School Rumble

"School Rumble Forever!"



High school romance comedy. Idiot delinquent (Harima) has a secret, obsessive crush on an even more clueless classmate (Tenma), who is in love with a complete oddball (Karasuma), who is in love with food (curry). Tenma's quiet, gentle sister Yakumo, her Ojou friend Eri, and the hot school nurse may or may not have feelings for Harima, depending on the rumors you believe and the time of day. Also, both Tenma and Harima's cousin Itoko think Harima is in a relationship with Yakumo. Class rep Hanai is loudly in love with Yakumo (thus seeing Harima as his rival), while two or three girls may or may not have feelings for him. Also, there is Ichijo, who likes Imadori, who likes Mikoto, who likes one of her ex-senpais, who got a girlfriend since the last time she saw him. And so forth. Failed confessions, confessions to the wrong people, and relationship misunderstandings abound.

You will rarely take any of this seriously.

School Rumble is a Gag Series that relies more on character interaction than actual progress in relationships. Parodies include Initial D, Fist of the North Star, Dragonball Z, Battle Royale, Iron Chef, Star Wars, and Ghost.

School Rumble consists of two 26-episode seasons, each covering a term of the school year, as well as two 2-episode OVAs: the first centered on the first term, and the second centered on the very end of their high school life. The second season ends with the characters planning the class trip that forms the first major arc of the third term. The second OVA ends with the characters having a class reunion some time after they have all graduated high school, but occurring presumably not beyond their first year of college.

Based on a manga written by Jin Kobayashi which ended on chapter 283 (if it can really be called an ending), followed by a brief sequel manga, "School Rumble Z", which wrapped things up slightly more.

Now has a character sheet. All character specific tropes should be put there.

