Visual Novel Little Busters Ex Episode
Little Busters! Is a romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Riki Naoe. A series of eight OVA episodes titled Little Busters!
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The only complete working patch as of now is for the regular version of Little Busters!, there is a partial/incomplete patch for the EX and ME editions, though they have some issues here and there and most of the new content is untranslated. And by the looks of it may take while for them to finish it. You are probably in the same situation as me, I don't really care H-scenes but I want any additional content that is available besides that. There probably is some additional content besides the H-scenes and the new heroine routes, but I don't know how much of it.
But it certainly is not tied into the main story nor necessary for you to enjoy the game. If you want my advice you should just play the regular version, as it is one of my personal favorites VNs, besides the release of the final patch for the EX/ME versions will probably take a lot of time, more than a few months perhaps. H-scenes for all heroines, but in the present version of the english patch, all extra content in normal routes (including a TON of exposition on Kud's route) is dummied out (to make it consistent with the normal game, since TL work on EX stuff hadn't started yet). IMHO, as with all Key games with H, H-scenes are. Not great for the tone.
Saya route is awesome, Futaki route is quite good (very flashback heavy), I haven't run though Sasami route because I got tired and had a hard drive failure, but I hear it's a good story, albeit not really one in which Riki participates.
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You have to take a look at all the anime they've been in charge of. Yes, they have produced some good ones, but they've also produced some mediocre ones. The quality of their anime tends to vary just like with several other companies. It just so happens that the quality of this one happened to be poor. They have a habit of making adaptations that do not capture the feel of the original work such as by changing the story and leaving out several key and important points and moments that are really important to the original story. That's not to say the anime produced are bad, some turn out to be quite good and well-liked but that they could have been better if there was less focus on just including things like fanservice for the hell of it and just focusing more on the story.
Like zero no tsukaima. The first season they did was closer to the source even if they did change a few things out. They pushed ecchi and fanservice over everything else and it really suffered. The original story was darker and more involved than what JC decided to give to people and completely changed the feel.
Toradora however they did a good job with overall. They still cut massive amounts of material from the LNs but they did it enough that scenes didn't jump around and they did well with what they had.
A lot of story and stuff was lost in the end. To be fair the reason for the changes in Little Busters make sense. They decided to cover all of the character routes, which would have meant Riki romancing all of the girls throughout the course of the anime. Since this would have meant he would come across as a cheating asshole, so they removed the romance.
Since Rin's route and refrain are both in the next season it left the first season feeling mediocre. While Little Busters! Was not amazing, I was actually pleased with the choices they made in adaptation, and an extremely excited for Refrain. The biggest issues are because it was JC staff and not kyoani. JC staff does a lot of adaptations, although usually they're fairly poor.
The most important issue however is the source visual novel of it. Kyoani did a great job with adapting clannad and kanon. JC did a near butcher job of little busters, which was an amazing VN. It is very disappointing in comparison to the VN and without having read the VN first I'd have very little idea what was going on. JC took strong and powerful scenes, cut them down to fit and tried to include so much that everything has little if any impact. I understand it may be harder for them to turn actual routes into some kinda happy go lucky common but overall it didn't really work.
My advice is for the love of god don't watch the anime before reading the VN. You are ruining an amazing and emotional story by squandering 50 hours worth of material that was cut down to 8. Jun Maeda, the guy who wrote clannad, kanon, air and angel beats considers little busters to be his masterpiece. If you have any kind of interest in little busters take the time to read the VN, you will thank yourself in the end. Especially if you don't spoil yourself on the terrible cliff notes anime version. Little busters refrain is confirmed for anime(the true route aka clannad after story). Considering how underwhelming the common and character routes were I expect them to botch most of the emotional impact it will have.
The issue is that to get the full impact of refrain you need to have all of the individual routes. They had to cut out the romanace so as to not make Riki look like a dick for going after all the girls. They cut other material to make it so they could get to refrain with only 2 seasons. The only way I could see to do this better would have been to do a season for common route. Another season going through each of the individual routes in full detail with Romance, but making it clear they were not a single continuity, and then a third season For Refrain.
However this would have made the first season even more mediocre than the current one, and would have made it a lot longer before they could get to Refrain, which is the important part. I'm thinking that they're going to spend maybe 1/4 of the 'Refrain' season finishing up the routes (Kurugaya and Rin's), heck maybe even 1/3.
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Refrain is definitely large and can be a tad confusing if you don't pay attention to the text. I think for dramatic VNs like what Key specializes in, it sadly falls under the 'x amount of seasons is too little, but x+1 seasons feels like it'd be too much' thing given how large these novels are and what should and shouldn't be included in the adaptation.
