Risuki Naoe is the protagonist of "Little Busters!". After losing his parents as a child, he was brought into a group called Little Busters by Kyosuke and others, and later entered a new school life together.
| Japanese name | Riki Naoe |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Little Busters |
| Main partners | Kyosuke Zatsume, Suzuko Suzu, Masato Inohara, Kengo Miyazawa |
| Personality | Gentle and serious, often responsible for making comments |
Childhood companions
After his parents passed away, Riki fell into loneliness for a while. The children led by Kyosuke actively involved him in various activities, giving him the chance to spend daily life with others again; This experience became the foundation for his relationship with the group.
The beginning of the baseball team
As he grew up, Kyosuke proposed forming a baseball team. Riki transitioned from childhood friends to meeting more classmates, with new members and campus activities gradually expanding Little Busters' reach.
Role within the group
He is usually gentle and sensible, contrasting with the exaggerated actions of his companions, responsible for reminding, responding, and complaining. The story unfolds from his perspective, so the friends' daily lives are both the source of comedy and the environment in which he gradually grows.
| Featured works | Little Busters! English Edition |
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Characters and relationships
The protagonist, somewhat timid in personality, but cherishes his friends. Often gets caught up in various farces by his teammates and serves as the team's main complaint.
Little Busters! Identity in the English Edition
Refrain inherits the captain's duties and reassembles Mahito, Kengo, and Kyosuke. After leaving the loop, he and Bell rescue the bus passengers.
PC EX Refrain: Reinviting Kengo
After Mahito rejoined, Riki continued to invite Kengo. Kengo refused to accept the challenge at the dojo, so Riki turned to compete with him with baseball. After this duel, Kengo wept and returned to his companions, while Riki personally completed the next step of reassembling the team.
PC EX Refrain: Re-embracing life
Refrain presents Riki's refusal to be born through a performance that traces back to the womb; After Rin's figure appeared, he decided to accept life again because he wanted to see her.
PC EX Refrain: Calm down before rescuing
In a PC EX playthrough record, the initial initial bus entry caused subsequent rescue failures; reload was changed to calm down first, then continued with subsequent processing before succeeding.
Original PC / Unlabeled Version Game Edition: Searching for clues left behind
In the 2007 Beautiful Fish Arc, Riki confirmed from a submitted short song that Beautiful Fish really exists. In another version of the Komari arc, he takes the address given by Kojiro and heads to Takuya's grave; Later, Xiao Qiu personally continued writing the last page of the picture book he handed over.
EX Added Kanata Arc: Negotiation terms for the dormitory meeting
When the club was about to be reassigned, Kyosuke asked Riki to help out at the dorm club to keep the baseball club. From then on, Riki continued to interact with Kanadot, who worked at the Dormitory Association.
PC EX Kanaida Arc: personally planned and rescued
The rescue at the venue is planned by Riki, with Kyosuke in charge of disguise and cover; He evacuated from the elevator with Kanai and Ye Liujia.
EX-type Sasumi Arc: Receives messages from the black cat
Riki receives fragments from Kuro and understands the message it wants to tell Sasami, helping them reunite.
Game Bell route: Follow the cat to identify the question maker
Riki follows the cat Renon and discovers that Kyosuke is the one who has been assigning missions. He tells Kyosuke his answer and learns that the mission is arranged for Rin's growth.
Game Bell Route: Pick up the three-day promise before the ring
Riki wants to pick up the bell, but Kyosuke urges him to wait three more days, promising to let her return on Saturday; Even after returning, Suzu found it hard to bear her previous situation.
Game Refrain: Fight against real people together with Rin
After Mahito went berserk, Riki and Rin set traps and joined forces to fight him, pulling him back into his companions.
Game Beautiful Fish route: First, recover memories from the tanka collection
Before Miyu disappeared, she handed Riki the cherished Wakayama Bokusui tanka collection. About a week later, he read the book and remembered Meiyu again; The submitted tanka later became a clue further confirming her existence.
Game Laigu Arc: The Transfer After the Destruction of the Door
After kicking the door to smash, Raitani shifted the blame for the destruction onto Mahito and escaped with Riki.
