Review: Clannad
This Review will not spoil the Anime Experience!

[Overview]


The girls of Clannad: Tomoyo (top-left), Kotomi (top-right)
Fuko (bottom-left), Nagisa (center), and Kyou (bottom-right)Clannad mainly focuses on Tomoya and the events that occur around him. Tomoya slacks off, skips school, lazes around and gets labeled as a delinquent, or simply someone who doesn’t really care about defying authority [which is most likely a result of his laziness too xD ]. The story all begins when Tomoya is walking back from his first day of his third year at High School when he meets Nagisa Furukawa, and this is where everything begins. Tomoya meets Nagisa once or twice more and learns that she wants to re-establish the schools Drama Club, however with Nagisa’s lack of self-confidence, she feels that she won’t be able to fulfill her dream, but the Tomoya encourages her not to give up on what she wants to do, to get the Drama Club running again, and he goes on to offer a helping hand.

There is also a deeper, dreamier, fantasy aspect to the anime, which involves a character that resembles Nagisa. This is a very interesting part of the story and one that can be related to.

Clannad will follow Nagisa as she tries to fulfill her dream, meeting and making friends with people along the way (Tomoyo, Kotomi, Fuko, Nagisa, and Kyou), as well as getting through obstacles they never thought they would have had to face.

[Feeling and Animation]
Going through the first half of Clannad will get anyone who has seen Kanon to think “Hey, this is just like Kanons story structure!”, and its no surprise, as they are both derived from Visual Novels, whereas Clannad goes through fixed Story Arcs instead. Bearing that in mind, all viewers will get to watch the highest level of Animation, as expected; it’s Vibrant, Colourful and nothing less than a pleasure to watch. It perfectly resonates with the Story it’s working with.

[The Story]
The Anime progresses around individual characters while working with everyone else at the same time, most importantly the Main Characters, Tomoya Okazaki & Nagisa Furukawa.

The characters personas are individually brilliant, and you are able to tell who is who very easily, meaning the Voice Acting is no less than perfect, which, in combination with the superb Animation, guarantees a quality viewing experience. Not to drift away, the Story is presented very cleverly, instead of resetting the Anime to certain times to go through the Characters Stories, everything is progressive, and their stories blend into each other giving it that progressivism element you would expect in a day-to-day Anime. It’s expected to find Keys adaptation work out so well in animated form, and it really works with this truly wonderful story.

[Conclusion]
First of all, this is a Key Visual Novel turned Anime. Key is responsible for other fantastic titles like Air & Kanon that were also turned into Anime productions thanks to Kyoto Animation, and Kyoto Animation done what they did, they brought Clannad  to life, and as beautiful as Kanon was.
It was bound to be a fantastic production as with most work by Key and/or Kyoto Animation, and it done more than just match our expectations – it exceeded them.

Clannad is a Story about the Value of Family and Friendship, a truly heartwarming tale for anyone who wants to watch a beautiful story play out upon incredible animation and a wonderful story following unique characters that you won’t forget.

[Technical Points]
Animation: 10/10
Voice Acting: 10/10
No. of Episodes for Story: 10/10



Don’t get me wrong, I gave the last 10 with a slight hesitation, that doesn’t mean it makes it bad in any way, but quite a lot of people may feel the same as I do about the last few episodes being a bit short for its own story, whereas some people may be thankful for the way its structured, as anime similar to this one has the tendency to fall short for its own story. (Actually, the second season was aired and completed the story. In sequence, this is a perfect anime) Ultimately, however, the ending is simply precious, some would say perfect, especially with a bonus 23rd Episode you will thoroughly enjoy!

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Thanks for reading my review (more like a Preview ^_^), its difficult to not give anything away for this kind of Anime, but I done my best to try and describe this work of art this story presents.

Comments welcome.

Thanks again,
Senseito Sakura

(This post was last modified: 10/08/2010 03:29 AM by S7*.)

Clannad after story is actually ep 24, they decided to release it as an OVA with the dvd's when they come out. so its gonna be awhile when wee get to see it :( i really liked this anime I'll miss waiting for eps every week

clannad ep 23 is out i watched the after story today

beaner2k6 Wrote:Clannad after story is actually ep 24, they decided to release it as an OVA with the dvd's when they come out. so its gonna be awhile when wee get to see it :( i really liked this anime I'll miss waiting for eps every week

Wrong.

After Story is another Season.

The OVA IS Episode 24:

OVA
Director -

Tatsuya Ishihara
Studio -

Kyoto Animation
Episodes -

1
Released -

July 16, 2008
Runtime -

24 minutes

TV anime: Clannad After Story
Director -

Tatsuya Ishihara
Studio -

Kyoto Animation

The VN would be out in a few months probably. I'm going to play that first instead of the anime probably. Then maybe get the anime afterwards, if downloads permit (stupid 10gb cap).

Assassinator Wrote:The VN would be out in a few months probably. I'm going to play that first instead of the anime probably. Then maybe get the anime afterwards, if downloads permit (stupid 10gb cap).

I noticed TheWaffleHouse Project Page has been "shut down" due to copyright infringement :(

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:The VN would be out in a few months probably. I'm going to play that first instead of the anime probably. Then maybe get the anime afterwards, if downloads permit (stupid 10gb cap).

I noticed TheWaffleHouse Project Page has been "shut down" due to copyright infringement :(

Yeah... April Fools much?

You Just Got Fooled!!!

(This post was last modified: 01/04/2008 04:23 PM by Assassinator.)

Assassinator Wrote:

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:The VN would be out in a few months probably. I'm going to play that first instead of the anime probably. Then maybe get the anime afterwards, if downloads permit (stupid 10gb cap).

I noticed TheWaffleHouse Project Page has been "shut down" due to copyright infringement :(

Yeah... April Fools much?

You Just Got Fooled!!!

OH FOR FUCKS SAKE - I EVEN FELL FOR SPOON-SUBS SHUT DOWN

Why am I so gullible.. >_<

Oh, also..

Rumors have been floating around, and they are most likely true:

"Haruhi's Second Anime" will be Kyoto Animations next project to air - which will then be followed by Clannad After Story

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

beaner2k6 Wrote:Clannad after story is actually ep 24, they decided to release it as an OVA with the dvd's when they come out. so its gonna be awhile when wee get to see it :( i really liked this anime I'll miss waiting for eps every week

Wrong.

After Story is another Season.

The OVA IS Episode 24:

OVA
Director -

Tatsuya Ishihara
Studio -

Kyoto Animation
Episodes -

1
Released -

July 16, 2008
Runtime -

24 minutes

TV anime: Clannad After Story
Director -

Tatsuya Ishihara
Studio -

Kyoto Animation

oh... sorry for being wrong i must've gotten the wrong idea since i hadn't heard of it being an actual new anime seires after clannad

(This post was last modified: 01/04/2008 05:28 PM by beaner2k6.)