 Alternative TitlesJapanese: クドわふたーInformation Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Nov 28, 2020 Source: Visual novel Duration: 50 min. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older Statistics Score: 6.971 (scored by 46884,688 users) Ranked: #448322 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #5042 Members: 20,655 Favorites: 44 Available AtResources |
Details Characters & Staff Videos Stats Reviews Recommendations Interest Stacks News Forum Clubs Pictures More Info Reviews Filtered Results: 5 / 5 Sort Suggested Most voted Newest Oldest Filter Click once to include and twice to exclude Clear AllYour Feelings Recommended Mixed Feelings Not Recommended Categories Funny Informative Well-written Creative Preliminary Spoiler  Dec 10, 2020 This is a short story that follows Kud being in relationship with Riki, with main events being focused on her dreams and her past. As a fan of Little Buster (VN), I couldn't help but enjoy the characters, being reminded of the everyday life with friends just playing around. And the music that just reminds me of the VN moments.Addition, non-anime related but necessary to understand my score:Due to the low score of the Anime (not even 7 when I wrote), I can tell that most people have not read the Visual Novel (get it on st*em as its outstanding, it has everything except +18... stuff that were so bad they didn't bother bringing back even after so many remakes were done). Highly suggest seeing this after doing her route for the best experience of this episodee Reviewer’s Rating: 9 What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0Show all  Dec 15, 2020 Despite being a spin-off to one of my favorite pieces of fiction ever, Little Busters!, I didn’t have high expectations coming into Kud Wafter. VN into anime adaptations are always scary, even more so when they’re getting adapted as movies. More so, Kud Wafter was never thought of as quality work in the first place, and Studio Key in general doesn’t have a good record when it comes to spin-offs. I'm looking at you, Tomoyo After.Surprisingly enough however, the final product we got here turned out to be much better than I ever would’ve expected. The movie starts out in a very lighthearted manner, aiming... at providing classic Little Busters! comedy content, which is very much welcome. The whole group of characters is back at it with more jokes, banter and just being themselves. All of these characters are simply wonderful and manage to be incredibly hilarious at all costs. The only sad part is that the best girl, Rin, has probably the smallest role out of anyone in the movie. 2020 hasn’t been sad enough apparently :(The biggest question marks with Key shows are always their transitions from comedy to drama, which can often be sloppy, rushed, and overall poorly executed. This is sadly the case here as well, as the movie at one point randomly decides it’s tired of being a comedy, and in a matter of few scenes totally changes its tone and narrative, without much explanation as to why. This very strange and unnatural transition is definitely the biggest weakness of the movie, and if it were half an hour longer and used that time to patch this hole, the end result would also be much more satisfying.After such a poor tone-change, one would expect the whole dramatic side of the movie to crumble. Surprisingly enough, that isn’t necessarily the case, as the movie manages to pick itself back up. That is achieved mainly by keeping things simple and in-line with what the original Little Busters story provided. The movie fully capitalizes on the fact that it doesn’t have to build a new conflict from scratch, and instead works as an extension of a story we already know. Thanks to that, the only thing it can focus on is the execution of said extension, which is why, even though with very limited time, it does manage to tell Kud’s personal story relatively well. There are no glaring weaknesses when the drama is in full swing, and some interesting direction elements help to keep the movie fresh and interesting.Kud’s character doesn’t go through much we haven’t already seen her go through in the original show, although the ending of this movie does give her side of the story a more complete closure, which is definitely a good thing. The ending scene overall is quite sudden but incredibly important and powerful, while also managing to be very sad without really trying too hard to appear so.One area Kud Wafter definitely could’ve been better at are the production values. The animation oftentimes feels sloppy, despite the project only being about 50 minutes long and also getting postponed a few times. Not only a bigger budget would make the anime look more consistent, it would also help to produce some interesting direction choices and elements into their fullest potential. But, we can’t except that much from a crowdfunded project, I guess.Which is honestly why I’m even more surprised that this turned out the way it did. Sure, this movie definitely ain’t no masterpiece, and it also is more silly and fun than legitimately meaningful and profound, but considering what kind of project it is and what I expected of it, I really have no reason to dislike the work presented here as a whole.It’s funny, sweet, it has Kud, and it does considerably well in its dramatic parts as well.Hence I can crown Kud Wafter as a success. Reviewer’s Rating: 7 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jan 26, 2021 Right so let me start off by saying I don't think this OVA is intended for me, Little busters is my all time favourite anime, love it to death along with so many other pieces Key have made, All their flaws included i just love the stuff they make. But little busters is my favourite anime and nothing more, I never read the visual novels, and never really wanted to, it seemed like too much