And the Little Busters, and chiefly Kyousuke, saved him from that. I will say, though, that we soon learn that our protagonist Riki Nagoe, from whose viewpoint we experience the visual novel and whose important choices will determine in its course, was left an orphan at a very young age and fell into utter despair, into a world with no color or meaning. Which are, and who is affected, are questions that I will set aside for now. It has many forms, many causes, and marks various characters.
There is also deep suffering beneath the surface of the bright school world of Little Busters and its cheerful video game music.
And I cannot help but feel there was a time in which my life was not this wild Dostoevsky crossover. I am blessed with loving family and friends, spiritual help, times of rest, things I enjoy, and a clear view of what I think I should do, and the prayers of many brothers and sisters in the faith. To be sincere to this community, I´m suffering, more so than at any other time I remember, for various reasons-some expected, some unexpected. I will make a parallel between my experience and that of Riki, leaving Kyousuke for another article.
Well, today I happen to be feeling pretty much like both Riki and Kyousuke, so maybe it´s a good day to dive in the world of Little Busters, for now with minor spoilers.
LITTLE BUSTERS RIN POUT FULL
Like Kaze did, I strongly encourage you to skip the anime and experience it the “hard way,” going through the seven routes and the 50+ hours of narrative, and thus receiving the full impact of the Refrain route, the final one, until the schoolyard, the dorms, the classrooms, and the school ground feel like places you know, and the characters become old friends. While there are precious few all-ages, well-written, multiple-route VNs, Little Busters may be the finest example out there, and is worth the odyssey of confronting a new medium, reading it to the end, putting up with the less perfect aspects, and letting oneself be touched by it. Anyway, this is a genre with great potential for meta-narrative and transcendence of the elements of the story, forcing reader to reflect about the meaning of their experiences and thus communicating wisdom, sometimes with striking Christian parallels, as Japesland and Kaze brilliantly explained here some years ago with their respective articles on Key´s Rewrite, another great VN. And, as Little Busters is a visual novel, we will return to this first scene in which the exhausted Kyousuke comes back, again and again.ĭ o you often find yourself thinking that human life is just like a multiple-route visual novel (VN)? Visual novels are a popular type of Japanese interactive written work with illustrations and usually a maze-like structure in which important choices act as bifurcations, carrying the story into all sorts of different directions, first and foremost toward different heroines our quite adaptable hero could end up with? No? It may be just me. As the story starts, a ridiculous baseball match is set, featuring girls with colorful personalities, making it clear that during Kyousuke’s last days at school, Riki will, one way or another, live out a lot of typical anime adventures, fall in love, and face dire challenges, some of which may even shatter his world. Then, he comes up with another ridiculous idea, as always, full of fun and wonder. He likes to tease and puzzle others to open them to wonder, to change, which reminds me of my relationship with Christ. He comically falls asleep in the table, and when asked about how he traveled to the city, he quips that he walked walked, in his usual style. And sometimes, they hurt to the point that you barely can, or just cannot, cope with them, and it feels like your world is going to end. Because some things, as big or small as they may seem to others, really do hurt. Soon to graduate, he is looking for a job, and sometimes leaves for an interview here and there.Īmong the rest, the timid Riki Naoe, the youngest member, runs there, joyful, but also secretly afraid because next year, Kyousuke will have gone away what will that mean for the Little Busters, who are his entire world? Things are going to change, and it will hurt. Kyousuke is the idea guy, the visionary leader, the creative force and the acting big brother of a group of five called the Little Busters, known and loved throughout the school. And then, everyone in the school dorm runs to goof around a senior year student.
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