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  • It has been confirmed by Japanese publishers Prototype, that two Playstation 3 “Converted Editions” of KEY visual novels are now available for purchase through the Japanese Playstation Store for the Playstation 3 video game console. These two titles include Little Busters! Converted Edition which was released to retail stores across Japan earlier this year and Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~ which I believe only received a very limited release during Comic Market 83. Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~ Converted Edition Little Busters! Converted Edition is an all-ages friendly version of Little Busters Ecstasy. In turn, LB Ecstasy was...

    Converted Editions for Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~ and Little Busters! Now Available on Japanese Playstation Network Store for Playstation 3

    Posted on May 30, 2013 | No Comments
    It has been confirmed by Japanese publishers Prototype, that two Playstation 3 “Converted Editions” of KEY visual novels are now available for purchase through the Japanese Playstation Store for the Playstation 3 video game console. These two titles include Little Busters! Converted Edition which was released to retail stores across Japan earlier this year and Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~ which I believe only received a very limited release during Comic Market 83. Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~ Converted Edition Little Busters! Converted Edition is an all-ages friendly version of Little Busters Ecstasy. In turn, LB Ecstasy was...

  • Turns out that while the Playstation Portable has received the first ever all-ages edition of Kud Wafter (Following the opposite route to the PC version of Little Busters!) this month, those whom have been waiting for a PC edition won’t have too long to wait. This is because KEY and visualarts have the intent of launching this edition on the PC from the 28th June 2013. While Little Busters! was a multi-routed romance/school-life visual novel with several characters and a couple of supernatural elements to keep it going, Kud Wafter is pretty much all that but instead of a group of potential...

    All-Ages Edition of Kud Wafter Also Set to Head to PC’s in June

    Posted on May 14, 2013 | 3 Comments
    Turns out that while the Playstation Portable has received the first ever all-ages edition of Kud Wafter (Following the opposite route to the PC version of Little Busters!) this month, those whom have been waiting for a PC edition won’t have too long to wait. This is because KEY and visualarts have the intent of launching this edition on the PC from the 28th June 2013. While Little Busters! was a multi-routed romance/school-life visual novel with several characters and a couple of supernatural elements to keep it going, Kud Wafter is pretty much all that but instead of a group of potential...

  • While there is no sign of an official English release for either Kud Wafter or the main game Little Busters… or any hint of this changing anytime soon for this matter, in Japan the Playstation Portable port of Kud Wafter has been released to the Japanese market. Kud Wafter originated as a side story for Little Busters and released on the PC during 2010 as an 18+ eroge visual novel. The game featured the player assuming the role once again of Riki Naoe, but instead of following the activities of the Little Busters, follows a summer vacation where his dorm...

    Kud Wafter: Converted Edition Launched on the Playstation Portable

    Posted on May 10, 2013 | No Comments
    While there is no sign of an official English release for either Kud Wafter or the main game Little Busters… or any hint of this changing anytime soon for this matter, in Japan the Playstation Portable port of Kud Wafter has been released to the Japanese market. Kud Wafter originated as a side story for Little Busters and released on the PC during 2010 as an 18+ eroge visual novel. The game featured the player assuming the role once again of Riki Naoe, but instead of following the activities of the Little Busters, follows a summer vacation where his dorm...

  • While Little Busters has been fortunate enough to receive not only an original PC release but an eroge re-release, standard re-release based on “Ecstasy Edition”, additional releases on several different game consoles AND an anime series (Not to mention other media releases), its eroge sequel Kud Wafter hasn’t recieved as much attention. Fortunately, the team at Prototype will be re-releasing the game on the Playstation Portable next month as part of their “Converted Edition” series – and should for the first time make the game available as a non-18+ title. We have had very little in the way of promotional content since...

    Opening Sequence and a Few New Screenshots Released for Kud Wafter: Converted Edition

    Posted on April 24, 2013 | No Comments
    While Little Busters has been fortunate enough to receive not only an original PC release but an eroge re-release, standard re-release based on “Ecstasy Edition”, additional releases on several different game consoles AND an anime series (Not to mention other media releases), its eroge sequel Kud Wafter hasn’t recieved as much attention. Fortunately, the team at Prototype will be re-releasing the game on the Playstation Portable next month as part of their “Converted Edition” series – and should for the first time make the game available as a non-18+ title. We have had very little in the way of promotional content since...

