#Clannad movie release series#

Through the use of this narrative trick, Clannad maintains a large amount of focus as we follow a guy through his self-defeating journey towards adulthood with the relationship as a central focus not unlike 5 Cm/s. The story actually takes place during the After Story portion where Tomoya is going through a rainy depression, causing him to flashback to the school stuff as he narrates about the girl who would become his wife and how the two got to know each other over time and how they meet other characters along the way and all the other expected beats you'd expect from a shoujo romance. and we see everything through Tomoya's eyes, but they're executed very differently here in the same way Majora's Mask is different from Ocarina of Time despite having so much in common. So the film shares the same plot beats you know from the Clannad story - Tomoya meeting Nagisa on a hill, him having a bum shoulder, having a kid with Nagisa, Nagisa going to heaven, etc. Saying his drama is good at this point in time is like saying Ikuhara anime are delightfully quirky. Other reasons include decent characterization that drives the story, having some fucking closure to something major without any chance of a sequel, and (most of all) the drama actually being kinda good. Whilst there may be one or two other exceptions to the rule, Toei's Key films are probably the only visual novel adaptations I've watched in where it feels like stuff is actually happening on a constant basis, which is part of the reason why I have a certain fondness for them. And in most visual novel anime (and most anime for that matter), plot and story seem to be taking turns in a game of Monopoly with 'story' being lousy at playing the game.

So if anybody wants to know why I don't like Zvezda, Classroom Crisis, Charlotte, and whatever the fuck that Plastic Memories thing was, that's why.īasically, I like plot and story to go hand-in-hand. That may work in a video game where the excellent interactivity can carry you through some semi-major plot failings (the Tomb Raider reboot comes to mind), but in an anime, it's fucking

#Clannad movie release series#

And as impressive as those individual elements may be, you can't carry an entire series on them alone for the same reason you can't carry it on just animation. Whilst I have many problems with anime that come from the hands of visual novel writers, my main problem is that they always feel like the writers came up with the set pieces and character types first and then strung a plot around it.