The story of Little Busters 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. The characters live in either the male or female dormitories on the school grounds which are across to each other.

Little Busters

A 26-episode anime TV series adaptation, directed by Yoshiki Yamakawa and produced by J.C.Staff, began airing in Japan on October 6, 2012 on Tokyo MX.The screenplay was written by Michiru Shimada, and chief animator Haruko Iizuka based the character design used in the anime on Itaru Hinoue’s and Na-Ga’s original designs.The anime series will be released on nine BD/DVD compilation volumes between December 26, 2012 and August 28, 2013 by Warner Home Video. The opening theme is “Little Busters! (TV animation ver.)” and the ending theme is “Alicemagic (TV animation ver.)”. Both songs are sung by Rita and areremixes of the theme songs featured in the original visual novel. The rest of the soundtrack is sampled from albums released for the visual novels including the Little Busters! Original Soundtrack and Little Busters! Ecstasy Tracks.