Genres: comedy, drama Themes: absurdity, baseball, cats, friendship, moe, narcolepsy, school life, tragedy Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: Little Busters is an adaptation of Key’s romance adventure visual novel of the same name. Riki Naoe was orphaned when his parents died, but his depression is slowly lifted when he befriends a group of kids calling themselves the Little Busters. The series takes place during his second year of high school. Number of episodes: 26 Vintage: 2012-10-06
Genres: comedy, drama, romance Themes: absurdity, school baseball Objectionable content: Significant Plot Summary: At last, the baseball team of the Little Busters has reuinted, with many new friends among old ones. However, peace for the fun-loving students would not last forever. As Riki Naoe learns the truth behind his narcolepsy and the other mysteries around campus, he realizes that the dream must come to an end, and everything that had stopped starts to move. Number of episodes: 13 Vintage: 2013-10-05
I saw the Clannad movie, hate the series as a result. Wait, Angel Beats was made by Key? Considering why I don’t like Clannad, I wouldn’t have thought of that.
I think for me, the more happy a character, the more I’ll hate the story for having something bad happen to them.
Technically, Angel Beats! didn’t start as a visual novel by Key like the others did, the concept was created by Jun Maeda and turned it into a mixed media collaboration with Key in general.
The anime was also written and song composed by Jun Maeda and character designed by Na-Ga, who both work for Key, so I’ve always just attributed it as a Key work.
Part of it is they’re giving you the highlights of each girls’ game route, if you played it as a game you wouldn’t get all this roller coaster over and over unless you sat and played every possible route in a short time.
