While I felt for Haruka, I think Futaki had it a lot worse than Haruka did. She single-handedly took on the majority of the suffering and issues in order to protect Haruka and was straight up forced to act like a villian to Haruka and not be nice to her to keep Haruka safe (she obviously couldn't say anything to Haruka yet because given how Haruka hated her up to then, Haruka wouldn't have believed her anyway, and there's no point in telling Riki or the others when at the time Haruka still wouldn't have listened to them anyway. So only when Haruka finally didn't want to hate her anymore did she finally drop the cold act she's been putting on all this time. Her motivation wasn't silly, she had valid reasons for why she had to put on the cold act). Futaki was even trying to protect the Little Busters by trying to keep them out of this big problem with Haruka because she didn't want them to get dragged into the same extremely dangerous situation Haruka was in (and at points you can clearly see Futaki hated having to act the way she did).
I like Futaki way more in the anime than the VN. In the VN she was a jerk to you and your friends even outside of Haruka's Route. In the anime she's not like that, she just comes across as doing her job instead and rightfully calling people out (I never found myself getting mad with her in the anime, wheras I was ticked off with her in the VN). I'm aware that she impersonated Haruka, but I doubt that she did that willingly, she was probably ordered to do so by the Family.
I have to take the Student Council's side the majority of the time: Haruka breaks the rules all the time and just does it to spite her sister who is only doing her best. Yes they persisted in suspecting her despite having no evidence that one time back in episode 16, but they've got every reason to suspect her when she constantly breaks the rules (and Haruka's attitude doesn't help her case, it just makes her look more guilty by getting defensive and talking back to them). Her suspension was also fully justified: picking up a chair and getting ready to throw it, as well as fighting the Student Council who are in their right to restrain her from such an act, is ground for suspension-Haruka brought that on herself.
I do however have to call out Futaki on a few things. First off, the bench scene. Look, I understand that Futaki did just clarify that Haruka broke another rule by trying to mask the fact that they already decided to have the bench destroyed and Haruka even deliberately taking off the sign on it, and she is right. But, it was so uncalled for for her to seriously have the bench destroyed right before Haruka's eyes. She did not have to go about it like that. I would have took her away, and then ordered the bench to be shattered. I could never destroy something befeore a person's eyes that I know has emotional value to them, that's just plain cruel. Another part where I got ticked off at Futaki is her retarded "You're her friends, so you'll suffer as well if she causes more problems" crap. Why should they be punished for Haruka's own mistakes!? They can try to stop Haruka, but if she were to keep causing trouble, it is not their fault that she won't listen. And overall that whole "Everyone suffers for one due to some person's mistakes" needs to go away. It's one of the stupidest things people try to pull, and it makes my blood boil over in rage when people actually try to justify that lame excuse. And last but not least, that part where Futaki thinks Riki is only trying to save Haruka because he wants to be her hero. Where in his dialog did he imply anything like that? It should have been very easy for Futaki to see that he just wanted to help a friend like anyone does. Also, why did Riki agree with her that he was being heartless? He did nothing wrong, all he did was ask about her father so as to see if he could try to straighten things out with Haruka. It's not like he knows about Futaki's past to the same extent he does Haruka, and Futaki really did not give much reasons for why Riki should care about her much (she played herself up as a not nice person). I didn't understand why he agreed with her, he was not being heartless or arrogant, and he certainly didn't make this better by agreeing with Futaki even though she's the one that's wrong. |