LB obviously didn’t go deeply into the politics of the thing – this isn’t that sort of show – but the issue of ethnic tension between native peoples and the Russian descendants who retained power after the collapse of the Soviet Union is a very real one in many former Soviet Republics. Automatic weapons fire as a lullaby, mortal shells exploding, and prison – Kud chained half-naked in an underground cell by the rebels who saw her as a symbol of the regime they loathed.
#LITTLE BUSTERS RIN ROUTE SERIES#
To say it was a stylistic change from the rest of the series would be a massive understatement – we jumped directly into civil war. It does seem that Kud is somehow more directly connected to the secret of the world than any of the other characters who have been in focus thus far – she’s certainly had more suspicious conversations with Kyousuke than anyone else, and he’s obviously in the know – but her own arc still provided probably the best drama of any thus far. I have no proof, but I can’t find any other obvious connection either for the statement itself or the narcolepsy. The more I consider Riki’s statement that his comment to Kud about not running away was “really talking to himself”, the more I think he’s referring to his narcolepsy being a form of running away from reality.Kud, while chained in prison, said very specifically that she had to get back “to help Riki and Rin”.Kyousuke’s comment that “terrible things don’t just happen in places that are very far away.” He could have been talking about events along the lines of Komari and her brother – or then again, he might not….On a related note: the comment that Kud had used the Little Busters as a way to adjust to her new world, and “If any of us were missing, that world would cease to exist.” I don’t know exactly what it means, but it means something.I refuse to believe their disappearance (this has happened twice with Mio that I’ve noticed) was a coincidence. Haruka and Mio were back with the group at the start of the episode, as if nothing had happened.Among the things that seemed odd this week:
In a way Kud’s arc had to do some serious heavy lifting, because while I know there were earlier hints that will seem obvious if I re-watch the series after the second season, this was the arc were the work of rolling out the “secret of this world” really started. The extent to which that was true started to become apparent last week and even more so this, as Kud’s arc came to a generally satisfying conclusion. I had some forewarning (not through any choice of my own, mind you) that the Kud arc was going to be a pretty dramatic tonal shift from a series that’s already proved itself capable of some jarring ones. 「あなたの大切なもののために」 ( Anata no Taisetsu na Mono no Tame ni)Īh, Kud-o – superficially you may seem like a moeblob at first glance, but there’s no one else quite like you.
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