Little Busters! (リトルバスターズ! Ritoru Basutāzu!?) is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key. It was released on July 27, 2007 for Windows PCs and is rated for all ages.
Little Busters! is Key's sixth game, along with other titles such as
Kanon,
Air, and
Clannad.
The story follows the life of Riki Naoe, a high school student who has
been a member of a group of friends named the Little Busters since
childhood. Riki brings multiple girls at his school into the Little
Busters to have enough people to play a baseball game.
There have been 13 manga adaptations based on
Little Busters! and
Ecstasy published by ASCII Media Works, Kadokawa Shoten and Ichijinsha. Comic anthologies, light novels and art books were also published, as were several music albums. There have been two Internet radio shows hosted by the voice actors of Rin and Kyousuke Natsume and Kudryavka Noumi. A 26-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Yoshiki Yamakawa, aired between October 2012 and April 2013, and an additional original video animation (OVA) episode was released in August 2013. A 13-episode second season produced by the same staff titled
Little Busters! Refrain aired between October and December 2013. An eight-episode OVA series titled
Little Busters! EX was released between January and July 2014.
Plot
The main part of the story takes place at a high school in Japan. There
is a "secret of this world" that Kyousuke speaks of; Kengo and Masato
are also aware of this.The characters live in either the male or female dormitories
on the school grounds which are across to each other. Beside the dorms
is the main school building where classes take place, which also houses
the cafeteria
on the ground floor. The school is four stories and the roof is
normally restricted from access. Beyond the main school building is the
large schoolyard, with the pool area adjacent to the yard. On the other
side of the field is the baseball field, with the gymnasium and tennis court beyond it, which are closer to the main school building.
Little Busters!' story revolves around the main protagonist
Riki Naoe, a young male high school student. When Riki was a child, his
parents died, leaving him hopeless and depressed. He was saved by a
group—three boys and a girl, all his age—who referred to themselves as
the Little Busters, a group dedicated to fighting evil and preserving
justice.
The leader of the group was Kyousuke Natsume who had a younger sister
named Rin. The other two members were Masato Inohara and Kengo Miyazawa,
who were friends despite being rivals.
They took Riki out and played together with him during his time of
need, making him the fifth Little Busters member. In time, Riki enjoyed
playing with them, and his grief over his parents gradually faded away.
When the story begins, Riki and his friends are seemingly in their
second year of high school, except for Kyousuke who is in his third
year. They still hang out together, and enjoy their school life.
The story opens on Sunday May 13, 2007, and the next day at school,
Kyousuke decides that the Little Busters are going to play a baseball
game, except they do not have enough members to have a complete team.
Kyousuke gives Riki and Rin the task of going around school to find more
members to join, preferably girls so as not to leave Rin the lone girl.
Riki finds five girls his age willing to help him out: Komari Kamikita,
Haruka Saigusa, Kudryavka Noumi, Yuiko Kurugaya, and Mio Nishizono;
three other girls Riki meets are Kanata Futaki, Sasami Sasasegawa, and
Saya Tokido. Throughout the story, Riki hangs out with these girls and
learns more about them.
Original members of Little busters
- Riki Naoe (直枝 理樹 Naoe Riki)
- Voiced by: Tomoe Tamiyasu (game), Yui Horie(anime) (Japanese), Shannon Emerick (English)
- Riki is the male protagonist of Little Busters! and is the
role the player assumes in the game. He is the fifth member of the
Little Busters, and of them, he is seen as the weakest due to his
girlish appearance and physical build, but he is the only one that is
straightforward and has common sense among them. His parents died when
he was very young, and around the same time he was diagnosed with narcolepsy.
- Rin Natsume (棗 鈴 Natsume Rin)
- Voiced by: Tomoe Tamiyasu (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
- Rin is the main heroine in the story. She is the younger sister of
Kyousuke Natsume and is the only female member out of the five original
members of the Little Busters. She does not communicate well and is seen
as inarticulate. Due to this, she is anti-social, and is usually seen
alone. When playing baseball with the others, Rin is an ace pitcher,
although she used to be quite a bad pitcher—her throws would go in
completely unpredictable directions—until she gets into a baseball
stand-off between Sasami, where she demonstrates two "super-power"
pitches, where one of them is a fastball and the other one is her own
version of a changeup.
Rin loves cats and at school takes care of several strays; it is not
uncommon for several cats to crawl onto her. One such extremely overweight cat she named "Dorj" (ドルジ Doruji?); other, much smaller, cats she has named "Hitler" (ヒットラー Hittorā?), "Fabre" (ファーブル Fāburu?), "Tezuka" (テヅカ Tezuka?), and "Isoroku" (五十六 Isoroku?). Rin often has a white kitten named "Lennon" (レノン Renon?) with her which rides either on her head or shoulder. Rin's name means "bell", and she wears a bell in her hair.
- Kyousuke Natsume (棗 恭介 Natsume Kyōsuke)
- Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Blake Shepard (English), Yū Kamonomiya (young)
- Kyousuke is the leader of the Little Busters, and is one year older
than the other four members. He often comes up with absurd ideas, but
almost always he follows up with a reasonable explanation along with it.
He suffers from a brother-sister complex, as he wants his sister Rin to
call him onii-chan (meaning brother in an affectionate way), but
Rin does not want to, preferring to call him by his name. In truth,
Kyousuke had planned that Komari, Haruka, Kudryavka, Yuiko, and Mio
would eventually join the Little Busters.
- Masato Inohara (井ノ原 真人 Inohara Masato)
- Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
- Masato is a member of the Little Busters, and is Riki's roommate. He
has a particular fondness for Riki, which he is more than willing to
express out aloud. He loves to work out and improve his muscle mass. His
rival is Kengo Miyazawa, fellow member of the Little Busters.
- Kengo Miyazawa (宮沢 謙吾 Miyazawa Kengo)
- Voiced by: Yūsei Oda (Japanese), Leraldo Anzaldua (English), Yū Kamonomiya (young: game, anime season 1), Megumi Han (young: anime season 2)
- Kengo is a member of the Little Busters. He is skilled in the art of kendo
and seemingly has a cynical personality, but his passion for the Little
Busters is unmatched by anyone. Kengo is recruited after Masato,
Kyousuke and Rin defeat his father, making him the fourth member of
Little Busters. Kengo gets into a disagreement with Kyousuke's method of
strengthening Riki and Rin, which eventually proves to be too tough for
Rin
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