GR Anime Review: Clannad 

Lunace Definitely ride isn't it...If you watch this and do not tear up...You have no soul.....Definitely my favorite story ever and I'm a 50 yo granddad Whose son told him to watch it.....

I have almost cried while watching a anime twice: While watching the last episode of cardcaptor Sakura, I almost cried when Syaron left Sakura, I also almost cried when Mokana thought Syaron, Fai and Kerogane were dead in episode 50 of Tsubasa chronicles.

F. Jinxy So you haven't watched Clannad: After Story is what you're saying

CreationCatalyst yes. That I'm what I'm saying. Should I go watch it later?

F. Jinxy Yeah but only if you have watched Clannad first. It fairly necessary to enjoy After Story.

zlozlozlo OMG Same here!

Holy crap I know! Even reading this comment gave me goosebumps...

zlozlozlo Same man I same My heart start beating fasters and gets all tight I can't help but feel nostalgic

zlozlozlo I'm going to watch this soon cause I haven't seen it yet. Wish me luck.

Make sure to watch clannad, then straight away watch after story, do not delay it. Also prepare some form of anti depressant, pills or puppy pictures, it doesn't matter. You will need both and more after you finish after story. After you're done, give it 1-2 weeks and you should feel sane again, just make sure you do not listen to the Dango song in the meantime or you will weep like a little girl. Good Luck!

LITERALLY HAD TO STOP THE VIDEO

@@johnathandenyer3751 IKR? What the fuck just that theme instantly gives me goosebumps

facts😭

@@lowlylucky i was screaming.

I deadass thought it was Nagisa. Like, after I saw White Darkness and Nagisa's...demise, I was like "HUH?! WHY THIS OUTRO?!", then ep 17 came along and I was like "Well, I'm stupid."

I can honestly say I agree with you, and I can also say this is the first time i've ever seen a big youtuber comment on a video that i've watched. Keep up the good work!

are you the admin of Clannad ~After Story ~?? i just commented on that

xclassicalcatx Furukawa family's the best❤️

Clannad is the number one anime in the history of the world.

Clannad is and always will be my number one anime

I disagree, it's good but not that great, listen to Welcome To The NHK's soundtrack... Fucking hell it's amazing.

I 100% agree..dont care what anyone says...

Same i love the OST

Trueeeeee

Yeah, because one of many reasons why CLANNAD is my favorite anime of all time is the soundtrack.. OMG i love it so much

+yarden calif SAME

Can't break mine cause it's already broken

Every time I hear Clannad music I bawl my eyes out.

Every time I hear the Dango song, I feel a little bit of myself die.

earth1pc C4H8Cl2S SPOILER WARNING!!!

ThaVillageGamers I am realy glad you posted this spoiler I cant handle that kind off emotional rollercoaster stuff so I am going to pass this anime So thank you for saving me from total depression

commentator098 well, yeah, you would pass the depression, but its actually worth it. The depression will probably last for a period from a day, to maybe a week or 2. (for me it was about a week) But that is all, worth it. All. If you didn't know yet, Clannad is one of the best romance/drama anime out there, if not the best. It is also leaves a good message behind regarding family and stuff. (since that is the major topic for all arcs in the anime) Anyway, I do highly recommend you to watch Clannad and Clannad After Story. There are only very few people who didnt like it. (for example the youtuber MistyChronexia) In addition I recommend you to watch the review of Clannad from TheBlackCriticGuy. He also reviews it pretty good, and if I were you, I would really think twice about passing on it. So yeah.... only if you REALLY dont want to see it :P PS: tip, dont read major spoilers from anime you havent seen yet

Thanks I will probaply watch it some day

commentator098 cool

ThaVillageGamers Exactly the same here but also the resemblance of tomoya's daughter.

When he was trying to tell Ushio about Nagisa and after he had spent 5 years trying to not think about her all the memories started flooding in, omg.

Damn man ...

IT gets much more depressing in After Story

oh man if Fuuko got you, you're not going to survive this show

MissStoryTelling No need to tell me that...some1 got the show half-spoiled for me, I KNOW some1 majors dying...but don't know who!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH god, if you're continuing good luck XD

YES I agree! Finally, a soul that thinks alike to me!

fuck you so much for spoilering :) you just made the series unseeable for me, and again, fuck you very much !:)

+Dr LetsPlay well, a lot of people who see a show want to see what other people think. And then talk about it. Comments are the perfect place for that. You can't seriouly tell everyone not to talk about it because YOU haven't seen it. You should avoid these comments instead.

