[Reckoner]

Originally Posted by Triple_R

I'm starting to think that Clannad might be that once in a decade exception of where unified simply works. Otherwise, romance suffers.

Would Little Busters! be better if it went with omnibus over unified? Honestly, I'm starting to lean that way.


What do other people think?

The problem with this question is source material readers have more insight into this as usual, but I'll try to tread the line as best as possible here .

Your example is simply not the best one, though if you used other VN examples, you would have a better point IMO.

Spoiler for Not really a LB spoiler, but for those sensitive people:

The reason is Little Busters is a friendship themed story. Romance is actually not very important at all throughout the story and this becomes very clear if you ever read the source. This isn't like your typical dime-a-dozen galge games where the sole point is to get in all the girls' pants. The unifying story and themes of Little busters has little to do with romance and in fact its absence would be of little consequence.

The obvious limitations of omnibus in general is budget and time. Most VN adaptions get nothing more than 1 cour of material. Think something like Koy Senkyo to Chocolate, which I think really suffered from trying to mesh together too many routes and was really lacking as a result. This is the type of story where either they should have omnibus'd it with many episodes, or just choose one route from the beginning like Mashiro-Iro Symphony, which more or less stuck to one route. These are stories though where romance is very critical to each of the routes in some way, so it makes sense that "omnibus" would be more satisfying. Not all VN's really care about romance though.