School Rumble provides examples of:
"Harima: The villain intends to use baseball to take over the world.
 * Aborted Arc: Harima getting, dropped after one chapter for the No Ending.
 * Adaptation Dye Job
 * Accidental Kiss: and.
 * Affectionate Parody: Of high school romance. It's exaggerated humor serves to emphasize the absurdity, the joy and the sadness of first loves.
 * Airplane of Love: after Tenma leaves for America.
 * All Love Is Unrequited: to the Nth power...
 * All Just a Dream: The one where Hanai landed on a strange island populated by people who look like his classmates. The manga showed that is was just a story invented by Akira.
 * Although the anime left it more ambiguous. While it probably happened, it could have just been some crazy hallucination Hanai had. (although that doesn't explain where he got the poncho, though)
 * All Men Are Perverts: The only real exceptions are Harima and Karasuma.
 * Alternate Character Reading: The reason why some people are led to mistake "Harima Kenji" for "Harry McKenzie".
 * And for Harima to read "Karasuma" as "Torimaru".
 * Anguished Declaration of Love: Harima to Tenma. And when I say Tenma, I mean Eri.
 * Animated Actors: The end of the OVA showed Tenma and Karasuma in the recording booth.
 * Art Shift: Tributes to Fist of the North Star, Initial D, Love Hina and the works of Osamu Tezuka.
 * Ascended Extra: Characters who made very small appearances in season 1 get more time in season 2, such as Asou, Yoshidayama, Mai and Tsumugi.
 * Babies Ever After:  Or is it? Also
 * Back for The Finale
 * Badass Adorable: Karen, Mikoto and Lara.
 * Badass Grandpa: The fishing boat captain.
 * Bait and Switch Credits: The Ni Gakki opening shows Eri has a lot of servants when she only has two.
 * Balloon Belly: Tenma in episode 4, 5 and 8 of Second Semester
 * Satsuki in episode 8.
 * Baseball Episode
 * Battle Aura
 * Battle Butler: Justified by Nakamura who was former Special Forces.
 * Battle Couple: During the Kibasen; Harima and Eri, Mikoto and Asou, Hanai and Karen, Harry and Lara
 * Beach Episode
 * Beauty Brains and Brawn: Eri, Akira & Mikoto.
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: The Flag ship
 * Betty and Veronica: Yakumo & Eri respectively, while Tae is the Third Option Love Interest.
 * Between My Legs: Loincloth-wearing Harima gets several shots between his legs during the Magical Girl parody episode. The other characters repeatedly urge him to stop standing at that angle.
 * Also in the pool-hockey episode, the camera zooms out through Mikoto's legs while Hanai rushes her goal.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: In one early Yakumo-centric episode, Hanai attempts to show her the practicalities of martial arts. He attempts to grab her but can't due to her being able to read his mind. He then mentions that her sister is the biggest clutz in the school. Cue an incredibly sinister look and Hanai is suddenly made to eat the floor. One of the very few times she ever gets angry.
 * Big No: Harima near the end of Season 2, in Gratuitous English, no less.
 * Bittersweet Ending-
 * The Blank
 * Blonde Brunette Redhead: Eri, Yakumo and Tae all like Harima.
 * Bowdlerize: The anime cuts the manga's instances of underage drinking. Fortunately, it does this by replacing the lost gags with new ones that mostly work just as well, so if you hadn't read the manga you'd have no idea anything was censored.
 * Bridal Carry
 * Bullet Time: Harima and Akira
 * But Now I Must Go:.
 * Butt Monkey: Harima, Hanai. Pretty much anyone who fails in their love life.
 * But isn't that everyone?
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Cannot Spit It Out: A key trope in this series. Also some other ones from the Super Trope Poor Communication Kills including One Dialogue, Two Conversations and That Came Out Wrong.
 * Cerebus Syndrome: The original manga has noticeably shifted from random comedy to tear-jerking drama in the later chapters after the revelation that.
 * Christmas Episode
 * Class Trip: To Kyoto.
 * Coincidental Broadcast: When Yakumo was staying over at Harima's house, they hear a radio DJ say a blackout is a good time to do This and That.
 * Comic Role Play
 * Comic Trio: Yoshidayama, Nishimoto, and Nara become one somewhere around the end of the first season. Harima, Hanai, and Imadori whenever they're all together, as well.
 * Cool Boat: Eri's yacht (anime only).
 * Covers Always Lie: The page image, which shows Fuyuki among the main characters, when he has very little relevance and only has appearances in 2-3 episodes max.
 * Creator Cameo: Jin Kobayashi voiced one of the fishermen who initially opposed Harima (wears a cap with the letter "F" on it). He also narrated the caveman episode in the OVA.
 * Dark-Skinned Blond: Mihara
 * Delinquents
 * Demoted to Extra: Hanai in season two. Well, more like.
 * Dirty Mind Reading: Once with Hanai after he left Nishimoto's place carrying the remains of Nishimoto's "collection" he ran into Yakumo. She quickly runs away afterwards.
 * Disappeared Dad: Many characters either have lost (The Tsukamoto sisters, Harry Mckenzie) or have distant relationships with their fathers (Masatsugu & Haruna Tougo, Eri)
 * Distant Finale
 * Don't Try This At Home: Parodied when Imadori eats
 * Also when Tenma leaves a bathroom through the window, several stories above the ground, using a pair of plungers to go down the wall. This warning is actually displayed while she does this.
 * Dropped a Bridget On Him: Hilariously lampshaded at the end of the third episode of the second season.
 * Establishing Series Moment: You just knew this wasn't gonna be your run-of-the mill Shoujo when you see the resident delinquent talk about the wonder of love after he just finished beating up a bunch of gangsters.
 * Everything's Better With Samurai: Harima during the Kyoto trip.
 * Evil Twin: The English exchange students resemble some of the 2-C guys.
 * Expressive Hair: The manga adaptation has pretty much everyone's hair color a natural black, however, with the exceptional characters.
 * How come no one bothered to mention Tenma's little wiggling pigtails?