+Jay P The comment could have had a spoiler warning

lol i feel the wedding made me cry most and when tomoyas dad finally is happy

+Piromyśl right? I feel like I've lost something after watching this.

+Arnolds Kļavenieks More like two things...

+Ichigo Kurosaki yea, two.. :(

+Cookiesaurus its so sad but good anime

+Cookiesaurus the reason people say they envy someone who hasn't watched a particular show, is because once a person finishes, re-watching it won't hit you nearly as hard as your first time viewing it so someone who hasn't watched clannad can experience these emotions while people who already watched it can't do that anymore at least that's why i think they do

Oh yea, this comment section will probably bring your expectations up to an unachievable level, and you will be disappointed by the anime.

I literally predicted everything about this anime before watching so I didn't cry

Knowing what's going to happen in Clannad will do that, setting the rewatch value to almost 0.

RipleySawzen i just guessed tho not spoiled or anything

She dies. Is this the huge secret? It couldnt be more obvious if they printed it on her forehead.

Why? Nothing bad happens because it's all erased by a magical asspull.

It's not an asspull but I'm not gonna rant on it I've talked too much about it xD But I highly suggest you search for it, unless you actually HATE the ending and aren't just curious to know how it was adapted and why

They established miracles could happen, like Nagisa coming back to life as a child minutes after she died. But shit like that has happened in our world before. None of the miracles in Clannad were too far off from something that can happen in reality till the final magical asspull. It was this lack of establishing such a thing was possible that leads one to confusion and shock at episode 22. They could have established this at two points in time: Before Nagisa dies, or afterwards. If they do it before, we never really know for sue she's gone for good. We have this tension/hope to cling onto. If they do it after she dies, we still experience the sadness (I prefer this way), then we're suddenly filled with hope at the possibility she might be brought back. This hope needs time to sink it, so for several episodes we need to know it's possible. My beef isn't so much with what happened or how it happened, but how they delivered it to us.

It's not an asspull because it's f*cking foreshadowed in the whole series.

How so?

Lol that's so funny and true at the same time...XD

Dango Family

segaspamer64 no pls

I-I'm not crying...

Daikozuku

i think it is not just your opinion :D

100% agree :)

Bluez d

I know what you mean.... most other anime looks like crap after this one.

I was half way through season 1, came onto this video, checked the comments and saw Nagisa dies.... Fuck, ending spoilt for me but I'm sure I'll still enjoy it. Personally I don't think it's amazing, it's pretty good so far but not great. If you want an ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SPECTACULAR!!!! Anime/manga series get into Welcome To The NHK... But that probably speaks to me and stuck with me for years a lot because I relate to the main characters and plot so much.

You just gave me the best mental image of deathstroke sitting enraptured in front of the TV watching clannad and crying his eye out

Reallyrandomcircle Can't forget Ushio saying "Daddy. Is it ok to cry now?" I lost it at that part.

***** Same here or the part with ,,It's the first one Dad bought me"

the 0 is your feels -0- *0* O (got that destroyed it isn't even a zero anymore)

Is that the progression? lol! I was wondering about the lab coat.

Daniel Noller the true pokemon evolution

It's Canada's military cosplay I believe!XD

we are sending a relief team equipped with tissue boxes and baby beagles. please hold on, the team will be there shortly.

I shall try to hold out

:( I wish I could have experienced the story without expecting anything.... the clannad after story opening ruined the biggest and most arguably saddest part of the show by spoiling it for me (not going to say what it is so people don't get spoiled)... kinda upsets me to see that same part of the opening is shown in this review. >_>

Yea I had the same feeling at the end of Future Diary... Cried myself to sleep that night.

no matter how many times i watch Clannad and After Story, i still cant stop feeling so happy and sad at times watching it. i must've seen it like 5 times so far... still so good. Clannad(both Seasons), Air, Kannon, Angel Beats, Okami-San and her Seven Companions, and Shuffle are some of my favorites(for dramas).

Same, i finished it a week ago myself wait...for you its been years...how does it feel?

StormPanda Just like Tomoya ;-)

Well... My words exactly! Just finnished it... Don't think i'll sleep well tonight :P

oliss10 Oh don't worry. Here, I'll sing a lullaby: Da~ango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Da~ango Daikazoku! .....great now I'm crying ;__;

***** I know the feeling man..:D

littlemissjax00 Now watch Anohana ^_^ TOTALLY not sad, truuuuust me.... ;)

littlemissjax00 Yup, and wathc shigatsu wa kimi no uso too ;)

+ElevatedPickle AnoHana has nothing on After Story.

