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| Receiving a second chance in life just because the city has some sort of own consciousness? I mean, I never liked the supernatural elements this series has shown but this one... this is easily the most absurd and surrealistic one of them all. It's basically like when you reset your game in case you got a bad end. It felt so cheap and forced it's almost like a prank for those people who were genuinely moved by well-directed episodes such as the ones featuring Nagisa's death and the hug between Tomoya and Ushio at the sunflowers field. This last one being personally, my favorite moment of all Clannad. Honestly, the show did such a poor job at explaining the connection between Ushio, her grown-up version and the Illusionary World that it made the whole "reset" thing feel more like an ass-pull than anything else... seriously, the inclusion of fantastic elements in this story was such a bad idea. Totally disappointing. |
SouthRzVaJun 12, 2020 10:59 AM
| This episode was very wholesome. Truly a breath-taking turn of events. Such a well thought out and happy ending. 10/10 masterpiece |
NaroomakiJul 12, 2020 11:43 AM
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| So...That was a confusing ending. I felt like I was ready for anything, but I didn't think it would get as weird as it did. I figured there would be some magical element to the ending, as it's per Key/Visual Art's stories that something fantasy-esque would happen, at least from prior shows and visual novels I've seen from them. EDIT: Okay, I finally read up on how the light orbs function. It makes much more sense in visual novel form than the anime, as I didn't fully understand how the light orbs were being collected by Tomoya unconsciously every time he did a good deed. I also didn't understand how wishes were granted, specifically with regards to the extent wishes could be granted. The ending makes sense to me now, at least in context of the visual novel. |
ShockedAug 2, 2020 10:50 AM
| I dont mind time resets when the goal is to stop something from happening, but this was cheap. And I dont care about the visual novel. Should have been its own thing. And done care about the stupid robot, was always convoluted and tiring. God, even Yu-No failed adaptation delivered this stuff better, and modern yuno was a dissapoiting adaptation. A shame because this Second Season was a big surprise after tomoya graduated. Clannad's strength relies on human interaction and characters growing up, not some useless supernatural cr@p. |
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| The whole Illusionary World was incredibly out of place in the story without explanation or even meaning for most of the time. I know, it's easy for me to be smart about it and the whole story was built on this element but all along I felt it should have been shelved after the first season like Kotomi and her research on it. Yeah, it is the core system but without any indication how it is relevant, how it's working or how to even progress in it, the final development felt out of nowhere. After the graduation every development felt much more real than before (except the occasional other world skits). We went from 'some strange things are going in this town sometimes' to 'okay, sad but relatable adult life' to 'buckle up, it's magic hour!' for the very last moment. Personally speaking, the perfect ending would have been Tomoya having a flashback, choosing Nagisa again in spite of knowing the suffering and pain in the future. Then flash forward to the close future where he learnt his lesson, accepted his and his family's fate and lives a normal life to remember them for the longest time possible. This would've given the entire story a bittersweet yet encouraging ending. The good, but rational ending would be the following: Ushio was just unconscious, Tomoya brought her to the new hospital where the doctors were able to save her life. After a few years of sickness, a treatment was found and it worked. Even the Fuuko skit would have been okay at this point. She would find Ushio with her father in front of the hospital where the nurses give her a bouquet like that girl in ep. 21. Tomoya always harped on about 'change' before but now as her daughter was saved because of these changes of the town, he finally able to accept the process. There. Character development, proper and realistic conclusion, happy tears. What else would any fan want at the end? |
menpeSep 28, 2020 2:19 PM
| Ohh that was unexpected, I really thought that Ushio is really dead but it looks like my hunch was right. But I'm still kinda sad since it ended now I'm gonna miss them so much |
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| I don't know what to say other than that this episode was a complete clusterfuck. It could have ended three or four times but it just decided to keep backpedalling on everything. I don't understand how the people who like this show could be content with this conclusion, since it retcons pretty much everything which makes After Story so 'impactful', 'tear-jerking' and 'life-changing'. 3/10. The first season was fine, but this one was just insulting. Congrats Madoka Magica, you're no longer the most overrated anime. |