 * Expy: Several characters from class 2-D resemble certain characters from Mobile Suit Gundam. Lara Gonzalez to Lalah Sune, Tougou resembles Anavel Gato, and Harry Mckenzie IS A CHAR.
 * The Faceless: Eri's parents
 * Mikoto's first crush.
 * Failure Is the Only Option: Pretty much sums up Tenma's success with Karasuma and Harima's success with Tenma.
 * Not as much at the ending of the manga and in School Rumble Z for Tenma. Still sucks to be Harima though.
 * Fat and Skinny: Masaru and Nakamura. Nishimoto and Yoshidayama.
 * Festival Episode
 * Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Lara accidentally adopts a new, very distinctive temporary look, then displays her fighting ability in Shibuya. She becomes "Queen of Shibuya", with girls aping her odd style, and for a week becomes a poster girl for cosmetics and the like. But when her CD single flops, Lara returns to her normal exchange student life.
 * Finger Suck Healing
 * Five-Bad Band: The Outlaw basketball team (Tougou=Big Bad, Imadori=The Dragon, Harima=The Brute, Tenma=Dark Chick, Yakumo=Tagalong Kid) though Tenma sees them as the Five-Man Band (Tenma=The Hero, Tougou=Smart Guy, Harima=Big Guy, Imadori=The Lancer, Yakumo=The Chick)
 * The foreign exchange students: Max=The Dragon, Samuel=The Brute, Mike=Dark Chick, Will=Evil Genius, Shawn=Big Bad..
 * Flung Clothing
 * Forgotten Birthday: Harima was born a day after Tenma.
 * Four Girl Ensemble / Four-Temperament Ensemble: Tenma (sanguine), Mikoto (choleric), Eri (melancholic) and Akira (phlegmatic).
 * The 1st year girls get five: Miki (sanguine), Satsuki (choleric), Sarah (melancholic), Haruna (phlegmatic) and Yakumo (supine).
 * Funny Afro: Samuel
 * Gainaxing
 * Genre Deconstruction: Arguably, the entire series seems to have started out as a deconstruction of a shonen love comedy by replacing the ditzy female protagonist we so often see with a Badass male delinquent. The first two chapters make it pretty obvious. Another good example of this is when Eri walks in on Harima in the nude; usually its the other way around.
 * Giant Enemy Crab: There is one. Episode 7 of Nigakki. Harima makes stew out of it.
 * Gilligan Cut: When Karasuma turned down Tenma's umbrella with "I'm a kappa," she interpreted this as him having a raincoat... Cue a change to that exact costume as she turns back around from her momentary Squee moment.
 * Giving Up the Ghost: This happened to Imadori after he took a basketball to the face from Harima. He was distracted at the time by the ghost of an old teacher and wasn't paying attention.
 * Graduate From the Story
 * Gratuitous English: Every chapter title is taken from the name of a movie, usually somewhat related to what happens in the chapter.
 * Hands On Approach: Tenma imagines that Kurasama's spirit is helping her at the pottery wheel and holding her hands.
 * The Hecate Sisters: Tenma and Eri both match the maiden archetypes while Mikoto and Akira are the mother and crone, respectively.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: Parodied in the wargames by a guy named Misawa ("Open a really good teahouse!").
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Itoko and Sasakura. Gets lampshaded in the valentine's Day issue when Harima said they should just get married already.
 * Hidden Depths
 * High Speed Missile Dodge: Harima races downhill at high speed, in the snow, on a giant curry bowl, dodging a battery of large, apparently heat-seeking frozen fish.
 * While wearing a freaking Santa suit.
 * Hot Springs Episode
 * Hypocritical Humor: In the camping episode, Yakumo chastised Eri for listening in on Tenma and Harima even though she's doing the same.
 * Chapter 195. Eri getting called an angry girl by Lara.
 * I Have This Friend: The whole idea behind the Slumber Party at Tenma's. She fools no one, but they still play along.
 * Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The episodes of the anime are made up of three segments. In most episodes, all three segments have their own titles, which make up the entire episode naming (the two season finales being exceptions). And all three titles have common written elements between one another!
 * In the manga, all the chapters are named after movies. Some examples from the first volume: "Death Race 2003", "Broken Arrow", "Rain Man", "Enter the Dragon", "Speed", etc.
 * Important Haircut: lampshaded and parodied as Harima's facial and head hair change several times in the series as a consequence of various quirks in the plot.
 * Eri considered getting one to impress Harima.
 * Improbable Weapon User: When Harima interrupted Hanai & Yakumo's mock wedding, Hanai used a camera stand to fight him off.
 * Which Harima deflects with a candlestick.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Happens a lot after the Cerebus Syndrome kicks in, especially in the ending.
 * Informed Attractiveness: Yakumo. It seems like she has literal hoards of people proclaiming how beautiful she is, particularly in comparison to Tenma.
 * Innocent Cohabitation: Eri turns down Harima's attempts to move in with her after Itoko kicks him out. Yakumo (with Sarah's urging) suggests that he live with her.
 * Instant Seiza: Subverted when Harima tests this out with Yakumo and concludes that love doesn't begin like that.
 * Intimidation Demonstration: Karen scares off an attacker by absolutely disintegrating an apple just by squeezing it in one hand. Later, Lala does this to intimidate a few classmates, but Imadori, unfazed, claims that it's no big deal and does the same thing with a ripe banana.
 * It Will Never Catch On: The caveman episode had lots like pottery (Yakumo), anime (Karasuma) and pointed spears (Harima).
 * Jidai Geki: Aside from Show Within a Show The Three Slashers, Nigakki opened with a segment styled after this.
 * Lampshade Hanging: Anytime Harima talks to Yakumo about manga, pointing out things like Author Avatar, Tournament Arc, Battle Aura, Instant Seiza and Serious Business.
 * Lampshade Hanging: Anytime Harima talks to Yakumo about manga, pointing out things like Author Avatar, Tournament Arc, Battle Aura, Instant Seiza and Serious Business.