+littlemissjax00 u must be pretty strong for watching them at a stretch. i watched angel beats, clannad and clannad after story in 5 days. it took me 2 days to get over them and im not sure i got over

+littlemissjax00 I cried my eyes out during the ending dude.

I can agree with this in ways i dont even understand

Same. I feel the exact same way

That's tough. Hope things turn out better for you.

I know it's a rhetorical question buuut... I don't know. :P

+Marcela McDaniel intuition? I mean that you have that sort of tingling feeling in your bones that you HAVE to watch this review?

I don't think that's intuition. The more appropriate term would be "curiosity" I think.

+Marcela McDaniel watch it then. clannad in it self is a little slow and i'd call it a build up for the main story where you get to know the characters and you get attached to them. and then afterstory is where you'll get your heart ripped out of your body and the tears falling from your eyes.. oh gawd the tears. you will probably run out of tears at 1 or 2 particular moments in afterstory

+Ramhams1337 So true 😢

Hear hear! I mean it had it's problems, but it's far better than having to read all the dialog, which makes me lose tons of the feeling that this Anime had... Which is why if possible, I will choose dub over sub.

+batman88891 same

It's the eyes isn't it

I can't even watch the sub for this anymore. I've tried. but I actually prefer the dub, and after seeing it 5 or 6 times, 4 of those dubbed, the sub sounds off to me.

I enjoy the dub of clannad as well its not as bad as other dubs i have seen

yeah I didn't saw it comming everyone appears to enjoy the ost including me

man tears bro man tears you could be emotionless and watch clannad and you wont change your face expression but the tears will start falling MAN TEARS OP

I'm about 19 episodes in Clannad, and haven't cried yet! I know! I usually cry really easily too! I think I was a bit too prepared...

noodlesfordays Funnily enough the episode that got the most upset was the Tomoyo OVA special, although the ending was so satisfying :')

Oh... It's funny, I haven't cried in Clannad yet, but I've just cried watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, in the part where Shion tries to strangle Mion, because of Satoshi!

noodlesfordays man higurashi is fucking brilliant, but clannad doesn't really get sad until after story, then you will more than likely cry like a little bitch ( we all did)

Oh!

Something to keep note of, was that this was an adaptation of a sim game, so the story was modified from having paths to connect with ALL the girls, to just one. Also, Fuko never died. If you'd payed attention, you'd know that the real Fuko was in a coma in the hospital, and the Fuko that was running around was more like her projected spirit. Her want to help ease her sister's suffering, because she was putting her own life on pause to wait for Fuko to recover. The reason why Tomoyo never fell in love with Sunohara is pretty cut and dried, Sunohara pissed her off one too many times early show...go fig right? As for why they all fell in love with Tomoya, he basically gave them something they all needed, when they needed it most. The reason why Nagisa and Tomoya weren't shown developing the regular cliche'd anime romance, is because they both weren't those cliche'd characters. They were both damaged people that had hard times reaching out to, and trusting others. Just by being around one another, and supporting one another, they developed feelings for one another, and started fixing and healing those wounds they held inside. That's actually more or less, why all the girls went for Tomoya at least a little bit, he couldn't just leave them be if they needed help. Did it mean he wanted to get into their pants? No, he just generally wanted to help, so that's why that didn't pan out...the whole, why Nagisa thing. Because, while Tomoya helped all the girls a ton, Nagisa's just about the only one to REALLY help Tomoya. She was there for him when he needed him the most, and wouldn't let him give up. Also, as to the whole, pregnancy thing, this isn't a hentai, so they aren't gonna show you the scenes where they fucked, it's just not gonna happen, but Nagisa does directly tell her father that she and Tomoya did have sex after they got married...to hilarious affect. ;p

I can understand why some people can criticize the plot, especially if they haven't play the VN. The thing that sets Clannad apart from other anime, imo, is the emotional pull it puts on you and how you can truly feel the pain of the characters

which one after story or the normal one?

