CLANNAD

 

CLANNAD is one of the best-selling visual novels for Microsoft Windows computer from 2004, there’s also a manga story with the same title of its series written by Jun Maeda and Key, and illustrated by Misaki Juri. Anime series of CLANNAD is produced by Kyoto Animation and here’s some popular titles behind its studio like Koe no Katachi, Violet Evergarden, Hyouka and Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!. CLANNAD consists of 23 episodes, runs about 24 minutes per episode and aired from October 2007 till March 2008. Opening song “Megumeru ~cuckool mix 2007~” performed by eufonius. Ending song “Dango Daikazoku” performed by Chata. CLANNAD anime series is directed by Tatsuya Ishihara.

Tomoya Okazaki, a delinquent high school student who finds life boring or dull and believes he’ll never have any value in this world, to make it easy he’s useless at all. Tomoya along with his friend Youhei Sunohara continues to skip school and plans to waste their high school days as fast as possible. One day while walking on its way to school Tomoya meets a young girl muttering quietly to herself, all of a sudden Tomoya hears “Anpan” (a popular Japanese bread). The quiet girl's name is Nagisa Furukawa, which catches Tomoya’s attention.

Nagisa claimed that they are friends, but for Tomoya it was just a passing encounter and meant nothing from him. As days goes by Tomoya finds himself noticing Nagisa more and more around the school, and he decides to concede and befriend Nagisa. Tomoya learned that Nagisa has been held back for a year because of severe illness and her dream is to revive the school drama club. As Tomoya doing nothing at all, decides to help Nagisa to achieve her goal along with the help of other girls around. Tomoya starts to spend more time with the girls around and he learns more about them and the problems they had. As Tomoya starts to help each girl to overcome their own problems, he realizes that life is not boring as he once thought.

CLANNAD story focuses on Tomoya Okazaki, a delinquent who finds life is dull and along his friend Youhei Sunohara continues to skip school and plans to waste the high school days. Everything starts to change from Tomoya's perspective when he encounters Nagisa Furukawa. Nagisa was held a year back because of her severe illness, Tomoya learned that Nagisa wants to revive the school drama club and decides to help because he’s doing nothing at all and they were given help from other girls from school. Tomoya starts to change his view in life that is not dull at all.

CLANNAD anime series is produced by Kyoto Animation and did a great job for its animation and this heartfelt slice of life is hard to forget because of the amazing story in store. For the animation it’s great. It is like a visual novel game that has been updated for a new look but most of all the story is still the base of the whole series and a great job for it visualize and most of all the story is well suited for its anime series because of its great visual novel game. For the music choice a simple but unforgettable one for the opening you can feel that this is a great anime series with a lot moral lesson at the same time, and for the ending song this is a tough one as story goes you will start to feel more the whole things happening and listening to the song is like a balance for it and feels the whole emotion of the whole story.

CLANNAD anime series deserves a great recommendation in terms of slice of life story, this is one of the best stories that I have played and watched. Anime or visual novel? First of all, I only learned the title because of the anime adaptation and looking for the game is a bit hard because the game translation of the whole game for English is hard to find but if you got one your research paid off. The game itself is the whole anime story all about, anime is easy to watch at your own comfort without selecting a wrong route is something you don’t want but in terms of visual novel a route something to choose and for every selection you will encounter something a good choice or not but that’s how the game works. The game is good and as good as the anime series, anything will do and as long you can enjoy from watching the anime series or play the visual novel game. Is CLANNAD an overrated anime series? Nope, not at all a great rate for me, one of the reasons is that the whole story is well made or written by Jun Maeda. For this kind of story, you know that this is one of the best to watch an emotional one but will leave some moral lesson after watching the series, one of the hard to find in stories a lesson to learn or they teaching a viewer something not to neglect or something to learn not just to entertain us but also to improve our life in some ways. CLANNAD anime series, a great story of how life is not a dull one but an interesting life at all the challenges there's always a solution in the end and to thank for it.

Information:

Title:

• Clannad

• CLANNAD

Type: Series (23 episode)

Aired: October 5, 2007 to March 28, 2008
Studio: Kyoto Animation

Source Story: Visual Novel

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School, Slice of Life, Supernatural

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Song:

Opening:

• "Megumeru ~cuckool mix 2007~ (メグメル～cuckool mix 2007～)" by eufonius

Ending:

• "Dango Daikazoku" by Chata

Director: Tatsuya Ishihara

Character and Voice Actor:

• Okazaki, Tomoya (Nakamura, Yuuichi)

• Furukawa, Nagisa (Nakahara, Mai)

• Sakagami, Tomoyo (Kuwashima, Houko)

• Fujibayashi, Kyou (Hirohashi, Ryou)

• Ibuki, Fuuko (Nonaka, Ai)

• Ichinose, Kotomi (Noto, Mamiko)

• Sunohara, Youhei (Sakaguchi, Daisuke)

• Fujibayashi, Ryou (Kanda, Akemi)