Little Busters and the 5 stages of grief

[Kaguya 10]

Now, I was browsing through the internet and I found this very interesting idea on another forum. The guy who wrote it goes by "Isaac". Expect spoilers ahead.

 

 

 

 

So I played Little busters couple of months ago, and lately when I thought about the game I realized every route corresponds to the famous 5 stages of grief:

 

Denial: I don't even need to say who it is, Cute Komari-chan is stuck in denial about her brother's death, she needs to accept that bad things happen.

 

Anger: Haruka definitely applies, being the most emotional of the girls in her route, her relationship with her sister, she need to learn to forgive her family and move on.

 

Bargaining and Depression: A bit tricky here I originally thought Mio fit the depressed bill, but after thinking about it Kud is far more likely candidate. Kud has a very bad image of herself, thinking herself to be useless, a failure and a coward for not visiting her mother (If someone played Kud's after story, can he tell if her mother is alive?) after the missile catastrophe, she needs to take two steps, first overcome her fears and leave the safety of the dorms and second believe in herself and her friends to overcome her "jail".

 

Mio fits the bargaining, but not in the usual sense, she bargains her life for exchange to her "altenate?" personality, she gets out of it when she realizes how she hurt her friends with this compromise and that she is forgiven.

 

you might be able to switch them around, especially since Mio has a lot of suicidal undertones to her story (going into the sea) that also fit depression.

 

Now to the interesting bit, acceptance, Kurugaya accepts where she is, and that her goal cannot be reached, you can perhaps say she's stuck accepting what she can't do and she can't move on. Fittingly her route ends only after the main story ends, and everyone comes to terms with the bus crash.

 

 

So, what do you think of it? Seems like a nice interpretation to me.

Edited October 27, 2013 by Kaguya

[zokoxex 10]

wow you just spoiled it all for me....thanks

[Chocolatemilkgod 16]

I'd very quickly put that up in spoiler tags. Just do [.spoiler=Little Busters End Game Spoiler] TEXT [./spoiler] without the dots.

 

And the interpretation is interesting, at least. I don't know if I'd 100% agree with it, but it's definitely something to think about.

[ultimecea 22]

well..it's something in that path...

but..heck..you just spoils the climax of each route >.>

meh..luckily nothing spoils me from my ANEGO~