 The side chapters focus on many of the side characters from the main chapters with most of them focusing on Yakumo Tsukamoto.While many of the chapters are gag stories, the central theme of "School Rumble" is relationships, mostly because of love, and as the series progresses, characters are introduced and situations are misinterpreted, the relationship web becomes more complex.Since the characters are unable to let their true feelings be known to the one they like tension and rivalries build.