work to try get the ending i already knew i wanted, the rest would just be extra icing on the cake. So my attachment to Kud as a character in... little busters is that she had some cute and funny fanservice for the show to build up the universe a bit, and that was it, very little opinion on her, with that said lets actually review the film. (I'll be spoiling major parts of the story for the 'Little busters!' anime, of which i guess this act as a spinoff sequel to, so make sure that's all watched before thinking about watching this)The Kud Wafter movie appears to take place in the dreams of Kud after the Bus crash in Little busters refrain, where much like the other characters in the anime, Kud reflects on herself and her life thinking shes weak and shit with riki being the romantic interest to get her out of this mindstate and wake up from the dream, its pretty clear she's in the dream from early in the film, but thats here or there, if you've come from either the VN or anime its no biggie, what I wanted to see from this film was all that was good in little busters, Pretty art, quality characters voiced well, some bangin music, and a good warm hearted story about friendship, youth, loving yourself, all that shit; We have those things i guess, its a strange kind of movie though.To talk about the animation quick, its great, if you like the bright colours, linework and general design layout of the little busters anime, its the exact same thing, it would of been nice to see something new done considering this is meant to be a special kind of spin off and the first piece of little busters content we've seen in a while, but it's still good eye candyIt would of been nice to see more characters that weren't Kud or Riki, especially considering riki's character is having no character, and its been so long since little busters came out i imagine a good few of you like me hardly even remember kuds story apart from her being naked a few times on a hill. We got to see a little bit of the classic main characters, that nowhere near enough time was spent on, it would of driven the plot of the story that she needed her friends better if we saw her friends for more than 5 minutes, and the rest of the watch time wasn't just swooning over riki. And the new characters they introduced, i must imagine they had to be a hell of a lot more interesting in the VA, because here they don't do anything, the younger one whos name I forgot is just there, makes a water bottle rocket and thats it, and the older one has her past told to us, says a few things about space and then also doesn't appear much, It just be nice to be shown characters a lot more so we feel Kud's connection to them instead of just being told about them.Music was a bit lacklustre compared to what we've seen before, nothing really memorable, and no real throw backs to anything from the anime, I've been told the Kud VA at least had an opening that was good, but its just stuff that's Un-insulting here And finally the story, which from my perspective felt like a fever dream more than a story, i feel like this is a story that easily could of been told by changing a few bits and slapping Rin on the cover instead. Probably annoying to hear for Kud stands, whoever you are, but it followed a lot of the structure Little busters refrain did, which i guess might just be what the structure of the VA was to get you to your ending, depending on which girl you considered best, so is this just fanservice for the Kud fans after 0 Little buster content in the past 7 years? Pretty much, but when i think of little busters, romance hardly comes to mind, Little busters is a story about enjoying friendship and coming together, loving what you have while you have it, and how the hardships of life can be beaten with your friends, THATS the story of little busters we want to here, and its just hidden within a strange romance esc story where everyone wants to bone you, or in the animes case riki. So making a 50 minute film for a slight adjustment of a story we've already seen in a sense seems kinda pointless. If you like Kud that much and wanted riki to end up with her, well go read the VN, or just close your eyes, and picture REALLY hard that Rin was Kud at the end of refrain. Because in 50 minutes you can't really tell the story of kud anyway, and thats excluding the fact that portions of this film are just a bit strange, like randomly panting on each other on a hill, the useless inclusion of Aziruzki Shinna, some strange and offputting sex scenes between a young loli and a character who might as well be a plank of wood, It just doesn't play out well in this format, they either needed to do a longer piece dedicating more time to setting things up and how they wanted to demonstrate things, scrap the OVA, and just make Kud wafter into a small spin off anime season like Little Busters EX, or just scrap the whole idea all together, and as much as I've just dogpilled on the story, if you liked little busters you will probably at least fine some light enjoyment out of this, getting to see what little chemistry between the characters as you do, and if you really liked Kud in the VA, then getting this little bit of fan service i guess is a nice little cherry on top to the Little Busters Anime. For 50 minutes, its not insulting, but considering how long this took to make, and how long its been since we got any animated little busters content, it just would of been nice to see something that was more than an extended Kud episode from another reality. Hope you enjoy it Kud stans... whoever you are Reviewer’s Rating: 5 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Feb 24, 2022 I don't think there's any right way to adapt a visual novel. It's a medium often overlooked by the western anime watching community, but the influences of those early gal games are strong across