School Rumble | |
![]() 13th tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kenji Harima and Tenma Tsukamoto | |
スクールランブル (Sukūru Ranburu) | |
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Genre | Romantic comedy[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Jin Kobayashi |
Published by | Kodansha |
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Imprint | Shōnen Magazine Comics |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | October 23, 2002 – May 20, 2009 |
Volumes | 23 |
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Anime television series | |
Directed by | Shinji Takamatsu |
Produced by |
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Written by | Hiroko Tokita |
Music by | Toshiyuki Omori |
Studio | Studio Comet |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
English network | |
Original run | October 5, 2004 – March 29, 2005 |
Episodes | 26 |
Original video animation | |
School Rumble: Extra Class | |
Directed by | Shinji Takamatsu |
Produced by |
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Written by | Hiroko Tokita |
Music by | Toshiyuki Omori |
Studio | Studio Comet |
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Released | December 22, 2005 |
Episodes | 2 |
Anime television series | |
School Rumble: 2nd Semester | |
Directed by | Takaomi Kanasaki |
Produced by |
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Written by | Hiroko Tokita |
Music by | Toshiyuki Omori |
Studio | Studio Comet |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
English network |
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Original run | April 3, 2006 – September 25, 2006 |
Episodes | 26 |
Original video animation | |
School Rumble: 3rd Semester | |
Directed by | Shinji Takamatsu |
Produced by |
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Written by | Hiroko Tokita |
Music by | Toshiyuki Omori |
Studio | Studio Comet |
Released | July 17, 2008 – September 17, 2008 |
Episodes | 2 |
School Rumble (Japanese: スクールランブル, Hepburn: Sukūru Ranburu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 2002 to July 2008, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes. Magazine Special published School Rumble Z monthly from August 2008 to May 2009, with its chapters collected in a single volume. School Rumble is a romance comedy centering on relationships between Japanese high school students, School Rumble focuses on a love triangle involving the series' two protagonists, Tenma Tsukamoto and Kenji Harima, and one of their classmates, Oji Karasuma. The series often discards realism in favor of comedic effect.
School Rumble's popularity has resulted in its adaptation into multiple forms of media. TV Tokyo broadcast a 26-episode anime program between October 2004 and April 2005. In December 2005, a two-part original video animation (OVA) entitled School Rumble: Extra Class was released. A second season, School Rumble: 2nd Semester, aired between April and September 2006. Finally, two more episodes, collectively entitled School Rumble: Third Semester, were released in 2008. Three video games have been produced, two light novels, and four official guidebooks.
In North America, Del Rey Manga published the English translation of the first 16 volumes of School Rumble in physical format. In the translation, Del Rey Manga maintained the traditional Japanese name order[n 1] to preserve puns based on the characters' names. Kodansha USA published the English translation in digital format. Funimation published the first and second anime seasons and the Extra Class OVAs in English.
The manga was well received by Japanese-language readers; several volumes have appeared in the top manga sales charts. The North American English translations were less popular, but still ranked several times in the top 100 as well as ranking 145th for overall manga series sales in 2008. Critics of the English-language translation have been positive overall, praising Kobayashi for his art style and overall use of humor. However, the manga has received some criticism, mostly centered on some of the jokes and repetitive plot. The anime adaptation also sold well in Japan and was praised by Kobayashi and—for the English-language translation—critics. The decision by Media Factory to aggressively pursue its intellectual property rights for School Rumble is believed by proponents of fansubs to have had a negative impact on the franchise's release and sales in the North American market.
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