This was very well written and thorough, probably the best Little Busters! article I’ve read, but there are some things wrong with it.
“The female cast seems largely unaware that they are living in a loop – though they had a hand in creating the world, as newer members of the Little Busters, their hearts were still fixated on their own separate, unrealized worries.”
The female cast is getting closure on events from their own lives, but they are also actively trying to make Riki and Rin stronger. Komari is proof of this. Like Kurugaya and Kyousuke she “breaks” the rules of this world that had been set up. She is the only heroine who shows up in other girls’ routes even after you complete her own. In Refrain we see that this was intentional because she wanted to keep being friends with Rin, and Komari is the one to see her off as the World collapses. The author makes it sound like Kurugaya was the only girl to know about the loop and that was only because she was so strong (and as a tangent, you could say the only reason Kurugaya is quite as strong as she is is because its a synthetic world not limited by the same constraints as ours. Which makes more sense than a high schooler who can basically teleport). So if the boys, Kurugaya, and Komari all know about the Secret of the World there’s no reason to believe Haruka, Mio, and Kud don’t as well.
I also want to respond to his sections on some of the routes, but I have to save something for the bookclub