Little Busters!

 

Little Busters! one of a great anime series from 2012, an original visual novel game created by Key and here’s some famous games like CLANNAD, Kanon and Air. Little Busters! anime series is produced by J.C.Staff and here’s some popular titles behind its studio like Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Bakuman., Shakugan no Shana and Zero no Tsukaima. Little Busters! consists of 26 episodes, runs about 24 minutes per episode and aired from October 2012 till April 2013. Opening song "Little Busters! ~TV animation ver.~" is performed by Rita. Ending song “Alicemagic” and “Ame nochi Hare” both performed by Rita. Little Busters! anime series is directed by Yoshiki Yamakawa.

Riki Naoe's childhood days have shut himself from the world, one big reason is the diagnosis of narcolepsy following the tragic death of his parents. Riki is saved on one fateful day when he meets Kyousuke Natsume and recruits him into a team called Little Busters. Kyousuke is accompanied by his sister Rin with Masato Inohara and Kengo Miyazawa. Riki feels a new beginning into his childhood life with his new friends that spend their time fighting evil and enjoying their youth.

As years pass and even in their high school they are still together and remain teammates. One day Kyousuke decides to reignite the Little Busters by forming a baseball team, one big reason behind is he’s last school year with them and the big problem is that they lack members to build a baseball team. It’s Riki’s turn to reach out and recruit new friends in Little Busters, just like before when Kyousuke once did for him when they were still young. As Riki will start to recruit a new friend in Little Busters, Rin finds a strange letter attached to her cat and assigns them a duty to know the secret of the world by completing the task given.

Little Busters! the story focuses on Riki Naoe and his new found friends led by Kyousuke Natsume with his sister Rin with Masato Inohara and Kengo Miyazawa. Because of Riki's new found friend his life changed after the death of his parents and his narcolepsy. Until their high school they stick together, as in the final year of Kyousuke he decides to build a baseball team one problem is that they lack members to complete the team and the only way is to recruit a new friend for Little Busters. Finally, Riki turns to recruit a new friend for Little Busters as he has been recruited before by Kyousuke and as a thanks because his closed lonely life has been changed. One day Rin finds a strange letter that is attached to her cat, and assigns a duty or task for them to know the secret of the world by completing the task given.

Little Busters! anime series is produced by J.C.Staff and did a good job for its anime adaptation. The animation is good as smooth, a bit detailed but at the same time a simple and a good story. Slice of life is one of the strong points of its studio production J.C.Staff and delivers the whole story for anime series. Character design is good detail and seeing each everyone own aspect and which is amazing to enjoy. Story adaptation and the smooth focus on the main story is one of the strong points of this anime series. For the song choice all songs were performed by Rita, melodrama songs the opening songs a good start and just listening into it you will know that this is a bit drama slice of life series, and ending song a past or sad event still present. Overall, the songs are all amazing to listen and feel more about the series.

Little Busters! deserves a good anime recommendation, the first one is the good story of Key visual and this is not your normal slice of life school drama. Anime or visual novel? First of all, I just learned the title from an anime announcement, so far, the story is good and anime is easy to access the main story of Little Busters by watching it which is an amazing start. The visual novel is great because you can choose far from the fixed anime series and can choose who Riki will end up in the story. one of the good things in the anime series is that they cover most of the back story of the characters or part of the Little Busters team. Is Little Busters! an underrated anime series? Nope, not at all in terms of story this has a lot inside to feel a good drama slice of life. One of the things is that anime adaptation is produced by a different studio, it’s what made some people hesitant to watch the series. The overall rate is still good to watch because the story is good at all, but here’s one thing I heard from a friend of mine is that it is a bit different to most of the stories made by Key visual unlike the other titles that made you attach to all of the story. Little Busters! anime series is a drama slice of life and most of all it’s about the friendship of everyone around, a friend that will help you to go forward is one of the amazing parts of the story and to know the secret of the world is to look forward to watching the whole series.

Information:

Title:

• Little Busters!

• リトルバスターズ!

Type: Series (26 episode)

Aired: October 6, 2012 to April 6, 2013
Studio: J.C.Staff

Source Story: Visual Novel

Genre: Slice of Life, Comedy, Supernatural, Drama, School

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Song:

Opening:

• "Little Busters! ~TV animation ver.~" by Rita

Ending:
• "Alicemagic ~TV animation ver.~" by Rita (eps 1-5, 7-13, 15-17, 19-22, 24-25)

• "Alicemagic" by Rita (eps 6, 18)

• "Ame nochi Hare (雨のち晴れ)" by Rita (eps 14, 23)

• "Little Busters! ~TV animation ver.~" by Rita (ep 26)

Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa

Character and Voice Actor:

• Noumi, Kudryavka (Wakabayashi, Naomi)

• Natsume, Kyousuke (Midorikawa, Hikaru)

• Natsume, Rin (Tamiyasu, Tomoe)

• Kurugaya, Yuiko (Tanaka, Ryouko)

• Saigusa, Haruka (Suzuki, Keiko)

• Naoe, Riki (Horie, Yui)

• Kamikita, Komari (Yanase, Natsumi)

• Inohara, Masato (Canna, Nobutoshi)

• Nishizono, Mio (Tatsumi, Yuiko)

• Miyazawa, Kengo (Oda, Yuusei)