Kono Namida ga Aru Kara, Tsugi no Ippo to Naru

I've been having a slight School Rumble obsession. Always get some obsession whenever I have something else important I need to see to. Hah.

But the opening song of School Rumble's Nigakki season is really one of the more nicely composed ones that I've heard so far. And the lyrics are nice too.

Usually Japanese songs, especially anime theme songs, are quite emo and abstract and all about love and don't really apply to our daily lives, but this one's a little different.

この涙があるから 
次の一歩となる
はっきり分かるよ 
前に進んでるって
「輝き」の袂（もと）へ 

"Because of the tears I have today, I know tomorrow will come." Kind of true, in a sense that when we struggle we know that we'll become better, so the future we dream of comes ever closer to coming true. One way or another.

前に進むから
自分のペースで

As long as we keep going forward. But I suppose the hardest thing is to go at "jibun no PACE" because everybody around us wants us to go at the speed society dictates we go at. And that's one of the biggest advantages and faults of this education system.

I've come to realize that I really like School Rumble. *And to think when I first heard of it I dismissed it as some shonen manga (manga which sells by making guys happy).* Reading it's a little bit nolstalgic, partly because the group that my closest friends in school and I make up is also a group of four. And there are some similarities... Bunkasai and FunORama, having trouble managing engaging the class during discussions some times, mugging for exams, and Tenma and her Karasuma-kun, except my class doesn't have so many boys, Sawachika and her pride, Mikoto and her feelings...

And when I read the part when Tenma leaves them and the class breaks up as they are reshuffled for their third year... It's exactly where SC4 is now. Except we've still got the exams to go but after that...

I'll miss everybody. I think I already do. Even the irritating ones. Because I'd already gotten used to them as a part of life.

Hontou ni, bokura no sedai wa senchimetaru GENERATION da. Hai. ^^

I suddenly have an inkling why I like Japan so much. It's because, according to the Colour Code, we're both Red and Blue. Idealistic realists.

Flights of fancy and depths of despair. An affliction unique to Red-blues. I suppose that's why I've always like the Tenma-Karasuma pairing.

You could say Tenma picked the most unresponsive, unemotional, monosyllabic-prone, geekish guy in her class. But he does the sweetest things when it matters, has the most unique talents and says the sweetest things when he does bother to talk.

*Unresponsive. Unemotional. Monosyllabic-prone. Why do I sometimes feel a bit like Tenma -.-*

Mikoto and Asou. It's a pity, they would have made a nice couple, but Mikoto was just too caught up with the person from her past. Oh well. Dreams are ever changing. She always seemed to be the confident, assured one when it can to emotions. Turns out she gets it wrong too.

この一歩進むまで, 次の一歩まで, じっくり行くから. One day at a time. One concern at a time.

Jya, atashi no ooji-sama wa ima doko desuka?