Yakumo: How is he going to do that?

Harima: I don't know."

"A sudden "farewell"... Lost in a maze... Who are you? ...Tell me. A passing-by unrequited love... May my feelings reach out for you. May my thoughts reach out for you. Maybe this is an one-time sensation, one page of my youth. This is the last chance, I want to know about... Your feelings. Words can be said, thoughts cannot be expressed. The confessions of that day made for one day of eternity, but... I'll continue this moment of ours forever. So, for tomorrow... "School Rumble Forever"."
 * Large Ham: Masatsugu Tougou
 * And, in a more meta example, Tenma and Harima's English voice actors ham up just about everything they say. It works. Gloriously.
 * It certainly helps that anything Luci Christian says is automatically cute.
 * Hanai as well. "For the class, and for myself ... TIME FOR TEA!"
 * The announcer for the cavalry battle too. He is clearly having way too much fun commenting on the match.
 * Literary Agent Hypothesis
 * Living Statue: Hanai awoke a statue of kuta panda in chapter 166.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters
 * Long Title: The title of the first season finale, translated as follows:

"Lara: ICHIJO!"
 * The English adaptation only uses the last phrase in this title.
 * Lost in Translation: Some of the jokes revolve around words sounding similar in Japanese and although they try, the jokes aren't quite as funny (if funny at all). The most prominent example is when Harima talks to Yakumo about Itoko and refers to her as "My itoko (cousin)". Yakumo gets the wrong idea.
 * Love Dodecahedron
 * Love Letter Lunacy: Goes two ways in the first episode: first from Tenma to Karasuma, and later from Harima to Tenma.
 * Love Makes You Dumb: The bread and butter of the series: though Harima and Tenma were both plenty dumb before they ever fell in love.
 * Macross Missile Massacre: With tuna.
 * Magical Girl: Mai's guilty pleasure. Deconstructed somewhat in Magical Mai episode, where she's sick of being mocked for wearing frilly pink dresses and beating up bad guys at her age and actually intends to hang up her wand for good after winning over her love interest.
 * Magical Girl series hilariously parodied during this episode quite obviously include Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon.
 * Magical Realism: The Tsukamoto sisters are psychic, their cat can switch bodies with people, Harima talks to animals, his editor shoots eye beams, there was a talking cherry blossom tree and Akira is a spy.
 * Male Gaze
 * Manga: Harima and Yakumo's first meeting.
 * Anime: The cruise episode. When Eri was dragging a fish, the first part of her shown is her butt.
 * Manga Effects
 * Masked Luchador: Lara's dad.
 * Measuring Day
 * Medium Blending: 3d Harima. Akira's overseas adventures are also told in 3D.
 * Meganekko: Tsumugi
 * Mistaken Declaration of Love Several exmaples, but the most pivotal one is probably Harima to Eri...
 * Mood Whiplash: Tenma and Eri having an awkward conversation about men's bodies to Eri and Mikoto getting into a shouting match about Harima.
 * Most Common Superpower: In the Magical Mai episode, Tenma is a Western-style superheroine specifically based on Wonder Woman: and she has huge fake breasts. Not implants, mind you, they're part of her costume, but still.
 * Motorcycle On the Coast Road
 * No Ending: The manga introduces what looks to be two important plot elements that throw fuel to the Eri/Harima and Yakumo/Harima factions,
 * The anime suffers from the same fate albeit a slightly less depressing one
 * No Indoor Voice: Lara Gonzalez