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| I heard from others that the conclusion wasn't good so I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did and I surprisingly loved this. The song playing as it went through the major characters in series alongside the happy ending with Okazaki and Nagisa was beautiful, memorable, emotional and my favorite part of the episode especially after what we saw Okazaki go through. I wasn't expecting to end with the massive Fuko scene but I don't have any negative opinions on it. Overall, I thought the ending was really good and nowhere near as bad as i've heard people say it was. |
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SouthRzVa said: Receiving a second chance in life just because the city has some sort of own consciousness? I mean, I never liked the supernatural elements this series has shown but this one... this is easily the most absurd and surrealistic one of them all. It's basically like when you reset your game in case you got a bad end. It felt so cheap and forced it's almost like a prank for those people who were genuinely moved by well-directed episodes such as the ones featuring Nagisa's death and the hug between Tomoya and Ushio at the sunflowers field. This last one being personally, my favorite moment of all Clannad. Honestly, the show did such a poor job at explaining the connection between Ushio, her grown-up version and the Illusionary World that it made the whole "reset" thing feel more like an ass-pull than anything else... seriously, the inclusion of fantastic elements in this story was such a bad idea. Totally disappointing. That's basically how I feel about the ending so thank you for writing it up so nicely. I read up on the light orbs so the ending might not be quite the deus ex machina I thought it to be at first because there is actually a build up towards that ending. I'm not sure if they actually banked on first time viewers who didn't play the game to come to realize this because the hints were so sparse and typically during moments I was busy laughing or crying and not being able to focus on those orbs. But even after accepting that it still feels so very cheap to just wind back time and say "lol jk", exactly like you said. |
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| great episode. Glad the lights created the wish. I do wish though that we had gotten some Nagisa and Tomoya as parents without music in the final 7 minutes, instead of just Fuko silliness. |
| I don't know what to say about this episode. So basically grown up Ushio in alternate world brings Tomoya back to the past but this time Nagisa survive after giving birth. What an absurd plot twist. But I never been a fan of supernatural stuff to be mixed in to a show because it will break my suspension of disbelief. So in the end they just give us the happy ending just like that ? I expect more than just this conclusion though . |
VivaceRexJan 10, 2021 6:30 PM
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s4gge said: I personally think that the TV show could have explained this better so more people would think that it's not just a sudden asspull because it happens suddenly. Well it does hint in the first season during Kotomi's story arc that there exists many parallel universes. You have to play the visual novel over and over again from the beginning - complete every story arc in order to unlock the true ending. Lots and lots of trial and error unless you use a walkthrough guide. |
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s4gge said: epidemia78 said: Well it does hint in the first season during Kotomi's story arc that there exists many parallel universes. You have to play the visual novel over and over again from the beginning - complete every story arc in order to unlock the true ending. Lots and lots of trial and error unless you use a walkthrough guide. Exactly, but sadly this wasn't explained too well in the anime. There were a lot of hints though, which I only realized after a rewatch I think all of the lights in the closed-off world were collected by many different versions of Tomoya. Hundreds of thousands of lights, maybe millions each representing an act of kindness and love. Only with their combined power can Nagisa's fate be averted. It happened once before. Nagisa's dad did the same thing when she was a child although he doesn't remember all of the alternate realities he experienced. |
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| I'm so confused as to what the hell I just watched |
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| Clannad: After Story tried so hard to be sad that it looped around to being funny. Good thing Tomoya saved his progress before Nagisa died so he can load and avoid the bad ending. I love it. Clannad; 9/10 Clannad: After Story; 4/10 |
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| This was nice but I don't get it, so I guess everything is fine now?? Or what??? |
