Little Busters! Refrain ~Season 2~ Blu-ray
Refrain tears away everything that Season 1 built so carefully. The baseball team, the individual routes, the warm ensemble — all of it begins to fracture as Riki starts noticing inconsistencies in the world around him that he cannot explain. Memories surface in the wrong order. People say things that don't fit the timeline he remembers. Kyousuke, who has always had an answer for everything, begins to seem like he is hiding something enormous. The full truth of Hiramizawa — where they are, what happened to bring them here, and what Kyousuke has been doing across every iteration of this summer — is the revelation that recontextualizes the entire first season and delivers the emotional climax that Key visual novels are known for: a combination of grief, love, and the specific devastation of understanding what someone did for you without asking. Little Busters!: Refrain is the 13-episode concluding season of the Little Busters! anime, produced by J.C. Staff and directed by Yoshiki Yamakawa, airing from October 5 to December 28, 2013. The score once again features Jun Maeda and Shinji Orito's compositions from the original Key visual novel. Sentai Filmworks released Refrain on Blu-ray on January 20, 2015 at an SRP of $69.98, with English dub and Japanese audio. Notable Staff & Voice Talent Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa Original Visual Novel: Key / Visual Art's (Little Busters!, 2007) Studio: J.C. Staff Music: Jun Maeda & Shinji Orito (Key composers) Japanese Cast: • Yui Horie as Riki Naoe • Hikaru Midorikawa as Kyousuke Natsume • Tomoe Tamiyasu as Rin Natsume • Nobutoshi Canna as Masato Inohara • Kenji Nojima as Kengo Miyazawa English Dub Cast (Sentai Filmworks): • Caitlin Glass as Riki Naoe • Blake Shepard as Kyousuke Natsume • Allison Sumrall as Rin Natsume • Andrew Love as Masato Inohara • David Wald as Kengo Miyazawa Blu-ray Features (Sentai Filmworks, January 20, 2015) • All 13 Episodes — Complete Season 2 • Clean Opening & Closing Animations • Sentai Filmworks Previews Spoken Languages: English & Japanese Audio, English Subtitles Edition Details Japanese Title: リトルバスターズ！〜Refrain〜 (Ritoru Basutāzu!: Refrain) Runtime: 325 Minutes (Complete Season 2, 13 Episodes) Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa Blu-ray Release Year: 2015 (U.S. Release, January 20 — Sentai Filmworks, $69.98) Original Broadcast Date (Japan): October 5 – December 28, 2013 Publisher: Sentai Filmworks Rating: 14+ Region: Region A (North America) Genre: Drama, Romance, Psychological Themes: Truth Behind the World, Kyousuke's Sacrifice, Key Emotional Climax, Refrain Revelation, Season 1 Full Recontextualization Media assumed VG+ unless otherwise noted.