KyoAni will be animating Clannad, another great game from Key!! About time I’d say.

http://www.bs-i.co.jp/clannad/

Most likely more info would come at March 20th according to the website.

You seemed to kind of rant off on me for saying that, just want to make sure you know that that described Nayuki ending is not what I think will happen nor what I want to happen.

Several problems with that theory. First, as far as we know, Ayu isn’t aware that Nayuki is in love with Yuuichi per se, making it illogical for her to wish Yuuichi into a relationship with Nayuki when there are so many other girls still out there – some of whom Yuuichi has exhibited more affection for. A wish of such a nature would imply that it is Nayuki’s happiness that Ayu is wishing for, when in reality it is Yuuichi that she cares for. Why would she wish him with Nayuki when she does not know that Nayuki loves him, and when there are at least two other girls who feature just as prominently in his life (Mai and Shiori)?

Moreover, if that was Ayu’s wish, it would make for a profoundly unsatisfying and anticlimatic conclusion. The implication would be, after all, that Yuuichi is only trying a relationship with Nayuki because Ayu wanted him to. Their relationship would be a consequence of Ayu’s desire to see Yuuichi happy rather than any genuine romantic affection on Yuuichi’s part; the anime has been most assiduous in its careful removal of the romantic aspect from Nayuki’s path. That’s one of the reasons why people have complained about Nayuki’s story so far – it’s a stripped down version of the original version, divorced from its essence, which was romance. They even cut out the kiss. Shiori, at least, got a kiss on the cheek. Nayuki’s was removed entirely. The reconciliation was the strongest sign yet that she is out of the picture – it was wholly and entirely unromantic, when in the game it was THE romantic scene the couple shared.

Additionally, it would leave Ayu’s story in itself unresolved. Ayu has to return for her story to close off, for the simple reason that she isn’t dead (and if they decide that she is, a lot of her monologues don’t really make sense); leaving her in a coma isn’t an option because her situation would be left unresolved. She has to wake up in the final episode, and that really denies the possibility of an ending alternate from the original series. For if Ayu wakes up, what does that make of a wish for Yuuichi to be happy without her?

There’s also the fact that Kanon is a story about miracles – one which has a childishly optimistic outlook on the world in general. Kanon’s view is, and has always been, that miracles are achievable realities if an individual desires them enough, or if he or she is willing to sacrifice something in return. It would seem manifestly peculiar to have Ayu the only girl to be denied her game ‘happy ending’ (for surely, Mai will graduate and Shiori will survive – it has been too long since their stories finished for their unhappy endings to carry any real emotional weight), when she is, to all intents and purposes, the main girl. It’d also make something of Kanon that it was never intended to be – a story about the true love, moving on, letting go, etc, instead of a story about the power of miracles and wishes and dreams.