Little Busters! episode 4

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Kira and I are currently hiding under some blankets because it is cold. I think the weather is trying to make up for the lack of cold last year. I think it was cold two days in December….I hope Kira has enough fur. She is a Florida kitty, she might be dazed and confused at this sudden visit from Mr. Frost. I might be slightly exaggerating there.

Someone is ready for Halloween!!!!

Before I am kidnapped into the land of pizza let me get this one episode out at least. XD Little Busters! Episode 4 here we go. Spoilers for girls in big hats and how we don’t really care about them.

No new note today, sorry.

Episode Summary: Riki is doing…something when a girl in a huge hat is struggling to carry boxes. She of course falls and Riki comes to her defense. Her name is Noumi and she transferred to this school not too long ago. For some reason she tries to talk to Riki in English which fails miserably. Eventually she speaks in Japanese and Riki carries her boxes to her room. She bids him goodbye…and that is it for her part in the episode. Riki then runs back to Rin who was waiting for her soda. She is playing with the cats and is sad that there is not a note on them from the person promising them a mystery. Both are sad about that fact but notice a Band-Aid on one of the cats instead. In class the next day Masato is being tortured by Haruka and Rin learns that Komari is the one who patched up the cat. Rin is too embarrassed to thank Komari in person so she gives Riki some treats to give to Komari. Riki finds Komari on the roof and there is some mumbling in her sleep and drooling. Komari is woken up all embarrassed but happily accepts the candies. She says that she will invite Rin up to the roof as a thank you for this thank you. Komari sparkles a bit talking about her theory on making people happy and what not. Riki asks why she was talking about her older brother in her sleep and Komari gets a little sad. She says she has no older brother but remembers someone reading her a book when she was younger, something about chickens and eggs. If only she could remember….so cue Riki and Rin going to the library to find said kid book.

Because that egg book was so sad....

Spoiler Alert: Riki and Rin don’t find the book. Rin is super embarrassed and doesn’t want to go to the roof but Riki makes her. They find Komari all sad like holding a copy of this egg book. It is basically the stages of a chicken, with the chicken forgetting it was ever an egg. For some reason this makes all three kids really sad. What is even sadder is the name on the back of the book. A male adult in Komari’s family that she can’t remember? Komari knows something is up but the mom won’t spill the beans. It is a sad mood but Rin and her cat talking self tries to lighten the mood. As a result Komari invites Rin and Riki to go to a nursing home on Sunday. The other boys are sad to hear that Riki is not available for fun so they decide to go to. Yuiko decides to go as well because she thinks that Komari and Rin are cute. Komari leads the way to the nursing home and proves to be very popular with the residents. Despite everyone being nervous and special they fit in fast and help the old people out. Riki turns out to have the roughest approach with the roughest resident but ends up having a moment with the old dude. Komari finds out about this and thinks the older man has opened his heart. She goes to greet him too but he scares her off. Riki gets mad at that the man treated Komari in such a way and the old man grows quiet. Turns out the old man is the one who wrote the egg/chicken book thus being the relative Komari has forgotten about. THE END!!

Warm greetings to you too!

New anime this week? I know I am shocked! Why have I gotten so behind this season? It seems as if I will never catch up? For some reason I pick Little Busters to try and get caught up with first as it requires…well…less. Less sadness and less thought process. So far it is full of happiness and roses so it is an easy watch and an easy write up. Walking in the shallow end first. XD

A girl needs help? I'm on it!

I thought we were going to get a new girl of the week! I was tricked! We were all tricked folks. But really were they even trying this week? Oh look a tiny girl carrying huge boxes? Quick Riki help!!!! For the record homegirls name is Noumi because her other name is way too hard for me to type. Spelling is hard folks. And the boxes she was carrying was cute. I am not sure what is up with her trying to speak English though. Maybe because she is foreign? Clearly Riki is not though so why was she trying to speak English to him? We don’t learn that because Riki just drops her boxes off and gets out of the room as fast as possible.

BYE! I'll be important later!

I guess it would have been a little annoying had Noumi been a real girl of the week. Like okay Riki lets slow the train down. You have been at this school for a while and now that there is a baseball roster to fill you are now running into all these girls. Just so amazing how he is running into all these girls that need help at the right moment. Before I watched this series I thought that Noumi was going to be a main character. Perhaps she will be and this was just a warm up for things to come. Her and her special English speaking self.

Girls are hard work Riki!

Rin only sparkled a little in this episode. I think I would have been pissed if someone stuck a real Band-Aid on my cat but apparently Rin was touched. XD It is nice how she is being consistent with her afraid of girlness. It doesn’t seem forced as she grew up with all boys and no girlfriends. She at least seems more natural than Yuiko who is now hanging out with the Little Busters for the hot girls? Yeah hopefully the plot circles back to her at one point because she didn’t get much of anything did she?

Double tap!

No no folks the real plot focused on Komari. She is still way too happy for her own good and I feel like wearing sunscreen when I see her face. Just so much sparkling. But it appears underneath all that happiness and sugar she might have some sadness. Good thing that Kirito…I mean Riki is here to protect her!

But I don't remember him....

At first I was feeling for her sad little feelings. I am sure something tragic happened to cause her to forget the important person in her life. That is understandable. Parents lying about it not so much but in animes you are lucky to even have parents so don’t be picky if they are lying about everything okay?! How sad it must be for Komari to wake up all lonely and empty.

Saddest moment EVER!!!

But things got a little dramatic when the book appeared. Did Riki and Rin really think they were going to find a kid’s book in their high school library? Komari found it right away because when you are hiding a big secret it is best to hide it in a shed where anyone can find it. The homemade book was special at best. They do realize that they were reading about a chicken right? I understand it was supposed to parallel Komari forgetting something but it was about a chicken that forgot it was an egg. A chicken that doesn’t know it is a chicken. Which apparently it does because at the end of the book it remembers it used to be an egg. Remember where you came from folks. You have no future if you can’t remember your past. Unless you are a chicken going to KFC.

So much happiness!

After Komari got all sad…it was time for more sparkles and happiness! Turns out that Komari has a lot of time on her hand after buying snacks and goes to a nursing home all the time. I really have to give her props for that. I don’t think I could do that. Just being in those places makes me sad. So depressing. So my hats off to real life people like Komari who are able to do so. The rest of the Little Busters went along for the ride and did surprisingly well.

Should have taken lessons from Masato.

The one who did the poorest was Riki. That actually surprised me. Maybe he can only be nice to ladies. But if a kid came in my room and told me he was going to clean it whether I wanted him to or not I might have an attitude too. Like you best be bouncing punch. So while the old dude had an attitude Riki wasn’t helping.

Time to look dramatically at the window now.

After Riki thinks he has bonded with cranky face he learns that Komari is related to the old dude. Mr. Old Dude is the one who wrote the book. Now since he is super old I am thinking…he is not the brother Komari thought she had. He clearly doesn’t want to see her so something dramatic did happen. Maybe the parents got tired of taking care of their aging father and pawned him off in a nursing home. I hope it is more dramatic than that given how upset Komari is but who knows. Looks like next time it will be a Komari related episode too. I wish her voice wasn’t so annoying…..