Spoilers of Course Little Busters Is fun comedic and emotional anime. As a adaptation to the Visual Novel It may not be the best adaptation especially compared to its older brothers such as Kanon and Clannad mostly the latter but well get to that later. As an anime itself it does a great job at showing characters emotions and keeping each character to their own personality. Little Busters has about all the possible personalities you can think of the quiet and smart bookworm the loud noisy girl who is dumb the oneesan the shy one the exotic loli the sweet always happy girl. Then of course theres the few male characters such as the muscle head. That aside now the characters stick to their own personality throughout the show even during their arcs for the most part. The arcs are great stories relating to ones past trauma or even current trauma caused by one thing or another. Now of course its not Little Busters without Refrain. Refain is by far the best part of the story and possibly the most emotional while proper refrain doesnt start until Episode 5 or 6 since the first few episodes are just Kurugayas and Rins Arcs/Routes it does execute it well with the childhood friends splitting apart due to Kyousukes plan. Seeing these childhood friends being attached to them since the start of the original series is personally in my opinion very depressing. The end of Refrain once Rin and Riki save everyone from the bus crash is indeed a happy ending and luckily the true ending it took me by surprise a bit as the events leading up to this part would suggest Rin would possibly run away. Now for the adaptation part. Little Busters but itself as an anime is wonderful though as an adaptation it lacks in several things. Firstly the anime misses out on several key details from the Visual Novel it attempts to be linear in the Visual Novel after each characters route/arc storywise Kyousuke resets time the anime does not show or even imply this in anyway it only shows Kyousuke resetting time a few times during Refrain. Second the Arcs shouldve been longer I get it the routes in the VN are hours long and it may be hard to put all that content into a few episodes but extending the series 1015 episodes wouldnt hurt a good example is that in the Visual Novel Riki dates each one of the girls in their routes a little romance in the anime wouldnt hurt either Clannad had it. Third Kurugayas and Rins Arcs should have been animated in the First season and kept out out of Refrain since Refrain is only suppose to focus on Masato Kengo and Kyousuke for the most part. as I said before adding those 1015 extra episodes for it would be fine. I have only made it through masatos part of Refrain in the Visual Novel so far so I cannot judge how well adapted the rest of Refrain is. In conclusion Little Busters as an anime itself would be a great emotional and comedic anime but as an adaptation it lacks certain details from the Visual Novel which couldve made it far better. Conclusion 85/100
85 /100
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