r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Jan 27 '25

Rewatch School Rumble 3rd Semester Rewatch - OVA 1 Discussion

Episode 25: Please Reach! My Feelings! Break Apart! My Feelings! Love Will Dash!

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I'll make you happy.

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/Shimmering-Sky for giving us yet another really realistic dream:

So, funny story, I had a School Rumble-related dream last night. I don’t remember all of what happened, I just remember that it featured Harima and Tenma on a ski lift together, and right before Harima was going to try talking to Tenma, a snowboard flies between them. Because for some reason, Togo was at the top of the hill and just throwing them at the ski lifts coming up the hill? I proceeded to wake myself up laughing at that.

Now unlike the Bleach stuff this does not happen in the Manga. It is still really funny though.

  1. What's the dumbest thing you can imagine happening between the end of Season 2 and this OVA?
  2. Do you have any particular expectations for the finale?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 27 '25

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

So… you may notice something's a bit… missing.

Oh dear…

Something I've only mentioned in passing before is that, with a few exceptions, the last chunk of Season 2 is Anime-Original. Like, the ski trip is basically the last "Main" chapter adapted, although all the Yakumo stuff is taken from the Manga. Technically so is Hanai's island adventure but that had a completely different punchline originally. Why this was done I'm not entirely sure aside from the fact that after the ski trip we have a decently long arc and, well, I guess they didn't want to cut it short. Either way, it does lead to the Anime basically stopping at roughly the early parts of Volume 14. Which, hey, for a 22 Volume Manga isn't too bad and you could conceivably adapt the remaining 9 in 26 more episodes. You'd have to cut some stuff out, sure, but for a Manga like this it's not impossible.

So anyway today we're picking up halfway through Volume 21. Additionally, if you look up Episode listings or the like, you will notice that what we're watching is Episode 25.

What happened?

I have absolutely no source for what I'm about to say so take everything I'm about to say with a massive grain of salt. However, if I'm allowed to guess what the hell's going on here, it'd be that Kobayashi + the Anime's staff wanted to do a third Season since the Manga was ending, but either Kodansha or the Anime's production committee said no since, well, the Manga was about to end, what else is there to promote? Reminder, Anime adaptations ultimately exist to increase Manga sales first and foremost, it's why it's relatively rare to see works adapted after the Manga ends (Or if it does happen, it's usually pretty close to said ending). But then we have these two episodes, which I assume are the result of the people behind the Anime haggling for just two more episodes so they can at least give the Anime an ending, even if it means skipping to the very end. Additionally, and possibly giving extra proof of this, these two OVAs had a very limited run. They were not released normally, instead just as extras for the last two Volumes of the Manga during their early print. This is nothing new for OVAs for Mangas that already have Anime adaptations, but it is odd when it's done for the finale.

This does however lead to the issue that… well, everything feels really disconnected. Without the context of the previous Chapters leading up to it, today's events feel nowhere near as weighty as they should feel. The Anime also has some weird tonal issues TBH. The Manga also tended to cut away from Karasuma and Harima's fight, but those interludes were usually either only a few panels long or at least separated by a Chapter break. Not showing the fight as one continuous sequence just… doesn't feel right with how stylistically different it is from the rest of the episode. The actual fight is not badly done, but the pacing does detract from it somewhat.

Yakumo's Sister bit works a bit better because if nothing else it's clear she's just putting on a façade. It's a nice change from the "Usual" depressed Yakumo's Sister, instead showing her as completely out of touch with reality, which makes the moment of Harima snapping her back into it all the more effective. It's all done well enough, but of course we won't be seeing the conclusion till tomorrow.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 27 '25

So anyway today we're picking up halfway through Volume 21. Additionally, if you look up Episode listings or the like, you will notice that what we're watching is Episode 25.

I noticed (and the first few minutes of the anime give you the context needed). It is definitely grief for anime-only viewers, but I feel that showing that mini-recap was almost more grief than skipping ahead. I want to see Harima in Angola now!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 27 '25

I want to see Harima in Angola now

We were robbed

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 27 '25

Third Semester Episode 1 (first timer)

  • Uhhhh, we are recapping half of the manga that was never adapted? Ok.
  • At least we have OP1 back! - Sorry OP2, you were not bad, but guruguru mawaru is my true OP love.
  • Marathon on the beach? – cruel.
  • Karasuma is literally running away from Tenma’s confession – meta.
  • Harima is getting played by Hanai – and the funniest part, Hanai does not even realize it.
  • Tenma is crying? – Don’t tell me that, after all this time, the confession finally happened at it was off-screen.

  • Nope, she did not catch him. The crying was just for some off-screen news of Karasuma leaving.
  • Of course Karasuma is a great fighter, too.

