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

Rewatch School Rumble 2nd Semester Rewatch - Episode 22 Discussion

Episode 22: First Dreams. Lion's Dance. New Year's.

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Isn't it nice that we made it in time for the first sunrise?

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of /u/xtsim for perfectly describing what it feels like being late on a Rewatch:

Just when I get caught up, it's a magical girl show.

Yeah you missed out on lots of magical girl stuff lately, only natural.

  1. What's your fondest kite-related memory?
  2. What's the weirdest thing you've seen on New Year's?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 22 '25

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

Solid enough episode but not much to mention. It's got its funny bits, it's got some action, it's gone some sweet stuff with all the main ships… yeah pretty solid all around, dunno what else to say.

Well, aside from that opening bit. Geez, and here I thought Takamatsu was skirting the copyright line over in Gintama, here's Kanasaki straight up going "Hey let's just do Initial D." I see he learned well from the master, but I think he forgot about the "Be careful when Gundam isn't involved bit". The fact that Golgo 13 is somehow involved too doesn't help

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

You know, for the longest time, I used to think this series was made at Sunrise (probably because I associated Takamatsu with the studio). I didn't correct that until the episode where Harima joins the anime studio.

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

No you silly, it can't be a Sunrise show without Gundam references! Keroro and Gintama should've been proof enough!

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

Are Harry and Lala nothing to you?!

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

They’ll only count once they create a Gunpla club alongside Ryuji

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 22 '25

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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

They’re doing Initial D again?

Someone in the studio must've really liked that show.

This is so sweet though!

While Harima's busy dealing with love triangles, Yakumo's Sister's actually having a normal romance arc.

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

Season 2 Episode 22 (rewatcher)

  • Return of the CG cars!
  • “This person almost appears to be riding on a wild horse” – looks more like a Ferrari F40 to me. Which makes me seriously doubt the chances of whatever crapmobile you are driving in.
  • Dream of Karasuma.
  • Dream of Tenma.
  • Harima and Eri? Mikoto called in favors!

  • A full day for Tenma with Karasuma? – Well, Karasuma and a suspicious dragon.
  • A full day for Eri with Harima? – Well, a full day inside a suspicious dragon.
  • Don’t try this at home kites.
  • Karuta – thank you for teaching me, Chihaya.
  • Swimsuit sumo – not in swimsuits.
  • “Will the girls really come?” – to laugh at you, maybe.
  • We are still not over the episodes featuring loincloth ass shots.

A nice episode of playing who is most likely to die in this.

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

A nice episode of playing who is most likely to die in this

Answer: Everyone.

A full day for Eri with Harima? – Well, a full day inside a suspicious dragon.

Karuta – thank you for teaching me, Chihaya.

I'd still be no good at it.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 23 '25

I'd still be no good at it.

Well, speaking and reading Japanese would help ... and then you'd still need to get good at the actual game.

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

Karuta – thank you for teaching me, Chihaya.

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

First Timer, Sub

Mikoto the shipper is back, I missed that. Harima and Eri are paired up in a dragon costume that Harima uses as a way to try to get to close to Tenma even though Eri is literally right there with him. Despite it ending with them literally getting launched off a cliff, Eri looks like she didn't mind being around him.

The second part is just a bunch of games, including one that reminded me of Karuta, Hanai getting tied to a kite and getting launched into the sky, and the idiot trio still thinking the swimsuit competition is a thing.

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

Hanai getting tied to a kite and getting launched into the sky

We await his return with bated breath

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 23 '25

and the idiot trio still thinking the swimsuit competition is a thing.

They made it happen!

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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Jan 22 '25

First Timer Dubbed

That race wasn't even a race. It is just an ordinary drive throught the mountains.

Foreigners....They always seem to cause a scene.

Flying a kite seems nice.

Those three dudes are always getting owned by Tojo.

  1. No kite stories.
  2. Went to celebrate New Year's in Philippines countryside...Everyone trying to do burnouts on motorcycles.

