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| Going into Clannad: After Story, the ending of the first series left me with relatively high hopes. At the time, it felt a few steps ahead of other Key/Visual Arts stories I've seen, but while Clannad was definitely an upgrade in terms of visuals and its cohesive narrative, I couldn't definitively call it great. I still had my gripes about the first series feeling a bit dragged out, and going into After Story, I had similar feelings throughout its first quarter. Well, upon finishing episode 13, I'm glad that everything's finally coming together. I started to see the narrative threads start to converge a few episodes back when story began focusing solely on Tomoya, Nagisa, and the Furukawas. Tomoya's and Nagisa's marriage isn't just a huge milestone in the anime, it's also one of the few times I've ever seen an anime introduce a couple, develop them into marriage, and still continue forward into them living as a family. Not only that, but the memories of high school really hit hard, where slowly everyone departs to live on with their lives. Your schoolmates and friends become distant, but not disconnected. You start using phrases like "long time no see" instead of a simple "good morning." Leaving school, you start desperately searching for a place to belong to, as you lose your familiar place in society. Work becomes a daunting gateway into the "real world" you've always been lectured about, and as you begin participating as a functional member of society, you slowly forget what cramming for exams or fooling around with friends were like. They become fragmented memories, replaced with the responsibilities associated with being an adult. Or, at least that's how it feels like. I don't think anyone really outgrows their childhood completely, and even if you do, you can still get pulled back. Akio and Sanae retain their child-like antics as much as possible, while still acting as parents doing their best to ensure Nagisa grows up confident and strong. Still, that seeing that sense of nostalgia develop in real time in Clannad really hurts to watch. As Tomoya started working, time seemed to fly forward at a breakneck pace. Individual days stop mattering as much, and important days become markers in between long stretches of daily tasks and chores. Life really goes fast when you're no longer writing dates on the corner of worksheets. Clannad isn't just a romance or a story about having a family. It's about the initial roots of family, the development of families, retaining family, cherishing family, and departing from family. Throughout Clannad, all manner of families have been shown, ranging from happy close knit ones, to ones that were broken and then reformed, and to ones that were irreversibly broken. Every character has a family, and every one of their families have a different situation to overcome. Unfortunately, and realistically, not all of those families could manage a happy ending. However, life goes on, one way or another, and for now, I'm going to take a break before continuing to watch Tomoya's and Nagisa's family move forward as well. God damn, after 36 episodes Clannad finally hit me. It took a while, but I'm finally a fan of the series. |
| Nagisa getting drunk lmao. That part had me craking up. Tomoya and Nagisa getting married. So awesome. |
| Nagisa finally graduated, and when she was drunk she was so damn cute there, and it was unexpected to see that they are already gonna marry each other well I guess that's ok for me, and it looks like that Okazaki's dad is most likely changing? Maybe I don't know. |
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| This was a nice episode. Seeing everyone after so long + the graduation scene was great |
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| Drunk Nagisa is absolutely adorable. I'm so glad that everyone gathered to celebrate Nagisa's graduation. |
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| rain or shin, Akio still does smoke hahaha Glad Nagisa finally graduated. omedetou I wasn't prepared for their marriage though but things going really well for now. |
| Bruh really? Settling something as important as marriage with a baseball game? IK it is meant to be funny but can this please not take more than one ep? "Please give Nagisa to me" bruh she ain't an object. Lol sorry for ruining the mood. I mean Okazaki did have the passions to practice even in the rain. Looks like they married. I finally got to see Sunohara and Kotomi again so that's a plus. Glad the baseball crap was over. I enjoyed the graduation for Nagisa and the fact that they married. Still think something bad is about to happen. |
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| Well f*ck. I'm tearing up (just a LITTLE ok) even from this episode. If you don't see any posts from me later on, then I probably did not survive |
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| Omg look at Nagisa, she's looking like someone's wife now. So cute. |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| Hey, nothing sad happened in this episode, so... why am I crying? Of happiness obviously When the father congratulated them on their marriage and told Nagisa to take care of Tomoya, I couldn't help but feel very happy and shed some tears. He's not the best father but he's not bad either, he just collapsed and couldn't get back on his feet. |
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| In the years since I last watched Clannad, Nagisa's graduation really speaks to me on a whole new level. In particular, Nagisa's struggle with repeating and feeling left behind hit so much harder this time around. It makes her graduation ceremony even more uplifting with everyone being able to come together to support her, showing that she hasn't been abandoned or forgotten. The line that still gets me the most is when Nagisa says "I may be weak, but I want to live strongly." This embodies so much of what I've come to adore about her character and how much Clannad has meant to me throughout all of these years. |
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| YES YES YES YES YES YEEEEEEEEEEES THEY'VE MARRIED YEAH BABY WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO LET'S GO PEOPLE HAHAAAAA |
| BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH |
| Tomoya-kun doesn't give up on someone he loves so much, it was great. good that everyone followed in graduation. what will be Tomoya-kun with his new wife?. |
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