Little Busters!
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1 / 2- 1EP 1
The Team Name Will Be... the Little Busters
Oct 6, 2012Riki Naoe stops Masato Inohara and Kengo Miyazawa from fighting after Kyousuke Natsume returns. Kyousuke demands they use thrown objects, but Rin objects to Masato using a white cat. Riki recalls childhood memories with the group known as the Little Busters. He suggests they reunite, and Kyousuke proposes playing baseball under that name. Kengo declines due to kendo tournament preparations. That night, Kyousuke sends Rin to recruit members from the girls' dormitory. Rin fails to recruit anyone and loses a fight against Sasami Sasasegawa and three softball team members. The next day, Riki searches for new members and follows a girl to the school roof.
- 2EP 2
Riki recruits clumsy Komari for baseball while the group tackles a mysterious note's cleaning task.
Oct 13, 2012Riki discovers Komari Kamikita on the school roof and attempts to recruit her for the baseball team, though he doubts her suitability. Meanwhile, Rin neglects her duties to play with cats, one of which carries notes revealing a secret world accessible through specific tasks. The first task requires fixing a sanitation issue in the boys' dorm storage shack. Although Riki questions the notes' authenticity, Rin rallies Kyousuke, Riki, and Masato to clean the shack. Komari joins them and agrees to join the baseball team, but only after helping with the cleanup. On the field, Komari shows poor athletic skills, yet Kyousuke accepts her based on her answer regarding guts, bravery, and friendship. Shortly after, Riki suffers a narcolepsy attack, a condition he has endured since childhood.
- 3EP 3
Riki encounters Yuiko Kurugaya during morning practice and joins the Little Busters baseball team.
Oct 20, 2012During morning practice, Rin lacks enthusiasm while Masato returns a damaged idiom dictionary to Riki. Haruka Saigusa borrows the book, leading Riki to chase her and collide with Yuiko Kurugaya, a genius student often absent from class. Later, Yuiko intercepts Riki near a vending machine and takes him to a secluded spot with a wooden box. They converse until the class bell rings, forcing Riki to rush back. Haruka returns the dictionary, criticizing its condition. When Masato and Kengo are about to fight, Yuiko intervenes, causing Kengo to lose interest. Yuiko and Masato then engage in a conflict based on rules established by Kyousuke. Yuiko wins after kicking Masato multiple times. Subsequently, Yuiko observes the Little Busters practice and joins the team, proving to be a valuable member.
- 4EP 4
Riki assists Kudryavka Noumi with moving while investigating Komari's mysterious brother Takuya Kamikita
Oct 27, 2012Riki helps Kudryavka Noumi move boxes into her dorm, then visits the roof to thank Komari for caring for an injured cat. He discovers her asleep and hears her mention a brother, though she claims to be an only child who dreams of a sibling reading a book about eggs. Later, Komari finds a picture book with Takuya Kamikita’s name on the back but lacks memories of him. She asks Riki and Rin to visit a retirement home with her, joined by the Little Busters. While there, Riki cleans the room of Kojirō, an elderly man who usually frightens visitors. After Kojirō drives Komari away, he reveals his full name is Kojirō Kamikita and warns Riki to keep her distant.
- 5EP 5
Riki and Komari seek lost memories during a meteor shower and boat ride.
Nov 3, 2012Komari dreams of her brother, prompting Riki to question Kojirō about Takuya, who warns him to stop. Riki meets Komari at the school gate, and they spend the night on the roof watching a meteor shower. She asks him to date her to help find her lost memories. They travel by train and boat to her former home. Riki suggests she does not need to find her brother, leading Komari to jokingly ask if he will be her brother. On the way back, rain forces them to seek shelter. Riki spots a dead kitten, causing Komari to sob uncontrollably as she recalls memories of her brother.
- 6EP 6
Riki extends Takuya's book to help Komari accept her brother's death.
Nov 10, 2012Komari suffers shock after remembering her deceased brother Takuya and their time in the hospital. In her memory, Takuya writes a picture book, warning that he may be gone when she wakes but urging her not to despair. Upon awakening, she finds he has died but recalls his words, refusing to lose hope. As a defense mechanism, Komari mistakenly believes Riki is her brother. Kyousuke tells Riki he is the only one who can save her. Riki consults Kojirō, who explains this reaction occurs whenever Komari witnesses death and that she will recover in a few weeks. Determined to help, Riki adds to Takuya's storybook. He forces Komari to accept her brother's death while demonstrating through the book that she has friends to support her.
- 7EP 7
Riki recruits Haruka for the baseball team despite disciplinary committee interference.
