School Rumble Vol 9

Jin Kobayashi was born in Tokyo. School Rumble is his first manga series.

SERIES OVERVIEW: 
 
She . . . is a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming question: will the boy she likes ever really notice her? 
 
He . . . is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: he's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. 
 
Life-changing obsessions, colossal foul-ups, grand schemes, deep-seated anxieties, and raging hormones - School Rumble portrays high school as over-the-top comedy!

School Rumble Vol 8

SERIES OVERVIEW: 
 
She . . . is a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming question: will the boy she likes ever really notice her? 
 
He . . . is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: he's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. 
 
Life-changing obsessions, colossal foul-ups, grand schemes, deep-seated anxieties, and raging hormones - School Rumble portrays high school as over-the-top comedy!

School Rumble Vol 7

School Rumble Vol 6

The school athletics fair is meant to be a celebration of youth and fitness, but personal grudges, haughty attitudes, and long-standing rivalries have turned healthy competition into all-out war! Will Tsukamoto Tenma's teacher have his revenge for the theft of his cookies? Can Sawachika Eri and Harima Kenji bury the hatchet long enough to compete on the same team? Will hordes of young men get themselves injured just to be seen by the pretty health office nurse? And can the misfits of class 
2-C ever hope to defeat the athletic, hard-studying, self-righteous creeps of class 2-D? Here is where it's all decided!

School Rumble Vol 5

Manga comics... have ignited graphic novel sales around the world

A real treat for fans... an excellent translation as well as one of the most complete sets of reader notes I've ever seen on a manga

Sales of manga graphic novels are driving sales of all graphic novels in the bookstore market

Harima Kenji has tried everything he can think of to attract his cute-but-dim classmate Tsukamoto Tenma. This time he's grown his beard to enormous lengths. But one snip of the scissors by wealthy beauty Sawachika Eri ruins everything! Can a delinquent punk and a stubborn, quick-to-anger rich girl end their long-running feud? Meanwhile, the inscrutable foreign exchange students from America in rival class 2-D face off against our hapless heroes from 2-C. The real School Rumble is about to begin!

School Rumble Vol 3

Love (in the form of Tsukamoto Tenma) betrayed Harima Kenji, but he has moved on in an effort to find himself. He's become a fortune-teller who can communicate with animals. Some even mistake him for a helpful deity who watches over a local shrine. What happens to a young man who gets lost on his journey of self-discovery? 
 
Meanwhile, Tenma and her friends embark on a trip of their own. They go to the beach for sun, sand, and surf - and meet four guys with less-than-noble intentions. 
 
Plus, School Rumble fans can look forward to a brand-new character!

Jin Kobayashi

Cute Tsukamoto Tenma is desperately trying to help juvenile delinquent classmate Harima Kenji win the girl of his dreams: Tenma's friend Mikoto. But when Tenma hears Kenji say 'I love you' to someone else, she begins to have serious doubts about kenji's loyalties. Now, in an abandoned school in the middle of the woods on a rainy night, Tenma is ready to confront him one-on-one about his infidelities. Little does she know that she has totally misread the situation, and that the love-crazed punk has actually developed a hopeless crush on her!

Jin Kobayashi

Praise for School Rumble Vol 4

Manga comics... have ignited graphic novel sales around the world

A real treat for fans... an excellent translation as well as one of the most complete sets of reader notes I've ever seen on a manga

Sales of manga graphic novels are driving sales of all graphic novels in the bookstore market

Manga comics... have ignited graphic novel sales around the world

A real treat for fans... an excellent translation as well as one of the most complete sets of reader notes I've ever seen on a manga

Sales of manga graphic novels are driving sales of all graphic novels in the bookstore market

Manga comics... have ignited graphic novel sales around the world

A real treat for fans... an excellent translation as well as one of the most complete sets of reader notes I've ever seen on a manga

Sales of manga graphic novels are driving sales of all graphic novels in the bookstore market

Books by Jin Kobayashi

Series by Jin Kobayashi

School Rumble

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