School Rumble

Reviewed by Sean McDonald
January 17, 2007

Director: Shinji Takamatsu Distributor: FUNimation Genre: Shounen, school drama Age Rating: Teen (Adult language, mild violence) Website: Click Here Review Rating: 9 out of 10

School Rumble is not one of your regular high school drama anime, the reason being that this anime has one of the weirdest and funniest love triangles I've ever seen. Tsukamoto Tenma is about to start her new semester in high school, and with that she has a new goal for the year: to finally summon up the courage to ask her classmate, Karasuma Ooji, out on a date. Harima Kenji is a delinquent who just recently started going back to school and coming to all of his classes, the thing that sparked this amazing transformation is the fact that he has a huge crush on one of his classmates. That person is none other then Tsukamoto Tenma herself, this sets the stage for a very interesting new year.

Filled with an outrageous amount of funny situations, misunderstood and perverted dialogue, and finally, many attempts of love declarations to only blow up in people's faces, this anime has just about every thing. I would have to say that there isn't a single regular character in this anime and that's what makes it good. The story line itself is great, the music was kind of weak, but everything else about this anime makes up for it.

I had to give School Rumble a high Evolution Factor. Like I said before it's funny, but it's also one of those anime that when you finish watching you just keep watching over again. Also, Geneon has already come out with the next season.