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“Unpopular girl yearns for clueless crush; delinquent boy falls for her—chaotic high-school comedy ensues.”
School Rumble
スクールランブル
8.04
849 rank · 32,220 readers · 1,535 favorites
Shounen
Gag Humor
Love Polygon
School
Comedy
Romance
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Synopsis
Unpopular girl yearns for clueless crush; delinquent boy falls for her—chaotic high-school comedy ensues.
She...is a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He...is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: He's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. Life-changing obsessions, colossal foul-ups, grand schemes, deep-seated anxieties, and raging hormones—School Rumble portrays high school as it really is: over-the-top comedy! (Source: Kodansha USA)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 19 sampled reviews
7.9
/10
What 19 readers settled on.
88%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 10
σ 1.74
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.74 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.7 pts
Recommenders 8.7 · others 5.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 2.11
Running avg · Nov 2011 → Dec 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “One of the funniest school anime genre I've seen. The story is great, romance is good even tho our mc is hopeless to his target, but he has great love story with other characters he's just dense as...”
- 10 “One of my fav comedy manga ever, it uses tropes but honestly I can overlook that for the sake of the comedy. Though I LOVE this manga, there is a huge complaint people have with this series......”
- 8 “First off, let me say that I loved this series and had a lot of fun reading it. This manga is full of many laugh out loud moments, where I found myself having to take a minute to gather myself. The...”
Verbosity
Short · 21%
Medium · 26%
Long · 53%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 345 × 22 ch × vol
- Total read 46h 00m approx
- Published Oct 2002 – Jul 2008
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0156 catalog