School Rumble San Gakki

These two episodes come out of the blue. It starts off with flashbacks of scenes that haven't even been aired, and develops around an event that us, the viewers, cannot fully understand by watching these two episodes.

It has similar artwork to the first two seasons, but the change in producers is noticeable. Brings back the nice songs from the first two terms, and remains loyal to each character's personality.

They're supposed to be the last two episodes of the third season of School Rumble; hopefully, the 24 previous episodes to these two will be aired as well.

Overall, it's enjoyable and funny, although it doesn't even comes ... close to be as good as School Rumble 1st Term and 2nd Term.

It has certainly been one long ride! Two anime seasons, an OVA, and the supposed third season known as San Gakki.

We all start by getting thrown into an arc of the manga leagues ahead of where Ni Gakki left off. Needless to say you will be completely lost unless you have been following the School Rumble manga. To make a rather long and tedious story short, this "OVA" combines some of the most defining moments of the manga, to what made the manga a complete wreck in the first place. We have Harima's defining moment as a man to the inevitable train wreck known ... as School Rumble.

Then comes the art section of this review. I was rather (well completely) disappointed at how the first episode (episode 25) was animated. I expected so much more in terms of quality from an OVA (botched 3rd season). Though I gave the score of '7' given that the second episode (episode 26) completely redeemed the failures of the previous episode. You should be able to see the differences between the two episodes if you decide to watch this OVA.

Then we have the sound section. Nothing really new given that they pretty much reused the tracks of School Rumble Season One and Ni Gakki.

As I have mentioned before, this OVA combines the most defining moments of the manga as well as what made it an epic failure in the first place. When it is all said and done, everything boils down to character development. Even if you haven't read the parts of the manga this OVA covers, you will know how our protagonist (smack yourself if you think I'm talking about Tenma) develops over the course of the second episode. Then prepare to facepalm near the final moments of the episode as the author of this story gives a middle finger to all the fans of School Rumble.

I can't say I enjoyed this OVA to the extent of the first season and Ni Gakki. The elements of what made this show great (the comedy and the shipping lanes) were severely lacking. Though it can be attributed to the fact that we were only given 2 out of 26 episodes...it still wouldn't change the horrible ending of SR. I'm not a big fan of anime original endings, but why oh why didn't they give us one...

Thus ends the story of School Rumble...off to the next future train wreck known as School Rumble Z!

I never got around to reviewing the first or second season of school rumble and well after this…I won’t even bother

How can you possibly cram a whole season (26 episodes)into just two episodes and then still dare to call it a seaon in it's own right!?!?!

AVGN VOICE: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?!?!

I'm gonna tell you right off the bat I am extremely disappointed and surprised with how this turned out…seriously it makes NO bloddy sense what-so-ever…and this has now ruined this franchise for me in its entirety....URG

Animation

Just like the previous seasons before the animation is very good, designers make use of many effects for some ... classic facial expressions etc. I like all the character designs its all quite standard for 2005+ animes it always seemed to work well for the series. I mostly liked the many faces of Harima. Op & End Credits are slightly “modified” from the first season which I found weird/lazy as season 2 had a different opening/closing.

Sound

Again Just like the previous seasons before the sound is very good. Character voices are quite perfect – the Jap version anyway. I especially like the ending song which as stated before is just a carbon copy of the first season. Not much more to say about this.

Story

***MINI SPOILERS***

So the first 3 or so minutes gives you an ultra fast sum up of what has happened in the school rumble universe's 3rd semester up to the last days where the first episode (25) starts off!?!?!....wtf.....what now???

What follows next is basically some lame closure-type drama where you kind of find out where things stand with the whole Harima Crush thing but it just seems like a rushed effort to close the school rumble story, honestly its not like I’m saying “that would not happen” but considering it took YEARS for this to come out without another 23 episodes to run things up to it…..its just a really big sucker punch that followers of the anime alone will not enjoy

IF these two episodes where originally added as the finale of season two it would have made a little more sense but then I would have just said the ending was lame. Bottom line they wanted to round up the story very quickly….why.....who knows.

Characters

School rumble had an excellent cast of characters and I really think a few of them could have stood as a anime series alone even Harima alone was just TOO FUNNY. UNFORTUNATELY the series kinda drifted around too much (especially in SR2) to know if some characters’ would get more screen time than others and considering how it ended up I think this series wasted A LOT of great potential.

Enjoyment

Did I enjoy this 2 part rush job of a “season F&*% no!....why... because it was just a little taste of a great and eventually disappointing series.

Value

If you watched season 1 & 2 you more or less have to watch this but it’s almost guaranteed you will feel short-changed and disappointed. The only way this is worth value is if they just rename it the season 2 finale…..but come to think of it, it would have been better if they just left things at season 2 with the HOPE of a proper season 3 but instead you get a giant middle finger. Thank You Assholes!

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