School Rumble San Gakki

Overall: 5 I’m a huge fan of school rumble. I wanted to like this “third season” and more than anything I wanted to see how things turned out, but this is not what we wanted, this not school rumble. Do yourself a favor and pretend it ended with season 2. Even season 2’s non ending was better than this crap. I have never before seen an author stupid enough to marginalize the most interesting character (whom happens to be the main character) in favor of switching the focus to the least interesting character. While i haven't read the manga, some basic checking of the last chapter ofit shows the ending is more or less the same as the anime, something that viewers of both seem to support. This is important to note because the manga ending is one of the most universally reviled endings there is for any manga i've seen. Story: 6 This ova tries to take a ton of the manga and quickly bringer the viewer up to date with what happened before it gets to the aforementioned shit ending. The result is the viewer be bombarded with tons of quick scenes at the start. In order to support the shit ending, a lot of changes were made to the story that annoys me as a fan of the series. It Is almost like the author got tired of the series so started inventing tons of random crap to lead to an ending that wasn’t support at all before this. The ending was also horrible, beyond bad, being one of the worst endings ever in the history of anime. Nothing foreshadowed it and in order to pull it off, the author had to radically alter personalities, invent crazy events and generally make a mockery of the entire series by ignoring everything that had happened previously. Art: 8 Art is the same as the rest of the series. If you liked it before, you will like it now. I liked it before, thus I like it now. Sound: 7 Same as art. Sound is same as rest of the series. Music was so-so with nothing really standing out to me. Character: 4 What the hell! As I said in overall, the author makes a clear push to change the main character of the series from Harimma to Karasuma. In order to do this, Karasuma suddenly has his personality radically altered and is defined a lot more than he was in the entire two seasons before this. It is too bad that I already decided he annoys the hell out of me after two seasons of him being an emotionless robot that treats Tenma like crap (curry > her comment being the big and direct example). Harima’s character also changes for the worse too. Enjoyment: 5 I wish I had just pretended it ended with season two. Since I liked school rumble quite a bit, the pain of how bad season 3 was hurts even more. Karasuma was a purposefully annoying character throughout the entire series so seeing him made in to a main character that I was supposed to feel sorry for pissed me off too.

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 comesclose to be as good as School Rumble 1st Term and 2nd Term.

Wow... just wow... I cannot begin to express how disappointed I was... School Rumble managed to remain an awesome series throughout 52 episodes and the OVA season, but this "San Gakki"... I think it hit the hardest because "Season Three" was supposed to be a full season... until they cut it to an "OVA".. and I really think that viewers should end it at season 2. Season three would've been just as great as its predecessors if it well... hadn't been cut short, only showing the last two "episodes", which seemed pretty much out of the blue. All the while fans were waiting to see how Harima/ Tenma/Karasma/ Sawachika ended out: the two seasons dragged it out, building up for the climax... then BOOM! It just ends bluntly and abruptly due to lack of episodes... Honestly, I was furious when I watched this... the character/ story is good, but the missing parts leave a gaping hole... "San Gakki.." what a sore disappointment to School Rumble fans.... This season would have so much more potential with the lacking 24 episodes... hence, the "5"

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 someclassic 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! Planet Tyro Rating: Clownshoes planettyro.com

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