I think my previous bankai Clannad post has sort of sapped quite the amount of steam, energy and content from my mind. Though, I still can’t describe how happy I feel for Tomoya and Nagisa after watching this episode =)   In my opinion, Episode 13 was a crucial one in showing the sheer extent of Tomoya’s [...]
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I thought the episode was well-executed, especially Nagisa’s graduation, I had never thought about the possibility of Nagisa never meeting Tomoya until the second half of the episode. That certainly struck me as Nagisa was unproductive in a societal standpoint. She has indeed come a long way from the “bottom of the hill” with the [...]
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          The episode begins with Tomoya talking with Sanae about his father’s situation, and she reassures him that neither she, Nagisa, or Akio hold him responsible. He tells her that he has something important to talk about, but when Akio returns he insults Sanae’s bread and Sanae goes running off. Before Akio can chase after his [...]
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Ok, so, I know Clannad is all about being silly and crazy, but I felt like this was just pushing the boundaries of stupid. If you can’t hit the ball, you can’t marry Nagisa! …wat? Drunk Nagisa is very uninhibited. Clannad needs moar drunk Nagisa. In fact, it needs some drunk Tomoya too. So, mega time warp in [...]
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After a break of a couple of weeks, it's time to get back to After Story - The show where a couple who have never kissed suddenly decide to get married. Now, I have to confess that my patience with After Story has begun to wear a little thin over recent episodes, perhaps making that fortnight long break much needed, and sure enough coming back to the series a little fresher my heart has softened
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A drunk Nagisa is fine too. Summary: Tomoya visits the Furukawa household in hopes of talking with Akio, and although he initially isn’t there, he catches him before he can leave once more after returning. When Tomoya brings up the important conversation he has, Akio challenges him to a baseball match before promising to listen [...]
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One of my favorite OP songs from the last anime season was Toki o Kizamu Uta by Lia from the Clannad After Story Anime (Download the OP single here). The piano part is incredibly beautiful in this song, so I was really happy to find the piano sheets for it. Download the piano sheets here.9/10 Here's an awesome piano cover I found of the song. You really have to check this out:<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vJ7itQ5sh20&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vJ7itQ5sh20&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
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After a very, very long hiatus from my last post on Code Geass, I find myself entrenched in a much more emotional and tear-bringing boatride when it came to Clannad *sniff sniff* - to all non-emo readers, I ask that you forgive me for yet another tear-stricken post. It’s been a raging inner battle when it came to [...]
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Album Title: CLANNAD ~After Story~ Toki wo Kizamu Uta / TORCH Anime Title: Clannad ~After Story~ Artist: Ryo Mizutsuki (pianist); Jun Maeda; Shinji Orito Catalog Number: KSLC-0003 Release Type: Arrangement Release Date: Dec 28, 2008 Information provided by Bigblah of VGMdb.net/Gamingforce. Track Title Artist Time 1. Toki wo Kizamu Uta / A Song Engraved in Time Ryo Mizutsuki 6:14 2. TORCH Ryo Mizutsuki 4:37 Review: By this time, I can’t blame you if you’re sick of reading [...]
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Episode 10: With school life over and seemingly no direction at the moment, Tomoya takes up Akio’s and Sanae’s offer to work in the bakery for the time being. Meanwhile Nagisa begins her senior year yet again and tries in vain to make new friends and re-establish the disbanded theater club. After a chance meeting with Kyou [...]
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Finally, three months after placing my order, I received my Clannad Visual Fan Book yesterday, shipped all the way from Nippon. And so it is about time I revive TsundereStorm, I’ve been on “hiatus” for more than a month (though occasionally I was finalizing my design for TsundereStorm 1.0 in my sketchbook on the subway). Yeah, [...]
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A non-post about a scene I didn't see.
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Review: My very first thought after listening to Clannad ~After Story’s~ opening was something along the lines of, “Wow. Did I just hear that?” After a quick re-listen to confirm my initial reaction, my expectations crumbled like a saltine cracker. I have heard “Toki wo Kizamu Uta” being described as extremely “heartfelt and touching” [...]
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Work! Work I Say! Keep Working and Forget Your Girl!
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It seems that this time, the arc surrounds Tomoya and what are his thoughts about himself graduating and what he has to face.
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That was definitely me last year… The second-to-last Moment of Anime…what a fun time it has been. Counting down the year’s most exciting scenes (or gifts, as the original idea goes), tossing together a list of said scenes at the last minute, procrastinating until the end of the day to write posts that total up to [...]
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Well, it is the day before Christmas and so I thought I'd throw up a couple of Clannad wallpapers I found sometime back.
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We’ve finally hit the halfway point of the series now. Episode 12 kicks off with Yoshino telling Tomoya a story and him picking up some valuable advice from it. This episode is pretty much a embodiment of why I love Clannad: Heart-warming stories, good direction, and great characters. The episode ends on a pretty serious note and even though I knew it was coming some time I just didn’t know when. It all lines up pretty nicely though. Since we’ve reached the half-way point I want to talk about the whole series thus far. It has transitioned pretty well by picking up where we left off the first season and then moving us on with Tomoya and Nagisa into a world of adult responsibilities. Obviously they are the biggest focus, and while I have admittedly not seen a lot of change in Nagisa, Tomoya himself has been growing up. This makes me happy. I mentioned in a previous post how I like to see characters age and change with the experiences they face. The fact that it seems like a new setting with him being out of high school is also enjoyable. The arcs that built on this varied in degrees of enjoyment, but they still provide interesting build to the point we are now. (mild spoiler in the next sentence) Right now, with the proposal at the end of episode 12 promises interesting developments in the future. As long as Clannad continues in its direction it can only go up. In the case of Clannad, it’s either you love it or you hate it. If you can’t enjoy the characters then you can’t like anything else. In the end, ~After Story~ is proving to be a worthy predecessor to the first season of Clannad. I look forward to more. -Ryan
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We’ve finally hit the halfway point of the series now. Episode 12 kicks off with Yoshino telling Tomoya a story and him picking up some valuable advice from it. This episode is pretty much a embodiment of why I love Clannad: Heart-warming stories, good direction, and great characters. The episode ends on a pretty serious note and even though I knew it was coming some time I just didn’t know when. It all lines up pretty nicely though. Since we’ve reached the half-way point I want to talk about the whole series thus far. It has transitioned pretty well by picking up where we left off the first season and then moving us on with Tomoya and Nagisa into a world of adult responsibilities. Obviously they are the biggest focus, and while I have admittedly not seen a lot of change in Nagisa, Tomoya himself has been growing up. This makes me happy. I mentioned in a previous post how I like to see characters age and change with the experiences they face. The fact that it seems like a new setting with him being out of high school is also enjoyable. The arcs that built on this varied in degrees of enjoyment, but they still provide interesting build to the point we are now. (mild spoiler in the next sentence) Right now, with the proposal at the end of episode 12 promises interesting developments in the future. As long as Clannad continues in its direction it can only go up. In the case of Clannad, it’s either you love it or you hate it. If you can’t enjoy the characters then you can’t like anything else. In the end, ~After Story~ is proving to be a worthy predecessor to the first season of Clannad. I look forward to more. -Ryan
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Well, since my last post was so late, I’m going to make this one super early! Also because I’m going to do a giant marathon tomorrow, so I probably won’t want to break the marathon momentum to make this post. From the moment I heard about the Twelve Moments of Anime project over on Mega Megane [...]
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