Little Busters! episode 12

Hello there from slacker land. Or really the holidays take a lot of work land. I don't think I have any real excuse so I will....just get on with the post.

Come to me little birds so I can make you into stew!

Let us see where to begin first. Maybe subbers took a week off to for the holidays and I am not really that behind. So up now is Little Busters! episode 12. Spoilers for Mio becoming part of the group.

Kyousuke excited? Such lies.

Episode Summary: Riki and his boys have decided to leave school and have some random fun that doesn't involve Masato getting in a fight with anyone. As they are walking through the town they run into Komari and all the other girls taking donations for a worthy cause. Kyousuke notes that he could never be like that but commends Komari for doing so. Komari explains that doing this makes someone happy which in turns makes her happy and the world spins on. Kyousuke is touched by these words but only has 5 yen and 10,000 yen. He feels compelled to give the 10,000 yen even though everyone else is like um no dude. Riki ends up donating money on his behalf as Kengo and Masato fight over who can be the cheapest. Riki looks on at this “fun” and wishes Mio could join in. At school the next day people are a bit mean to Mio as they brush past her like she is not there. She tells Riki she doesn't mind and walks on by. Riki catches up and says he wants her to become the manager of the Little Busters. For some reason she thinks they want to be an idol group and she starts thinking about how she can make it work since Masato and Riki are odd. She decides that Kyousuke and Riki will become a pairing. Riki is like um no for the baseball team please. She decided that she will be the manager since she already said yes.

Fill me with your numbers!

Riki reintroduces her to everyone and Kyousuke loses his mind thinking they have a whole team. Riki reminds him that he said the word manager so Kyousuke decides it doesn't matter that they don't have enough members. Practice goes on and Mio serves everyone warm tea. Then everyone needs to give Mio their cellphone number and Mio doesn't know how to use a phone blah blah. Masato gets in on the crazy with the whole no girls ever call me! All in all Riki is pleased because everyone is friends. The next day instead of having practice Kyousuke decides they are going to learn how to make poems. Tanka poems and since Mio is an expert on them she explains in boring detail what they are. It is decided that everyone will write a verse and they will glue it together. This results in insane poems. Everyone is having fun and Mio slips out with Riki noticing. He goes after her and she is under her usual place with birds and crumbs. She says that everyone is just so bright and having friends seems so nice she got overwhelmed. Riki starts wondering if this was a good idea when Mio talks about how it might be too late for her to do this and about flying in the sky and reading all the books ever. Riki remembers that he Mio in town last week yet she was smiling and had no umbrella. Mio gets quiet but says she thought of a poem for the contest. But the next day at school she is absent. Riki is sad that no one else will really notice that she is gone. He hears a fellow classmate talking about how he just saw Mio in town yet it didn't seem like her. Riki looks up at the cloudy sky and thinks something really bad is about to happen to Mio. THE END!

So very little seems to be happening in most of the shows I watch. Am I just being too critical or am I being raised in America and I need aliens and explosions to keep my attention. I like slice of life animes too! I need them to keep me grounded amidst all the animes that explode my brain and other people's bodies.

The worst thing EVER!!!!

Just....everything is so slow and so dramatic and so.....slow. Which I guess is real life. Not every day is amazing. And maybe when you are partaking in the fun of exchanging phone numbers it doesn't seem to drag on and on. But to me it is like watching a football game. Like....this probably seems more interesting if you are playing in and feeling the rush, not watching plays that take 5 seconds each and 4 minutes to reset.

And then the world ended.

Riki is like a dog with a bone. He sees someone to help and he needs to see it through. Whether he likes it or not. Although at the end he does seem to get it, that maybe some people don't want to be helped. Of course it will turn out that Mio wants and needs help but in real life some people do want to be left alone and they are okay with that. They aren't running around feeding birds and writing sad poems. But for the first part of the episode Riki was like oh...poor Mio.

Um...yeah. Let me go get some change....

That came about because the Little Busters were having a special moment at the beginning of the episode. The guys are all out, celebrating the fact that they found the gates of the school and actually are in town. Time away from the girls! What should we do first? Oh run into the girls who are all together earning money for whatever Komari wants to earn money for that day.

Komari is collecting happiness ya'll.

