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| 6/10. All the buildup was wasted, some questions or plot points were left unanswered, and in the end all was well. Who is Kyousuke and why can he 'create' a world just like that while freezing time? Classic Key and their otherworlds. It was all fiction, and apparently only the main characters' personalities were in it, yet even secondary characters had well defined traits, and even backstories at times. Did Kyousuke also imagine all of that? Is he God? Are those characters even real? (ex: Sasami, the mean girls, the one-eyed archer girl, etc). Why did the anime go the extra length to make it seem like everyone was dead (fake feels) just so in the end literally no one was dead at any point in time? Understandably, the 'dead' never assumed that the main couple would be strong enough to rescue them, but still. Tricking the audience into being moved at something that was never real is cheap. At the very least they could have been severely injured. There were pools of blood after all inside that bus but nope, everyone is fine! Everybody survives. Out of a crash like that. Ok lol, anime magic. Lack of realism and suspension of disbelief can only carry me so far. This one is a bit far fetched, but in one take (ep 12) you can see that the buses were traveling caravan-style one behind another. Yet when the crash took place, they all vanished. The thought of this entire story becoming utterly pointless had one of those other buses stopped right away to assist the accident victims is scary. Romance appears out of effing nowhere, though calling it 'romance' is already pushing it, and it goes absolutely nowhere as well. It was hinted that it had already happened in other worlds before by Kyousuke, yet nothing happened at all in the last definitive fake world nor in the real world. Writers simply forgot about it. I had already guessed that their field trip bus crashed from the June 20th repeating itself (with the board always reading "Field trip something") and that Riki and Rin were the sole survivors, yet this wasn't a detriment to my final score. Last 2 episodes were just handled very poorly in my opinion. Edit: Forgot to mention how funny is seeing Riki out of all people so willingly to jump back into a van to go on a field trip after enduring not one but two traumatizing car accidents. The other ones don't seem to mind it so much either. |
InfatuateMay 23, 2016 11:52 AM
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| Made it to happiness! I wished for a bit more from the series, but was fun to watch in any case. |
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| Okay, I'm super glad everyone survived and happy they have a safe trip in that white van. But one big question is still going on in my head, were all those sad back stories , real? Because everything was trial and error for Riki and Rin to mature. They might have been real but I felt like all of the new girls added to the little busters developed their friendship with them inside the world and in the real world never knew them at all. If they were real, I feel like the little busters may not have had been together at the time to solve it in real life. |
| 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. |
EylandosJan 10, 2017 8:36 PM
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| There's one kind of ending that turns me off the most, and it's this "the supposedly dead character(s) were alive for unexplained reason because we need a happy ending". It feels like the show just slaps me in the head and then goes "it's a joke lol". What's the point of the "feels", I mean, the entire message of LB, if NO ONE died? The show beat me over the head times and times and times again with the "good moment won't last forever", and the ending outright betrays that whole concept. Don't even let me touch on how unconvincing it was that apparently no one, except Kyousuke, was even heavily injured in the crash. If the characters need to die to convey the story, then let them die. If you can't have a happy ending, then just forget about it. Don't ruin the story just to make everyone happy. |
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| Convenient how everyone survived but overall I'm happy with this ending. The little field trip had me grinning. |
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| Such a great way to end this very good anime. This season already started a bit better than the previous one, but with the twist in the late second half this became quite magical. I was impressed that there was more to some characters than just their one trait and the OSTs were fantastic, they really reinforced the emotional impact this show had. I'm also completely satisfied with the happy end we got and the beach excursion along with the first opening was a worthy way to conclude this final. 8/10 |
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Eylandos said: 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. 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. |
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DragonsWhip said: ust 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. You are on the money. Great first half, nice set of characters and the plot was intriguing but instead of having characters deal with their problems, they pull that nonsense. Been a while since I watched it, might check it out again. |
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| ... now this is closer to my preference than clannad and its creepy nagisa eyes and yet i cant give them different grades..... wait i just realized i did |
| Sonic X is basically an isekai |
| Huh, so they went for the happy ending in the end and everyone survived. Didn't expect that, I thought they would go full drama. Overall too much drama and not enough comedy in comparison to season 1, didn't enjoy it as much. 5/10 |
