A second season produced by the same staff titled Little Busters! Refrain will begin airing in October 2013. A third anime series titled Little Busters! EX has been announced.
Little Busters! (リトルバスターズ!, Ritoru Basutāzu!) is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key. It was released on July 27, 2007 for Windows PCs and is rated for all ages. Little Busters! is Key's sixth game, along with other titles such as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. An adult version of the game titled Little Busters! Ecstasy was released on July 25, 2008 for Windows, unlike Kanon and Air, which were first released with adult content and then had later versions with such content removed. Ecstasy was later ported to the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation 3. The story follows the life of Riki Naoe, a high school student who has been a member of a group of friends named the Little Busters since childhood. Riki brings multiple girls at his school into the Little Busters to have enough people to play a baseball game.
Cast:
Hikaru Midorikawa as Kyōsuke Natsume
Tomoe Tamiyasu as Rin Natsume
Yui Horie as Riki Naoe
Keiko Suzuki as Haruka Saigusa
Naomi Wakabayashi as Kudryavka Nōmi
Natsumi Yanase as Komari Kamikita
Nobutoshi Canna as Masato Inohara
Ryouko Tanaka as Yuiko Kurugaya
Shiho Kawaragi as Mio Nishizono
Yusei Oda as Kengo Miyazawa
Eimi Okada as Takamiya (ep 1)
Kana Hanazawa as Suginami (ep 1)
Noriko Aoki as Katsuzawa (ep 1)
Shinobu Matsumoto as Endō-sensei (ep 1)
Staff:
Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa
Series Composition: Michiru Shimada
Music:
Jun Maeda (Key/Visual Arts)
Magome Togoshi
Manabu Miwa
PMMK
Shinji Orito (Key/Visual Arts)
Original Character Design:
Itaru Hinoue (Key/Visual Arts)
Na-Ga (Key/Visual Arts)
Character Design: Haruko Iizuka
Assistant Director: Chikayoshi Sakurai
Theme Song Performance:
Ayaka Kitazawa (ED)
Suzuyu (OP)