Little Busters! Refrain

Quick Thoughts:
I strongly dislike the type of storytelling that's reliant on some plot twist or info-dump at the end for the story to make sense, and Little Busters!: Refrain was no exception.

Story:
The pacing was incredibly off this season. The first few episodes were fine; the typical 3 or so episodes were spent developing Kurugaya, which is about the same amount as the other characters. However, the next 3 episodes blaze through what I thought was a pretty important arc, with one notably climatic moment being condensed into just a four minute outro. Then there's the ending, which I felt gave many more questions than answers. ... It also makes a lot of what happened throughout the series seem pointless and unnecessary. The motives behind the key characters of this season were questionable at best. There's one bit of foreshadowing that I thought was pretty neat, but that doesn't make up for how unsatisfying this ending was.

Characters:
In the moment, I kind of liked seeing the main cast develop, and their motives become clearer as Riki slowly figures out the "secret of the world", but as mentioned before, I felt the ending invalidated a lot of this. Rin is probably the best example this, but it applies to most of the cast. Several main characters get much less screentime, and the reasoning for this seemed arbitrary at best.

Enjoyment:
I'll say it again and again, the ending really did suck a lot of enjoyment out not just this season, but the series as a whole. Some non-story related elements were enjoyable though; The art/animation maintained its quality, and soundtrack hard-carried the emotional tone of the season.