Boy, talk about a mood shift… It seems a bit odd to watch the “Sekai no Saitou” OVA right after the 11th episode of Refrain, but that’s just the way the timing worked out. You could hardly draw up two episodes that more effectively highlight this series in its polar […] Read more
I really don’t think this is the time for a clever opening line. I don’t think I need to say much about that episode of Little Busters!, really. If any anime episode ever spoke for itself, it was this one. And who wants to cloud such emotional purity with a […] Read more
At last, the cat is out of the bag. I won’t say there were a whole lot of surprises in this episode of Little Busters, starting with the fact that most (but not all) of the secret of this world was revealed. But that didn’t stop it from being […] Read more
They grow up so fast, don’t they? There may in fact be another significance to the name of this series and the titular gang at the heart of it, and while I certainly was suspicious of the significance of a a certain vehicle that’s cropped up as a motif a […] Read more
As much as any episode in Little Busters!, this one felt as if it was a long time coming. Inohara Masato has always been something of a singular figure at the heart of Little Busters. He’s the guy that was always there – Riki’s “best friend”, in his own words […] Read more
And so it begins… Again. A while ago – it may even have been in the first season – I mentioned that Riki’s narcolepsy struck me as being something like a circuit-breaker – a switch that trips whenever he gets too close to the truth. I think the reality is […] Read more
Well, any way you slice it that was a “Shaka, when the walls fell” kind of episode. I’m trying very hard to trust Kyosuuke here, because in my gut I can’t help believe he has what’s best for Riki and Rin – and all the Little Busters – at heart. […] Read more
Sometimes the suspense is not in the “what”, but the “why”… Raise your hand, anime-only viewers, if you hadn’t guessed by now that Kyousuke was the one sending the cat-tail messages to Riki and Rin. I imagine if we were all in a room it would look like I just […] Read more
For now, at least, the osananajimi fans are in the ascendancy. This is without question a nexus point for Little Busters!, one of those places where anime and visual novels must tearfully part and board separate trains. And no doubt the same applies to anime-only viewers like me and VN […] Read more
Conspiracy-wise, I think this was the episode where the gloves finally came off. We got some interesting news today when the home video schedule for Refrain was finally released. Apparently Refrain is going to be 13 episodes, with EX being 8 BD/DVD eps (the final volume will have two EX […] Read more