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!
THE SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN Kyoto is the capital of Japan’s culture, but the school trip is ruined for bad boy Harima by a band of British hooligans. They’ve captured beautiful Eri, threatened Harima’s beloved Tenma, and challenged our hero to a life-or-death duel on the movie sets of Japan’s samurai dramas. Can Harima’s street-toughened fists overwhelm the foreign barbarians?