Game Comes Valley Arc: Rainy Day and Promise
Riki and Kuritani returned from the café without umbrellas, and after getting wet, Riki caught a cold. Later, they agreed not to go out on rainy days and to visit the coffee shop on sunny days.
Game Come to the Valley Chapter: Check the changes in instant noodles
Riki waited until midnight to observe the change in date, during which he ate a serving of reserved instant noodles. When I woke up, the date had returned to June 20th, but that instant noodle was still missing from my reserve.
Game Ball Edition: Rewriting Fairy Tales Production
Riki creates a picture book for Komari, using "The Little Match Girl" as the foundation, turning a sad story into a happy one. Kyosuke and his friends supported him, and he stayed up all night completing the picture book.
PC Wafter Part 1: Invitation and Persuasion
After Shiina was opposed by her mother, Kurt and Riki still invited her to participate in the water rocket competition. The two tried together to persuade her mother, but were rejected.
PC Wafter Part 1: Responding to the initial objection
Hatsuya opposes Shiina's participation and tells Riki about his family difficulties. Kurt then responded that even so, he could not give up on his dream.
PC Wafter Part 1: My Dream
Riki tried again to persuade Shiina's mother. Facing her mother's reproach, Shiina emphasized that Rocket was her own dream and had nothing to do with her father.
PC Wafter Part 1: Water Rocket Competition
Riki and Shiina caught up in the match at the last moment, and Riki handed the inflation to Shiina. Chu and her mother came to her side, and the three of them counted and inflated the rockets together; In the competition, they lost to Yuki and finished second.
PC Wafter After· Rooming and live streaming
In the previous chapter, Riki, Kurt, and Yuki share a room; This segment also shows the relay program featuring Kurt's mother on camera.
PC Wafter After · Curry production
When I first made a very mild curry, A-chan-chan tried a unique twist; Yuki makes solid curry made by heating water to restore it. Kurt and Riki finally mix the curry with tomatoes and eat them together.
Answer from a member of the PC Wafter Icarus
When the students staying at school offered to help, Riki asked why. Kanai answered, "We're all members of the Rocket Department."
PC Wafter Icarus: Call in the Rain
Kurt kept calling out with finished balloons and did not leave the open space even after the rain fell. Riki placed his hand on her shoulder and hand, encouraging her not to give up.
PC Wafter Icarus·False news
In Icarus's unfortunate ending, Riki sends a false message to Kurt.
Steam English Edition Saya Line: Women's Clothing
In the Saya route in the Steam English Edition, Riki once dressed as a woman.
Original game common chapter
After the cafeteria work came to an end, Riki suddenly lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was already in his own room, with Kyosuke standing by to care for him and holding his hand.
After the ball collision accident the day before, Riki brought medicinal patches to Miyu, apologized to her, and spoke with her again.
Related entries
- Spin-off works:Kurt Wafter modified version
- Featured works:Little Busters! English Edition
- Predecessors who succeeded as captain:Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Returning to reality for those who rescued together:Little Busters!
- Protecting your partner in a bus accident:Masato Inohara (Little Busters!)
- Leaders of the childhood group:Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Classmates who protect their partners and fall in love with them (Game Valley):Yuiko Kokitani (Little Busters!)
- Searching together for the girl who created the dream world (PC EX Sasami Route):Sasasegawa Sasami (Little Busters!)
- The world creator he and Sasumi are searching for, Black Cat (PC EX):クロ(Little Busters! EX: Sasami route)
- A lover responding to himself during foreign detention (PC EX Return Branch):Nomi Kutriavka (Little Busters!)
- Companions who escape from school with you after studying abroad (PC original / EX Sukikan):Little Busters!
- Refrain, who refused a dojo challenge and rejoined the team after a baseball battle:Kengo Miyazawa (Little Busters!)
- Friends who are re-invited back to the team after a rampage (Refrain):Masato Inohara (Little Busters!)
- A girl who was helped by her own picture book to face her brother's death (PC EX):Shinpoku Little Busters!
