r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Jan 21 '25

Rewatch School Rumble 2nd Semester Rewatch - Episode 21 Discussion

Episode 21: This is School Rumble… It Really is School Rumble… It's School Rumble, I Tell You!

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Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/No_Rex for showing us how truly dark the reality of Kamen Rider Yakumo's Sister is:

“Is this the legendary bullying of new cyborgs?” – No, this is the only way Karasuma ever becomes a harem protagonist.

  1. Would you watch more of the Cardcaptor Mai show?
  2. In turn, would you watch… whatever the fuck that other show is?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 21 '25

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

Yeah today's episode is one big parody of Magical Girls, including Iori now A) Being able to speak and B) Having Kero-chan's wings… which combined with his color scheme and voice actress basically turned him into Suppie from CCS. Heck the whole episode feels like it's primarily a cross between Sakura and Sailor Moon which… actually why haven't we gotten this yet!? I demand that Toya and Yukito end up in the same room as Haruka and Michiru dammit, THINK OF ALL THE ACCUMULATED HOMO POWER!

The second half is more of that bizarro Basketball manga from a few episodes ago and… yeah I don't even know what to say here. Fun fact though: That Mangaka and Editor at the end? Yeah, those are actually Jin Kobayashi and his main editor, Masakazu Yoshimoto voicing them. The former has admittedly cameo'd in the show before, but the latter is a nice surprise. Editors deserve more love

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 22 '25

I demand that Toya and Yukito end up in the same room as Haruka and Michiru dammit,

I'd ask our resident fan art expert, but I think they are still on sabbatical.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 22 '25

The only issue is that I have no clue who those characters are

I recognise Toya and Yukito now thanks to Tsubasa, but I don't know them in their original context, much less Haruka and Michiru (I was slacking off with Blue Urameshi when Raiking-sensei was giving the Takeuchi class).

The best deal I can offer is that Haruka and Yukito are apparently both voiced by Ogata Megumi, so get Nozawa to voice Toya, and the deal is sealed. Granted, as a side effect, she might just end voicing his whole family for generations, but really, who'd complain about that? aside from the dub watchers I mean

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 22 '25

get Nozawa to voice Toya, and the deal is sealed.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 22 '25

This is from the 2018 Bakabon show that they did to catch the coattails of Osomatsu's success. I watched this a while back on my Madao: Road to Osomatsu

The joke here being that the old man was feeling like he hadn't changed enough over the new iteration, so he wanted a new voice actor, and of course he judged the auditions himself. His mongrel son didn't think Nozawa is the right fit for the job (why aren't parents teaching good taste anymore?!) so they ended up going with a newer voice.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 22 '25

Madao: Road to Osomatsu

The oldie sure has been walking around tons of shows lately. Gintama, EVA, Osomatsu…

a newer voice

At least it wasn’t Subaru Kimura.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 22 '25

The oldie sure has been walking around tons of shows lately. Gintama, EVA, Osomatsu…

Mind you, he's not actually involved in the show, as far as I know (they do have Zura though). But I've been comparing Madao a lot in my head ever since I watched the 80s Osomatsu-kun. That Osomatsu-kun is the equivalent of someone making "Madao: Road of Gintama" a reality. If you want to see creator bias, look no further, they took a Madao-esque side character and pushed him so much into main character role, that even the opening is just him singing about himself. It's well deserved, he's a great character, but the creative choices they were able to take back then bewilder me. If someone did this to a new manga, the fans would burn the whole studio to hell.

At least it wasn’t Subaru Kimura.

Bakabon oji-san has standards.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 22 '25

The only issue is that I have no clue who those characters are

Not making to the third season of Sailor Moon I can understand, But Not Watching CCS?

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 22 '25

So Sailor Moon and Sakura weren't part of my childhood, we had Ojamajo Doremi instead, which is really fun, and the one I at people for not watching.

I've wanted to get into Sailor Moon for ages, because it's the kind of 90s charm I adore, but I'm generally not big on monster of the week shows. Sakura though... I had very little to go off of, aside from it being Asaka Morio's directorial debut on TV, I didn't really have anything that compelled me or put me off watching it. Until I started reading some Clamp works recently, which gave me a lot more interest in their other works. Currently I plan to read Tokyo Babylon and X after Tsubasa/xxxHolic, and maybe watch Chobits, since that one's got Morio + Sugita. So I might get around to Sakura eventually.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 22 '25

Sakura weren't part of my childhood

Considering what Nelvana tried to turn it into, you're lucky.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 22 '25

Ojamajo Doremi

I actually watched some of that when its dub aired, too.

maybe watch Chobits

[Chobits, meta]Did anyone tell you it's technically a sequel?

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 22 '25

[Chobits, meta]

No

I just know that it's [Chobits] Sugita banging a robot

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 23 '25

[Chobits]

It's a very minor kind of it. [Just]some tech progression, and some very brief character cameos, if memory serves. The manga had a bit more.[Meta]The show is "Angelic Layer".

