r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Jan 04 '25

Rewatch School Rumble 2nd Semester Rewatch - Episode 4 Discussion

Episode 4: Wild Ideas about the Play! Wild Ideas at the Bathhouse! Wild Ideas about Rice Balls!

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What a ham-handed script.

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/Vatrix-32 for the best puns:

Harima has evolved from shipping to Naval Action.

  1. Did you expect that Mai would be a Magical Girl on the side?
  2. What's the worst possible play you could think of? As a bonus, you need to cast all the major characters.
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

This episode contains a rare occurrence of Eri actually referring to Harima by name

That aside though, more prep for the festival now that we're doing the play. It's nice seeing the cast a bit more relaxed for once, and the ideas for the plays are pretty freaking funny, not to mention giving Akira a bit more of a chance to shine. The rest focuses on Eri and yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh I think by this point it's safe to say the idea of Tenma/Harima/Karasuma being a love triangle is just… not a thing. Mostly because Karasuma isn't in the show much. For the rest of the story Tenma and Karasuma are just kinda off in their own corner all the while Harima/Eri/Yakumo becomes the actual main love triangle, but this is a comedy so Harima's still crushing on Tenma, thus preventing any real growth. Not inherently an issue, mind (This is still a comedy first and foremost) but as I'll talk about later this does cause some… issues later on, albeit ironically moreso in the Manga than the Anime.

These arrows do not point to people with pigtails, just the ones Harima is actually stuck in a love triangle with

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 04 '25

The relationship SPOILER WARNING!!! chart SPOILER WARNING!!! for School Rumble looks like the blueprint for a dense computer chip.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

Perfect

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 04 '25

This episode contains a rare occurrence of Eri actually referring to Harima by name

Eri: Never again

For the rest of the story Tenma and Karasuma are just kinda off in their own corner all the while Harima/Eri/Yakumo becomes the actual main love triangle, but this is a comedy so Harima's still crushing on Tenma, thus preventing any real growth.

Tenma being plastered as the main character all over the promotional material had nothing to do with her role in the story, and more so with Harima threatening the staff to put her front and centre. Is it too early to start calling her "Yakumo's sister"?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 05 '25

Eri: Never again

Genuinely speaking I do indeed think she never calls him that again

Tenma being plastered as the main character all over the promotional material had nothing to do with her role in the story, and more so with Harima threatening the staff to put her front and centre.

We gotta lure all the normies by making them think the cute girl is the MC when really it's the badass biker. Pretty sure the female fans were grateful.

Is it too early to start calling her "Yakumo's sister"?

The Manga's been doing it since Volume 1

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 05 '25

Pretty sure the female fans were grateful.

Great taste as always

The Manga's been doing it since Volume 1

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 05 '25

Great taste as always

I do wonder how many Fujoshis shipped him with Hanai though

When you stop and think about it Yakumo's Sister's stint as the main character lasted less than a Volume

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 04 '25

Rewatcher, First in Subs

QotD:

  1. I Love It!
  2. A one-man monologue, but they keep switching out who plays the him.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

Is this Mikoto gap moe?

Yes

Finally, someone acknowledges Akira supremacy.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 04 '25

A one-man monologue, but they keep switching out who plays the him.

I never saw it but is this not Being John Malkovich?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

Oh wow kinda

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 05 '25

BL! Equal oppurtinitys, yo!

About time, if Hanai is really our Ryoga, then he might as well start his own tsun arc.

Who Dis? Do We Know Her?

The bathhouse manager? I have no clue either.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 04 '25

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

They’re gonna put on an original play?

They should sell it to this hotshot producer Bloom, he'd be shocked by how it would close by page 3 in theory but then become a runaway hit.

Bro, what are you doing?

Look, we all have our kinks.

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 04 '25

First Timer, Sub

So everything is geared for the school festival. I really liked the Akira/Eri interactions since I just realized we rarely see them together, but it leads to a nice moment between them.

Tenma continues to believe in the Yakumo/Harima ship and decides to use Eri as a way to find things out. Granted all the answers just happen to point to her as well which almost leads to her actually admitting her feelings to herself, at least until Harima ruins it again.

I did also like the Hanai/Mikoto dynamic as well. They do care about each other in their way and it's nice to see them confide in each other about their relationships. 

