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Going through the anime again just reminds me how crappy it is. =/ I'm up to Kud's route now.
This anime just fails so hard at actually being funny, except for when Ayana Yuniko is writing. Shimada Michiru just freaking sucks at it. Was she even trying?! God damn, they should have made Ayana the head writer, had more of the best parts of the common route in there (Kick the Can, entertaining Kyousuke for example) and generally just have had more of the common route itself.
She replaced some scenes with new ones too, like for example, when Rin's telling the cafeteria lady to remove the croquette soba, Sasami and her minions turn up and they get into a fight. It's not even a particularly funny scene and was probably just put there to remind us Sasami exists. Rin attacking Masato and Kengo, and getting bestowed with the title "Maiden Full Speed", much to her horror, and trying to make it "Cat Full Speed" instead, would have been SO much better, dammit.
Sasami barely even existed. :/ She was in three episodes total of the first season. Kyousuke referring to her as Rin's rival in Episode 20 is laughable. How does getting into a couple fights with Rin make her a rival?
Comedy is supposed to be one of Little Busters's strong points. That they failed so hard at it most of the time is such a tragedy. The anime is so boring sometimes, like they aren't even trying. Episode... 9, right, the cafeteria episode, stank. =/ Why dedicate a whole episode to the cafeteria anyway?
And the sanitation task too. They changed that one, so we didn't get Rin dealing harsh punishments to the boys (Masato stuffing sausages up Kengo's nose would have been pretty hilarious) I guess we did get some interaction between Komari and Rin as an alternative, so it wasn't too bad...
Thinking about all that stuff from the common route that was eschewed in favor of new stuff is kind of sad. And then there's the stuff that we didn't get. Would it really have been so hard to insert more of those little scenes like "Kyousuke-oniisan" or "Riki, I love you" into the episodes? Considering Riki seems to spend an abnormal amount of time staring into the distance and thinking, I think they could have.
How much of the common route was actually animated in the end? Doesn't seem like a lot...
Well, even if Little Busters had got like 100 episodes, I think doing an absolutely perfect adaption would still have been tricky. Showing Riki and Rin's character development without giving away the repeated loops would have been incredibly difficult. Especially the Rin 1/Rin 2 thing.
I'm not one of those people who wants a remake and thinks KyoAni is the only studio in the world who should be allowed to do Key anime, but I still can't help feeling a bit jaded going through the first season. It could have been so much better and even I can't deny that. T_T
Even the sound guy sucked too, ugh. Song for Friends during the bus rescue? I still can't get over that. That was just absurd. WTF. I was fine with the other times it was used, but during what's supposed to be a tense, nerve wracking moment? This guy should be fired and never allowed to work on anime ever again.
The animation was also bleh. I liked the character designs, but it was painfully obvious they had a low budget. =/
Little Busters deserved so much better. Sigh. Why didn't they get a better director.
This anime just fails so hard at actually being funny, except for when Ayana Yuniko is writing. Shimada Michiru just freaking sucks at it. Was she even trying?! God damn, they should have made Ayana the head writer, had more of the best parts of the common route in there (Kick the Can, entertaining Kyousuke for example) and generally just have had more of the common route itself.
She replaced some scenes with new ones too, like for example, when Rin's telling the cafeteria lady to remove the croquette soba, Sasami and her minions turn up and they get into a fight. It's not even a particularly funny scene and was probably just put there to remind us Sasami exists. Rin attacking Masato and Kengo, and getting bestowed with the title "Maiden Full Speed", much to her horror, and trying to make it "Cat Full Speed" instead, would have been SO much better, dammit.
Sasami barely even existed. :/ She was in three episodes total of the first season. Kyousuke referring to her as Rin's rival in Episode 20 is laughable. How does getting into a couple fights with Rin make her a rival?
Comedy is supposed to be one of Little Busters's strong points. That they failed so hard at it most of the time is such a tragedy. The anime is so boring sometimes, like they aren't even trying. Episode... 9, right, the cafeteria episode, stank. =/ Why dedicate a whole episode to the cafeteria anyway?
And the sanitation task too. They changed that one, so we didn't get Rin dealing harsh punishments to the boys (Masato stuffing sausages up Kengo's nose would have been pretty hilarious) I guess we did get some interaction between Komari and Rin as an alternative, so it wasn't too bad...
Thinking about all that stuff from the common route that was eschewed in favor of new stuff is kind of sad. And then there's the stuff that we didn't get. Would it really have been so hard to insert more of those little scenes like "Kyousuke-oniisan" or "Riki, I love you" into the episodes? Considering Riki seems to spend an abnormal amount of time staring into the distance and thinking, I think they could have.
How much of the common route was actually animated in the end? Doesn't seem like a lot...
Well, even if Little Busters had got like 100 episodes, I think doing an absolutely perfect adaption would still have been tricky. Showing Riki and Rin's character development without giving away the repeated loops would have been incredibly difficult. Especially the Rin 1/Rin 2 thing.
I'm not one of those people who wants a remake and thinks KyoAni is the only studio in the world who should be allowed to do Key anime, but I still can't help feeling a bit jaded going through the first season. It could have been so much better and even I can't deny that. T_T
Even the sound guy sucked too, ugh. Song for Friends during the bus rescue? I still can't get over that. That was just absurd. WTF. I was fine with the other times it was used, but during what's supposed to be a tense, nerve wracking moment? This guy should be fired and never allowed to work on anime ever again.
The animation was also bleh. I liked the character designs, but it was painfully obvious they had a low budget. =/
Little Busters deserved so much better. Sigh. Why didn't they get a better director.
