School Rumble [Best Collection] Japan

School Rumble is a Japanese shonen manga series written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi. First serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine from October 22, 2002 to July 23, 2008, all 345 chapters were later collected in 22 tankobon volumes by Kodansha. Magazine Special published a parallel world story, School Rumble Z, monthly from August 20, 2008 to May 20, 2009. A romance comedy centering on relationships between Japanese high school students, School Rumble focuses on a love triangle involving the series' two protagonists, Kenji Harima and Tenma Tsukamoto, and one of their classmates, Oji Karasuma. The series often discards realism in favor of comedic effect.