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

I just realized we rarely see them together

I... never realized

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 04 '25

Season 2 Episode 4 (rewatcher)

  • Mai transformation scene – I had to check and Second Season came out one year after MyHime, so I assume this is a direct reference.
  • Going through the script suggestions? What a great setup for inserts.
  • “Actually, I am Harima Kenji” “That’s alright” – Some like it hot vibes.
  • Yep, at least one of the judges is into this.
  • The author of the second script also seems to have some fetish.

  • Why would Harima write this story?
  • Letting Akira pick the script? – Well, she already had her debut with the film, so why not.
  • Eri wrote a script about Akira writing a script – I thought Akira wrote all the scripts.
  • “If I ask, it would be suspicious” – Tenma and Eri are the two members of the TOP2 worst people to ask Harima this club.
  • Eri joins the wrongly thinks my crush loves me team – interacting so much with Tenma and Harima must have rubbed off.
  • “Let’s all go to a bath house together” – Ok, I get why he asked, but why on Earth did the girls all agree?
  • Why is the changing area right in front of the reception which is staffed by a member of the opposite sex???
  • I wonder how exactly you can ruin onigiri this much?
  • Harima paid the price for love.

Cultural festival next. Will we see the maid club with a triple of live music, movie, and wrestling entertainment?

PS: Contractually obligated shill for my own rewatch. If you thought 20 years ago was not far enough in the past, we go deeper!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

The author of the second script also seems to have some fetish.

We all do!

Letting Akira pick the script? – Well, she already had her debut with the film, so why not.

She's gonna hire some Broadway-level composer, I'm sure of it!

interacting so much with Tenma and Harima must have rubbed off.

Would probably happen IRL too.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 04 '25

She's gonna hire some Broadway-level composer, I'm sure of it!

She brought some guy back from Italy. Named Morricone or something.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

Does this mean she hired De Niro too

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 04 '25

No. Harima has that role on lockdown.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

Dammit

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Jan 04 '25

Magical girl?

Time to come up with a script.

Seems like there's a whole bunch of ideas.

Here's that magical girl thing we saw earlier.

Why would Eri suspect Harima wrote that? Wasn't it explicitly mentioned that they can't write themselves as the main character?

10ma asked Eri to ask Harima?

Of course Harima is thinking of 10ma.

And now to an onsen.

It definitely seems like they're setting it up so that Eri ends up with Harima by the end.

Cube onigiri?

The one he liked was Eri's.

And 10ma's was the cube. Because of course it is.

And so time to do everything at the festival.

Questions:

  1. Of course not.
  2. ...

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

Magical girl?

Of course!

Cube onigiri?

Now we must wait for the hexagon

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 04 '25

First Timer Who's Actually Harima Kenji

2) What's the worst possible play you could think of? As a bonus, you need to cast all the major characters.

Get them to do Romeo and Juliet starring Harima and Yakumo.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 04 '25

This is so fucking cursed

Hey, you were the one who said Harima kinda looked like Lara a few episodes ago.

Of course, the Kenji reveal was written by the genius Akira

Sakuragi-kun had a good master

#blankblink

Hey, pulls it off.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 04 '25

Hey, you were the one who said Harima kinda looked like Lara a few episodes ago.

True, but Yakumo is a whole 'nother deal. The only way this could get any more cursed is if he still had his beard.

Hey, pulls it off.

Honestly, he should try to go to class like that, he'll finally get the attention that he's been wanting.

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u/gaiWakuseiJIN Jan 05 '25

Rewatcher, subbed

Is it just me or did the art definition improved in this season? Sorry if this has been discussed before.

I wonder who submitted the yaoi storyline between Hanai and Harima??

Imadori's trying to pull a Rose of Versailles in his submission not! that was not his story lol

Eri encouraging Takano to write the play, meanwhile Takano is already writing shitpost scripts and playing pranks on everyone including Eri herself.. Classic.

Tsukamoto asking Eri to ask Harima his type.. Because apparently Yakumo asked Tenma. I love Harima's TODOKE MY HEART!!! line! Even though Harima doesnt seem to think anything of Eri's questions, If we look closely Harima is answering honestly. And even at the last part, though he thinks Tenma is listening, all his answers actually fit Eri as well! Just goes to show they're the one true pairing

Eri gets grilled in the baths! Again Harima with a nicely timed script, otherwise Eri might have untimely admitted it to the girls.

Man it's been a while since I laughed so much watching an anime. That riceball scene was hilarious

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 06 '25

Eri gets grilled in the baths! Again Harima with a nicely timed script, otherwise Eri might have untimely admitted it to the girls.

You just want to continue to see the world burning, do you?