School Rumble San Gakki Episode 1 Review

It’s been quite a while since School Rumble Ni Gakki was released and my memory of the ending is just a tad foggy. Nevertheless I still remember enough where I’m kind of in wtf-land with School Rumble San Gakki.

I suppose it doesn’t really matter. The perpetual “goal” of School Rumble is for Tenma to confess to Karasuma, and for Harima to confess to Tenma. All the other extraneous love interests are merely side tangents that color the story and allow the creators to delay having to resolve the central plot, though I have to admit I’m rooting for Yakumo and Harima.

At least Tenma grew a pair and confessed to Karasuma in School Rumble San Gakki, and lo and behold, Karasuma likes her too. Curry Loving Blank Expression Boy finally gets ticked off when fighting Harima and it spills out that he has some illness that absolutely requires an operation in America. What a drag. But if that were the case why the hell didn’t he just do it after the first term?

Harima goes around dueling and fighting and abducts Tenma on his dark horse at the end. Yakumo was…just kind of there, not really accomplishing anything. Tenma get depressed and loses her grasp on reality and gets drunk off…soda? I’ve seen people get “drunk” off non-alcoholic beer before but I mean come on. We all know those scrubs are half playing at “being drunk.”

School Rumble San Gakki disappointingly lacks the characteristic outrageousness that people loved it for. Rather it is the culminating head of…well…everything: Love, the nobility of love, pride, blah blah blah. There were a few moments of light comedy as the character relationships renew their usual friendships and antagonisms but none of the gut busting hilarity that we’ve all come to expect. All in all it was rather a downer, and San Gakki being an OVA really doesn’t do it justice.

I was afraid this might happen when I heard the highly anticipated School Rumble San Gakki was merely going to be 2 measly OVA episodes. And it did.

Oh well. Can’t have everything I suppose.