Comments on: Clannad – 18

By: solgae

solgae — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:00:17 +0000

Unfortunately for those three girls, the anime pretty much showed the whole thing concerning about their arcs in the game, so don’t get your hopes up for any more stuff concerning them. It’s simply because their arcs depend way too heavily on romance theme, which simply has no place for this series. You know what I mean when you see the title “CLANNAD”.

I found the impact on what Tomoyo’s brother did is much less than in the game. In the game, Takafumi actually threw himself into the incoming car. I doubt that throwing yourself off the bridge with a lake under it would seriously injure him unless the water below was very shallow.

By: bravejaf

bravejaf — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:32:13 +0000

I really can’t judge this episode till I see how the rest of the series goes. Right now it seems like they rushed through two story lines, but this will be less obnoxious if the remaining episodes are very good. However if the episodes are filler-ish then I will be skeptical on this decision. For now this episode gets an I (Incomplete).

By: FlareKnight

FlareKnight — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:19:34 +0000

Well at least its convenient for Tomoya and Nagisa. The other characters get broken up about the whole thing, but the pair can merrily go on their way oblivious. Sadly you knew it was coming from very early on. So could only have sympathy for the girls as the series went along. Maybe would have been kinder to just do Fuuko (since hers wasn’t romantic, Kotomi (managed to make it about friends without much romantic aspect) and just let that be that.

Yeah really enough of the Fuuko stuff. Her being forgotten was a pretty powerful time in the series. But now it’s “your familiar” and its more annoying than anything. Just let her character fade away. If you want her back in wait until she wakes up for real.

Makes sense they wanted to kill off those two arcs pretty quickly. Wanting to deal with the weird robot and girl stuff and also the Nagisa arc.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:27:56 +0000

They notice now they can’t compete against Nagisa, so giving up is probably the best choice. As for the Tomoyo(Why are their names so similar?!) arc, the mention of her brother was very tearjerking. What an amazing way to do two arcs at the same time, I congratulate KyoAni on doing such a good job.

By: Mirrinus

Mirrinus — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:17:39 +0000

Heh, I’m surprised by how many people took the food segment seriously. I was cracking up as soon as Kyou and Ryou showed up with Botan. Which is why I expected Fuuko all along: how else to emphasize a comical scene.

Because, in the end, their attentions with Tomoya are indeed futile, which makes it comical in a rather bleak way.