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May 6, 2025
Did you left School Rumble wanting to see a tad bit more about some secondary characters? A little glimpse into their personalities, what they do on their free time perhabs? Or maybe you just wanted to see the same old main cast members we already know and love getting into new and exciting adventures?

Be it whatever it might be, let me assure you: School Rumble: Ichi Gakki Hoshuu has you covered for what it is worth.

From Lala, the brown-skinned and somewhat temperamental Mexican girl, working in a burger restaurant alongside his long-term rival (altough that relationship might be more one-sided than anything) Ichijou Karen to Yoshidayama Jirou, that broom-headed brat explaining via flashbacks his "tragic" backstory and raison d'être that leads to him to challenge Harima Kenji for the top spot of meanest criminal on the school (to various degrees of sucess, I might add) and even a little segment taking place some 10.000 years before the main events of School Rumble back in the Prehistoric Era, how cool is that?

Now, apart from some mild fanservice on episode 1 we don't really get to see anything that wasn't present on the main School Rumble series, so I would denote as Ichi Gakki Hoshuu as a "non-essential to watch" to any new fans that might stumple upon this because, as I already stated before, unless you are particularly interested in some extra content regarding secondary characters, fanservice or caveman shenanigans, you won't really will find anything here that might catch your interest.

But still, don't let the fact I nominated this OVA as "not particularly interesting" disuade you completely from watching it; the fanservice on the first episode was pretty nice and we got to see some pretty funny moments between Harima and Sawachika, and those are always nice to see, aren't they? And the little prehistoric segment on the second chapter was also very cool with the alternative interpretation of what School Rumble could be about as well the way the directors ended-up tying the whole thing-up back to the main series. Also, the narrator at the beginning of the whole thing was none other than Kobayashi Jin himself, believe it or not, so if you wanna know how the creator of this beautifull franchise sounds IRL then this is your chance, lol.

Overall: not essential to watch but still nice enough to give it a chance. Go ahead, give it a shot, it isn't the worst idea one could come with, no?
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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