
I’ve taken the liberty of coming up with what I think could get viewers pumped up to watch the series: The last two sentences sound like word salad. There’s really not much to get hyped about. But when Kyousuke starts to look for a job, Riki worries that the five friends will drift apart. A few years later, the five of them are living in the same school dorm, still living every day like a carnival. The one to reach out to him was Natsume Kyousuke, a just boy who called himself the leader of the “Little Busters.” Every day from then on was like an endless carnival, and the pain in Riki’s heart slowly ebbed away. Naoe Riki was a boy living on the brink of despair.

I was reluctant at first to watch the Little Busters anime because the series description sounded iffy on Crunchyroll: With that established, I will move forward referring to any VNs as games. As far as I’m concerned, a singular choice that changes something as simple as a character’s response is enough for me to consider a VN a game. There’s endless room for debate whether VNs should be considered ‘games’ in the first place.


By my count, I’ve ‘played’ eight VNs to date-not a lot by any means but enough to form a reasonable opinion about such ‘games’. I wouldn’t consider myself a voracious consumer of the medium but I try to keep my ear to the ground and my mind open to trying out different kinds. If I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I’m a fan of Visual Novels (VNs).
