Clannad’s Storyline Explained
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 18, 2009 00:51 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Analysis, Clannad, Visual Novels
Clannad fans have prepared an explanatory diagram which lays out the storyline of Clannad and Clannad After Story in detail; certainly a handy thing considering how convoluted they appear.
This has found its way onto the Japanese Internet, and even 2ch approves of the diagram…
Needless to say, the diagram contains immense spoilers:
Light orbs? Time travel? Wasn’t this a school romance? At any rate, there is no arguing with its huge popularity… “Clannad is Life“, indeed.
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Once again, I'm glad I avoided all this nonsense.
coming from a guy who knows nothing about clannad im sure..
kantutan na lang tayo
You sir have Failed at life. Your life hasn't started until until you have watched Clannad.
i second that notion
it's a universally accepted rule.
"until you have played Clannad"
There, fixed!
Good job fixing that. You win a cookie. Except I'm all out of cookies so here's one of Sanae's breads. Actually have another 3, on the house.
Enjoy your down syndrome moe and being a virgin for the rest of your life
Troll moar pls
I've watched the show and realized that I've lost lost half my life in doing so.
It's just a troll, nothing to see here... Move along now.
Be quiet, imbecils.
Clannad was disgusting when it came as visual novel and it is still disgusting with the anime. I only managed to watch it through pure will-power.
As a matter of fact, all Key anime is disgusting. The only one that is ok is Kanon, but it still contains alot of disgusting crap.
Even Sukisyo has better storyline, and that is to say alot lol.
Pure willpower? You must have REALLY wanted to see it then.
lol @ key hater
Key Hater and Hitler Lover, lulz.
Key Hater < Life
he/she's not a hater, he/she's a Narcissist...
Narcissist != *
Narcissist ! *
we sail at the same boat
Inb4 something about his/her mom being better or worse :D
Key rules, no arguement
Key goes in hole, can't argue with that one!
btw clannad is overrated, but the blond guy is funny :-)
lol.. FAILED troll is FAILED
die without watching clannad?u sure phail.ur life sucks
The 'last' episode was really bad... =/
seconded
complicated much? :x
Awesome! I just spoiled the ending for Tomoyo After for myself!
I really didn't expect this diagram to bring up spoilers for that shit T_T
lol, it stated:
"Needless to say, the diagram contains immense spoilers:"
Yeah but seing how Tomoyo After have absolutely nothing to do with Clannad ~After Story~ it's not really something i could've anticipated.
Yeah, the same happened to me. Zetsubou shitaaaa!!!
Now I need one of these MIB flashies.
a typical Key/Visual Art ending
someone dies -> miracle happens
Yes, but the way they execute it is what's so beautiful.
As if you could think of something better...
You do realize this anime was based off a VN right? Non-ero VN mostly... in other words, you'd only play it for the storyline so you can cry like a little bitch. Once you're done with a specific route (get the 300hr guide) you receive a light orb that's displayed on the title screen.
Get all the lights, unlock the true/happy end, mind gets blown. Though they didn't animate the route where sunohara gets confused and almost turns gay... have to hope they turn that into an OVA.
I think they referenced that storyline in episode 23 of the first series (Mei was kind of fantasizing about TomoyaXYouhei, IIRC). Seems like the OVA, if we get one (which to my knowledge has not yet been announced), is mostly likely to be Kyou or (maybe) Kappei.
the last episode of after story was indeed pretty descent to say the least..
i know that there are a lot of questions that needs to be answered like the robot who was actually tomoya and the girl is in fact ushio etc.. but i didnt care anymore a long as ushio and nagisa lives then damn screw it just keep them that way and dont kill em no more!
oh and thx for the guide artefact and a pretty damn detailed one too~
hmmm is it me or the eroge version of clannad is missing..?
There WAS no eroge version of Clannad. Clannad only had a clean version. Tomoyo After had an H version, but that was all.
yeah...no killing...please?
As long as we feels good about the ending, who care about those trolls rite ^_^?
The end was so bad, it destroyed the whole story...
meh.
...Nagisa and Ushio living because The robot and the girl in the other world gathered up miracles? How is that bad? You're bad.
I did not expect time travel at all... It does connect things together but why introduce it?
Did anyone watch the movie Primer? The movie specifically dealt with time travel and was so confusing it needed its own time travel chart. Clannad's eerily looks like it.
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/08/22/primer-the-movie/
I'm not against Clannad though. The series is still spectacular and there were moments i wanted to shed man tears.
Well, in the anime he travels in time, but remember that it is based on a "video game". To get the good ending you could replay the game and collect a bunch of magic glowing lights.
So really, he didn't travel in time, he reset his playstation.
Clannad is EPIC! if you have not seen it I'd advise you to Every episode is epic! You will laugh yow WILL cry, its just to epic for life.
Except for the last episode.
No, that one too.
/agree. This was a great series....i cried alot.....i laughed alot......and you got to know each character more than in many other animes so you understood what exactly tomoya was feeling.
Yea I second that!
Firstly, a big unapologetic FUCK YOU to all those anons who come here bashing for the sake of bashing. Don't you have anything better to do than sit there on your fucking ivory tower of lolicon animes and acting all so smart?
Sure, the ending is confusing, but seriously, these Illusionary World segments have been around since episode 1, you should have seen it coming, where the ending will involve the supernatural.
WHOA WHOA WHOA!
I agree, I can't stand those haters and trolls but don't be dissing lolicon animes.