
In a nutshell, Clannad ~After Story~ influenced the way I will live for the rest of my life and not just in some half-assed way like any other show would. I want a different ending from the Movie’s please.Īt least we got an awesome shot like this.I experienced something that changed my life. (This is like how they keep on killing the real Alice in “Are you Alice?” … Ironic, Nagisa and Alice are voice by the same person) See, now the movie, the anime and the game (first time around) killed Nagisa. As for the ending itself, I HIGHLY doubt KyoAni will give us something other than a happy ending.

No ones going to be able to do anything about his angsting and I’m going to want to punch Tomoya at least fifteen times an episode until the last or before last episode. Ushio’s going to be with Akio and Sanae all the while because Tomoya won’t acknowledge her existence since it took away Nagisa’s. Tomoya’s going to become a worthless human being like his father. I’m not the only one who thinks this right?Īnd now we’re going to have 8 Nagisa-less episodes. We almost never got to … wait actually, we NEVER saw Tomya and Nagisa THAT lovey-dovey EVER! Not that Nagisa’s dead you give us the rabu-rabu shots? That’s really cruel. All the best shots of the episodes had to be with Nagisa’s Montage. I was in a sort of state of uh … emptiness that even after watching it again, I could barely take screenshots. Or maybe I’m saying that because I’ve been listening to many NojiKen Drama CDs lately) I disliked Nojima Kenji’s Tomoya before and now I’m wondering why because it was actually a great portrayal. (Not that it matters but, I recently saw the movie again.

Okay, yeah, that’s really stupid I know … but I just couldn’t. I felt like it’d be taking pictures of someone dying … for real. I didn’t take much screenshots of the labor scene. (It’s like how I want to cry every time I hear “Continued Story, Hitomi” … though, that song sounded sad to me from the start) I used to listen to it with a smile on my face but now I want to cry hearing it. The song just sounds more and more sad as CLANNAD went on. I’m going to cry whenever I hear Dango Daikazoku now. I’ve listened something even more tragic recently so this was relatively alright for me. I mean, it must’ve been real good because it was so hard to watch. Perfect even I disregard my own feelings. I’m just rambling because it’s just hard to talk about. Not that that has anything to do with anyhing. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a labor scene in an anime before. Doesn’t make the whole labor part of the episodes any less hard to watch. Illusionary world in the middle of an episode, the city changing, the big snowfall … Well, it made it obvious. The following scenes made it obvious that Nagisa was going to … ugh. I think I was just in denial at that point though. But Sunohara was funny the next second, I ignored the omen. This is where I went “Oh no …” and got a real bad feeling. I’d fangirl about that but I think the “guy-Okazaki” thing was even better.Īnd then comes the flashback. For a second, I thought Sunohara would say “Tomoya”. Or am I the only one who thinks it plainly says that Sunohara doesn’t want to call Tomoya “Tomoya” because he’s been calling him “Okazaki” all along. That bittersweet/melancholic face Sunohara made just uh, hit me. Plus, I gotta hint of one-sided love from Sunohara to Tomoya which made me fangirl. At this point, I still hadn’t figured out the drama would come so I simply enjoyed the warmth of the reunion. On New Year’s, the whole high-school gang comes to visit the Okazaki household.

The months fly by in the first segment of the episode going through Christmas, New Year’s and Valentines day. I’ll be very disapointed in KyoAni in that case. If, after this, we’re still getting a happy ending, I hope it’ll be different from Toei’s Clannad Movie ending. There’s 8 episodes left and I can pretty much guess what KyoAni plans to do with them. I don’t really want to write this post but I feel I need to sort out my thoughts somehow. Even if I still disliked Nagisa like before, I still wouldn’t be able to watch this episode properly. Stupid me forgetting the important details like this. I should’ve realized sooner what the baby being born so early would mean.

Two episodes ago, I said “I expect the baby to be born whithin two episodes at this rate” … Ugh.
