 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | FUNIMATION ENTERTAINMENT | | | ▪ | ASPECT RATIO: | | 4:3 FULL SCREEN | | | ▪ | AUDIO: | | ENGLISH AND JAPANESE DD 2.0 | | | ▪ | RUNNING TIME: | | 50 MIN | | | ▪ | RATING: | | TV PG | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 06/17/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 06/08//2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | DAVEY C. JONES |
Just when you thought the rumble was over, it pulls you back in! Two fun OVA episodes have some of the wackiest and weirdest stories yet in School Rumble Extra! It has 3 shorts per episode, just like the regular TV series. The first starts off with the new guy on the block Yoshidayama. His dream is to rule the school --- thug style. The problem is the school already has its resident hooligan with Harima --- the dude with the shades. Yoshidayama isn’t giving up. He keeps trying to join Harima’s gang, clueless that it’s a gang of one. This guy is as big an idiot as they come and his stupidity is in good company in this funny, nonsensical anime. How weird is it? A girl’s fear of dogs finds a “unique” solution, a scramble for new seating has every love fool in class going goofy and hot springs bring with it hopes of peeking --- but who wants to see man-butt?! Add in a ghost girl and it’s one episode chock full of little sense and large laughs. It even has an ending song sung by Harima with the option of an English dubbed version of the song available. The cheesy meets total insanity when the show goes prehistoric. Find out how the cave guys and gals of School Rumble managed in 10,000 B.C.! Hilarious! Throw in everyone’s efforts to see wrestling freak Lara crack a smile and yet another clueless moment between Harima and Yakumo (the perfect couple that doesn’t realize it) and you have a fitting end to a quirky anime. It would be except for the creepy reappearance of a certain malevolent spirit. Maybe in School Rumble 2nd Semester, upcoming from FUNimation, the class will get the Scooby groove on and do some ghostbusting!
EXTRAS:
Bonus goodies include a reversible cover that features the original Japanese cover art, FUNimation trailers, textless opening and ending animation, video interviews with Japanese voice cast Ami Koshimizu (Tenma) and Mamiko Noto (Yakumo).
IN SUMMARY:
School Rumble --- scarce on sanity, big on laughs! |