 * Nosebleed: Many. Most notably a violently explosive one.
 * Not What It Looks Like: The traditional reaction subverted in one case, where Harima and Eri are in a very suspect position and Akira walks in, stares at them for a moment, and then correctly guesses the unintentional events that lead them to where they were.
 * Played straight with Harima's initial meeting with Tenma in middle school after she wakes up in his room.
 * Eri walking in on Harima and Mikoto in public and thinks they're on a date.
 * Tae jumping Harima and witnesed by 5 students.
 * Oblivious to Love: Obvious here, but one moment deserves special mention: in an episode where Tenma visits Harima at the hospital, he outright confesses that he likes her, and she understands... that he said he likes some kind of egg.
 * Odd Friendship: Harima & Yakumo, Mai & Nishimoto and Lara and Satsuki.
 * Oh Crap: After Harima's mistaken confession to Eri.
 * One Degree of Separation
 * One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Because of this, Eri thought (and probably still thinks) that Tenma is no longer a virgin.
 * Overtook the Manga: The second season ran out of content from its corresponding school term, resorting to several Filler episodes and an open anime-original ending that is best forgotten.
 * Paintball Episode
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: Almost no one can recognize Harima without his sunglasses.
 * Plot Tumor: Tenma. The Flag, Riceball & Kid's Meal pairings overtake her and she loses prominence as main character. Then for no reason at all she becomes the focal point of the finale without resolving any of the pairings. WTF?
 * That said, it might not be a tumor at all. Most of the other drama occurs with Harima, who was established as the main male protagonist from the outset, so for the plot to focus heavily on his stories isn't really that much of a change. The lack of a resolution, on the other hand, probably gave most of the readers a tumor.
 * It did, I was still raging at my laptop three hours after fininshing the anime and the manga right after it.
 * Porn Stash: Nishimoto gave away his to his classmates, Hanai confiscates the rest. Yakumo runs away from him when she senses his lust.
 * Post Episode Trailer
 * Psychic Powers: Both of the Tsukamoto sisters can see ghosts. Also, Tenma can effortlessly bend spoons, while her younger sister Yakumo can read the minds of any guys who are interested in her (along with some special cases). Tenma's power has absolutely no impact on the plot (used only once, as an aside), but Yakumo's power is a key aspect of her character.
 * Well, Yakumo can read animals' minds, but that doesn't mean she can understand them...
 * Race For Your Love: Harima pretty much kidnapped Tenma and took her to the airport so she can go to America and see Karasuma.
 * Real Trailer Fake Movie: Akira helped Tougou make one to commemorate the class' Kyoto trip. It starts as parody of The A-Team but then zooms in on the love story of Eri & Harima.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Harima and Hanai.
 * Relax-O-Vision
 * Retcon: The ending of School Rumble Z seems to look like one.
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: Yakumo and Sarah especially in the comic.
 * Running Gag: Several, aside from the countless times someone is interrupted when confessing their love.
 * Professor Tani mistaking Harima for gay.
 * Nakamura dressing up as Eri.
 * Naru, Nishimoto, and Yoshidayama trying to meet girls with "swimsuit sumo".
 * Eri somehow getting into situations involving a naked Harima.
 * Hanai on his kite.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Yuuki, occasionally.
 * School Play: A cross between Sleeping Beauty and Seven Samurai.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Harry and Togou
 * Sentai/SuperRobot: Both are given a homage in episode 18 in the form of Dojibiron.
 * Serious Business: How about the time when they had A WAR GAME COMPLETE WITH REAL ACTING just so they can choose on what to do for their School Festival!?
 * Shadow Dictator: The Principal (manga only).
 * Shaggy Dog Story: The first several episodes are about Tenma trying to impress Karasuma and/or Harima trying to impress Tenma but nothing ever comes of it. Arguably,
 * She Is Not My Girlfriend
 * Shipper On Deck: Sagano for Tawaraya and Asou, Tenma for Harima and anyone he might have feelings for (except herself, of course), Eri for Mikoto and Asou, Mikoto and Akira for Harima and Eri.