Nov 17, 2012Kyousuke tasks Riki with recruiting more players after Komari and Yuiko joined. Riki and Rin find Haruka after school and invite her to practice, but disciplinary committee members intervene and take her away for skipping detention. The next morning, Haruka escapes with Riki, leading to a confrontation with committee chairman Kanata Futaki, who reprimands Riki for his disruptive behavior. Later, Riki discovers Haruka repairing a desk broken by Masato and learns she belongs to the maintenance committee. On the way to practice, the committee accuses Haruka of stealing vending machine cans, but she claims she won them. Riki defends her and pays for the items with Rin's help to ensure her release. Haruka then passes Kyousuke's test and officially joins the Little Busters baseball team.
- 8EP 8
Riki and friends seek a roommate for Kudryavka after she joins the baseball team.
Nov 24, 2012Riki, Rin, and Masato meet Kudryavka playing with her dogs Belka and Strelka, inviting her to join the baseball team. Impressed by her skills, they accept her. Later, while helping Kudryavka move boxes, they discover she lacks a roommate. Riki and Masato contact the girl's dormitory resident assistant, who posts a notice. Little Busters members Rin and Yuiko are without roommates but decline for personal reasons. Riki and Kudryavka then approach classmate Mio Nishizono, who also has no roommate. However, Mio refuses, fearing her extensive book collection would inconvenience Kudryavka. Disappointed by the lack of candidates, Kudryavka is surprised and delighted when Kanata arrives and volunteers to become her roommate.
- 9EP 9
Riki and Rin investigate a mysterious note to save the cafeteria from an unexpected crisis.
Dec 1, 2012Riki and Rin receive a cryptic letter referencing a previous cat incident, instructing them to save the cafeteria. They consult a lunch lady who denies any issues, but all staff members subsequently fail to appear for dinner preparation due to various emergencies. Recalling the note’s warning, Rin organizes the Little Busters to cook for the entire school. Riki questions how the sender predicted these events. The group prepares meal sets and distributes them amidst the chaos. During the busy service, Riki suffers a narcoleptic episode. He later wakes up in his room, where Kyousuke retrieves him to rejoin the others at the cafeteria, who are eagerly waiting for him to begin eating.
- 10EP 10
Riki seeks the final Little Busters member while investigating Mio's mysterious habits and lost book.
Dec 8, 2012Riki must locate the last missing member to complete the Little Busters baseball roster. After accidentally hitting Mio with a foul ball, he visits her the next day with a compress. He observes that she always carries a parasol and reads under the same courtyard tree, leading classmates to label her "shadowless" due to her low presence. Wanting to help her as Kyousuke and others helped him, Riki invites Mio to join the group, but she refuses. Later, Yuiko asks Riki for assistance in finding a missing book. They search the classroom without success, suspecting a prank, but the situation resolves when the girl who took the book returns it. Finally, the Little Busters members summon Riki for practice, and Mio goes to watch them play.
- 11EP 11
The Little Busters conduct a nighttime courage test involving talisman retrieval and traps.
Dec 15, 2012Kyousuke organizes a school night challenge where the Little Busters split into three groups to retrieve talismans while avoiding his traps. Rin, Komari, and Kudryavka struggle with fear, while Masato and Kengo rush to reach Kyousuke’s classroom. Yuiko, Riki, and Haruka navigate easily, though Yuiko allows Riki to retrieve the final talisman so she can participate in the scaring. The group later encounters a large black mass they suspect is a ghost. They corner it by flashing lights and yelling, only to discover it is a large eagle that followed Kyousuke from Hokkaido years ago. The bird has returned to see him. After the reunion, the Little Busters watch the eagle fly away the next morning.
- 12EP 12
Riki invites Mio to join as manager while she hides her true identity
Dec 22, 2012Riki asks Mio to serve as the team manager, a role she accepts after mistakenly believing the group was forming an all-male idol unit. Following practice, she provides hot beverages and exchanges contact information with the members. The group then gathers to compose tanka poems, but Mio departs midway through the session. Riki locates her beneath her customary tree, where he senses her desire to vanish. He mentions spotting a girl resembling her in town without her typical parasol. Before parting, Mio reveals her intention to submit a poem to a school competition. The following day, she fails to appear at school, and Riki overhears classmates reporting a similar sighting. After classes conclude, he spots the mysterious girl standing in the courtyard below.
- 13EP 13
Riki discovers Mio's shadowless doppelganger Midori and faces memory loss regarding their beach encounter.