| This show made me cry even more as an adult than it did when I was in high school, mainly because it become much more relatable (especially with Tomoya's father). I honestly don't have any issues with this ending except for AS not explaining what really happened. The VN from what i've gathered justifies this ending by showing that the spirits collected by Tomoya helping so many people and realizing that he shouldn't feel any regrets for meeting Nagisa granted him a wish. And so the city, which I guess you can call a higher being, had both Nagisa and Ushio come back as that was Tomoya wanted after Ushio died (and him too, seemingly), and that's basically what we got here. The other world girl, being this higher being, along with the robot (which are Ushio and Tomoya respectively). After all the crying, I think giving an ending like this to where the viewer can relax is great. My only real complaint for After Story is Sunohara's arc, which was the worst arc in the entire two seasons. The outcome was okay, but the events leading up to it wasn't. I'm not sure why they butchered his character so much for that arc (Sunohara would definitely help the girl getting bullied), but those 3 episodes left a sour taste in my mouth for so many reasons, which was thankfully fixed with the remaining episodes making me not care too much about it. Plus I was satisfied with where Sunohara ended up. A 10/10. This show definitely has flaws but ones I am able to overlook given how those flaws are severely outweighed by how good the series as a whole is. |
| Weird but good episode, I think I like Clannad 1st season more than After story though |
| a very beautiful ending. No other anime has an ending like this. I have rewatched this anime many times, it's still the best. Ahhhh,, hope there is a spin off that The main character is ushio-chan |
| 6 years later this is still the worst ending to an anime I've seen... and to think this was such an easy 10 without it. |
| The end ? What do you mean, the end ? How can this be the end ? There's still two episodes left both according to MAL and to the streaming site I'm using ! How come...? What is...? Why would...? ...Nevermind, guess I'll just see what they have in store with these last two episodes. I'm kinda worried to be honest. Now about this episode, there is one word that comes to mind : disappointment. Utter disappointment. They just ruined the story like it was nothing !!! I mean, I'm not some sadist who's enjoying witnessing Tomoya's suffering, but seriously, the show tried to be so realistic and it was doing such a great job at doing so, I really was looking forward to how Tomoya would cope with Ushio's passing, I wanted to see how the show would handle it considering how great it's been lately, and then it just resets the story ?! That's the opposite of realistic, we're not living in a video game where we can just reset the game anytime we get a bad end ! A good way to end this show while totally following the messages would have been to show Tomoya mourning with Akio and Sanae, with all three of them relying on each other as a real family, and then after a while Tomoya could find a new girlfriend and have a new life with her, without ever forgetting Nagisa and Ushio of course but simply moving on, accepting his loved ones' passing while being able to go on and never waste any time ever again... This was the ending I wanted to see. What I got instead was a betrayal. No I'm not exaggerating, if you want to write this kind of story you do it up to the very end, not reset everything once your character has suffered enough. It just doesn't work that way, especially since that's ruining the message. And that's ruining Tomoya's development in the process ! And honestly, even if I really try I just can't get happy with that ending, because it feels wrong, fake. I have nothing against Nagisa (though I can't say I cared a lot about her) but she doesn't belong here, it's supposed to be Tomoya's and Ushio's story, she is supposed to be dead, there's no reason for her to be here and it simply doesn't work. And abour Ushio, I love her so it would be a lie to say I'm not happy to see her alive with a loving family, but this story isn't the one of the Ushio I've come to love. Ushio is supposed to be a little girl who grew up raised by her grandparents for five years due to her mother having passed away after giving birth and her father having suffered so much from the loss that he wasn't able to take care of his daughter for a very long time. And she is also supposed to be a little girl who despite all that, finally got to live with her father and experience all kind of beautiful things with him. Now of course I wasn't happy with her ending but for the rest... That's her story. That's Ushio. And as for Tomoya, I don't think I even need to explain why I'm upset. I'm sorry for this rant, I know I should be happy, but I was so invested in this story lately that I have a really hard time accepting to see it destroy itself like that. I know this episode itself was beautiful but when you associate it with what we got earlier, it's just wrong, in so many ways. I'll watch the remaining episodes just to set the anime as completed but apparently it's just a special so I think I have even more the right to be disappointed. |
FafetteOct 31, 2021 1:41 PM
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| Very unique and surprising ending, this show really managed to bring out many not so bright emotions but also kept me interested specially during 2nd part of it. I feel like this ending was needed because thats the point of Clannad, the very very dark ending of Tomoya being left with nothing wouldv'e easily been the darkest ending in anime history but did we really wanted to see such a thing ? I'd like to guess that many would answer no, since we seen a lot of suffering already troughout the whole expierence of the Clannad. Its one of those shows that was meant to be dark but never till the very last moment, a miracle that was being built up and explained troughout the series happened and it pretty much wasn't some outta nowhere surprise element if you think about it. Overall I feel like After Story is a masterpiece but without the original Clannad we would've never had the build up needed for some of the key moments here to truly shine and be this memorable. |
