Kud Wafter

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Japanese: クドわふたー

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Nov 28, 2020

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Studios: J.C.Staff

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Theme: School

Duration: 50 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.97¹ (scored by 3,820 users)

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Ranked: #4085²

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Synopsis

Following an accident where Masato Inohara batted a baseball into the school's water main, the boys' dormitory is partially crippled. Until a plumber repairs the damage, the boys have to stay in the girls' dormitory. To determine which rooms they'll be assigned to, they draw tickets from a hat. Unfortunately, due to the limited capacity, some of the boys will have to go without a bed.

Once Riki Naoe draws his ticket, he gets one that forces him to stay in one of the less-than-cozy clubrooms. Seeing his hapless predicament, a nervous Kudryavka "Kud" Noumi musters enough courage to confront her feelings while asking Riki to sleep in her room instead. Despite the rest of the Little Busters incessantly teasing Kud and Riki about their relationship, he stays with her throughout the summer. As they share unforgettable experiences one after another, the two realize that they might want to be more than just friends.

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Kud Wafter is an adaptation of Key's visual novel of the same name. After a crowdfunding campaign for its production was launched on July 18, 2017 by VisualArts, its goal of thirty million yen was reached in three days; by September 25, 2017, it reached its final stretch goal of sixty million yen.

While originally set to premiere in September 2019, a change in directors resulted in a one-year delay to September 2020. A second delay pushed the premiere date to November 2020 following concerns regarding the film's quality. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, another delay was issued, moving the film's theatrical screenings from May 14, 2021 to July 16, 2021.

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Adaptation:	Kud Wafter
Other:	Little Busters!

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Characters & Voice Actors

Noumi, Kudryavka

Main

Wakabayashi, Naomi
Japanese

Naoe, Riki

Main

Horie, Yui
Japanese

Natsume, Kyousuke

Supporting

Midorikawa, Hikaru
Japanese

Kurugaya, Yuiko

Supporting

Tanaka, Ryouko
Japanese

Natsume, Rin

Supporting

Tamiyasu, Tomoe
Japanese

Kamikita, Komari

Supporting

Yanase, Natsumi
Japanese

Saigusa, Haruka

Supporting

Suzuki, Keiko
Japanese

Inohara, Masato

Supporting

Canna, Nobutoshi
Japanese

Nishizono, Mio

Supporting

Kawaragi, Shiho
Japanese

Futaki, Kanata

Supporting

Suzuki, Keiko
Japanese

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Matsukura, Yuuji

Producer

Suzuki, Kentarou

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Motoyama, Satoshi

Sound Director

Shimotsuki, Haruka

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	1: "Hoshikuzu (星屑)" by Haruka Shimotsuki
	2: "Over The Summer" by Noumi Kudryavka (CV: Naomi Wakabayashi)

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Jul 21, 2021

ProxyLain

Not Recommended

I haven't seen Little Busters, but I couldn't care less. And this review has spoilers.

In the beginning they make a melodrama for Wafu (I don't care what her name is, go with Wafu anyway) only for her to say that she wanted to spend more time with Riki. What is the point of this? It had no narrative function that it is really necessary to use drama. This part was right after the beginning, when the boys have to stay in empty rooms in the girls' dorm because their room was flooded with water.

There is one part that was so stupid, I started laughing. ... Wafu takes it and starts to take off his T-shirt together with Riki to both draw an emblem on each other with what looked like chocolate. Seriously... WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? And seriously, when Riki starts drawing on her, she starts moaning "wafu"... What the fuck! Seriously, why this? Why so fucking cool about a bad fucking romance? It makes a fucking drama just for them to kiss and in the next scene they appear naked on the bed? They were outside the dorm at night, I guess they went to the dorm to have sex after this bad drama. Hahahahahaha After that, Wafu starts singing a lullaby while putting her hand on Riki's head just as he is sleeping. SHE STARTED SINGING A LULLABY AFTER HAVING SEX WITH THE KID? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? That was one of the stupidest (and even funniest) things I have ever seen in an anime.
(This was all in 30 minutes of torture watching this OVA)

After all this stupid stuff, Wafu goes to make breakfast for Riki, since the whole school is closed and everyone has gone home. Wafu making breakfast, they keep focusing on her skirt while she is humming and swaying. All right, you want to show me that this loli is hot? Show me her naked at once.

Oooooooooh! at the end it shows that Wafu was in a coma. So all this stuff that was so bad to watch only happened in her dreams. Hahahahahahahahaha

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It's hard for me to complain about original dubbing, in this case Japanese dubbing. But in this anime, the voices of basically all the characters don't match with them, no matter how much I got used to it as the episode went on.
Seriously, this is the first time I have complained about the voice not matching in an anime with the original dub. I am not going to list the reason why each character does not have a voice that matches themselves.
Within 10 minutes of this OVA, I was already wanting to watch this on mute. The characters have such discordant voices and are so annoying that I really wanted to mute it. Seriously, the characters are as annoying as the entire cast of the Trashgatari Series, an anime that I can't stand to see or hear the characters (just thinking about Trashgatari stresses me out).

