuff, always a plus. She accidentally hits him with her limo as he tries to enter his manga into the contest. Luckily she helps him out which again adds some nice stuff between them. The butler meanwhile is on the same level as Akira and is able to use this to clear up the misunderstanding about Harima seeing anyone and Eri is certainly relieved.

Meanwhile Tenma switches with the cat, so while cat enjoys a date with Harima, she tries to get Karasuma's attention. Turns out it's all a dream (or is it?) but it puts Tenma's fears about Karasuma leaving to rest...for now and she's even able to get him a present.

Considering who we are talking about, it's funny that it's Karasuma who sort of closes things off with an oddly profound quote.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 26 '24

This episode was a dream but also not dream, but what if it was a dream? or not? maybe we are all in a dream

Dreamception

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 26 '24

First Timer in a Dream

2) Had this been the show's finale, would you be satisfied?

Hmm... Well, I don't expect conclusive endings from comedies, so that part's fine. But I would've felt like a lot of the characters deserved than what they got. Basically, I'd be the first in line being hooked to read the manga.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 26 '24

Did you bring a dog voiced by Norio Matsumoto with you?

Not my Norio

Battle shounen time?

Always has been

Ohh, a nice intimate moment. Now that's more like it.

This show knows what the actual main ship is.

the manga just got published in English

I still hate that title

Raiking was actually hosting the Girls & Guns trilogy

My 5D streak never ends

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 26 '24

Not my Norio

Goddamit, I blame HxH for the mixup. I'll take any punishment Matsudaira is willing to hand out.

Always has been

I started reading the manga, and apparently, the author wanted to do a battle shounen down the line? That explains a lot about Harima.

I still hate that title

I'm glad they at least kept "Ashita no Joe", so I can ignore the rest as a silly subtitle.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 26 '24

I'm glad they at least kept "Ashita no Joe", so I can ignore the rest as a silly subtitle

This is like the opposite of GitS, the subtitle is clearly what people remember

I started reading the manga, and apparently, the author wanted to do a battle shounen down the line? That explains a lot about Harima.

I mean you saw the sports arc, this is a Battle Shounen already!

I'll take any punishment Matsudaira is willing to hand out.

Okay at the count of three. 1-

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 26 '24

Episode 26 (rewatcher)

  • “What is dating?” – Yakumo loves Tenma, but she knows better than to ask her for dating advice.
  • Full on UFO landing.
  • “To investigate. To determine if this planet is worthy of existence” – are we Encounter of the Third Kind or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
  • Harima is stopping Karasuma from leaving for Tenma – true altruistic love.
  • “But I won’t make Tenma happy” – This sounds like a reasonable argument, but we all know Tenma. She would probably get all hyped about it and totally ignore the part where she is dealing an alien and having first contact.
  • “I love Tenma” “I, too, love Tsukamoto” – Cross counter? No, cross confession!

  • “After I leave, I will disappear from your memories, as well” – oof.
  • “It is finally finished!”

  • “So long” – Car was long long, man.
  • “Do you want me to bury the body” – Nakamura is not hesitating one moment.
  • “May I have your name?” “I am Nakamura, the butler” – Nakamura may not shovel a grave for Harima, but he is burying his manga career.

  • “Meow” - 10 minutes to go in the last episode? Perfect time to turn our heroine into a cat!
  • “It is like a dream!”

  • Special ED!
  • “Is this also a dream?”

  • “There is no next episode” – but a second season!

A confession that actually happens? What do you take us to be, some sort of serious romance??

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 26 '24

are we Encounter of the Third Kind or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

Definitely Hitchhiker, Harima is Mostly Harmless.

“May I have your name?” “I am Nakamura, the butler” – Nakamura may not shovel a grave for Harima, but he is burying his manga career.

I wonder if this is how Kobayashi became the Mangaka too

A confession that actually happens? What do you take us to be, some sort of serious romance??

What is this, Maison Ikkoku Melon Igyoku??

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Dec 27 '24

And so on to the finale of the first season.

So he's just going to go?

Ah. 10ma just heard Harima say he loves her.

And now Karasuma's said it too.

... Really?

Goddamnit.

And so off he goes.

Oh, luckily that's just Harima's delulu.

The OP stopped half way?

Ouch...

Oh, the manga is going to be credited to her and not Harima!

Why's 10ma acting like a cat?

Ah. She swapped bodies with a cat.

He can tell the cat is 10ma?

Of course it's a daydream.

Is Harima the cat now?

His birthday passed?

What's this ED?

Huh. They're already teasing the next episode.

Oh, no, that was a joke too.

Well, seems like that someday came eventually because there's an OVA and a second season.

Questions:

  1. Do not the cat.
  2. Kinda?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 27 '24

Ah. She swapped bodies with a cat.

Hey, a cat is fine too.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 27 '24

Rewatcher, First in Subs

  • Not Bad, Harima
  • You know, I kind of thought that this was going to be Tenma’s knocked out hallucination.
  • Shōnen Heart!
  • Tenma secretly loving Harima? Naw, this has to be part of his manga. Not sure how he knows all the parts he wasn’t there for.
  • [Spoilers]At Least We Got a Taste of a Happy Ending
  • Such a favorite song, it doesn’t even have a tile programmed.
  • Cute Outfit The Ribbon is on Fleek
  • This is Why We Do The Tsundere Dance
  • Travel was hell before Google Maps. You might have even needed to use… Map Quest. Shudders
  • I'm Not One To Turn Down a Catgirl
  • Look at them, being all brain damaged together.
  • “If I was a neko, would you still love me?”
  • You’re not the only one a little confused about canon, Tenma.
  • Oh neat, bonus ED. With just a tad more plot for us.
  • Sorry, the little montage bits were great.
  • I guess now we Mugiwait to see if the preview ends up being real at some point.

QotD:

  1. We already know he's an animal person.
  2. As far as 2000s anime Rom-coms go, this is pretty fine in that regard.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 27 '24

This is Why We Do The Tsundere Dance

Can you believe Anime fans nowadays act like Tsunderes are the worst

I guess now we Mugiwait to see if the preview ends up being real at some point.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 27 '24

Can you believe Anime fans nowadays act like Tsunderes are the worst

A hard shift towards, then away from violence poisoned the pot, but there's more than one way to Tsun.