Kud Wafter

Following an accident where Masato Inohara batted a baseball into the school's water main, the boys' dormitory is partially crippled. Until a plumber repairs the damage, the boys have to stay in the girls' dormitory. To determine which rooms they'll be assigned to, they draw tickets from a hat. Unfortunately, due to the limited capacity, some of the boys will have to go without a bed.

Once Riki Naoe draws his ticket, he gets one that forces him to stay in one of the less-than-cozy clubrooms. Seeing his hapless predicament, a nervous Kudryavka "Kud" Noumi musters enough courage to confront her feelings while asking Riki to sleep in her room instead. Despite the rest of the Little Busters incessantly teasing Kud and Riki about their relationship, he stays with her throughout the summer. As they share unforgettable experiences one after another, the two realize that they might want to be more than just friends.

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Noumi, Kudryavka Main

Wakabayashi, Naomi Japanese

Naoe, Riki Main

Horie, Yui Japanese

Natsume, Kyousuke Supporting

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Kurugaya, Yuiko Supporting

Tanaka, Ryouko Japanese

Natsume, Rin Supporting

Tamiyasu, Tomoe Japanese

Tokido, Saya Supporting

Kamikita, Komari Supporting

Yanase, Natsumi Japanese

Saigusa, Haruka Supporting

Suzuki, Keiko Japanese

Inohara, Masato Supporting

Canna, Nobutoshi Japanese

Nishizono, Mio Supporting

Kawaragi, Shiho Japanese

Matsukura, Yuuji Producer

Matsuo, Kousuke Producer

Suzuki, Kentarou Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Motoyama, Satoshi Sound Director

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Dec 10, 2020

Psi18c

Recommended

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

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Jan 26, 2021

Junky_

Mixed Feelings

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 candy

It 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

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Nov 8, 2023

ProxyLain

Not Recommended

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

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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

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