Enter Nishizono Mio (formally, anyway), and she’s quite different than the other cast members we’ve met so far. You’ll have to forgive the brevity of this post.  In addition to this being finals week at my language school (Kanji alone would take more study time than I spend awake on […] Read more

It’s becoming increasingly obvious to me that my view on Little Busters and the general zeitgeist are two ships passing in the night, likely never to meet again.  But in the immortal words of George Costanza, “Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care.” I’ve been spending weeks trying to figure […] Read more

Probably the best episode of Little Busters! so far, though that should hardly come as a surprise. It would be easy to sum up the strength of this episode with “Duh – it’s Kud!”  And while our little Euro-Asian hybrid is without question the most entertaining of all the girls […] Read more

Of all the series I’ve liked over the last couple of seasons, Little Busters! may be the hardest affection to justify. In a court of law, a stipulation is when both sides agree to a certain set of facts, and that they won’t be argued for the duration of the […] Read more

Wow – that conclusion sure arrived a lot faster than I expected. As with just about everything else with Little Busters!, I’m very much of two minds about this episode, and the entire Komari arc (both episodes of it).  On the one hand I can very much feel myself being […] Read more

Well, whaddaya know – Little Busters is a Key adaptation after all. While the events in this episode were certainly foreshadowed last week, the change in tone was still pretty stark – especially in the second half of the episode.  This was really the first time that the Key/Maeda Jun […] Read more

When I said Maeda Jun series always have at least one moemoe character “or two” – I didn’t think I’d be proven right quite so quickly. Liking a series and having no real idea how to explain why isn’t an easy position for a blogger to be in.  If I’m […] Read more

Three episodes in Little Busters! seems incapable of being less than likeable, but this week’s episode had something of the feel of a placeholder. I suppose it’s unavoidable to compare LB to its predecessors in adaptation from Key, especially Kanon (which I loved) and Clannad (which I liked).  I’ve mentioned […] Read more

About the best compliment I can pay to the second episode of Little Busters is this: I’m not quite sure why I enjoyed it as much as I did. I’ll be honest – there was quite a bit in this episode that under normal circumstances would make me cringe (a […] Read more