many genres of anime. Many of the character archetypes we find so common today can trace their origins back to visual novel tropes. The problem when adapting these things, and trying to do it faithfully, is the choose your own adventure nature of vn storytelling. How can you faithfully adapt every route, every choice? You can't, without making some fans angry. Best you can do is adapt the common route, throw... in a few episodes with hints of some of the other girls' routes and adapt the good or true ending with the main heroine. Then make side content like this.I guess I should say that I never played any of the original visual novels. My knowledge of Little Busters is solely based in the anime adaptations supplemented by cursory wiki reading to fill in the gaps. Frankly visual novels are a huge time sink and I've got enough in my plan to watch to merit not wanting to spend more time on extra homework. My assumption is that this movie exists in a sort of alternate route from the main story, where Kud is the main heroine that Riki focuses on. That's just the best I can come up with from conjecture.I really liked Little Busters, and certainly this story won't make much sense if you aren't familiar with that story. This is like a fun little side adventure in that world they created together. It ends on a more poignant note with Kud being the girl to pull through. It actually isn't clear what the fate of the rest of them is in this version. I don't remember them saying anything about it anyway.So if you were a huge Kud fan and wanted Riki to choose her as his best girl here's the story for you. If you prefer the more generic ending you can just think of this as non-canon, or make up whatever ending you want, really. Like I said at the outset, there's no right way to adapt a visual novel. If you're a purest you can just dump the 80+ hours into playing the original game. Have fun with that.8/10 Reviewer’s Rating: 8 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jul 21, 2021 I haven't seen Little Busters, but I couldn't care less. And this review has spoilers. In the beginning they make a melodrama for Wafu (I don't care what her name is, go with Wafu anyway) only for her to say that she wanted to spend more time with Riki. What is the point of this? It had no narrative function that it is really necessary to use drama. This part was right after the beginning, when the boys have to stay in empty rooms in the girls' dorm because their room was flooded with water.There is one part that was so stupid, I started laughing.... Wafu takes it and starts to take off his T-shirt together with Riki to both draw an emblem on each other with what looked like chocolate. Seriously... WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? And seriously, when Riki starts drawing on her, she starts moaning "wafu"... What the fuck! Seriously, why this? Why so fucking cool about a bad fucking romance? It makes a fucking drama just for them to kiss and in the next scene they appear naked on the bed? They were outside the dorm at night, I guess they went to the dorm to have sex after this bad drama. Hahahahahaha After that, Wafu starts singing a lullaby while putting her hand on Riki's head just as he is sleeping. SHE STARTED SINGING A LULLABY AFTER HAVING SEX WITH THE KID? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? That was one of the stupidest (and even funniest) things I have ever seen in an anime. (This was all in 30 minutes of torture watching this OVA)After all this stupid stuff, Wafu goes to make breakfast for Riki, since the whole school is closed and everyone has gone home. Wafu making breakfast, they keep focusing on her skirt while she is humming and swaying. All right, you want to show me that this loli is hot? Show me her naked at once. Oooooooooh! at the end it shows that Wafu was in a coma. So all this stuff that was so bad to watch only happened in her dreams. Hahahahahahahahaha - It's hard for me to complain about original dubbing, in this case Japanese dubbing. But in this anime, the voices of basically all the characters don't match with them, no matter how much I got used to it as the episode went on. Seriously, this is the first time I have complained about the voice not matching in an anime with the original dub. I am not going to list the reason why each character does not have a voice that matches themselves.Within 10 minutes of this OVA, I was already wanting to watch this on mute. The characters have such discordant voices and are so annoying that I really wanted to mute it. Seriously, the characters are as annoying as the entire cast of the Trashgatari Series, an anime that I can't stand to see or hear the characters (just thinking about Trashgatari stresses me out).Character design doesn't bother me as much.Well, at least it doesn't come close to being garbage like Sword Art Online's design.The characters themselves, I didn't like any of them. I won't go into detail as to why I didn't like any of them.I can say that Wafu is one of the worst characters. For example: Hoshino from Planetarian, or Ayu from Kanon, they are cute in a natural way, and are not forced like in this OVA (don't forget that these two characters and works I mentioned, are also from Key).No, her talking "wafu" doesn't make her cute. The production is pretty consistent, so there's nothing to complain about. And I don't even want to talk about it.Anyway, I only saw this OVA for the simple fact that I am watching one OVA each year, starting with the first one in 1983 (so far, Kud Wafter was the worst), and in 2020 I had no choice but this.That OVA made it a point for me to never come close to Little Busters.I give up on Key's works. I like Planetarian and Kanon, but I refuse to watch any of their other works again. Reviewer’s Rating: 1 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all |