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“What adolescence do you have ?”

“Do you remember childhood ?”

“The irreplaceable one existed there.”

“This will remind you to recollect adolescence.”

– Little Busters! Ecstasy; 2008 Visual Art’s/KEY-

Little Busters!（リトルバスタ図！） is a non-hentai visual novel developed by Visual Art’s/KEY, published in 2007. A year later, the “ecstasy ” version of the series was made as a “fanservice“, as well as introducing a new character, and two more main heroines that were originally playing as supporting roles.

Little Busters! recites a story of five childhood friends who are known as the member of Little Busters!. There’s a lot of comedy and fun stuff in their exciting, enjoying everyday high-school life. Friendship and romance become the main theme of the story, with a little bit of supernatural and psychological things as well. Eventhough it is an all-ages visual novel, there’re some scenes that lead to ecchi. ( Ecchi is a japanese term to define things that provoke perverted actions or scenes, different from hentai, ecchi doesn’t involve any sexual scene. )

Theme : Romance, Supernatural, Ecchi, Harem

Setting and themes

Story

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. A group of three young boys and one girl his age saved him who referred to themselves as the Little Busters, a group dedicated to fighting evil and preserving justice.^[9] 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 rivals despite being friends. 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.^[9] 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.

CHARACTER’S BACKGROUND

Original Members

Riki Naoe (直枝 理樹, Naoe Riki^?)

• Voiced by: Tomoe Tamiyasu

• 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.

• [SPOILER] The world Little Busters! takes place in is actually an artificial one made for Riki and Rin so that they may grow stronger; in the real world, most of the characters were in a bus accident and only Riki and Rin survived.

Rin Natsume (棗 鈴, Natsume Rin^?) <Left> and Kamikita Komari

• Voiced by: Tomoe Tamiyasu
• 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. Rin loves cats and at school takes care of several strays; it is not uncommon for several cats to crawl onto her.
• [SPOILER] Rin’s name means “bell”, and she wears a bell in her hair. She is one of the two survivors of the bus accident.

Kyousuke Natsume (棗 恭介, Natsume Kyōsuke^?)

• Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (high school), Yū Kamonomiya (grade school)
• 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 lolita complex, though he denies it. He also 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.

Masato Inohara (井ノ原 真人, Inohara Masato^?)

• Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna
• 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 (high school), Yū Kamonomiya (grade school)
• 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.

Additional members

Komari Kamikita (神北 小毬, Kamikita Komari^?)

• Voiced by: Natsumi Yanase
• Komari is very childish, taking great interest in fairy-tales, picture books, candy, and clothing with many layers of frills. She is very clumsy, and will often not think before she acts. She does well in her studies and is also surprisingly athletic, though this is somewhat hampered by the fact that she is quite weak and has never done any sport properly before.
• [SPOILER] “She does well in her studies and is also surprisingly athletic, though this is somewhat hampered by the fact that she is quite weak and has never done any sport properly before.” – This personality hides a past where she was traumatized by the death of her brother. She had blocked out her brother’s death from her mind, but remembers it after seeing a dead cat and goes crazy, thinking that Riki is her brother. In Refrain, after Rin remembers everything in her final dream, she rushes to Komari, who gives Rin her hair ornament, before disappearing, telling her to be strong.

Haruka Saigusa (三枝 葉留佳, Saigusa Haruka^?)

• Voiced by: Keiko Suzuki
• Haruka is a schoolmate of Riki’s from a different class, but despite this, always seems to find time to hang around in Riki’s classroom. She is a problem child and will start an uproar for her own personal enjoyment, which causes her twin sister, the public morals chairman Kanata Futaki, to often chase after her. She use marbles as a weapon to distract the public morals committee from chasing her, and when Riki is with her, she will drag Riki away, explaining that being captured by the public morals committee means big trouble for her.
• [SPOILER] The truth is, she was abused by her family (not her parents, who were kept away from her and Kanata), while Kanata was seemingly treated very well, though truthfully she was not. She thus starts trouble to bother her sister and shame her family name. She works part-time in the school’s cafeteria to get permission to use the oven to bake muffins and cakes.