***** *********SPOILER ALERT*********** I can definitely see where you are coming from, as I just finished watching the entire thing myself. You really have to keep in mind that it is an adaptation of a visual novel, and that the final few episodes where it showed nagisa and their daughter dying was supposed to show the 'ending' of the visual novel if you didn't do the work of helping everyone out with their problems. In other words doing the sidequests, and once those are done you get the final episode of the show which adapts the 'true/perfect ending' which negates the deaths of Nagisa and Ushio from before. And it did feel rather disingenuous to me that it had to be done in such a way, as I did kind of feel like it would have been better just to skip those episodes where Nagisa and Ushio died. The other thing is that although the final episode has a lot of closure and good feels, we never got to see if Tomoya reconciled with his dad the way he did in the scenario where Nagisa died, so it did kind of leave unanswered questions on that front. As for the other characters, I think they never quite got around to trying to decide whether they wanted Sunohara to stick to being the comic relief like he was in the first season, or to be a more serious character like in the episodes that centered on him in After Story. It was really just very jarring and strange to watch the character try to be both, and seems like they should have left him being one or the other. As for your Tomoyo x Sunohara pairing... I have no idea where you got that from, though I do feel like they missed out with Sunohara's potential to be more than what they left him to be and did feel kind of like a let down that we never see him really develop his character, especially considering he was Tomoya's first friend in high school. Fuko was just a weird occurrence to me, as was that weird story about the boy who turned into a cat, or always was a cat, or the whole Empty World alternate Ushio and Junk Robot Tomoya weirdness that Nagisa and Tomoya could sometimes see in dreams. Ideally I think I would have liked the anime more if it completely ignored that whole Empty World thing, and skipped the needless tragedy episodes towards the end of After Story, as by the final episode, they really did feel needless! Yes they got an emotion out of me, but it felt like a lie when the final episode came around and basically said "So you know all that crap that happened with Nagisa and Ushio those last few episodes? Bet you wish that didn't happen right? WISH GRANTED!" since that is exactly what happened. If it did have to be included I think they should have done so in the same format that they did those Other World stories where Tomoya ended up with someone else, just to see the 'what-if' scenarios, that I think would have made more sense to do.

***** I can understand that sentiment, as it is what made a favorite anime of mine called Stein's;Gate falter a bit due to the fact that it was adapted from a visual novel with multiple potential romantic choices. Moving every character that isn't the main 'true' choice for romance to a side role when adapting the VN to anime form is one of the ways it should have been done. The alternative, I think would be dedicating one or maybe two OVA episodes to cover the possibilities of the other options without making it be canon to the main, like what is done with the Other World episodes in Clannad, so that everyone gets their fill of it.

feels the feels inside the already existing feels.

kid14346 Don't you get logical when a emotional anime is going on brony. -_- At least it is emotional than broken friendship. This is broken happenies, broken everything. (No broken story line though)

kid14346 The way you put that is fuckinngg hilarious

Kiritodomo97 Dude I loved Clannad before I became a brony, so calm yonder tits and come hither an join me in the mourning of this beautiful anime.

Im a boy... I'll join to watch it with you but not join the herd, Again! Ill tell resons laterz. -Mumbles why I left the herd.-

Just wait man, just wait ;_;

This anime is going to hit your feels faster than a bullet.

Dragonk116 It already did xD I've never really cried at a show before. I've teared up at a few, sure, but never really sobbed. That was until I watched the last 2 Fuko episodes yesterday. Holy shit, I cried, fucking sobbed, 4 times while watching them. I was a wreck. This anime is incredible thus far, seriously incredible. Onward to episode 13 now.

TheRandomMan20111 Have you seen AnoHana?

TheRandomMan20111 Dude, the show can't be considered sad without After Story A.K.A the second season. It destroyed my emotions real hard, I didn't even know how to feel for about 2 weeks after I finished it...

same XD

+raz glor my heart was raising and my depression skyrocketed

Ok i dont understand... I heard about the saddest animes being ange beats, clannad and anohana.... I just watched angel beats and clannad and i didnt cry at all. I was sad when the sad moments ocured, mid-end clannad after story but i was laughing my ass off when i saw angel beats ending. Now i want to know if anohana is really a sad anime or is it just overhyped like those two ?

Roman Jazzar i think mostly it is about your personallity but in general popl say you have either a heart of sone or no soul if yo do not cry in those anime

+Roman Jazzar u have no emotion! uR face is like that of StoneHenge!

lol, you have the coolest username ever xD

Dango, dango, dango, dango. Dango, daikazokou!

Dango Unchained "Star fish, Star fish, star fi-" "You Ripped That Off!"

Aquaclaw That episode was hilarious

Sam Riggs Yes XD Its Was Great XD

It's okay! Kanon 06, angel beats, and air were also made by key who made Clannad. They have a talent for crushing your spirit

Only Clannad and Little Busters got me. Kanon was good, but i don't think it came close to Clannad. I actually would go as far to say that I don't really care for Air at all...

I didn't cry during Clannad but I was soooo close!

Yeah, I had a void too after watching haruhi. I thought nothing can come close until I watched Clanned! With Clanned you just have to be patient with the beginning few episodes.

I KNOW, USHIO, WHYYYYYY

Haruhi also left me wrecked inside. Rewatching it several times and the books got me through it. Clannad had me going down the same path, but that empty feeling was replaced with a feeling of confusion, betrayal, and rage at episode 22.

