Second-year student Tsukamoto Tenma learns that her secret crush, Karasuma Oji, will be transferring to a school in America. In a last-ditch effort to reveal her love to him, she writes a long (but anonymous) love letter. When Karasuma ends up postponing his transfer for another year, Tenma realizes she has to tell him how she feels before time runs out again. But her extreme nervousness around him prompts her to try and setup all sorts of schemes to get close to him and let him know, without actually coming out and saying it. Meanwhile, unknown to Tenma, the school delinquent, Harima Kenji, has the biggest crush on her, as well as the same anxieties about being direct. Around this love triangle of clueless people are a few of Tenma's friends, and her younger (but older looking, more mature, and more popular) sister, Yakumo. (Source: Anime News Network) Note: This manga consists of 283 sharp chapters and 62 flat chapters. Sharp and Flat refers to the musical notations.
Japanese study overview
School Rumble is a Japanese manga of 574,894 characters, with 21,868 unique words and 2,215 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 21,868 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×1,431
- 播磨Hatama×1,205
- 君Mr×1,140
- 俺I×1,006
- 天満Amami×968
- 八雲Yakumo×747
- 言うto say×726
- 塚本Tsukamoto×635
- 思うto think×610
- 花井Kei×525
- 烏丸Umaru×515
- 年year×480
- 沢近Sawachika×421
- 美琴Bigin×301
- 周防Shuubou×246
- 愛理Airi×241
- 女のコgirl×78
- 塚mound×57
- 郵便番号postal code×50
- 好きliking×465