Kudryavka Noumi (能美 クドリャフカ, Nōmi Kudoryafuka^?)

• Voiced by: Miyako Suzuta
• Kudryavka, also known as “Kud” (クド, Kudo^?) for short, is a girl who is a quarter Japanese, and three-quarters Russian. Her full Russian name is Kudryavka Anatolyevna Strugatskaya.^[2] Her grandmother is Japanese. Her grandfather was crazy about Japanese culture and per his influence on her, she came to know much about Japanese culture too, including the language. Despite having a poor handle on the English language, she was able to skip a year in school due to credits obtained through studying abroad. She is Riki’s classmate and is in the newly-formed home economics club due to an invitation of the head of the dormitory she lives at with the other characters. Her favorite phrase is wahoo! (わふー, wafū^?), much like Ayu Tsukimiya‘s ugū from Kanon, and Misuzu Kamio’s gao from Air.
• [SPOILER] For the two endings, she can either choose not to return to her home country and become overwhelmed with guilt and regret when she sees her mother’s public execution on television, which results in her bad ending; or, for the good ending, she chooses to return but gets captured by rebels in her home country (which is in a state of civil war), eventually escaping prison and returning to Japan due to her strong love for Riki.

Yuiko Kurugaya (来ヶ谷 唯湖, Kurugaya Yuiko^?)

• Voiced by: Ryōko Tanaka
• Yuiko is Riki’s classmate who has a self-sufficient personality. She is sometimes seen carrying a replica of a katana called Muramasa. She is seen as an older sister to everyone despite being the same age of almost the entire cast, and is referred to as Anego (姉御^?, “elder sister”) by Haruka. She is fond of things or people she considers to be cute, such as several of the female cast of characters, especially Rin and Komari in particular.^[6] She is also seen as the most invincible member of the Little Busters, having defeated Masato, Kengo and Kyousuke, which traumatizes them. Rin is also afraid of her since Yuiko is the only one who can contain and play around with her, much to Rin’s dismay.
• [SPOILER] Yuiko gets high grades in school, especially in math, and is hated by her first year math teacher and several female students, who plan on bullying the Little Busters by first affixing nails and chewing gum to Riki’s shoes. She was born outside of Japan, but is still entirely Japanese.

Mio Nishizono (西園 美魚, Nishizono Mio^?)

• Voiced by: Shiho Kawaragi
• Mio is a calm girl who is very diligent. Due to having weak health, she is always seen with a parasol when outside. She enjoys reading, especially when the story contains boys love elements, and her room is filled with books. She carries around a book of poems by Bokusui Wakayama.
• [SPOILER] In the real world, she was feeling guilty over having forgotten an imaginary friend she used to have, who comes to life in the artificial world as Midori. She uses the parasol because she is trying to hide that she has no shadow; this is due to Midori using Mio’s shadow to materialize her own body.

Additional heroines in Ecstasy

*WARNING! From here on all materials contains spoiler…

Kanata Futaki (二木 佳奈多, Futaki Kanata^?)

Voiced by: Keiko Suzuki

Kanata is a girl at Riki’s school and is the public morals chairman, which means when Haruka causes trouble, Kanata must run after her. To help Kanata, Kudryavka offered up her two dogs Strelka and Belka to patrol the school grounds and help in hunting down Haruka when she causes trouble. Kanata is Haruka’s twin sister, though this is only revealed later. She acts extremely cold to Haruka, although it is later revealed she is forced to treat Haruka coldly by her father, and actually made efforts to release Haruka from him. Kanata is annoyed at Riki’s close approach to her sister and often tells Riki to stay away from Haruka, wondering why someone normal like Riki would want to approach her twin. Since the only real difference between Haruka and Kanata is their eye color, Kanata uses this to her advantage when she impersonates her sister with colored contacts. Kanata cooks well, while Haruka does not, and this is one of the few ways to identify her when she is impersonating Haruka.

Sasami Sasasegawa (笹瀬川 佐々美, Sasasegawa Sasami^?)

