Anime Discussion Thread - Page 1546

a guy cross dressing as a guy but is actually a trap so he's a girl unless it's the world line where he's a girl in which case he would just be dressing as a girl and not a trap. Yes, I approve.

I think my earlier questions were answered. The dark forest Kyousuke wanders through in episode is actually the scene of the accident, where he slowly crawls to the fuel outlet to plug it. His ability to make Masato hallucinate and present the archer girl in Kengo's vision on the night of the match I assume stems from the fact that he's one of the people who created and support the closed world.

I assume the sub-heroine routes are intended as previous iterations of the closed world. I suppose I still have some questions regarding the sub-heroines. Were they friends with the original 5 Little Busters before the accident? Were they party to the creation of the closed world (I'm guessing yes)? How does Riki teleport the item to Kud in Kud route? What does Kurugaya mean by "this is a world where wishes are granted"?

Is it bad that as soon as it started alluding to memories of past iterations, I was reminded of Steins;Gate?

Hm actually those are mostly ancillary.

Riki and Rin returned to the real world after parting with their friends on the baseball grounds and rooftop. They subsequently fled the bus and Riki fell to narcolepsy, later waking up in a hospital bed with Rin sitting in the corner nearby. How do they proceed from this supposedly real world state back to the scene of their first awakening at the bus crash? I assume that this real world does in fact have, as Kurugaya put it, the power to grant wishes (though how does that statement, made in the closed world, relate to such power and Kurugaya's knowledge of it in the real world? I guess I still need to Kurugaya 2). Probably that same power was used to create the closed world.

Let's see, I'm not sure what you meant by Masato's hallucination (unless you mean his arc in refrain?), but

let's backtrack a bit out of order. The Little Busters are whom you know. Kyousuke, Masato, Kengo, Rin, Riki. Just the five of them. Riki and Rin were in particular extremely "weak" and very clingy, and so they were aloof and apathetic with regards to the rest of their class. The five girls were all classmates, that Riki and Rin simply did not know about because they never cared. When the accident happened, the eight of them realized that they were probably too hurt to be saved, and agreed with Kyousuke in attempting to create a world to nurture the two, so that they wouldn't "break" when faced with a world without the Little Busters. Without this, you'd simply see Rin1.

Each iteration is literally an iteration. All eight have the power to mold the world as they wish. This is why I consider Masato one of the most astonishingly mature and powerful characters ever, in any medium. He acts stupid and jokes around a lot, but he does it knowing the situation, and he does the same thing ever single iteration, without fail. See, if you noticed, after every route, Rin and Riki's stats in baseball rise - this is a hint as to their "growth." And after every route, you see random new events pop up, because the character get bored of same the same lines/doing the same things over and over again. They do this iteration because Rin and Riki have so many years of being "the children hiding behind their parents' back" to make up, and with every iteration they become "stronger" and more willing to "leave the Little Busters" and go meet other people, to walk their own lives.

To that end it has nothing to do with the S;G type of setting

As for Kengo's hallucination, she was a girl Kengo had a crush on, but she committed suicide after ruining her eye. And it's a matter of eternal regret for Kengo, as he was too tsundere to help her out. It's a key event in every iteration, and especially after the first iteration that you actually encounter "she's jumping off" event, he begins losing a screw in his head. Kyousuke wanted to try to rehab this weakness of his as well, but it never really worked. To that end in the baseball game, when he whips out the image of her.............. yeah.

CHABAN DA! KYOUSUKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And yes, that power was used to create the world. To an extent it's a very key-like thing to do, as they do it in Clannad as well. Just take it as it is, as like the final punctuation to Riki's growth (overcoming his own anxiety and weakness - his anxiety is a big trigger to the narcolepsy that would otherwise kill his classmates).

<3 Masato. His farewell scene was soooooooooo T_T