- Regroup your companions and face the final chapter of farewell (PC original/EX):Refrain
- Practice of hitting the ball yourself and continuing the return combo (PC original):Baseball and Little Games (Little Busters!)
- The girl recalled by her own submission of tanka (2007 PC):Little Busters!
- Kojiro tells Takuya that he has passed away and provides his grave address (Komari arc by version):Kojiro Kamikita (Little Busters! English Edition)
- Visiting the deceased at Kojiro's grave site (Game Komari Edition):Takuya Kamikita (Little Busters!) English Edition)
- A girl who continues the last page of her own picture book and visits her family together (Game Ball):Shinpoku Little Busters!
- Hypothetical questioning of your own girl with a double pit fall (all-ages additional edition):Kanata Futaki (Little Busters!)
- The girl who calls out her own name after being restrained at the end of the Kanedu arc (PC EX):Ruka Saebaha (Little Busters!)
- Discarded wish tag retrieved by the girl (EX revisit):Nomi Kutriavka (Little Busters!)
- Revisiting the girl confessing to herself in the classroom at the end (2007 PC):Yuiko Kokitani (Little Busters!)
- A girl (EX type) who repeatedly experiences maze scenes with him:Tokito Saya (Little Busters!)
- Partner (PC EX Refrain) who identifies the fake injury from the eraser action himself:Kengo Miyazawa (Little Busters!)
- The girl he wants to meet in the Womb Rewind performance (PC EX Refrain):Little Busters!
- Including the final chapter where you calm down before rescue and choose to observe (PC EX):Refrain
- A girl who finds the item herself and then recognizes her benefactor (EX series additional arc):Sasasegawa Sasami (Little Busters!)
- To protect the club, I assist the dormitory captain (EX Department):Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Classmates (PC EX) who cover themselves with their jacket after a fire and exposed injuries:Kanata Futaki (Little Busters!)
- Classmate (PC EX) who carried herself to the infirmary after fainting in the rain:Kanata Futaki (Little Busters!)
- Teammates (PC EX) who pull the curtain tightly to help you descend the building:Masato Inohara (Little Busters!)
- Teammates (PC EX) who pull the curtain tightly to help you descend the building:Kengo Miyazawa (Little Busters!)
- Teammates (PC EX) who propose curtain plans to help you descend the building:Yuiko Kokitani (Little Busters!)
- The partner (PC EX) who pulled Kanado out of the car together:Nomi Kutriavka (Little Busters!)
- Classmates who planned to rescue and leave together at the venue (PC EX):Kanata Futaki (Little Busters!)
- Partners (PC EX) responsible for disguise and cover during the event you plan the venue:Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Peers (PC EX) who have applied for a leave of absence and plan to leave together:Ruka Saebaha (Little Busters!)
- Chapter describing his rescue using a stretcher (EX type):Refrain
- In Sasami's arc, the companion (EX type) who contacts you and explains the situation in your dream:Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- A black cat conveying fragments of image messages to herself (EX series Sasami arc):クロ(Little Busters! EX: Sasami route)
- Companions whose identity is identified as the task question (game ringtone):Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Friends who advise themselves to delay answering the bell by three days (game ringing line):Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Stop the rampaging companion by setting traps with Rin (Game Refrain):Masato Inohara (Little Busters!)
- Partners identified by Kyosuke after the fake damage (Game Refrain):Kengo Miyazawa (Little Busters!)
- Friend who hints to Kengo's lies (game Refrain):Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Holding your outstretched hand and accepting the invitation to join the team (Game Refrain):Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- The partner who shakes hands with you before parting in the final chapter (Game Refrain):Kengo Miyazawa (Little Busters!)
- Before disappearing, he handed over the Wakayama Bokusui tanka collection to his classmate (Yuki Miyu Line):Little Busters!
- A girl who blends into the class with the name Miyu, distinguished by herself (Game Miyu Route):Mitori Nishizono (Little Busters!) English Edition)
- Receiving a relationship report and blessings to her and Suzu's partner (EX Suzu route):Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- The girl he dated in the EX ringline:Little Busters!
