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Hanabee Entertainment have this evening confirmed that they have acquired the rights to the anime adaptation of KEY visual novel Little Busters! which aired in Japan a few seasons pack. Unlike many adaptations which were animated by Kyoto Animation, this has been produced by J.C. Staff who have also been behind Toradora, Azumanga Daioh and A Certain Magical Index – and despite some skepticism about them being able to meet the standards of KyoAni, it seems to have fared quite well.
Hanabee will be releasing the series over two half-season installments on both DVD and Blu-ray formats, and complements of North American publisher Sentai Filmworks will come with both Japanese and English dubs. The first collection is set to hit store shelves on the 8th January 2014 and the second at a later date.
For their last year together as a group, the Little Busters are going out with all bases loaded – by forming a baseball team! Except they’re five members short and it is up to the groups most reluctant members, Riki Naoe and Rin Natsume, to recruit the remaining members.
But recruiting members for their baseball team is not the only mission they’ve been tasked with. Receiving a series of messages delivered through cats, Riki and Rin are on a quest to that will apparently uncover a secret to their world. However in order to do so they need to complete a series of simple tasks first. Sounds simple enough, right? Not really, when Riki suffers from narcolepsy and Rin is so crippling shy that talking to anyone outside of the Little Busters group is a tall order.
But the members of Little Busters are nothing if not resilient and they will do anything in order to fulfill their dreams so prepare to batter up!
Similar to the anime adaptation of Clannad, which was published by Siren Visual in Australia, Little Busters! has two seasons with the second being part of this seasons Japanese anime slate.