  • To date we have seen four commercials released for the upcoming anime release of Little Busters, focusing on three of the original “Little Busters!” members (Riki, Kyousuke and Rin) as well as Kudryavka who is one of the characters recruited to the team during the events of the visual novel and potential love interest for Riki. The latest commercial focuses on both Masato Inohara and Kengo Miyazawa, the final two original members of the group who have a friendly rivalry between the two of them. Masato is being voiced by Nobutoshi Canna while Yusei Oda is voicing Kengo. Both of...

    Two New Commercials Released for Little Busters Anime Series – Masato and Kengo

    Posted on September 26, 2012 | No Comments
    To date we have seen four commercials released for the upcoming anime release of Little Busters, focusing on three of the original “Little Busters!” members (Riki, Kyousuke and Rin) as well as Kudryavka who is one of the characters recruited to the team during the events of the visual novel and potential love interest for Riki. The latest commercial focuses on both Masato Inohara and Kengo Miyazawa, the final two original members of the group who have a friendly rivalry between the two of them. Masato is being voiced by Nobutoshi Canna while Yusei Oda is voicing Kengo. Both of...

  • In the same fashion as the Naoe Riki commercial for the Little Busters! anime series, three new commercials for the series have recently begun airing in Japan. The first two focus on the Natsume siblings Kyousuke and Rin who both play major roles in the original visual novel series while the third features Kudryavka Noumi (Aka. Kud) who is a main character of spin-off visual novel Kud Wafter and “romantic interest” in the Little Busters! visual novel series. All three of these characters retain their original Japanese voice cast including Hikaru Midorikawa and Tomoe Tamiyasu as Kyousuke and Rin respectively...

    New TV Commercials Released for Little Busters! Anime Series – Featuring Kyousuke Natsume, Rin Natsume and Kudryavka Noumi

    Posted on September 24, 2012 | No Comments
    In the same fashion as the Naoe Riki commercial for the Little Busters! anime series, three new commercials for the series have recently begun airing in Japan. The first two focus on the Natsume siblings Kyousuke and Rin who both play major roles in the original visual novel series while the third features Kudryavka Noumi (Aka. Kud) who is a main character of spin-off visual novel Kud Wafter and “romantic interest” in the Little Busters! visual novel series. All three of these characters retain their original Japanese voice cast including Hikaru Midorikawa and Tomoe Tamiyasu as Kyousuke and Rin respectively...

  • Over the years KEY have brought us many interesting multi-routed storylines through their visual novel releases including Air, Clannad, Kanon and Little Busters! to name a couple. While none of these have recieved an official English release, instead relying on users to purchase a Japanese copy from overseas than adding a fan-translation if one exists… you may have also been able to enjoy the storyline through English localized anime releases for several series such as Air and Clannad (Both in full anime series and movie forms), Kanon (As a series) and even Angel Beats which used some of KEY’s staff...

    International Fans of KEY Visual Novel / Anime Works Encouraged to Take Part in “15th Anniversary Letter Project”

    Posted on July 31, 2012 | 4 Comments
    Over the years KEY have brought us many interesting multi-routed storylines through their visual novel releases including Air, Clannad, Kanon and Little Busters! to name a couple. While none of these have recieved an official English release, instead relying on users to purchase a Japanese copy from overseas than adding a fan-translation if one exists… you may have also been able to enjoy the storyline through English localized anime releases for several series such as Air and Clannad (Both in full anime series and movie forms), Kanon (As a series) and even Angel Beats which used some of KEY’s staff...

  • As I mentioned a day or two ago, KEY and Prototype have announced that the previously eroge visual novel Kud Wafter [クドわふたー] (An 18+ spin-off title of the visual novel Little Busters!) will be headed to the Playstation Portable as a Converted Edition. Going from the previous Converted Edition releases, this will feature brand new events and new CG artwork while potentially dialing down on the eroge content. In addition, there are other enhancements such as being able to take screenshots from in-game. Several Japanese gaming websites have begun sharing the below screenshots, which features a look at the games main...

    Initial Screenshots Released for Kud Wafter: Converted Edition

    Posted on July 31, 2012 | No Comments
    As I mentioned a day or two ago, KEY and Prototype have announced that the previously eroge visual novel Kud Wafter [クドわふたー] (An 18+ spin-off title of the visual novel Little Busters!) will be headed to the Playstation Portable as a Converted Edition. Going from the previous Converted Edition releases, this will feature brand new events and new CG artwork while potentially dialing down on the eroge content. In addition, there are other enhancements such as being able to take screenshots from in-game. Several Japanese gaming websites have begun sharing the below screenshots, which features a look at the games main...

