The passage of time is always a little strange when dealing with Little Busters!. This one has been a long time coming, I confess.  There was quite a wait for a subtitled release to begin with, and I’ve had so little time of late that this episode sat in the […] Read more

A small world, indeed. I don’t think there’s any question Sasasegawa Sasami’s arc is one of the simpler and more straightforward in the Little Busters anime repertoire.  And in the end, it’s probably one that depends on the audience having had a familial relationship with a pet – preferably a […] Read more

Any episode that ends with Komari disappearing is A-OK in my book… Little Busters! is a series of many moods, no question about it.  Starting with the last few eps of the first season, though, they’ve mostly been pretty serious – understandably so, and those were collectively the best run […] Read more

Dammit, Key – you have to make him look good in a skirt and give him Hochan’s voice? I suppose I should really have seen this coming – but in terms of the plot twist and the general tone.  Saya’s arc in EX plays out a lot like Little Busters […] Read more

With Little Busters it always comes back to that, doesn’t it? There’s nothing in the third (of four, seemingly) episode of Saya’s mini-arc in EX that will blow you away on first viewing.  It’s breezy, silly, briskly paced and mostly entertaining, just as the first two eps were, albeit it […] Read more

Snakes.  Why’d it have to be snakes? The second episode of Little Busters! EX is very much more of the same.  The same as the first episode, that is, which is quite a bit different than either season of LitBus the TV series.  There still isn’t much of the original […] Read more

A new year, and yet another new anime take on Little Busters!. OP Sequence: Let me open with the usual disclaimer: I haven’t played the VN and have no advance knowledge to speak of what takes place in EX.  So I’m coming at this from the perspective of a new […] Read more