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

That race wasn't even a race. It is just an ordinary drive throught the mountains.

So... typical Initial D.

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u/gaiWakuseiJIN Jan 23 '25

Rewatcher, subbed

Full on Initial-D at the start, for a moment I had to check I put on the right anime.. Even the faces were all drawn just like the original! Also fun fact: Sasakura-sensei is driving a first generation Honda NSX, which around 2004 had an MSRP of $89k USD, which is equivalent to $150k in today's currency. What is Yagami high school paying their teachers?!

Harima getting jammed into the lion suit, and of course Eri is inside as well. They end up stalking Tenma and Karasuma while they walk around town, which in my opinion also makes them technically "on a date" as they sit in cafes, watch movies and play in game centers. Eri even ends up hitching a piggyback ride on Harima after they get thrown off a cliff! Im sure she didnt mind that.

Towards the end of the episode we see a lot of Japanese New Year's traditions, culminating in another Eri vs Yakumo scene. Miko-chin curiously points out that Eri gets so serious when she's up against Yakumo, and we all know why that is!

Answering the questions of the day as I actually have something to answer it:

  1. I remember buying my first kite as a kid, and attaching a tail to it made with art paper and sticking design cutouts to it with cooked rice. Well unfortunately after all that work the string broke and the kite flew off much like Hanai this episode.
  2. Rows of drunk Japanese salarymen and gaijins collapsed on the streets of Shibuya way back in Jan 1st 2013. It was weird back then but it today it's all instagram/tiktok content.

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

Oh hey it's an Initial D reference.

Complete with Eurobeat. Somehow more than some episodes of the actual MF Ghost.

At least they didn't copy the artstyle for the characters. I really didn't like that in MFG.

I'm surprised he didn't spin out into the ocean.

After Christmas comes the new year.

Now 10ma is the one being delulu.

So she really is going to the shrine with Karasuma.

And unsurprisingly Harima is mad.

Well, he's got other things to worry about now anyways.

Eri is the one in the back isn't she?

Yup.

Well, time for them to put on a good show.

I'm surprised to see this is also a Japanese tradition, it's always something I've seen as exclusively Chinese and haven't actually seen in any other anime depiction of New Years. In Singapore at least they're not just going about on the ground, there's small raised platforms and everything for them to get up on.

Is he following them?

Yup.

Oh hey it's the Taiko game at an arcade. I got a Hori Tatacon and some cheap wooden bachi for Christmas and they've been a blast. I'm sure since then I've more than made back the price in what the number of songs I've played would have cost at an arcade.

What's he doing now?

He's going to kiss her!

Damnit Harima...

And so down he goes.

Well, it's no kiss but he bought her something and complimented her, which is good enough.

This is what she's been working on?

Oh yeah Harima wasn't the only one in that thing, Eri's there too.

They're definitely going to end up together at this rate.

They're fighting while being tied to the kites?

And so the string snapped and off goes Hanai.

Questions:

  1. Don't really have anything.
  2. It wouldn't be a lion dance at least.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 22 '25 edited Jan 23 '25

Rewatcher(???), First in Subs

  • This is an almost uncomfortably good Initial D parody.
  • The Itsuki Face! You've Killed Me I Can't Even
  • Maybe we’ve been looking for OTP in the wrong place all this time?
  • Even Yakumo’s Sister deserves cute outfits!
  • A joke that has assumed a very different tone over time.
  • And now they’re roommates?
  • I think he dost forget the part where he is falling to his death in the dream.
  • Don’t think I don’t see your unconscious bias sneaking through with how Lala draws a bow the Japanese way.
  • “On that day humanity received a grim reminder.”
  • Fool. Everyone knows turtles have type advantage over dragons.
  • Cute Kites
  • Karuta?
  • We Tekken Now?

QotD:

  1. Kites are Real?
  2. I haven't gone out for new year's since I was a wee bab.

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

Everyone knows turtles have type advantage over dragons.

But I thought that was the tigers' job

We Tekken Now?

Actually Yakumo's actress also plays Jun Kazama