  • Originally released in 2007, KEY / Visual Arts released the visual novel Little Busters! which has since seen several PC releases and releases on other consoles including the Playstation 2, Playstation Portable and Playstation Vita. Much lesser known is a spin-off title also released by Visual Arts known as Kud Wafter which focuses primarily on the games main character Riki Naoe and one of the female characters in the original game Kudryavka Noumi (Aka. Kud). Despite Little Busters receiving several ports and re-releases over the years, Kud Wafter which was primarily released as an 18+ eroge has not received such attention…. until now. According...

    Kud Wafter: Converted Edition Heading to the Playstation Portable

    Posted on July 28, 2012 | No Comments
    Originally released in 2007, KEY / Visual Arts released the visual novel Little Busters! which has since seen several PC releases and releases on other consoles including the Playstation 2, Playstation Portable and Playstation Vita. Much lesser known is a spin-off title also released by Visual Arts known as Kud Wafter which focuses primarily on the games main character Riki Naoe and one of the female characters in the original game Kudryavka Noumi (Aka. Kud). Despite Little Busters receiving several ports and re-releases over the years, Kud Wafter which was primarily released as an 18+ eroge has not received such attention…. until now. According...

  • For those of you who have missed the previous announcements on the series, KEY’s visual novel Little Busters has recently been announced to be receiving an anime release in the near future – following on from many other successful KEY anime series over the last few years including Clannad, Kanon and Air. The first official anime trailer has recently been released and can be viewed above. The games original Japanese dub cast will be reprising their roles for the adaptation. Personally, I am not that keen on the animation style they show in this trailer, but it is early days yet and...

    First Preview Trailer of the Little Busters Anime Series

    Posted on April 9, 2012 | No Comments
    For those of you who have missed the previous announcements on the series, KEY’s visual novel Little Busters has recently been announced to be receiving an anime release in the near future – following on from many other successful KEY anime series over the last few years including Clannad, Kanon and Air. The first official anime trailer has recently been released and can be viewed above. The games original Japanese dub cast will be reprising their roles for the adaptation. Personally, I am not that keen on the animation style they show in this trailer, but it is early days yet and...

  • While those who are well familiar with KEY’s Little Busters visual novel release will not find much new content in this trailer, for those who are not, this is a recently released trailer for the Playstation Vita port of the game published by Prototype and due for release in Japan on the 22nd March. The trailer is generally the games usual opening sequence with some of the games mini-games (Including Baseball and the “Fighting” systems among others) along with the usual visual novel dialogue systems. It is disappointing to say this but I would only place the chances of an...

    Little Busters! Converted Edition (Playstation Vita) Trailer

    Posted on March 10, 2012 | No Comments
    While those who are well familiar with KEY’s Little Busters visual novel release will not find much new content in this trailer, for those who are not, this is a recently released trailer for the Playstation Vita port of the game published by Prototype and due for release in Japan on the 22nd March. The trailer is generally the games usual opening sequence with some of the games mini-games (Including Baseball and the “Fighting” systems among others) along with the usual visual novel dialogue systems. It is disappointing to say this but I would only place the chances of an...

  • Revealed on the games official website recently, Prototype will be releasing their Playstation Vita port of KEY/visualarts well known visual novel Little Busters on the 22nd March 2012 to the Japanese market. This is not the first release of the game by the company with prior releases on the Playstation 2 and Playstation Portable along with visualarts releases on the PC in three separate editions: Little Busters, Little Busters: Ecstasy (Enhanced Storyline, 18+) and Little Busters: Converted Edition (Enhanced Storyline, All-ages). As I have played the game prior using a copy I managed to purchase of the original All-Ages edition, I was...

    Little Busters! Converted Edition (Vita) to Be Released on the 22nd March 2012 – Pre-order Bonuses

    Posted on February 29, 2012 | No Comments
    Revealed on the games official website recently, Prototype will be releasing their Playstation Vita port of KEY/visualarts well known visual novel Little Busters on the 22nd March 2012 to the Japanese market. This is not the first release of the game by the company with prior releases on the Playstation 2 and Playstation Portable along with visualarts releases on the PC in three separate editions: Little Busters, Little Busters: Ecstasy (Enhanced Storyline, 18+) and Little Busters: Converted Edition (Enhanced Storyline, All-ages). As I have played the game prior using a copy I managed to purchase of the original All-Ages edition, I was...

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