Little Busters! Like and, it is entirely 'clean', although an 'adult' version titled Little Busters! Ecstasy (also known as Little Busters!
EX) was released which featured additional heroines.Little Busters! Tells the story of protagonist Riki Naoe, who is a member of the titular Little Busters, a group consisting of four boys and one girl who have all been close friends since childhood. The other members are the leader Kyousuke, his shy and quiet sister Rin, the muscle-obsessed Masato and the kendo user Kengo. The story begins one day in the Little Busters' second year of high school, when they decide to play a game of baseball but need more players. Riki recruits five new girls to join them: childlike Komari, troublemaker Haruka, big-sisterly Yuiko, frail Mio, and Kudryavka. And thus begins a laid-back -type with a touch of, wherein you (as Riki) try to befriend the various girls, while getting into fights with the other Little Busters and several other people at your school.
Or at least, they'd like you to think that's what it is. But it's Key Visual Arts, so of course there's more to it than that.(Before reading the list of tropes, note that some of them are, in and of themselves, spoilers.)Not to be confused with the song by that was featured inThe characters sheet is under heavy constructionLittle Busters!
Finally got an anime adaptation that began airing in and is animated. Viewers living in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, and Scandinavia may watch the anime legally at A second season titled Little Busters! Refrain aired during the season, and an adaptation for Ecstasy was released as a series of episodes bundled with the Refrain.
The adaption, entitled Little Busters EX, is composed of eight episodes. There are seven volumes of Refrain released in all, and one episode was released with each volume (except for the final volume, which contains the final two episodes). The first volume and thus the first EX episode was released on the 29th of January, 2014.
On October 31, 2015, announced plans to release the of Little Busters!, originally titled Little Busters! Perfect Edition, on with localization work being done by Fruitbat Factory using the of the original Little Busters! By Team Fluffy, a fan translation group that many Fruitbat Factory staff members were a part of, being used as a basis for the official English release. On November 1, 2017, the Perfect Edition was released on under the title Little Busters! English Edition. The new content in the English Edition includes the three routes that were included in Ecstasy alongside the original content, but with the pornographic content removed.This game provides examples of:.: Riki ends up in these situations a lot, particularly in Komari's route and the Ecstasy expansion.: A few are caused by the anime.
For example, in episode 7 of EX, Kanata is shown doing maintenance work, like checking on the lawns and setting up a new bulletin board, as part of her duties on the Disciplinary Committee. Shouldn't that be the job of the Maintenance Committee? This was explained in Haruka's route of the VN, where Kanata reveals that she had the Maintenance Committee disbanded and took on its duties on orders to take away everything that mattered to Haruka. That particular detail wasn't covered in the anime when that route was adapted.: How the dream world works.
As all but Riki and Rin were, their minds connected to each other's and to those of the other people in their lives with this. This forms the foundation of a number of routes and provides blueprints for the 'NPCs' created after real people, like family and classmates, who appear in the dream world. For example, Komari uncovering the thoughts of her family means that her route can tell Riki what happened from the perspective of someone who didn't try to forget Komari's dead brother, and Haruka connecting to Kanata's thoughts revealed that Kanata was trying to be.: Sasami.: Almost the entire story takes place in a dream world formed by the Little Busters as they lay about to die in the real world, minus Riki and Rin, with Kyousuke directing the world and Masato and Kengo acting as his subordinates to keep the plan going. The events of the girl's routes appear to be based on wishes or desires of theirs.: But is that all there is to it? Taking a closer look at Kud's route implies that the rioting in her home country already took place and the shuttle already failed with her having her mother's dog tag and a half melted gear. So those wishes and desires appear to based on real events. Taking that into account, some routes like Kurugaya's, Mio's and Kud's only seem possible in the Dream World, since they involve a lot of symbolism.
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Haruka's and Komari's are the opposite, since these routes use little to no symbolism and throw the harsh reality in the faces of the characters. Yet even Kurugaya's route, one that surely takes place in the dream world, explicitly has a post Refrain epilogue/alternate ending! How much of the story only happened inside the dream world, how much outside it? Riki: No, we weren't on a mission.: Riki seriously admits, on several occasions, that he does indeed feel romantic love towards Kyousuke. In fact, has some sort of either text or subtext with at least two people of two different genders.: Saya Tokido's true route turns out to be this.
While she still takes her own life, it is implied that Kyousuke either activated a 'time machine' after all similar to the supposed 'reset button', or the combined strength of Saya and Riki's wishes created a more stable dream world for her. Either way, her soul gets to live out the life she wanted.: In Haruka's route, one of the first quiet and genuinely romantic moments that occurs between her and Riki comes when they sit in a classroom together at sunset and listen to music together through shared earbuds. She even reveals she's made a couple of songs herself and puts them on for him.: Mio's route tries to end on the aesop that people can't naturally understand one another no matter how close they are, so they need to talk about their problems with one another to avoid. However, the start of Kurugaya's route treats telling Kurugaya about the girls harassing Riki as the wrong choice since it leads to an early bad end. The correct choice for that situation is to keep her in the dark about what's going on, yet despite keeping it a secret from her, Kurugaya still manages to figure out what's troubling Riki without any misunderstandings.
Haruka: 'Wanna do 'it' with me?' Riki: 'Do what?' Haruka: 'When I say 'it', I mean 'it'. First it's like 'nnh', then there's 'hnng', and then its time for the sticky stuff.' Riki: 'nnh, then hnng, then sticky?' Haruka: 'And it'll feel really good'.: Kurugaya Yuiko's route ends in failure the first reading as a way of giving the reader more information about the story.
There is an alternate True Ending after the game has been completed, however. Also, the first ending is slightly ambiguous anyway, so not a complete downer. The endings of Rin's routes (both the first playthrough and second) are complete downers. Good thing there's refrain after that. In fact, the 'Rin epilogue' after refrain is the most horrific downer of them all. At least, there is the option of romance with Rin in the final (general) ending.: The dungeon that Saya's route features needs to be passed through twice to access the end. Everyone: Muscles yay yay!
Muscles yay yay!.: Refrain route ends up working out like this which may come as quite the surprise considering the heavy Rin emphasis that had dominated the last route and the first half of the route itself. Thus, the story itself becomes an example. It's actually kind of confusing, in that there are two different, contradictory Refrain epilogues: the first one, which heavily implies that Riki and Rin aren't going out, and the second one that can only be seen by playing through Refrain again, which heavily implies that they are. Pick and choose, maybe?.: Mixed in with variety of utterances made by participants engaged in baseball practice, in the visual novel.: Riki.: Somewhat averted, at least when compared to prior KEY games.
Little Busters! Is a unique game in that there were actually two character designers working on the project, each working on three of the six heroines; Hinoue Itaru (who was the primary character designer for Kanon, AIR and Clannad) designed Komari, Haruka and Kurugaya, whilst Na-Ga (Angel Beats) was responsible for Rin, Kud and Mio.: Subverted during Sasami's route. Masato tells Kengo that he was kicked out of his room by Riki, and has to stay with him.
At first it seems like Kengo believes Masato, but it turns out he was humoring him, as Kengo knows well enough to know that he would never do something like that without a good reason. Saigusa: 'Saigusa Haruka changed jobs from 'Useless'!' . There is one occasion when Kud offers Kanata a keychain with something on it that. In the 4koma, she also says that if she raised a third dog, she'd name that one Potato. Especially amusing to longtime Key fans, since Kud and Kano actually have the same birthday, June 12th. Kurugaya with a katana vs.
Masato with a pop up pirate.