| Clannad is the only show that has ever made me cry. Rewatched and cried three more times. I LOVE CLANNAD |
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| god that ending was atrocious. the few genuinely emotional moments just get fucked over if you can reset the whole damn thing. and it's not like tomoya even did anything different in the 2nd timeline, the anime gods just decided that they wouldn't use nagisa's ridiculous asspull illness to kill her that time. just bc there had to be a happy ending. in general, the supernatural elements were disappointingly underdeveloped. we had to watch like 20 pretentious scenes of the robot and ...ushio??... saying the same thing over and over again and in the end it was never fleshed out. gave me the impression of something that was explained much better in the source material, though I don't actually know if that's true and goddamn fuko why didn't you die in s1. they just had to make the obnoxiously happy ending worse by letting her prattle on. i swear she seems more like a 5 year old than ushio does well anyway sorry for my rant but i'm disappointed at myself for dragging through 30+ episodes of moeblob BS for the sake of a few good episodes. hmm can't decide on a 4 or a 5, generally it sucked but ep 18 was so good that a 5 might be more appropriate |
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| As I am watching: Come on bruh this can't be real. You made me almost cry for like the last 6 eps and now you show what I am assuming are alternate realities where Nagisa survives? I am struggling to tell if this is reality or if the darker reality is the real one. Edit: Oh I see. This is like a timeline reset. 8/10 show and 7/10 for 1st season. Anyway, here's where my Clannad journey ends. I don't feel like rewatching their HS days. I am not a sucker for prequels. Also, 24 is just a recap. I had this as a 7/10 and almost gave it a 6 during the first 8 eps. However, it did pick up from there and was a great rollercoaster of emotions. I understand the supernatural elements. I have no problem with those. People were right. The second season is better than the first. |
Sulfur2Jan 18, 2022 11:26 PM
| well this was a great ride,clannad was boring for me i expected as to be better and sad then clannad and it did deliver it,the last 6 eps really did make me cri a lot,i am not really fond of the happy ending cause tomoya deserved top 3 chara 1-okazaki tomoya 2-akio furukawa 3-ushio okazaki/sunohara youhei |
| Before reading any of your guys' posts and hopefully gaining some insight, I just have one question: HOW??? The question itself is not what's really bothering me though... it's Nagisa getting "revived" or whatever it is that feels like it undermines everything that came before. It's nice but, it's like all the emotions we experienced were almost all for naught as it appears there's some supernatural reset button that fixes everything somehow- which I'll be reading your posts above in hopes of gaining a plausible explanation. Maybe there is no explanation, and that you're just meant to feel, and be in the moment. Trouble is, I can't really be in the moment when everything was hitting so hard and then suddenly out of nowhere we get, dare I say, kind of lazy writing just to make the audience feel good again. Actually what I thought happened for a second was that Ushio sacrificed herself for Nagisa, THEN my emotions would be all over the place. I was even preparing for the possibility that they would kill off Ushio as well, sending Tomoya into darkness and getting an actually bleak ending. Honestly them struggling to walk in the snow at the end of previous episode had me bracing for pain. But all in all, I think it would've been more effective if Nagisa just stayed dead, but still played a role in the saving of Ushio, which is what I was deadass 90% sure what was going to happen. But no, Nagisa is back I think, and they're both okay. I didn't leave any comments in the previous discussion threads because I was just too broken to say anything. Yeah, episode 18 absolutely broke me. Never had a piece of fiction move me to so many tears. I sat there absolutely stunned for a few minutes, unable to go and watch the next episode. It was there that I decided that this anime deserved nothing less than a full 10 out of 10. I don't treat 10's lightly; I have over 300 entries on my list and but 5 of them are 10's. When I give out this score, you know that I absolutely mean it. And so yes, episode 18 and onward I decided this was going to be my next 10/10 anime. But.... with this ending.... I don't know how I feel about that anymore. I will still certainly give it a 9, but I will be reading the over-a-thousand posts above to see if there was something that I missed before deciding on a 9 or a 10. I'd just like to mention our side characters a bit. Sure from episode 9 and onwards it's focused on Tomoya and Nagisa, and rightfully so. They are of course the centrepiece to this series. But our side characters are important as