| Damn, that was good! I had a friend in college that I looked up to like Riki did to Kyousuke, and he watched over and cared for me in much of the same way. Good memories. I'm happy everyone made it out, was expecting more of a rewind-time or some other supernatural kind of thing, but I'm glad it happened they way it did, felt more satisfying! 10 out of 10, would watch again!...no Rin and Riki kiss or even hand holding at the end, just a close up (heh), hmph! I nitpick xp |
| "The will to live is stronger than anything else" |
| 9/10 so glad I finally dug season 1 out of my dropped list for a second try. I haven't played the VN but I could tell it was pretty rushed at times otherwise I would have given it a 10 right up there with Clannad. Maybe someday they'll do a remake and tell a more complete story, wouldn't that be nice? |
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| I agree with pretty much everything Eylandos said. There is so much bs with the bus scene and I laughed pretty hard at the comedy of the whole situation. - No one got impaled by flying glass? We clearly see shattered windows, where does the glass go? - The injuries don't make sense (see: blood trails mentioned by Eylandos) - Suddenly pan the camera away as the bus explodes with the three of them nearby. Sure lol wanna explain? - Kyousuke not bleeding to death is a miracle. And I wanna know how much blood he lost during the whole scene. - I love how willingly the cast is to go on another trip when they just survived one ~3 months ago. No PTSD anyone? w/e just read Eylandos' post |
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| No, welcome back Kurugaya ... Rip no Kurugaya bikini, happy end |
| Well ... Finally finished this series. Although this might work as a game/visual novel, it didn't worked as an anime ... Didn't liked the characters overall, neither the repetitive use of the songs, unnecessary drama and moments, and tons of non-sense here and there. I had some hopes for this. Sadly, it didn't turn out to be half of them. It's a 3/10 for me |
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| It's 6am - and thank GOD I stayed up to watch the last episode, or I would have been depressed all day at work tomorrow.. err... today.. and honestly kind of angry too. If this show had ended an episode or two ago, it would have been unacceptable, but I'm not so sure how I feel about literally everyone surviving either... it seems like kind of a cop out. Not that I wanted them to die, as I love the characters, but I dunno, for the buildup that seemed a little too easy, though I guess without Riki and Rin "growing up" they wouldn't have been able to save everyone. Also it's a little sad that, Kyosuke driving at the end there, was nerve wracking cuz I half expect Key anime to do something like have a car smoke them as they pull onto the road. After that bus, who can blame me? Even more because the end is a little hard to believe, so much that it feels incomplete. I actually did sorta expect something else to happen. I'm not opposed to happy endings, just ...would prefer they be a little more well thought out... Overall, I enjoyed the series, it was a good light-hearted watch.. until it wasn't at least. But this ending is a little TOO light-hearted. |
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| After watching S1, I felt a lil bit disappointed, specially bc Mio arc looked so half-assed. Kud background and arc weren't bad at all but the way she freed herself and the easy escape were so cheap that ruined the whole arc. Then we have the god-like Yuiko, who in most cases she would be my best girl but here she is so perfect that there's no way to love her. And then I watched S2, with a heartwarming start and then getting darker as shit unfolded as I realized about the secret of the world. So, I rly have a good time watching S2 and realized that even S1 having those flaws, it shouldn't be ranked without considering S2. I should say, I expected a lil bit moar of romance, not just from Riki... maybe the other guys/girls could get some match... what about a crazy Masato and Kud ship? |
KarlmeisterApr 6, 2021 6:37 PM
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| Do you believe in miracles? _ Yes I do, Because their Team name is "Little busters"  |
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| UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO although it isnt as good as the VN still hit me hard |
| Hmmm okay, well that was sure wholesome but it's a bit disappointing that they chose a happy ending (or maybe could it be that they died in the explosion and the end we see here is something that they just dreamed?) anyway this season was better than the previous one thanks to the plot, it was a bit too "supernatural/magic" for how things got cleared etc but I still liked it, not impressive like some other key works though. 7/10 |
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| Actually a pretty good finale in my eyes. I love the happy ending with everyone together and the usage of the first opening is always nice. despite the fact that I said some negative things in past episodes of refrain, I think I'll give it a surprisingly high 7/10 for now. Good stuff |
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| After thinking about what they've been through and all the fun times that they've had they decided to save everyone which I didn't expect I thought this was the depression episode as a finale but damn I didn't think of them saving everyone on the bus It is a miracle saving everyone on the bus so that's a secret achievement that Riki did and I'm glad everyone survived the accident and everyone had fun as they always did. This season was a bit of the saddest one in the series compared to the previous season some parts were a bit bland as they were close to explaining how their world works but the ending was good to be on its own that everyone survived in that time. |
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| An unrealistic, yet adorable ending. |
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