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 some classic 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
