Author Topic: Little Busters! TV Anime (Read 6833 times)

Silversin · « **on:** March 25, 2012, 09:30:08 PM »

According to ANN, Little Busters! will recieve a TV anime adaptation.
Link to article: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-25/key-little-busters-visual-novel-gets-tv-anime
Teaser Trailer

Type: TV Series
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Harem?, School Life, Baseball?
Official Title: リトルバスターズ!
Original Work: Visual Art`s/Key
Animation Work: J.C.Staff
Synopsis: 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. What saved him was a group of three young boys and one girl his age who referred to themselves as the Little Busters — a group dedicated to fighting evil and preserving justice. The leader of the Little Busters was Kyousuke Natsume who had a younger sister named Rin. The other two members of the Little Busters were Masato Inohara and Kengo Miyazawa, who are rivals despite being friends. They took Riki out and played together with him during his time of need, effectively making him the fifth member of the Little Busters. In time, Riki really enjoyed playing with them, and his grief over his parents gradually faded away. When the story begins, Riki and his friends are seemingly in their second year of the high school they attend, except for Kyousuke who is in his third year. They still hang out together, and enjoy their school life.

For those who are not aware, Little Busters! is a visual novel made by Key. Air, Kanon and Clannad are also visual novels from key that were adapted into animes. Key also played a huge part in Angel Beats!, and I have heard they will be making a VN of it eventually.

For those who have played Little Busters!, or atleast know of it...
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!
I have been awaiting this news ever since i finished the game, and I am SOOOO excited about this!
If the quality of the anime will be anywhere near that of Clannad or Angel Beats!, THIS WILL BE EPIC!!!

~~On a calmer note, there is still no official word on who will be animating it. However, it seems likely that it will be Kyoto Animation or P.A. Works.~~
It will be produced by J.C.Staff.

.....
AAARGHH! can't wait, can't wait! CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Edit: Added a picture and some other info.
Edit 2: Added a link to the teaser trailer.
Edit 3:

Bob2004 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2012, 09:45:28 PM »

I vaguely remember a quote from Jun Maeda saying that they wouldn't want anyone other than Kyoto Animation to do the adaptations for any more of their games, so it seems likely that it'll be them. Then again, I vaguely remember something about KyoAni having turned the offer to do Little Busters down at some point in the past, so maybe it won't be.

So long as it isn't Toei though, I'll be happy. I've never liked any of their Key Adaptations.

Anyway, apparently (hard to tell, since the official source of the news has been taken down, and most of what I'm getting seems to be rumour and speculation), it'll be officially announced on April 10th in Dengeki's Visual Arts magazine, so we'll probably have to wait until then for more information.

vuzedome · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2012, 11:43:42 PM »

I just hope they don't screw it up.

Tatsujin · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2012, 01:27:37 AM »

wow I was about to make a thread, and here's one ... and it looks ... I shouldn't say anything, lol.

Silversin · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2012, 12:53:27 PM »

Quote from: Tatsujin on March 26, 2012, 01:27:37 AM

wow I was about to make a thread, and here's one ... and it looks ... I shouldn't say anything, lol.

Does it look better now?

Tatsujin · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2012, 07:20:24 PM »

Quote from: Silversin on March 26, 2012, 12:53:27 PM

Quote from: Tatsujin on March 26, 2012, 01:27:37 AM
wow I was about to make a thread, and here's one ... and it looks ... I shouldn't say anything, lol.
Does it look better now?

I love you. <3

Havoc10K · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2012, 09:30:48 PM »

But seriously, It's KEY.
I only want to know how many buckets I will need... again...

Tatsujin · « **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2012, 09:36:12 PM »

Quote from: Havoc10K on March 26, 2012, 09:30:48 PM

But seriously, It's KEY.
I only want to know how many buckets I will need... again...

After their collaboration with P.A.Works on Angels Beats, I fell in love with them more. I'm excited to see this new anime. I hope they either go back to P.A.Works, KyoAnime or Satelight (which they never went with). KEY never collaborated with ufotable which is another good Animation company. They need to hire few Character Artists to make sure this gives us a visual striking animation.

I'm not worried about the storyline. It's KEY, obviously its going to be really good.

vuzedome · « **Reply #8 on:** March 27, 2012, 03:47:57 AM »

Angel Beats was terrible for me.
But that's another story for another day.

Going with KyoAni will be better in my opinion.

Havoc10K · « **Reply #9 on:** March 27, 2012, 07:44:32 AM »

If they will do it at least half as well as with Kanon/2006, I need to know how many buckets I need

Their habit of using one of the side characters arcs being the most tearjerking is visible in all their works, it was there even in Angel Beats, and they didn't work on that directly, just helped. I'll never forget Makoto from Kanon, I can forget the MCs but not her. I'm pretty sure they will do similar with LB.

xShadow · « **Reply #10 on:** March 27, 2012, 11:51:50 AM »

I need to finish this up. I went through the Kud and Yuiko routes so far, and I liked them. Honestly, I hate (want to kill) all of the other heroines (well, Rin's alright-ish) so I'm having trouble mustering up the resolve to plough through them to get to the refrain and true endings and whatnot.

That, and I wish someone'd translate the EX version so I could do the Sasami and Saya routes. =|

garycheung · « **Reply #11 on:** March 30, 2012, 04:23:46 PM »

I have a feeling this will be good, last time I heard Jun Maeda was totally exhausted from Angel Beats. Great to hear from Key again.

AceD · « **Reply #12 on:** March 30, 2012, 07:58:50 PM »

Quote from: Silversin on March 25, 2012, 09:30:08 PM

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!

Yes....yes it is.

Hopefully rewrite will follow

Silversin · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2012, 02:20:24 PM »

Update!!!
A small teaser trailer just got released on visual arts' youtube channel!!!
Teaser

Kud is so cute!!

Animation looks great! Anyone able to guess who animated this?

kristen · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2012, 02:51:04 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQfJjZs5H6A

Silversin · « **Reply #15 on:** March 31, 2012, 02:59:03 PM »

Even more little busters MADs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAq6TnG4n3Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZRWHRQ33U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tamIJh7SgPY

Ozzaharwood · « **Reply #16 on:** March 31, 2012, 03:06:45 PM »

When I saw this, I actually cried. I'm not even lying. Little Busters is my favourite VN of all time, so I'm expecting them to not screw it up. But it's Key, and they never dissapoint, so I'm not worried. FUCK YES.

Havoc10K · « **Reply #17 on:** March 31, 2012, 03:16:41 PM »

Sadly I don't have a favorite KEY product.
I loved them all.

AceD · « **Reply #18 on:** March 31, 2012, 04:50:54 PM »

Quote from: Silversin on March 31, 2012, 02:59:03 PM

Even more little busters MADs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAq6TnG4n3Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZRWHRQ33U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tamIJh7SgPY

>http://youtu.be/BF-2fqAvlco?hd=1

Tatsujin · « **Reply #19 on:** March 31, 2012, 05:03:38 PM »

Little Buster's VN was fully translated?