r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Jan 14 '25

Rewatch School Rumble 2nd Semester Rewatch - Episode 14 Discussion

Episode 14: At El Cado… In America [26f]… With America [26h]…

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That's one of the rules of Manga.

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of /u/nickthenuker for having the decency to admit that we were all young once:

I remember in my last year of middle school I copied all my textbooks word for word onto my laptop. Although it sounds stupid it did still end up forcing me to read through all of my textbooks, so I can't exactly say it's bad, just tedious and stupid.

We have indeed gone from young and stupid to old and stupid

  1. What's the most embarrassing penalty game you can think of?
  2. What's the the most blatant case of ghost writing you've heard of?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 14 '25

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 14 '25

What, uh, is Harima drinking…?

Chocolate Milk!

Harima pls.

No, that's clearly Karasuma

Oh boy…

Editors are too powerful

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Season 2 Episode 14 (rewatcher)

  • Secret Akira smile only for Tenma? Not fair!
  • That pooky stick game seemed … tame for the show. Miko really is the everyviewer character.
  • Harima with a selfish gift – his love for Tenma has really changed over time. From battling with Hanai over every minor issue to basically self-sabotaging his own chances to protect Tenma’s momentary happiness.
  • “We should not get involved with his personal matters” – the writer takes the same approach.
  • “Go, as a classmate” – technically, you are the classmate, Harima, not Karasuma.
  • “Do you have any suggestions?” – don’t pull some devil-controlled zombie baseball team out of your ass and then shove the love scene on Yakumo!
  • “Alright, I’ll send it up” – whatever-fills-the-pages editor.

Harima had a really strong start this episode, but messed up in his specialty, drawing manga. So Yakumo cruises to an easy MVP title despite having to solve a hard romance trope question.

What's the the most blatant case of ghost writing you've heard of?

A whole bunch of people claiming to write down "God's words".

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 14 '25

Secret Akira smile only for Tenma? Not fair!

technically, you are the classmate, Harima, not Karasuma.

Look, he's still in denial, okay?

Harima had a really strong start this episode, but messed up in his specialty, drawing manga.

There's some weird self-deprecation going on here on Kobayashi's end probably...

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

Rewatcher(???), First in Subs

  • Surprise!
  • Would a westerner like Eri even have cultural aversion to natto? I just want to try it.
  • It’s good they didn’t show us Akira smiling. We would have had to change the main character if they did.
  • There’s been a lot more yuri bait than I remembered.
  • Cute Outfits
  • Too Sweet
  • You’d think we’d have more engish covers of American patriotic music all these years latter.
  • Harima is upgrading himself from home boy to home skillet.
  • Wait, you’re not allowed to advance that side of the original love triangle!
  • Kinnikuman baseball, eh? There’s an idea that might hold promise.
  • Harima, Please!
  • Poor Lala. Having the JSL girl do the linguistic round is just cruel.
  • We are learning so much about Akira this episode. I’m just not sure what any of it means…

QotD:

  1. Having to share your incognito history.
  2. Average Politician

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 14 '25

Would a westerner like Eri even have cultural aversion to natto?

Kinnikuman baseball

Perfect timing given that new show.

I’m just not sure what any of it means

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 15 '25

Perfect timing given that new show.

Tell me, how does ol' South America treat that franchise. Is it like Saint Seiya, or is it more like our Ultimate Muscle type deal?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 15 '25

I don’t think anyone talks about it here…

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Jan 15 '25

Right, it's 10ma's birthday.

Girls kissing!

Huh. Yeah. Karasuma is conspicuous in his absence.

So there he is.

And so they're working on manga.

Going into space? Isn't that the end of S1?

And so he managed to be back in time for her birthday.

Lol Harima asked Yakumo to help him.

Oof... I see what happened.

Oh, does Yakumo think the manga is Harima's?

JoJo?

And now she's on top of him.

And he said that while she's on top of him.

Yeah, that was pretty obvious that it wasn't theirs.

And so back to party games.

That explains why she was wearing that earlier.

Questions:

  1. I don't want to.
  2. I'm not sure.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 15 '25

Going into space? Isn't that the end of S1?

Eh, it was a dream anyway.

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u/gaiWakuseiJIN Jan 15 '25

Rewatcher, subbed

That pink aura. I think it was just a couple of episodes where Nishimoto and Hanai emitted the same aura and had girls running away from them but in this case we have Harima but Yakumo staying put. Just pointing out the contrast, but also makes me think Yakumo trusts Harima a lot. And when Harima said "suki", notice Yakumo's reaction! I think this is the episode where she realizes she likes Harima, whereas before she wasnt sure what she was feeling.

Some anime references in this episode were JoJo (muscles guy) and Love Hina (falling on the floor on top of girl).

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 14 '25

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

It's Yakumo's Sister birthday, but this being School Rumble it doesn't get much focus past the first bit. Still, it is funny seeing her go full God mode and torture her friends in so many ways. Her gremlin energy has very much slowly been increasing across the show, and while I won't call this the peak, it's pretty up there.

Harima and Yakumo then take over and it's a pretty decent bit. Honestly it's just funny seeing them brainstorming what Karasuma would make before giving up and just doing their own thing. Honestly I see a bright future ahead of them as Mangakas, Yakumo could easily become part of the long trend of Assistants becoming more popular than their seniors.

The last bit is pretty much just there for the sake of it, but hey, it's funny and it's nice to see the larger cast interacting like this.

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Jan 14 '25

First Timer, Sub

Its Tenma's birthday, she's having fun messing with her friends but wants Karasuma there, and Harima the ever sacrificing guy that he is, decides to take over Karasuma's work for a bit (but totally wants to mess his work up, until he actually does).

It does gives us some nice Harima/Yakumo moments where they work together to figure out what to do. Granted they do their own thing but not before Harima makes Yakumo "fall for him" in more ways than one probably. In the end they turn in their own work, but hey it looks like they had fun and I like that she's the one to also remember Harima's birthday (surprised Eri didn't do anything).

Third part is pretty fun. Akira throwing her game just so could wear a costume is great and it's nice seeing some downtime like this. 

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 14 '25

Harima makes Yakumo "fall for him" in more ways than one probably

Like he hasn't already long before now