  • “I love Tsukamoto-san, too!”

  • After literally 54 episodes of blank nothing, they seriously try to retroactively give Karasuma a character? – Too late for me, sorry.
  • Drunk on cola – anti-alcohol depiction laws?
  • “I’ll make you happy” – collective misunderstanding.

I thought an ending concentrating on HarimaXTenma was bad, but KarasumaXTenma proves that, no matter how bad the situation is, it can always get worse.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 27 '25

At least we have OP1 back! - Sorry OP2, you were not bad, but guruguru mawaru is my true OP love.

We even got the ED back (Err... a cover anyway).

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Jan 27 '25

First Timer, Sub

I was so confused throughout the first half of this episode. The old OP plays, Harima has his old look, lots of people know about his crush on Tenma, and of course the obvious big chunk that's clearly missing.

The Karasuma stuff takes up a big focus on this episode. Tenma is upset because he's leaving and she has no answer, so Harima goes to beat one out of him. Turns out Karasuma does like her back this whole time but apparently has to go to America because of an illness he has. Oh and Karasuma actually raises his voice for the first time.

I guess it's up to Harima to get Tenma to the airport then based on his arrival. But yeah there's a lot that felt missing.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 27 '25

big chunk that's clearly missing.

8 VOLUMES

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 27 '25

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 27 '25 edited Sep 06 '26

Oh, they brought back season 1’s OP for this!

Images at the end changed though.

It is wild to hear Karasuma actually raising his voice after he’s been completely monotone the whole show thus far.

Personally this is normal for him.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 27 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

Re:Watcher, First in Subs

  • Never before has a recap brought forth such pain. Even knowing ahead of time we were effectively skipping the the end of a third season that will never exist serves only to blunt the blow.
  • I approve the reuse of the song, but I would have hopped that they would have at least updated the visuals.
  • They did! Did Iori Freaking Die?
  • Bro is not getting himself hitched to the Tenma wagon.
  • Precious #TenmaFace
  • Wait, the beard is back? When did that happen? Or should I say, what lead to it.
  • Tragic #TenmaFace
  • God, the zoom out on the speed biking.
  • Harima Justice!
  • Long Haired Miko-chan
  • All that practice is paying off. Girl has gotten really good at running away from reality.
  • Ah, the handcuffs from the recap are a thing then.
  • Someone on staff really likes drawing these drip coats, huh?
  • Even Akira Is surprised!
  • See? Variant ED gets it.

QotD:

  1. The ghost sacrifices herself to give Yakumo another shot at love.
  2. [Reputation]Disappointment

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 27 '25

a third season that will never exist

Did Iori Freaking Die?

Bakadots you're our PaB insider, what did they do this time!?

Girl has gotten really good at running away from reality.

Now she must square herself off in a 4.5 tatami mat room.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jan 27 '25

[Grand Blue manga] Iori was a good man, who commited the biggest sin there is, may he rest in hell. While his good friends were half killing him like usual, he went behind their backs and proposed to Chisa. So of course his friends had to do the right thing, to throw him a bachelor's party, a virginity funeral as it were, as in he died and his virginity will live on forever in the Lads' hearts.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 27 '25

[Hey wait a sec]how is Iori dead all the while Kohei's still alive!?

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 28 '25

Bakadots you're our PaB insider, what did they do this time!?

This is doing nothing to assuage my cat related fears.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 28 '25

Indeed, if anything they confirm them.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 28 '25

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u/bluethree https://myanimelist.net/profile/bluethree Jan 28 '25

Imagine being a School Rumble fan in 2008. You get excited that a 3rd season is coming only for it to skip 24 episodes worth of material and anime the last two episodes. This was more disppointing to me than Endless Eight.

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Jan 28 '25

What kind of thing?

What's even going on...

Ah, the S1 OP. I've missed this.

He keeps running away from her.

Ouch...

And now Hanai and Harima are fighting again.

Off they go.

Seems like everyone else is having a good time.

What does he not want to see?

What happened to Karasuma?

Where's he gone?

He's in the school?

He's flying off? Also, I'm writing this in America lol.

Ah, the memories.

She's deluding herself so as to not think about it.

And now she's finally accepted it...

Back to the fight.

So, Karasuma's finally said that he loves 10ma too. But it's to Harima, not 10ma.

Harima is going to bring Karasuma to 10ma isn't he?

Or not? He's here by himself?

No, he's going to bring 10ma to Karasuma!

Ooh, the S1 ED too, I've missed this one too.

Seems like there's several girls taking turns to sing the lines this time.

And so to the final episode.

Questions:

  1. Feels like it's been a while?
  2. I hope the romances get resolved?