School Rumble Season 2 Episode 1

Hurray for spring! This season will rock, starting with the second season of School Rumble! The first episode starts from the roughly volume 8 of the manga. It manages quite well to be different from the manga and yet not differ much. You can recognize almost all the jokes from the manga, but the execution somehow makes them funny all over again.

OP Screencaps!

The new OP is “Sentimental Generation” (せんちめんたる　じぇねれ～しょん) by Ami Tokito, whom I have not heard of before. It’s quite nice and catchy, though a bit slower Scramble. The ED is “Kono Namida ga Aru kara Tsugi no Ippo to Naru” (My next step comes only because these tears exist – この涙があるから次の一歩となる) also by her.

On a side note, Yuuka Nanri (of FictionJunction YUUKA fame) no longer voices Karen Ichijou (supposedly due to scheduling issues). Kind of sad. Also, that whatshisface guy who follows Kenji around seems to have a switch of seiyuu too. Other than that the cast remains the same as far as I can tell.

The next episode will be the long-awaited survival game episode. Final-fricking-ly. Itoko is going to pwn. <3

Speaking of which, volume 12 of School Rumble will be out this month! Hurray!!! Also looking forward to the rest of the new series starting this and next week. ^^