
It was surprisingly mundane, and I mean that in a good way – Riki and Rin pulling everyone from the wreckage, lugging them up the hill on makeshift stretchers. I don’t have any major issues with the way the anime chose to go about depicting it. I didn’t know the details of the “True End” that this turned out to be, but it seemed pretty obvious after Episode 12 that we were headed for something more or less along the lines of what happened.

This isn’t a simple thing to answer, and I think it’s fundamentally tied into human nature and what one’s expectations for this finale were. And while part of me is happy about it, I can’t help wondering why I’m not happier than I am. It’s finally over (apart from EX and hopefully Kud Wafter, anyway) – after 39 episodes and a veritable avalanche of emotional highs and lows, Little Busters! comes to an end that’s undeniably a happy one. OK, was anyone besides me thinking, “For God”s sake Riki, don’t get in the van!”? It is Yuiko who becomes confused, and when they are in the broadcasting room, Riki confesses his love, while Yuiko does not answer directly at first.I’m still struggling mightily to wrap my thoughts – and feelings – around that ending. In the Visual Novel, however, it is the other way around.



After waking up, Riki learns from Yuiko that she was taking care of him while he was asleep and cannot shake the suspicion that the whole situation has happened with them in the past.
