Eylandos said:Absolute bull$hit. The ending was the biggest pile of crap I seen in a long while.
Here the reasons why it is impossible for the events that occurred in this episode to be even remotely plausible.
-The bus weighs about 12 tonnes and say it did about 10+ revolutions. Which mean SOME students should have been crushed by the weight of the bus.
-Some students should have been thrown out of the windows
-Rin had an injured arm and Rikki an injured leg. They shouldn't have had the ability to carry 30 students out of the bus and over a hill
-The bus should have exploded a lot sooner
-Grass doesn't spontaneously combust like that
-So out of all the students, Kyousuke had the most significant damage by far. We saw him in the flashback dragging his body through the dirt with large amount of blood lost. Why is this? Didn't Kengo and Masato shield Rikki and Rin from during the crash? Why didn't we see large pool of blood under them, when they were on the ground.
-Episode 12 shows us a scene with a large pool of blood on the floor of the bus and blood smears on the wall of the bus. Kyousuke couldn't have been the only person with that of a large blood loss or else he would be dead. There had to be others.
-Where did Riki and Rin get materials for the stretcher? The bus pretty much destroyed everything but from what we saw, they had perfect sticks and a nice white cloths available for them somehow.
-Rikki and Rin should not have been able to drag the stretcher with the individual on them. Why? The angle of the hill is steep and so the person should have slid off. Unless they took a really long time for each person....but that goes back point of why didn't the bus combust a lot sooner.
-When Rin and Rikki are trying to save Kyousuke, we saw Rikki struggle. Why? He had no issue dragging 15 other people up a steep hill before but now he struggles?
-How did Kyousuke know where the gasoline leak was coming from? If he was so bloodied up from the damage of the crash, shouldn't he have been delirious? How was he able to get his head right, pass himself through the mangled remains and find the exact leaking spot on the bus?
-Rin and Rikki's injuries should have been severely worse considering they were meters away from the crash. In fact they shouldn't have been able to move but hey screw logic.
-The explosion should have killed Rikki, Rin and Kyousuke. The proximity of the explosion was far to close for them to survive. Even if they were to survive, they should have all had severe 3rd degree burns on their back and legs.
-Kyousuke arriving at the end was deux ex machina.
The show tried way too hard to be like Clannad by implementing a supernatural twist to a slice of life anime and failed. At first I thought we would have more crazy fun behaviour of the Little Busters but the show deviated from that.
The beginning had that but then the show completely went off course with the whole Kurugaya incident. It was out of place and not really handled that well. Rin and Rikki started dating and then Kyousuke's plan was put in place. I was confused because I had no idea what was really going on with this plan. Then it all came together in the final episodes and by episode 10, I was waiting for the glorious realization of reality. This is of course ignoring my main issue with the show. too many members.
There were way too many members of the Little Busters and as seen by its low score, the first Little Busters. Sloppily put together one dimensional characters who fit a particular character archetype. No one really cared for the side characters...accept for Komari. She had some depth and allowed Rin to gain her final character change for her to break out of her depressed state.
Another major issue is the lack of world building. We rarely had them take tests, go to clubs, do homework or any other student duties. The show was based on events that happened during the summer but it felt empty. Nothing but the characters mattered and the world itself was hollow. Least with Clannad we see the main characters doing normal school activities and doing regular stuff high school students do.
The main four were generic but they did fulfill their duties. I for one didn't like how Kyousuke pulled crap from his ass. Oh ya I picked 5 random people who all had tragic pasts and would be able to make Rikki and Rin stronger. What did he stock them and find their personal info? I also didn't like the how Kyousuke was able to control what school Rin went to or how he able to warp reality itself. He had too much power and Kengo and Masato just go with it. In fact the entire nonsensical part where Rikki has to bring them back to the Little Busters was a big head scratcher. How did he do the same thing Kyousuke? Hell why was Rikki and Rin in the same dimension. They were both unconscious I get that but....you know what forget it. No point in trying to question deux ex machina.
Little Busters is a bad anime in my opinion. If they held their frame and maintained a sad ending, I would have been a lot more satisfied than this pile of garbage. The whole drivel conclusion of "lets make everyone happy" ending was a cop out.
Just finished this series and this is what also left me unsatisfied. Everything went well with the first half of this season, but then the ending is all "oooh, you poor watcher, we don't want you to hate us forever, so here is your happy ending". Meh. Also, indeed, the stretchers were impossible without them restraining the people onto the stretcher :') So many things were quite anime-only here. The show itself is all about giving Rin and Riki reality checks... only to end with the creators needing a reality check themselves and leaving us with such a weak non-befitting ending. :/ Only good thing about this ending was how Rin actually opened up to Komari and such, but welp.