Jan 5, 2013Riki encounters a girl resembling Mio in the courtyard, but she vanishes quickly. Mio stays absent from school for days while others gradually forget her existence. Riki later finds Mio, who gives him a poetry book and invites him to the beach. At the beach, Midori appears and reveals Mio lacks a shadow, which explains her parasol use. Riki suffers narcolepsy and wakes up in his dorm with no memory of the event. Normalcy resumes until Riki finds the book and seeks Mio in class. Midori enters, and everyone else identifies her as Mio. Riki refuses to accept this, noting Midori also has no shadow, leading him to suspect she is Mio's shadow. Midori warns that Riki will eventually forget Mio too.
- 14EP 14
Riki reunites with Mio at the beach after she transforms into a bird and merges with Midori.
Jan 12, 2013Riki struggles with uncertain memories of Mio while Midori manipulates his recollections. Seeking guidance, Kyousuke advises Riki to trust only himself. Riki discovers a tanka poem about a paper airplane conversation, leading him to find Mio at the beach. Mio explains that Midori was an imaginary sister created in childhood, whom her mother forgot after medical treatment. Reading a poem by Bokusui Wakayama caused Mio to black out and lose her shadow. Riki pleads for her return, but she turns into a bird. After a phone call from Midori, Riki enters the ocean, where Mio and Midori merge back into one person. They return to the beach with Mio’s shadow restored and rejoin the Little Busters at school.
- 15EP 15
Riki joins the girls' dorm sleepover and cross-dresses to avoid disciplinary committee detection.
Jan 19, 2013Komari and Kudryavka fail to convince Riki to follow them, prompting Rin to text him to her room. Riki evades Kanata and the disciplinary committee to join the Little Busters girls for a sleepover. Kyousuke, Masato, and Kengo play games to decide who will rescue him. The girls bathe in turn, leaving Riki last, but he discovers his clothes replaced by a girl's uniform, which he reluctantly wears. The resident assistant warns them to keep noise down to avoid disciplinary committee visits. The group then hits each other with rolled newspapers, drawing a warning from Kanata, who fails to recognize Riki in his disguise. The next morning, Riki thanks Yuiko for helping Rin socialize and departs, encountering Kyousuke, who had won the right to rescue him after playing games all night.
- 16EP 16
Haruka faces disciplinary wrath and family secrets after bench destruction and criminal rumors
Jan 26, 2013Masato loses a quick fight with Haruka over katsudon. Haruka attempts to repair a nostalgic bench, but Kanata notes it was slated for destruction. Disciplinary members destroy the bench, leading to Haruka’s interrogation for multiple infractions. She breaks down under false accusations until Yuiko intervenes, though punishment remains. Later, school-wide flyers claim Haruka’s father is a criminal. The Little Busters remove the notices and find Haruka crying in the baseball clubhouse. She explains her family tradition of women taking two husbands, noting one husband was arrested for attempted murder. Haruka finally reveals that she and Kanata are twins.
- 17EP 17
Haruka shares her painful family history with friends who promise unwavering support.
Feb 2, 2013Haruka reveals to her friends that she and Kanata were born to different fathers, one of whom is the previously arrested Shō Saigusa. Consequently, the Futaki family seized control of the Saigusa lineage, forcing Haruka and Kanata into an early competition to determine the heir. After Kanata was selected, Haruka faced blame and torment, leading her to deliberately cause trouble for Kanata to provoke scolding. Fearing abandonment, Haruka is reassured by her friends' loyalty. The Little Busters play baseball to restore her smile, though Kanata warns against involving them in trouble. Haruka later bakes dry chiffon cake and visits Shō to confirm his paternity, but he remains silent. That night, Riki apologizes to Kanata for his arrogance while expressing his desire to help Haruka. The following day, Haruka presents improved chiffon cakes to Riki, only for Kanata to appear, revealing she had disguised herself as Haruka to bake them.
- 18EP 18
Haruka learns the truth about her family and reconciles with Kanata
Feb 9, 2013Rain falls as Haruka confronts Kanata regarding a childhood lie about egg allergies. Kudryavka reveals to Riki that Kanata feigns coldness. Kanata explains she lied to protect Haruka from their family's violence. Haruka struggles with her resentment but, urged by Riki, seeks the truth. Kanata admits the Futaki family abused her when she showed kindness to Haruka, forcing her to be harsh to ensure Haruka's survival and her own succession. Haruka apologizes for her assumptions, and the sisters reconcile. Kanata decides to leave the family. They visit Shou, who reveals their parents attempted to take the children away, leading to his imprisonment. Haruka accepts she no longer needs to know her biological father's identity. Finally, the sisters visit their mother and other father.
- 19EP 19
Kudryavka prepares for a national proficiency exam with Little Busters support.
