School Rumble - First Semester & OVA's S.A.V.E.

This series is rather silly, at least what I have had the chance to watch. If you like comedy this might be for you. I've only just started watching, so my review is a bit short. The animation is old school, but this is an older series. Good comedy. Have to be in the right mood for this sort of thing. Hope you enjoy it. Arrived in great condition and on time.

I was dreading this anime ever since I heard about what it was. I usually hate love triangles, and hopeless romance stuatons, but this anime thrives on both of those things!!!What makes it so good that I'll give it 5 stars?Well, even though it's a romance anime, it's also a character-driven expedition that proves that the best qualities of people are shown when we are with people who we can trust, even if we aren't prepared for it.Even though these two protagonists have their own love interests (one likes the other lead, and the other lead likes another. Confusing, right?), they are both the best of friends (later on), and are both very likeable, and caring people... but they're also two of the most dense and stupidest anime characters EVER...Out of all the anime you'll see, you wouldn't think that this title could do what it does and still be ridiculously enjoyable. But the charm of this series is how every SINGLE character is practically fun, lovable, and necessary.The extra OVA is not a sequel or a recap, it is just scenes of things that already happened in the past.The ending of the series isn't really an ending it's more of a way of telling you that it continues on, and that everyone is much closer together than they were at the beginning...The presentation is in 4:3, which isn't bad, but I do love widescreen, but this series doesn't have many special effects, so it's okay.The audio options are in English stereo and Japanese stereo. Strange that Funimation decided not to give the English ver. a 5.1 mix, but, again, this isn't a really super-special-effects anime...As for the dubbing, I loved it (I usually love dubs to begin with)! Luci Christian and Brandon Potter, play the energetic and sweet Tenma, and the big-hearted and bad-boy Harima respectively. If you're familiar with these VA's you should well aware of hoe talented they are.School Rumble first season does what no anime can do very well. Which is, a romantic comedy that is doomed to fail. Our leads may have people they want to be with, but that doesn't mean that they won't make other people happy and content instead...

SEE UPDATE BELOW:This is a very good high school anime series. Basically boy loves girl, girl loves other boy, other boy loves spicy food and water imps... and another boy loves girl, girl has a little ESP and hides from boy... and another boy is loved by all the girls but he loves the one girl who can't stand him...It's on a level with Azumanga Daioh, but not as weird as Cromartie High School or as Otaku as Genshiken. It's not very deep, but it is well paced, funny, and interesting. The animation quality is top notch, maybe not up to the level of the big hitters, but equally as good as the latter mentioned series. It's a solid 4 star, but for around $20 (when I bought it I think it was $22.99) it's a 5+ star!!! I think Azumanga Daioh had more likable and interesting characters (5 star), Genshiken had clever Otaku references (4-5 star) and Cromartie was... well... insane (5 star). So I based my four star rating off comparison with these others with Azumanga Daioh being the yardstick I measure all high school comedy anime on.The price is amazingly low: one beef though, the plastic 'page' inside the case cracked and doesn't hold into the bracket anymore. Just a minor irritant, doesn't bother the discs at all.I prefer watching in Japanese with English subtitles because the dry humor just comes through so well in Japanese.UPDATE (3/3/11): Just finished the last disc. What a crazy and fun way to close out the series! The cat/Tenma swap was great, the UFO awesome, and it's worth watching the entire series for Harima's gesture towards Tenma after the 'cat dream'! I upped this to five stars and easily place it on a level with Azumanga Daioh!

They made some change from original story which I would not of changed.- Harima and Yakumo coming into school with Harima's motorcycle front of entire school while they was racing against deadline of manga contest in middle of mid-term. Not only that Yakumo stayed at Harima's apartment (Itoko's apartment to be exact) over for few nights during those times and that created another "miss understanding" through out entire school. (... this becames another fuel to set off Eri's jealousy)- After the school track meet and folk dance incident of Harima and Eri, Eri cut school for pretty good amount of time, not just single day. During this time Eri was managing her confused feeling with target practice (with Harima's face as drawn on target) and she walked to Tsukamoto Resident with Yakumo with clarify what was going on with Harima and Yakumo. (...except Eri is a chicken and she ran away as soon she rang door beel rang...).- The Yakumo replacing the content of beer bottle with ice-tea, when the girls where spending night at Tsukamoto Resident... and they replaced these with very cheesy last 2 episode with something else... I don't know why they did that. But other than that, it followed the original very story and every character was much more alive then comic books and that was real positive.My favorite is Lala.. "Ichi-Joe!!" that has stuck with forever... and that was something original story could not do.

A wacky slice-of-life high school story. Nonsensical plots & twists, crazy characters, & multiple references to both North American & Japanese pop culture. If you want to laugh out loud this is a great series to do it.

Not bad.Ok

This is one of the best comedy animes of all time. Definitely one of my favourites.

Excellent anime, good comedy and would recommend

Absolutely brilliant my son is a big fan recommend to any one would buy some more if he could absolutely great