 * Ship Tease: It's passed around, but mostly is Eri/Harima, Mikoto/Suou (in the anime, its mentioned that they actually went on a few dates), and a bit of Harima/Yakamo, Harima/Tenma, and even Mikoto/Hinai to the side.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: The Tsukamoto sisters and the Togou siblings. There's also Akira and her half-sister Motoko.
 * Single Stroke Battle
 * Sitting On the Roof
 * Sleep Cute: Tenma after she and Harima's shopped for Karasuma's birthday present.
 * Slice of Life
 * Slow-Motion Pass-By
 * Soap Opera Disease -
 * has an incurable disease that--once set in motion--wipes his mind clean and destroys all cognitive ability.
 * Given the vagueness of her ailment, Akira's younger half sister as well.
 * Spoiler Opening: Each season has one, showing events that will happen throughout the entire season (Ichigakki, for example, showed Harima's Important Haircut from day one). Same goes for the endings.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: Madoka, Shigeo and Mai shooting each other to the tune of "Feel Like A Girl". Then again, they were just playing...
 * Stroke the Beard: When Harima crashed Hanai's mock wedding. Also when Eri accidentally chopped his beard.
 * Sunglasses At Night: Harima. Hanai during the Wargames arc.
 * Surprise Santa Encounter
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial: Harima engages it when Yakumo notices that the characters of his manga look like him and Tenma.
 * Take My Hand: In the manga, Harima handcuffed himself to a girl he thought was Tenma who was about to fall off a bridge. It's really Yakumo, and the bridge stands over a small creek.
 * Take Off Your Clothes: During the camping episode. Harima tells Tenma to disrobe and this shocks the eavesdropping Eri and Yakumo. Eri takes a second look and sees Tenma and Harima wearing a curtains so they can dry their clothes.
 * That Came Out Wrong
 * Theme Tune Cameo: The music video for the opening theme, "SCRAMBLE!", appears in a billboard.
 * Itoko sings the first season end theme in her sleep. And tapes and plays it to taunt Harima at one point.
 * Tenma sings the "SCRAMBLE!" chorus in the pool episode
 * Those Two Guys: Lots. Tsumugi & Sagano, Madoka & Mihara. Asou & Suga.
 * Through His Stomach: Tenma tries to get closer to Karasuma by eating rice balls with him. Tenma also tricked Yakumo into giving Harima a lunch box.
 * The Three Faces of Eve: Tenma, Yakumo, Eri = maiden, wife, seductress
 * The women who actually show interest in Harima: Yakumo=child Eri=wife and Tae=seductress
 * Third-Person Flashback: In an episode, Yakumo has a flashback/dream to when she was a little kid that is from the first person perspective. Up to and including when the camera shakes up and down to indicate her nodding her head.
 * Thundering Herd
 * Tiger Versus Dragon: Harima (dragon) and Hanai (tiger) at the mock wedding.
 * Time to Unlock More True Potential: At one point, Harima has to regain his spirit not as a fighter but as a mangaka, under the eye of the captain of a fishing vessel.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl
 * Tenma (tomboy), Yakumo (girly)
 * Eri (tomboy), Yakumo (girly)
 * Eri (girly), Mikoto or Akira (tomboy)
 * Lara (tomboy), Karen (girly)
 * Itoko (tomboy), Youko (girly)
 * Transformation Sequence: In the Magical Girl parody episode, Mai gets a Sakura-level one.
 * Umbrella of Togetherness: Used 3 times to ship Harima and Eri.
 * Universal Adaptor Cast
 * Unwanted Harem: Subverted. Tae is the only one who expresses open attraction toward Harima. He treats Yakumo only as his friend and Eri as someone he owes a debt too but doesn't like. And he never seems to actually learn any of their names, probably because he only cares about Tenma.
 * Visible Sigh
 * Visible Silence
 * Vomit Discretion Shot: A picture of a cat is shown when Tenma gets seasick in the cruise episode.
 * Wacky Homeroom
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: The Kibasen and the Battle Royale style wargames.
 * What Happened to The Mouse?: Used mini-plotwise in the Manga: Though, it is revealed later in the Manga that
 * What Is This Feeling
 * Wiki Walk
 * Wild Card Excuse: "Because this is the Tea club afterall..."
 * Will They or Won't They?: In Z, Tenma threatened to crash the car she's driving after finding out Yakumo still can't define her relationship with Harima after all these years.
 * Wrestler in All of Us: Eri unloads a rolling sobat on Harima in one episode, and in a much later one puts him in a Boston Crab.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko; Yakumo