Tripping the light craptastic

Now that "Blood +" and "Ouran High School Host Club" have ended I went in search of new anime to watch. I ran across "School Rumble" which is one of those school/romance anime.

While I wasn't wowed by the initial six episodes, I still borrowed the rest of the series and even the two OVAs out of some misbegotten sense of responsibility that one should finish what one started.

I'm seriously convinced that I've been dropped on my head as a baby. Why else would I waste four days straight watching this sorry excuse for an anime that supposedly was such a big hit in Japan? The second season just ended too. I'm not stupid enough to watch a second season of this tripe.

Not only are the characters drawn like any ho-hum anime, the story is the typical convoluted love polygon in this genre. The female lead, a clueless girl named Tenma Tsukamoto loves Ooji Karasuma, a poker-faced boy with a bowl haircut. She just can't seem to confess her affection to him.

The class delinquent is the male lead. Kenji Harima loves Tenma but misunderstandings, circumstances and other people including Tenma ruin his declarations of love. There's an assorted cast of characters that have their own love dilemmas. Two other girls also like Harima.

But after 26 episodes there's still no resolution on who ends up with whom. Then they drag it out to another season. I hear there's going to be a third season.

This show needs to be put to the torch. I hate love polygons especially if they keep dragging them out. The other side stories are boring as well. The style of the animation doesn't help pull this from the mediocre pile nor does the music. I regret spending a dime renting this. I'm such a baka ("stupid" in Japanese).