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Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« on: July 11, 2011, 11:03:48 pm »
Obligatory Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~ thread.

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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2011, 11:21:43 pm »
Obligatory Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~ thread.

Discuss the anime.

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Fap over your favourite girl.

Or just sit and wish Mei was your imouto.

thats wrong in so many ways man...

As for the anime, 1 word. Brilliant.

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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2011, 06:13:59 am »
Clannad has taught me a valuable lesson : If you screw up badly in life, you will get a time slip back.

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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2011, 10:26:20 pm »
Obligatory Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~ thread.

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Or just sit and wish Mei was your imouto.

Made me laugh for days.
Fave girl is either Tomoyo or Kyou.

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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2011, 02:56:23 am »
Obligatory Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~ thread.

Discuss the anime.

Weep manly tears in unison.

Fap over your favourite girl.

Or just sit and wish Mei was your imouto.

I would love to talk about the series in extreme detail, but if I did, I would make wayyy too lengthy posts and I would be using the
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Anime, Visual Novel, Soundtracks... simply superior.

BTW... Nagisa, Kyou, and Kotomi are my fav. girls in the series.  (Ushio doesn't count!)  Tomoyo ain't bad either, but she has a VN all to herself  ;)
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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2011, 12:44:44 am »
I like to see CLANNAD as one of those anime's that can withstand the test of time. In many years, people will be hearing about CLANNAD remakes!

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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2011, 12:10:00 pm »
such an wonderful anime, got the OST's on my computer...

everytime im playing: Clannad - Nagisa (by Maeda Jun), im about to cry, that soundtrack brings back all of the bad, and all of the good times of clannad...

a quote which i have used before (not on here though)

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Clannad is an anime, which changes your life!
Quote from a guy on AnimeNewsNetwork after Clannad After Story reached #1 (currently #2 best rated on ANN)
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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2011, 03:48:18 pm »
Quote from a guy on AnimeNewsNetwork after Clannad After Story reached #1 (currently #2 best rated on ANN)

Now I have a problem with this!  First off, Clannad ~AS~ is still the best rated TV series, so congrats for the viewers getting that right.  However... 'The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya' as #1?  I'll be the first to admit I think it is a really well done movie... assuming the audience knows the characters and general storyline.  'Disappearance' is not a stand alone piece/movie.  It would be like watching 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back'  without watching the first movie.  Sure, one can follow along with the story, but that doesn't mean it makes a whole heck of a lot of sense.  I'd even go so far as to say 'Disappearance' poses a greater issue because it entails flashbacks and timelines the audience isn't aware of unless the prior seasons are watched / light novels read.

One could suggest that ~After Story~, as a sequel series, has the same problems; I respectfully disagree.  You see, I watched Clannad ~AS~ before Clannad.  My friend happened to have the several series available for me to watch, so I chose a show seemingly at random (I saw all the shows listed but I had no idea what any of them were).  ~AS~ was off to the side from the other shows, so I decided to watch that one; sufficient to say I was happy I did.  Why is this important?  Well, watching ~AS~ is what got me hooked on 'non-mainstream' anime. (examples of 'mainstream' shows include any heavily promoted anime in the western world, such as Sailor Moon, DBZ, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc.)  The storyline was so powerfully delivered that without any prior knowledge of the series to that point (S1), I was able to learn the background of the characters to a significant extent and understand their struggles without any outside assistance (while changing my life in the process).  This is something that 'Disappearance' and many other shows lack; once again this is not to say 'Disappearance' wasn't a great movie with the proper background knowledge (it was).  Rather, as a 20+ episode self-contained season having to keep up high levels of enjoyment throughout every episode, Clannad ~AS~ deserves additional consideration than what I am guessing it received from the ANN community.

I could go on further, but unless I go into a breakdown of the positives and negatives of each story, this is as good a point as any.

Long live ~AS~.  Long live CLANNAD.  Long live KEY.
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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2011, 11:02:05 pm »
Lol, I agree with pretty much everything posted in this thread so far. I saw Clannad prior to ~AS~ and when ~AS~ was airing I've never had the sensation of "I can't wait a whole f^ing week for the next episode to come out" until Amagami SS aired XD.
~AS~ remains as one of my top 5 all time favorites, it's a great adaptation of the VN which is (imo) rare to say about others. Kyou is one of two (the other being Sekai from School Days) of my all time favorite female characters. I used to advocate her for being with Tomoya, but imo the best coupling is with Tomoyo. Reason why I changed my opinion is because I was pretty disappointed with Kyou's OVA since it seemed a little crammed and didn't have the same effect on me as Tomoyo's OVA. Although it was the most anticipated OVA I've ever looked forward to, Tomoyo's OVA is the most rewatched anime-related thing I've seen, rofl. I don't normally read manga but after reading Tomoyo After ~Dear Shining Memories~ I absolutely fell in love with the Tomoyo x Tomoya coupling and now I'm looking forward to her VN Arc (so many thanks Doki <3).

I almost cried upon watching ~AS~, and it's not because I was resenting it, but just because I don't normally cry, lol. HOWEVER, if the whole Clannad and Clannad ~AS~ series originally revolved around Tomoyo and her story in (further) detail, I'd probably cry like a baby assuming it ends as it does in the manga and the impact is strongly delivered.
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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2011, 11:07:17 am »
I will watch this during the mid semester break, hopefully if I can get all the stuff downloaded next week at Uni. Hopefully it is as great as all you people (and others) say it is.
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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2011, 01:40:47 am »
This is by far one of the best anime series I've ever seen. Atleast for me it is absolutely loved it!

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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2011, 07:33:50 am »
Welcome to the majority, lol


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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2011, 06:50:45 pm »
Finished AS few days ago. One word : Wonderful.
Never cried like that (Thanks to episode 17 to 22).
I want to have kids now ! é_è

Kotomi was my favourite characted. I loved Fuko too. :3


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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2011, 08:54:38 pm »
Yes! Yes!

Another fellow Kotomi fan! I felt like I was the only one for so long... Everyone on these forums supports Tomoyo and Nagisa (Nagisa being one of everyone's top three.)

Play that violin Kotomi! You suck but you look so cute when you do!
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Re: Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2011, 08:56:07 pm »
I don't support either.

I support Ayu and Nayuki, because Kanon is much better!