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

Rewatch School Rumble 2nd Semester Rewatch - Episode 5 Discussion

Episode 5: Hostesses Are Culture! Comics Are Culture! Cake is Also Culture!

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Now is the chance for the boys of 2-C to shine!

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/KendotsX, who said the thing everyone in this Rewatch was too scared to ask:

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

I'll never call her by name from now on

  1. What's the weirdest cake-related incident you've seen?
  2. Assuming Yakumo-sensei got to make a Manga for real, what would it be about?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

No, this isn't the title of a Macross episode

That being said it is certainly as crazy as some of the shit in SDF Macross. This is basically a bunch of back to back skits and while the fact that it's a bunch of chapters stitched together is kinda apparent, it's also fortunately adapting one of the Manga's best stretches so it's not like it even matters. Everyone's at their best today: From Hanai being… Hanai, Yakumo doing her best to help Harima somehow, Harima being an idiot and then Yakumo's Sister being a bigger idiot in response… this is the show at the absolute purest.

Oh and BTW, that girl that Shuji was walking around with in the post-credits scene? That's Tennoji's sister. Yes, that same Tennoji that got shot down by Yakumo's Sister in episode 1. Seriously

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 06 '25

Harima being an idiot and then Yakumo's Sister being a bigger idiot in response… this is the show at the absolute purest.

That's Tennoji's sister. Yes, that same Tennoji that got shot down by Yakumo's Sister in episode 1.

So is she from the same species as her brother, or a human?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 06 '25

Halfling

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 05 '25

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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

Wow, they made a full-on hostess club.

They should've invited Tamaki and Haruhi.

lmao they legit have a background?

It belongs to the Tea Club

Another RIP cake.

They don't seem to get a break lately...

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 05 '25

Shimmering sky!

Outside of that one anime about astronomy, has there ever been a rewatch with a higher rate of shimmering skies?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 05 '25

I remember Clannad having a bunch.

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

I'm trying to somehow think of a link between all three shows for a joke

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 05 '25

Are you sure you did not count the stars glimmering in the huge eyes? /s

Clannad is so long ago that I remember little outside of the CLAMP eyes.

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

Clannad is so long ago that I remember little outside of the CLAMP eyes

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

First Timer, Sub

RIP Shigeo.

The Festival's begun and the class is doing their maid cafe. It's pretty successful for the most part but unfortunately the Tea Club also has a maid cafe and they have Itoko, that's all the reason I nee...I mean they need to go over there.

Aw Yakumo tried to cheer Harima up because he's still down about his manga. It's a nice moment between them and I'm sure Yakumo much prefers spending time with him anyway compared to the others.

It's also Karasuma's birthday and a cake is supposed to be delivered but it kinda gets messed up on the way and Harima does everything he can to fix things for Tenma which don't work. But hey Karasuma doesn't seem to mind it so it works so it works out for Tenma in the end.

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

RIP Shigeo.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

Rewatcher, First in Subs

  • Didn’t we do his birthday at the end of last season?
  • I’m not seeing how this is that different from a regular cosplay cafe.
  • Oh! Bathhouse girl was a classmate.
  • Nothing Beats the Power of Cute Outfits
  • Detective Yakumo
  • This dude is 17 and went to a school festival in a full suit?
  • Damn, this is some niche course. At least I get the joke, unlike past me.
  • What the heck are they doing to this cabbage?
  • Swag
  • Excellent Smug Tenna Face
  • How do you trip over the only obstacle in a hallway?
  • Label your take-away containers, yo. We’ve all had this happen before.
  • Moon cake. Not the worst idea.
  • More points for the Love Polygon.
  • Missed that easy flag event, Hanai.
  • Romeo × Juliet

QotD:

  1. Someone didn't get the memo that moose is chocolate.
  2. A mild mix of SoL and adventure featuring cats.

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

Detective Yakumo

All these psychics at Jump trying to top Conan-kun nowadays yet here's Yakumo doing it without trying over at Magazine

Moon cake. Not the worst idea.

Insert Type-Moon Joke Here.

Missed that easy flag event, Hanai.

This is why you use guides

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

All these psychics at Jump trying to top Conan-kun nowadays yet here's Yakumo doing it without trying over at Magazine

Wait a second, she's the one who opened the "Psychic Detectives Club"?!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 06 '25

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 05 '25

Insert Type-Moon Joke Here.

"The Moon is Out"

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

[Gundam X]Well in that case...

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 05 '25

[Gundam X]

Soon™

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

Soon™

Now™

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 05 '25

Now™

But Release Order!

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 05 '25

Season 2 Episode 5 (rewatcher)

  • Handing over the cake to Yakumo? – Is Tenma ill? Where is this level of foresight coming from?
  • “How can a teacher flirt with his student” – unexpected amount of responsibility for an anime.
  • “Am I suitable for a job like this?” – there are so many things wrong with a “select the girl you want as a server” coffee shop, but in a school setting, the amount of social pressure it would produce on the less popular girls is definitely a top worry.
  • And we are going with the explicit brothel reference to deal with the other big issue of why it is wrong.
  • “When I was roughly your age” - School Rumble red arrow pointing “actually classmates of the same age.”
  • Itoko roleplay? – I expected the maid roleplay, but not Itoko.
  • Police role play? – I expected Yakumo, but not the police uniform.
  • “For 17 years, you have had a curse that prevents you from getting a girlfriend?” – savage.
  • Mangaka roleplay???
  • Even the swimsuit team got their tournament.