RipleySawzen Yeah. The ending was fuqed up. instead they shud have shown tomoya moving on in his life. or they shud have explained it more briefly that magic stuff. a sad ending could have worked. and i smh didnt felt it when ushio&nagisa died. maybe cause i had already guessed it. but the only scenes that depressed me were when ushio lost her toy & tomoya's father's story arc in the 2nd half of AS. only Those scenes made me think that it was worth watching clannad & clannad AS. Just the ending could have been far better and i just judge animes based on their endings

vinh le i wanted to walk in with kyon to the club after Disappearence

I started off with the dub, but Kyou's voice made me switch to the sub after episode 1.

then i must watch it!

I beg to differ!

Evangelion ftw!

Yes!!!!

F*ck Evangelion

If you want another God tier anime, check out RWBY and Erased. They are amazing. And I mean AMAZING. They are not as good as Clannad, which is true God tier, and they are more liked Demi-god tier, but they are still really good.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

+KingChickenwing Erased is garbage tier trash.

Will do :)

Fuko is best

true, I this anime can be a life changer ( it was for me)

Poerak It's left a huge anime void in me and I don't know what to move onto because it has really affected me. Though it's not bad.

Are you me? Cause you just described me watching this anime and what I did afterwards. Great show :)

You're pretty good at drawing/sketching, I find it even more amazing that you do it with your left hand even thought that's likely what you learned to use naturally, but still I find it fascinating when someone is left-handed

b4107 Kind words, thank you ^_^ And yep, just naturally left handed

Anime Speed Drawing :D

I think so too, the best anime so far. I was a bit doubtful to watch as first, but that changed swiftly.

Oswaldo Martinez It was actually the first anime I watched. I can't remember how or why I started watching it, I don't think I even knew back then. At the start I didn't think it was anything special, but something about made me keep watching the next episode. Before I knew it I was sucked into this amazing world, starting a journey i'd never forget.

SAME!

Tensa Zangetsu Technically, it was Shima. It was Shima come back to grant Misae a wish. The wish is what caused the "ghost" Shima to become the cat in order to stay with her and love her.

DarkAoiishi no its Misae arc

DarkAoiishi I don't think it was Shima. At the end the cat said: "I have a new master now." The cat also said: "That's right. I'm not the real Katsuki Shima". That's why I think that Shima died and the cat was somehow made intelligent ( by a wish?) I also found this: "Katsuki only appears during Misae's arc, which explains the events which happened to her some years prior to the beginning of the Clannad storyline. He was Misae's boyfriend for a while. It is revealed that Katsuki is a boy who Misae met in the past while he was in a wheelchair in the hospital. Her kind words encouraged him to recover. Years later, he searches for her with the hopes of paying her back. We discover that he is not the real Katsuki Shima, because the real Katsuki died, but not having been able to thank Misae and grant her wish, he entrusted this mission to his cat, who took a human form. During the main Clannad series, we can see the cat often accompanying Misae around."

jstrahan2 yea but his actual name was not displayed and yea shima was the master of him since he was the cat

Oh and Honey and Clover too! How dare I forget that slice of life greatness

CarAmeL624 after story beated me up with basbo bat and crowbar(emotional ones)

CarAmeL624 Clannad After Story really hit me man... you know the part about Tomoya's dad? Yeah that. That was the first time I cried over an anime (not even Fuko's arc got me).

Choco Tammy I think After Story holds the record of the most episodes that caused tears for me...like I used to never cry but man everything was just so damn sad O_O

CarAmeL624 clannad is the reason i get emotional to animes now :'(

i'm guessing you had a hard time sleeping due to feels.... i know i did

98kazer I know how you feel bro...TAT

+Jack Pollard Might be too late for that advice, seeing as your comment is a month old, but you should probably skip After Story if you cried after watching Fuko arc, cuz you're going to cut yourself after watching After Story.

+bubbleffs I loved after story, and then for the next two months, tried to fill the void with Say I love you, Golden time, Nisekoi, Ita Kiss, oreshura, my love story, etc.

+Jack Pollard Nagisa Dies.

+Bobby Jones i know that this series came out awhile ago, but that is a dick move to all who haven't seen it yet. knowing that can ruin the emotional impact of this show.

Jesus Christ I felt the same, my eyes were exhausted by the end.

Yep

I agree. It was certainly a unique experience. xD

You just have a heart of a brick.

No she's just saying bullshit

Daddy i was crying from the inside

and I don't mean to be that guy, but I prefer the first opining to Clannad.