Review: Little Busters ~Refrain~

Little Busters Season 2

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AlexOddly enough, i’m not going to talk about the last few episodes which I haven’t already covered, because…well, J.C Staff adapted it so perfectly that the only complaint i’d have to mention would be faults or oversights in the original game, and I’d have nothing but outstanding praise for how it’s been adapted and transformed.

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Some Thoughts: Little Busters Refrain Episode 9

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AlexI’ll start with this. I know the secret of this world, and I know how this story ends. I’ll try my best not to spoil things or drop too many hints by talking about it, but it’s inadvertible that some things will slip past me – so there are some very heavy spoiler warnings here.

Masato rejoining the team, Kengo’s got to join next, but this time drawing inspiration from what Kyousuke did won’t work…I don’t think Riki fighting Kengo’s father will make him join again.; especially when he’s so insistent on not rejoining.

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Some Thoughts: Little Busters Refrain Episode 8

Proof of the Strongest

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AlexI’ll start with this. I know the secret of this world, and I know how this story ends. I’ll try my best not to spoil things or drop too many hints by talking about it, but it’s inadvertible that some things will slip past me – so there are some very heavy spoiler warnings here.

It’s now very obvious that Refrain takes place in an alternate world, and that Riki and Rin are the only ones who don’t know about it. However, will retracing the footsteps that Kyousuke took when forming the little busters make a real difference to anything?

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Some Thoughts: Little Busters Refrain Episode 7

May 13th

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AlexI’ll start with this. I know the secret of this world, and I know how this story ends. I’ll try my best not to spoil things or drop too many hints by talking about it, but it’s inadvertible that some things will slip past me – so there are some very heavy spoiler warnings here.

The Refrain route begins! With Rin being swallowed up by the darkness in the last episode, and a LOT of other secrets coming to light, there’s just one thing left to think on…what’s the secret of this world?

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Some Thoughts: Little Busters Refrain Episodes 4, 5 and 6

Riki and Rin & The Final Task & After the Escape

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AlexI’ll start with this. I know the secret of this world, and I know how this story ends. I’ll try my best not to spoil things or drop too many hints by talking about it, but it’s inadvertible that some things will slip past me – so there are some very heavy spoiler warnings here.

Another day, another route… we’ve all got to move on from Kuragaya, because it’s time for things to really get kickstarted with Rin’s route. The conspiracy will unsheathe it’s sword and do everything that it can without revealing the truth in this route, and that’s why some people actually prefer this route to the Refrain route.

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Some Thoughts: Little Busters Refrain – Episodes 1, 2 and 3

It Struck without Warning & It was Raining Back Then, Too & I wanted to be here forever

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AlexI’ll start with this. I know the secret of this world, and I know how this story ends. I’ll try my best not to spoil things or drop too many hints by talking about it, but it’s inadvertible that some things will slip past me – so there are some very heavy spoiler warnings here.

So. Little Busters. Originally, I wrote this work from Key off because it just didn’t start very well, but I found a copy of the VN a few weeks ago and decided that I would read through it myself, to see what I thought of it. And…I didn’t like a large amount of the character routes, save for Kuragaya, both of Rin’s routes and the Refrain route. They made the entire product brilliant through a combination of amazingly clever writing and the mystery and drama that they built up in the previous routes.

And to get to how this relates here, thankfully, the anime adaption of Refrain covers all of the good parts in Little Busters. So i’m going to skip the anime version of the boring stuff in Little Busters and jump straight into the brilliant part.

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