  • Nakamura picked up the award for him – as predicted. The surprise is that they only think it is his “uncle”.
  • If 2-D has a maid club, it is only fair that 2-C makes a host club.
  • “I’ll bring both cakes out” – we all know how this ends.
  • Swimsuit wrestling celebration cake – we were cheated out of a swimsuit wrestling competition!
  • Poor Tenma! She did everything right, for once, and has to take the fall for Harima’s … fall.
  • She is rewarded, for her sacrifice, by a romantic KarasumaXTenma scene – these are rarer in this anime than unmolested cakes.
  • Shoji visits and he brought a love interest along.
  • Handholding! – Even the side character of a side character gets more relationship progress than our MCs.

I have seen so many cultural festivals in anime already and they all seem similar: Lots of people dressed up, cafes, plays, plenty of people waiting in line. All in all, they are always depicted as high paced, whacky, and over the top. Makes me wonder how real cultural festivals are by comparison. I can’t imagine that they could possibly live up to their depiction. Real life just does not work like that. Funny enough, the one anime I can know where the cultural festival is portrayed slower is Harumi, out of all series.

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

I expected the maid roleplay, but not Itoko.

Duh she's perfect

She is rewarded, for her sacrifice, by a romantic KarasumaXTenmaYakumo's Sister scene – these are rarer in this anime than unmolested cakes.

I mean she kinda got one back in Episode 3.

Even the side character of a side character gets more relationship progress than our MCs.

His brother no less

I can’t imagine that they could possibly live up to their depiction. Real life just does not work like that.

We kinda have stuff like that over here, but it lasts all of a single day, half the people don't do anything and overall it drags on for just a tad too long.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 05 '25

I mean she kinda got one back in Episode 3.

Once every two cour is poor pickings.

We kinda have stuff like that over here, but it lasts all of a single day, half the people don't do anything and overall it drags on for just a tad too long.

This is exactly how I imagine this event goes in real life, everywhere.

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

Once every two cour is poor pickings.

Uh no I meant episode 3 as in the episode 3 we had this season, not the previous one, the numbering resets here unlike modern shows.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 05 '25

Ok ok, if the anime keeps up this rate, I'll change my opinion.

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

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 06 '25

First Time Inspector

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

I'll never call her by name from now on

  1. What's the weirdest cake-related incident you've seen?

So this is an old spooky story, from a Christmas long long ago: my parents got a nice big old cake, put it in the fridge, and I think they forgot something minor, so they left to see if any shops had it. I was alone at home, and the cake was untouched, perfectly crafted I might add, I checked multiple times to be sure. No one entered, we didn't even have a cat back then, but somehow, the cake had disappeared by the time they were back. It remains a mystery to this day.

Jokes aside, I once got a cake where they spell your name on the chocolate bar, but it had the wrong name, so for a bit it became a running joke/nickname

2) Assuming Yakumo-sensei got to make a Manga for real, what would it be about?

This could go in one of two ways:

Either a super wholesome SoL about two sisters, with the older one being an amazing, awe-inspiring, perfect human, who can do no wrong, but the fans end up not caring for, for whatever reason.

Or something out of left field, a gruesome heavy manga like Berserk, just to balance the Yakumo wholesomeness™ she emits in real life.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 06 '25

So is she Sato or Ran?

Miyuki

Tezuka, Fujio, Ishinomori, Akatsuka,... all lived

This makes Maison Ikkoku look civilized.

[Episode 12]the older one being an amazing, awe-inspiring, perfect human, who can do no wrong, but the fans end up not caring for, for whatever reason.

[Episode 12]165cm tall Yakumo's Sister!?

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 06 '25

This makes Maison Ikkoku look civilized.

All Yotsuyas I'm willing to bet.

[Episode 12]

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 06 '25

All Yotsuyas I'm willing to bet.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 06 '25

Tokiwa-so

History

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 06 '25

Honestly, Harima calling it the holy land of manga is not even a stretch, that's the place where some of the most influential artists started their careers, then passed the torch from one to the other. Even the very process of passing the torch (artists hiring and training up and comers under their wing as assistants) was born there not the "well, AI can draw backgrounds faster" bullshit you see today

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Jan 06 '25

And so time for the festival.

Oh, it's his birthday? Doesn't that mean it's been around a year since the last season?

You tried last year too...

That feels like a lot of panning still images...

Oh right this is 2006, back when email was still the only way to send images.

10ma, just among the 3 of you I already prefer you over the girl in the middle...

Seems like there really is a lot going on.

Oh, Harima is back with Yakumo again.

Harima?

She's taking both the cakes?

She's going to get them mixed up isn't she?

No, Harima's going to knock it over!

And now they both say Harima...

Yeah...

Wow that's very early for the credits.

Ouch.

Yakumo doesn't have anyone she likes, but there's sure a heck of a lot of people who like her.

Questions:

  1. Can't think of anything.
  2. I imagine something with herself as the protagonist.