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Also, perhaps the reasoning behind not including much in the sense of romance, and the time-resets for a larger part, is to give a much more-linear plot for people who haven't read the VN. There are people who get scared away by stuff like that because it can be confusing when it happens. Clannad did a few OVAs pertaining to 'what-ifs' as in it went to other arcs (Romance being included) instead of following the one it did in the anime. VN players got exactly what they wanted- a faithful adaptation. We didn't get what we wanted.
We did get a decently fact-faithful adaptation in that it hit important story points, but the quality of the anime on all levels was not what we wanted nor what Little Busters deserved. Don't misunderstand; the Little Busters anime didn't cater to visual novel players either since it didn't do Little Busters justice. Well, that's just my opinion.
If you were good, then body language, tone of voice, and appropriate music should be more than enough to convey emotions that carry weight. While it's good to have subtlety and not have to explain everything, this isn't right all the time. For example, the Sword Art Online anime had a ton of body language meant to convey the inner feelings of Kirito and some of Asuna. Instead, the body language was too subtle and could either be seen as trivial at first glance or not properly convey the scale of the inner conflict the characters were facing.
Kirito's sense of responsibility, guilt, and self-blame for being a beater in the light novel was downplayed quite a bit, even if it was mentioned directly. In the case of the Little Busters anime, however, I do not doubt that there was too much tell. This is a very poor explanation of the adaptation of Little Busters! As I explained in another response on my thread, in order to not make Riki a jackass and cover all the routes they had to cut out the romance.
This makes sense and is unavoidable, but is regrettable because it creates several of the problems you listed. Riki's development is a lot more flat. As far as the voicing, it was exactly the same as the VN, which was also excellent, stop hating on Komari (Well Riki's voice was different from the VN, but he hardly talked in the VN so that is understandable).
As far as something that will make Angel Beats and Clannad fans cry, just wait for Refrain, you will not be disappointed. Yes I agree the first season was mediocre, but they did it correctly to set up for Refrain, which is what is most important. LB is my favorite series of all time, but it didn't get the proper adaptation it deserved. JC Staff's script was great for the most part, but the animation and directing is more than 5 years behind, and people simply aren't drawn in to the characters that come off as artificial and choppy in the anime. The VN was great, and if you read the VN and then watch the anime you'll probably enjoy it, but as a standalone series it's pretty irritating to me, because I feel like the VN story was excellent.
If they get a better animation budget, the ratings for the entire series could go up, but so many people are completely unaffected by JC Staff's adaptation, even though storywise, they're easily comparable to those in Clannad, but the overall feel of Clannad was much more natural and relatable to more people. I still feel like JC Staff is doing a good job with the secret of the world stuff, and as a VN player, I appreciate them doing every route and adding a lot of detail to the script, while Clannad compltely butchered routes and details on the light orbs. As a VN player it doesn't really matter, because I feel like KyoAni would drop the ball in terms of story development and the Secret of the World development, but in overall appeal, it would've been much higher. With the amount of episodes they had, JC did a fine job of capturing the story, but they didn't present the feel of the comedy and drama in a way a wider audience can enjoy, primarily from lack of effective animation. Frankly, I think the script is near perfect, and has at LEAST 30 hints and foreshadowing on the Secret of the World, many of which are well executed and original to the story, without detracting from the canon story of Little Busters, and I doubt KyoAni's writers would have had as much detail regarding the upcoming Key magic, but the animation is holding this back more than anything. KyoAni can take a pretty generic and unpopular story like the Chuunibyou LNs and turn it into something widely appealing to watch through their creative touch, although the core story seems melodramatic and at best a decently written story, without the animation aiding it.
I mean, there's no doubt KyoAni would've done a better job because of their past experience and higher budget, but all things considered JCStaff did a decent job adapting it into 26 episodes. I can't comment on how enjoyable it is as a standalone series, but when you look at Clannad, the first season wasn't exactly the most exciting piece of work either and we all know how that turned out.
Since Refrain is the crux of LB, it'll be easier to consider the project a failure if they end up wrecking it. A few reasons. The general hate on JC Staff and it's adaptions, probably brought on a lot of hate, without actually checking it out. Another reason is, it's so far, not that strong of an adaptation. This could change with Refrain, but who knows.
I myself loved the Little Busters anime, seeing all my favourite characters brought to life in animation. But I can agree that the Visual Novel was indeed better.
However, that doesn't affect how much I enjoyed it. And that was the messy train of thoughts by Drayndarkness.