Time for one last diversion before we likely stick to “route” episodes until the end of the first season, but this stand-alone episode might just have been more relevant that it first appears. These sidebar eps of Little Busters! have been a mixed bag in terms of quality, though I […] Read more

It was always going to be hard for this episode to live up to a preview that consisted of Kud saying “I AM A JAPANESE STUPID”, but on the whole I think this one did pretty well. I’ve come to the conclusion that I really need to blog LB! differently […] Read more

And so ends the Haruka Arc – or was it the Kanata Arc – and I can’t imagine anyone could complain about a lack of drama now. I have a few issues with the way things were wrapped up here, truth be told, though I suspect they’re more with the […] Read more

Well now, that was certainly an eye-opening ending. Forgive me if I work backwards a bit when looking at this episode of Little Busters.  It was an interesting ep generally, but it’s hard not to start with the finish, because it makes me call into question so much of what […] Read more

Playtime’s over.  Again.  For now. One thing that’s interesting about Little Busters (and something I don’t always love about it) is that it tends to be very much all-or-nothing in terms of drama.  It’s either full-on serious mode or full-on silliness, and there isn’t a whole lot of in-between.  Apart […] Read more

Don’t worry, Chairman-san – I don’t think I’d have noticed he was a guy either… A lot of the time with Little Busters, my enjoyment comes down to the fact that it’s doing things I’ve seen done before, but in slightly different ways.  There’s much about this series that seems […] Read more

Building on the one that came before, this episode of Little Busters felt very much like a part of the Key universe. I have no idea if this is how it was intended in the VNs – given the structure I don’t see how it possibly could be – but […] Read more

Though there’s still plenty of mystery, that was an episode that clarified an awful lot of things in my mind. I made the mistake of applying Occam’s Razor to the riddle of Nishizono Mio last post, but I should have known better – Occam’s Razor simply doesn’t apply when it […] Read more

Are those the unmistakable strains of magical realism I hear coming from the background? Well, it’s arrived at last – a “serious” episode, and the start of another character arc.  Interestingly enough this was actually quite a funny episode in addition to that – arguably the most well-balanced and one […] Read more

I can only imagine what the tenor of the discussion is going to be like this week. Let me state up front that I enjoyed this episode, as I’ve enjoyed all of them so far to some extent.  But I’m also not going to offer up an extended rebuttal against […] Read more