Voiced by: Tomoe Tamiyasu

Sasami is a girl at Riki’s school and is Rin’s rival; surprisingly, while Rin loves cats, Sasami is a devoted dog lover. Due to this, she will often get in a fight with Rin, though since she is the captain of the girl’s softball team, she will send in three new team members first before she goes in herself; the three girls’ names are: Yukari Nakamura (中村 由香里, Nakamura Yukari^?), Rei Kawagoe (川越　令, Kawagoe Rei^?), and Sakiko Watanabe (渡辺　咲子, Watanabe Sakiko^?).^[8] Her name is thought to be a tongue twister, which even she manages to mix up. She has a romantic interest in Kengo Miyazawa, but Kengo has no interest in returning her favor. If the player goes for a second play through after the baseball match, the player can see the event when Sasami helps take a group photo for the Little Busters, a photo which helps Rin in regaining her memories in her final dream; this event only happens once. The reason for her avoiding cats is due to the disappearance of her own cat Kuro during her childhood. In Sasami’s route, which happens after the events in Refrain, Sasami’s cat Kuro created a world similar to the Little Busters! world around the school in order to meet Sasami one last time before dying.

Saya Tokido (朱鷺戸 沙耶, Tokido Saya^?)

Voiced by: Kazane

Saya is a new heroine who only appears in Little Busters! Ecstasy. In the daytime, she is a popular girl in her class at Riki’s school due to her attractive face and figure, though is known to be a natural airhead. However, at night, she can be found at the school wandering around in order to protect a “treasure” from those she calls the “darkness executives” (闇の執行部, yami no shikkōbu^?), and even has to fight them for it.

Saya’s true identity is Aya, a normal girl with a father as a doctor who volunteered in various countries that are not well-off. Since they had to move frequently, she did not have enough time for any deep relationships with others or school. During her childhood, she briefly befriended Riki during her brief stay in Japan, playing soccer with each other. One day, when Saya and her father were about to return to Japan and end their traveling, Aya became involved in an accident due to a flood. She was on the verge of death when she, by chance, noticed the artificial world Kyousuke has created and decided to enter it. Inside, she materialized as Saya Tokido, a character from Kyousuke’s favorite manga, which incidentally happened to be her favorite as well, given to her by a Japanese tourist. Due to this, Kyousuke originally thought she was created due to his hidden desire, and intended to leave her alone, but after seeing her interacting with Riki, he realizes that she is actually an “interloper” to his world and tries to make her leave, since her existence causes Riki to stray away from the others because he had been threatened by the “darkness executives” with Rin’s life. This is implied during the “replay” portion of her route where all the traps that used to be merely a prank in the labyrinth and shooting mini-game actually turn lethal, and significant changes to the maze are made to hinder Saya. Also, the head of the “darkness executives” (who is actually Kyousuke) tells Saya at the beginning (and each subsequent replay) that she will be better off if she shot herself in the head.

Secondary characters

Miyuki Koshiki (古式 みゆき, Koshiki Miyuki^?)

Voiced by: Yū Kamonomiya

Miyuki is a girl in the archery club who lost her right eye due to an archery accident. Her family is known for being skilled in archery. Due to being in a similar situation of Kengo, she worries about him. She committed suicide in the real world, unlike the artificial world where Kengo saves her from this act. Kyousuke creates an illusion of her to distract Kengo during a baseball game set by Kengo to thwart Kyousuke’s plan, as it is too harsh for Riki and Rin. This angers Kengo to the point where he charges and attacks Kyousuke.

Midori (美鳥^?)

Voiced by: Yumi Arai

Midori is Mio’s forgotten imaginary sister who comes to life in the artificial world and takes Mio’s place. Her personality is the direct opposite of Mio. She materializes due to taking Mio’s shadow, so she herself has no shadow, but she does not hide it, unlike Mio.

Kojirō Kamikita (神北 小次郎, Kamikita Kojirō^?)

Voiced by: Roaki Moriko

Kojirō is an old man in a nursing home Komari and Riki volunteer at. He has trouble keeping his room clean. He is Komari’s grandfather, although this is revealed later as he refused to tell Riki about his relationship with Komari. He is actually escaping from Komari, after she becomes insane for the first time and treats him like her dead brother.