The first season of Clannad really disappointed me because it was slow and boring. I came into the second season really expecting to find the exact same thing.
The first maybe 10 episodes or so are also like the first season. boring. However. after that is when things really start to get good. If you have dropped this series and only watched the first season, or the first 10 episodes of the second season, I would HIGHLY recommend you to continue watching this until the very end.
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I cry when watching just about ANY anime but I cried about 5x as much during this anime. When Nagisa died I really did get depressed about the whole thing and wanted to drop it but I ended up watching the rest and really did enjoy it. When Ushio died on the other hand, I really didn't know what to think as I didn't think anything good was really gonna come of the rest of the series. I didn't understand what happened in episode 22 for a LONG time but I really did enjoy the fact that this series got to have a happy ending. To this day I'm not really sure if that ending was implemented to prevent thousands people from committing suicide, or if they really wanted a weird ending as that. Also, the hidden world stuff seemed very sketchy throughout the whole series.
Overall, I give this anime a 9/10 because of the well-rounded characters and plot. I also very appreciated the happy ending because I was thinking of never watching anime ever again.