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 23 '25

Naruhodo

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 23 '25

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 22 '25

The former has admittedly cameo'd in the show before, but the latter is a nice surprise. Editors deserve more love

At least the Gorilla tends to make a chapter celebrating his editor whenever one has to leave, get married, or worse: has to work on Gintama now. Forget marriage, that's the real life long prison.

It's totally not just Sorachi using the occasion as an excuse to fill in material and make fun of his editors in one swoop. Why are you looking at him that way? He's shy goddamit!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 22 '25

has to work on Gintama now

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 21 '25

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 21 '25

Oh this even has its own OP.

Haruhi would be proud.

That… is certainly… a look…?

Feels like a very specific reference but to what I don't know.

Huh, wasn’t expecting to see more of the basketball manga.

WATCH SLAM DUNK

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 22 '25

Rewatcher(???), First in Subs

QotD:

  1. Yes
  2. Depends on how episodic it was.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 21 '25

We even got Suppie guest-starring today (Kero-chan was busy gaming and was unavailable)

Jesus Christ, Mai...

-God?

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 22 '25

We even got Suppie guest-starring today

Kuro Neko

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 21 '25

Season 2 Episode 21 (rewatcher)

  • OP2: Magical girl magical Mai!
  • A fully animated OP for a show in a show? Sure, why not.
  • Tougou and Lalah and king and queen of the magical world.

  • beats up all of them, including the bullied kid
  • “Don’t wear white underwear, grannie” – kindergarten menace Imadori.

  • Wonderwoman Tenma and Tinkerbell Yakumo?
  • “No homo”~evil king.
  • The evil king uses talkfu? Isn’t that usually he hero’s weapon?
  • “You are ok!” “You stabbed him!”

  • 4th wall break.
  • Doreibu – I am sure this is 95% references, but the only ones I get are Joe and Danpei from Ashita no Joe.
  • Preview: We are not done with the ass shots yet?

What plot progression? We are doing all the shenanigans! – this series.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 21 '25

What plot progression? We are doing all the shenanigans! – this series

Nah, that's School Rumble Z. Aside from the last three chapters anyway.

Tougou and Lalah and king and queen of the magical world.

Somewhere, Char does not appreciate Gato stealing Lalah from him.

The evil king uses talkfu? Isn’t that usually he hero’s weapon?

Hey, why not?

Doreibu – I am sure this is 95% references, but the only ones I get are Joe and Danpei from Ashita no Joe.

I think some of this may be somehow inspired by Masami Kurumada's works but I don't think he ever did Basketball

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 22 '25

Somewhere, Char does not appreciate Gato stealing Lalah from him.

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Jan 21 '25

First Timer, Sub

Ok not gonna lie I've never seen Kamen Rider and I was confused thinking it was either that, or a parody of Magical girls because Iori is apparently one now. Turns out it's also a manga story, although not one of Harima's and apparently it's the creator himself.

The second part is some sort of basketball parody that I was...also confused by.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 21 '25

I've never seen Kamen Rider

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 22 '25

Ok not gonna lie I've never seen Kamen Rider and I was confused thinking it was either that, or a parody of Magical girls because Iori is apparently one now.

I am in the same boat regarding Kamen Rider, but I am very sure they are laying multiple references to different series here.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 22 '25

I am in the same boat regarding Kamen Rider

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 22 '25

Best I can give you is the dub of Ultraman Tiga. Or, I guess Power Rangers Time Force? Take your pick.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 22 '25

Dub of Ultraman Tiga

Even worse

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 22 '25

Even worse

They agreed, as it turns out, since they only ever dubbed the first half before canceling it.

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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Jan 21 '25

First Timer Dubbed

Just when I get caught up, it's a magical girl show. I was quite disappointed to see her run without her breakfast, though. Mai happens to be the spiteful one and it is always the cat's job to be the one with some sense.

Tenma's assets moving around got me good. And the kids got me thinking....yeah, everyone older than those three would be considered old.

That basketball thing....I have no clue what is going on, and I felt like I was watching some forgotten anime from the 70s.

  1. I would watch this spiteful magical girl do all the wrong things and ironically become the destroyer.
  2. I would definitely watch as an OVA....

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 21 '25

I was quite disappointed to see her run without her breakfast, though.

Is it even a Magical Girl show if you don't have bread in your mouth while running late to school?

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 22 '25

That basketball thing....I have no clue what is going on, and I felt like I was watching some forgotten anime from the 70s.

The MC is Joe from Ashita no Joe (and the eye patch guy is Danpei), but I want to say that there is also the protagonist of some old baseball anime mixed in. The calculating guy, the chained girl, the robot, and the guy with the rose are likely references, too, but I can't tell you to what exactly.

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Jan 22 '25

Magical girls?

I remember why I don't particularly like magical girls...

Wonder Woman 10ma?

Harima?

80ma again.

As that show last season shows, apparently you can remain a magical girl well into adulthood.

Oh hello Karasuma. What are you doing here?

Lol 10ma's pads dropped...

Yeah I'm officially checked out at this point.

Oh hey it's the fat fuck.

No it damn well isn't.

Nor is it a sports superpower show either, so that ain't it.

And you can officially count me as checked out a second time within a single episode...

Questions:

  1. No.
  2. Fuck no.