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Originally Posted by Reckoner
I am not even sure we saw the same first episode. There was an extremely heavy emphasis on friendship and the importance of the bonds of the Little Busters! in Riki's narration. They also brought up the growing concern that these days were not going to last forever, hence Riki's proposition that they try to live like the old days. This motivated Kyousuke to form a baseball team at Riki's behest.
The basic thematic purpose of the work has already been set quite clearly IMO. If you don't quite "get it" now, then perhaps it might be made clearer later for you, but I think there was enough time spent in the episode detailing what this will all be about.
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Well, if you didn't *snip* what I said was wrong with it, then it would have responded to what you wrote.
Also,
Kimidori also did a fine job of stating what was wrong as well. As stated from a lot (not all) of anime-only viewers on the thread, they seem to have similar problems with how the story is presented in the episode.
When you state friendship, well, essentially most high school anime is about friendship in one form or another. It is the direction of that friendship that determines the series. Right now, things are very random and out of place, with no sense of direction. I'm sure things will eventually be explained later on, but for a first episode, this was very underwhelming.