There is a lot of sadness in the world, but we can still find many good things and be happy. So Riki, challenging what her brother had put in her head, had to force her to accept the harsh reality and find happiness in it. Partly due to her brother wanting to keep her smile alive, she was unable to grow up. Komari was unable to accept sad things, and when confronted with what she fears, she runs away until she forgets about it. Her super happy and optimistic identity is a fragile shell which when destroyed, reveals an infant afraid of the world. Komari’s route revolves around her aversion to death and fear of losing things. So when her route came around, it came as a huge shock to me to see her so broken after witnessing a death. Komari herself is the personification of kindness and joy, sweet to the core. It’s simple and cute, but it holds an innate truth to it that I hold dear. During the common route, I always appreciated listening to her beliefs I particularly identify with her spiral of happiness theory. I get that Komari isn’t a very popular character among the English-speaking fans, but she was one of my favourite girls throughout the story. So then, time to offer my thoughts on the heroine routes, starting with Komari. Somehow, reading the story and watching the characters interact helps remind me of who I am and what’s important. The batting practice, much like the story itself, is therapeutic to me. It never fails to put a smile on my face, and the worries of life fade away. Whenever I’m feeling down or stressed, I boot up Little Busters and skip to the batting practice to hit a few balls around. But I will say that even though I finished Little Busters long ago, I still go back to the batting practice even today. Little Busters helped us become a big family.īut I haven’t begun to speak about Little Busters itself! I’ve already spoken about the common route in my Penultimate Reflection two years ago (has it been that long?), so I won’t dwell on the common route too much. Even today, I still keep in touch with a few people I met through the game, and I continue to make more friends through Twitter each day. There weren’t very many of us back then compared to how big it’s getting now with the Anime, so we became quite a tight-knit community. It was really easy to make friends based on that common ground. Much like my love of the MOTHER series, back then if you met someone who loved Little Busters like you did, you already had an immediate connection with that person. Not to steal his words, but I felt much the same way. I remember someone a few years back mentioned how “If you find someone loves Little Busters, you know they’re a nice person”. I made a lot of connections over the net through this. I’d get on the Fluffy IRC and contribute to the #LittleBusters hashtag while I waited out the months, connecting with people who shared my excitement. It may have been frustrating at times having to wait for each route to be translated, but it extended the life of the story for me, and built up a sort of community centred around hype for each upcoming release.
I ended up buying the game from J-List for about $120, probably the most money I’ve ever paid for a game, but it was worth every cent.
Translation started after some time by team Fluffy, and patches were generally released route by route, so I was able to follow the series in portions, much like an Anime viewer would. By this point Little Busters was still a relatively new Visual Novel, and it would still be little while before I made the plunge and tried it out. I first discovered Little Busters after I had finished watching Clannad and discovered my love of Key. I haven’t read EX yet, but if you haven’t finished the game or are still watching the Anime, don’t read this until you’re done.įirst, some history. Spoiler Warning for the entirety of the vanilla Little Busters. Also, I’m not done with the Rewrite reflections yet hopefully I can have my thoughts on Akane’s route with you guys soon!
It’s way overdue, but I hope you can appreciate what I have to share nonetheless! I’ll be focusing on the Little Busters VN here, not so much the Anime. You can consider this the conclusion to my long-forgotten Penultimate Reflection. I’ve been feeling really sentimental about Little Busters lately, watching the final episodes of Refrain unfold, so it seems like a perfect time to share what Little Busters means to me.