This immaturity extends beyond the personalities into the logic this anime believes of reality. I can hear the scriptwriter’s comments on the page noting, ‘This line is emotional,’ ‘This line is to convey depth,’ ‘The audience needs to know Tomoya is insightful from this monologue.’ All I hear is the script recited by actors. When these characters speak in the serious moments, I never hear a person. They flutter their eyelashes, squeak their words like the most sickly of moe characters, giggling throughout, and we are supposed to find these girls intelligent? No, these girls aren’t deep they are empty characters built with no emotional connections. Remember, these girls are supposed to be high school seniors, yet they have a mentality I wouldn’t find acceptable in an infant. Childish, like the art, is how I describe them. You tell me you can stomach the art? Alright, doing my best to ignore the space so big no billionaire can afford its rent in Tokyo, let’s look at them as characters. I actually enjoyed Clannad more when not watching the screen, merely listening in periphery. I cannot take these girls’ issues seriously when they have doped eyes bigger than Tifa’s bosom with the Pacific Ocean between. My first issue with Clannad stems from the art, for it leaps off the screen with its hideous nature. And when she turns those football-sized eyes, with enough space to park a Hummer between them, they become friends, for some reason. The tale starts with Tomoya on his way to school as he sees the strange girl Nagisa talking to herself, conveniently about what he needs to hear. But, alas, my heart remains untouched.Ĭlannad’s pretentious opening scene should have been indicator enough of things to come. “ Clannad builds you up with cute characters before it tears your heart down piece by piece,” one recommender said, tears swimming in his eyes. Over my years as an anime consumer, a great many people have told me of Clannad, of its emotional depth, of its brilliance as a romantic drama that plucks one’s heartstrings like a sombre harp. Clannad: Another World (alternative endings)
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