They were collecting good will folks. Kind feelings. Oh Komari. Oh Kyousuke being taken in by someone else's dramatic words. X__X That was a lot of cash though folks. I was kinda expecting Yuiko to take it and say THANKS leaving Kyousuke penniless. Komari is a good girl though and even though Kyousuke is dramatic he is a good guy too. Less so Kengo and Masato who sorta sucked a but of the fun out of the giving situation. But this would all be better if Mio was apart of their group. Riki can't have fun if he knows someone is out there unhappy the fun times they are having now are not happening. And since Riki's main purpose in life is to remind us fun times are not always going to last...he needs to have as much fun as possible with as many people as possible.

She can work with that folks.

I do like Mio though. Even if she is down on herself for being a forgotten pebble on the road. She knows the kids are playing baseball but her mind goes to idols. She wouldn't be good for either job but I still think it was hilarious. But that might be my yaoi colored glasses talking here folks. XD Kyousuke and Riki pairing. Marketing Masato would be hard though. Not my cup of tea.

And why would I be good at this job?

I am surprised that she said yes though. Even to the idol part. She seems like the kind of person who doesn't want to get involved, even if that is just to keep herself from getting hurt. And these people are crazy. A lot happens with this group and they are loud and all over the place. So her saying yes to anything is odd. Maybe she should have done baby steps. Like I will be your friend Riki and work my way up to baseball team amounts of friends later.

No actual baseballing for her.

But she is the new manager and all makes sense. Especially since we all know that Kengo will at least show up to the games and help. He probably won't go to any practices but he won't leave Kyousuke hanging. Mio can't be in the sunlight so this is the only position she can take without....well whatever her problem is. Melting or what have them. Kyousuke having his dramatic moment and then saving himself when it didn't work out in his way...is typical Kyousuke.

Everyone under the age of 20 understands phones better than people over the age of 40. You are a disappointment Mio.

After practice the most complicated and over blown way to give out phone numbers took place. I know Mio doesn't have any friends but don't her parents call her? This is the year 2012, all kids know how to use cellphones. Masato would have been AWWW if his stupid pieces of paper didn't keep flying away. But the other girls were nice with their attempts to not make Mio feel number and even start the conversation with the phone numbers. All really good girls, just a bit insane and out there in the universe.

I almost fell asleep there too guys.

I know Kyousuke was just trying to involve Mio and make her feel part of the gang...but the poem thing was boring. I know they made it into something interesting but the idea was so boring. I guess they couldn't all go to the library and read a book so this is all Kyousuke could come up with. At first when the poem starting making sense I got worried that everyone got taken over by pod people. But then things got stupid and I felt better. Ah this is the group I know and love. Well I guess love is a strong word.

Well she ran away to be all sad like didn't she?

While Mio is holding onto a deep dark secret...I can still see why a normal person would have run away from that. It was just way too much way too fast. I don't think anyone meant to leave Mio out but they all are so loud and have such strong personalities I can see how that might all be overwhelming. Mio wasn't upset at that, knowing no one meant ill will. It was just...a lot at once and with a huge group it is hard to include everyone at once.

So dark indeed.

But Mio is holding onto something dark. At this point I don't think she has a twin as I think that is Haruka. I probably would assume that if Haruka wasn't in the picture but she is so I must go with theory B. Mio has a split personality. That if she is exposed to the sun she might melt and become a second person. But if you notice there was no sun out on the day she was missing from class. Wait I am contradicting myself as she was smiling in the sun at Riki that past trip out and now she is smiling on a cloudy day.

I think my thought train derailed.

Wait now I am confused. X___X What is going on? If it is not a twin does she have a split personality? She was out in the grey clouds smiling and skipping school. But when she was talking to Riki she was inferring about running out of time, implying she was dying. But we already did that arc with Komari didn't we? HMM FOLKS! I was all set to talk about this split personality thing but now if Mio is smiling in the sun and in the darkness I don't know what is up with her.

It better be good and dramatic. That's all I can say.

I don't know what is going on with Mio and neither does Riki. So he must put on his superhero cape and get to the bottom of it. Something bad is coming. Reading all these books, talks about birds, and avoiding the sun. What is going on with this girl? Guess we will have to wait to find out won't we? Until next week!