Character design doesn't bother me as much.
Well, at least it doesn't come close to being garbage like Sword Art Online's design.

The characters themselves, I didn't like any of them. I won't go into detail as to why I didn't like any of them.
I can say that Wafu is one of the worst characters. For example: Hoshino from Planetarian, or Ayu from Kanon, they are cute in a natural way, and are not forced like in this OVA (don't forget that these two characters and works I mentioned, are also from Key).
No, her talking "wafu" doesn't make her cute.

The production is pretty consistent, so there's nothing to complain about. And I don't even want to talk about it.

Anyway, I only saw this OVA for the simple fact that I am watching one OVA each year, starting with the first one in 1983 (so far, Kud Wafter was the worst), and in 2020 I had no choice but this.
That OVA made it a point for me to never come close to Little Busters.
I give up on Key's works. I like Planetarian and Kanon, but I refuse to watch any of their other works again.

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Dec 10, 2020

Psi18c

Recommended

This is a short story that follows Kud being in relationship with Riki, with main events being focused on her dreams and her past.

As a fan of Little Buster (VN), I couldn't help but enjoy the characters, being reminded of the everyday life with friends just playing around. And the music that just reminds me of the VN moments.

Addition, non-anime related but necessary to understand my score:
Due to the low score of the Anime (not even 7 when I wrote), I can tell that most people have not read the Visual Novel (get it on st*em as its outstanding, it has everything except +18 ...

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Dec 15, 2020

Tomm01p

Recommended

Despite being a spin-off to one of my favorite pieces of fiction ever, Little Busters!, I didn’t have high expectations coming into Kud Wafter. VN into anime adaptations are always scary, even more so when they’re getting adapted as movies. More so, Kud Wafter was never thought of as quality work in the first place, and Studio Key in general doesn’t have a good record when it comes to spin-offs. I'm looking at you, Tomoyo After.

Surprisingly enough however, the final product we got here turned out to be much better than I ever would’ve expected. The movie starts out in a very lighthearted manner, aiming ... at providing classic Little Busters! comedy content, which is very much welcome. The whole group of characters is back at it with more jokes, banter and just being themselves. All of these characters are simply wonderful and manage to be incredibly hilarious at all costs. The only sad part is that the best girl, Rin, has probably the smallest role out of anyone in the movie. 2020 hasn’t been sad enough apparently :(

The biggest question marks with Key shows are always their transitions from comedy to drama, which can often be sloppy, rushed, and overall poorly executed. This is sadly the case here as well, as the movie at one point randomly decides it’s tired of being a comedy, and in a matter of few scenes totally changes its tone and narrative, without much explanation as to why. This very strange and unnatural transition is definitely the biggest weakness of the movie, and if it were half an hour longer and used that time to patch this hole, the end result would also be much more satisfying.

After such a poor tone-change, one would expect the whole dramatic side of the movie to crumble. Surprisingly enough, that isn’t necessarily the case, as the movie manages to pick itself back up. That is achieved mainly by keeping things simple and in-line with what the original Little Busters story provided. The movie fully capitalizes on the fact that it doesn’t have to build a new conflict from scratch, and instead works as an extension of a story we already know. Thanks to that, the only thing it can focus on is the execution of said extension, which is why, even though with very limited time, it does manage to tell Kud’s personal story relatively well. There are no glaring weaknesses when the drama is in full swing, and some interesting direction elements help to keep the movie fresh and interesting.

Kud’s character doesn’t go through much we haven’t already seen her go through in the original show, although the ending of this movie does give her side of the story a more complete closure, which is definitely a good thing. The ending scene overall is quite sudden but incredibly important and powerful, while also managing to be very sad without really trying too hard to appear so.

One area Kud Wafter definitely could’ve been better at are the production values. The animation oftentimes feels sloppy, despite the project only being about 50 minutes long and also getting postponed a few times. Not only a bigger budget would make the anime look more consistent, it would also help to produce some interesting direction choices and elements into their fullest potential. But, we can’t except that much from a crowdfunded project, I guess.

Which is honestly why I’m even more surprised that this turned out the way it did. Sure, this movie definitely ain’t no masterpiece, and it also is more silly and fun than legitimately meaningful and profound, but considering what kind of project it is and what I expected of it, I really have no reason to dislike the work presented here as a whole.

It’s funny, sweet, it has Kud, and it does considerably well in its dramatic parts as well.

Hence I can crown Kud Wafter as a success.

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