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View Poll Results: Little Busters ~Refrain~ - Episode 11 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 38 | 71.70% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 8 | 15.09% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 6 | 11.32% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 1 | 1.89% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2013-12-19, 12:01 | Link #61 |
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Thank you, novalysis, for always coming up with such interesting analysis. I really love reading your insights.
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Regarding LB, gosh novalysis why do you have to remind me, there were more times than once I would just say "Enough with the UST, just confess your love to Kyousuke already, Riki!" Joking aside, I love how the series just went out of the way to make the relationships between these male childhood friends so innocently genuine and touching and believable that nobody would bat an eye when the males just scream out they love each other and want to stay together forever. I saw people posting the out of context screenshots and I don't know how to react . Some few scenes with ambigous contexts don't even help.
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2013-12-19, 12:17 | Link #62 | |
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2013-12-19, 21:22 | Link #63 | |
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2013-12-20, 10:45 | Link #65 |
Me, An Intellectual
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I say this purely from my own perspective. I make it no secret that I'm just not emotionally attached to any of these characters on a significant level besides maybe Riki. It'll obviously be different for others.
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2013-12-20, 10:48 | Link #66 |
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He has a point there. After all, with all these episodes, one simply can't help but feel their pain. These people are well....dying. This is basically their dying dream, which is just about to end. Ano Hana's last ep.... is just. ugh.
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2013-12-20, 11:00 | Link #67 |
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If you really want to put it into perspective, I was more emotionally involved in the endings to both Ano Hana and Angel Beats, despite all three endings being similarly problematic. That's not saying anything about Ano Hana and Angel Beats: Those endings were legitimately bad as well. I'm just explaining my perspective on Little Busters in comparison.
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2013-12-20, 11:10 | Link #68 | |
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2013-12-20, 11:39 | Link #69 |
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I honestly felt the crying in this episode was handled just about perfectly. It was certainly timed perfectly.
I think that Kyousuke breaking down a bit was necessary to show that he hadn't become just some cool, aloof pragmatist. He played the guy who tried to keep it all together for Riki and Rin's sake, but deep down, he was hurting a lot too. I think it was important to show that to give it a human touch. I felt it hit the sweet spot for this kind of scene - Appropriately emotional, but also dignified. Kengo was perhaps a touch over-emotional, but then Masato handled it all remarkably well, so you had a good range of emotional responses. I liked how not everybody was crying a lot, and that some were reacting more emotional than others.
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2013-12-20, 11:42 | Link #70 |
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It's a very interesting inversion of how Kengo and Masato appear on the outside. Masato seems to wear his heart on his muscles, and with overwhelming pride, but Kengo hides his feelings. Yet, the parting inverses this around, which seems to suggest that Masato is precisely open, because to him this is strength, while to Kengo, being open is weakness. I'm sure that more could be said about this.
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2013-12-20, 15:23 | Link #71 | |
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I far preferred the scene after the credits. It was understated, and not unrealistically so. I suspect people have different tolerances for melodramatic elements like that. It's why I can't give this show a 10, even though it is a good episode, it is far from perfect to my sensibilities. I'm not familiar with Key works though, perhaps it goes with the territory? |
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2013-12-20, 17:23 | Link #72 | |
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I tend to compare these scenes to ones like it that came before, especially recent ones. And Nagi no Asukara recently had an episode with waterworks that makes this episode almost seem restrained.
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2013-12-20, 18:23 | Link #73 |
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I'm not sure whether I need to or not, but just in case I'll elaborate on my point a bit: When I said it was a little excessive I really meant a little, so in the grander scheme of things we're not talking about anything major here in the first place imo. It didn't detract from the episode much and on any other anime I might have been able to roll with it more. It just so happens that I couldn't, because it's complicated by other problems I have with the show that factored in and that I don't imagine would have been a factor for others.
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2013-12-20, 20:40 | Link #74 | |
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As for Kengo, I can understand very well from his breakdown. He puts on a strong front and can finally drop the act. He may he strong to everyone else, but he isn't emotionally as strong as he seems. As novalysis mentioned, he is open to weakness. But perhaps it comes down to how emotions reach and affect to us differently. Just as how one thing works for someone and not another. |
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