I can’t help but be excited when I look ahead to the rest of Refrain. It’s going to be an amazing ride. This was a pretty wonderful episode of Little Busters!, but that’s been the exception more than the rule as the series has progressed. Was this the best episode […] Read more
There is a secret of this world – but it isn’t that Kuragaya is a badass. That was already pretty obvious. OP: “Boys be Smile” by Suzuyu Here we are again, beginning another go-around with Little Busters! (though not the last, as Ecstasy has already been announced, with Kud Wafter […] Read more
J.C. Staff and the production committee are apparently pleased with the commercial success of LitBus S1, because on the verge of Refrain’s premiere they’ve announced that an adaptation of Little Busters! Ecstasy has been greenlit. Ecstasy is the “updated adult” version of LitBus, featuring some new routes, but to be […] Read more
News is here. No word on length that I see, but based on what the gamers say I’m assuming two cours. I probably don’t have to say this but please, no spoilers in the comments! Read more
The frozen time will start to move. And that is when everything will begin… I’ve puzzled a bit over how to approach this post – a series review that isn’t really a series review, for a show that doesn’t neatly fit into the box anyone (new viewer or veteran Buster) […] Read more
It seems to me that we’ve had an unusual number of girls with eyepatches in anime lately… I think in terms strictly of narrative execution, this may very well be the best episode of Little Busters! to date. As a self-contained story with internal drama and humor, it worked pretty […] Read more
It’s always interesting with a conspiracy tale like this one to wonder whether the style of the series has changed, or just the way I perceive it. I’m seeing ghosts in every corner and hidden meanings behind every phrase in Little Busters now, while in the first cour there were […] Read more
Ah, Kud-o – superficially you may seem like a moeblob at first glance, but there’s no one else quite like you. Kudryavka strike box!! I had some forewarning (not through any choice of my own, mind you) that the Kud arc was going to be a pretty dramatic tonal shift […] Read more
In summing up my thoughts about this episode, I can do no better than to quite Riki himself: “What was that??” This was another very solid episode of Little Busters drama, successful because it’s anchored around a character sympathetic enough to pull it off in Kud. A bit too much […] Read more
I had to go back and check, just to be sure she really said it, but she did – “Wafu, wafu! Thank you nano desu!” One of the things I’ve praised Little Busters for is its straightforward and direct nature – ironic, I suppose, given that the entire series is […] Read more