Feb 16, 2013Kudryavka chooses to take a national proficiency test at school, prompting her Little Busters friends to assist with her studies, particularly in English and sciences. Komari tutors her in English while Mio covers math and physics. During a meal with Riki and Masato, Kudryavka is mocked by other girls until Yuiko intimidates them away. Later, in the library, Kudryavka shares memories of her grandfather, who raised her and took her to Tebwa, a small island nation in Southeast Asia where she was born. Kanata returns a book on the many-worlds interpretation, noting Kudryavka’s hobby of reading for international exams. On test day, Kudryavka incorrectly marks her answer sheet, forcing her into a remedial class. Feeling guilty about failing despite her friends' help, she is comforted when the rest of the Little Busters join her in the remedial session to demonstrate their unwavering support.
- 20EP 20
Rin and Riki help Aikawa ease his lovesickness for Sasami through a failed plan
Feb 23, 2013Rin and Riki receive a letter to help second-year student Aikawa with his unrequited love for Sasami. After discovering Sasami actually likes Kengo, Rin advises Aikawa to perform a hip-hop song with original lyrics. Aikawa messes up the final line, prompting Rin to propose a three-way attack on Kengo to win Sasami's affection. The plan fails as Kengo defeats Aikawa, impressing Sasami with his athleticism. Aikawa gives up, leading Riki to realize they only needed to ease Aikawa's pain. Rin apologizes to Sasami, who sympathizes with Aikawa and agrees to share her email address. Rin passes the contact information to Aikawa, who expresses his gratitude for the resolution.
- 21EP 21
Riki helps Kudryavka with a Tebwa ritual and learns about her astronaut mother's tragic launch.
Mar 2, 2013Following a training session, the Little Busters clean their clubroom. Riki then assists Kudryavka with a traditional ritual from her home country, Tebwa, which was formerly part of the Soviet Union. During this time, Kudryavka shares details about her mother, who spent little time with her while preparing for an astronaut career. She explains that her name derives from Laika, the Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit Earth. When her mother’s launch date arrives, Riki seeks Kudryavka to watch the event on television. Kudryavka declines, preferring to wish her mother luck privately. Tragically, they later discover the rocket exploded during launch, and mission control has lost contact with her mother.
- 22EP 22
Kudryavka Receives Ticket to Tebwa After Riki Encourages Her to Pursue Her Dreams
Mar 9, 2013With travel to and from Tebwa restricted due to contamination risks from an exploded rocket engine, no news arrives regarding Kudryavka's mother. The Tebwan embassy sends Kudryavka a plane ticket to check on her safety. Conflicted because she fled to Japan after dropping out of Tebwa's aviation school six months prior, Kudryavka initially decides to stay and discards her space-related items. Riki retrieves these belongings and returns them, telling her she can pursue her dream of space even if she does not become an astronaut. Moved by his support and her desire to see her mother, Kudryavka chooses to return to Tebwa. Before departing, she says goodbye to her friends.
- 23EP 23
Kudryavka Captured by Rebels After Learning Her Mother Survived the Explosion
Mar 16, 2013Friends in Japan discover an uprising in Tebwa after a failed rocket launch. Kudryavka meets her hiding grandfather, who reveals her mother survived the explosion. While he retrieves her mother, Kudryavka is captured by rebels and imprisoned in a cave. Her friends wish for her safe return, and Riki clings to a gear she left behind. This memento mysteriously appears in Kudryavka's hands, allowing her to escape. Later, the uprising is quelled. Kudryavka reunites with her mother briefly before returning to Japan to rejoin her friends.
- 24EP 24
Rin promises to perform a puppet show for children after their prop breaks
Mar 23, 2013Riki and Rin receive a mysterious letter instructing them to stage a puppet show while observing a dispute among children whose panda doll prop was damaged. To resolve the issue, Rin volunteers to perform the show the following day. Although the Little Busters initially assist, Kanata enforces curfew, prompting Komari to secretly continue preparations in Rin’s room until morning. Rin later decides to perform independently to honor Komari’s help. The five children attend the performance by the river and enjoy it. Rin then locates Komari on the school roof, where Komari congratulates her. Komari explains that her star-shaped hair ornament is a wishing star, and since Rin has two, the second star will grant Rin’s wish.
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Frequently asked questions
- How many episodes does Little Busters! have?
- Little Busters! has 26 episodes.
- When did Little Busters! come out?
- Little Busters! came out in 2012.
- Which studio made Little Busters!?
- Little Busters! was produced by J.C.STAFF.
- Who directed Little Busters!?
- Little Busters! was directed by Satoshi Motoyama.
- Is Little Busters! finished?
- Current status of Little Busters!: Finished.