KAWAII KAWAII USHIO!
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Tomoya’s life falls into a deep depression after what happened to Nagisa.
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I initially wanted to hold off Clannad till Saturday since this is a test week, however, the urge of wanting to know how they disposed Nagisa Tomoya copes with Nagisa’s death overcame me. Hence I have finally caught up with Clannad! Tomoya turning angsty and rejecting everyone was what I thought the next episode would focus [...]
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Hi, hi! I’m back again with another look on ~After Story~’s latest episode. As the story progresses it becomes harder and harder to talk about the show without spoiling it. I will be talking about things that occurred in the episode so it’s best if you’ve seen every episode before this one. So if you haven’t seen episode 16, it would be in your interest to go watch it before reading this. Launch ahead 5 years after the birth of Ushio. Tomoya is mindlessly slaving away at work and is not surprisingly beginning to look more and more like his own father. Ushio appears to have been taken in by Sanae and Akio because Tomoya is in no shape to raise a little girl. On a normal basis I’m not a fan of time-skipping in anime but I think it worked well here for ~After Story~. I thought the relationship/chemistry between Ushio and Tomoya was demonstrated well. It wasn’t too awkward, and it definitely wasn’t too comfortable either. Her shy attitude captures the innocence of a 5 year old perfectly well. I think I was expecting Tomoya to hate Ushio a little but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I heard somebody complaining how ~After Story~ is currently following the awful Toei Clannad movie. WELL OF COURSE IT IS! It’s based on the same freaking visual novel. Now I admit I’ve never seen the movie but I have heard nothing but bad things about it so I’m going to be staying away from it. I’m pretty sure the execution and pace of the events is very different in the series then it is from the movie. Well anyway, that’s it for this week. Looking forward to the next episode of ~After Story~ as always! -Ryan
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クラナド アフターストーリー Episode 17 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: In the Illusion World, Garbage Bot is not making any progress with the flying machine and Mystery Girl knows he'll be lonely without her. In the real world, it has been five years since Ushio's birth and Nagisa's death. During that time, Tomoya dumped his daughter on Sanae-san and Akio-san and only sees her if they bring her over, and then he
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Thankfully, this episode kept my eyes stable, though it made my heart wrench a little.     It wasn’t the calm after the storm for him, nor did rainbows appear. When the storm parted, all that was left was grey clouds and a monochrome life. A life where he lived only for the basic sake of survival. He [...]
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So I'm not breaking any new ground by saying this... but DAMN Ushio is really cute. I couldn't help but let out an "Aww" in the scene that she was eating.
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After the loss of Nagisa, Tomoya was left devastated as most of the watchers would. Although I’ve expected this because I’ve watched the movie, the effect was still felt and episode 17 continues on the aftermath of the loss of Nagisa. The newly-formed Okazaki family was, more or less, broke up due to the loss of [...]
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Following Nagisa's death at the end of the last episode, this instalment of was always going to be Tomoya's version of The Smiths' Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, although thankfully the self-loathing was kept to a relative minimum here. For starters, this episode fast forwards us five years into the future, and a world where all Tomoya does is eat, sleep and work, and when he has nothing
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I shall call her…..Mini Nagisa. Summary: In the alternate world, the robot starts to realize that his creation is ineffective because he is not human. The young girl approaches him shortly after, and while embracing him, notices how sad the world around them is. The world would be filled with snow soon, and if the girl [...]
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