- The final chapter unlocked after the EX Linchuan chooses to live strongly:Refrain
- The person who got caught in the rain and promised to go to a café on a sunny day:Yuiko Kokitani (Little Busters!)
- Friends who support their all-nighter picture book creation:Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- Jointly inviting Shiina to participate and persuading her mother (PC main story Wafter first part):Nomi Kutriavka (Little Busters!)
- Telling Yourself About Family Difficulties (PC Main Story Wafter Part 1):Beginning of the month (Kurt Wafter)
- The girl who gave the match to inflate (PC main story Wafter Part 1):Yutsuki Shiina (Kurt Wafter)
- After Part 1 Roommate (PC Main Part After Part 1):Yuki Himuro (Kurt Wafter)
- Cooking curry together with tomatoes (PC main post After previous part):Nomi Kutriavka (Little Busters!)
- Explain to yourself the reason why a companion helped (PC main story After Part 2· Icarus Rescue):Kanata Futaki (Little Busters!)
- The person who is encouraged by myself in the rain not to give up (PC main story After Part 2· Icarus Rescue):Nomi Kutriavka (Little Busters!)
- In Icarus's bad ending, those who receive false information about themselves (PC main story After later chapter· Icarus Bad Ending):Nomi Kutriavka (Little Busters!)
- Even after waking from sleep, he still shook hands and cared for Kyosuke:Kyosuke Zatsume (Little Busters!)
- After the ball collision accident, Meiyu received his medication patch as compensation:Little Busters!
- The companions summoned and invited (Saya arc):Tokito Saya (Little Busters!)
- Hand the novel to your classmate (Beautiful Fish Edition):Little Busters!
- The Glasses Statement That Shakes My Memory (Beautiful Fish Edition):Mitori Nishizono (Little Busters!) English Edition)
- Associated Work:Little Busters! English Edition
- Childhood Companion:Little Busters!
References
- PROTOTYPE:Little Busters! Converted Edition
- Key:Little Busters! Original specifications
- PROTOTYPE: Little Busters character
- Japanese Wikipedia: Little Busters! Game characters and Refrain
- Moai Shop: Little Busters! After finishing EX
- Nununu: Little Busters! Clearing Impressions
- リトルバスターズ! I completely finished Ecstasy
- リトルバスターズ! Play EX
- Miscellaneous notes + Akibaton + Litobass Beautiful Fish & Komari route: A simple review
- Impressions of the Ritobus Komari route
- Ken: Kanade Futaki Game Edition Guide and Analysis
- Hanmajin: PC EX Kana Futaki Chapter Completion Diary
- Junk: Sasami Sasasegawa Additional Chapter Hands-on
- Ken: Littbus Strategy & Analysis - Natsume Rin
- Ken: Refrain Strategy & Analysis: Mahito, Kengo, Kyosuke
- Ken: Litbus Strategy & Analysis - Mio Nishizono
- cross_claymore:Little Busters PEレビュー
- Ken: Litobus strategy & analysis - Yuiko Kurigaya
- Ken "Litbus Strategy & Analysis Komaki Kamikita"
- Hidden Key Kid/tetope: Kudowafuta Part 1 Hands-On
- Long Giraffe: Kudowa Customs Clearance Record
- Hidden Key Girl / tetope: Kudowafuta - After Gameplay
- Little Busters! Post-Clear Impressions *Spoilers Included
- リトルバスターズ! Impressions / Play Diary 5 - Cafeteria Mission Edition
- PROTOTYPE: Kurt Wafter Switch version
- Little Busters! English Edition: Official Steam production and story description
- submoon01:Little Busters! EX: Finite life, the sea of beginnings and ends
- J-T@ロリンポP:Little Busters! EX Kudo route strategy review
- Little Busters EX [Impressions and Memo]
- リトルバスターズ! Impressions
- Junk: Refrain strategy diary
- Ken: Refrain Strategy & Investigation ・ Last Episode Little Busters
- highcampus:リトルバスターズ! Ecstatic recollection
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Data compiled on: 2026-10-16.