Product Details

• Actors: Luci Christian, Caitlin Glass, Brandon Potter, Brina Palencia
• Directors: Brina Palencia
• Format: NTSC, Full Screen, Color, Subtitled
• Language: Japanese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Funimation
• DVD Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0016KV7WI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,575 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The OVA Extra Class (School Rumble Ichigakki Hoshu) is an anthology of mini-adventures for Harima, Tenma, Yakumo, and the rest of the nutty gang from Yagami High. Some of the segments feel like trims from the first season: a tense scene between Yakumo and Harima during a thunder storm was apparently cut from the episode in which they work on his manga. A trip to a hot spring turns into a classic anime comedy skit as Imadori tries to peek at the girls' pool, class representative Hanai tries to stop him, and Harima loses his towel at the worst possible moment. "Prehistoric Rumble" takes the cast back 10,000 years to the Ice Age settlement of Yagami Village. While carving manga-style images into tree trunks, Harima accidentally discovers how to chip obsidian, which enables the villagers to make weapons strong enough to kill Devil Tusk the mammoth. Karasuma turns a leaf into athaumatrope, an early animation toy, and announces, "I think I'll call it anime." Although there's no sustained storyline,Extra Classoffers plenty of laughs. (Rated TV PG: suitable for ages 12 and older: comic violence, risqué humor, brief nudity) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

SCHOOL RUMBLE:EXTRA CLASS OVA - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some great extra bits & pieces!!!!, July 19, 2011

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This review is from: School Rumble: Extra Class OVA (DVD)

This has to be one of the best OVAs to any anime out there. It's only 50 minutes long-- like 2 extra episodes of the series. What you get are extra scenes that fit in between segments of Season 1.

What I really liked was the fact that they gave some further background and development to a couple of the secondary characters. Mainly to Lara Gonzalez and Kyousuke Imadori. You get to see a slightly softer side to Lara which was cute. And even though she likes to beat the crap out of Imadori...I got the feeling she kinda likes him and vice versa.

Funnyness wise, my favorite bit had to be the hot spa. (They visit it following the camping trip in the first season btw.) That segment was hilarious!! Warning: you do get to see Harima & Hanai's backsides in this. Nothing terribly offensive though--unless you're an uber prude.

Parents: this and the 2 seasons are not really appropriate for kiddies!

Oh, and, as always...avoid the dub. The voices and tone of the English voices are all wrong for the characters. Plus, just like with the series (1 & 2) they changed MUCH of the dialogue and even the humour. Yep...they wrote their own unfunny jokes and got rid of or dumbed down the Japanese ones. Sorry but that is a big issue with me! Pant, pant, pant. I digress..............

Is it worth getting? YES! But, at only 50 minutes in runtime, you should wait for it to drop to around 4 or 5 bucks. Then you can really enjoy it.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good extra, September 22, 2009

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DPW (Irmo, S.C.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: School Rumble: Extra Class OVA (DVD)

I enjoyed this Anime very much. You can find other reviews that will tell you all you could want to know about the story and content. So in summation it was amusing and enjoyable.

6 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!, January 7, 2009

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Fanel (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: School Rumble: Extra Class OVA (DVD)

School Rumble is one of my favorite animes and this OVA is a great way to trasition to season 2 for it.