They look at each other for the first time.) Even so, can you keep on loving this place? She must be talking to someone in her heart. Tomoya (internal monologue): A girl I've never seen before. Recommended.Nagisa: I really, really love it. I will be aiming to watch After Story very soon. I would recommend that anybody wishing to check this out to watch the anime series first before plunging into this movie. On the whole I think the Clannad movie is a worthy alternative take to the 2 anime series but I definitely prefer the series as it offers more character development and time to develop the storyline. The pacing given the time limitation is pretty good. Even though I’m sure it was difficult for Toei to try and cram as much of the anime storyline into such a short space of time I think they did a brilliant job. I’m just wondering if the original song is used in the subbed version of the movie? At least the OP theme is played at the beginning of the movie. Perhaps due to having watched the dubbed version of the movie maybe it wasn’t possible for the translators to create a straight forward English version of the song but the one they came up with isn’t half as good. The haunting Dango Family song which was the ED theme for the anime wasn’t in this movie and I was so disappointed with that. The animation is on a par with the anime series. I did feel that the ending of the movie was rather rushed. Thankfully the movie ends of a happy note reuniting father and daughter again as Tomoya has left Ushi to be raised by Nagisa’s parents. In After Story the story continues after they have graduated high school with the couple marrying and even having a child but there’s a shocking turn of events as Nagisa dies soon after giving birth to their daughter Ushi which leaves Tomoya devastated and spirally into depression for 5 years. The final episode of Clannad ended with Tomoya confessing his love to Nagisa and this is the point where I stopped watching it. As I haven’t seen the Clannad: After Story series I had missed out on the darker aspect of the storyline which is explored in this movie as well. She was quite a shy character in the anime if I remember rightly. Tomoya is far more angsty and resistant to Nagisa’s charm and Nagisa herself is far too cheerful and lively. What I noticed was how different Nagisa and Tomoya are from their anime counterparts and this is the main bone of contention amongst fans. This movie concentrates more on the progressing relationship between the 2 main characters instead of spreading it out among the secondary roles in the anime series which wasn’t too bad a thing. I’d actually forgotten just how good Clannad really was until I watched this movie but I started to remember a lot as the storyline progressed. Surprisingly enough, this movie came out a month before the anime series was aired on Japanese TV (I’m not sure if Toei wanted to get one up on Kyoto Animation?). There are some subtle differences between the two which has divided opinion amongst fans namely the characterisations of the main players but I’ll go on about that in a bit. Kyoto Animation did the anime series whilst Toei did this movie. Two different companies have made their own version of Clannad. That was a mistake on my behalf as this movie compresses events in both series down to a 90 min movie. I watched the Clannad anime series about 5 or 6 years ago and enjoyed it very much but I passed up on the second series (After Story) due to negative comments about it. Tomoya’s relationship with Nagisa deepens as he is introduced to her eccentric family who run a bakery. Nagisa wants to do a soliloquy at the school festival based on a dream she keeps getting (the same one as Tomoya). However as nobody joins, Tomoya and his friend Yousuke agree to join the club as backstage hands. Even though the school council rejects her application and even defaces her posters that she has placed all around the school, due to intervention by school teacher Ms Ibuki the club is allowed to run. After meeting her again on the school roof, she tells him that she wants to restart the defunct Drama Club and has prepared some posters featuring some old mascots called The Dango Family. He discovers that Nagisa is repeating her third year as she was off the previous year due to illness. He isn’t too bothered about the request and allows her to follow behind him. One morning on the way to school he meets a girl called Nagisa Furukawa who asks if she can accompany him up the hill to school. He keeps getting a strange dream that he is alone in an unknown world. He is moody and sullen and only attends school as he has nothing better to do than hang out with his friend Sunohara. Tomoya Okazaki is a high school student who doesn’t get along with his father since the death of his mother when he was a child and this has affected him.
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