How do you feel about the ending of this Anime?
| I really didn't like After Story's ending, but I did think it was overall pretty happy. I played Clannad as a visual novel first, so I kind of just accepted to whole "reset button" ending, but as an anime, I thought it was a pretty weak conclusion. Like you said, in the VN you earn a bunch of lights as a reward for doing everybody's story routes. If you don't get all the ones in After Story, you get the bad ending (thus the one where Ushio and Tomoya die), but if you manage to collect all of them you get the happy resolution. So it makes sense gameplay wise and it's a pretty satisfying conclusion for all the work you have to do to get there. However, when you don't have to earn the best earning and you're just watching it as a show...it just comes across as lazy writing. From the standpoint of the anime, I do think it would have been a better ending if it just ended up with Tomoya being able to move after he takes Ushio in. Much more realistic, and still emotional without throwing sadness in your face. As for considering the ending to be happy or sad...I would say it's pretty happy? Technically I think the world where Tomoya and Ushio dies still exists (?) but I can't really see it as sad if they're together as a happy family and Ushio never gets sick. |
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