Guess what guys, it’s time for another Anime Review! This time around it’s School Rumble: First Term (which actually means first season). Anyway, PICTURE TIME!
I finished this Anime roughly two days ago I can honestly say that I’ve never facepalm’d so much in my life. However, it wasn’t a bad facepalm though. It was the type where you’re laughing so hard that you may actually miss your face and hit the person behind you. Let’s check out the ratings!
Plot:
Since this is only the First season I’m reviewing, I’m not putting the entire plot down. I haven’t even read the whole thing since I have strong dislike towards spoilers.
School Rumble is a romantic comedy that depicts the daily lives of the students attending Class 2-C of the fictional Yagami High School, as well as their friends and families. The main female protagonist is Tenma Tsukamoto, an unremarkable second-year high school student who secretly admires her eccentric, enigmatic, nice-guy classmate, Oji Karasuma. She struggles to confess her feelings, about which Karasuma appears to be oblivious, preferring instead to seek fulfilment by indulging his passion for curry. Complicating the narrative is the main male protagonist, the delinquent Kenji Harima, whose desire for Tenma has developed to the point where he attends school solely to be near her. Like Tenma, Harima has difficulty declaring his love, and whenever he summons the courage to do so, circumstances conspire against him. The misfiring attempts of the two to make the objects of their affection aware of their feelings are a persistent comedic theme throughout the series.
The love triangle evolves through mistakes made by Harima and misunderstandings by Tenma and their classmates. Harima becomes involved with Tenma’s close friend, Eri Sawachika, when the pair are thrown together in mutually-embarrassing situations. Later in the series he develops a friendship with Tenma’s younger sister, Yakumo Tsukamoto, who becomes Harima’s assistant on the manga he writes. The plots of Harima’s stories portray a Harima-like hero fighting to save a Tenma-like damsel in various historical or fantastical situations, usually in battle against an obvious facsimile of Kurasama. After the hero saves the heroine, she naturally falls in love with him. Yakumo’s relationship with Harima causes problems with Class 2-C’s student representative, Haruki Hanai, who has a crush on Yakumo. The sisters’ shared surname causes Harima and Hanai to misinterpret each others’ infatuations. Although Harima manages to engineer romantic situations with Tenma, her relationship with Karasuma progresses while Harima’s bonds with Eri and Yakumo grow stronger.
Thoroughly confused yet? Good. You need to be so you can enjoy this anime. If you’re not, watch the anime then. If you are, watch the anime then.
I give the plot a 8/10 since it is kind of confusing, but the good of it overwhelms that fact by 4:1 easy.
Animation Style:
There’s not really a whole lot in the animation that would distinguish this from almost any other anime out there. I’ll say this though, they did an amazing job on the eyes. If the body language doesn’t show the emotions (which it will, trust me) the eyes will. Since there’s not a whole lot to break this out from other ones- I’ll give it a 7/10.
SPECIAL RATING TIME!
Yup, the special rating for School Rumble FT is….
FacePalm ACTION!
This anime is jam packed with awkward situations and misunderstandings that will leave you in stiches long after you’ve finished the anime.
I give it 10 /10
Overall:
This anime is hilarious. While there may not too much to set it apart from the others, it really stands out where it counts. The writing.
9/10
Next time we’ll review….. something else! Remember, I hate spoilerz!
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