well, I'm sure that's evident from how their names are displayed and all that in the OP's. I'm glad that most of the gathered at Okazaki's place (I forget what the event was... New Year's perhaps??) before everything went to sh*t, but we don't really get anything of them after. I must say I am quite satisfied at seeing 2nd-best-girl Kyou taking care of children though, and of Ushio no less. I'm glad we got that at least. But the others.... when each of them has their own dedicated arc with a number of episodes focused solely on them, surely they carry some weight and must at least briefly addressed at the end right? Well I guess that quick montage would have to suffice. Tbh I don't care much for Ryou (who as far as I can remember didn't actually have her own story to tell apart from the Kyou arc in the visual novel. She is just here to be Kyou's sister and to tell fortunes pretty much), or Kotomi (literally she pops by for a few episodes to show her dark past and then she's nearly irrelevant afterwards- besides maybe giving some exposition about the parallel universe or whatever it is). I still would've like to see more of them towards the end, but for me it's definitely not something to cry about. Some things I would've like to see though: Tomoyo. The best girl really just faded into the background. Maybe she doesn't have any screentime here because all her stuff is in her own route, but still, come on. Sure she's not that integral to the plot surrounding Tomoya and Nagisa, but it's kind of sad that the best girl who has her own title card in the OP gets next to no acknowledgement other than a quick shot during a montage. I'd liked to have seen a little more of Tomoyo and also ngl, it's a shame that Tomoya's best friend didn't get a moment towards the end either. Seems like they really just wanted to focused on what matters. That's understandable and all, but having who was and is your best friend be there could also be quite meaningful as well. As for Akio and Sanae-san, two of the best parents in all of anime, I appreciate the scene where Sanae breaks down in mourning for Nagisa, as she apparently had been holding it in all this time. We are to assume Akio had already passed the grieving stages, but I think a scene with him crying for his lost daughter would've been powerful as well. Other than all that, perhaps just a more clear but subtle explanation as to how Nagisa revived (or how they turned back time or redid time, or whatever it was... or again, just keep her dead for what imo would cause for maximum emotional effect), and for me awarding this a 10/10 would've been quite easy. But I still have to think about that. Unless I can be convinced from the above, it's probably going to settle at a 9. The first 8 episodes focused on our side characters felt like a 7, one point above the 6 I gave to the first season of Clannad. Moving on to our main story, everything leading up to the big moments still hit hard, and was an easy 8/10. Then episode 18 hits and it becomes a 10/10 up until the end- where, I still don't know exactly how I feel about it, and so it gets a 9 for now. Again, still slightly disappointed by that ending. Plus we spend the final moments with f*cking fuko-chan.... I'm sorry if she's your favourite character, but for me she's.... eehhh. At least I'll have episode 18 to take away from this, and to cherish forever. I'll be reading your guys' posts now, if any of you give me some newfound insight, I'll come back here. But for now, I'll leave Clannad After Story with a 9/10. Extremely close to perfection; but for me, didn't quite hit the mark that I wanted. |
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| After finishing the whole series, I can officially say that the first 31 episodes (Clannad + Clannad: AF) are just bad. It had its moments but the drama & especially the comedy in those episodes...is terrible. Although, it was understandable that those episodes were necessary to give context about the characters. Still, it felt like a long climb to the top of a mountain to see what the view looks like. Now on the other hand I really loved the episodes from 9 to 21 in Clannad: AF. If there is one thing I could complain about, its that there should have been more episodes. Like, some of the events happen pretty fast but I guess it works well with the theme of the series. Anyways, the ending is very out of place. It can basically be described as "yeah last episode was pretty depressing and heartbreaking...so lets just make used of this Steins;Gate plot device to make everything happy again yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay." Wow, now I wish they traded half of those 31 episodes and added to the episodes from 9 to 21. |
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G_Excel said: After finishing the whole series, I can officially say that the first 31 episodes (Clannad + Clannad: AF) are just bad. It had its moments but the drama & especially the comedy in those episodes...is terrible. Although, it was understandable that those episodes were necessary to give context about the characters. Still, it felt like a long climb to the top of a mountain to see what the view looks like. Now on the other hand I really loved the episodes from 9 to 21 in Clannad: AF. If there is one thing I could complain about, its that there should have been more episodes. Like, some of the events happen pretty fast but I guess it works well with the theme of the series. Anyways, the ending is very out of place. It can basically be described as "yeah last episode was pretty depressing and heartbreaking...so lets just make used of this Steins;Gate plot device to make everything happy again yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay." Wow, now I wish they traded half of those 31 episodes and added to the episodes from 9 to 21. this explain stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE_xiK2a3sc extra video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMKjmn5sTE0 so it long time ago |
