Xebek’s Blog

Well, this feature is back. It’s been a LOOONG time since I did an Episode of the Week post but I just got swamped with things to do and kept putting it off. Put since I’ve caught up a bit more with some of the stuff I was behind in blogging, this seems as good of a chance as ever to restart. This just says what episode me and FlareKnight who writes here collaboratively think is the best episode that aired this week. This doesn’t necessarily mean what the best series is at this point, just the specific episode. So here it goes:

Xebek:

I think that hands down this was the best episode this week. So far Clanand has had some mediocre episodes. It’s focused on side characters, and while bring forth very emotional arcs and deep stories with this, it still was just focusing on the side characters. Little two episode arcs that were almost completely episodic. Take them out and nothing really would change overall. However here we have an episode that deals directly with the main plot. I was stunned. I thought that this episode could have easily been just about Nagisa falling sick. They could have made a whole episode out of that but then BOOM a whole month passes, she is still sick. Ok, that’s fine, the episode probably ends there. BOOM more time goes by, Tomoya GRADUATES and without Nagisa and there is this huge emotional scene about what his future holds and wanting to have experienced it with Nagisa. It just went from almost nothing in terms of overall plot and main character development to the biggest event in both seasons.

I’m curious as to what other kind of time skips we’ll see. Although a month isn’t too terribly long, seeing s they pulled it off like it was nothing they could easily do more. The series has moved on almost to a different kind entirely. No more is it fun old high school times. He’s in the real world and they can’t really handle episodes the same way now. This episode changing the course of this series so drastically like that is why this is Episode of the Week.

FlareKnight:

Really felt it was no contest for Clannad to take this week. Really was just a hugely emotional episode. Honestly can relate to the characters in this when it comes to considering the future. It was an important episode in showing how time moves forward and things change. One of the best things of this episode was just the ending. This episode really opens things up for the rest of the series though. I mean Tomoya has graduated and now has to start moving into the next stage of his life. But he also has to balance that with his relationship to Nagisa who will be staying another year. I’m looking forward to the coming episodes from this series for that reason alone.