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The Fall 2008 Anime Preview Guide Part 1

Bit early to be giving a series a rating don't you think? A single episode and you guys think it lacks background info and character depth? Ever think it's because it's been one single episode?

The review was actually very fair. If you aren't a super-key fan then clannad after story is not really interesting. But on the upside ADV just might have the license to it for those who are fans. I assume that they got both seasons or maybe the whole property seeing as air and kanon were popular.

Then again, Hisashi Hirai (the man who can draw only one face) and ALI PROJECT (the band that can write only one song) should have also been tip-offs, I guess. . . .

Vortextk wrote:

I drop off the anime radar for literally the entire spring season, come back, and am already starting to look at the fall reviews Thanks for the great article(and new format) again. I'm hoping a few things clear up for me in this season of Clannad. I was a little unimpressed with the show as a whole, but it was all right(anything KyoAni does I'll atleast watch for the beautiful animation). I still don't understand (first season only)spoiler[the odd fantasy references with the girl and robot, which inturn seems to be the play Nagisa does in the ending. I mean, is that all there is to it? This is a play she's thought about and in the end, acts out? It seemed to get too much air time for just that] I assumed the anime was going to be more like Air, with a hint of magic around them, and it doesn't quite turn out to be the case, even though it almost seemed like it wanted to... At this point I need to go back and go through all the reviews for last season once again to catch up on what I missed.

spoiler[The secondary fantasy plot isn't going to come full circle until later in this season. The alternate world with the junk doll and the girl is however, what will influence the events coming in the future.]

I really can't explain much more than that without spoiling it. I've yet to play the game myself, but I've gotten a few rough script translations here and there to find that the ending is suiting to it all but again, I can't say much without spoiling anything. Reviewing the season would definitely help, because I doubt there's going to be any more flashbacks in terms of reminding people what's happened.

Megiddo wrote:

The reason why Clannad got a second series was because the first only told the first half of the game. Yes, the game is THAT long.

another thing to point out is that the game is like a literal novel... I mean all visual novels are.

It took me 18 hours to finish reading all of Banquet of the Golden Witch, so I imagine Clannad is at least twice or three times the length of the first chapter of Umineko. There's a large underestimation of the size of these plots by american audiences. Granted a lot of it is detail, only half, maybe 1/4th gets presented in the visual portion of the story when in anime form.

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And besides, aren't Tomoya and Nagisa an item already? Even diehard Key fans will be asking, “What is the point of more?”

This made me chuckle, considering that, as a diehard Key fanboy, I couldn't wait to see the After Story animated.

It's a an old formula, but I expect to see more in it and a new solution. I disliked Hayase, but didn't hate him. I actually enjoyed him more in the end, when he was fighting and high on adrenaline. I will say he's no where near as pathetic as Shinji from EVA, and he grew more in the first episode then Shinji did in the entire series. I guess EVA had a good plot to back it up.

The review was actually very fair. If you aren't a super-key fan then clannad after story is not really interesting.