Sugram22Jul 3, 2022 6:05 AM
| Not gonna lie I did not understand even one percent of what the fuck just happened. I was watching this whole episode with an expression saying "?????????" Seriously, wtf? Are you telling me the past 6 episodes were just nothing and author just wanted to make us suffer? I'm in such disbelief, I couldn't just comprehend what happened, I wanted to be happy seeing Nagisa alright and seeing Nagisa, Tomoya and Ushio as one hapy family but my brain just couldn't comprehened how we got there. Didn't even understand what was the purpose of the whole Fuku part in there? WHAT HAPPENED DUDE? What's with the blue light? Why did that girl in other world call the robot Daddy? Was that girl Ushio? If so how? Why? I'm so fucking confused right now, my brain hurts. What's with the restart of everything from the bottom of the hill part? What is what, help. mana_goddess said: Well this flowchart certainly helped clear some of the doubts, thanks for this. But as an anime-only I gotta say this was NOT AT ALL EXPLAINED in the ep 22 properly, every VN reader was able to understand but it was very very diffcult for anime-onlies to even imagine this happened.Ukato said: Well, it's a bit confusing, but what I get is : -Happy ending for sure -Disease is gone with that crappy slow world we don't wana watch for too long since it gets boring .... -Genki nagisa -The question remains HOW did they went in the past ? -Why is Ushio's death the trigger? Help me... Maybe this will help? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/infiltrator65a/inte%20buggat%20album/1236943573387.png Tekky99 said: So reading all these speculations, i can't hold myself any longer The truth behind the illusionary world and the light orbs: *phew that was long, hopefully that helps Thank you, this was very helpful. Vinter said: Thanks this was helpful.MaedhrostheTall said: I am SOOOO confused with this alternate reality/universe bull. SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. so did little Ushio die? or what? is her dying the last shot of Clannad's story? Ushio dies in Ep21. In Ep22 Tomoya is given a second chance at meeting Nagisa, since she died he has convinced himself that if she had only never met him, she would still be alive. So he has to decide whether the times they experienced with all of their friends are worth the grief of losing her, twice. In the end he finally decides that being with her, even if only for that short amount of time, is worth all the suffering he had to endure. And because of that the lightorbs grant him his wish and save Nagisa and they all survive. The ending sequence is Ushio sleeping in the forest, meeting Fuko and Nagisa calling out to all of them. TheNVS said: Quoting because it's been exactly a decade since this post xD, sorry.This was so amazing, I'm glad that I took a chance and watched this anime, its definitively one of my favorites now, also I'm actually really happy that we got a happy ending because of all the sad stuff I think I would have gotten really depressed if it didn't at least have a happy ending XD Up until today this has been the only anime to ever make me cry, other sad anime sometimes make me get tears on my eyes but this one actually made me cry on several occasions. I don't think I will ever forget Clannad. My post from Ep 16 discussion bruh, I was just in denial, I didn't think it would actually *kinda* happen, the happy ending.  Edit 1: Spent 2 hours reading almost all the posts in this thread. Got lots of explanations, kinda understand the story now but the episode 22 in itself doesn't make ANY sense, one NEEDS to know the orb explanation to even attempt to understand episode 22 as an anime-only. Edit 2: Ok I rewatched but I still don't get how Fuko can smell Ushio, this should be her first time meeting her in this timeline. THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. How on earth can she remember a smell from a complete different timeline? Is it something like the wish for Fuko to be awake again was granted by light balls too and Fuko remembered the stuff from previous timeline like Tomoya? Also, one should watch episode 22 directly after ep 16 if they don't like being depressed. I'm basically mustering every ounce of my brain power trying to forget ep 17 to ep 21 and thinking the ending in ep 22 was the ending to begin with. NGL it's very hard to forget those 5-6 episodes, not to say I'm still not able to digest this good ending, seems too good to be true. I guess acceptance will come with time. Not my fault though, after watching something so traumatic happen to somebody, you can't just expect me to accept this happy ending in a flash. I still haven't one bit recovered from the hell of ep 16 to ep 21. |
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